Chapter Seventy-Four: The Mixed Slavic Factions
"Whoa! It hurts! Xiao Mo, stop me!! โ
Chen Fan, who was held in Mordred's arms and had his hair shaved, waved his ungrown arms in vain and screamed, which made Mordred can't help but show a sadistic smile on his face: "What's the matter, what's wrong, the master just wants to help a lady keep warm, you don't even have this sympathy surnamed Chen, right?" โ
"Nonsense! Co-authoring isn't pulling your hair, is it!? The long hair was pulled back and forth by Mordred, Chen Fan couldn't help but be angry and angry, and when he turned around, he almost bit the back of Mordred's hand.
"I'll go! Surnamed Chen, do you really want to be a dog? Mordred was also startled and hurriedly loosened Chen Fan's hair.
"That's it!" Belia slowly put down the strange woman here, and couldn't help but teach the two of them a lesson, "Don't toss, put on a layer of warm clothes for her first, don't die because of nonsense." โ
Seeing that Belia said this, Chen Fan and Mordred glanced at each other and pouted.
Then Mordred picked up Chen Fan and came to the woman's side, squatted down so that Chen Fan's hair could touch the woman, and watched Chen Fan's hair automatically wrap around the woman's body to form a tight cloth, while sighing in amazement: "Don't say anything else, if you want to be a tailor surnamed Chen, you will definitely not starve yourself to death." โ
Chen Fan rolled his eyes directly at this: "Pull it down, why don't you say that I can still make metal?" If I really wanted to become an exporter, wouldn't it be more profitable than a tailor? โ
In the quarrel between Chen Fan and Mordred, the fine and soft warm clothes were already neatly dressed on the woman, and after Chen Fan's hair stopped growing, Mordred stood up and used Chen Fan's short legs to massage his somewhat numb parts, which attracted Chen Fan's eyes again.
After roughly checking the woman's body temperature and breathing, Belia put her mind at ease, stood up and moved her body twice: "The current situation is stable, but as for the identity is uncertain for the time being, I personally speculate that it is more likely that the Slavic system is ethereal." โ
"Why?" Chen Fan stopped arguing with Mordred, and looked at Belia with curiosity on his face.
"First of all," Belia was also happy to explain to the curious Chen Fan when there was no mobile phone signal and there was nothing to do for the time being before the woman woke up, it was better than listening to his trash talk and then couldn't help but beat him up, "Her hair is blonde, this hair color is generally more in the Holy Roman Empire and Ross Kiev, and there are also in the Americas, but it is more or less not so innocent, close to platinum hair." โ
"Oh, is it because there are too many people over there?"
How to listen to Chen Fan's words, how wrong, always felt that he was mocking Belia, who was of mixed American blood, glanced at him suspiciously, but he didn't see any clues: "You can say that, but if you don't want me to feel like I'm being sarcastic, just pay more attention to the way you speak." โ
Chen Fan still wanted to say something, but was covered by Mordred: "Hey, this kid talks all day long, Belia, you go on, the mythological system of our Holy Roman Empire is too complex, and the absorption of too many federations leads to many systems, and the content of the Slavic system has not been learned, so it happens to be a class." โ
Naturally, Belia didn't bother to think too much about Chen Fan, so she cleared her throat and continued: "Early Slavic mythology has always been a challenge for historians to study. Because unlike many other myths, they have no surviving source material. The early Slavs did not even leave a record of their gods, prayers, or rituals. However, secondary sources, written mainly by monks of the Christianization period in the Slavic countries, provide a rich cultural record intertwined with the myths of the region.
The key takeaway is that the ancient Slavic mythology and religious system lasted for about six centuries until the advent of Christianity in your Holy Roman Empire. โ
"Ahem, ahem!"
Mordred was embarrassed when she heard this, and waved her hand to signal Belia to turn the page quickly.
Belia did not mean to embarrass Mordred, and continued: "Most Slavic mythology is characterized by gods with dual and opposite aspects, with some seasonal rituals and celebrations according to the agricultural cycle.
