I blurted out, "Is there one of you in every dynasty who is 'controlling' the situation at that time?" ”

Jiang Ziya stroked his beard and smiled slightly: "Sort of!" But when our purpose is to 'guide' but not to control, we will never intervene when we have to. ”

"But...... But why do you do it? ”

This is actually my biggest doubt about the ink artist - what is the purpose of doing something with pleasure for thousands of years?

"This is the arrangement of the Lord of Everything, and we are also directing this scene according to the established script, from the beginning to the present, and then to the future!"

"What? Do you—Grandpa Jiang mean that all history and everything today is human—should you say that there is a god who has arranged it? ”

Jiang Ziya nodded slightly: "God? You can understand it that way! ”

"The God...... Where is God? ”

"God is everywhere, or in a place where no one can see you!"

I felt like I was listening to a science fiction story.

All this is exactly as described in Chinese and Western mythology.

It was God who created the world, and then He controls it all.

According to Chinese legend, Nuwa created humans out of clay and helped them survive disasters.

In the western Sichuan-Tibet region of our country, there is also a very interesting myth.

At the beginning of Tai Chi, there was an egg formed by five kinds of treasures. Then the egg broke, and a hero was born out of it. This hero has the head of a lion, the trunk of an elephant, the paws of a tiger. His feet were as sharp as knives, and his hair was as hard as a sword.

There are two horns on his head, and in the middle of the horns is the bird king Roc.

This mythical heroic figure is most likely a mixture of totem worship and a sign of clan alliance or clan fusion. It belongs to the same type as the various strange characters depicted in the Han "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

At the same time, it also expresses the ideological desire of people to become brave and powerful like lions and tigers, with hard hands and feet as sharp as swords, so as to be more conducive to the struggle for survival under the living conditions of the time.

This kind of myth shows that in the struggle with nature, human beings have clearly realized their own existence and power, and thus are eager to understand the process of the emergence and development of human beings themselves, which is undoubtedly a valuable germ for the study of the history of human social development.

There are also abundant fantasies and associations in mythology, such as the fantasy that human beings themselves are images with various sharp weapons; Seeing birds coming out of eggs, and thinking of human ancestors who also gave birth to eggs, etc.

Of course, this association has gone further and has a richer connotation than a simple analogue association. It shows that this type of myth came into being much later than the myth of nature. In ancient times, there were many clans and tribes living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it was not until around the sixth century A.D. that the tribes gradually merged into a unified Tibetan nationality after frequent conquests and close exchanges between the tribes, and they recuperated together on the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The settlements included present-day Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions, and they mingled and exchanged closely with many fraternal ethnic groups.

In addition to Chinese mythology, there are also legends of gods creating human beings in the West, the Americas, West Asia, South Asia and other regions.

There is a similar statement in the Bible.

On the first day of God, God created light and darkness.

The second day created the sky and the sea, the third day created the land and its fruits, trees, and vegetables, and the fourth day, the sun, moon, and other stars.

The fifth day created fish in the sea and birds in the air.

After the creation of livestock, insects, and wild beasts on the sixth day, God said: "Let us make man in his own image, so that he may have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle and beasts of the earth." ”

So on the sixth day God made man out of clay in his own image, male and female. All things in the heavens and the earth were finished, and on the seventh day God ceased all work and rested.

God blessed the seventh day, and it was holy. That's where we come to be on Sunday.

The discovery of heaven and earth, as well as of man, ends in the form of religious mythology. It gives us many philosophical reflections, please listen to the exclamations of Western writers and thinkers:

What a marvelous masterpiece a man is!

What noble reason! What a great power! What a beautiful meter! What a gentle move! How much like an angel in deeds! How a god in wisdom! The essence of the universe!

The primate of all things! Man is born as a living being, not as a member of the noblest rank; He was chosen in the middle; In the place of his existence, providence does not allow him to return to nothingness; On the contrary, the Divine Spirit strengthens His superiority in moral values by His labor, with all sorts of admonitions, to guide Him upwards eternally.

Therefore, providence does not deprive human beings of reason; Although there are limitations, human beings retain their share of wisdom, reason, executive power, and right behavior, and at least individuals should treat each other right—even if they do something wrong, others will think that what they did is right and that they just paid the fees.

Man, then, is a noble creation, as complete as design requires; There is no doubt that he is part of the whole world, and has a higher status than other creatures on earth.

Between heaven and earth, only man is great. People rule over all things, and people rule over the earth.

God is more willing to do his will in his own way.

Egyptian mythology says that human beings were called out by God.

Since ancient times, Egypt has been a mysterious place, it is the most self-contained of all ancient countries, it has its own way of life, it is difficult for external civilizations to influence it, so its human origin is not the same as other peoples.

The Egyptians believed that the Almighty God existed long before Egypt appeared in the world, and that He created everything in the heavens and the earth, and that He called "Subi" and that there was a wind; Call "Tafuna", and there will be rain; Calling "Habi", the Nile flows through Egypt, he calls again and again, everything appears one by one, and finally, he says "man and woman", and in the blink of an eye, Egypt is full of people.

When the work of creation was complete, Nu transformed himself into a man, became the first pharaoh, ruled over the earth, and created a scene of peace and prosperity.

In the earliest Vedic Sanskrit Vedas, ancient Indian mythology is described, where the incomparably gigantic deity Purusha has thousands of heads, eyes, and feet, and he wraps the entire ground, and his ten fingers extend to expand the space.

When the gods offered sacrifices to Prusha, clear butter was generated on Prusha's body, which formed birds and animals. Later, Prusha's body was transformed into the basis of all things in the world, and Agni, the god of fire, and Indra, the god of thunderstorms and war, were formed.

At the same time, four hierarchies of Indian society were established from his body: priests, warriors, commoners, and servants. According to subsequent historical developments, the Trinity of the highest eternal entity of the universe, Brahma, who is the father of all living beings, and the Triune gods include the guardian god Vishnu and the god of destruction, Shiwa.

Brahma created everything in the universe and lasted for 4.32 billion years, after which the god of destruction, Shiwa, destroyed the order of the universe and started a new cycle that eased everyone, and the current state of the universe is still billions of years away.

Of course, the more detailed and vivid description is the description of Zeus and others in ancient Greek mythology:

The origin of human beings in Greek mythology is the same as that of Nuwa in China, but the experience is different.

Compare our legends and learn about their myths, and you will feel the similarities and differences between the two civilizations.

Originally, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, gave birth to gods and nourished animals such as flowers, birds, fish, insects, jackals, tigers and leopards, but there were no humans.

There was a titan, Prometheus, the grandson of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and a cousin of Zeus, who was a good and righteous god.

Legend has it that it was he who used holy water and mud to create a batch of clay figures in the shape of the gods, and extracted the good and evil components from the souls of other animals, and injected them into the clay figures, generating flesh and souls. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was very fond of these clay figurines of his, and blew a breath of fairy air on them, giving them spirituality.

Prometheus carefully cultivated his work, the human race, and he taught them language, writing, hunting, farming, philosophy, ...... These are things that other animals can't learn.

With the reproduction, learning and exploration of generations, human beings have gradually become the masters of the earth - this behavior of Prometheus seems to have destroyed the original ecological circle of the earth, and there is a meaning of "violating the rules of heaven", Prometheus has also become the most revered god of mankind, and human beings will offer him surplus food and goods every year.

The increasing power of human beings, and the increasing number of sacrifices offered to Prometheus every year, caused concern and jealousy among Zeus, the king of all gods.

Zeus summoned the gods to study their stance on the stewardship of this increasingly powerful "new species". At the meeting, most of the gods were neutral towards human beings and left them to fend for themselves in the natural world.

Only Prometheus actively defended the rights and interests of mankind, and did not hesitate to start a heated debate with Zeus for this reason, which finally left Zeus speechless and acquiesced in the "legitimization" of human development.

Zeus did not realize his position in the meeting of the gods that he "affected the development of mankind" and at the same time developed a mood of resistance towards Prometheus......

One day, Prometheus saw that there was no light in the dark night and that there was no warmth in the harsh winter, so he stole the "fire" that only the gods deserved to enjoy and offered it to the world, and it spread rapidly among the world.

Zeus was completely furious! He tied Prometheus to Mount Olympus for stealing fire, and made an evil eagle peck at his internal organs every day, the gods have a strong ability to regenerate, so every day new internal organs will grow, so day after day, Prometheus endured unimaginable pain and torture in the world, but he never compromised in front of Zeus.

In the eyes of the ancients, fire was a magical, destructive, and creative thing, so originally only gods were worthy to possess and harness it. Therefore, all the peoples of the world have legends about taking fire from gods or monsters. The use of fire is a leap forward in human civilization, and its historical significance is no less than the popularization of bronze.

It wasn't until years later that Hercules, one of Zeus's illegitimate sons and a half-human and half-god hero, killed the evil eagle and rescued Prometheus.

Under the persuasion of the gods and the unyielding faith of Prometheus, Zeus finally reconciled with him.

Is it a coincidence that myths around the world are so similar?

From another aspect, it is likely that Jiang Ziya's words are true!

The most famous of the origins of mankind is Darwin's theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution explains why many animals are the way they are today, such as pigs, sheep, cows, and horses today...... Why is it what it is today.

His set of theories called "evolution" can explain many biological phenomena, but Darwin's theory of evolution still has a fatal flaw in the question of human origins.

This is because the fossils of the key links are still missing, and scientists cannot stitch together a complete human evolutionary context, how humans changed from apes to humans, and the transition link in the middle lacks corresponding biological fossils.

At the same time, along with the research of modern science, many facts are also contrary to the views in the theory of evolution, so there is a view that the theory of evolution has always misled the direction of human research, and perhaps it is a huge mistake in itself.

On Earth, the origin of life in the Cambrian period is an unexplained mystery, and Darwin also said in his theory of evolution that there is no way to find the ancestors of multiple phyla.

However, for scientists who support the theory of evolution, it can actually exist and be valid, but because organisms have evolved on the earth for too long, human beings can only tease out the evolutionary context through fossils and other things, and at the same time, there are limitations at the technical level.

Therefore, it seems that there are many fatal flaws in the theory of evolution, but in fact, in the future, these can be scientifically demonstrated.

In short, it is as if human beings have appeared out of nowhere, and then they have become the masters of all things.

These distracting thoughts flashed through my mind, and I was even more convinced of Jiang Ziya's words.

"Alright! My mission is complete, and your mission is about to be completed, so let everything return to dust and dust! ”

After saying that, with a wave of my hand, I felt my hands sinking, and when I looked down, I saw that the small black jar just now was already in my hand.

"Let's go back!"

After speaking, he waved his hand again, and I couldn't react, and everything in front of me changed again.

I was standing in a wasteland, where there were palaces, where there were thousands of wax people, and Jiang Ziya was gone—I was back where I was.

I turned around and looked at the two tall willow trees, which were still there.

Was everything just a dream?

As soon as I looked down, the black jar was in my arms.