Chapter 26, Doraemon? God Amun? (below)

“…… It is our greatest honour to come to you, O the great god of the world, the embodiment of the sun, the great god of all."

“…… Thank you, O God Amun, beloved of the Egyptian people, for your generous reward, and may your glory continue to shine on the earth for a thousand years."

“…… Oh, we will always most reverently sing the praises of your great Amun God, spokesman of the universe"

After the Grand Priest of Kabuda took the lead in kneeling down and bowing to Doraemon, the "God of Amun". Immediately afterwards, the rest of the priests also "suddenly realized" and led many believers to kneel and kowtow together, paying the highest praise to Doraemon.

As a result, in the stunned eyes of Wang Qiu and other traversers, as well as the fanning of a large number of priests, the thousands of Egyptians at the scene seemed to have entered a state of frenzy in an instant. They first invited Doraemon to sit in a luxurious palanquin decorated with gold and silver. Then, he lifted the sedan chair and surrounded Doraemon, who already knew only giggles, and marched towards the city in groups. There was even a band from nowhere, and a group of women carrying baskets to throw flower petals at the front of the procession, and a religious procession was held in a lively way—the Egyptian citizens of Thebes almost poured out of the city, squeezing and kneeling down on both sides of the street, and singing awkward chants in a disorderly manner......

In this warm and jubilant atmosphere, Wang Qiu and other modern people were also involuntarily wrapped in the procession, and they also happened to be sandwiched between the women who threw flower petals. Luckily, they had some sweets and coins with them, so they threw them out along the way to make the women and children who were worshipping happy - although coins of the modern world could not buy much in ancient Egypt, such small pieces of silver should be a good ornament for the poor......

In the midst of the joyous chaos, only Prime Minister Imhodeb was cheering, and from time to time a trace of gloom flashed from the bottom of his eyes.

-- The canonization of Doraemon, the "great benefactor," as a new god, was actually the result of Prime Minister Imhodeb's vigorous advocacy and single-handedly planned. The purpose of this move was to moderately knock the over-inflated temple of Amun and weaken its threat to the royal power.

In the ancient Western world, it was common for each city to have its own patron deity, and sometimes more than one patron deity. The birth of these guardian gods is all related to faith - in that barbaric era of unproductive forces, people were threatened by natural disasters, wars, epidemics and beasts, and always felt that the world was in danger, and longed for a god in their hearts to protect them from the calamity. Thus, the concept of a patron saint was born. Then, this vague concept gradually took on a specific image and name, and then temples and priests appeared, and under the banner of worshipping the gods, they obtained rights, and finally formed the rudiments of religion: it was also an important tool for ancient kings to control public opinion and maintain their rule.

But the problem is that for the kings of ancient states, the prosperity of this official religion helped to control thought and public opinion, and to ensure the stability of society. But it will also lead to the increasing expansion of the power of the temple, and the tail will not be lost, and even eventually swallow up the country's financial resources and manpower.

In general, ancient Egypt was a theocratic state, the pharaoh exercised royal power as a "living god" and the agent of the gods on earth, strengthened his divinity and strengthened the foundation of his rule with the help of religious propaganda, and the clerical priesthood actively promoted the divinity of the pharaoh for its own interests or for the benefit of the ruling class; In return, Pharaoh gave the temple a rich reward, and thus the clergy and priesthood grew in power - first with large tracts of arable land and herds of livestock, then with gold and copper mines, and taxes from certain cities, and if you add in the frequent alms that the pious people gave to the temple, the monks were far richer than anyone in Egypt, not even Pharaoh

From a macro point of view, almost all of Egypt's main social production was controlled by the temples, the clerical clique controlled almost all of Egypt's manpower and material resources, and the pharaoh relied on his own army to maintain a balance with the priestly clique. In this way, when the pharaoh was able to fight well and the army was strong, the control of the temple was still more effective. Once the pharaoh's ability to fight weakened, the scales of kingship and divine power would tilt in favor of divine power. What's worse is that the selection of officials in the ancient Egyptian pharaoh's government was also controlled by the temple - because government officials could not fail to understand writing, and the grammar and teaching of hieroglyphs were strictly controlled by the temple, and the pharaoh wanted to rule the country, and he could not bypass the intellectual class of the temple in any case.

