Afrodites golden ritual fleece apples

Medea King Aeetes had taken a disliking to Jason on sight. He had no particular fondness for handsome young strangers who came traipsing into his kingdom on glorious quests featuring the trampling of his sacred grove and the carrying off of his personal property. For King Aeetes considered the Golden Fleece to be his own, and he was in the midst of telling Jason just what he could do with his precious quest when he was reminded of the obligations of hospitality by another of his daughters named Medea. Medea was motivated by more than good manners. For Hera had been looking out for Jason's interests, and she had succeeded in persuading her fellow goddess Aphrodite to intervene on Jason's behalf. If you recall nedeqa is a name we run into in other hellenic myths. It means ' as God ' So the king Aeetes bring straight was not into attractive male heroes looking to gain access to the golden fleece. Jason being also straight was not here to fool around. The king did not take kindly to strangers who wanted to trample the sacrad grove of teh fleece. It was hera through the kings daughter media, a priestess too , who protested on Jasons side and had teh king accept being hospitqable to jason as costom dicted. The ritual dicted that he be welcomed, but it was hera and media that announced his stay as a suiter to teh fleece. The king who held teh fleece in costedy,, he was its gaurdian would have sent him away as he did those who sought the fleece but diod not have heras or teh god's backing, many pretend but only a few have succeded the rites prior to be the champion of the gods, one must be chosen to seek and gather the rites to reporesent the heroivc world unity as a leader and hero. ig you recall thesues and hercules, the amazponians incite media, hera, afridte and artemis as part of thier ritual., all three sequenced as the transcendences of the hero or heroine passing the ritual and the mate for the other when compleyed, it was a merriage ritual if tyou succeeded the end of it, a allience. So she incited rite proving jason was a real competitor for teh fleece and had thrir blessing as afrodite is the first in the ritual, bueaty intervened on jason's behalf as she did with paris now pronounced perot for teh fleece was agolden apple thrown into King Aeetes garden.