and then Helen appeared next to him appearing out of a bright light. She held his hand and said “come my love lets go”. The armies were defenceless against her beauty they dropped their weapons and just stared at her, as Tau slaughtered them. They stood in front of the gates but the solders closed their eyes and refused to open, so Tau broke down the gates, the solders could not fight blind but as soon as they opened their eyes they were defenceless against her beauty. Tau and Helen entered the lair where the kings of brothers hid from the battle. Their armies were destroyed and now they were defenceless against him, he told Helen to leave the room as he wanted them to fight for their lives, so she did. They tried and tried Tau even dropped his weapons to fight them with his bare hands, first he killed Melius by whipping him to death over his body with a nearby chain he could find. Then he killed Laomedon for sending for his brothers to do his job by ripping off his arms and legs, then at last he took Kush and made him kill his own loyal servant Jhandar by strangling him to death for sending the deathless slaves to kill him. He took Kush and made him kiss Tau’s feet as to simulate what he had done to protect his shipment from the Atlantic Hydra. He took Kush and placed him on a boat of which Tau painted red and blue and instructed Kush to set sail into the deepest part of the ocean. Kush did and was never heard of again as Tau planed it well with the Hydra that he would send a meal in a boat painted red and blue into to deepest part of the ocean.
Tau became King of Athens and Troy with his new bride, Queen Helen of Troy.
Tau was a good king although he was a better fighter; he understood slavery and his people’s needs. Tau never felt satisfied as if there was one more thing he had to do before he could settle down. He stayed there for 2 years when one day he met a man called Aenus. On arrival at Athens he demanded that he spoke to the king called Tau, he explained to him that the gods had sent him with word of his mother, she was very sick and that he needed to go to Greece, Tau not amused of the accusations of the man asked “now tell me, who is this mother of mine”. The man looked up as he kneeled before Tau and said “Electra my lord”, Tau jumped up and grabbed the man’s arm “lead me to her, now!” but Aenus was tired and exhausted from days of travelling to Athens. Tau grabbed the man and placed him over the horse, not saying a word to Helen he left with Aenus lying over his horse. It took them 8 days of travelling only stopping for water and food they travelled. Tau and Aenus arrived at Greece exhausted from the travel, Tau insisted that Aenus show him where his mother was, so Aenus did pointing at the dungeons where all the prisoners were kept. Tau was please of the message but as a precaution he took Aenus with him so that he could show him his mother, as Tau came around the corner he saw his mother, she was thin and starving and weak, he grabbed hold of the door and ripped it right off, he took his mother and placed her on the horse and gave Aenus the instruction to take her to Troy where he would place her in the care of his wife Helen. Tau was so mad that he called king Amphitryon to the centre of the city he challenged him for his kingdom, but the king was to scared and knew Tau was out for revenge, so he called for Hera to help but she did not answer, he send Promus to go and fetch Electra, he would use her as a shield, but after half an hour Promus returned with word that the she was gone. Iphicles on the verge of becoming king of Greece knew that he was not the first born and that Tau was the rightful air to the Throne, so he send out all the men they had to stop Tau, but Tau send them running backwards when he summoned the power of Zeus with Lightning and Thunderbolts, Hale as big as rocks falling from the sky. No one dared to take on Tau. “The stories of the mighty Tau were true, the saviour of the people, he is the son of Zeus” the soldiers shouted while running away. Iphicles stormed out of the king’s lair with his arms up high holding a sword half his size, Tau ducked whilst Iphicles swung his sword missing terribly and falling to the ground in the mud. Again Tau called for Amphitryon but no answer, then Promus appeared in the door and walked to Tau, “I have sad news, the king has taken his own life”. Tau pushed him to the side running inside to where Amphitryon lied on the ground with a dagger stuck into his heart. Tau turned him on his back and pulled the dagger out of his chest, he then took out a small bottle with red fluid inside and poured all of it into the stab wound, sitting in top of Amphitryon holding the dagger in his hands the king woke up, he was alive then Tau stabbed him to death, it was the blood of the Cretan Bull. Standing up leaving the dagger inside Amphitryon chest he looked up at the sky and said “Father, is this the end of my destiny?”
As Tau looked up talking to Zeus, Iphicles and Promus stuck Tau’s own sword into his chest, but Tau managed to grab hold of each one of them by the throat chocking them he held on until he saw both of them dead, then he let go and fell to the ground where he passed away.
Tau was buried among all the other great gods that ever lived he was placed buried next to the statue of Zeus at Mount Olympus.
Stories about the gods, called myths, were made up thousands of years ago. Was there a real Tau, a man behind the stories?
“You decide”
Christiaan Bann
Lives in South Africa, he started writing books at the age of 29 his wife Wilmien convinced him. He never read a book from cover to cover, he considers himself a writer and not a reader.
Tau The legend
By Christiaan Bann
Copyright © 2014 CHRISTIAAN BANN
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