Chapter 523: The Temple of the Gods
After entering the Temple of the Gods, Leo was like an ordinary foreign tourist, walking in front of each shrine in the temple of each god's lineage, looking at the statues in his eyes and comparing the information in his heart.
Leo first heard about the Temple of the Gods in the study of Old Man Rembrandt in the city of Miria, when Old Man Rembrandt specifically mentioned the Temple of the Gods in the Kingdom of England when he was explaining the history of the religion of Veron.
In Rembrandt's opinion, the temple of the gods in the Kingdom of England is actually similar to the sacred mountain of the Orthodox Church, but the way of presentation is different.
The Orthodox Church has a strong sense of reverence for the gods, so it does not directly carve the statues of the gods, but replaces the gods with a shrine and places them on Mount Kamiza.
The Inge Kingdom was influenced by the belief in the god of the sea, and the fear of other gods was much smaller, especially the royal family of England regarded itself as a descendant of the god of the sea, and only respected other gods without fear, so they would directly use the statues to build the temple of gods.
Although the two were built in different ways, Rembrandt believed that there was not much difference in the essence of the two, and that both were intended to show the majesty of the gods in this era when the gods disappeared.
However, compared to the Sacred Seat Mountain of the Orthodox Church, the old man Rembrandt admired the temple of gods in the Kingdom of England more, because the temple of the gods in the Kingdom of England was the first time that mortals had arranged the genealogy of the gods.
In the past, gods were only divided into true gods and evil gods, and those who were recognized by the Orthodox Church were true gods, and those who were not recognized were evil gods.
When Leo first came into contact with the gods of the Velonian world, almost like all the people in the Velonon world, subconsciously thought that the true gods of the Orthodox Church were all good and the evil gods were all bad.
But with such a long time of understanding the gods of the world of Velon, Leo found that things are not as simple as he first thought, the true god is just a recognized identity, and has nothing to do with good or bad, there are also evil gods in the true gods, such as the god of revenge, such as primordial desires, etc., and there are also good gods among the evil gods, such as the true spirituality that most scholars will secretly believe in and so on.
Although there are a large number of true gods and evil gods recorded by the Orthodox Court, whether they are true gods or evil gods, the Orthodox Court has never thought of arranging them according to information such as divine power, priesthood or god name, because in the eyes of the Orthodox Court, even evil gods are existences that mortals cannot look at directly, and mortals only need to maintain reverence for them, and should not be arrogant and arrange them.
However, when the Kingdom of England built the Temple of the Gods, they divided the gods into fifteen genealogy systems according to the priesthood of the true gods, and then according to the strength of the gods, all the true gods recognized by the Orthodox Church were stuffed into these fifteen god genealogies, and finally completed the temple genealogy of the gods that the world sees now.
In the eyes of scholars like the old man Rembrandt, the genealogy of the temple arranged by the Kingdom of England is a little too rough, with many errors and omissions, and there are too many fifteen genealogy systems, under normal circumstances, five major priesthood systems are enough, as for those remote priesthoods, they can be solved by branch systems.
In addition, the subjective consciousness of the English royal family is too strong, in order to reflect the reverence of the sea god, they arranged the sea god into a separate god system, and all the gods related to the sea, whether it is a legendary god or an evil god that is not recognized by the Orthodox Church, are all compiled into this system, and they are called the incarnation of the sea god.
The implication is that there is only one sea god in the ocean, and the other sea gods are all different forms of one god, and the sea god is deliberately raised to the height of the old god of Velun like the Lord of the Sky.
The reactions of all countries to this almost blasphemous act of the Kingdom of England were different, some were angry, some protested, some approved, etc., but no matter what the reaction, it could not stop the construction of the Temple of the Gods.
After so many years, it doesn't matter what the senses of the countries were to the temple of gods back then, and even the countries that originally resisted the temple of gods have secretly begun to compile their own genealogies according to their mainstream beliefs, for ordinary people, the temple is just a spectacle worth visiting, and for believers, it is even more weird, but they will be proud that the gods they believe in can be stationed in the temple of gods.
