In the living room, the final winner of the battle for the TV remote control has been decided. Doudou has become the final winner. At this time, she is holding the TV remote control and lying on the coffee table to watch Finding Nemo with peace of mind. The little mermaid's victory has a reason: Elizabeth was called by her father to read "Emperor" without grabbing a few times, and Gun was simply the little mermaid's attendant, leaving Lily alone to face the two bear children, with the brain circuit of a husky I also felt a little embarrassed, so I simply waved my hand generously at the end to indicate that I have to go back to catch up on the manuscript, and gave Doudou the remote control.
The "war" in the center of the living room came to an end, but the conversation between Hao Ren and Lolisa had just begun by the window sill in the corner of the living room.
The "Elf Queen" was not surprised after hearing Hao Ren's words: "You are really interested in these things."
"After all, I'm investigating the Dream Plane, and the religious activities on Planet Holletta 10,000 years ago obviously helped me understand how the power of the gods in your universe worked before the goddess of creation fell," Hao Ren laughed. "And more importantly, I am also very interested in the Goddess of Creation herself, especially the changes in her words and deeds a period of time before the outbreak of the God Killing War, which may reveal her mental journey at that time."
Lolisa glanced at him: "Do you know, if our priests over there heard what you said ten thousand years ago, they would probably fight you desperately—it's really disrespectful."
Hao Ren spread his hands: "What's the matter, my job title is still the pope, so what's the matter with discussing the gods, the goddesses on my side never pay attention to so many rules with me. By the way, the goddess of creation in the dream plane is A god who values his authority very much?"
Lolisa immediately shook her head: "No, God doesn't care what the secular world thinks of her. She operates in the universe just like the sun, moon and stars. And cognition can't affect the existence of truth itself. It's just that gods can be so magnanimous, but us mortals can't—in ancient times... Holleta was developed under the guidance of the church, and the influence of the goddess came from the origin This kind of blood has been infused into the blood vessels of every living being. Religion and belief have always been with our society. It has become an important tool for us to maintain social stability and orderly production. Even if the teachings keep pace with the times, the church also From closed and conservative to open and inclusive, but the authority of theocracy is absolutely unshakable, at least in our time."
Now Lolisa is also following Hao Ren's habit and calling her planet "Holletta", but she still stumbles when mentioning this name, obviously this is still quite unfamiliar to her vocabulary.
Hao Ren asked purely out of curiosity: "At that time, how much influence did the leaders of the Goddess Sect have in the secular society? Compared with the magic emperors?"
"In fact, the Emperor of Magic is the supreme leader of the Goddess sect within a country," Lolisa said with a smile, "We have implemented a system of dual bishops. Each country has two supreme bishops, one of whom is in charge of teaching power. 'Bishop', he is in charge of all affairs limited to religious activities, another 'bishop' is concurrently held by the magic emperors of various countries, we manage the secular world, and we also have the same discourse as the bishop within the church In addition to the state-level bishop, there is also a supreme 'pope', the pope is the only one who is closest to the gods, he can directly talk to the goddess, and at the same time, the pope's thoughts are also Immersed in the thoughts of the gods for a long time, he was affected by the thoughts of the gods, so he did not care about the power disputes in the secular world at all, but devoted himself to maintaining the connection between the goddess and the world. This is Huo The form of the church in Elleta 10,000 years ago. Of course, there are more things that can be told in the details, but it will not be finished in a while."
Hao Ren asked this question just out of curiosity. Of course, he didn't intend to really study how the church in Holletta operated 10,000 years ago. Borrow a few work notes and you'll have everything. So after getting a general idea of the structure of the ancient Holleta goddess sect, he changed the topic: "How do you communicate with the goddess on weekdays? Is it difficult to communicate? Can you hear her voice directly or can you only sense it?" Her breath?"
"Every citizen created by the goddess can feel the sense of belonging from the blood. We know who created us from the beginning, so we can pray without distraction, and during the prayer process It is not difficult for us to be able to communicate with God. It is just that the voice of the goddess cannot be heard directly in ordinary prayers, because she has to pay attention to the operation of the entire universe, and it is impossible to listen carefully to the voice of every child—so Most of the time we can just feel her breath, or get a fixed answer when we ask a question."
