Barney Mende shifted his target, stepped forward and stared at Dewey and asked: "You have such a point of view, which proves that you can think, so what is the significance of your thinking? A stone does not need to eat or need to eat." To make money, what is the difference between you and it? Why is it fun when you stand here and listen to other people's talk?"
As soon as Amon saw this scene, he hurried forward and grabbed Parmenides and said, "It turns out that what I just reported was Socrates' question. I have heard of this name. You asked me if I came from Plato Academy, can I Asking you about another sage from Plato's academy, his name is Aristotle."
Banimende replied: "Oh, he is no longer in Yalun. It is said that he has gone to work as a court teacher in the Kingdom of Macedonia, which is far away from here." And Amon took the opportunity to disappear into the crowd in the square.
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The next day, Aesop said to Amon: "My God, the people of Yalun also like to watch all kinds of dramas, and mortals perform stories of gods on the stage. This is different from the entertainers of other countries in Tianshu Continent. .Such performances would have been considered sacrilegious in Eju or Hatti, but the people of Yalen love to see them."
Amon asked very interestedly: "Oh? I also heard yesterday that there is a special theater here, and people put on costumes to perform stories about gods and humans. How did it come about in the first place?"
Aesop replied: "It originated from the discussions among people in the Temple Square at first. Smart entertainers compiled the topics about the gods they heard on the Temple Square into repertoires and showed them to passers-by. The result was very popular. Later There are sages who specialize in writing repertoires for entertainers to perform in theaters, which is one of the favorite entertainments of the people in Yalun.”
Mei Danzuo interjected: "I went out for a tour yesterday and heard that there are three playwrights whose plays are the most famous. They are all tragedies, and they have earned enough men's sighs and women's tears. I want to see them too. .”
Amon nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the theater together! I have never seen such a performance, and there has never been such a theater in other city-states."
Aesop is the "Master", sitting in a carriage, Medanzo is the "guard", riding a horse majestically following beside the carriage, Amon is still an unremarkable coachman, driving a carriage to the most lively place in Yalun City. a theater. Aesop asked for the best seat, and today's play is "Prometheus".
At the beginning of the show, a group of artists on the stage should play the roles of angels, singing poems praising the gods. This is no different from the scene of praise to the gods in the countries of the Tianshu Continent, except that the angels are replaced by ordinary people on the stage. identity. Amon just watched with a smile, and after a while, he gradually became fascinated, because the "God" appeared.
This is a story of the beginning of the birth of the Olympus pantheon. According to Amon's understanding of the Olympus pantheon, Zeus merged with the original gods of the kingdom of God, thus creating the current Olympus heavenly kingdom. This process is also accompanied by a battle of the gods. The difference from the battle of the gods inspired by Anuna is that Zeus has proved a higher achievement than the creator god.
The legends in the world are expressed in a way that people can understand, but in Amon's view, Prometheus is the god who should lose in the battle of the gods, and also the opponent of Zeus. In the myths and legends of the world, it was vaguely hinted that he had an achievement equivalent to that of the Creation God or higher, which surprised Amon.
Because in the story, Prometheus mixed soil with river water and molded it into a human form according to the image of the gods. Yalena, the god of wisdom, endowed these clay forms with souls that could think, so there were the first human beings. . This coincides with a background, that is, the earliest creator god of the Olympus pantheon was not Zeus. sex name.
The next story on the stage is the interpretation of the world, and it is more interesting. As a god, Prometheus is biased towards human beings. He did not hesitate to deceive the gods for the sake of human beings, which offended Zeus, and Zeus decided not to give the fire to the world. And Prometheus violated the decision of the lord of the gods, stole the fire from the sky with a stick of incense, and brought it to the world.
Seeing this, Amon couldn't help but smile knowingly. He thought of Link's tribe of cave dwellers, who used to light an everlasting fire in a large cave as a god worship, and also thought of the bright holy fire enshrined by the Potts Empire. This is all related to the most primitive gods and the origin of religion. Fire symbolizes light, warmth, protection and hope, and it is also the beginning of people's spiritual enlightenment from ignorance.
In the myths and legends everywhere, it is the gods who created the world and bestowed light and warmth, and the situation here is no exception. However, the playwrights in Yalun City adapted the structure of the fairy tales, and the fire became the fuse of the differences between the gods and the conflict between humans and gods, praising a spirit of resistance to the will of the gods.
In this story, Amon realized another meaning that other audiences in the theater did not understand, which is the so-called "name and true language" in the myth of Ecu. The name refers to the achievement of the gods, and the real language refers to the method of obtaining this achievement. For mortals, it is the secret of becoming a god. Amon's personal experience has confirmed this process.
If the "fire" in this play is replaced with "name and true language" in the myth of Ecu, then the legend has another insinuation. It seems to be implying that Prometheus wants to tell the world the secret of becoming a god, and Zeus does not want to make public the guidance of the original power.
