Chapter 264 The Three Eastern Mediterranean Divine King Brothers

When the Greek mainland was still in the city-state civilization of one city and one country, the Hittite Empire and the Egyptian Empire in the eastern Mediterranean had already entered the era of nominally unified empires.

Influenced by these advanced civilizations, the island of Cyprus, which has an area larger than the two kingdoms of Athens combined, has now entered the era of nominally unified kingdoms.

The king who ruled the island of Cyprus was Alassia, and his kingdom was also called the Kingdom of Alassia.

The city of Lidra.

This is the most powerful city-state on the island of Cyprus. The king of the city of Lidra is the king of Cyprus, Alassia, who is recognized by all the city-states on the island of Cyprus.

After Luo Yin and Amphitryon landed on the island of Cyprus, they came to the palace of the city of Lidra together and visited King Alassia.

The hall of the palace.

Luo Yin and Amphitryon walked into the hall under the guidance of the palace maid, and saw Alassia on the throne stand up and say.

"My dear compatriots, welcome to my palace."

In the era of the Cretans' great immigration, not only the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece and the west coast of the Asia Minor Peninsula were the targets of the Cretans' immigration, but even the Cyprus Island in the eastern Mediterranean became an important target of the Cretans' immigration because of its rich natural resources.

The royal family that ruled the city of Lidra was the descendant of the Cretan immigrants.

Amphitryon would bring Lo Yin to visit Alassia because the Mycenaean royal family and the Yinlis royal family were also descendants of the Cretan immigrants.

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"Great King Alassia, I am very happy to meet you, a respected compatriot."

Amphitryon said with a humble and dignified salute.

"I am Amphitryon from Mycenae. We came to the Eastern Mediterranean to fight against the pirates who were wreaking havoc in the Aegean Sea. I came to visit you today to ask you if those pirates called the Sons of Typhon were related to the city-states of Cyprus?"

Cyprus is a very important maritime force in the Eastern Mediterranean.

In real history, when the Egyptian Empire was troubled by the problem of pirates, the Pharaoh once wrote a letter in person to ask the king of Cyprus whether the pirates were supported by them.

Alasiya was not surprised to hear Amphitryon's inquiry.

He squeezed an innocent expression on his face and said.

"Dear compatriot Amphitryon, it is well known that the patron saint of our Cyprus is the beautiful and powerful goddess Aphrodite. Those sons of Typhon worship the male god called the God of Storm, so those sons of Typhon have nothing to do with us."

"King Alasiya, do you think that we are from the Central Mediterranean and don't understand the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean?"

Luo Yin rolled his eyes at Alasiya and said.

"The goddess named Aphrodite does not have any relationship with Typhon, the storm god who protects pirates, but the goddess Astarte, who can be called the prototype of Aphrodite, is regarded as the mistress and virgin goddess of the gods by the Western Semitic people on the eastern coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, but she is also regarded as the sister and partner of Adad [Baal], the male master of the gods."

"Haa..."

As soon as Luo Yin finished speaking, Aphrodite's voice sighed and said.

"You are really too much! Astarte and I are of different natures. How can I, the patron saint of navigation, be related to the patron saint of pirates because of Astarte."

While speaking, accompanied by the brilliant golden divine light, Aphrodite's figure suddenly appeared in the hall.

Seeing the goddess coming, Alashiya, who had a relaxed expression, said hurriedly.

"Great Aphrodite, it is my fault that I failed to let outsiders understand your greatness and holiness."

Aphrodite said with a playful smile.

"I appear directly in front of the outsiders, and they can also understand their misunderstanding of us."

Looking at Aphrodite, whose beautiful body seemed to be shrouded in divine light and whose wings of the sky god spread out behind her, Luo Yin realized that he was indeed wrong.

Perhaps in the ancient times four thousand years ago, when Yinshtar came to the eastern coast of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Mesopotamian Basin in the most primitive posture, Astarte could indeed be regarded as the prototype of Aphrodite.

But in the current era, Aphrodite has in turn become the prototype that influences Astarte.

This change occurs not only because Aphrodite is still the patron saint with a throne, but Astarte has lost the throne and turned into a god of faith.

It is also because various foreign invaders are intertwined on the eastern coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Astarte has been rewritten beyond recognition.

Now the goddess Astarte on the eastern coast of the Eastern Mediterranean is a complex goddess that combines the images of many goddesses, such as Yinshtar in the Mesopotamian Basin, Aphrodite in Cyprus, the lion goddess of Egypt, and the moon goddess of the Hittite Empire.

Although she possesses a complex and diverse divinity, Astarte is not powerful, and even her existence cannot be confirmed.

This is not only because Astarte does not have a patron god's throne, but also because the areas that worship Astarte and Adad [Baal] were either conquered by the Hittite Empire, the Egyptian Empire, or the Mitanni Kingdom, and there was no room for independence.

When the Hittite Empire conquered this area, the Sun Queen was the supreme god of this area.

When the Egyptian Empire conquered this area, the sun god Amon was the supreme god of this area.

When the Mitanni Kingdom conquered this area, the Mitanni people's supreme god was the supreme god of this area.

A region that has been conquered repeatedly by invaders for hundreds of years actually deceived itself and used the method of spiritual victory to worship its male god Adad [Baal] and goddess Astarte as the male and female masters of the gods.

This method of spiritual victory, which is in line with the Mycenaeans, made Luo Yin doubt that Baal and Astarte did not exist at all.

Or, after this area was ravaged by invaders, Baal had already fled to Crete with his brother Yam, the god of the sea, and his brother Mot, the god of the underworld, and then moved from Crete to the Peloponnese.

Since the three Baal brothers had long transformed into the three brothers of the Peloponnese, then Typhon, the storm god on the eastern coast of the eastern Mediterranean, was naturally no longer the original Adad, and Astarte was no longer Yinshtar.

Thinking of this, Luo Yin smiled bitterly and apologized to Aphrodite.

"It seems that we have indeed misunderstood! Echidna, the wife of Typhon, the patron god of the Cilician pirates, is a snake goddess. Her prototype is probably the snake earth mother goddess or the sea goddess of the Cilician region. This alone can prove that Aphrodite, as a virgin goddess and a winged sky god, has nothing to do with the storm god Typhon. It is only because of your origins that you are both regarded as the children of Uranus, the sky god in Greek mythology, and An, the sky god in Sumerian mythology. Since you have nothing to do with the Cilician pirates, can you tell us the hometown of the Cilician pirates?"