Chapter 116 (II)

Yuehua's pale face finally showed a somewhat relaxed smile, and she couldn't help but use a little force to pull Xiao Lei's hand. Xiao Lei looked at the statues around him, but suddenly said: "Frankly speaking, what kind of dragons, giants, strange monsters and the like outside, I am not curious, because there are many strange creatures in our Eastern myths and legends, although they are impossible to exist in the eyes of ordinary people, but at least I have seen some living creatures, I believe that these strange creatures do exist, although the dragon is strange...... However, I have also seen a very large kind of crane, which is still alive, and has been domesticated by some cultivators and used as a means of transportation. Xiao Lei smiled and said, "Maybe these things are too strange for you, but I've seen a lot of them, and I don't think it's strange at all." Since we have strange creatures in the East, there must be in the West as well. ”

"To be honest, I personally think...... The legend of Zeus is a bit like what we say about the Yellow Emperor in ancient China, the Yellow Emperor is the recognized ancestor of our China, and he is also the ancient emperor of ancient China...... Of course, at that time it was not called the emperor, hehe. However, the Yellow Emperor was not only the leader of Shenzhou at that time, but also was portrayed as a mythical god by legend...... Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor was also a god...... Isn't this similar to the Greek mythology of Zeus, who are both gods and leaders...... What I mean by this is that I think that the so-called immortals are just human beings, but they are more powerful than modern humans and have some skills that ordinary people do not have. ”

Yuehua listened attentively and said with a smile: "However, there are gods in the East and the West...... So what kind of pattern was it in ancient times?"

Xiao Lei pursed his lips: "To be honest...... I don't think it's strange, it's like in modern times, the gods of the East rule the East, the gods of the West rule the West, and everyone has their own sphere of influence. Well, how to put it, it's like the current countries, each with its own territory. ”

"Hehe......" Yuehua covered her mouth and smiled: "Your statement is novel, so what is a god, is it a king, is it the leader of the country?"

"Of course. Xiao Lei said with a smile: "Isn't the so-called Jade Emperor in China the image of an emperor? The Yellow Emperor in ancient times was the ruler of Shenzhou at all. And Zeus, didn't he also control the human beings of ancient Greece at that time? They seemed to be rulers from above, but the legends that have been handed down now have given them the 'godhead', so that their images and personalities have gradually been diluted, but more mythologized. Personally, I'd rather think they're just human......"

Yuehua excused: "It's just some humans with magical abilities, right?"

Xiao Lei smiled: "Yes." ”

"But...... If, as you said, those gods in ancient times were the leaders who ruled over mankind, then why don't modern humans have those god-like leaders?" Yuehua said with a smile.

Xiao Lei rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Good question." Probably because human beings have gradually become stronger, gradually developed various technologies, and the times have progressed, and there is no need for those magical powers, so in ancient times, gods, that is, those humans with magical abilities could rule over other human beings, but later, the skills of those gods were no longer enough to suppress other human beings, so they withdrew from the stage of leaders...... That's probably it. There could be some other reason for this...... You ask me, I don't know......" He raised his hand and pointed to the majestic statue of Zeus, and said with a smile: "Maybe ask this old guy, he may know, hahaha......"

Yuehua didn't smile, she said with a straight face: "But how to explain this place? According to what I know, the Temple of Zeus has been destroyed a long time ago, and there are still its ruins. And this statue of Zeus has long been destroyed. But why is it here? in the Pyrenees, on the border between France and Spain, and it's not the territory of ancient Greece. According to your guess, Zeus was the leader of mankind during the ancient Greek civilization, but his temple should not be here, one is that the temple is recorded to have been destroyed in battle, and the other is ...... It was beyond the borders of Greek civilization. ”

Xiao Lei sighed: "I can't answer this question to you, I'm afraid I can only ask Zeus, the old man." But I have other conjectures about the sphere of influence......" Xiao Lei frowned.

He suddenly said, "If my guess is true, every mythical god exists, and they all have their own sphere of influence...... Then there is also a war between each other's spheres of influence......"

Subsequently, Xiao Lei roughly explained his opinion.

Or rather, it's the crankiness of his head.

"Ancient Greek civilization is fundamentally the cradle of European civilization and the birthplace of Western civilization. So let's assume...... The gods of Greek mythology, originally the rulers of the West, were their sphere of influence, at least in ancient Greek times...... But now, in the Western world, the general religion is Catholicism, and most Westerners believe in God, and I think there are very few people who believe in the gods of Greek mythology, except for the Greeks now. ”

But in the ancient Greek era, Greek mythology, which was the dominant religion of that time, was the dominant religion, and at that time, the so-called Christianity had not yet appeared. Christianity emerged in the middle of Roman times. Or to put it another way, the Roman era replaced the Greek era, and Christianity replaced Greek mythology...... I say that, you understand, right?"

Yuehua said: "What do you mean...... Christianity overthrew the rule of Greek mythology...... Snatching a sphere of influence that originally belonged to Greek mythology?"

Xiao Lei smiled very strangely: "Maybe it can be explained like this." But luckily...... Because I've been dealing with a few Catholic guys lately, I've been doing a lot of research on the origins of their religions. ”

Xiao Lei is telling the truth.

Recently, he has always dealt with Ye Buqun, and he has indeed studied the origin of Catholicism carefully.

