Chapter 4: Sanctuary, Icons, and Hymns
When the noisy crowd arrived at Sunil's house, they found that Sunnier's family had not yet gotten up, and only the foreigner who had been taken in was chopping wood in the yard.
"Hassan (a foreigner)! You ......"
The leading village chief shouted Shepard, and suddenly he was shocked, and looked at the stranger incredulously: "You are ...... You ......"
Shepard dropped the axe casually, turned to look at the crowd that was crowding, with a kind and holy expression on his face, and his voice was melodious: "My devotees...... I am your master! ”
The flickering and dancing fire burst out on Shepard's body, but it did not damage his body and clothes in the slightest, and the familiar divine aura made the village chief feel like a lightning strike, and also made the originally restless villagers suddenly quiet, their faces full of dazedness.
"This ...... How I suddenly felt so relieved. ”
"Like...... Me too, village chief, what's going on?! ”
The village chief, who was most familiar with the Sacred Spring, suddenly burst into tears, fell to his knees with a thud, pressed his forehead to the ground, and shouted, "This is ...... Miracles! The sacred spring has blessed the strangers! ”
Facing the unbelievable villagers, Shepard's face was very majestic: "My name...... Tonatiu! Mortals, why don't you kneel down when you see your true God?! ”
As his mind moved, a dazzling light suddenly erupted, and the villagers who were looking directly at Shepard screamed, the strong light made tears flow from their eyes, even the weakest gods were true gods, and as Shepard unleashed the power of the gods, these mortals, who had never seen extraordinary powers, knelt down one after another in the majesty of the true gods.
The village chief, who heard the screams behind him, trembled, he had gone to distant tribes with the caravan and seen some of the world, at this time he raised his head slightly, racked his brains to dig into the words he had heard in his memory, and mustered up the courage to intercede for the villagers: "True God...... Please, please forgive us for our rudeness! ”
He didn't dare to look up at Shepard, but turned to the villagers and yelled, "Get down on your knees! On your knees! Who told you to behave rudely and rudely in the presence of the true God! Get down on your knees and ask God for forgiveness! ”
At this time, few people dared to stand there, and hearing the panic and fear in the village chief's voice, the remaining few frightened villagers also fell to the ground, and even a fishy smell floated in the air......
Shepard's face froze: it seemed to have escaped.
He tried to make his expression as gentle as possible: "My name is Tonatiu, you need to remember my divine name, this body is my hand-appointed shepherd, he is my blessing and guidance to you, the holy spring is the place where I once rested, now that I have awakened, I will return to the kingdom of the heavenly realm, you need to be as sincere as ever, I am with you." ”
There were a few screams and plopping kneeling sounds from behind, and he knew that the Sunniel family seemed to have discovered the changes outside, and hurriedly put away the divine power and the flames on his body, which would consume the little divine power left in the primordial godhead, and could not be easily wasted.
The villagers were still slumped on the ground and could not get up, so he only walked up to the village chief and said lightly: "My lord Tonatiu has woken up from a long slumber and has chosen me to be his incarnation in the world, he knows your piety, and has forgiven you for your rude sins, this warehouse is a holy place for my lord to bless me, and here you need to build an earthly temple for my lord, and I will wait in the house of Sanil, and if in doubt, come and listen to my instructions." ”
The village chief trembled, like a lamb to be slaughtered in front of a beast of prey, and responded in a humble and terrified tone: "Yes...... Do God's will. ”
Shepard nodded, and said casually, "You are my lord's first leader in the world, and you are given the right to call me lord, and you need to remember this glory and not fail to live up to my lord's grace." ”
When the village chief heard this, he responded with gratitude and piety: "Yes, yes...... and will live up to the grace of my Lord. ”
With a smile on his face, Shepard turned and walked back to Sunil's house, and as he passed by Suniel's family, he grabbed Rosace's shoulder, lifted Rose's up with an irreversible force, turned to the villagers who did not dare to raise their heads, and shouted: "Rosis will be a holy woman who serves my lord, and you should respect and humble her as you are to me!" ”
The villagers hurriedly responded: "Don't dare! Follow the Pope's teachings and be humble to the Holy Maiden! ”
Shepard then pulled Roses back to the house, and as for the outside affairs, he left the village chief to arrange.
Seeing that Rose's face was still full of confusion and awe of the change, he chuckled and said, "What's wrong? Where did the courage to touch me at night go? ”
Roses was shocked when she heard this, her big eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and she asked with some crying, "You...... Who are you? ”
Shepard sighed with emotion: "After you left last night, I suddenly saw the gurgling water in my sleep, and heard a majestic voice, and the voice chose me ......"
