Before the chaos, the world was wholly covered by the milky
mist. The mist filled the unlimited space. It was an
unrecognized existence. It was the root of everything -
gods, goddess, the universe, and all of nature and any of
invisible abstractions. Each of them was, at the same time,
the milky mist itself regardless of their different
appearances.
(I)
Amongst the goddesses, Zeus was not well spoken of, because
they were holding in check mutually despite their carnal
desires with him. Whenever Hera heard of such rumors from
other goddesses, she said nothing with a frown. She hated
his wily sensuality. She could not find even a trace of
sincerity in his past love affairs.
When Zeus approached and tried to violate Hera, she, with
her elbow, gave a strong blow to his pit of the stomach. In
an instant, Zeus crouched down.
Hera gently said to Zeus.
"If you do want me, first of all you must divorce Tenis and
get separated from your children."
He saw an infinite maternity in the glow of her green eyes
and said, watching her eyes.
"I swear I will follow you."
Then, she added solemnly.
"You must not do any of extramarital sex."
He said.
"What a beauty you say! I am entirely yours. Why can I be
unfaithful. We will make a gorgeous wedding party."
The engagement was effected immediately.
She fell into his sturdy breast and arms.
Leaf tops of evergreen oak swept the canopy. Golden rains
purified the air and lands. All things in nature shined
vividly. The troop of eagles deployed silently in good order
for vigilance over the cobalt blue way up high.
Olympus was flooded by the gods in full dresses and the
goddesses who gorgeously dressed up contending the beautiful
with each other.
Small birds were singing in chorus accompanied by a lyre.
Nymphs were dancing in mid air.
Zeus and Hera appeared in front of the attendees at the
Palace. Everyone gaped in astonishment at Hera's pure
whiteness. The world was wholly covered by her deep
brightness.
The goddess of goddesses was born. The wedding party
continued for 300 years covering all the places in Greece.
(II)
Since after the marriage, Hera was vaguely feeling a gloomy
foreboding about Zeus's fatal defeat someday in future. To
add, from time to time, she heard of his love affairs with
other women.
Hera opened her heavily depressed heart to Gaia. Gaia
consoled Hera but said nothing specifically to solve the
problems. Gaia gave a pomegranate to Hera without explaining
anything. Hera had already known how it worked.
Getting back to the Palace, Hera ordered Iris and Hora to
discretely trail after Zeus and report her the facts that
they found. The information brought by them made her
jealousy flare up. She decided her mind.
Hera told Zeus to attend the hall of the Palace and accused
him of his insincerity in a round about way. He replied sively to her accuses. She named Serene, Deto, Haristo,
Ramia, Io and so forth. She abused his disgusting plays with
them one by onevasivelye with the details of their obscene bhaviors.
Getting entirely at a loss for an excuse any longer, he
flied into a furious rage of no sense. He grabbed her hair
of the head and hanged her from the ceiling of the hall. She
easily removed the hook for herself and flied down and stood
up on the floor.
That moment, he was attacked by an awfully strong headache. He
could not get rid of the pain for a long time. One day, he
had Hefaitos to crack his skull with a battle-ax to see what
was in it. Out of his skull appeared Atena with gold hair
and deep marine blue eyes. She fully armed herself with a
shield and spear in her hands. The unbearable headache of
Zeus was over.
Hera summoned Atena. Atena dropped to one knee with her
right hand on her breast in front of Hera. Placing in the
hands of Atena the pomegranate that Gaia had once endowed to
her, Hera commanded Atena to govern the territory of Athens
in peace.
Atena placed the pomegranate deep in a sacred cavern at the
hill of Athens and strictly sealed the hole.
(III)
Zeus told his close aides to set a rumor that Zeus and Hera
were at he crisis of divorce and he was getting married with
other beautiful lady. The rumor spread with seeming truth.
The rumor swelled further. Hera heard that the lady dressed
in with scarlet was passing on foot the street just in front
of the Place.
Raising her eyebrows in anger and squealing, Hera dashed out
of the Place. Hera jumped on the lady and ripped up the
lady's dress. Then, to her surprise, what appeared there was
a clay figure.
Hera got back to the Place, where Zeus was waiting for her.
