Chapter 335

"You want to understand mythology, now?" Zhang's father was a little surprised. "I thought you were not interested in these things after you graduated from sixth grade."

After dinner, Zhang's mother and grandfather turned up old photos in their study, while Zhang's father and Zhang Heng were eating fruit and watching TV in the living room.

"OK, you can ask me what you want to know, as long as it's something I know." Zhang's father picked up an apple and took a bite.

Zhang Heng thought, "does God really exist in the world we live in?"

"Poof ~" father Zhang almost choked on the apple he had just swallowed. He coughed twice and cried and laughed, "what's the matter, do we really have to pretend that you are still in sixth grade?"

He took a sip of water and said, "I remember we discussed this issue a long time ago. Although your mother and I are theological majors, we don't have any faith in ourselves. In fact, I'm interested in the part of history and humanity in mythology. Your mother, she Well, she's just very interested in all the strange stories, and she likes to travel around, take photos, taste delicious food and so on in the name of religious archaeology. If I remember correctly, her master's thesis is about the diet of medieval believers.

"From my personal point of view, the so-called myth is just a story written by mortals, just like a fairy tale, just for adults. For example, Homer's epic is said to be written by Homer, a blind poet in ancient Greece. We all know that its theme is the Trojan War, in which there are not only mortals, but also Achilles, the demigod and apocalypse Luo, Poseidon and so on.

"But in fact, only the Trojan War actually happened in history, and the rest is only Homer's artistic processing. The academic circles generally believe that Homer lived around the ninth century B.C. if he was a real person. At that time, there were no serious historians, and no one would emphasize the authenticity of history, so people's way of recording history It's a way to mix what's really happening with myths and legends, and then we have Homer's epic. "

In fact, if you are really studying a kind of myth system, you will find that they have their origins, generally some oral folktales, which are constantly developing on this basis. For example, Celtic mythology, which originated from Celtic folklore, was influenced by ancient Rome and Christianity in the process of its formation. If it is a kind of myth, it can be divided into two parts The stories inside are all true, and how can they change with the migration of civilization? The more typical ones are Greek and Roman mythology

Zhang said as he nibbled at the apple, "Roman mythology is completely derived from Greek mythology. Many gods have different names just because of different pronunciations. As for the story lines, they are all exactly the same. How can they all be true?"

Zhang Heng Muran, in fact, this is the same as what he has always known. But in this way, where do the so-called gods come from, the existence of the ancient Celtic gods he met in the copy of black sail, and the supernatural creatures he met in the real world? If the legends about them are fictional, why are they real There is.

Zhang Heng remembered that he met Einstein in the copy of Apollo training camp. From his words, it seems that he and the old man in Tang costume Zhang Heng met before are of the same level. But Zhang Heng can't feel any connection with myths and legends, and the game props he saw at the auction before, one of them is the same level These are obviously the products of modern society

Zhang Heng decided to put this question aside for the time being and asked his most concerned question, "what are the gods of time?"

Father Zhang raised his eyebrows. "Is the God of time? Indeed, there are many gods related to time in many mythological systems. But the most famous one is the super primitive God in ancient Greek mythology, Cronus. He is the supreme god worshipped by Orpheus, symbolizing the first cause of surpassing everything. He exists before everything begins, and is the most famous one in the 24 holy words narrative High God, with the power above all things, has no entity in itself, but sometimes appears in the image of a snake, with three heads - man, ox and lion, but the image of an old man is more well known, because in modern art works, he is usually described as an old man holding a sickle. "

"Old man, old man like this?" Zhang Heng took out the old photo from his pocket and put it on the coffee table in front of him.

There was a flash of surprise in his father's eyes. He picked up the photo and said, "ha Where did you find it? "

"You've participated in many research projects. Basically, every time you go to a place, your mother will take a lot of photos. Why is this the only time you've taken a photo in the whole room? Where are the other photos? "

"Because at the end of the study, we lost a sled and four sled dogs. They fell into the ice hole and turned in the sled with the things on it, including our Kodak. After that, we tried hard, but in the end we couldn't pull the four poor little guys up, let alone the things on the sled. As for Mr. Tam, he said I'm the sponsor of this study, but we haven't seen each other for more than ten years since the end of the study. "Although Zhang's father kept a relaxed tone as much as possible, Zhang Heng could recognize that his heart was not as calm as it seemed. Especially when he saw the photo, there was an obvious dilation and contraction of his pupils, and then he obviously concealed some things, but to Zhang Heng's surprise, it seemed that it had little to do with Mr. Tam.

Because when he talked about Mr. Tam later, his body relaxed again, and he also changed to a more comfortable sitting position.

Zhang Heng didn't quite understand why his father lied about the film. His grandfather also knew about this research activity. In other words, he was the only one in the family who was completely hidden from the drum. The question is why, why did his parents get rid of the photos and never mention the research project that went to Greenland 18 years ago.

What happened on the island in the Arctic Circle had anything to do with him, who was only one year old at that time. If the strange man in Tang costume had met his parents 18 years ago, his selection of Zhang Heng 18 years later was obviously not just appreciation and chance as he said at first.

It's not so much an encounter as an 18 year wait.

www.novelhall.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!