"Theocracy replaces kingship?"

Although everyone was puzzled, after listening to what Song Siyuan had just narrated, they could also know what was going on, and looked at Song Siyuan with curious eyes, wanting her to continue to explain clearly.

"Yes!"

Song Siyuan plans to go all the way to the end and explain the twists and turns in this clearly!

During the birth of the Wushen civilization, the production conditions of the ancestors were not yet developed, and they could only report to the group to warm up the blood relationship of the matrilineal society to condense into the power of the same clan.

Then, the person who communicates with the old grandmother of the tribe undoubtedly has the most important authority, and this person is often a witch or a hyeon.

These psychic people no longer intervene in the search for food and prey, but only focus on channeling or thinking about the future of the tribal family, and they may well have also borne the burden of passing on knowledge, whether it is a clay tablet or a knotted rope note, they will record what they think and see, form new experiences and pass on to the tribesmen, in response to the tribesmen's offerings.

When the primitive society can set aside a lot of time for thinking, he will surpass the ordinary people intellectually, use experience to guide production, and form all kinds of conventional knowledge.

Over time, the tribe will be led by witches, who not only hope that witches can communicate with their ancestors, but also hope that witches can pass on knowledge, and even witches must produce the next generation without being born or dying, which also contributed to the emergence of male witches.

In the history of the world, the clergy who undertake religious priesthood or sacrifice are usually passed down from generation to generation, which is not caused by the inferiority of primitive society, but out of the need for the inheritance of knowledge.

In the long run, Wuzhu naturally became a profession of intergenerational inheritance, and at the same time monopolized hereditary power, and the various tribes of the primitive ancestors were roughly the same, this was an era of passing on knowledge with witches.

This relationship can be maintained when the number of people is small, and when the number of tribes increases, problems arise.

When the number of people in the tribe increases, the amount of food, food, fur, grass and fruit, and medicinal herbs collected will also increase, so much so that they can supply other witches, and even, most likely, multiple witchcrafts at the same time.

At this time, Wu Zhu's status is still very high, but the authority of the tribe is declining, in order to maintain their authority, they can only hope for psychic and predictive divination, the more accurate the divination, the more they can be trusted by the clan, otherwise it is a bad witch discarded by the gods, once Wu Zhu can no longer be psychic, and no longer produce knowledge, his status will be abandoned.

At this time, in order to ensure his status, Wu will report to the group to heat and monopolize the function of sacrifice, and also monopolize the opportunity for ordinary people in the tribe to contact predict divination.

After the divine power monopolizes the sacrifice, it monopolizes the power to communicate with the heavens, if it has been like this, the divine power will always come to the heads of the people, in order to break the monopoly of the divine power, the only thing that can compete with it is the royal power of the primitive society.

When the authority of the witch declines, the royal power will realize that without the guidance of the witch, the tribe will not be good, anyway, the knowledge accumulated by thousands of years of organization and production has been able to exist without the witch.

The theocracy found that whoever could accumulate knowledge would be able to hold the highest power, and at this time, there must be a contradiction between the divine power represented by Wuzhu and the ruling power of the royal representatives.

In this process, although Wu Zhu monopolized the sacrifice with the gods, he could not monopolize production, even if it was the royal power, it was only to organize production, when the royal power accumulated production experience, Wu Zhu was channeling, and when the royal power created knowledge classics, Wu Zhu was divination.

The fruits of royal power are called the harvest of the people, and the fruits of witch power, when the productive forces are not developed, may be able to charm people's hearts, but after the development of the productive forces, it is just a trick, and the two sides are compared, and the royal power will inevitably replace the divine power and become the new leader of the primitive tribe.

Before the Xia Shang Zhou, it was an era when divine power was greater than royal power, and Wu Zhu relied on hereditary sacrifices to be self-respecting, and everyone was convinced.

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, royal power and divine power existed at the same time, and the royal power began to weaken the sacrificial and divination functions of divine power, completely separated ghosts and gods, monopolized communication with gods, and at the same time denounced the natural gods of Wuzhu as ghosts, set up sacrificial officials and document officials, and turned to knowledge instead of ghosts and gods when encountering things.

After the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the royal power completely defeated the divine power, and they began to monopolize knowledge and sacrifices, and through this move they completely excluded the witch zhu, and the worship of heaven and the ancestors became the mainstream, the gods were exalted on the altar, and the ghosts were stepped into the netherworld.

At this time, Wu Zhu has been reduced from the orthodoxy of the country to the wild worship of the gods, they can only appear in the countryside and fields, praying for the people who need to communicate with their ancestors, so as to beg for a bite to eat, so as not to freeze and starve to death.

The people could not worship the gods, and once they wanted to ask the gods for something, they could only use witches to fulfill their wishes.