They were reunited tightly once again.
(IV)
After exterminating Cronos and the lineal relatives of Titan
at Titanomakia, Zeus had established himself as the god to
govern the celestial sphere.
He established the new order and harmony of the whole
universe. The god of gods was born. However, who could
imagine what would happen to him later?
There had been a discord between the Olympus and Gigas who
was av immortal giant. As a consequence, the Gigantmakia War
flared up.
Commanding the vast forces, Gigas attacked the Olympus. The
sacred hill faced on the crisis in an instance. Zeus
summoned Heracleitos and gave him the strong bow and arrows
that could pierce any material.
Heracleitos, with his marvelous power, drew the bow and shot
an arrow, which pieced the heart of Gigas. At the same time,
Adamas's sickle in the hands of Zeus fulgurated roaring the
sky and land. The troop of Gigas was annihilated at once.
The fierce battles were over with the complete victory of
the Olympus.
(V)
The result of this war left an ill feeling to the mind of
Gaia, who had once been governing both the land and sky
initially efore the era of Curonos.
She could not tolerate. She ordered Qupohn the Monster to
destroy the Olympus. The internecine war broke out again at
the territory of the Olympus.
The violence of Qupohn ripped land, crushed the mountains to
pieces, filled the sky with huge roar. Every god and goddess
escaped from the Palace to Egypt. Only Zeus made a stand
against the enemy.
After the violent duel between Zeus and Qupohn, Zeus met
with a severe defeat for the first time. Zeus was torn from
limb to limb and locked in the cave at Coripion by Qupohn.
While, Qupohn was heavily injured too, and he returned to
the palace of Gaia for treatment.
Hera had Hermes to rescue Zeus and get him back to Samos
where she had been born. She washed and treated the body of
Zeus with water which flew out of the sacred spring. Zeus
recovered soon.
(VI)
All things in nature became frightened and deeply shuddered
at a sinister symptom under the sky filled by the heavy
black clouds.
Gaia, with the utmost secrecy, summoned Hera to her palace.
Her room was filled by the roses of whiteness. Her lady
attendant closed the thick curtains and left there shutting
up the doors.
The room was filled by the fragrance and soft lights of
roses' pure whiteness. Gaia and Hera mutually shared what
were in their hearts. In conclusion, Gaia said to Hera in a
very round about way that power, itself only, could not
govern the universe. Hera understood correctly what Gaia
said to her.
(VII)
Once again, in the deep skies, Zeus and Qupohn stood
opposite each other to finally decide the victory or defeat.
Adamas's sickle flashed. The thunders roared. The magma and
devouring flames flew in whirls. The orbits of the sun and
moon got into a complete disorder. The canopy bore the
innumerable cracks. The stars dispersed in all directions.
The universe fell into a complete mess.
(VIII)
Hera heard the voice of Gaia just saying a name "Moia" from
nowhere. She immediately summoned Atena.
Atena attended in front of Hera at once, arming herself with
a heavy guard and holding in her hand the pomegranate that
Hera had once entrusted to her.
Atena delivered to Moia by hand the pomegranate, in which
every wisdom and desire for peace of all the goddesses.
In fact, Moia had been pressed by Qupohn to give him her
fruit of victory. She gave him the pomegranate instead.
Qupohn ate it. In an instant, he lost his enormous power.
(IX)
The tide of battle in the skies turned. Zeus finally
cornered Qupohn to Sicilia, where Qupohn was strictly sealed
under the Mount Etna.
Zeus saved the universe from the total ruin and established
the ultimate order and harmony for the universe and all the
nature. Hera's deep brightness covered the whole world
again.
(X)
Shining in the golden light, the Olympus greeted the
triumphant return of Zeus. Every god and goddess acknowledged
Zeus as the omniscient, omnipotent god.
Purifying herself in the sacred spring at Kanatos, Hera gave
away all of herself to Zeus. He did realize of her faith,
dedication and chastity as well as her courage and wisdom.
Two of them went into deep love and completely became one in
the midst of milky mist. The time, distance, space, all
nature were painted onto a canvas wholly covered by a single
color of milky white.
Whether recognized or not recognized, we, each of us, are in
the milky mist where all things are independently existing
in the one.