Mu Yun finally understood what kind of kingdom of God it was, and covered her mouth and said, "Marduk can really imagine that he created such a kingdom of God. The more gods attached to the kingdom of God, the more knowledgeable he will be." Vast, theoretically endless."
Amon nodded and said: "Yes, he verified this vow in the world, and broke through the end of this vow in the kingdom of God. I have also gone through similar verification, but the vow is different, so I created my kingdom of heaven .”
Amon and Mu Yun discussed in the kingdom of heaven what kind of kingdom of God Marduk had opened up, while things in the world continued. After Darius died and his son Xerxes came to the throne, the Poze Empire and the United Kingdom of Heaton were still in a continuous state of war. In the various city-states where Heaton had been conquered by Potts, revolts followed one after another, and the Potts Empire turned from offensive to defensive.
Marduk has verified the realm he pursued, and what happened next has nothing to do with him. Even the son of Darius and the new Bozi emperor Xerxes did not know about the great light god worshiped by the Bozi people. Zida is another identity of Marduk.
As the expansion of the Bozi Empire came to an end, its national policy began to change, and its internal rule became increasingly strict. Finally, one day, Xerxes ordered the burning of the Gate of God in Baron City and the demolition of the Temple of Marduk. Only the people are allowed to believe in Mazda, the great god of light, and worship the holy flame of light believed by the Poz people.
Mu Yun watched this scene happen, secretly having fun in the kingdom of heaven, leaning against Amon's arms and laughing tremblingly. The son of Darius ordered the burning of the temple of Marduk, which seemed absurd to the gods. But with a smile, Mu Yun's face suddenly changed into an angry expression, she stood up and said, "Amon, your clansman actually demolished our temple!"
Amon also stood up and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Why are you angry? You laughed at Marduk just now, but what happened to him will happen to us too."
Mu Yun asked, "Are you happy?"
Amon sighed: "It doesn't matter if I'm happy or not. I'm just a little bit emotional. Marduk's prophecy back then was confirmed. As expected, it was my people who demolished my temple, and Marduk didn't let Marduk do it, and it wasn't the actions of the Poz army. .”
Amon was the main god of Amon, and Rod Dick would never order his temple to be demolished. The one that was demolished was the temple in Salem, which was also the earliest temple of Amon. At that time, it was Amon who guided his disciples to create the city of Salem. The statue of Goddess Mu Yun with his arms around him has been standing on the altar to accept sacrifices from the people. It has become a symbol of faith. How could it be destroyed by Salem City? Did the people dismantle it by themselves? This is the change of human affairs.
Marduk once said to Amon: "Even if my believers occupy the entire Tianshu continent, they will not interfere with the belief in Salem. But I want to remind you one thing, people believe in gods, not because they are born They should believe in it, but because they can get spiritual comfort from the gods, or realize their desires in the name of the gods. As things change, people's hearts will change, and the descendants of Salem will make different choices. At that time, I am afraid that you will watch your idol collapse." (For details, see Chapter 224 of this book, "Who is Satan?".)
When Marduk said this, he was not only using the identity of "Marduk", but also told Amon that he had another name called "Boxun", which meant that no matter what kind of identity he sent oracle or The guidelines made will not interfere with the beliefs of Salem City, and the words spoken between the gods will naturally keep their promises.
The Pots Empire successively destroyed Elam, Hatti, Assyria, Baron and other countries, and the Duk Plain was naturally included in the huge territory of Pots. The city-state of Salem occupies the northern part of the Duk Plain, while the south is the city-state of Meso and Budamia occupied by Hatti. Several city-states merged together to establish the Syrian Asian Province.
The status of the city of Salem has always been very special. In fact, it has always been independent, but it has never declared an independent country in name. It appears to be subordinate to the Kingdom of Hatti and the city-state of Syria. When the Kingdom of Hatti was annexed by Bozi, it was subordinated to the newly established Syrian province.
The territory controlled by Salem City is completely surrounded by the Potts Empire, and trade must also be carried out with the Potts Empire, there is no other choice. The materials produced in Salem City can only be sold to the provinces of the Potts Empire except for their own use. The products needed by Salem City must also be exchanged with the surrounding provinces and paid the unified tax set by the Potts Empire.
Apart from the fact that the Pots Empire did not assign a capital to Salem, the status of Salem was equivalent to a relatively autonomous large city-state in Pots, and it could not exist independently from the Pots Empire. After George and Link retired from the Garden of Eden, Aesop and Joshua also aged one after another, when Amon left Salem, the main rulers of Salem were Tiki-Zhou and Ussier. These two people are very clear about the situation in Salem City, and the main policy is to keep the status quo unchanged.
Amon was only fourteen years old when he left Duke Town and was exiled deep in the mountains. When he appeared in front of the people of Salem City for the last time, he was only in his twenties. Calculated in terms of human years, he should be fifty-eight years old now. Many years have passed in the world, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in Tianshu Continent.
