Tear's casual words made waves in Gawain's heart, because he heard a huge amount of information from those few words!
The Kraken is an ancient and mysterious civilization. This deep-sea race living outside its "satellite monitoring area" has been a fairly developed civilization since tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although due to the influence of the magic tide, the technological development of this race seems to have reached stagnation and bottleneck, they have at least continued for this long time - and in the process left a large number of observation records of land civilization.
Compared with Gawain's later "waiting for one frame for a thousand years" situation, Siren's observations are obviously more continuous, more detailed and more reliable.
Then Tire’s words should also be credible.
In other words... every time civilization restarts in this world and every time everything is reshaped, mortal races will always establish similar religions and always believe in similar gods?
When the inheritance of civilization was completely interrupted and the world was even reshaped, the belief in those gods actually continued? !
Gods can ignore the influence of demonic tides. Gawain has thought of this a long time ago, but how do their beliefs appear in the mortal world again and again? The mortal civilization of "this season" gained knowledge about gods through the "Eternal Slate", so will the Eternal Slate also appear in every previous season of mortal civilization?
According to Gawain's guess, the so-called eternal slate is most likely some kind of storage medium left by the "god-slaying fleet" in ancient times. Could it be that this storage medium has become the source of the gods' constant resurgence and continuous expansion? A medium to redistribute its own message? In other words... all of this is simply the method of the "God-Slaying Fleet" in ancient times. Did they do it deliberately?
He felt like he smelled a conspiracy...
Seeing Gawain's changing expression, Tire couldn't help but become curious: "What are you thinking about?" Why don't you feel happy if I talk about those 'gods'?"
"No, it's not because of this," Gawain quickly waved his hand, "I just thought of something else. The thing... is right, in your Siren's records, every civilization on land has the same god system, right? Then they are..."
"Wait, you may have misunderstood. "Tir directly interrupted him and explained seriously, wagging the tip of his tail, "I mean you land people believe in 'similar' gods in every season of civilization, not the same gods - there is a big difference. ."
"A big difference?" Gawain frowned, "What kind of difference?"
"The objects of belief of several generations of sects seem to have some similarities, but It actually doesn't feel like the same god," Tire thought hard, trying to find the most accurate words to describe the history she knew, "I'll give you an example of what happened on your land in ancient times. Civilizations for several seasons have been interested in light, shelter, and justice.’ This concept has a tendency to worship, and in the process, the belief in the Holy Light is born, but in fact the ‘God of the Holy Light’ is different in each generation of civilization. I remember that the oldest God of Light in the Siren records was a powerful male giant, but the God of Light worshiped by the next generation of civilization after that was a dragon, a crystal dragon... Well, in your case In the civilization of the previous generation or the previous generation, the image of the God of Holy Light seemed to be a woman, and she was called the Goddess of Light at that time..."
Gawain listened in a daze. Hearing the last word, he quickly stopped Tier: "Hey, please pay attention! Don’t say this to others when you leave here, especially don’t say it to the group of believers. The content of this topic is too blasphemous, and if people listen to it, you will easily be put on a firewood pile and roasted into a grilled fish..."
"Don't worry, of course I know," Tire rolled his eyes, "And the sea monster is not afraid of fire. At worst, it will be baked into water vapor. We will wait for a wave of cold air and then it will rain and come back. "..."
Gawain felt as if he had heard some great racial talent, but at the moment he was more concerned about the changing image of gods: "According to what you just said, the images of gods believed by other sects Is it also constantly changing? "
"Yes, your magic goddess this season was still a magic god in the last season. Last season, she was called 'Kamandor, the Dragon of All Magics'. Your god of war this season was in the last season. It's a giant lion with four heads and horns, but last season it was actually a woman with big breasts," Tire said, shaking his head. "And not only does the image change, sometimes the gods will merge or disappear. Appearance - For example, in ancient times, the God of Blood and the God of War actually had the same belief. At that time, they were called the 'God of Killing', and the God of Commerce that you believe in now should actually be divided into the God of Commerce and the God of Contract in a certain season of civilization. "
Gawain was confused by the large number of ancient secrets that Tier showed up. After scratching the formulas in his mind for a long time, he realized that it was impossible for him to put them together. The changes and corresponding relationships of a lot of gods could be explained clearly, at least not in a short period of time, so he gave up on these details and instead came up with the most simple and easy-to-understand conclusion:
One Season Another season of mortal civilization, although they all believe in exact gods and idols, but overall, what mortals believe in is not actually an exact, unchanging god, but some kind of unity that evolves in the process of civilization development. A "conceptual product" that will almost inevitably appear in the world!