Amon didn't know whether such a thing had really happened. He didn't know much about the secrets inside the Olympus pantheon, and the stage was just a human drama. He couldn't help asking Aesop: "Someone can write such a play, which means that the relevant legends have been circulating for a long time. As far as you know, what kind of god is Prometheus in the legends?"
Aesop frowned and replied: "I heard a long-standing legend when I was a child. Prometheus is the sinner among the gods. In the drama I saw, the myth was obviously reinterpreted, giving another image to this god, and giving another explanation to the legend."
Amon was slightly moved and said: "Sinner? The story of this play should have the earliest origin. Such gods should belong to the defeated side in the ancient battle of the gods of the Olympus pantheon. The 'human beings' created by Prometheus ’, also implying believers who believe in the gods of the defeated side, just like my ancestors, the people of Duke Town.”
Mei Danzuo rubbed his nose and said, "When you put it that way, it's really similar! If it's not the myth of Olympus, but the legend of Anuna's enlightenment system, I really think it's implying that Duke The story of the town. If Prometheus is not the god of the defeated side, but one of those criminals, it is almost an allusion to your story."
Amon smiled slightly and said: "In the world under the sun, there are always familiar shadows. This play reminds you of me, but it doesn't have to be me, it's just a story compiled by a sage. I'm just curious , Why did the people who wrote this play integrate into the new legends on the mainland and change this myth?"
Amon was asking a question, and Aesop replied: "Although myths carry the shadow of gods, people only spread them in the way they understand, adding their own wishes into the spread, and many stories I have told are the same. Write People in this drama have not seen Zeus, but they have seen all kinds of people in the world. The authority that people try to resist but cannot resist has become the father of the gods in mythology, and their wishes have become Purus Mitheus' behavior."
Medanzo also replied: "People have awe and longing in their hearts, which makes them imagine gods, and their anger and dissatisfaction with this world also makes them question gods. People desire to have the same power and freedom as gods, and some Sometimes, the neighbor you can't afford to mess with can become the Zeus of the drama."
Amon didn't comment and continued to watch the play. The following performance reminded him of the tribesmen in Duke Town and the thousand years of suffering they had endured.
On stage, "humans" are punished by Zeus. The gods of Olympus created a charming and lovely girl named Pandora, who came to the world with a magic box in her hand to seduce Epimetheus, the younger brother of Prometheus. Epimetheus, who was tempted, opened the magic box, and various plagues and disasters flew out of the box. At the bottom of the box is "Hope", but Pandora closed it and left it in the magic box.
Seeing this, Amon asked again: "What's the matter with this box?"
The box was just made up by a dramatist, but Amon obviously meant something else when he asked this question. Medanzo replied: "People fear the gods and fear the unknown, so they pray to the gods in their hearts for hope. People are dissatisfied with the situation, so they hate the gods who brought it all. Hope and disaster have become symbols of gods, including prayers. and fear."
Aesop replied: "This is a protest that can be seen everywhere in the world, such as the hatred of the tyrant, and it also contains the ultimate purpose of the protest, which is left in the unopened magic box."
Amon stopped talking again, and it was Prometheus himself who was punished on the stage. Zeus ordered the oracle to lock Prometheus on the cliff of Caucasus Mountain, and spent thirteen generations in the world. He was suffering from hunger and cold, and an eagle pecked at his internal organs every day, and the wound healed immediately, enduring endless torture. There is a fruit tree on the cliff. The delicious fruit bends the branches and hangs in front of Prometheus' eyes. When he wants to open his mouth to eat, there will be a gust of wind to blow the branches away.
This time Amon didn't speak, but Aesop muttered to himself: "Hope is right in front of you, you can see it, but you can never reach it?"
Gradually, the repertoire is drawing to a close, ushering in the moment of liberation. A son of the gods, Hercules, a half-human and half-god with great strength, passed by the Caucasus Mountains. The Hercules sympathized with Prometheus' misery, shot down the eagle that was pecking at him with an arrow, and broke the chain to free Prometheus.
In the final ending, Prometheus and Zeus ended their confrontation and finally made peace, but Zeus still asked Prometheus to wear an iron ring, which was locked with a stone on the cliff, symbolizing that he was still locked on the Caucasus mountain. .
Seeing this, Medanzuo said to himself: "The people who wrote this play didn't know what demigods are, so they understood demigods as the descendants of gods and humans."
Aesop asked: "Is there really a strong man like Hercules in the world?"
Medanzo replied: "Of course there is. I have seen it with my own eyes, such as Enkidu."
Amon didn't say anything more, and said to Aesop after the show: "Well, it's really worth watching, come back tomorrow!"
