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This person has never been liked and supported by everyone.
The more people like you, the more people will dislike you, especially women. If a woman is very popular with men, she will definitely not be very popular with other women. Aphrodite is the most typical example.
If the Pantheon still followed the previous patriarchal society, Aphrodite would definitely be hated by more goddesses.
That’s why Aphrodite joined the faction of female gods headed by Hera, otherwise her life would be really hard. You know, men don’t just have good intentions towards beautiful women. On the contrary, men have just as much malice towards beautiful women, which is even more frightening.
After all, sometimes beauty can be a disaster.
Beauty is short-lived. Most beautiful women have a rough life. When there is not enough strength behind the beauty, it is difficult for you to control your own destiny. When you always have enough beauty, you will even feel the malice of the world in an all-round way. Because beauty is a resource, not power. If a girl who only has beauty is not smart enough, not wise enough, and does not have strong cognition, then others will use her beauty for her. If beauty has no support, then the more attention you bear, the more malice you will bear. If you observe carefully, you will find that very few beautiful girls born in rural areas can be admitted to university. Even if they are admitted to university, even fewer can go on to further studies. The probability of a mediocre life is much greater than that of people with ordinary looks, because in the process of their growth, their psychological energy, attention, time, and energy have been constantly consumed by the people around them since childhood, and their appearance will affect the way people around them treat him.
The most typical examples are those with whom gods have affairs.
Many gods and goddesses have affairs with mortals, but these girls have done nothing wrong, and they are targeted by a series of goddesses, such as Hera, who see them as "foxes" who interfere with their marriages.
But the reality is that many of those girls have no choice at all.
Zeus himself had seven wives, in order of marriage: 1. Medes, the goddess of wisdom; 2. Themis, the goddess of law and rules; 3. Eurynome, the goddess of water and pastures; 4. Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and grain; 5. Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory; 6. Leto, the goddess of nurturing; 7. Hera, the queen of heaven.
He was not satisfied with 7 wives because he was in charge of the sky and could see all the beautiful women in the world, so he had many extramarital lovers. There were 12 more famous ones, and each of them was a beauty.
The first girl was Io, an excellent daughter of the Pelasgians, an early inhabitant of Greece. Zeus disguised himself as a handsome man and seduced her. The second girl was Europa, the daughter of the king of Phoenicia (today's Lebanon). Zeus disguised himself as a strong and handsome bull and abducted her to Europe. The third girl was Pluto, but she was not a mortal woman, but the goddess of wealth. The fourth girl was Danae, the daughter of the king of Argos. Zeus disguised himself as golden raindrops on Danae and took possession of her. The fifth girl was Semele, the daughter of the king of Thebes in Greece. Zeus disguised himself as a fish and tried to violate her while she was bathing in the river, but failed. He then broke into the palace at night and took possession of her. The sixth girl was Aegina, the daughter of the god of the Asopus River. Zeus disguised himself as an eagle and snatched her away. Then he built the city of Aegina and made their son Aeacus the king. The seventh girl was Antiope, the daughter of the king of Thebes in Greece. Zeus violated her while she was sleeping under a tree. The eighth woman was Leda, the queen of the famous Greek city-state of Sparta. Zeus transformed into a swan and married her while she was bathing in the river. The ninth woman was Diya, the queen of the Greek Lapiths. Zeus transformed into a stallion and chased Diya and successfully captured her. The tenth woman was Alcmene, the queen of the Greek city-state of Thebes. Zeus took advantage of her husband's absence to sneak into the palace and possessed her. The eleventh girl was Laodamia, a princess of Lycia. Zeus also possessed her by deception. The twelfth woman was Olympias, the queen of the city-state of Macedonia in northern Greece.
These are just the more famous ones. Most of these women did not consent. They did not even know that it was Zeus who violated them. Many of them even ended up in a miserable state. For example, Semele, the mother of Dionysus, the god of wine, did not even know that her partner was Zeus.
