Chapter 77: Great Father God, Great Mother Goddess
It is precisely because Zeus is there, forever protecting them behind him, that the gods can forever charge forward with peace of mind.
Zeus, he is the well-deserved core!
He is the hope and pillar of all gods in Olympus!
With him there, the gods can forever be at peace of mind!
In this world, there is nothing that can earn the gods’ respect and admiration more than commanding everything on the battlefield, resisting everything, and conquering everything.
No female goddess can resist such a lord of all armies who embodies power, courage, strength, wisdom, and affable charm!
Hestia, she is the fire seed mother goddess symbolizing the robust growth of civilization; Demeter, she is the growth mother goddess indispensable to life; and white-armed Hera, this great mother goddess representing the reproductive feminine side, reproduction and fertility.
They all represent the vitality, growth, and production of life, embodying the most fundamental matriarchal power in the world, and are absolute great mother goddesses.
As determined by the essential laws of the divinity of their birth, their instincts cannot refuse Zeus; they are innately captivated by his masculine and powerful essence, deeply attracted to him.
Because Zeus’s essence is precisely the fundamental existence they need and yearn for.
Just as all life reveres the majesty of thunder, all life craves the nourishment of light and dew.
This is the yearning and attraction from their divine instincts that they cannot resist.
Great mother goddesses are born to crave nestling beside the great father god; this is the call of the laws, the belonging of the origin.
This is not mere instinctual attraction of divine bodies; it is the essential attraction yearned for by the divinity born from the depths of the laws themselves, transcending all else.
It is the world’s origin seeking harmony and completeness.
Just as yin and yang forever entwine, attracting and fusing with each other.
This is the eternal attraction of the supreme essential laws, the deepest and most fundamental order and balance in the universe.
Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus—they are the incarnations of the laws, not lives born from bloodline connections in mortal cognition, and certainly without worldly blood ties.
They are the incarnations of the universe’s essential origin laws of God King Cronus and Goddess Queen Rhea, new laws evolved and created over endless years.
In the universe’s beginning, there were no true living beings in the proper sense.
Whoever can evolve, derive, and create new laws and concepts, that creator naturally becomes the “parents” of those new laws innately.
In truth, there is no substantial bloodline relationship between gods like that of mortals; not even both “parents” need to exist simultaneously—powerful great gods can gestate and create alone.
Just like Mother of All Gaia, who herself is the incarnation of the primordial matter of the universe.
Therefore, when the universe was born, all matter that appeared—whether the vast sky dome, the deep and vast sea, the towering mountains, or the minute matter constituting all things—was naturally her children.
Or the Goddess of Night, all laws and concepts born from her deep night authority, such as misfortune, nightmares, death, sleep, pain, sorrow, aging, deception, trickery, and so on—these too are children gestated and created by the Lady of Night.
These are all the grand natural evolution of the laws, the solemn birth of concepts, and the sources from which concepts arise are naturally revered as the “parents” of those concepts.
In reality, there is no bloodline connection between gods in the mortal sense.
The future Zeus will not only be the supreme god king of the universe but also the great father god, the father of all things and all spirits!
At that time, any god, regardless of origin or authority, must respectfully address him as “Father” or “Father God” to affirm his supreme status and authority.
Even Gaia and Rhea are no exception; in serious situations, they too must address Zeus as “esteemed Father God”.
Even the unruly Poseidon, no matter how unwilling deep down, when Zeus seriously displays his god king majesty and supreme authority, must still dutifully call Zeus “Father”.
（PS: This is clearly recorded in specific passages in the 《Homeric Epics》, where Poseidon and the gods address Zeus as “Father”; the Orphic Hymns also explicitly praise Zeus as the supreme great father god!）
This title of “Father” is a lofty honorific representing status and authority, utterly unrelated to bloodlines; it is the ultimate embodiment of Zeus’s patriarchy across the entire universe.
All relationships between gods ultimately return to the level of emotion and recognition.
Heavenly Father Uranus casually abused the Titans because he never truly regarded them as his children.
Second Generation God King Cronus called them “children” one after another but did not treat the created laws as children.
To put it bluntly, it’s “parents（child）” only if acknowledged; if not, it’s nothing.
Gods’ divine bodies can be freely changed and altered, so discussing mortal bloodline ties is laughably absurd.
Between law gods, there is no bloodline relationship in the mortal sense—only the constant derivation and incarnation of cosmic laws.
The gods never struggle over laws gestated from the same origin, as it holds no meaning.
For them, the most important thing is: through union, can they become stronger? Can they derive more powerful laws? Can they firmly defend their honor and authority in the vast universe without being devoured and absorbed by other laws?
For the world of “existence” that bears all, the world becoming more perfect and complete is the most meaningful thing.
And for the gods themselves, the choices of their self-consciousness and self-spirituality are the most important and meaningful things.
Regardless of else, the most instinctive love and desire in gods’ spirituality is the driving force of their actions.
Love means wanting to obtain, and that is enough.
Gods are incarnations of laws, while spiritual consciousness is born from matter swallowing love and desire.
Gods are not human; their essences are completely different.
Humans resemble gods, not gods resembling humans.
Humanity is divinity.
The humanity understood by mortals is precisely the macroscopic mapping of divinity.
Therefore, for any goddess, liking Zeus and wanting to possess him carries no psychological burden.
Because mortal rules and morals hold no meaning for gods in themselves!
Essences completely different!
So, when Zeus and Metis returned to the divine palace hand in hand, intimately close, many goddesses immediately changed their expressions.
Spirituality is born from love and desire; gods’ spirituality is immensely vast and majestic, so gods possess both the most fervent and deep love and the broadest and surging desire.
Goddesses never willingly share their beloved（unless there is no method）.
At this moment, Metis got there first, so many goddesses were naturally furious, anxious, angry, with various complex emotions interweaving.
The angriest was the best-tempered Hera!
Because she had the best relationship with Metis, and because she loved Zeus immensely.
