Chapter 284

Barney mender shifted his target, looked at Dewey a few steps and asked, "you have such a view that you can think. What is the significance of your thinking? A stone doesn't need to eat or earn money. What's the difference between you and it? Why is it fun for you to stand here and listen to others? "

As soon as Amun saw this scene, he quickly stepped forward to hold Parmenides and said, "it turns out that what I have just told you is Socrates' question. I have heard of this name. You ask me if I am from Plato's college. Can I ask you about another Sage from Plato's Academy, whose name is Aristotle

Banimend replied, "Oh, he is no longer in Jaron. It is said that he has gone to the kingdom of Macedonian as a court teacher. It is very far from here." Speaking, he still wanted to chase Dewey, who was about to leave, and Amun took the opportunity to disappear in the crowd on the square.

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The next day, Aesop said to Amun, "my God, the yaluns also like to watch all kinds of dramas. The stories of gods are performed by ordinary people on the stage, which is different from the acrobatics of other countries in Tianshu. Such performances, if they are in eju or Hattie, may be regarded as blasphemy, but the yalens love to watch them

Amun was very interested and asked, "Oh? I also heard yesterday that there is a special theater here. People put on their costumes to perform the stories between gods and human beings. How did it first come about? "

Aesop replied: "it was originally from the discussion of people in the temple square. Smart artists made plays on the topics about gods they heard in the temple square and played them to passers-by. The results were very popular. Later, some sages wrote plays for artists to perform in the theater, which is one of the favorite entertainment of the people in Yalun city. "

"I went out for a walk yesterday and heard that there are three playwrights whose plays are the most famous. They write tragedies, which make men sigh and women's tears. I want to go and have a look."

Amun nodded and said, "well, let's go to the theatre together! I have never seen such a performance, nor has it appeared in any other city-state. "

Aesop is the "master", riding a carriage, and medanzo is the "guard", riding a horse majestically followed by the car, amon is still a humble coachman, driving the carriage to the most lively theater in Yalun city. Aesop asked for the best seat. The play on the screen today is Prometheus.

At the beginning of the ceremony, a group of artists on the stage should act as envoys, singing poems praising the gods. This is no different from the scenes in which countries in Tianshu mainland praise the gods, but ordinary people replace the status of gods on the stage. Amun just looked at it with a smile. After a period of time, he gradually became absorbed, because the "God" appeared.

This is a story about the beginning of the birth of the Olympus God system. According to Amun's understanding of the Olympian system, Zeus integrated the original God Kingdom, thus creating the present Olympus heaven. This process is more different from that of the gods.

Human legends are expressed in a way that people can understand, but in amon's view, Prometheus should be the God of the defeated side in the battle of the gods, and also the adversary of Zeus. In human myths and legends, Amun was surprised that he had achieved something equivalent to or higher than the creator God.

Because in the story, Prometheus uses the river water to mix the soil, according to the God's shape to shape a human being. The God of wisdom, jarena, endows these clay bodies with the soul of thinking, so there are the first people. This coincides with a background, that is, the earliest creation God of Olympus is not Zeus. Generally speaking, the so-called creator is the original creation God, and Prometheus is only a representative name.

The next story on the stage is the interpretation of the human world, which is more interesting. Prometheus, as a God, was inclined to human beings. He did not care to deceive the gods for the sake of human beings, thus angering Zeus. Zeus decided not to give the fire to the world. But Prometheus violated the decision of the Lord of the gods and stole the fire from heaven with a fennel branch and brought it to the world.

Seeing this, Amun couldn't help but smile. He thought of the burning fire in a big cave in link's cave savage tribe. He regarded it as a god worship. He also thought of the light sacred flame worshipped by the Boz Empire, which was related to the most primitive divine life and religious origin. Fire symbolizes light, warmth, protection and hope. It is also the beginning of people's Enlightenment from ignorance.

In the myths and legends all over the world, it is the gods who created the world and gave light and warmth, and this is no exception. However, the playwrights in the city of Yalun adapted the structure of the myth story, and the fire became the fuse of the differences between the gods and the conflicts between the gods and the gods.

Amon realizes another meaning in this story, which is not understood by other audiences in the theater, which is the so-called "name and real language" in the myth of eju. Name refers to the achievement of gods, and real language refers to the method of obtaining such achievements. For ordinary people, it is the secret of becoming a God. Amun's personal experience proves this process.If the "fire" in the play is replaced by "name and real language" in eju myth, the legend will have another kind of allusion. It seems to imply that Prometheus wanted to tell the world the secret of becoming a God, while Zeus did not want to disclose the guidance of the original power.