Semele was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, a girl of heaven, but she was deceived by Zeus, the old bastard, and she really didn't know Zeus's true identity. You know, if a girl knew that Zeus liked her, she would basically choose to avoid him. Not many girls wanted to be liked by Zeus.
Unfortunately, Hera found out about this, so she turned into an old woman to help Semele. Semele had no suspicion of her, so she urged Semele to reveal her true identity. Semele also wanted to know who her man was, so she asked Zeus to reveal his true identity. Zeus, this scumbag, dared to agree to anything before he succeeded. So before he succeeded, he promised Semele that as long as it was Semele's request, he would do it no matter what.
The promises of the gods have extraordinary effects. No one can break their oaths, least of all the gods.
Semele's mortal eyes could not bear the glorious image of Zeus, so, at that moment, she died!
So what did Semele do wrong?
She didn't know Zeus's true identity, and she didn't subjectively interfere in the relationship between the King of Gods and the Queen of Heaven. But neither Zeus nor Hera gave her a choice.
There are many similar stories, and many girls have fallen into tragic situations because of Zeus and Hera.
This is the disaster that comes with beauty without power.
Aphrodite was actually similar, she was born to yearn for freedom, but Zeus made her marry an old and ugly man. She had no way to resist.
If Aphrodite had not joined Hera's faction of female gods, her situation would probably have been no better than Semele's.
She still has many enemies, which is why she has always been suppressed by Athena in the inner faction. Although her ideas are more in line with the tastes of those goddesses, she herself is not strong. At least not enough for Athena and Persephone.
Speaking of the Queen of the Underworld, she is a pitiful person. Persephone lived with her mother Demeter since she was a child and never considered marriage. Once, Persephone was picking flowers in Enna with the nymphs in the jungle. With the tacit consent of Zeus, the goddess of the earth, Gaia, made a daffodil bloom on the earth. In the process of picking flowers, Persephone unknowingly moved away from her friends. When she was about to pick the seemingly harmless daffodil, the earth cracked and four black horses pulled Hades' chariot. He forcibly carried Persephone onto the chariot and drove back to the underworld. Hades had fallen in love with her a long time ago, and only implemented this plan with the tacit consent and help of Zeus. The kidnapped Persephone cried out to her mother in sorrow. Demeter heard Persephone's cry for help and felt heartbroken. She quickly put down her farm work and ran towards the cry, but Persephone had already disappeared. Demeter was extremely anxious and looked for her daughter everywhere. As a result, everything on earth stopped growing (Demeter was the goddess of fertility and agriculture). The sun god Helios saw everything and told Demeter the whereabouts of Persephone (some say that the water nymph Arethusa revealed the truth to Demeter).
After Demeter learned the truth, she immediately went to Zeus and asked him to order Hades to bring Persephone back to her immediately, otherwise she would continue to make the earth barren. Finally, Zeus was afraid that everything on earth would be barren, so he sent Hermes to persuade Hades to return Persephone to Demeter. But before Hermes arrived, Hades tricked Persephone into eating four pomegranate seeds, which made Persephone have to return to the underworld for four months every year.
But that's all in the past. As they migrated out of the Earth, the status of the underworld gods in their respective pantheons continued to rise.
Naturally, the status of the Queen of Hell also rose.
Another thing is that Hades has an unexpected fondness for Persephone.
He doesn't even care about her finding a gigolo.
Even when she and Zeus gave birth to a daughter, Hades ignored her.
Well, yes, Persephone and Zeus were having an affair, but it should be emphasized here that Persephone herself was not wrong in this matter.
The main reason is that Zeus' grandson is not a good person. He secretly transformed himself into Hades and slept with Persephone. Zeus is really powerful. Any girl he has slept with will definitely get pregnant. His hit rate is very high.
Zeus transformed into Hades and combined with Persephone at the mouth of the weeping river Cocytus, thus giving birth to Melinoe. Melinoe was in charge of schemes and ghosts, and often appeared in the form of a ghost, sometimes visible and sometimes invisible, sometimes shining brightly in the dark, and attacking from the night.
