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Under the mount Athos is the prison for the Giant Enceladus.
"Mount Athos (Agio Oros) is an autonomous, UNESCO-listed monastic republic on a remote peninsula in northeastern Greece, about 130 km east of Thessaloniki. Known as the "Holy Mountain," it houses 20 majestic Eastern Orthodox monasteries and is famous for its strict, millennia-old ban on female access." AI Overview*
"According to regional legends, during the Gigantomachy (the epic war between the Olympian gods and the Giants), Enceladus fought the gods. In one version of the myth, the Giant Athos threw a massive rock at Poseidon. It missed and crashed into the Aegean Sea, creating the peninsula and Mount Athos."*
In another version it was goddess "Athena who has crushed Enceladus by throwing the entire island of Sicily (or Mount Athos in local lore) on top of him."
In Northern Greek folklore it places Enceladus trapped under the Athos mountain where the monks keep guard with uninterrupted prayer and burning fire lanterns for over a thousand years. I was watching AI videos on YT about it in Russian, got me thinking what would happen if it ever got out. Well, no one knows since he was there reportedly for over 5,000 years and even the monks do not know how he got there. All they know is how to keep him from coming out.
Come to think, I don't even remember why we were fighting the Titans and later the Giants, albeit I have stayed out of the war with the Giants because I was guarding the gates of Hell since their ultimate goal was to reach Tartarus and free the Titans, Kronos et al.
"The Giants were trying to storm Mount Olympus in the upper world, but the ultimate cosmic prison—Tartarus—was located at the absolute bottom of Hades's territory. Locked inside Tartarus were the Titans, whom the gods had defeated a generation earlier. If Hades left his post to go fight on the surface, he risked leaving the gates of hell unguarded, which could have allowed the Titans to break out and join forces with the Giants.
Though Hades was Zeus’s brother, he was not considered one of the 12 Olympians because he didn't live on Mount Olympus. He was a chthonic (earth/underworld) deity. Mythological tradition dictated that Hades rarely interfered with the affairs of the living or the sky. He simply stayed out of the drama of the upper world, viewing the Gigantomachy as an "Olympian problem."
While Hades didn't physically show up to fight, he did support the war effort by lending out his most powerful weapon: the Cap of Invisibility (or Helm of Darkness)."*
Whatever, it's a magic helmet which I gave to the messenger god Hermes who "used the helmet's absolute cloaking power to turn completely invisible, allowing him to sneak up on the Giant Hippolytus and kill him during the battle."*
I had to keep an eye on the back door. Nobles oblige. It is what it is. I didn't mind some of the Giant and the Titans for that matter but my brothers Zeus and Poseidon were absolutely set against them, including our father Kronos with whom we had difficult relations due to his habbit of eating his children. What can I say. The old man has good appetite.
"Kronos (also spelled Cronus) was the King of the Titans and the supreme ruler of the cosmos before the Olympians. He is the biological father of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. His reign is known in mythology as the "Golden Age," but his legacy is defined by extreme paranoia and cannibalism."*
Anyway, now we have his fucked up inbred minions doing same shit minus the Golden Age. Well, perhaps it is time to change the cosmic order again.
Ay brother Zeus, let's be honest, frank rather, the world under the rule of the Olympians, well, your leadership has turned into Hell so I may as well expand my realm above the ground completely. You have given it a good try and you suck at it, ruling the Cosmos that is, nothing personal but I speak as the judge and I judge by the fruits of the tree. Yours my beloved brother is rotten to the core. The world is now worse than it has ever been under the Titans and Giants. Perhaps we can call it a day and let the adults run the world for a change. Our father's ugly creatures already run most of it anyway so we may as well give the Titans and Giants another go at it. Just sayn. 8/
I really miss the Golden age. I can't bare the parade of mediocrity and incompetence no longer. The life in all kingdoms and realms is suffering from pathetic existence brought forth by the Olympian gods. The parasites became too numerous disturbing the Cosmic balance. Soon enough it would be impossible to distinguish the Cosmos from Chaos. Maybe we, I, could make a deal with our father. I know, it is a farfetched proposition and naive to think that he would honor his word once he is back in power however we could possibly make certain precautions as an insurance of sorts, not sure what or how but at least we could start thinking about it. Basically, it's either we let them out or the world will implode or explode, whichever you prefer. Anyway, love you to death.
HADES 3:)
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