I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 53 Everyone is the Incarnation of God

under night.

The firewood in the fire kept crackling and crackling.

Roy sat with a group of Eleusis men, quietly waiting for the passage of time.

After the people around fell asleep on the ground, Roy took off the olive branch corolla from his head with both hands, and carefully looked at it in the firelight.

Although the corolla was not made carefully enough, Roy had a relieved smile on his face when he thought of Philomela's character.

"When I return triumphantly next time, will Philomela present me with a wreath again?"

Just when Roy was thinking about this question, Kaone walked up behind Roy with silent steps, looked at Roy's back expressionlessly and said.

"Priest Loi, you don't really need to spend the night outside. Now we Eleusis people have trusted you very much, so you can go back to the Acropolis—your warm and comfortable house to sleep."

Roy shook his head and said with his back to Kaone.

"Princess Chione! Maybe you don't know that I am not a real Athenian, but a stranger who has just joined the Athenian tribe. After you Eleusis came to Athens, you were the same as me in the eyes of the Athenians. Foreigners, so I want to mingle with you and make you my true companions."

"You are not from Athens, so how did you become a priest of the Athenian tribe? Are you a relative of Pandion, the leader of the Athenian tribe?"

"I am neither an Athenian nor a relative of the leader of Pandion. I can become a priest of the Athenian tribe because I am the first priest of the goddess Metis. After I persuaded the leader of Pandion to honor the goddess Metis, I asked him Promise not to threaten the kingship of the chief with theocracy."

After listening to Roy's explanation, Kaone frowned and said.

"Could it be that you want to use us Eleusis to help you fight against Pandion?"

"You misunderstood! I have neither the idea of ​​confronting the leader of Pandion, nor the idea of ​​competing with the leader of Pandion for dominance. The real reason I want to gain the trust of you Eleusis is...I am very insecure right now. "

"You said you didn't feel safe—"

Kaone first widened her eyes in surprise, then suddenly said.

"You are also a foreigner in the land of Athens, and you are also an insecure person. You and us Eleusis can indeed use each other. But if you are not able to take care of us and ensure that we are fed and clothed, I will Your people will definitely abandon you in order to survive."

After speaking, Keone turned and left.

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day.

As soon as the dawn broke through the night sky, the Eleusisians woke up one after another from their sleep.

The women gather to cook breakfast for all, and the men carry the logs and continue building the log cabin.

After everyone finished eating the big pot of rice for breakfast, Roy did not work with the men, but came to Kione and said.

"Princess Chione! The remaining [-] Eleusinians will also come to Athens by boat today. Let's go to the port to meet them!"

Kaone, who was going to weave straw mats with the three maids, immediately stood up excitedly and said.

"Then let's go to the port quickly! Take the rest of the people here, and we Eleusis will be reunited."

After speaking, Kaone came to Roy, and pulled Roy to Piraeus Port.

after an hour.

When Roy and Kione came to the pier of Piraeus Port, they saw that Procne and Philomela were also here, and they were accompanied by fifty personal guards to protect their safety.

Seeing the white-haired and blue-eyed Kaone beside Roy, Philomela took the initiative to speak.

"You are the princess of the Eleusis tribe, Chione, the incarnation of the goddess of winter and ice and snow? I heard that you are now the maid of Priest Loi. Priest Loi did not attend the celebration banquet hosted by his father last night. It is not because of you Let's do shameless things together!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Kaone immediately glared at Philomela in embarrassment and said.

"I know that you are Princess Philomela, the daughter of the leader of Pandion. I can tell you that my body is still an unmarried girl. Even if I become the maid of the priest of Loi, I will not let you Priest Loi took my body."

"Philomela!"

Procne glared at Philomela reproachfully, and then said to Roy and Chione.

"Priest Loi! Princess Chione! Philomela is still a child who hasn't grown up, so you don't have to pay attention to her words."

"elder sister!"

Philomela said coquettishly.

"Kione is a captive of our Athenian tribe, a maid slave of the priest of Loi. You don't need to treat her as a princess who is equal to us, let alone the incarnation of a goddess, because now we are also goddesses!"

Hearing Philomela's words, Roy asked curiously.

"Princess Procne, what does Princess Philomela mean?"

"Priest Loy, don't you know?"

Procne looked at Roy in surprise, and then explained to Roy.

"I heard that the rulers of the Eastern Mediterranean would deify their families, so my father also deified our family. My mother was originally a priest of the rain goddess, but now she has been deified as the incarnation of the rain goddess Zeuxiper. I and Philomela, and brother Erechtheus, now deified as the adopted sons and daughters of the goddess Metis, and also as the incarnation of the gods. I am the incarnation of the goddess of dew, and Philomela is the son of the goddess of the fields. Incarnation, brother Erechtheus is the incarnation of the God of Harvest who bears the name Boros [Harvest]."

"So your current identities are Dew Goddess Procne and Field Goddess Philomela—"

Roy stared at Procne and Philomela with wide eyes, and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu in his heart.

The goddess of dew and the goddess of the fields seem to be two weak goddesses merged by the goddess who guards Athens.

"The identity of Prince Erechtheus is Boros, the god of harvest, adopted son of goddess Metis? Although the name Boros means harvest, I think the name Boros [Harvest] seems to be more suitable for irrelevant god of opportunity and creation."

"Opportunity and Creation—"

Philomela said with an excited smile.

"Priest Loi, if you want to deify yourself, the identity of the god of opportunity and creation should be very suitable for you. You came to the Athenian tribe and created many new things. Your creations provide the Athenian tribe with opportunities for development, so You should deify yourself as Roy, the god of opportunity and creation."

Roy immediately shook his head and said.

"The identity of the God of Opportunity is fine. The God of Creation is equivalent to the sublime deity of the Creation God. Even a real god cannot bear the sublime deity of the Creation God. As a human being, how dare I put myself deified into a creator god."

Then, Roy looked at Procne and Philomela and said.

"And in my opinion, no matter how much humans deify themselves, they will not become true gods. If you are lucky enough, you will become gods after death like hero gods, and become the maids and subordinate gods of the goddess Metis. If you are not lucky, you will fall into the underworld like ordinary people after death, and your identities as goddess of dew and goddess of fields will be absorbed by goddess Metis."

(End of this chapter)