Most of the people in Duke Town were buried in the great flood in the early years. Among the more than 60 people who survived, the youngest was David Solomon, followed by Amon, and then Moses. Moses was two years older than Ammon, and David-Solomon was eight years younger. When David was six years old, his father took him out of the town of Duk for the first time to meet the world in the city-state of Syria. He happened to avoid the great flood and became the youngest survivor.
After Amon left Salem, Tiki-Zhou and Yusier also aged one after another, and David Solomon became the new generation ruler of Salem. Medanzuo once guided David Solomon's original power. This child is very smart. He has achieved the sixth level before he was twenty years old, but it took many years to continue to advance. He only broke through the seventh level when he became the city lord at the age of forty. Achievement.
David Solomon also inherited the blood essence accumulated by the people of Duke Town for thousands of years, and got the original power guided by Medanzuo. He is very powerful and very smart. But there are some things that are not clear. People with better aptitude or smarter are more likely to comprehend the mysteries of cultivation, but high-level achievements cannot only rely on these, otherwise high-level achievers in the world would not be so rare.
When David was a teenager, he performed better than the young Amon in many aspects, but among all living beings in the world, there are almost countless people who are better than Amon in many aspects. In comparison, David's ability to break through the high-level achievements of the original power and become the leader of Salem City is already quite remarkable.
In the latter part of the governance era of Tiki-Zhou and Yusier, the city of Salem actually entered the era of judge governance, and the tribesmen of Duke Town gradually became the rulers of Salem City, mastering the power and wealth of the city-state. Among the twelve judges guided by Moses, three were killed in battle, three entered the Garden of Eden, and the rest died in Salem.
The qualifications of these judges are very old and very authoritative. They guide the people to sacrifice to Aroha, and play an increasingly important role in the management of the city-state until David grows up. The new generation of tribesmen in Duke Town has also spread out, and the descendants are unwilling to mention Duke Town, which represents the identity of the sinners, and only claim to be a Salemite—Salem who made a covenant with Aroha and was redeemed and blessed by the gods. Cold people.
With the support of the older generation of judges, David Solomon himself is also very talented. He not only established absolute authority among the Salemites, but also controlled the entire Salem city-state. The Arhat that the Salemites believed in gradually replaced Lost the original status of Amon God.
This result is somewhat surprising, but it is also inevitable from another perspective. Back then, there were only a few dozen survivors from Duke Township, but when they came to Salem City, there were thousands of residents in the city, which seemed insignificant. But they enjoyed the most fertile land, inherited their tribe's mines, and made important contributions in the war to protect the city-state.
The surviving generation of people can be said to be very remarkable. When they have gone through hardships and are finally freed from the fate of suffering for generations, they no longer need to personally engage in the hard work of miners, and what they have exploded is another kind of wisdom. Whether they are running farms, engaging in commercial exchange, or lending business, they have done very well, not only because of their capital and prestige, but also because of their mastery of knowledge and resources.
Strength and wisdom are also the wealth left by their ancestors, making them the richest people in Salem, and girls are willing to marry Salem. They have superior conditions, they can provide their descendants with the best education and living environment, and they can even master several languages and characters on the mainland. Gradually, their population prospers. After two generations of reproduction, the number of people in this tribe has reached over a thousand.
The composition of other people in Salem mainly includes several aspects: cavemen or plateau giants who migrated from the deep mountains, wandering explorers and rogue proletarians from surrounding countries, bankrupt craftsmen, and farmers who lost their land. These people are incomparable to the Salemites in every respect, among other things, the vast majority of them are illiterate.
The Salemites who mastered wealth and knowledge also had the power to offer sacrifices to the gods in the city-state, representing the will of the gods. People's belief is not out of thin air, it will be affected by the environment intentionally or unintentionally. Salem people have mastered economic and political resources, so they naturally control the social resources to spread belief.
The generation of people in Salem who summoned the god Amon on the battlefield in the early years gradually passed away, and the new generation gradually grew up. They did not have the experience of their parents, and they were in a new environment. They followed the way of Salem who believed in Aroha. There are more and more people. As the Potts Empire continued to expand and ignited the holy fire of light all over the continent, the worship of Arhat also quietly penetrated into the hearts of the people of Salem City, and gradually became the mainstream of the city-state's beliefs.
But the main temple of this city-state is still the Temple of Amon, which stands in the center of the city-state square, looking so tall and magnificent. But the statue of Amon holding Mu Yun on the altar now looks a bit frivolous and not solemn enough. There is also an Arhat Temple in Salem City, but it was only built in the place where the Duke people first lived together.
The new generation of rulers of this city-state gradually had an idea in their hearts, hoping to replace the original Temple of Amon with the Temple of the Lord of Arhat. When the older generation was still alive, this idea was only in their hearts. After the new generation of Salemites represented by David Solomon came to power, this desire became more and more intense, because Arhat’s status also symbolize their status.