Hades did not blame Persephone for this, and even treated Melinoe as his own daughter. Therefore, in myths and legends, Zeus and Hades have always been regarded as Melinoe's biological fathers.
But I don't blame Persephone, but I didn't say I don't blame Zeus.
As a result, the relationship between Hades and Zeus became worse and worse.
Of course, the relationship between Hades and Zeus was not very good, otherwise Zeus would not be so vulgar.
Back then, they joined forces to overthrow their fathers and seize power, but when it came to the question of who would be the boss, the three brothers had disagreements. After winning the great Titan War, Zeus and his brothers were at odds over how to divide the ruling power of the world. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades all thought they could be the boss. Especially Hades had the most reason, because he was the eldest son!
He is the eldest brother of Poseidon and Zeus, while Zeus is the youngest.
But the other two obviously didn't think so. Zeus thought he had the greatest achievements. If it weren't for him, his brothers and sisters would still be in their father's belly! (When Zeus's father Cronus defeated his father, the sky god Uralos, Uralos cursed Cronus that he would also be overthrown by his own children. Cronus naturally didn't want this to happen, so he simply swallowed all his children into his stomach. But because his children were born gods, they didn't die even in the stomach, but grew up normally. When Zeus was born, Zeus' mother Rhea placed a stone in the cradle to deceive Cronus, so Zeus survived. When he grew up, he used poisoned wine to make Cronus have unbearable abdominal pain, and he vomited all his brothers and sisters out at once)
As for Poseidon... this guy just wanted to cause trouble, but he joined in.
Seeing that they were about to go to war again, the wise Prometheus proposed to use lottery to decide who would rule the world. According to the result of the lottery, Zeus was given the sky and became the god of the sky. Poseidon was given the sea and became the god of the sea, while Hades was given the underworld and became the god of the underworld. As for the earth, it was shared by the three brothers through negotiation. The three brothers respected Zeus who ruled the sky.
But after this incident, Hades had no contact with other people. Others also intentionally or unintentionally distanced themselves from Hades. After all, Hades was right about one thing, that is, Hades was the eldest son, and Hades himself was also very strong. As a result, Zeus was very taboo about Hades. If you just look through the mythology, you will find that the stories about Hades are quite rare.
Oh, and here’s something very counterintuitive.
That is, among the twelve gods of Olympus, there is no Hades!
That's right, when many people think of Hades, they will unconsciously regard him as one of the twelve main gods, but in fact... he is not. (In ancient Greece, only the legends of a very few regions would include him in the twelve main gods, but he was not included in the mainstream)
Logically speaking, it shouldn't.
Hades is Zeus' biological brother and the eldest brother. He also commands the entire underworld and has great power.
You know, there was no heaven or hell in ancient Greece. People could only go to Hades after death. The underworld is not completely different from heaven/hell, but it is not exactly the same. There is a glorious area in the underworld called Elysium, which is similar to heaven.
According to Hesiod, the underworld had a dark or gloomy, tormenting area called Tartarus, a pit beneath the earth that corresponded to Hades and was home to Nyx. Hell had special areas for various types of death, including the Plains of Hell, a joyless place for ghosts. This last place was the main area for the souls of the dead in the underworld - neither painful nor pleasant, but worse than life.
Hades is not the god of death, but the god of the dead and the king of the underworld. He is in charge of everything after death!
So his power is enormous!
But there was no place for him among the twelve main gods.
All I can say is that Zeus was too ruthless in guarding against his brother.
This also led to a bad relationship between Hades and the Olympian gods.
It is also because of this that Hades himself has always turned a blind eye to the smuggling of people like Charon.
None of his business.
Hades has a good temper as he didn't give Zeus a hard time.
Then again, Hades didn't like Aphrodite. So even without the Queen of the Underworld, it was still very risky for Aphrodite to smuggle two strangers from the underworld. This was also the reason why Charon hesitated before.
But now that we have the wine of Dionysus, there is nothing much to say about Charon.
If Hades, the god of the underworld, really finds out, a bottle of Bacchus wine can really fool him.