Mortals are afraid of fire, so they have the belief in fire. Mortals yearn for light and justice, so they have the belief in the holy light. Mortals need trade and fairness, so The belief in business was born, the worship of war and blood gave birth to the belief in war and blood, the awe of the night gave birth to the belief in shadow and darkness...
At first, their beliefs all pointed to something. Conceptual, and the exact image of the gods should be the product of that time.
So Tire said that no matter how many generations of civilizations on land, they still worship.They worship "similar gods", but the images of gods in each civilization are completely different!
Gawain couldn't help but think of the primitive god worship on earth - in ancient times, people on earth also experienced similar things. They first felt awe of certain phenomena in nature, and then from this vague concept Clearer gods were born out of the awe of sex, but unlike the earth, in this world...
The gods and the power of the gods are real.
Those gods whose images are constantly changing... If they really existed from ancient times, and they also had the same human characteristics as promoted by various religions, then they would allow season after season of mortal civilization to shape them at will. image?
Obviously it is impossible. After all, in the Holy Light Sect, even if you make a few wrong syllables when chanting a prayer, you may be "punished" by the Holy Light to death. Those gods will not do this to mortals. So tolerant.
So there is only one conclusion: in the religious system of each season of civilization, the gods have really changed...at least, their images have really changed.
A very bold question couldn't help but arise in Gawain's mind: Did God create man, or did man create God?
He continued thinking along this bold line of thought, but encountered a new problem: If it was really "man-made gods", then the suspected storm god who died in the deep sea died in the shadow. The god of nature in the world...how to explain the actual flesh and blood body?
There is also another problem. The Kraken began to dig out the "Big Squid" in extremely ancient times, and during this process, there must have been more than one round of belief in the "God of Storms" on land. Who is sitting on the "seat" of the God of Storms during this process?
You must know that the power of the Storm God has always existed. Before the Sons of the Storm degenerate into darkness, their priests can pray to the Storm God in exchange for the "response of the sea". It is impossible to create a safe route for voyagers in the chaotic endless sea. Such great power cannot be obtained out of thin air. Is it possible that the God of Storms, who has been constantly eaten and dug by the sea monsters, still finds time in his busy schedule? Do you want to reply to the news from the believers? !
If this is the case, then the level of professionalism of the God of Storms would really impress Gawain.
Gawain's face was uncertain, and finally he said leisurely: "How are the relationships between gods and mortals connected..."
Tir Shrugging (and the tip of his tail): "This involves my knowledge blind spot. After all, we sea monsters don't believe in gods at all. Even if we perform rituals according to the practices of you land people out of curiosity, we will not get the support of those gods at all. Response. Your 'divine magic' system is completely incomprehensible in our eyes, just like you can't understand the elemental technology of the Kraken."
"You are a ghost only if you can get a response from the gods. ," Gawain couldn't help but cast a sidelong glance at the salted fish spirit, "Look at your recipes - those gods replied, are you rushing to give them to me?Do you want to be a sashimi? "
Tyr licked his upper lip: "I'm really a little greedy when I talk about this. Speaking of which, I can take a bite of that big white deer..."
Gawain thought. I don’t want to think: “No. "
"Why..." Miss Siren was obviously shocked, "You don't need the big white deer anyway. You don't cook it and you don't eat it. It would be a waste to leave such a big piece of meat there." ..."
"The situation of the Giant Deer Amorn and the 'Big Squid' are different," Gawain glanced at the guy who had begun to drool and shook the tip of his tail vigorously, "The Giant Deer Amorn Well, it was sealed by the force field generated by the remains of a lot of ancient weapons. Didn't Kamel say that? It's a very delicate balance there right now, and God knows what could happen if you go over and take a bite. And besides, the gate to the Shadow Realm is built on ancient Gondor technology. Those ancient technologies may have problems at any time now. What if the gate is closed when you go in to take a bite? How did you come out of the Shadow Realm? Just rely on your sea caterpillar-like rushing method to get out of it? "
Tyr: "..."
Seeing that Miss Siren was speechless, Gawain exhaled, turned around and looked at the bright winter sun. Prosperous Cecil City
“Let’s continue to bask in the sun. "
Tear curled her lips helplessly, and the long snake tail gradually melted and transformed into a snake tail. Then she twisted her body and lay down as powerlessly as a salted fish: "I'm so greedy. Ah..."
At the same time, Santis finally set foot on the land of this ancient royal capital again in St. Sunil City.
He raised his head and saw The sun shone on the rows of rooftops in Saint-Sunil City, on the colorful windows of the church, and on the mottled old walls and towers.
After nearly a year, he saw the sun shining on the city. Finally back.