Chapter 2: The Tower of Babel
It was getting dark, and the car was slowly driving towards a huge villa.
The carved iron door slowly opened, and next to the door sat a statue of an angel.
"It's the place."
Henry Bacon yawned: "Finally able to rest well." ”
The car stopped, and a group of servants came over to greet Henry Bacon.
Wang Feng looked around and couldn't help but sigh at Henry Bacon's financial strength.
Pushing open the door, the inside is even more glittering, with countless paintings of art in the center, a roundabout staircase that exudes bronze, and the floors made of an expensive granite.
The two of them drove to the dining room, and the table was full of all kinds of food.
"Don't be inhibited, just eat as you please."
Henry Bacon pulled out a chair and said to Wang Feng.
Wang Feng nodded and sat down: "Your family is quite big." ”
Although the dishes on the table looked very good, Wang Feng had no appetite, and just praised a few words.
Henry Bacon smiled slightly, and did not return to Wang Feng to eat.
After a while, Henry Bacon spoke again: "These things cost me a lot of money, and I liked them very much at the time, but when I bought them, I found that I didn't like them very much, and it was useless." He looked at Wang Feng: "Why don't you eat it?" Isn't it unpalatable? ”
Wang Feng shook his head: "To be honest, I don't really want to eat too much. ”
"Still thinking about shoe teaching?"
"Almost!"
The windows of the dining room face the carved doors.
"There's no need to think about it so much."
As soon as Henry Bacon finished speaking, the lamp suddenly flashed twice.
He looked up at the light bulb: "Is the voltage unstable?" ”
"It should be!"
Wang Feng picked up the lemonade in the cup and drank it.
"I always felt like Tesla didn't tell me something."
He looked at the window, "I'll have to find a way to ask him." ”
"It's hard to get something out of his mouth. Big deal, I'll go with you tomorrow. ”
Henry Pei
Gen put down the dishes, and then wiped his mouth: "It's been a long time since I've eaten something so delicious." ”
He lay on a chair and asked Wang Feng, "Are you sure you don't want to eat?" ”
"If you don't eat, you don't have any appetite at all. I feel sick at the sight of this meat. ”
Wang Feng picked up the fruit next to him and ate it.
"Speaking of meat, I think of the sacrifices of the Shoekee."
It's good that Wang Feng didn't mention it, but Henry Bacon also felt a little disgusting when he mentioned it.
"Actually, it's nothing, in ancient Greece, there was also a living sacrifice, and they would dig out the hearts of prisoners of war and sacrifice them to the sun god...... Human civilization is a slow transition from barbarism. Even before the East, there were sacrifices of the living. ”
Wang Feng didn't feel anything: "The more backward the place, the more off-road it is." ”
Henry Bacon nodded: "Do you know about the Tower of Babel?" ”
"Is it the Tower of Babel in the Bible?"
"That's right."
Henry Bacon stood up: "It also occurred to me that perhaps from the beginning of mankind was gathered together, but then it was divided by some unknown force. ”
Wang Feng had heard a few about the Tower of Babel.
Legend has it that in ancient times, everyone spoke the same language, and later the ancient Babylonians wanted to build a tower that could reach to the sky to establish their reputation. He was afraid that after the Tower of Babel was built, the secrets of heaven would be known to the world, so he cast a spell to make the people's languages incomprehensible to each other, and as a result, because the people who built the tower could not communicate with each other, the construction of the Tower of Babel did not progress.
Henry Bacon had always thought that this was an absurd legend, but after experiencing these things with Wang Feng and others, he felt that this was not a legend, but something that really happened.
This may seem like an absurd legend, but many in the historiography believe that there is some basis for this account in the ancient books. The more absurd things are, the more secrets they hide. Some people say that the Tower of Babel is the great temple tower in the city of Babylon during the era of the Neo-Babylonian Kingdom in the ancient two river basins. The tower was built in the 5th century BC and took more than half a century to complete. During the construction, the king ordered that the top of the tower must be raised to be higher than that of the heavenly prince. This 90-meter-tall tower really gives people the feeling of towering into the sky.
More interestingly, archaeological excavations have shown that the building materials of the Great Temple Pagoda were bricks and lacquer, which is also the material used in the Bible to describe the Tower of Babel. Moreover, the inhabitants of Babylon at that time were of many ethnicities, and there was indeed a language barrier. Unfortunately, the Great Pagoda was destroyed in the third century BC. ”
Wang Feng listened to Henry Bacon's words, and a name popped up in his mind, and he looked at Henry Bacon: "Have you ever heard the legend of Buzhou Mountain?" ”
"What's that?"
Buzhou Mountain is the name of the mountain in the ancient legends of the East, which was first seen in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West": beyond the Northwest Sea, in the corner of the Great Wilderness, there are mountains but not together, and the name is not Zhou. The mountain used to be a pillar of heaven and earth. But one day, the god of water and the god of fire competed for the throne and were broken by the god of water. This caused a great flood, and then Nuwa collected five-colored stones to mend the sky. ”
Wang Feng frowned: "I have also talked about the myth of mankind before, at a certain stage, at the same time, it is in a state of fault, that is, the period of the Great Flood, when it was also the beginning of human civilization, our ancestors could not fully describe the events at that time, they could only describe it in short words. Perhaps that pillar was not used to support heaven and earth, but the Tower of Babel, which is called in the Bible. ”
"How can we explain the language in the Bible?" Although Henry Bacon felt that what Wang Feng said had some truth, there were some things that could not be explained at all, and there was no logic at all.
"Why can God be God? It's because he can do things that humans can't, and maybe he used some method to change the way humans speak, which caused the language to start to be confused. ”
Wang Feng took a deep breath: "All civilizations are actually the same, but it wasn't until later that the differences occurred, and they got bigger and bigger, but if you sort out their previous myths from each other, you will find that they are roughly the same, which may be the so-called same end and different paths." And I suspect that at that time, the battle of the gods in Western mythology and the list of gods in the East were nothing more than games for evil gods to select believers...... Tesla has also said before that there is something about the battle of the gods. ”
After hearing this, Henry Bacon only felt that his scalp was numb, and it seemed that it was indeed as Wang Feng said, it seems that all civilizations are different, but in fact, they are all attributed to the same point, and it can be said that they were conceived in the same civilization, and then various changes have taken place, forming differences and deriving different civilizations, which also proves his original thoughts.