Chapter 107: The Role of the Gods
Then of course those very evil gods can't stay.
For example, there is a god whose name is "the god of chaos and **".
This deity is a typical evil god, and each of his followers must recognize his ideas from the bottom of their hearts.
Only the most lustful and promiscuous people can communicate with Him and extradite His divine power from the distant Endless Void to the great world of Labral.
Such a deity, of course, could not be recognized by the Empire.
The supreme god of the empire, the god king Jupiter, has only one wife, the god queen Juno, and the great supreme of the empire, His Majesty the Holy Emperor, also has only one queen.
The laws of the empire are, of course, monogamous.
Therefore, the marriage of the empire actually emphasizes the loyalty to the spouse, and the spouse who is unfaithful to the spouse can kill the other party according to the law without being punished.
Citizens of the empire would go to the local temple for their weddings. It is hoped that the gods will bear witness to their loyalty to their families, and to the empire that manifests their loyalty therefrom.
Of course, for some well-known reason, the private lives of the nobles of the empire were very chaotic.
But that's just a part of the people, some very old families, such as the Brandon family, have extremely strict doors.
An heir of a descendant like Sachar must set an example and ensure that his apparent character is noble.
After all, people will always subconsciously believe that what a kind person says is true, and they will always believe in the promise made by a kind person to themselves.
A vicious person, a person who seems to be a poisonous snake, who dares to truly put life and death into the hands of the other party.
Even if that person is extremely talented, who dares to work with him, no one wants to live a life of trembling.
But the family life among the commoners is still very loyal.
This is only one aspect of the role of the gods in the empire, and another aspect is the enhancement of national power.
For the people of the temple of the Jade Empire, the expansion of each god is a process of increasing strength, and every increase of the gods will greatly improve the divine power of the main god.
So for the empire, as long as it is a god who can still be saved, it will generally not give up.
For example, a very famous deity - Ares, the god of war.
He was originally the god of the Northland Slavs, who presided over wars.
In the mythology of the Slavs, he is the embodiment of the martial spirit of the Slavs.
Legend has it that Ares was several kilometers long in body and would occupy the land of a mountain when he fell.
When He raised his head to the sky and roared with his spear, the sky trembled.
He does not rule over all beings by mercy, but by force, and the gods of the entire Slavic system submit to Him by force.
This god is not a good stubble, even among the gods of war of all countries and races, he belongs to the most violent category.
His followers call Him "the bloodthirsty murderer and the conqueror of the fortified castle", a symbol of strength and power, the embodiment of murder, blood, and the scourge of the world.
It was such a god who was finally defeated at the hands of Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, one of the twelve main gods of the Emerald Empire.
A real, undisputed defeat!
The aura of war brought by Ares is far from being comparable to Athena.
The first time the brave Slavs felt the greatness of wisdom was due to the collision of the Ares and Athena.
Countless years have passed, and the legion that was able to wield Athena's aura has disappeared into history, but Athena's name is widely spread among the Slavs.
It was precisely because of this that later Slavs were willing to drive the empire, and even sent their own main god into the pantheon himself.
Of course, the most widespread belief of the Slavs today has become Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom.
Relying on this, certain wise men among the Slavs reconstructed the Slavic system and attached themselves to the pantheistic system of the Emerald Empire.
The two sides are in a relationship of both prosperity and loss.
It is not uncommon for tribes to do this, there are so many gods in the Jade Empire, naturally it is impossible for each of them to gain faith, the vast majority of them are some gods with similar priesthood to form a god system, and then for people in a region to believe.
Such a policy is very beneficial to the stability of the Empire, so the Empire has been tirelessly filling the Empire's pantheistic system with new gods.
But after all, you can't do things in your own country, so you have to screen these newly added gods.
Those who are particularly vicious and vicious, whose doctrine cannot be changed, and whose divinity has been polluted by believers to the point that they cannot be cleansed, of course cannot be added to this.
"From the priesthood of the Goddess of Phantoms and the Goddess of Shadows, it can be seen that in fact, these two gods are neutral gods and do not have any preference for good and evil. ”
"But the main goddess of the Shadow Goddess is the Goddess of Darkness. This is the main god of a completely evil camp. ”
"As the twin sister of the Goddess of Shadows, the Goddess of Phantoms naturally stands with the Goddess of Shadows in the dark. ”
Hearing this, Sagar slightly stopped Evereya, who was talking, and asked with some curiosity: "I have heard others mention that the empire seems to have a goddess of the night, is it very different from this goddess of darkness?"
Hearing Sagar's question, Evereya smiled slightly: "My lord, the difference between the two is still very big, the god of darkness is the existence of the main god who can become the goddess of the night. ”
"The scope of the priesthood under the crown of the goddess of the night is too narrow, and the role of the empire is not very large, so the faith cannot go up, and the strength is very far worse than that of the goddess of darkness. ”
"The main thing is the narrowness of the priesthood, which determines that the upper limit under the crown of the goddess of the night is not high, and a sub-god may be the apex. ”
"Besides, you should know that within the empire, the belief in the goddess of light is still very strong, and the belief in the goddess of darkness is naturally not easy to spread. ”
Everea gave another reason.
Although the power of the empire is in a neutral position among the gods, except for the god king Jupiter and the god queen Juno, they do not care too much about the scale of the development of the other gods.
The big names of the Pantheon, whether it is the crown of the chief god or the big names of the temple in the cardinals, are already big people who have seen through the essence of the gods.
The attitude towards the gods has become, as long as it can be used by the empire, as for the rest, these big people don't care too much.
What they did was to maintain the balance between the main gods, after all, each of them was extremely important to the empire.
Behind every main god is a major event related to the national fortune of the empire.
But the upper gods and secondary gods under the main god, these big guys don't care, even if there are some changes, they don't think it's a big deal.
Thanks to Apollo, the sun god who is the twelve main gods of the Emerald Empire, as one of Apollo's most famous gods, the goddess of light is also the most powerful among the gods.
Echoing the strength of the strong, it is natural to have a wide range of beliefs, although the vast majority of them are shallow beliefs.
But now that people have accepted her beliefs, it is almost impossible to get people to believe in an opposite deity.
"Since there is no belief in the Goddess of Darkness in the country, then presumably the belief in the Goddess of Shadows and the Goddess of Phantoms is also very poor?" Of course, Saga understood the meaning of Evereya's words, and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "The second god?"
Everea smiled and shook her head.
"Isn't it? Could it be a little god?" Saga was really a little surprised, the power of these two gods was not weak.
Besides, in the army, shadow magic and phantom magic are very useful things.
Sagar didn't believe that the big man of the temple would let go of these two special gods, as long as he had these two gods, the ambush ability of the imperial army would definitely be able to increase more than once.
You must know that the Empire's Night Goddess, although only a low-level god from a minor god to a secondary god, has been able to improve the ability of some empires to march at night.
It is absolutely impossible not to see how powerful the Phantom Goddess is.
"That's half right. Everea looked helpless.
Then he explained to Sachar: "In the pantheon of the empire, there is no goddess of shadows at all, and the goddess of phantoms is just a small god. ”
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