For Leo, the Temple of the Gods is a database that can help him further improve the information of the gods in the world of Veron.
At that time, in order to build a perfect temple of gods, the royal family of England spared no effort to collect a large number of information on the gods, although there is no clear statistics, but in the religious research community it is believed that the temple of gods is the place with the most complete information on gods outside the Orthodox Church.
Moreover, because of some conceptual and legal reasons, the Orthodox Church will destroy some of the ancient deities that have disappeared, and only retain the true deities that still exist, and those folklore gods whose existence is doubtful are not even qualified to be recorded by the Orthodox Church, so the Orthodox Church's information in this regard is not as detailed as the Temple of the Gods.
Like the unclean one that Leo sees now, this deity is an ancient god, first thought to be the source of the plague epidemic after the war, and is a true god recorded by the Orthodox Church, but he was also destroyed by the Orthodox Church because of his disappearance.
However, the belief of the unclean did not disappear, but changed direction and became a folklore faith, and the original symbol of the battlefield plague has now become the guardian of the toilet and the toilet, and this belief is not recognized by the Orthodox Church, so that the unclean who were originally the true gods have now become the evil gods of the underground church.
All information about the unclean man is now engraved on the wall of the entrance to his shrine, but it is clear that the royal family of England did not pay much attention to the patron saint of the toilet, and the materials compiled were not carefully reviewed, but mixed up the official and legendary materials, and all engraved on the wall.
Because it is not carefully organized, there are many contradictions in the content, which will cause a lot of confusion for those who read it, but for Leo, this kind of unmodified source material is more suitable to supplement his database.
However, these textual materials are not the most useful for Leo, and what is really useful for Leo's database are the reliefs and statues that were carved by sculptors hired by the royal family of England based on written records.
According to statistics, during the construction of the Temple of the Gods, the English royal family used more than 700 sculptors and more than 4,000 stonemasons, and the statues destroyed by dissatisfaction alone amounted to tens of thousands, which was twice the total number of abandoned statues in other parts of the seminary, and these destroyed stone statues were used to reclaim the sea to form the largest man-made bay in Vilon, Double Moon Bay and Double Moon City.
The extravagant construction of the Turin Theological Seminary or the Temple of the Gods by the English royal family makes many people wonder where this almost astronomical construction fund came from, after all, when the Turin Theological Academy was built, the English royal family was not in its heyday, and it stands to reason that there should not be such a huge amount of money.
And more people are wondering why the British royal family did this?
Because as long as a little wise person is not difficult to think, if the royal family used the huge funds to build the Turin Theological Seminary and the Temple of the Gods to do other things, such as domestic political activities, recruiting more royal guards, etc., maybe the royal family would have already regained the power, but the royal family did not do that, but the builders looked extremely luxurious, but in fact, the seminary and the temple of the gods did not have much effect on the promotion of the royal family's status and power, it really makes people wonder what the royal family of England thinks.
However, no matter how many people think that the royal family's approach is stupid, for ordinary people, the royal family's approach is very popular, because everyone knows that the royal family will really use the funds for the construction of the seminary to regain power, then the conflict with the parliament will inevitably become increasingly fierce, and even lead to a civil war, in which case, the power of the Kingdom of England on the sea will not be able to advance, and the position of the sea supremacy will not be guaranteed.
And for architects, sculptors and other artists, without the unrestricted investment of the royal family, they would not have been able to leave such a perfect and so many exquisite art, and the statues of the gods in the Temple of the Gods are absolutely the best of the best.
Whether it is the true gods recognized by the Orthodox Church or the popular folk legends, they all have a common characteristic, that is, they have more than one image, and some of these images are normal, either human, or animal, or some anthropomorphic climate, such as the Ice Lady.
