Chapter 32 Mythology is a big hole, be cautious
The Kingdom of Judah, the United Kingdom of Israel to be precise.
The kingdom of Judah was a kingdom that split off after Solomon's death.
Solomon, how to say it, is very similar to Tang Xuanzong.
In the early stage, it was very powerful, and the entire United Kingdom of Israel developed as if it had been opened, expanding its territory in various ways, and developing its economy in various ways, and it could barely be said that it was a rich and prosperous era for all nations.
This is where the phrase "the wisdom of Solomon" comes from.
However, in the later period, Solomon was very arrogant, extravagant, and indulged in women's lust because of his earlier achievements, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the people and caused the country to deteriorate.
Immediately after his death, the kingdom of Judah was divided into two kingdoms, the kingdom of Judah, the heir of Solomon, to the north, and Israel, the northern kingdom, Solomon's servant, who was fooled into rebellion by a prophet, Ahijah.
Naturally, Solomon did not sign a contract with any demon king during his lifetime.
But human beings just like to deify or demonize things.
Those in Christianity attribute Solomon's earlier series of epochal wisdom to Solomon's revelation of God, while Solomon's failure in the later period is due to Solomon's rebellion against God and his disobedience.
Your success, all kinds of positive things, is God's will, God's merit, God's teachings, and if you fail, you don't listen to God's teachings and rebel against God.
Of course, in this case, there is another way of saying it.
It is said that Solomon's various manifestations of wisdom in the early stage were because he signed a contract with the demon king, obtained the power of the seventy-two pillars to command the demon gods, and obtained their powerful wisdom and power beyond the world, so he could succeed, and his failure in the later period was due to the bewitchment of the demon gods, or the demon gods received the price of the contract.
In Jewish legend, there is the legend that Solomon, the king of Israel, was given the ability to summon and manipulate demonic spirits freely by receiving the Book of Roger-El, written by an angel.
Such an idea was developed by the group of middle and second diseases in the fourteenth and fourteenth century, that is, the Renaissance, and a "Key of Solomon", which is said to be a book written by Solomon.
Well, Solomon didn't use Hebrew, he wrote a book in a foreign Chinese, well, it's quite credible (laughs).
And in the seventeenth century, a French secondary school worker came up with a copy of "Solomon's Little Key".
However, the book was actually despised and spurned by a group of "demonology experts" at the time.
Because, many of the things in it are patchwork, and all kinds of Christian demons, folklore demons, and even mythological gods in other regions are pulled out and turned into demon gods and stuffed into the book, and even the author himself made it up, and there are various discrepancies with many demonological literature at the time.
But now, Solomon's Little Key has become the most important modern literature of demonology.
I don't know if it's ironic.
The first time the Qin people heard about this book was when they were asked to read Faust when the junior high school teacher was teaching a masterpiece.
Faust is Goethe's book, in which the famous demon Mephisto is a character.
The book mentions "Solomon's Little Key."
At that time, Qin Ren still looked confused, and he didn't know why, but he was still quite impressed, but he was just ...... Mephisto called him Mephitos, called it for several years, and was corrected by a friend who was sick in the second middle school before he realized that it was wrong.
Not to mention these, the summoning method of the Seventy-Two Pillar Demon God, in fact, the Qin people feel that it is not difficult.
After all, the daughter raised by his own family was born by fusing two demon god fragments.
In the myth of the story of the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon God, the ruler of Hell is the "King of Hell" Beryl.
At the same time, it is also the original sin of the seven deadly sins, "sloth" itself.
The ruler of Beryl, the seventy-two pillars of the demon god, Solomon first signed a contract with Belyl and borrowed the power to control the demon god from him.
Among the seventy-two demon gods, except for the "Supreme Four Pillars", which are slightly stronger, there is no substantial difference in strength.
All demon gods are nobles in hell.
Emperors, kings, dukes, dukes, marquises, earls, commanders, generals, nobles, etc.......
If you talk about a single person, their strength is almost the same, just like the duke in the ordinary world, they may not be able to fight the knight alone, and may even lose.
In the setting of the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon God, there is no statement that the duke's individual strength must be stronger than the viscount, and sometimes the duke is weaker than the viscount, but the title is different.
Most of them wear many hats and act according to the variety of abilities they possess, and many of the demons have overlapping abilities, and there is no distinction between high and low, but the number and type of sacrifices required for summoning are also different.
The so-called rank is not whether their individual strength is strong or not, but the number of legions under their command.
Rankings don't mean they're strong or not.
For example, the 32nd-ranked demon god Queen Asmodeus, as one of the four supreme pillars, ranks as king, that is, monarch, and commands seventy-two legions.
The second Demon God, Marquis Agareth, commanded 31 legions.
The 24th Demon God Naberis, a marquis of the rank of marquis, commanded 19 legions.
You don't need to know the details, you just need to know one thing.
That is, except for the Supreme Four Pillars, which are stronger, the individual strength of the seventy-two demon gods is almost equal, but the types of abilities are different.
If the Qin people want to summon the demon god, they naturally want to attract the demon god through their own daughter, using 32 as a medium.
In the mythological system of the seventy-two demon gods, there is only one emperor, and that is the king of hell, Belil, who rules the entire hell.
Of course, the myth will change, and the king of hell, Belier, who originally ruled the entire hell, is the most primitive Satan, the deputy monarch of the sky, the angel of force.
Satan means rebel, lord of darkness, ruler of hell, one who leads angels in rebellion against God.
But later, the concept of Satan and Belier separated.
Ballier is no longer the king of hell who rules the whole of hell, and his status is demoted, becoming "one of the seven rulers of hell".
Even later, the concept of "Satan" was put on top of the seven monarchs, and it can be said that Belier changed from an emperor to a princely king.
In the medieval "Angel Sequence", the angels who were originally not divided into upper and lower, but only left and right were divided into three levels and nine grades.
Upper, middle and lower levels, Bailier, as an angel of power, is assigned to the fifth place in the middle.
Beryl is a complete tragedy.
It was this that Qin Ren hesitated about, because the myth had changed, but he didn't know very well which version of the myth was in this place now.
If it is the original version one, Asmodeus, that is, one of the northern monarchs under one person, one of the four pillars of the supreme, one of the four pillars in charge of **, and as Azazel, it does not belong to this version and does not exist.
In the case of later version 2, Asmodeus is a vassal of the princes and kings, and as Azazel is one of the seven monarchs of hell.
There is even version three, where Asmodeus is one of the Seven Monarchs of Hell**, and Azazel does not exist.
Mythology is like this, there are so many versions that if you don't specialize in this, you can't tell the versions at all, and you will be confused.
Or..... Try to recruit a demon god first?
The Qin people, who were very entangled, pondered.