Chapter 23: Special Short N° 4- The Origin of the Greek Pantheon
Clarifications:
-"Person Talking"-
-(Person thinking)-
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[Jutsu]
(JC: Author's Notes)
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Let us begin
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250 Years After the Devil Civil War
Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, the Yōsokage of Yōsogakure No Sato, was doing his job; which would be facing the dreaded paperwork.
But he put the paperwork aside when he saw a small explosion of light above him; from which a letter appeared and fell on his desk.
Naruto quickly assumed that the letter came from a True God by the way it appeared. He took the letter to begin reading it.
There is a person I want you to meet on Keros Island, in Greece.
Gaia, the Goddess of Magic.
Naruto raised an eyebrow upon reading that. Then he shrugged and left the work for another time, then disappeared in a yellow-red ray.
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Naruto after a few trips was able to quickly reach Keros Island.
At first Naruto was worried about being close to the territory of the Greek Pantheon; but he knew that Gaia would never lead him into any danger.
He walked for a few minutes along the coast of the uninhabited island, and then he met someone. It was a woman sitting quietly on a rock; she looked at the calm sea that surrounded the island. She was a beautiful woman with fair skin, long brown hair that reached down to her lower back, where she wore several flower decorations, and she had beautiful green eyes. She was wearing a green Greek tunic, which highlighted her perfect figure.
When the woman noticed Naruto's presence, she smiled softly, then stood up and bowed to him.
-"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Lord Naruto"- The woman said with a smile. -"My friend Danu told me about you"-
Naruto blinked in confusion upon hearing the name of the Mother Earth Goddess of the Celtic-Irish Pantheon.
-"Let me introduce myself properly; I am Gea, Primordial Goddess of the Earth"-
Naruto looked surprised; In front of him was one of the Primordial Goddesses of the Greek Pantheon.
-"Gea of the Greek Pantheon?"-
-"Yes"-Gea put on a sad expression. -"Although I have cut my connections with Olympus a long time ago"-
Naruto blinked in confusion upon hearing that.
-"I'm glad Lady Gaia has heard my prayers"-Gea smiled again. -"When I heard about you from Danu, I've been waiting so long to meet you and talk to you"-
Naruto was surprised. -"Did you want to talk to me?"-
-"Yes"- Gea smiled happily. -"I've been waiting for an envoy from the True Gods for millions of years"-
-"Why?"-
Naruto couldn't ask the reason out of curiosity.
Gea sat back down on the rock with a sigh. -"It's a long story..."-
-"I have plenty of time"-
Naruto told her with a smile, as he sat down on a nearby rock.
Gea smiled upon hearing that. -"Okay. What I'm going to tell you is the true origin of the Greek Pantheon."-
Then she began to tell the story…
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Billions of years ago, there was only endless, lifeless space; the world had not even existed until she appeared…
Gaia, the Goddess of Magic…
She created two worlds: the Draconic Deus, also known as Earth, and the Evie Etoulde.
Lady Gaia then created the different dimensions: such as the Dimensional Gap, Heaven, the Underworld, etc.
Lady Gaia then wanted to populate the world; for that she created the first Primordial Gods of all Pantheons and Mythologies. She created Primordial Gods like Danu from the Celtic-Irish Pantheon, Atum from the Egyptian Pantheon, Buri from the Nordic Pantheon and many more.
From the Greek Pantheon was born Chaos, The Primordial God of the Cosmos. He created me and the other Primordial Gods: like Ether, The Primordial God of the Upper Atmosphere and Light; Hemera, the Primordial Goddess of Day; Ananke, Primordial Goddess of Inevitability, Compulsion, and Necessity; Tartarus, Primordial God of the Abyss; Erebos, Primordial God of Darkness and Shadows; and Nyx, Primordial Goddess of Night.
When we were born, we were raised to praise and honor the True Gods, as well as educate future generations about the True Gods.
Afterwards, without male help, I gave birth to Uranus, the Titan of the Sky. From our union were born the Titans.
The Titans Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus. And the Titanides Theia, Rhea, Themis, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, and Tethys. After this, I and Uranus decided that no more Titans would be born; so the one-eyed Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires or Hundred-Handed Ones followed.
From a very young age, I raised and educated all my children about the True Gods; that they are our creators and superior to us.
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-"Something bad happened, right?"-
Naruto asked when he saw that everything was going well.
Gea made a bitter face, then nodded. -"Yes; or rather Uranus was what happened"-
Then she continued with her story…
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But suddenly, Uranus thought he was superior to the True Gods and tried to persuade our children to join him to overthrow the True Gods.
They did not accept. The Titans had a lot of faith in the True Gods and tried to persuade Uranus to come to his senses. But Uranus did not do it; he was angry, very angry. That is why he tried to force them and in the process he locked the Cyclops in Tartarus.
But he was quickly stopped by Kronos, the youngest, as the most devout of the Titans. He castrated and killed Ouranos with a scythe, and became the ruler of the Gods; with his sister and wife Rhea as his consort and the other Titans as his court.
And so he created a government where everyone followed the orders and teachings of the True Gods.