Scholars of the Tower of Babel believe that Slavic mythology dates back to the Proto-Indo-European period and even to the Neolithic period. In the early days the proto-Slavic tribes were divided into different groups, consisting of Eastern, Western and South Slavs. Each group created its own unique localized myths, gods, and rituals based on the beliefs and legends of the proto-Proto-Slavs. Some East Slavic traditions have some overlap with the gods and customs of their Middle Eastern neighbors.
The dominant Slavic indigenous religious structure lasted for about six hundred years. In the late 12th century, invaders from what is now the Danish Commonwealth began to enter the Slavic regions. At that time Bishop Absaron, the mentor of King Valdemar I, was with Christianity to replace the old Slavic pagan tools. At one point, he ordered the toppling of the statue of the god Svantevet in the temple of Akona, an event that is considered the beginning of the end of ancient Slavic paganism. โ
As she spoke, Belia realized that she was distancing herself, and that she also had some implications for the Holy Roman Empire, so she quietly reversed herself: "Well, unlike the Christian Trinitarian monotheism, there are many gods in Slavic mythology, and many of them have a dual face. The god Svarog or Rod is a creator who is believed to be the father god of many other characters in Slavic mythology, including the god of thunder and the god of the sky, Perron. His antagonist is Villes, who is associated with the sea and chaos, which together bring balance to the world.
Of course, there are also seasonal deities in the mythological system, such as Jarilo, who is associated with the fertility of the land in spring, and Marzanna, the goddess of winter and death. Fertility goddesses like Mokosh guard women, while Zorya represents the rising and setting sun at dusk and dawn each day.
In the Slavic creation myth, at first there was only darkness, inhabited by Rhodes, and an egg containing Svalog. The egg cracked, and Svalog crawled out; The dust on the broken eggshells formed the sacred tree, which rose and separated the sky from the sea. Svarog used the gold dust of the underworld to represent fire, creating a world full of life, as well as the sun and moon. The pieces of the bottom of the egg are collected and shaped into humans and animals.
In different Slavic regions, there are different versions of this creation story. They almost always include two gods, one dark and one light, representing the underworld and the heavens. In some stories, life is formed from eggs, while in others, it comes from the sea or sky. In a further version of the story, humans are formed out of clay, and while the god of light forms angels, the god of darkness creates demons to provide balance. โ
When Chen Fan heard this, he began to move again, but fortunately, Mordred still suppressed him.
Belia also glanced at Chen Fan angrily: "I know what you want to say, but what does this have to do with the legend of your gods who opened the world in Pangu in the Central Plains, don't come to embarrass me, an American who grew up in Fusang, and Mordred, a person from the Holy Roman Empire, okay?"
Far from it, it is time to talk about the Orthodox problem of Ruskaya later.
In the third century, as Christians grew in different cultures, the Orthodox Church gradually diversified, and the judgment of who was orthodox and who was heretical was further intensified. In 313 AD, the Western Emperor Constantine I and the Eastern Emperor Licinius issued the Edict of Milan, which legalized the Christian belief that had been circulating in the Roman Empire for nearly 300 years. Later Constantine defeated Licinius to unify the empire and became the only legitimate Roman emperor.
In 325, Constantine convened the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, which was co-chaired by Constantine and Osho, Bishop of Cรณrdoba, with 245 members of the Council of the East and 5 members of the West. The Trinity and Christology supported by the Bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, was condemned as heretic for non-divine claims by Arianism, a popular priest of the Church and a supporter of Arius. The Athanasian Creed was promulgated. Christians moved from folk beliefs to religious communities, and for the first time they split. Athanasius consolidated his bishopric authority in Alexandria.
In 330, Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and named New Rome for Constantinople. The Byzantine bishop became the archbishop of Constantinople in New Rome and later became the ecumenical patriarch. It was established by the system of archbishops appointed by the national capital. In 337, Constantine was anointed on his deathbed in Izmir. At this point, the Church of Constantinople became the capital church, and the Archbishop of Constantinople became the imperial bishop, allowing him to preach at close range to the Roman emperor, nobles, and other high-ranking people. The center of Christian religious rights is back in the East.
