I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 6 The future of Athens lies in the sea
Roy's drinking capacity is really bad, even low-alcohol wine can make Roy drunk.

After answering Pandion's question, Roy stopped drinking, but ate dry and hard bread to sober himself up.

Just after Roy ate the two slices of bread, Pandion's wife came in with a group of maids, each of whom held a piece of chopped and boneless roast meat in a clay pot.

After the beautiful lady sat down beside her husband Pandion, the maids put the barbecue in front of Roy and Pandion's family respectively.

Roy picked up a piece of barbecue and tasted it, and found that the barbecue was coated with sea salt and olive oil, and the quality of the meat was very good. It was indeed a rare and delicious barbecue.

Pandion whispered in his wife's ear.

"Honey! The purpose of Priest Loi's coming to our Athens tribe is to make our Athens tribe honor the goddess of wisdom. What do you think?"

Pandion's wife frowned and said.

"Do you want to accept a new god? Our Athenian tribe now worships the goddess of rain, and let the goddess of rain bless our territory with good weather, so that we can harvest more olives, grapes, barley, wheat, vegetables and other food during the harvest season. "

"If the Goddess of Rain is a real god, or if Metis, the Goddess of Wisdom, does not exist, I will continue to worship the Goddess of Rain."

Pandion said with a solemn face.

"But Priest Loi has proved to us that the Goddess of Wisdom he serves is a real god. Today he salted my body with the power of the Goddess."

"He serves a real god who can lend him power—"

Pandion's wife said to Roy with a solemn face.

"Priest Loi! I heard that the purpose of your coming to the Athens tribe is to let us worship the god you serve as a patron saint. In fact, our Athens tribe now worships the goddess of rain, and I am the priest who serves the goddess of rain."

"The lady is also a priest?"

Roy looked at his wife in surprise, then said with a confident smile.

"I don't feel any divine power from my lady. It seems that the goddess of rain that my lady serves is not the real god, or this goddess of rain has no intention of protecting the Athenian tribe. The goddess of wisdom I serve is a real god, and the leader of Pandion has personally experienced it. I used the power of the goddess Metis to perform the miracle of salinization. The Athenian tribe regards Metis, the goddess of wisdom, as the patron saint, and can achieve better development, because the future of the Athenian tribe lies in the sea.”

In order to convince the Athenian tribes to respect Metis, the goddess of wisdom, and to complete the tasks entrusted to him by the goddess, Roy directly used the oil on his fingers to paint on the stone table, drawing a map of the Attica Peninsula where the Athenian tribes were located.

"Pandion leader! Madam! Look, this is the Attica peninsula where the Athenian tribes are located, and the Acropolis is here. To the north of the Attica peninsula is the Thebes area of ​​the Thebes, and to the west is the Corinthian Corinth. Isthmus. Because the population of Thebes and Corinthians is larger than the Athenians, it is difficult for us to develop on land and compete with Thebes and Corinthians for territory. If the Athenian tribe wants to develop and grow, it must communicate with other tribes through the sea Local trade, through trade to obtain advanced weapons and more food. With advanced weapons, we can arm the Athenian soldiers. With more food, the Athenian tribe can have more population and develop into the Attica Peninsula —even the mightiest city-state in the whole region.”

Pandion and his wife looked at the map that Roy had drawn on the stone table, with strange expressions on their faces.

Just when Roy suspected that there was something wrong with the map he drew, Pandion finally said.

"Priest Roy! We Athens have lived in the Attica Peninsula for generations, and we don't know what the map of the Attica Peninsula looks like. You are a foreigner from the far east. Why do you know the Attica Peninsula so well?"

"Uh--"

It is very suspicious indeed that a stranger knows their homeland better than a native.

Roy was only flustered for a moment, then explained with a smile.

"I can draw the map of the Attica Peninsula because the great goddess of wisdom, Metis, gave me the wisdom to understand it all. Chief Pandion! Do you agree with me that the future of the Athenian tribe lies in the sea?"

Pandion remained silent and did not answer Roy's question.

Seeing his father's reaction, Erechtheus sneered.

"Outlanders! Going deep into the sea is a very dangerous thing. We may get lost in the sea and never return to our hometown, and we are even more likely to encounter sea monsters that are bigger than ships. Most importantly, we don't need to go deep into the sea at all. The sea, those sea-navigating Phoenicians and other sea peoples, would come to our domains with bronze utensils and food, and exchange olive oil, wine, and cattle and sheep or slaves."

A sea monster bigger than a ship——

Could it be a whale?
Roy came back to his senses and said to Erechtheus.

"Prince Erechtheus! Of course I know that the Athenians don't do anything, and there will be sea merchants who will trade with you with various goods. But do you think that these sea merchants are all selfless and good people? The essence is to buy goods from one place at a low price and then sell them to another place at a high price, so that the merchant can earn a huge difference. For example, when we trade with merchants at sea, maybe a can of wine can only be exchanged for one A catty of bronze. But we cross the sea by ourselves and sell wine to places rich in copper mines, maybe a jar of wine can be exchanged for five catties or even ten catties of bronze."

After listening to Roy's words, Pandion finally couldn't help but said.

"Priest Loy! In fact, I also realized that we traded with those sea merchants, and they completely regarded us as targets for plundering wealth. Since you can come here from the far east, then you can let us Athens develop the sea. Trade?"

"As long as the Athenian tribe regards Metis, the goddess of wisdom, as their patron saint, the Athenian tribe can develop maritime trade.

Roy said with a confident smile.

"The great goddess Metis is not only the goddess of wisdom, but also the daughter of Pontus [the sea], the goddess of the sea who can protect the ships of the Athenians from sailing safely on the sea."

Pandion and his wife looked at each other, and seeing that his wife did not object, Pandion turned his head and said to Roy.

"Priest Loi, I am willing to regard the goddess Metis as the patron saint of our Athens tribe, and I will also let my wife serve as the priest of the goddess Metis."

it is good--

Roy was about to nod in agreement when he suddenly realized a problem.

In the Athenian tribe, were two priests of Metis, the goddess of wisdom, needed?

If the Athenian tribe needed only one priest, Pandion's wife would become redundant after becoming a priest.

Will Metis take back the divine power granted to him?
Losing the divine power of Metis and becoming an ordinary person, how can I survive in this world?

Do you want to humblely beg Pandion to let him agree to live in the tribe of Athens as an ordinary tribesman?
(End of this chapter)