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The next day, Amon came to the theater again. He didn't sit in the best seat with Aesop and Medanzo, but as an ordinary driver, he mixed with a group of people in burlap clothes. Watching a play in a crowded auditorium. Yesterday's repertoire surprised Amon, but today's repertoire shocked the god. It is called "Oedipus the King", and it is a story of ups and downs and thrilling.
On yesterday's stage, the gods appeared directly on the stage, but in today's play, the gods are just faint shadows, and their existence is only revealed through the oracle. The stories all take place in the kingdom of the world.
At the beginning, the stage was also a familiar scene that had happened in many countries on the Tianshu Continent. A plague broke out in a city-state called Thebes. King Oedipus ordered the priests to pray in the temple of Apollo, praying for help and salvation from the gods, and guiding people how to survive the disaster.
Apollo is the god of light and youth in the Olympian pantheon, and also the patron saint of this city-state. On the wall of the Temple of Apollo, there is a famous saying: "Know yourself."
Apollo sent an oracle to the city-state of Thebes: "Find out the sinners hiding in the city, and punish the murderers who killed the former king, and the plague will be eliminated."
Then the scene in the second act changed, and it became the queen's memory of the former king. Oedipus was not the queen's first husband. The former king of the city-state was killed by a strongman while he was away, and the son of the former king was abandoned three days after he was born. The kingdom lost its heir.
Why did the former king abandon his son? This is also because Apollo once issued an oracle-predicting that the former king would be killed by his own son. Why did the gods issue such an oracle? The scene goes back further, and it turns out that the former king had robbed another king's son when he was young, so he was cursed by the gods.
And where does the current king, Oedipus, come from? Then another scene changed on the stage, which became a memory of Oedipus.
Oedipus is the son of the king in another city-state. One day when he prayed to Apollo in the temple, he heard the voice of the gods, saying that he would have the terrible fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. In order to fight against this fate and prevent the oracle from being fulfilled, Oedipus ran away from home and vowed never to return. On the way, he had an accidental conflict with a group of people, drew his sword and killed an arrogant nobleman, and came to the city-state of Thebes.
At that time, the city-state of Thebes was being shrouded in a huge disaster. There was a sphinx who stood guard on the only way, asking passers-by a riddle, and if they could not answer it, they would be eaten. The king of the city-state was killed by a strongman outside not long ago. In order to save the city-state, everyone decided—whoever can solve the puzzle and save the city-state from bad luck can marry the widow of the former king and inherit the throne.
Seeing this, Amon had already guessed what the playwright was going to write—Oedipus was the son of the former king, and the man he killed was the original king of the city-state of Thebes. The oracle may symbolize destiny, and the words inscribed on the wall of the temple of Apollo are the source of tragedy. People don't have eyes that see everything like gods. Oedipus doesn't know his origin, and everything he does is against the fate predicted by the oracle.
At this moment, Amon noticed that one of the audience in the front row had a head that was more conspicuous, because that person had a bald head, which is very rare in the Yalun City Gang, and there were fine hair stubbles on Zhengqing's scalp. It doesn't look like he was born bald. Amon recognized this person. It was Vincentab who had walked with the infinite light in the desert of Syria, and later met him in Salem. This person was a detached person who received another kind of guidance.
Amon was surprised when he suddenly saw this person again in Yalun City, and he was crowded in a position within reach. Vincent also felt it. He turned his shoulders and recognized Amon, then nodded and smiled, and turned around to continue watching the show, but there was a voice in his soul: "God Amon, why did you enter?" God's Domain of Olympus? Judging from your appearance, you should not have the permission of the God Department, and doing so may cause disputes."
Amon asked back in his soul: "Didn't you come too?"
Vincent Bu replied: "I'm just here to watch the show, and I won't show or use any of your so-called miraculous means."
Amon: "I'm just here to watch the show, and I won't perform miracles."
Vincent Bu: "Oh? Then the gaze you looked at me just now does not belong to mortals, and has the power to penetrate the six senses. If I were a god of the Olympus pantheon, I might be shocked or irritated by you .”
Amon smiled and said: "I know that you are not a god of the Olympus pantheon, but just mixed in the crowd to watch the show like me. I only have that look to confirm your identity. You can feel that I wear Is it a kind of miracle to see through the soul's gaze?"
Vincent Bu replied: "The guidance I have accepted is different from the path you are familiar with. I am only supernaturally self-sufficient, which is different from what you call performing miracles."
As he spoke, a piece of information was printed in Amon's soul: This cultivator called a certain method "supernatural power", but it was different from the so-called miracles of various gods. It was just an extension of perception. When possessed When using this ability, there will be no unnecessary touches on this world.
Vincent's explanation is very interesting, and it also inspires Amon—
For example, the so-called "eye clairvoyance" can see extremely far places, and even can see certain scenes in the past and future, which is related to the mana and realm of the practitioner. Among the means mastered by Amon, the detection magic or information magic has reached a very high level, which can also do this, but Vincent Bu explained the difference in the means.