The predecessor of Catholicism was, of course, Christianity.

When Christianity was first born, people in the Western world were still practicing other religions, and the religion that human beings believed in at that time was actually a variation of Greek mythology...... Because the ancient Greek civilization declined, but Greek mythology still exists, but it is regarded as the fusion of various peoples in the West, and the legends are a little messy. But in general, it still can't get out of the framework of Greek mythology.

In other words, or can be reluctantly explained as such...... Before the advent of Christianity, the mainstream of Western civilization and religious belief was still Greek mythology......

But the advent of Christianity changed that.

To use a more appropriate phrase: Christianity "overthrown" the rule of Greek mythology and replaced it as the dominant position of religious belief. It then grew to become the most common religion in the West.

Moreover, Christianity treats other religions with very harsh standards...... Christianity holds that all the gods of all religions except God are false gods!

According to historical records, Christianity came out of the bloody road!

Xiao Lei said this, and suddenly smiled: "Look, this is a war to seize the sphere of influence...... There is war among ordinary humans, but there may also be war between gods...... For example, Christianity replaced the gods of Greek mythology as the spiritual leader of the Western world...... I think it may be because the gods of Greek mythology were defeated because they were not as powerful as the gods of Christianity...... Ha ha. In Christianity, God is the only supreme being, and there is the Son Jesus below, as well as the so-called angelic legions, the seven guardian angels, and so on...... What is formed is a mythological system of its own. ”

Yuehua couldn't help but laugh and said: "You are a child's theory, can the Greek gods and the Christian angel legions still fight?"

"Why not?" Xiao Lei's eyes suddenly became very strange: "Why can't there be a war between the gods? The war between the gods is even clearly recorded! For example...... The Bible!"

Yuehua was stunned for a moment, Xiao Lei sneered: "The Bible clearly records that the war of the god class, isn't there a fallen angel Lucifer in the legend? He betrayed God, and at the same time a group of angels betrayed him together, and then there was a war between God's angel army and Lucifer's rebels, and finally Lucifer was defeated and fell into hell...... Xiao Lei laughed full of mockery: "Let's analyze it like this...... If wars can break out within Christianity, why can't wars break out against other myths? If internal wars can break out, there must also be wars abroad!"

He pointed to the statue of Zeus, circled around again, pointed to the twelve main gods in Greek mythology, and said with a smile: "These, they, who used to rule the religion of the spiritual leaders of the Western world, now the whole West believes in God, not them...... Well, in other words, these Greek gods are nothing more than the vanquished!"

"The vanquished ......" Yuehua muttered with some surprise in her eyes.

Xiao Lei changed his words, and suddenly sneered: "Actually, Eastern mythology and Western religions have also broken out wars, at least...... I guess so. ”

"What?" Yuehua was really surprised this time: "Why?"

"It's still my theory...... Since internal wars exist, foreign wars also exist in theory. Merely...... It's just that the world doesn't know much about it. ”

Xiao Lei slowly sat next to Yuehua, and suddenly said, "You know Alexander the Great, right? ”

"The territory of ancient Greece was originally very small, and the expansion of its territory was accompanied by war. Let's take an analogy, on the one hand, foreign wars expanded the territory of ancient Greek civilization and human beings...... On the other hand, it is also to allow more human beings from other places to be annexed to Greece, and at the same time, to make more people believe in the Greek gods! The Greek coalition led by Alexander has expanded countless vast territories...... At the same time, it also sowed the religious seeds of Greek mythology in more places. On the one hand, there is territorial expansion, and on the other hand, it is also religious expansion! The same is true...... When Christianity ruled the West, foreign wars were also often waged in the name of 'missionary'. ”

According to the current historical record...... Well, I also thought of it suddenly, because I happened to see a movie about Alexander the Great, the most outstanding emperor of ancient Greece, who led his Greek coalition to defeat Persia and fight all the way to the East...... He really went to the East! He hit India! We can assume...... It was also a religious expansion. It's just that he failed. Or we can see it as the first confrontation between the mythological religions of Greece and the mythological religions of the East. However, it is calculated that the era when Alexander the Great fought to the east at that time happened to be the Warring States period of China, and if Alexander the Great crossed India and continued to go north, then the first opponent he encountered was the Qin State at that time!"

"And then there was the Christian era, where there were Crusades...... Again, it can be assumed that this was the expansion of Christian religious power to the East...... However, it seems to me that Christianity is more powerful than the gods of Greek mythology, or at least that Christianity has expanded much more territory than Greek mythology...... Not only did they rule Europe, but they even conquered the Americas, or at least, they almost wiped out the mythical religions that existed in the Americas. In a word...... Expand!"

"In the end, I conclude that there may also be wars between the gods of various myths, as well as between the humans they rule. This is the process of expansion! Just as a big country merges a small country, the survival of the fittest, and a strong religion can defeat other religions and occupy more spheres of influence. And the weak religion is either exterminated or conquered and loses its sphere of influence. ”

After hearing this, Yuehua couldn't help but take a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "You...... You're thinking a lot. ”

Xiao Lei smiled: "So, these gods are just rulers who were forced to step down after the defeat...... Nothing strange. The most appropriate way to say this is that in the Western world today, Christianity is the ruling party, while other mythological religions are opposition parties...... Hahahaha......"

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