Chapter 10: The God Called Science
The clansmen gathered around two large bonfires and shared their dreams with each other. Plenty of food gives the people more time to imagine, and the vision for the future ranges from what they will eat tomorrow to what they will eat tomorrow, but there is an insurmountable gap between the two.
"Goo, how did you know so many useful things?"
Hua walked over from the fire next to Gu Guo and squeezed to his side, and when he heard Hua's question, the clansmen all looked over, including Gu Guo's priest mother and Hongmei also had an urgent look on their faces.
Gu Guo chewed the fish meat in his mouth, and the fish he got had more fish bones, and the back of the fish was full of fine fish bones, so that he had to spit out several bites of fish bones.
He looked around the clansmen and thought to himself, good fellow, the soul question finally came.
A traverser who doesn't want to be a god stick is not a good priest, but he doesn't want to be a god stick to fool his people.
In the short term, he presented himself as the only son of God, or a prophet, who could unite his people to the greatest extent, but in the long run, would this civilization become the harmonious and self-reliant civilization of his previous life? Will it become the peace-loving and hard-working civilization of the previous life? Will it become the civilization where a hundred schools of thought contend and are eclectic?
Gu Guo didn't know, but this would definitely not become his ideal civilization.
Such a civilization will either completely overthrow his current rhetoric with blood and fire, or sink under the guidance of the "Son of God" and be knocked open by advanced ships and cannons in the new era, and be destroyed.
He didn't want thousands of years from now, civilized people to act according to their own dogmas of a thousand years ago, and even repeat their "famous sayings" when eating and.
He broke off the thickest ribs in his hand, threw the remaining bones into the fire, cleared his throat, and told a story that his people had never heard before.
"That night, I had a long, long dream."
"Once upon a time, there was no sky, no earth, no sun, no moon, no stars, everything was dark."
The clansmen lacked imagination, they tried to imagine the scene without the sun and the moon, the timid Xiao Feng shrank in Gu Guo's arms and trembled, and the grilled fish in his hand fell to the ground without realizing it, as if an atmosphere more terrifying than death permeated the campfire.
"Then there appeared a man named Science, who felt that darkness was not good, and tore it apart with all his might, and then a white light poured in."
"Science thinks that eternal day is bad, and eternal night is not good."
Gu Guo paused and organized the language after that.
The clansmen recovered from the horror of the darkness, heard Gu Guo talk about day and night, and looked up at the starry sky one by one.
"Science has pinched the light that comes in into it into a ball, like a campfire, and all the light is in this ball."
Then Gu Guo grabbed a handful of dirt on the ground, kneaded it into an irregular spherical shape, and continued.
"He kneaded the rest of the darkness into countless balls like mud, such balls are big, big, many, many, more than the fish in that river, um......" Gu Guo thought for a moment and pointed to the sky, "Such balls, as many as the stars in the sky, these balls are the stars in the sky." ”
He held the mud ball in front of the campfire, half of which was red in the light of the fire, and the side towards him was pitch black.
Xiao Feng, who was leaning on his arms, asked weakly: "Brother, are we on such a mud ball?" ”
"Yes."
As soon as these words came out, the clansmen fell to the ground one after another, for fear that they would fall into the air.
Seeing the funny appearance of the clansmen, Gu Guo laughed, and he continued: "The side facing the bonfire is the day, and the side carrying the bonfire is the night. Such a ball is so big that even if you go in one direction from birth to death, you won't be able to go all the way. ”
As he spoke, he gestured with his hand around the mud ball.
"Now there are days and nights, but the day on this mud ball is always day, and the night is always night, which is still different from the earth we live in, and the day and night of the earth we live in are alternate, how to make this mud ball the same as the earth under our feet, there is day and night?"
The clansmen gathered around Gu Guo one after another, sitting in a circle inside and standing in a circle outside, tightly surrounded, scratching their ears and cheeks one by one, they couldn't think of a reason.
Xiao Feng recalled the potter's wheel she turned more than ten days ago, and at this time, in her eyes, the mud ball in her brother's hand seemed to move, it was spinning!
"Let it spin!"
As soon as Xiao Feng spoke, the clansmen were even more panicked when they heard that the ground under their feet was a ball, and the earth was not only a ball, but also turned?
Everyone pushed, shoved and hugged each other, for fear that they would be thrown out.
Gu Guo didn't care about the clansmen who were pushing, he organized the language, and then said: "In addition to day and night, the big earth under our feet also has four seasons, cold and warm, so our big earth is not rotating positively, but diagonally. ”
Gu Guo pinched the mud ball in his hand to act as the earth's axis, and at this time, he tilted the earth's axis and walked around the bonfire.
"The earth not only has to rotate on its own, but also around the great ball of light, that is, the sun in the sky, so that there can be four seasons."
The tribesmen were stunned when they heard this, and they began to understand it.
"Science thinks that the earth beneath our feet is the best one, so he turns his hair into a forest, and his exhalation into wind, and his speech and sneezing into thunder and lightning...... The flesh becomes all kinds of animals, and the soul becomes our ancestors. ”
In the Neolithic period, the worship of the soul was absolutely higher than that of the body.
The tribesmen breathed a sigh of relief, it turns out that we are the descendants of science, science created this world, and it is thought that it will not harm his own descendants.
This story tells the people that human beings are the spirits of all things, and that the souls left behind by those who created the world should be the wisest.
Where does the sun come from? Where does the moon come from? Where does the earth come from under your feet? Stars, day, night, thunder, lightning, rain...... Everything seems to have a plausible explanation.
After listening to Gu Guo's remarks, the clansmen discussed it separately, except for not understanding the inclined axis of the earth and the rotation of the earth, some phenomena in life seemed to have corresponding explanations.
Hua scratched his head, he felt that the animals were too stupid, and he could shoot them through their throats with just one arrow, so he very much agreed with Gu Guo's remarks, human beings are the spirits of all things, and they are the smartest beings on this land.
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and he asked Gu Guo beside him, "Goo, do you know why the arrow fell to the ground?" ”
The men all quieted down, they had also thought about this question, but they couldn't figure it out, so they all looked at Gu Guo, hoping that he could answer the doubts that had plagued them for many days. The women saw that the men were quiet, although they didn't know much about the use of bows and arrows, they also looked at Gu Guo quietly.
Under the bonfire, Gu Guo looked at the more than seventy pairs of glowing eyes of curiosity, and began to tell the second story he had just made.