Since the temple has such a strong economic power and network resources, it naturally has the capital to be involved in the secular regime. What's more advantageous is that in ancient Egypt, the priests occupied the moral high ground and mastered the propaganda position of public opinion, because they were the mouthpieces of the gods and shouldered many responsibilities such as the spokesperson of the gods and the spokesperson of the image. In short, in the age of theocracy, the clergy could sway the electorate with the same incorruptible tongue as modern politicians...... Oh, no, it's the public sentiment of the people of ancient Egypt, and it is light to set off a "group ** piece...... In this case, the pharaoh will simply not be able to sit in a stable seat, and if he turns his face and slaps the table with the temple one day, he will immediately be bewitched by the monks and a large number of mobs will break into the palace and cut off his head

In the face of such a powerful and pervasive theocratic group, the reason why the ancient Egyptian pharaohs were able to maintain their power instead of making Egypt a theocratic state like the old Tibet is mainly because there are too many gods in Egypt, with a total of more than 2,000, and each region has different gods (Thebes is the god Amun, Memphis is the god Ptah, and some villages are cat gods, lizard gods, and snake gods), and the priest group that serves them is naturally scattered. Temples that worshiped different gods were often not affiliated with each other, but rather had a strict rivalry, and were never able to form a joint force to wage war against the royal power as Tibetan Buddhism and European Christianity did. The pharaoh could sow discord and hold up one temple to suppress another at any time, while making his henchmen serve as high priests, so as to prevent the clerical group from swelling out of control.

However, at this time, since the last few dynasties that ruled Egypt all started in Thebes, and the members of the royal family also believed in the god Amun, the result was that the Church of Amun in Thebes was overly powerful, and had too much land and wealth, which already posed a certain threat to the royal power - if it was any other place, it would not be a matter for a temple to dominate alone, anyway, there were other temples in the next border to contain it. But the problem is that the Mongol Temple is dominant, which is equivalent to having the status of an "invisible court", which directly threatens the operation of the entire central government. Even if the royal family can still suppress the temple at the moment, it cannot indulge and ignore these monks, but must often beat the division.

It is a pity that although the young and irascible King Memphis has great martial arts and relied on a series of brilliant military exploits to sit on the throne, he obviously did not inherit the mature political skills of the old king, and took the expanding temple power around him lightly, so that some people with ulterior motives lost their restraint and began to make waves in secret...... In the eyes of Prime Minister Imhodeb, the monks of the Temple of Amun have been a little rampant lately. Although it is far from being able to shake the rule of the royal family, it is also a threat. It is absolutely necessary to bang it in moderation.

In the city of Thebes, a new god was created and a new church was built to divide the followers and influence of the god Amun, which was the rod used by the prime minister to beat the temple of Amun.

According to the custom of ancient Egypt, every god had to build a temple and set up priests to make offerings of incense and pray for oracles...... In this way, it is possible to justifiably pull teeth from the tiger's jaws of the temple of Amun and redistribute a part of their land and wealth.

However, it is not so easy to pick up a new god, and without a suitable excuse, it may be difficult to gain the approval and followers of the people - fortunately, the sudden arrival of Doraemon and the various miracles demonstrated have made the above problems no longer a problem.

Imhodb seems to have seen the wonderful prospect of the two temples, one new and the other old, fighting to the death in Thebes, allowing the court to benefit from it

However, this seemingly foolproof trick was taken off

The old prime minister never thought that the great priest of Kabuda would be so resolute, such a bachelor, so shameless, in order to maintain the dominance of the Temple of Amun in Duthebes, he didn't want any face and physique, and directly threw himself at the feet of the "foreign god", and lifted this round beast of unknown species directly onto the throne of the god Amun? Immediately, the old prime minister was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped

Hey, if you don't play like this, what will the god Amun in the sky think? Are you still a servant of God?

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e: Beyond the word count: "War is never sacred"

Recently, the international observer group came to the Donetsk region and was shocked by the war atrocities committed by the Kiev sweep army, which, according to these experts, included the gang ♂ rape of underage girls, the massacre of civilians, the mutilation of human organs for profit, etc., which are already genocide crimes, which are hardly like the work of civilized Europeans, and believe that these criminals should be punished according to international law.

Alas, I remember that in April, when Crimea held a citizens' rally in support of joining Russia, an old man who could not speak clearly came to the stage to give a speech, saying that girls in Ukraine would be pulled into canned human flesh by the current group of Nazis. At that time, Ukrainian television also rebroadcast this video, trying to prove that those who supported joining Russia were neurotic, and now they can only sigh......

――This old man was probably born before World War II, and people who lived through that era sometimes have a very sharp perspective.

As for the just punishment under international law, it is estimated that there is no need to hope for anything. In South Korea, South Vietnam and Bosnia and Herzegovina, when has this been less common? From now on, although Crimea is not lightly pitted in the chaos, it is much better than being scorched to the earth.

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