Normally, most churches will adopt the image that best fits the perception of believers, such as the idol of the Lord of the Sky is a huge eagle, but the Temple of God does not do this, there are not only the most well-known gods and gods, but also those who only appear in the story of the church.
In addition to the statue of the main deity in the shrine, there are also many statues of the legendary incarnation of this deity on the walls around the shrine, and their exquisiteness is no worse than that of the main deity, and some are even more elaborate and artistic.
After all, the main statues of other gods almost already have prototypes, and even if they are modified, they can't change much, but other incarnation statues need to rely on the sculptor's own imagination, so the carving effect will be better.
However, it is these avatar idols that Leo is interested in, because among these avatar idols, Leo finds many very familiar forms.
"Moyaka, Digaga......" Leo began to recall the familiar forms he had seen before, all of which were famous alien races in the universe.
Although, some of the characteristics of some gods are a little different from these alien races, but it is only a little difference in characteristics, and most of the other characteristics are exactly the same as these alien races, if only one is like this, it can also be said to be a coincidence, but more than a dozen god incarnations are like this, which makes Leo have to have some associations.
However, Leo did not immediately make up his mind, but set off for the second temple to continue his trip to the temple of gods.
Although the fifteen temples are all the same size, the number of idols placed here varies, some temples have a very large number of idols, like the first temple that Leo entered, there are more than eighty gods and gods, while others are very few, only five or six gods idols, such as the Black Forest gods.
The Black Forest god system is the only god line in the entire temple of gods, except for the royal family's subjective fabricated lineage of sea gods, which is not divided by priesthood, but by region.
In the temple belonging to the Black Forest, Leo did not see the idol of the golden giant deer, thinking that the world of Veron should not know that there was a golden giant deer, otherwise with the practice of the Inge royal family, they would definitely carve a statue of the golden giant deer.
In addition, in this temple, Leo naturally also saw the statue of his old friend Black Forest White Deer, and the interesting thing is that according to the location, the Black Forest White Deer has become the main god of the Black Forest lineage, not only the shrine is much larger than other Black Forest gods, but even the statues are more exquisite, and the priesthood is not made of the original mountain stone, but specially carved from the stone transported from other places.
The special treatment of the statue of the White Deer God, Leo has only seen it in the previous temples, only a few gods and gods who are still active, such as the Lord of the Sky, it is obvious that the English royal family has a very special mood when building this shrine, which also makes Leo think of the Valley of Flowers and the Blue Palace in Kevin Town.
Later, after Leo saw the text on the White Deer Shrine, he realized that the relationship between the White Deer and the English royal family was extraordinary.
Back then, when the Inge royal family led their people to escape from the French Empire, they were intercepted by the Knights of the French Empire and forced to flee into the Black Forest, and got lost in the Black Forest, and were attacked by some unknown creatures in the forest.
When they were about to encounter the catastrophe of destruction, they met the white deer, who not only took them to a safe shelter so that they could be fully repaired, but also led them out of the Black Forest and helped them avoid the pursuit of the Frank Empire.
Therefore, even though the state religion of the Kingdom of England is now the Poseidon Church, the belief in the White Deer in the Black Forest has not been broken, and there is always a garden temple belonging to the White Deer in the palace of the royal family, and the children of each generation of the Inge royal family will choose the purest girl to serve as the priest of the temple, and the wedding of the royal family will also be carried out in the White Deer Temple, in terms of intimacy, the White Deer is even above the Poseidon.
It's just that the relationship between the royal family and the White Deer of the Black Forest is not deliberately publicized, even if someone knows about it from the Temple of the Gods, they just think that the royal family is boasting, just like the royal family has always regarded itself as a descendant of the sea god and a patron. As for why the gods of the Black Black Forest are involved, in the eyes of some people, it may be related to the kingdom's future counterattack on the Velonon Continent, first with the Black Forest, which occupies most of the territory of the Velon, and it has to be justified in the name of the Vilon.