Before Joshua died, he gave David Solomon a "Bible", which records the experiences and sufferings of the people in Duke Town, and the return home from the distant Eju under the guidance of Arhat. During the process, he also collected the oracles, miracles, hymns and various legends of Arhat. It is a history that bears the faith of the Salem people, and records the agreement between the gods and the people, and the Salem people are proud of it.
David Solomon is also a witness of this period of history. He can naturally see the traces of modification and exaggeration in many legends, and he can more or less guess the relationship between God Amun and Aroha, but the gods Didn't say it, and David Solomon wouldn't say it.
On the other hand, the belief in Arhat is not a personal matter for David, but the wish and belief of the entire clan. It is not only related to spiritual sustenance, but also determines the interests and status in the secular world. Since David is the leader of the tribe, his actions must represent this desire and belief.
Any successful change requires the right timing, following a seemingly unstoppable trend, and the first opportunity finally arose with the Ecu coup. Tutankhamun succeeded to the throne and regarded Amon as the main god of the Kingdom of Eju. The people of Salem hate the Eju people, because in their Bible, their ancestors were enslaved by the Eju people, and they were able to return home after receiving the guidance of Aroha. It was Aroha who performed miracles and made them defeat the evil god of Eju .
Now that Amon has become the main god of the Eju, they naturally don't want to see the city-states they control still offer sacrifices to the god of the Eju, as if they are constantly awakening some kind of shameful memory. David Solomon took the opportunity to order that the sacrifice of Aroha became the official ceremony of the city-state, replacing the original sacrifice to the god Amun.
This order was opposed by a few people, but it was passed with the support and acquiescence of the majority, because David did not tear down the Temple of Amon, nor did he prohibit the people from offering sacrifices to God Amon, but only changed the official object of sacrifice .
Although the population of Salem is now prosperous, they are still a minority in the total population of Salem, but they can control the entire city-state. What they practice is a kind of elite politics, which seems fair and reasonable and conforms to public opinion, but through the control of economic and political resources, they have mastered the right to speak in public opinion and coerced the wishes of the vast majority of people.
People often think that they have made their own choices, but in fact the results they can choose are the results that others have already prepared for them. This is the core of this kind of elite politics, which may be manifested in various superficial forms and has a wide influence in later generations, but at this time it is only the beginning.
The second opportunity that the people of Salem waited for was when the expansion of the Pozi Empire suffered setbacks, and the country was at a turning point of prosperity and decline. Si ordered the demolition of the Gate of the Gods and the Temple of Marduk in the city of Baron.
David - took the opportunity to order the demolition of the Temple of Amun and build a more magnificent Temple of Arhat on the original site of the Temple Square. At this time, ten years have passed since the last official sacrifice reform. With the foreshadowing of the past ten years, the resistance encountered when actually doing it is already very small.
There are two main reasons why David Solomon demolished the Temple of Amon: one is that the official god of the city-state is Arhat, and the temple of Arhat should be the main temple; The temples of the gods of enlightenment, Assyria, Baron, Hatti and other countries that believe in the gods of Anunnah have long since disappeared. Amon stood on the altar of the city-state main temple with the statue of Mu Yun in his arms, looking frivolous and unrestrained. It violates the sacred solemnity of the gods.
But David-Solomon still had a hand. He just replaced the original Amon with Arhat as the main god of the city-state, and demolished the original statue, but he did not prohibit people's belief in Amon. People who believe in Amon can build a temple for Amon with private funds in other places. This has nothing to do with the official city of Salem, and no city-state sacrifice will be held.
In fact, it doesn't matter anymore. The people of Salem have already mastered the best land in Salem City, and controlled the economic, political, and cultural resources. It is the only god worshiped by the city-state. In the minds of the people in Salem, Amon gradually became a legendary hero and a mythical figure of other races.
Arhat is another identity of Amon, and doing so makes no difference to the gods. Just like Xerxes ordered the demolition of the Marduk Temple to sacrifice to the God of Light Mazda, Marduk doesn't care. In recent decades, the Tianshu Continent has undergone frequent drastic changes, and the gods believed in by many kingdoms have also changed frequently. This is guided by the gods, but more importantly, it is determined by the human situation.
When the main temple of Amun in the city of Salem was demolished, Marduk's prophecy was finally fulfilled. Amon could only sigh with emotion, but instead persuaded Mu Yun—looking at Marduk's temple, it was the same experience.
Mu Yun was only angry for a moment, and then she was angry and funny and said: "I used to be the patron saint of Duke Town, but Duke Town was destroyed by the flood. I hope you can guide the people to restore my God's Domain, and you have fulfilled your promise .But now it is still your people who demolished the temple of you and me. As gods, they should have become very calm in the long history."
Amon: "The Arhat they believe in is still me. The agreement I made with my people is still engraved in the temple. People need their gods to prove their brilliance. My people are also all living beings, no matter Whoever is guided by the faith left by me and whose soul is freed can also come to my kingdom of heaven."