It is not clear to Amun whether such a thing has ever happened. He does not know much about the secrets of the Olympian system, and he only plays human drama on the stage. He could not help but ask Aesop, "someone can write such a play, which shows that the legend has been handed down for a long time. What kind of God is Prometheus in the legend you know?"

Aesop frowned and replied, "I have heard that long-standing legend when I was a child. Prometheus was a sinner among the gods. He deceived the gods by intrigues. Therefore, he was punished by Zeus and kept in chains forever In the drama we see, the myth is obviously reinterpreted, giving the God another image, and giving the legend another explanation. "

Amun moved slightly and said, "sinner? The story of this play should have the earliest origin. Such a God should belong to the defeated side of the ancient Olympian gods' battle. Prometheus' creation of "human beings" is also a hint of believers who believe in the God of the defeated side, just like my ancestors, the people of Duke. "

Medanzo touched his nose and said, "it's really like you said that! If it were not for the myth of Olympus, but for the legend of the apocalyptic system of anuna, I would have thought it was implying the story of Duke. In the story of Prometheus, if you are not one of the gods, it is your sin. "

Amun said with a smile: "there are always shadows of deja vu in the world under the sun. This play reminds you of me, but it may not be me. It's just a story compiled by a sage. I'm just curious. Why did the writer of this play integrate into the new legend of the mainland and change this myth? "

Amon was asking a question. Aesop replied, "although myths have the shadow of gods, people can only spread them in the way they understand them, and add their own wishes to the spread. So are many stories I have said. The writer of this play has never seen Zeus, but he has seen all kinds of people in the world. The authority that people try to resist but can't resist becomes the father of the gods in myth, and their desire becomes the behavior of Prometheus

Medanzo also replied: "there is awe and desire in people's hearts, which makes them think about gods, and their anger and dissatisfaction with the world also makes them question the gods. People are eager to have the same power and freedom as the gods. Sometimes, the unsettled neighbors may become Zeus in the drama

Amun didn't decide whether to go on watching the play. The next performance reminds him of the people in DUK town and the suffering of their people for thousands of years.

On the stage, "human" was punished by Zeus. The gods of Olympus made a charming and lovely girl named Pandora. She came to the world with a magic box in her hand to tempt Epimetheus, Prometheus' younger brother. The temptation of Epimetheus opened the box, and all kinds of plagues and disasters flew out of the box. At the bottom of the box is hope, but Pandora closes it and stays in the box.

Seeing this, Amun asked again, "what's the matter with this box?"

The box was just made up by the playwright, but Amun's question clearly has another meaning. "People fear the gods and the unknown, so they ask for hope from the gods in their hearts," he said. People are dissatisfied with the situation, so they hate the gods who brought it all. Hope and disaster have become symbols of the gods, including prayer and fear

Aesop replied, "this is a protest that can be seen everywhere in the world, such as the hatred of tyrants. It also contains the ultimate purpose of the protest, which remains in the box that has not yet been opened."

Amun did not speak again, and Prometheus himself was punished on the stage. Zeus ordered Prometheus to be locked on the cliffs of the Caucasus mountains for 13 generations. He was hungry and cold, and an eagle was pecking at his internal organs every day, and the wound healed and suffered endlessly. There was a fruit tree on the cliff. The delicious fruit bent the branch, and the branch fell in front of Prometheus. When he wanted to open his mouth to eat, a gust of wind would blow the branch open.

This time amon did not speak, but Aesop murmured to himself: "hope is in front of you, can see, but never reach it?"

Gradually, the stage has come to an end, ushering in the moment of liberation. Hercules, the son of a deity, passed through the Caucasus mountains. The Hercules sympathized with Prometheus' miserable fate, shot down the eagle that pecked him with one arrow, broke the chain and saved Prometheus.

In the end, Prometheus and Zeus ended the confrontation and finally made peace, but Zeus still asked Prometheus to wear an iron ring with a stone on the cliff, symbolizing that he was still locked on the Caucasus mountain.

Seeing this, medanzo said to himself: "the people who wrote this play don't know what the existence of demigods is, so they understand the demigods as the descendants of gods and people."