He paused, and then said solemnly: "I am the embodiment of the gods, my lord Tonatiu, the human embodiment of the god of fire and light, and the first pope he appointed. ”
He caressed Rose's face lovingly, and said softly, "...... But I'm also your man, Shepard, a foreigner who sleeps in a warehouse. ”
Roses was shocked when she heard this, hugged him tightly and cried.
Shepard amusedly touched the long hair of the fisherman's eldest daughter, and soothed her for a long time, but when she saw that the crying was even louder, she simply picked up Roses and threw her on the bed with her exclamation......
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[Title: Tonatiu, God of Fire and Light,]
Looking at the changes on the attribute panel, Shepard also noticed that someone was walking upstairs, and the humble village chief followed Suniel, step by step to Rose's room, which was now Shepard's room.
Rose, who had cleaned up, stood quietly aside, watching her father and the usually kind and serious village chief, the two of them trembling together in front of Shepard, and knelt down at a distance, she felt a little strange in her heart, but when she looked at Shepard's broad and tall back, she calmed down again, and didn't want to think about anything.
Shepard did not notice the psychological changes of the woman behind him, he sat on the chair, and said to the two gently: "Get up, we are all servants of the Lord, my Lord is a merciful God, do not like to bow down at will, once a month the holy day should be fixed, and on the night of the fullest moon every month, the believers of our Lord should pray sincerely in their own homes." ”
"Knowing that our Lord is the true God who controls the fire and the light, and that the light of the sun and the moon are the domain of my Lord, you should pray to your Lord in the morning and receive the blessings of your Lord, and give thanks to your Lord for His protection before meals.
These things were supposed to be indoctrinated by the church, but Shepard was now poor, and it was better to leave them to the village chief, who had considerable prestige in the village, and was himself very pious and reverent.
Sure enough, the village chief agreed without objection, and he even breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, feeling relieved that he had finally found the organization.
Shepard also taught the village chief a few verses of hymns that he had written after his own thoughts, and in the future, he would preside over the monthly big prayer by himself, but he would also have a small prayer once a week, as long as the village chief came forward.
He also instructed the village chief to organize a few children with clear voices to become a choir, and some other bits and pieces, and for a while he could not think of anything else, so he stopped talking and asked the village chief to talk about his problems.
The village chief Levro worked as a handyman in a caravan for a period of time when he was young, but the major tribes in the old continent were in frequent wars, and all kinds of wild beasts and undead in the wild emerged in an endless stream, so he was afraid and later returned to the village, at least the village was sheltered by the sacred spring, and the location was remote and peaceful, no matter whether it was war or the undead of wild beasts, it would not harass here.
Levro sorted his thoughts before he tentatively asked, "The temple ...... How should it be built? There is no stone or anything like that in the village, and there is no quarry near the icon of my lord......"
Shepard sighed, remembering that he really hadn't made it clear.
"Then empty the storehouse, let the carpenters and blacksmiths mend the walls, and remove the extra cupboards and planks, for our lord is a deity who loves light, and there shall be enough windows in the walls for light, so that there will be no visible shadows in the temple during the day."
"In such a humble environment, it is not appropriate to call the temple, and in the future it will be called the sanctuary, and if there is no stone and stonemasonry, let the carpenter carve a wooden icon instead, my lord is a merciful deity, and if the believers are pious enough, our lord will be able to forgive us."
"When the icons should be carved in the form of the sun and the moon, the conditions are limited, and the authority of our lord shall be substituted, and after I have spoken in detail with the carpenter, I will carve a more delicate and appropriate image of the gods."
Levro memorized what Shepard said word by word, and then left the room with a thousand thanks, Suniel sent him out, and when he came back, he looked at Shepard and his eldest daughter, and he was also in a complicated mood.
Shepard looked at him and suddenly smiled: "The Suniel I know is a kind and brave fisherman, who is this nervous guy?" ”
Suniel suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Wood...... Shepard, are you really inspired by God? ”
Seeing that he was still a little nervous, Shepard sighed, but his heart was much more relaxed, and he replied with a solemn face: "It's not divine revelation, I am now the incarnation of God in the world." ”
"Oh......" Suniel froze, not knowing what to say.
Seeing this, Shepard shook his head and motioned for Rosace to follow his father out: "Don't worry, Suniel, when the sanctuary is built, I will accept Othello as an alternative priest and train him to be a priest of God. ”