Chapter
23: Setting the stage for what happens later at Athena’s Acropolis in Attica:
Hera asks, “Why does a mortal like Minyas need a Treasury? A Human is but a flyspeck to us. They live for a brief season and then are naught
but a pile of dust upon this planet.”
Athena
replies, “You take what’s given to you
for granted, Hera. Who brings you food
and does your bidding? Until our Taurian
leaders find us and send ships to rescue us, we prevail in Thessaly only at the mercy of Deucalion’s people. Treat them badly and they’ll turn on us
without a moment’s notice. Then we’ll
see who’s naught but a pile of dust upon this planet.”
Hera can not imagine herself as dust. Nor can she imagine her Humans turning against
her. She’d strike them dead if they
tried and good riddance! She and Zeus
ruled Kabera through fear, depending upon the unsettled minds of their Humans
there, and that’s how she rules now on Mount Olympus. Surely, by this time, ships from Aldebaran are
on their way to rescue the Titan lords and their Pleiad servants. They all believe this. How can it be otherwise?
Athena’s words of warning fall upon deaf ears.
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