Chapter 5 The Tale of Hercules - 5

Hercules was grateful for the precious gifts of the gods.Before long, he found an opportunity to pay back.It turned out that Gaia, the goddess of the earth, gave birth to a group of giants for the god Uranus. These monsters had ferocious faces, long messy beards and long hair, and a scaled dragon tail dragging behind them, which became their feet.The mother instigated them to oppose Zeus, because Zeus became the new master of the world and sent all the sons of Gaia, the Titans, into the hell Tartarus.Years later they broke through hell and emerged in the fields of Thessaly.At the sight of them, the stars changed color, and even Apollo turned his sun chariot around.

"Go, children, avenge for me, for the sons of the gods of old," said the Mother Earth, "and the vultures are pecking at the liver of Prometheus; Lightning struck him, and he was lying on the ground, and two eagles were pecking at his liver! Atlas was condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders; the Titan was chained and tortured, go, take revenge, go Rescue them! You shall use my limbs—the high mountains as ladders and weapons! Climb to the starlit castle! Alcyonatis, take the scepter and lightning from the tyrant!Enceladus, conquer the seas and drive Poseidon away!Rhydus went to take the reins from the hand of the sun god, and Perphirion went to occupy the temple of Delphi! When the giants heard the order, they cheered loudly, as if they had won the victory. They climbed Mount Thessaly one after another, and prepared to attack the sky from there.

At the same time, Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, the messenger of the gods, hurriedly summoned all the gods, water gods, and goddesses of fate in the underworld to come together and discuss how to deal with it.Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, left her Hades; and her husband, the King of the silent dead, climbed up the golden holy mountain of Olympus on his light-phobic steed.Like the inhabitants of a besieged city flocking to the Acropolis from all directions, so the gods assembled on Mount Olympus. "Gods," Zeus said to them, "see how the Earth Mother has turned against us vigorously and viciously.

Let's rise up and fight!As many sons as she has sent us, so many corpses shall we send back to her! " As soon as the All-Father had finished speaking, there was a burst of thunder in the sky.Gaia subterraneanly sent violent earthquakes below in return.Nature is once again in the same chaos as when it was created.The giants uprooted one mountain after another, and piled up Mount Osa, Mount Pelion, Mount Ota, and Mount Athos in Thessaly, and then washed away Mount Rodupo with half of the source of Heberos.The giants climbed up the mountain step by step towards the residence of the gods, holding burning oak sticks and huge stones in their hands, and rushed towards Olympus like a storm.The gods were given an oracle that if no mortal participated in the battle, the gods would not be able to kill the giants who came to invade.Gaia heard this, and hastened to find a way to keep her sons safe from mortals.This requires a herb.However, Zeus took the first step, he did not let the morning glow, the moon and the sun shine.While Gaia was looking for herbs in the dark, Zeus harvested the herbs.He asked Athena to give the herb to his son Hercules and asked him to come to fight.

A raging flames of war ignited on the sacred mountain of Olympias.Ares, the god of war, sat upright on the chariot, and the steed in front of the chariot neighed loudly.He drove the carriage towards the densely packed enemies.Ares held a gleaming golden shield that shone brighter than flames.The feathers on his warhelm whistled in the wind.He pierced the snake-footed giant Pelorus with a single shot, and ran his chariot over him limb from limb.But it wasn't until the giant saw mortal Hercules climb to the top of Mount Olympus that he passed out of his body and died.Hercules looked around the field, and found a target for his bow and arrows: he hit Alcyonius with one arrow, and the giant rolled down, but when he touched the ground, he was resurrected.According to Athena's idea, Hercules also chased down.He lifted Alcyonius from the ground.Poor Alcyonius died as soon as he left the earth.

At this time, the giant Porphyrion rushed towards Hercules and Hera aggressively, wanting to fight them to the death. Seeing all this, Zeus immediately made the giant want to see the Queen of God. He just lifted the veil of Hera, and Zeus hit him with a thunderbolt.Hercules shot an arrow, killing him instantly.Effiars, whose eyes were shooting sparks, rushed out of the battle ranks of the giants. "He came at the right time. He has become the target of our archery." Hercules laughed and said to Apollo beside him.So Apollo and the demigod shot two arrows, which hit Ephiales in both eyes.Dionysus, the god of wine, raised his staff and knocked Lydus to the ground.Hephaestus threw a red-hot iron bullet with one hand.Hot iron bullets poured down like a torrential rain, and the giant Celytius fell to the ground and died on the spot.Athena raised Sicily and threw it at Enceladus who was running away, pinning him down.The giant Polypotes was pursued across the sea by Poseidon and fled to the island of Kos in the Aegean Sea.Immediately Poseidon split a corner of the island and buried him in it.Hermes, wearing the helmet of Pluto, the god of hell, killed Hippolytus.The other two giants were also killed by the iron rod of the goddess of fate.

The rest of the giants were struck with lightning or shot with bows and arrows by Hercules. At the end of the battle, the gods praised Hercules for his great achievements.Zeus called the gods who participated in the battle Olympians, which is the title of the brave.The two sons of Zeus, Dionysus and Hercules, who were born of mortal women, also received this honorable title.