Chapter 285: Cadmus, the Founder of the City

Luo Yin ordered Dionysus to be summoned in the capacity of the king. After the news spread in the palace, all the royal family members in the palace were surprised and frightened.

While Luo Yin was waiting for Dionysus to arrive, a white-haired old man walked into the hall and persuaded Luo Yin.

"Penthos! My child, how can you treat the gods so arrogantly? Don't you have awe for the gods in your heart?"

Recognizing that the old man was Cadmus, the founder of the city of Thebes, Luo Yin showed a solemn expression on his face.

Because Cadmus, as the founder of the city, is also a deified hero god.

In the myth of Cadmus, he wandered to the Thebes region in order to find his sister Europa who was brought to Crete by Zeus.

When Cadmus and his men came to the ancient spring of Dirk on Mount Helicon, a poisonous dragon [Big Snake] entrenched in the forest attacked Cadmus' men.

After Cadmus found out that his subordinates were killed by poisonous snakes, he bravely fought with the poisonous dragon and successfully killed it.

Interestingly, the poisonous dragon killed by Cadmus in the myth was set as the child of Ares, the god of war.

After Cadmus killed the poisonous dragon and established the city of Thebes, the gods rewarded Cadmus by letting him marry the goddess Harmonia, the daughter of Ares, the god of war, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

So it is obvious that the poisonous dragon defeated by Cadmus was actually Harmonia.

The real prototype of this story is that Cadmus, the leader of the Phoenician immigrants, brought his men to the Thebes region and conquered Harmonia, the leader of the local tribe.

In order to integrate into the local area, Cadmus married the defeated female leader Harmonia.

In the orthodox Cadmus myth, in his later years, Cadmus and his wife Harmonia moved to the northern Inlyria region, where they turned into two big snakes and entered the kingdom of the gods.

As we all know, snakes are creatures with hibernation habits. In winter, they will hibernate in caves.

In mythology, Cadmus and Harmonia turned into two big snakes, which obviously implied that they were buried underground after death.

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In order to deify them, people said that they were buried after death and entered the kingdom of gods.

In some unorthodox myths, Cadmus participated in the war between Zeus and Typhon as a human being and helped Zeus defeat Typhon.

Although the myth of Cadmus is false, he himself really exists and has a prototype in reality.

As the leader of the Phoenician immigrants, Cadmus was able to successfully establish the city of Thebes with his followers in the Thebes region. He is worthy of the identity of the founder of the city.

Although Luo Yin looked down on those fictional heroes and gods, he had respect for the deified real heroes like Cadmus.

After listening to Cadmus' words, Luo Yin teased with a smile.

"Great Cadmus! That foreigner Dionysus claimed to be your grandson. Instead of educating me here, shouldn't you care more about this grandson who suddenly appeared? Is Dionysus not your grandson, and his mother Semele is not your daughter, so you don't care about this fake grandson at all?"

Luo Yin's words made Cadmus' eyes widen and fell into a stagnation.

Yes!

The identity of that foreigner-Dionysus is his grandson, why do I care about him at all?

More importantly, why does Dionysus not care about his grandfather at all and only wants to be the patron saint of Thebes?

Didn't I regard Dionysus as my grandson, and Dionysus didn't regard me as my grandfather?

Then why did we become grandparents and grandchildren?

Before Cadmus could come to his senses, Luo Yin's messenger ran into the hall with a bloody head and said.

"King Pentheus! I failed to complete the order. I came to the place where Dionysus's followers gathered. When the followers learned that the king was going to summon their god, they beat me up. Just when I was about to be beaten to death, the leader of Dionysus saved me and was willing to come to the palace in Dionysus' place."

Looking at the messenger's injured appearance, Luo Yin frowned and said.

"The royal family in the palace includes not only Dionysus' uncle, aunt, cousins, but also Dionysus's grandparents. He actually refused to come to the palace. It seems that the people who made up the myth wanted to clearly imply that Dionysus was not Cadmus's grandson. If it was not to imply that Dionysus's life experience was false, why did they set it up in the myth that when Dionysus came to Thebes, his grandfather Cadmus was still alive."

"King Pentheus, do you want to summon the leader of Dionysus?"

Hearing the messenger's question, Luo Yin nodded and said.

"I'll listen to what the leader of Dionysus has to say."

After the leader of Dionysus's god of wine came to the hall, he looked at Luo Yin without fear and said.

"Respected King Pentheus, I come to you on behalf of the god Dionysus, hoping that you can accept a great god."

"Didn't you claim that Dionysus is the grandson of Cadmus, so Dionysus has the legitimacy to be the patron god of Thebes? Why doesn't Dionysus come to see my cousin, and visit his grandfather and grandmother?"

Luo Yin's question directly made the leader of the God of Wine speechless, not knowing how to answer.

After all, people who make up myths do not need to consider logic, so when the people who make up myths made up this story, they did not explain why Dionysus did not visit his maternal grandparents.

Looking at the dull-faced Dionysus leader, Luo Yin said with a sneer.

"It seems you can't answer my question, so let me ask another question! What's your name and where are you from?"

"My name is Actes, and my hometown is Mayonium in Asia Minor."

"I see, if you have a real prototype, you must be a descendant of the Thracians - a Virginian."

Luo Yin said with a smile.

"In a few hundred years it seems that the nomadic peoples of the north will experience a massive food famine. To survive, the nomadic Dorians moved south to invade the Peloponnese, and the Thracians crossed the straits to invade Asia Minor. , established the dimension Kingdom of Genia. Although Dionysus was originally a god worshiped by the Thracians, after he followed the Thracians to the Asia Minor peninsula, he became the brother of Apollo and later worshiped there. The soldiers took the temple of Delphi with arms and let Apollo replaced Mnemosyne, and the worshipers of Dionysus followed suit by similarly armed invasion of the temple at Delphi, allowing Dionysus to replace Themis as a barbaric northern Thracian. Worshiped god, Dionysus was able to rise He became a Panhellenic god. The first reason is that he entered the panhellenic holy place Delphi Temple. The second reason is that as the brother of Apollo, he became the son of Zeus. Together with Apollo, Athena, Ares, A contemporary of Artemis."

Seeing Actes' dumbfounded look, Luo Yin continued.

"I'm not interested in listening to you talk about the greatness of Dionysus. If Dionysus doesn't come to see me, then I will take the initiative to see him! Of course, my main purpose is not to see this cheap cousin who I took the initiative to pay for. , but to save the cheap mother Agoe and the cheap sisters who were bewitched by Dionysus."