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Gea put on a sad expression. -"And to be honest, that was a mistake on Kronos' part."-
-"A mistake?"-
-"Yes. The True Gods have always wanted us to live our lives without the need to praise them"-
-"You're right"-
Naruto said that knowing that the True Gods don't like to be treated with such respect.
Then Gea continued telling…
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After a few years, Rhea gave birth to Zeus, who at first was a sweet and kind child; but as time went by he began to appear to his grandfather. He began to question the faith of the True Gods and began to believe himself better than them.
Cronos, seeing his attitude, expelled him. He couldn't stand someone questioning and believing themselves superior to the True Gods. Therefore, fearing that his future children would do the same; every time Rhea gave birth to a child, he would kidnap him and swallow him.
Rhea didn't like that; that's why she quickly went to Zeus, who had already become a powerful God.
Zeus faced Cronus, and during the process I gave him a poison that forced him to vomit his brothers who had remained in Cronus' stomach the whole time.
But at that moment Zeus took advantage of the situation to start a war together with his brothers to get the throne of the Gods.
Zeus fought Cronus for the throne, so a war of Gods against Titans broke out.
And so the Titanomachy began…
Many Titans did not participate in the war and remained neutral. But that did not leave the Titans at a disadvantage.
Zeus, along with his brothers Poseidon and Hades, took the Cyclopes out of Tartarus and forced them to forge powerful weapons for them; then killed them when they saw how dangerous they were. They also threatened the Hecatonchires to join them or die.
A war began between the Titans and the young Gods; who emerged victorious thanks to the weapons and help of the Hecatonchires. Zeus used Cronus' scythe to cut him into a thousand pieces, just as he had done with his father Uranus, throwing his remains into Tartarus along with the other Titans who sided with him.
At the end of the war, I felt very angry with the punishment that had been given to my children; so I created the Giants so that they could face the Gods, and they obeyed. And so the Gigantomachy began.
In the end, the Gods won and the Giants were killed, tortured and imprisoned on islands or in volcanoes. And this time I was furious and created Typhon, my last son; who, following my orders, attacked Olympus and Zeus faced him, and so the Typhonomachy began.
In the end, Typhon was defeated and I had no choice but to accept the triumph of the Gods.
And so the current Greek Pantheon originated…
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-"Wow"- Naruto was surprised by the story. -"That's very different from what we discovered in our research"-
-"Yes. It's like they say: history is written by the victors, and they won in the end"- Gea said sadly. -"I tried to stop them, but I failed and lost my children in the process"-
-"But I don't understand"- Naruto looked at him curiously. -"Why did you want to stop them?"-
-"Why is what they do wrong"- Gea said with contained fury. -"Rape, kidnapping, murder, causing war for pure pleasure; things that the Gods should not do. The True Gods created us to protect this world, not to rule it"- Then she put on a sad expression. -"Just because they have power they can do whatever they want; that is what makes us different from the True Gods"-
Naruto nodded in agreement. After all, True Gods never interfere in the worlds and would never take advantage of using their power to do as they please.
-"I once tried to invade Olympus with the Titans who were not imprisoned, we even got the support of minor Gods from the Greek Pantheon"- Said Gea. -"But in the end we never attacked when we saw how powerful they became"-
Naruto quickly understood that; after all, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are among the 10 Strongest Beings in the World.
-"Since then we were praying to the True Gods for their help. We knew they would never interfere; but we never lost faith"- Said Gea with a smile, then turned sad. -"But by not having answers we completely lost faith. Even the Primordial Gods lost hope and accepted to be under the command of the Gods of Olympus"-
-"I had completely lost hope and believed that I had lost the way"- Gea said sadly and with tears threatening to come out. -"I felt as if I had disappointed the True Gods; although I know that they would never be like that"- She then smiled with happiness, while the tears of sadness turned into tears of happiness. -"But all that changed when Danu told me about you; a person who was not only blessed by many True Gods, but also by the Supreme God"-
-"Your appearance means that the True Gods never abandoned us; which meant that you are here to bring a change that we have all longed for. And not only for our Pantheon, but for the whole world"- Gea said happily, then kneeling before a surprised Naruto. -"That's why we want to be there to serve and help you"-
Naruto was confused by what she said. -"Us?"-
As if it were a sign, many people began to appear, either in Magic Circles or from the sea. They were a large group of women and men, all of different shapes and sizes. A gigantic being with the torso and arms of a muscular man with a long beard and horns, and with the lower body of a snake, had even appeared in the middle of the sea.
Naruto, thanks to his research, knew that before him were the Titans that were not sealed, as well as many minor Gods of the Greek Pantheon.
Quickly everyone knelt or bowed before Naruto.
-"So please, Lord Naruto"- Gea smiled at him. -"Let us serve you to be there to help you make that change a reality"-
-"...."- Naruto remained silent for a few seconds, then sighed tiredly. -"Well, since"-
Everyone there celebrated when he accepted.
Naruto knew it would be useless to argue with these people. -(It seems that we will have many new inhabitants in Yōsogakure No Sato)-
But then he put on a smile as he looked at the group that was celebrating.
TO BE CONTINUED!!!
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