After the death of Constantine, the empire was divided again. In 355, the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantius II exiled the Bishop of Rome to Liberus and proclaimed Phiris II, but was resisted by the Roman citizens. Philis was driven away, and Libero was reinstated. The dispute over religious rights between the Eastern Empire and the Western Church intensified. In 381, Theodosius I convened the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, presided over by Timothy, Bishop of Alexandria, Murrido, Bishop of Antioch, Archbishop Natarius and his successor, St. Gregory Nacion, and 150 members of the Eastern Council. After the meeting, the remaining Arians in the empire were persecuted by the whole country. Orthodox Christian doctrine was established.
Orthodox Christians, having resolved the Arian problem, gradually turned to the polytheistic communities in the Roman Empire. In 391, the Bishop of Alexandria, with the consent of Theodosius I, launched a campaign of destruction of pagan property such as religious sites and temples throughout ancient Egypt. Cultural heritage, such as the Temple of Serabis and the Library of Alexandria, were burned down by a mob of Christians. Christians have completed the transition from being persecuted to inflicting persecution.
In 393, Theodosius established Christianity as the state religion. The Jewish synagogue in Alexandria was then looted and vandalized, but the violence in Alexandria was curbed through the legal manoeuvres of the socialite Hipatia. After Theodosius' death, the empire formed the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire of Eastern Rome, which were no longer united, and the church was further politically divided, entering the Eastern and Western Church periods. The empire and other non-Roman territories, as well as regions that intended independence, were also separated by the state religion.
In 448, the Council of Constantinople convicted unisexuality as a heretical. In 449, the Bishop of Alexandria, St. Daucot, persuaded the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II to convene the Fourth Ecumenical Council in Ephesus, which was presided over by 130 people. At the conference, the doctrine of unisexualism, which advocated the integration of Jesus and God, was legitimized and allowed to coexist with bisexualism. The Archbishop of Constantinople, Van Weian, was sentenced to exile. Later Bishop Leo I of Rome called the Council of Bandits in Ephesus, and the sentence was null and void.
In 451, the Eastern Roman Emperor Marxian reconvened the Fourth Council of Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon, with Archbishop Arnarios presiding over the council and about 370 senators. Singlesex doctrine was determined to be heretical, and the bishop of Alexandria was removed from office. The predecessor of the five patriarchate systems of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem was established. At the same time, 23 bishops, led by Bishop Leo I, drafted and completed the Chalcedon Creed. The bishop of Alexandria concurrently served as the arch-ducal magistrate, which was separated from the ecumenical patriarch and the pope.
In 752, the Papal States were founded on the basis of Pepin's consecration. At this point, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem all broke away from the Roman Empire and became autonomous churches. The state church collapsed. In 780, the Roman Emperor Constantine VI succeeded him, and due to the resistance of the believers and clergy to the iconoclasm, he approached his mother, Empress Irina, to negotiate the abolition of the ban. In 787, Constantine and Irina convened the Seventh Council of Ephesus, and the envoys of Archbishop Tylasius and Bishop Edon I of Rome presided over the meeting, and the destruction of icons was condemned as heresy. Church life in the East is back to normal.
In the 9th century, the division between the Eastern and Western churches continued to intensify due to the controversy over whether the Holy Trinity came from the Father or from the Father and the Son, and the rationality of Church Slavonic worship after the introduction of Christianity to Bulgaria and Ruskistan. In 820, the great man of the Orthodox Church and the history of the secular societies of Eastern Europe, Photius, was born. Photius was a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, and he opposed the Roman Kazuko doctrine externally, and internally financed Cyril and Methodus to preach in the Slavic region, collect ancient Greek texts that had been lost in the war in the 7th century, and expand the sphere of influence of the Church.
In 851, Photius became the Chancellor of the Empire. In 858, Emperor Michael III deposed Archbishop Ignatius and replaced it with a non-clergy lay Fotius, which was resented by the majority of the monastery to which Ignatius belonged. The Ignatius forces were united with the Roman powers. In 867, the Roman bishop Nigelo I deposed Photius. In 869, Emperor Basil I convened the Eighth Council of Rome in Constantinople in order to improve relations with Rome, and the bishops of Rome presided over the meeting. After the meeting, Photius was convicted of heresy. After this incident, the two religious and political forces, the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, which emphasized supremacy, were basically finalized. โ