I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 440

Now the eight cities of the Kingdom of Babylon are the capital city of Babylon, Sipar, Tutubo, Kuta, Kish, Persipa, Dirbatcheng, and Malad.

Marduk, the patron saint of Babylon, is also the protector of the kingdom of Babylon and the king of the gods.

The patron saint of Sipar City is the sun god Utu.

The patron saint of the city of Kuta is Nergal, the king of the underworld.

The patron saint of the city of Kish is Zababa, the god of war.

The patron saint of Persippa is Naboo, the god of writing.

The patron saint of Dilbart is Ulash, the goddess of the earth.

The patron saint of Malad is Ninurta, the god of agriculture and war.

Among these many city-states, the cities of Babylon, Sipar, and Kish were once the overlords.

Utu, the sun god who guards the city of Sipar, and Zababa, the god of war who guards the city of Kish, were also the kings of the gods above all gods when Sipar and Kish dominated the Mesopotamia. .

Marduk [Zeus], ​​the god of thunder and god of war who guarded the city of Babylon, is now the king of the gods in the Mesopotamia.

3000 BC was a watershed in the history of the Sumerians.

The age before this is called the age before the flood.

The myth of the great flood that originated in the Mesopotamia not only influenced Greek mythology, but also the Almighty God of the Guangming tribe.

The so-called great flood that wiped out the world probably refers to some kind of catastrophe.

This kind of catastrophe may be the flood caused by the diversion of rivers in the lower Mesopotamia, or it may be other forms of catastrophe.

For example, the ancient Aryans on horseback invaded the Mesopotamian plain like a torrent.

Before the Great Flood, the Sumerians recorded five city-states that established hegemony.

The first city-state to establish hegemony was Eridu, guarded by the water god Enki.

The second city-state to establish hegemony was the city of Bad Tibera, guarded by the God of Faun Dumuzi.

The third city-state to establish hegemony is the city of Larak guarded by the plant god Pabilsag.

The fourth city-state to establish hegemony is the city of Sipar, guarded by the sun god Utu.

The fifth city-state to establish hegemony is the city of Shulu Park, guarded by the God of War Sude.

After the great flood era, the city of Kish, guarded by Zababa, the god of war, became the first hegemonic city-state after the great flood.

The protagonist of the Gilgamesh Epic, the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, guarded by the Venus goddess Inanna, defeated King Aga of Kish, making Uruk the second hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The city of Ur, guarded by the moon god Nanna, became the third hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

After the city of Awan in the Elam area in the southwestern part of the Persian Plateau defeated the city of Ur, the city of Awan guarded by the sun god Isssinaq became the fourth hegemonic city-state.

The city of Adab, guarded by Ninhursag, the goddess of the earth and the sea, is the fifth hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The city of Mali, guarded by Mel [Zeus] worshiped by the Akkadians, a branch of the ancient Aryans, was the sixth hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The Akkad city guarded by Haddad [Mel Marduk Zeus] is the seventh hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The city of Isin, guarded by the goddess of healing Gula, is the eighth hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The city of Larsa, guarded by the sun god Utu, is the ninth hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

The city of Babylon, guarded by Marduk, the god of thunder and god of war, was the tenth hegemonic city-state after the Great Flood.

Among the fifteen hegemonic city-states, none worshiped the sky god An in Babylonian mythology.

More specifically, none of the city-states in the Mesopotamia worshiped the god An.

Tianshen An is just a supreme god fabricated in mythology, not a god worshiped in real history.

Although Enlil, the god of the earth and air in Mesopotamia mythology, is the patron saint of the holy city of Nippur, the city of Nippur was not the hegemonic city-state in the history of the Sumerians.

Perhaps the special status of Nippur is due to the city's central location in the Sumerian region, where it served as a neutral area for meetings of the Sumerian city-states.

Because of the special status of Nippur City, Enlil, the patron saint of Nippur City, also has a special status in mythology.

Enlil is the same as the god An, it is precisely because they are not the kings of the gods in real history that they are regarded as the kings of the gods in mythology.

If Enlil and An are the kings of the gods in reality, they will be deprived of their status as kings of the gods by the city-states and patron saints who seized the hegemony because of the struggle for supremacy among the city-states.

In the Greek mythology of another world, Uranus, the god of the sky, was regarded as the first-generation king of gods, and Cronus was named the second-generation king of gods, because they are not gods in reality. Has not been enshrined as a patron saint by a certain city-state.

If in real history, Uranus and Cronus were worshiped by a certain city-state as the king of the gods, the Mycenaeans who fabricated the myth would instead belittle them and degrade them as the sons or brothers of Zeus.

For example, Apollo [Smintheus] in the northwest of the Asia Minor peninsula has a powerful authority like the king of the gods in the Troy area.

After the Greeks colonized Asia Minor, they reduced Apollo to the son of Zeus.

Sipar City.

The [-] troops defending the city rushed out of the city, preparing for a decisive battle with the Hittite army.

Southeast of Sipar City.

Ten thousand reinforcements from Kuta City are approaching Sipar City.

Although the reinforcements in Kuta City have a numerical advantage, Roy is still preparing to lead his [-] cavalry to intercept them.

Just when Roy was about to order the soldiers to charge after him, Roy's eyes widened in shock.

Because Roy suddenly saw behind the reinforcements in Kuta City, followed by a six-pillared god with a height of one thousand meters.

"That is - Marduk [Zeus], ​​the king of the gods! Nergal [Hades], the king of the underworld! Zababa, the god of war! Naboo, the god of writing! Ulash, the goddess of the earth! Ninur, the god of agriculture and war tower!"

Seeing the huge figures of these six gods, Roy couldn't help but gasp.

Although theoretically speaking, Roy's soldiers have various advantages, and even [-] enemies and [-] can crush the reinforcements in Kuta City, but there are too many gods in the enemy camp.

As long as these gods intervene in the war together, Roy will lose in the end.

After hesitating for a moment, Roy turned and fled with his five thousand army.

After the Athenian army joined the Hittite army, Roy immediately found Selene.

"Hartpurna—the goddess Selene! The Kingdom of Babylon not only sent [-] reinforcements from Kuta, but also six gods participated in this war. What should we do now?"

Hearing Roy's anxious inquiry, Selene glanced at the six gods who followed the [-] reinforcements from Kuta City, and then said calmly.

"What are you afraid of? I heard that your Athens Empire has more than a dozen city-state patron saints."

"This is the Mesopotamia far away from the Athens Empire!"

Roy explained with a wry smile.

"Even if I summon the goddesses of the Athens Empire, I am afraid that only the goddess Aphrodite, as the patron saint of the Phoenician region, can exert a strong combat power."

"Then give them to me!"

Selene said confidently.

"I can beat them all by myself."

　Thank you book friend Li Yianhong for rewarding [-] coins!

　　I have been wanting to send thanks for the past few days, but I forgot every time I updated.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)