twenty three

Third person POV

Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth, one of the original Twelve Olympians. Cronus' and Rhea's first-born child, she was pure and peaceful. However, since she always had to stay at home, tending the fireplace, Hestia is not involved in many myths.

Consequently, at a later stage, she would be replaced in the Pantheon with the much wilder Dionysus.

Hestia's name means "hearth" or "fireplace," and her status shows how important the hearth was in the social and religious life of Ancient Greeks. Making and preserving fire was both essential and difficult for more primitive societies, which made the household fire a sacred element at a very early stage of history.

However, there are very few pictorial representations of Hestia. Usually, she is portrayed as a modest middle-aged veil-wearing woman. Sometimes, she stands by a large fire, carrying a staff or holding some flowers in her hands.

Hestia was the first-born child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Since she was also the first one to be swallowed at birth by her father – and,

consequently, the last one to be disgorged – Hestia was oftentimes called the youngest of Cronus and Rhea's children. She had two sisters – Demeter and Hera – and three brothers: Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.

Since fire is a pure and a purifying element, Hestia was worshipped as a virgin goddess. And they say that she became a virgin in order to keep the peace at Olympus. Namely, both Apollo and Poseidon wanted to marry her; fearing that choosing either of them may result in turmoil.

Hestia swore to an eternal virginity by placing her hand on Zeus' head. As a reward for maintaining the order and in place of marriage, Zeus granted her the central place in the house and the first and richest portion of humans' divine offerings.

Only once was Hestia's chastity subsequently put in danger. At a rustic feast, the drunken god of fertility Priapus tried to rape the sleeping goddess. Fortunately, a donkey started braying and woke up both Hestia and the guests, who chased Priapus away in contempt. Ever since, donkeys were rested and garlanded on Hestia's feast-day.

Gentle and peace-loving, Hestia doesn't appear in too many myths other than these two. Plato says that this is because she has to remain in the house of the gods, all alone, tending the eternal celestial fire even when all the other Olympians ritually pass in processions through heavens. This is both her privilege and her predicament.

Consequently, Hestia's only manifestation among humans was the crackling of the fire. Aristotle says that it is the sound of the goddess laughing.

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Priamos and euryale took their time a long time to release most of them from their cages. They dropped down landing on their feet looking around confused, wondering who let them out of their prison.

Euryale was taking her sweet ass time opening the cells on her side. Priamos rolled his eyes and walked sneakily to her side, needing to help her own her slow, ass way of doing her super, simple job.

He went fast and released all the monsters out of their cages that she didn't get. They dropped like flies, having the same reaction as the other ones, What the hell is happening? It was understandable, considering.

Priamos and euryale quickly went Into the shadows, hiding from the curious monsters. She grabbed his hand and pulled him down another hallway. She seemed to know her way around here, he wondered what she has been doing here.

What he didn't know is that she led him to the place the Titans who were banished here were held. This place was significantly bigger than the other prison. The cells they were in were huge, bigger than hades dick.

Three BIG cells were lined up with three people sitting in the middle of each one. They were in the same state priamos was in when they captured him he knew exactly how it felt, not great and his arms got tired.

They were going to wait to release most of the monsters in Tartarus before explaining to them what was planning to do. So both him and euryale snook behind each of their cages and opened it from their.

They were also fairly surprised about what happened but just went with it and exited their cage nonchalantly. Euryale and priamos went around releasing them from their prison, including cyclops.

Now all they had to do was contact hades.

[𝐀/𝐍 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬]