Chapter 224: A Miracle?
Su Xiaoting only knows this, but in "Divine Revelation", she spends a lot of space writing:
As the only daughter of the sun god and the god of the earth, Séphonene is the supreme god of hope in the world.
She is said to be a beautiful, intelligent, pure, and benevolent goddess, the ultimate in feminine beauty, and with her, no one will feel sad and sorrowful anymore.
However, after the outbreak of the male-dominated apocalyptic war hundreds of years ago, human beings not only destroyed the ecological environment, but also abandoned the disadvantaged female group, allowing them to suffer in the war and fend for themselves, and finally the women who remained in the dungeon were less than 1/4 of the total population.
The goddess Sephone was furious and sympathized with the souls of hundreds of millions of women who died innocently in the war, hoping that they would have a good fate after reincarnation. So he went to the underworld and negotiated with the king of Hades.
Who knew that Hades, the king of Hades, had coveted this goddess for a long time, and took the opportunity to propose to marry her as a condition for the future. The goddess Sephone could not bear to see women born in the Dark Age again and suffer inhuman treatment, so she finally agreed to the request of the Hades and stayed in the dark and cold underworld.
When his mother, Sagami, found out about it, she was in agony because her only daughter could not be by her side, and finally agreed with the sun god with Hades that she would only let her stay in the underworld for four months a year.
Because of her boundless power, Sagami is not only the mother of the earth, in charge of the fertility of the land, but also the health of the animals, so she blames the pain of losing her daughter to the remaining humans, and adds a vicious curse to them, making them also suffer the pain of separation.
And whenever Sephone returned to his mother, he would always try to make her happy, make her let go of her hatred, and forgive those innocent human beings.
……
Su Xiaoting suddenly felt something, could it be that the 'curse disease' mentioned here is......
Sagami's curse on humanity?
Now that women are so scarce, do the people here attribute it to Sephonene's pity for women, and do not want them to be reincarnated and suffer again?
Su Xiaoting couldn't laugh or cry, this is a new wine in an old bottle? It is rejuvenated by combining the story of the goddess with the history of suffering.
She flipped to the previous table of contents and found the chapter on the Evangelism, which recorded the path, time, and construction of the temple to propagate the teachings of the goddess.
Sure enough, the legend of the goddess first originated in the year 107 of the Dark Age, and was passed down from Rus' by some of the ancestors of the Far North County, which explains why the descendants of the Chinese Kingdom abandoned the belief in Buddhism and Taoism and converted to Western gods.
However, when it comes to piety, I am afraid that China is still inferior to those religious countries in the Western Alliance, and they originally had a tradition of preaching.
Looking at the name Zuoshen again, Su Xiaoting vaguely remembered that there was a god of the earth in the legend of Huaguo, and he was called Zuoshen.
In this way, this doctrine really has a trend of localization, directly replacing the Greek god of the earth with the Chinese one, it seems that any foreign culture wants to be accepted by the local, it must be changed to be grounded, so as not to adapt to the soil and water!
"Xiaoting!"
Su Xiaoting was looking at each other happily, and when she heard the sound, she naturally looked at the other party, and Ji Yuning, who had the same face, was suffocated at the moment when she met Su Xiaoting's pupils, and crashed in.
The car with the curtain was not bright, but it could be seen that the girl's porcelain white complexion was pale pink, but this rare beauty was too dim compared to the pair of pale golden eyes.
Those eyes were mysterious and beautiful, and the only thing Ji Yuning could think of to describe them was a piece of enchanting and ethereal, colorful fluorescent amber that he had ever seen.
Now Su Xiaoting's eyes are also glowing with various colors of fluorescence, and under the dark night sky, there are golden, silver and green aurora lights, with the flow of her eyes, he completely forgets everything he has experienced.
Su Xiaoting waited for a moment before she realized that it was the city lord who was calling her, but she was a little confused, why the other party stared at her intently with a strange look.
She felt that Ji Yuning's eyes were a little scorching, but they were as deep as if there was a bend in the sea, and when he was watching, she was like the only full moon in the night sky. This was the first time she had observed and stared at each other so closely, and Su Xiaoting was stunned.
A moment later, the sound of an attendant cooking on a fire was heard outside, breaking the strange silence inside the car.
Su Xiaoting quickly retracted her gaze, looked out the window, and muttered to herself, "You're going to rest so soon?" ”
“…… Well, you're so focused! Ji Yuning also came to his senses and looked out the window, but he had no intention of getting out of the car, but continued:
"Where do you see? …… Is there a problem? ”
"Nearly halfway there." Su Xiaoting thought about it for a while, there were a lot of questions, but half of them were her speculations as a modern person, and half of them might be answered in the second half of the book.
"Well, there is a small question, do you hope that the teachings of the goddess have not spread to the United States?"
"Oh, even without the Death of the Earth, the United States would never have been inspired, and even in the dungeons they have not developed any faith. If they had to say yes, they only believed in themselves, believing that technology could do anything. ”
When he said this, he still paid attention to Su Xiaoting's pupils, and when he saw Su Xiaoting nodding slightly, he realized that the other party was also a member of the United States.
"I say that, I hope you don't mind."
Su Xiaoting shook her head and said, "What you said is not unreasonable. At the very least, religion can lead people to goodness and reverence. ”
Ji Yuning nodded and said softly: "An Ting, you are not the same as the people of the United States I have seen. ”
After that, he took out a box from under the square table in the middle of the carriage, took out two slightly wet hand towels, handed one to Su Xiaoting, and said warmly:
"Clean your hands, get out of the car and eat something!"
Su Xiaoting bit her lip and took it, she could understand it, it is estimated that Ji Yuning felt that the women of the United States were pampered, so she was given this special treatment. But the other party did it so naturally and appropriately, so that she can't open her mouth if she has the heart to refuse now.
At this time, the tide of light under her eyes had receded, leaving only a faint halo. After getting out of the carriage, Ji Yuning found that under the sun, Su Xiaoting's pupils were as usual, and she took the lead in walking forward.
After finishing the meal, everyone continued to set off, and Su Xiaoting's horse had been requisitioned according to Ah Tao, so she had to get into the carriage directly.
Fortunately, she could continue to read books to pass the time, but she didn't notice that the book in the hand of the city lord next to her hadn't turned a page for a long time.
If Su Xiaoting knew that Ji Yuning was fighting between heaven and man in her mind because of the vision in her eyes, she would definitely feel extremely oolong.
Strictly speaking, technology and religion are mutually exclusive, and the more ignorant and backward the region, the more persistent and determined the belief in religion becomes.
If Ji Yuning had 5 points of trust in the teachings of the goddess in the past, after growing up and learning about the various scientific and technological knowledge of the United States, I am afraid that there are only 2 points left.
Because medical knowledge clearly explains the causes of more men and fewer women, including genetic diseases, which are just the sequelae of the war of the end times. So Ji Yuning doesn't believe in the origin of the goddess, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a sense of awe.
He believes that there are gods in the underworld who control life and death, and master reincarnation, regardless of whether the goddess of hope protects the land or not, as the leader of Mu Ling, he must pray for the blessings of the people with a pious gesture, and also hope that the gods can alleviate the punishment of the Endless Land and make purgatory return to the earth.
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