book of old days

Chapter 142 The Inner Logic of Belief in God
In that long time without written records, ancient humans often had all kinds of weird beliefs. As I said in the preface, they represented the original ambitions and fantasies of human beings, and also represented the original beliefs of people. fear of nature.

The ancient gods were created, but they could not show any power, they only existed in the human imagination, so the priests gradually lost respect for these gods, tampered with their settings, and merged different teachings, just to Do things conveniently for yourself.

Most of the gods were eventually forgotten and abandoned, and only a few survived to modern times, and even then, their inner beliefs often underwent various changes.

Nord spirits also follow this process.

Different routes lead to the same goal. The three main gods in the ancient Nord belief system are actually a side description of the process of continuous integration of the three ethnic groups. In the internal battles of thousands of years, the messy Nord tribe finally merged into three comparative The big forces are——

A wilderness tribe that lives in the plains and believes in the sun god Aum.

Living in forest areas, forest tribes who believe in Uruk, the god of war.

And the ice tribes who live in the northern ice sheets and believe in the goddess of aurora, Sindora.

In the following content, I will give a detailed introduction to the three tribes and their related beliefs...

Chapter 1: Forest Tribes and Beast Cult.

Uruk, in Old Nord, means the strong and bullying the weak. Uruk is the god of war, the god of hunting, and the god of beasts. In the language of the early Nords, war and plunder were often confused.

Most of the believers in Uruk are forest savages who make a living by plundering. They live in the forest and live in caves. They are a group of out-and-out barbarians. Hunting skills, and the ability to tame wild animals to fight alongside him.

In the process of long-term contact with wild beasts, the forest tribesmen naturally developed beast worship, and the most ferocious bear became the earliest image of Uruk.

The forest tribes would use stone and wood to carve crude sculptures of beasts for worship and sacrifice. Among them, bear statues are the most common. Individual believers will perform simple sacrifices and prayers on the statues. The Uruk belief is likely to be here. developed in the process of...

Although the forest tribes are savage and warlike and have strong combat effectiveness, the forest Nords eventually have to face the harsh living environment and the predicament of sparse population. The fishing and hunting life cannot support a large population, and they are finally believed in the sun god Orm Conquered by the Nords of the plains, the belief in Uruk has gradually disappeared. This change in belief seems to be accidental, but in fact it is almost an inevitable result...

There are not many written records about Uruk, the god of war. As a force that was finally absorbed and integrated by the Nords of the plains, Uruk’s believers did not leave much writing and information. These forest tribes did not have writing. Cultural inheritance, Uruk beliefs, like those ancient tribes conquered by them, disappeared in the long river of history.

Just for the purpose of appeasement, the Nords of the plains transferred the statue of Uruk to the temple of Aum and worshiped it as a slave god of Aum.

Today, there are only some remaining animal taming techniques, as well as the battle patterns on the Nords, and a trace of the civilization of the forest tribes can barely be seen. 】

Seeing this, Sean couldn't help but think back. From this point of view, Milok and Ragnar should both be descendants of the forest Nords. Ragnar killed Uruk and absorbed its divinity. The original owner.

The statue of the bear that Uruk spit out when he died was probably the first sculpture of a beast to be enshrined.

Although there is no evidence to prove this, Sean's instinct tells him that this is probably the case.

He continued to read, and he focused on the relevant content of the sun god Aum. After all, he has absorbed the divinity of the sun god. Knowing more about this will make it easier for him to master his own abilities.

Chapter 5: The Sun God Orm and the Raid Wars
In the vast Nord Plains, the plain tribes who believed in the sun god Aum gradually gave up fishing and hunting, developed relatively primitive planting techniques, and finally established towns and villages in the plains.

Although the cold natural climate in the north forced them to continue to plunder southward in order to survive, relatively speaking, they still developed a certain social civilization, and the prosperous population also allowed them to continue to conquer those more barbaric and backward tribes .

With the increase of population, the excessive dependence on crops led to the gradual emergence of sun worship. The ancient Nords built a magnificent sun temple, which was originally used to pray for the stability of the climate and the growth of crops.

But gradually developed into a dominant core belief, the sun god gradually gained the creation priesthood, and became the main god believed by most Nords.

Unlike the most ferocious bear in the forest area, the goshawk is the most representative predator in the plain area.

When the Nords look up at the sky, they often see the picture of the goshawk overlapping the sun, so they gradually associate the goshawk with the image of the sun god. The goshawk is deified and gradually becomes the animal incarnation of Orm.

This process not only represents people's worship of natural things, but also perfectly expresses the inner logic of ancient people's hope to obtain a happy life through worshiping gods.

However, the gods cannot fill the belly of the growing population. Since the agricultural technology is still relatively backward, the Nords are destined to be unable to survive through self-sufficiency, and the southward plundering began.

The birth of large-scale tribes also provided a population base for large-scale plundering wars. Due to the warlike nature of the Nords, the 'lords' who led the ethnic group's plundering campaigns gradually replaced the 'chieftains' who originally ruled the territory through the continuation of blood. became a new power class.

In the heyday of the Nords, there were more than 100 lords. They expanded their power through war and plunder, and left behind many terrifying legends.

Lords often give themselves a more resounding nickname, and this habit has gradually spread and become a symbolic custom of Nord warriors.

However, during this period of time, some bizarre legends gradually spread among the Nords. It is said that the god Aum sometimes bestows the blood of the gods on the most powerful warriors, and goes to the battlefield in person to lead the Nords in battle.

However, this is likely to be an exaggerated myth. According to my in-depth investigation, the so-called blood of God is likely to be a drug used to relieve pain, hallucinations, and make people fall into mad rage. Drugs to gain strong morale, and an almost insane will to fight.

Even so, because the content of the legend is too vivid, I have to record it for the judgment of future generations...

Chapter 6 Composition of Sun God Belief

We already know that the belief in the sun god has incorporated various priesthoods during the long campaign...]

Sean looked at this part very carefully. This Ulysses is a textual research party, listing various beliefs that appeared in Nord history and were conquered and integrated by the Nords of the solar system.

In addition to the two main priesthoods of the sun god and the god of creation, Aum is also the god of the sky, the god of wisdom, and the god of the sea... It can be said that there are a lot of priesthoods, but most of the priesthoods have gradually been weakened, and according to The study of Ulysses seems to have been a deliberate result of the priesthood.

This inevitably made Sean have some guesses.

The power of belief in God comes from faith, the more power of faith, the stronger the power, but this kind of power will not completely reproduce the ability in the mythology, at least Aum cannot create the world.

It can be seen that it does not mean that the more you know, the stronger you will be.

The reason why Aum asked his priests to reduce their clergy is likely to reduce the dispersion of the power of faith. The so-called mastery of everything is not as good as one skill, probably this is the logic.

Similarly, if I want to absorb the power of faith in the future, I'm afraid I have to concentrate my ability in a certain field to avoid the situation of chewing too much.

The less ability, the deeper the impression on the reader, and the greater its power.

He took out his notebook and made some relevant records. He should pay more attention when he is going to write a book later.

Next, he finally saw the part about the Goddess of Aurora, Sindora, and he was quite curious about it. Why did Sindora turn into an egg in the end?Could it be that the Iceland Tribe's brains are so strange?
(End of this chapter)