"I see, then everything is understood." Zhu Xianene nodded. To be honest, he had always been quite interested in the power system on the Roman side. Because this is an invisible elephant in the room, both sides have no understanding of each other's "Doji".

"Shangluo, I wonder if the Romans don't plan to 'dive in', will they give us this kind of cornerstone."

"Probably not. This is the Romans' hole card. ”

"What's this stuff in? Soul? ”

"It's not. I also asked over there, and they said that the soul is very complicated. It doesn't hold the soul, it holds what it is. Dream. ”

"Dreams? What do you mean? Is it a specific dream? And say that this stone can absorb the soul? "This stone looks dark, and it is indeed a little eerie.

"She told me that it was impossible to absorb souls. If the soul can be absorbed, then the Romans will be able to enter immortality early—this black stone can only hold 'dreams', only storage. It's more like a tomb than some kind of paradise. ”

"What do you mean?"

"It seems to go back to the origins of the god Cyber."

Victoria made these things clear to Shang Luo at that time, which also faintly made Shang Luo feel a little scary. But it also seems to be his fate.

Cyberler, or Kübler, is the goddess of Mother Earth. Her official name in Rome was the Mater Magna.

She is sometimes equated with Gaia, just as Zeus had many incarnations. But unlike Zeus, Cyber was the Roman god. Instead of so many competing and dissenting city-states, the Romans had a pantheon. So in the faith of the Romans, there was a clear image of the cybler and several well-known myths.

Her attributes can be summed up in two godheads: blood and rebirth.

Nowhere is this true is exemplified by a myth associated with Zeus: Sebol fell in love with the Phrygian shepherd boy Attis, who betrayed her to marry Princess Oia, the daughter of King Midas of Pesinu. This is a common routine in Greek mythology, often accompanied by elements such as change, escape, atonement, etc.

But the Earth Mother God is an ancient god, just like the hunting god who is also an ancient god, and the story of the ancient god is to see blood. See a lot of blood.

Enraged, Cyberbol went mad at Artis and Ia's wedding. All of them are crazy, they bleed themselves with gravel in the pines, and from their blood sprouts violets in full bloom.

But after briefly falling into the fury of the Old Gods, Cyberler regretted it. She negotiated with Zeus, who allowed Artis to be resurrected and immortal - in his own tomb.

In the grave, Artis's nails and hair will continue to grow, and his fingers will still move. He was given eternal life in the tomb.

Modern occultism holds that this bloody myth is actually a metaphor for the seasons in agricultural production. The meeting of Cyberler and Artis refers to the spring, the betrayal of Artis and the "unripe wheat" to which the wedding refers. And the madness at the wedding is the harvest of autumn. The harvested Artis lies dormant in the crypts of the earth, which are stored for the winter.

The Romans found inspiration for festivals and beliefs in it. Every year on March 24th, they hold a festival of the Great Mother Goddess, and a bull ceremony is held at the festival to re-enact the story of Artis.

The bull would be brought to the altar in flowers, and then bled on the spot, bleeding profusely. Blood would be sprinkled from the altar of the high platform, and the Romans under the altar would bathe in the blood, purify, and revel like plants receiving rain and dew. Then the next day, people celebrate the rebirth of Artis as if they were their own rebirth – which is what Cyberler promised.

The priests of praise to Cyber chanted:

"Through the countless cracks in the planks"

"Blood flowed into the pit"

"Believers Raise Their Heads for the Baptism of Blood"

"Revealing his blood-soaked clothes and body"

"He bent down and touched his cheeks, his ears, his lips, his nose"

"His eyes were moist."

"I don't even care about the taste buds anymore."

"Suck the blackened blood to your heart's content"

After germinating in the spring, growing in the summer, and being harvested and dead in the fall, all the Romans who were properly buried according to the funeral rites were properly stored in the harsh winter, and their lives continued in the tombs. When the warm spring arrives, everyone will "germinate" again and be reborn as new shoots. This is the eternal life promised by Cyberler.

"So that's the case," Zhu Xianene nodded, "What this black stone symbolizes is such a tomb." So what do you do when you bring back the tombs of the Romans? Huh. Is this wine? The grain is stored, stored, and fermented? After fermentation, it becomes wine? ”

[Oh~~~ He's so smart, he reacts so fast, and he understands it all at once. 】

“.” Shang Luo didn't expect that Zhu Xianene would understand so quickly, "Yes, this is actually a wine jar." Wine can channel the spirits, and the storage in this sea of wine is the world of dreams. ”

"But it's all turned into wine, how can it be resurrected? Wine can't be reduced to food. ”

"Well, this is the cruel side of Mother Earth as an ancient god. In fact, the resurrection of the promise of Mother Earth Goddess contains a prerequisite - it cannot be turned into wine. ”

"Huh? What do you mean? Can you control whether you will become alcohol after you die? Can millet still control itself from rotting? ”

"Whether the millet will rot or not is of course not up to it, but depends on whether time settles on the millet and makes the millet rot. The Romans divided this decay into three stages: physiological death, social death, and the disappearance of imprints. ”

"I do know that there is a similar plot in Aztec mythology. The Aztecs also believed that humans had to die three times – the first physical death and the subsequent funeral was the second death, that is, the social death, which was to announce to society that the person had died. But the dead don't really leave, and the Aztecs offer marigolds to their deceased loved ones and welcome people back home on their Day of the Dead. They don't want to forget their loved ones because the spirits of the dead also have a lifespan. The lifespan of the dead is the moment when they are forgotten by all the living. So."

He looked at Shang Luo: "Is the same with the Romans?" ”

"Yes." Shang Luo nodded, "After the funeral, I just entered the cellar. And if it is forgotten by everyone, the precipitation of time will make this person's existence 'rot' and brew into a 'sea of wine'. But as long as it is not forgotten, there is still a possibility of being fished out in the end. ”

This part is also what Shang Luo is afraid of. The element of wine also appeared here, and Shang Luo always felt that this was as obvious as Luofengpo.

(End of chapter)