Omnibus: The giant of light at the beginning, killing the gods

Something incomprehensible from the point of view of the gods.

It is also difficult to understand from a human point of view.

Human society, although due to different regions and different environments, has evolved a variety of religions.

But by and large, religion evolves in the same direction.

Initially, in the early days of the tribe, natural deism prevailed.

Human beings revere the power and laws of nature and deify it, and most of the worship at this time is natural gods.

Or wind and rain, thunder and lightning, or all kinds of beasts.

During this period, people deified it and used it as a tribal totem.

In the later period of the tribe, with the development of patrilineal clans, mergers between different tribes.

Beliefs gradually collide.

After different tribes formed alliances or collectives, polytheism was born through friction and fusion.

Powerful tribes will naturally have a higher status of the gods they worship.

And the myth gradually evolves, gradually evolving from polytheism to monotheism.

But that’s for later.

In short, it is easy to judge from this direction of evolution, that is, the gods born in the primitive era are basically the result of the deification of a certain natural phenomenon.

If such an ancient godhead as Mithras.

Must also be a member of the god of nature.

In other words, the two concepts of the sun and the contract must be unified in nature.

Bai Yasha, who couldn’t think of any connection between the two, looked at Di Shitian.

“Since you mentioned this, you should have a clue, right?”

“Hmm.”

Hearing this question, Di Shitian nodded.

However, he did not immediately explain, but looked around.

Because of the relationship between Bai Yasha’s hand, the aftermath of the gentle exchange between the two smashed the earth into a huge pit.

The two are now standing at the bottom of the pit.

After judging the position and depth.

Emperor Shitian took out the vajra pestle.

After liberating this divine tool symbolizing thunder, the thunder in the sky directly enveloped this place.

“Huh?”

At first, Bai Yasha thought that Emperor Shitian was going to fight him.

But he was puzzled to find that the scope of Emperor Shitian’s attack was the surrounding environment.

Under the attack of the military god Thunder, even the rock formations deep in the earth turned into powder.

After more than a dozen seconds have passed.

Emperor Shitian directly continued to dig a huge hole in the ground.

Both of them fell down hundreds of meters and reached the abyss underground.

Looking up, the glowing hole was only the size of a coin.

The surrounding earth, which was originally solid, had been dug into a hemispherical hole by Emperor Shitian, like an inverted bowl.

Looking at the flat earth under your feet, and the regular hemispherical earth and stone walls above, it is obvious that it was intentional.

Hakuyasha looked up, and daylight shone through the coin-sized hole, like the center of an open umbrella.

However, because it is not a direct light, it cannot illuminate the surrounding darkness.

She couldn’t help but look at Di Shitian with some doubt.

“What are you doing?”

Dig a hole yourself and want to bury yourself?

Emperor Shitian did not pay attention to her, but continued to mobilize his divine power.

The blue-purple thunder emits a star-like glow and is like a projection, projected on the pitch-black hemispherical earth wall.

The canopy-like hemispherical walls are dotted with stars.

Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion… On this star-shaped pattern, it’s easy to find the Winter Triangle.

Not to mention the rest of the ecliptic equatorial stars.

Bai Yasha recognized at a glance that it was the pattern of the starry sky projected on the round wall like a holographic projection.

It is clear that Mitra is the sun god, but Emperor Shitian deliberately projected a star map.

“Are you trying to say that Mithra’s Godhead is related to the stars?”

Hakuyasha asked keenly.

“That’s right.”

Emperor Shitian nodded and pointed to the sun in the center of the heavens and stars.

“Also as a star moving in the sky, it is not surprising that the sun is believed to rule the sky and the existence of the stars in the night sky, right?”

“Hmm! After all, our sense of existence is so strong, it is not surprising that the sun is regarded as the master of all things. ”

As the star spirit of the sun, Hakuyasha nodded immodestly.

As the most important star in the sky, the sun was once considered to dominate the sky and give life blessings, as was the case with the sun gods Ra and Amun in Egyptian mythology, and the Eastern Emperor Taiyi in Eastern mythology.

It is not surprising that the sun god Mithras is worshipped as the lord of the stars.

Only, what does this have to do with the contract?

Hakuyasha cast a questioning expression.

Emperor Shitian also did not sell Guanzi.

He slightly urged the divine power to make the sky full of stars turn.

At this moment, the center of the star’s rotation is not the sun overhead, but the North Star.

In fact, modern people have long known that when the stars rotate, it is not the starry sky that is spinning, but they who observe the starry sky are rotating with the earth.

And this axis of rotation is the axis of rotation of the Earth itself.

The ancients extended this axis of rotation in a dotted line, and the closest to this dotted line was regarded as the North Star.

That is what people often say, the stars guard Ziwei.

If only the rotation of the earth is considered, then the position of the stars will inevitably return to its original position after one rotation.

That is, the star map seen at the same point in time every day is exactly the same.

But in reality, this is not the case.

Because, in addition to its rotation, the earth still revolves around the sun.

As a result, each day’s star map will be slightly different from the previous day.

It may not be detectable for a short time, but under a long period of recording, humans will inevitably find clues.

Over time, the people who recorded it will find that every three hundred and sixty-five days, the recorded star map is exactly the same as the previous 365-day star map.

This time, the time it takes for the relative positions of the Earth and the Sun to coincide.

That is, a year in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.

“The night stars that gradually shift every day will return to their original positions after about three hundred and sixty-five days as agreed.”

Emperor Shitian accelerated the rotation of the stars, and after turning a little more than three hundred and sixty-five times.

The starry sky pattern on the round wall returns to its original position.

“About 4,000 years ago, when people observed this, they regarded the fixed return of the magical stars as a manifestation of some law or contract, and deified it.”

Emperor Shitian said the answer.

“It is for this reason that Mithra’s will be called the god of contracts!”

“Its original meaning was to promote the existence of the stars in the night and the existence of a contract with everything in the world.”