Chapter 1476: Ancestral God
"Primordial gods?"
Hearing these three words, Lin Qiye suddenly recalled the conversation he had with Thor when he was in Asgard.
Seeing Lin Qiye's reaction, Lingbao Tianzun looked at him in surprise, "You know? ”
"I've heard a little bit from somewhere else, but not much." Lin Qiye answered truthfully.
Lingbao Tianzun nodded, and under the puzzled gaze of the other human ceilings, he opened his mouth to explain,
"The birth of human faith can be roughly divided into three stages, nature worship, ancestor worship, and religious worship.
At the very beginning, when human beings have not fully evolved into human beings, they will have the most primitive fear and respect for the replacement of nature, and it is also the earliest 'faith' in the world, that is, nature worship, with the passage of time, nature worship has gradually evolved, with branches similar to soul worship and totem worship, but in essence, they are all worship of nature and the unknown.
With the gradual perfection of human consciousness, they will begin to worship their ancestors, hoping to obtain their blessings and blessings by sacrificing to their ancestors, which also means that the object of human worship has changed from "nature" to "human beings themselves" for the first time, which is ancestor worship.
After the formation of human society, with the accumulation of primitive beliefs and the emergence of cultural differences, there are many widely recognized and circulated stories and objects of worship, and Western holy religion is one of the most classic religious worships, Heavenly Court, Olympus, Asgard, and High Heaven...... Most of the 'myths' in the world are somewhere between religious worship and the 'pan-worship' of folk religion.
The closer a mythological system is to 'religious worship,' the more power it absorbs from faith, and the stronger it becomes. This is also the reason why the strength of Western holy religions was the most powerful back then, as well as the 'Tao' of Bactria and the 'Buddha' of India, which are also based on the most traditional 'religious worship', but in modern times, there are fewer and fewer people who believe in these, so our strength is somewhat different from that of Western holy religions, but compared with other myths, it is a cut higher. ”
Hearing this, the many human ceilings in Great Xia had a look of sudden realization on their faces.
They had always had some understanding of the level of combat power of the many divine kingdoms in the world, but it was only at this moment that they understood the deeper reason.
"But what does this have to do with this?" Guan asked puzzled.
"The theory that the closer you get to 'religious worship,' the stronger you are, is limited to the modern mythological system, but the myth represented by this place in front of us is an exception.
What they represent is not 'religious worship', but the oldest and most primitive 'nature worship', and the earliest 'faith' in the world.
They are the embodiment of the fear and respect for nature itself at the dawn of human beings, and they are believed not only by humans, but also by the thousands of beings living on this planet.
Beasts that fear fire, birds that fear thunder, fish that live in water...... Although they are not very sane, they are extremely numerous, and they are the earliest natural 'believers' along with the earliest humans.
Flames, thunder, sun, night, water...... These forces of faith, born out of fear and reverence, gave birth to the existence of 'gods' for the first time, and these oldest and most primitive gods, which we call 'ancestral gods'.
This is the place where hundreds of millions of lives sacrificed to the 'ancestral gods' countless years ago, and it is also the birthplace of the oldest kingdom of God in the world...... Temple of the Ancestors. ”
"The oldest 'nature worship'...... If so, wouldn't they be stronger than the Western Holy Religions in their heyday? Guan Zai asked.
"That's right." Lingbao Tianzun paused, "There is no so-called distinction between the main god and the secondary god in this myth, and any 'ancestral god' can suppress the existence of the Seraphic Angel Michael until now." ”
The crowd's mouths opened wide in shock.
Their gaze swept around, and there were more than a dozen statues of gods on this platform...... If according to Lingbao Tianzun, if this Ancestral God Temple made a move, then even if all the myths in the world, including the Western Holy Sect, were combined, they might not be its opponents?
"Of course, I'm talking about their heyday, which is the ancients." Lingbao Tianzun continued, "With the passage of time, with the emergence of other 'religious worship' and 'folk pan-worship', almost no one will believe in the ancestral gods, and after the mist descended, the number of animals and plants in the world has decreased sharply, and the power of their faith has almost been broken.
Nowadays, the myth of the ancestral god is just a legend, and there is no ancestral god in the world...... Even if it did, its power was so weak that it would not easily appear in the world. ”
In Lin Qiye's mind, the appearance of No. 27 immediately appeared.
According to Saul, number 27 is the god of hunting in primitive mythology...... No, maybe we should call him 'Hunting Ancestor', now that the ancestral god has declined and his faith has disappeared, he can only operate in the world as an assassin god, and his strength is only at the level of the main god.
Lin Qiye didn't expect that if it was placed in ancient times, No. 27 would also be able to single-handedly suppress the terrifying existence of the Seraph.
Speaking of which, after he killed Loki, he has not heard from him, and he has not come to him to look for someone, so I don't know if something happened......
Just when Lin Qiye was thinking wildly, Zuo Qing opened his mouth and asked:
"But since this is the ancestral temple of the ancient period, it should be on the earth, how can it appear here?"
"I don't know." Lingbao Tianzun shook his head and said, "The era of the ancestral gods is too far away, even if it is poor, it can't be calculated...... However, judging from the traces here, it should have been affected by some external force and forced to squeeze into time and space. ”
"Just like us?" Zuo Qing nodded thoughtfully.
Nezha's gaze swept over the surrounding idols one by one, and finally landed in the center of the platform, his eyebrows raised slightly.
"The positions of these ancestral statues are all at the edge of the platform, but their faces seem to be facing the center...... Is there something there? ”
Everyone looked in the direction facing the statue of the ancestral god, and saw that in the center of the platform, there was a slight protrusion, but because the distance was too far, even Lin Qiye couldn't see clearly, from the outline, it looked like a table holding some kind of utensils, and it looked like a solid base.
Confirming that there was no danger around, the group walked through the edge of the platform and walked straight to the center where the statue of the Ancestral God was facing.
As the distance gradually approached, Lin Qiye finally saw the whole picture of the thing.
It was an empty altar.