Aesop asked, "is there really a Hercules man on earth?""Of course, I've seen it with my own eyes, such as enqidu," he replied

But Amun said nothing more. After finishing, he said to Aesop, "well, it's really worth seeing. Come back tomorrow!"

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The next day, Amun came to the theater again. He did not sit in the best seat with Aesop and medanzo. He was an ordinary driver and mingled with a group of people in burlap clothes in the most crowded audience. Yesterday's play surprised Amun, but today's play shocked the spirit. Its name is Oedipus king, which is a story of ups and downs and soul stirring.

In yesterday's stage, the gods appeared directly, but in today's play, the gods are only the shadows that appear indistinctly. They only show their existence through the Oracle, and the stories happen in the world.

At the beginning, the stage was also a familiar scene that happened in many countries on the Tianshu continent. A city-state called Tibei had a plague. King Oedipus ordered the priests to pray in the temple of Apollo, praying for the help and salvation of the gods and guiding people how to survive the disaster.

Apollo is the God of light and youth in Olympus, and also the guardian God of the city-state. On the wall of Apollo temple, there is a famous saying: "know yourself."

Apollo gave the oracle to the city of Thebes: "find out the sinners hidden in the city, punish the murderers who killed the former king, and then the plague will be eliminated."

Then the scene of the second act turns into 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 strong man when he went out. The son of the former king was abandoned three days after his birth, and the Kingdom lost his heir.

Why did the first king abandon his son? It was also because Apollo had given the oracle that the former king would be killed by his own son. Why did the gods send down such an oracle? Looking back on the scene, it turns out that the former king once robbed the son of another king in his youth, so he was cursed by the gods.

And where does the present King Oedipus come from? Then there was another scene on the stage, a memory of Oedipus.

Oedipus was the son of the king of China, 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 a terrible fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. In order to fight against this fate, Oedipus left home and vowed never to return. On the way, he met a group of people and had an unexpected conflict. He took out his sword and killed an insolent nobleman, and came to the city-state of terbai.

At that time, the city-state of Thebes was shrouded in a great disaster. A Sphinx was on her way. If she asked a passer-by a riddle, she would be eaten. The king of the city-state was recently killed by a strong man outside. In order to save the city, people decided that whoever could solve the mystery and make the city out of bad luck could marry the widow of the former king and inherit the throne.

Seeing this, Amun 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 former king of the city of Thebes. The Oracle may symbolize fate, and the words inscribed on the wall of Apollo temple are the root of the tragedy. People don't have the eyes to see everything like the gods. Oedipus did not know his origin, but he never gave up fighting against the fate predicted by the oracle.

At this time, Amun noticed that one of the audience in the front row had a conspicuous head, because he had a bald head, which was very rare in the city of Yalun. Zheng Qing's scalp had fine Stubbles on his hair, and he didn't seem to be born bald. Amun recognized this man, who had been walking with the boundless light in the Syrian desert, and later met in Salem. He was a detachment under another guidance.

All of a sudden, Amun was surprised to see this man again in the city of Yalun, where he could reach out. Vincent also had a feeling. He turned back to recognize Amun, nodded and laughed, then turned to continue to watch the play. However, a voice came from his soul: "Amun, how did you enter the holy land of Olympus? It seems to you that you should not be allowed by the divine system, which may cause disputes. "

Amun asked in his soul, "aren't you here, too?"

"I'm just here to see the play, and I'm not going to show or use any of your so-called miraculous devices," replied Vincent Pope

Amun: I'm just here to see the play. I don't show miracles

Vincent: Oh? You just looked at me, but you are not mortal. You have the power to penetrate the six senses. If I were an Olympian God, I might be startled or irritated by you

Amun said with a smile: "I know that you are not an Olympian God, just like me, you are just hanging out in the crowd. In order to confirm your identity, I will have that vision. Is it a miracle that you can feel my soul penetrating gaze? "

"The guidance I have received is different from the path you are familiar with. I'm just self-sufficient, different from what you call the display of miracles."

At the same time, he printed a message in Amun's Soul: the cultivator called a certain means "magic power", but it was different from the so-called miracles of various gods. It was just an extension of perception. When he possessed and used this ability, he would not have any unnecessary touch on the world.Vincent's explanation is very interesting and has new inspiration for Amun.

for example, the so-called "eye contact" can see far away places, and even see some scenes in the past and future, which is related to the practitioners' magic power and realm. Among the means that Amun mastered, the divinity of detection or information reached a very high level, which could also be achieved. But Vincent explained the difference of means.

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