Hao Ren understood immediately after hearing this: "Oh, I understand. The automatic answering machine is very convenient. Our goddess also uses it. It is enough to set the automatic answering in advance. Whenever believers have any questions in life, they will be answered immediately. This is convenient for both sides. It's just that our goddess here uses this thing mainly because she is too lazy to listen to complaints... "
Lolisa automatically filtered out Hao Ren's disrespectful last sentence, and was only interested in the previous sentence: "Oh? The same is true for other gods? How does the raven goddess usually respond to prayers?"
Hao Ren: "The goddess you are calling is not in the service area, or if you don't want to be cowardly, just do it. If you have time to find your mother, it is better to beat him back. If you can't beat her, she will help you out... To be honest, I think the first automatic reply is more elegant. .”
Lolisa: "... Excuse me, do people in your universe really believe in her?"
Hao Ren spread his hands: "Anyway, I don't need money, so I have some trust."
Lolisa: "..."
"Ahem, let's get on with the business." Hao Ren felt that it would be strange for his god's work style to be thrown into the eyes of people with normal worldviews, so he quickly pulled Lolisa's attention back, "Then you Do you have the experience of talking directly to the Goddess of Creation? Who can do this? What is the direct dialogue like? It would be best if you could tell me about this process in detail.”
"The goddess will occasionally chat with her children. This process is not limited to a certain race or individual, and is often random. This kind of conversation is called 'revelation', and it usually occurs in dreams. The dreamer will Seeing a blurred light, the thoughts of the goddess will be directly transmitted to their spiritual world. Since the goddess has seeded life on countless planets, all those who can get this kind of revelation are extremely lucky. According to the records, there are only a few lucky people who have received this kind of revelation throughout history, and they all later became great priests or extremely knowledgeable pioneers," Lolisa explained earnestly, "except for this kind of revelation. In addition, devout believers in the church can also communicate directly with the goddess through special ceremonies—of course, this has high requirements, and basically only people at the bishop level can get this opportunity. Through the rituals agreed with the goddess, we can directly communicate with the goddess. Call the Kingdom of God, and the Goddess will descend in a grand vision…”
Hao Ren was immediately attracted by this key point: "An illusion? What kind of illusion?"
"Not necessarily, it depends on the cognition of the prayer and the specific way of performing the ceremony, but usually it is an unidentifiable, radiant female figure, or an amorphous light, but there have also been crystals. The records of the giant tower reaching the sky, the mysterious and vast palace, the boundless red ocean, or the unknown starry sky, these latter types of illusions basically appeared during special rituals, with many participants, perhaps a large number of them. Different mental agitations of the participants lead to different hallucinations. Only those who participate in the ceremony can see the hallucinations. In their eyes, the hallucinations are as real as if they replaced the real world, but those who do not participate in the ceremony even stand next to the altar You can't see anything, just feel a huge energy and boundless will sweeping across the sky."
"Well, what you see should be the scene on the founding star. It seems that the goddess of creation directly transmitted the image of the founding star to your ceremony site through the eldest son's spiritual network. It is essentially an ultra-long-range brain. Wave communication, your spirit is connected with the brainwaves of the eldest son, and then connected with the control center on the founding star, this is such a process." Hao Ren nodded slightly while talking, perfecting the " Model guessing of the eldest son mind network".
Lolisa also nodded in agreement, and then continued: "Our connection with the Kingdom of God has been like this since ancient times, but in the few years before the arrival of the 'oracle', that is, the 'God Killing' you said On the eve of the 'war', we saw something different, visions of things never seen in historical records... ”
"What is the scene?"
"The visions I saw in the past were bright and brilliant, full of exhilarating and reassuring atmosphere, but in those few years... the bishops frequently saw patterns full of darkness and weird lines at large ceremonies, and all kinds of scenes were like It appeared crooked and distorted as if disturbed, and the image of the goddess never appeared again. And in all the illusions, there was one thing that kept appearing...it was a bloody moon."
Hao Ren felt his breath stop for half a beat: "A bloody moon?! Are you sure it's the moon? Not the founding star? As far as I know, the founding star is also red..."
"No, I can be sure, because I have seen that thing before, it is definitely not the founding star, it is a red moon."