Giant of Light: I am the Old Ones

Chapter 132 The History of Flesh and Stone (Must read! World view!)
When all those brilliance were annihilated, the strangely attractive feeling finally disappeared.

With the loss of extraordinary characteristics, the entire dull underground space suddenly became refreshing.

It was originally necessary to guard against some leaky walls, blowing the poisonous gas generated by the rotting bones.

But now those things have lost their activity along with the origin wall block, at least there will no longer be any danger in a short period of time.

"I seem to have heard legends about this wall."

Although the professor and others did not see those dazzling scenes, they instinctively felt the changes in the surrounding environment.

"Whether it is the East or the West, when the ancient ancestors sealed these evil spirits so that they would not have an impact on civilization, they would leave a warning. This is why the images of demons and ghosts in culture are very ferocious and terrifying. This This wall may be the work of the ancient Litian people, who were a nation that developed during the brief period of peace after the ancient British Empire came into contact with the native Celts."

Amanda turned around. Except for the professor who specialized in mysterious history, everyone else was confused.

The professor continued calmly:
"The culture of the Celtic indigenous people is somewhat related to the ancient Egyptian sun god, Ra. The Egyptian pharaohs regarded themselves as descendants of the gods. One image of the pillar god was a lean black pharaoh. But the Celtics The sun god in the culture was alienated into the elf in later European culture. The Litian people accepted some teachings from the church because of their premature contact with the Angsa people."

In the end, the professor did not dare to call Nyarlathotep by his real name, so he just used Pillar God instead.

"So, the Pharaoh who represents the sun chooses to punish these treacherous believers?"

Amanda had some understanding that even the force known as the Church in her own world had indeed defeated all the indigenous gods and cultures in various regions of Europe when it developed earlier.

Those religious belief systems based on the culture of primitive tribes or slave systems are like a child facing a muscular man in front of the church, which represents the feudal power of more advanced productivity.

From then on, the beliefs of these other sects were collectively referred to as heresies.

Coupled with these beliefs, once they are more or less related to cults, they will inevitably require flesh and blood sacrifices, and they will naturally be regarded as targets of attack.

The believers of Nyarlathotep, one of the three majestic three pillar gods, actually need to huddle in a remote place like Breton Territory to develop.

It's even possible that they didn't realize that they actually believed in Nyarlathotep, and they just followed the nature of their own blood and sacrificed to strangers.

Compared with the rule of the Pharaohs in the heyday of ancient Egypt, it is simply a world of difference.

By the way, Egypt does pay more attention to cats as a creature, and there is still a cat lying in his consciousness.

But even after being reduced to this state, they actually kept a piece of the god's corpse as a sacrificial tool.

It also has the ability to dig such a huge cave underground.

The professor saw that everyone was interested in listening to him. Some professional habits made him straighten his body and cough a few times. His voice became louder, and there was some echo under the gas mask.

"We suspect that the Litians are believers of the Sun God who inherited some flesh-and-blood sacrifices. The orthodox Celts, on the other hand, chose the path of conversion, just like Northern Europe and Greece. But their conversion did not Thoroughly, that’s why there is no way to fight against the church.”

"Qi Wen should have told you that in the world about 2000 years ago, both Eastern and Western cultures entered the feudal period. From that time on, flesh and blood sacrifice was regarded as a cult behavior on a cultural scale. .”

"That is called the pre-reformation tide, and this tide continues to this day and has not stopped. And before this tide came, whether it was the era called Shang in the East, or the father eating the son, and the son killing the son in the ancient god culture of the West, In my father's era, flesh and blood sacrifices, especially human sacrifices, were still the mainstream. People of that era didn't even think it was wrong, whether they were offering sacrifices to gods, building houses and castles, or even celebrating the birth of slave owners' children. , the meanest slave will be killed as a sacrifice."

"And when we came down, the utensils we saw in the murals, these bronze-like cauldrons, were both sacrificial utensils and real pots for cooking food. The ancestors of the Delapore family could transform into butchers and serve as masters. They sacrificed the strangers who came up to make food.”

"Oh, by the way, in Eastern culture, the so-called bell ringing tripod refers to the superior life of ancient nobles. The tripod here also originally referred to being used to sacrifice humans and animals. After the sacrificial ceremony, you can eat directly. In these cultures, The convergence of the same era makes the church believe that all gods actually have the same essence behind them. Only they have successfully reached the age of new gods, so those who still remain in the past age of flesh and blood are regarded as heretics and must be punished. Burned to death.”

"In the conquest of Western culture led by the church, many primitive tribes that actually did not cause much harm were also destroyed. They even organized an Eastern Expedition. It was not until they realized that Eastern culture had also entered the Age of New Gods that they avoided the feudal kingdom. A world war breaks out."

It turns out that before the Age of New Gods, it was considered the Age of Flesh and Blood?
It’s really simple, not even the flesh and blood of gods can escape the fate of sacrifice.

Amanda couldn't help but feel a chill running down her spine as she learned about the horrific use of the ceremonial cauldron during the period of human sacrifice and flesh and blood sacrifice that existed in both Eastern and Western cultures thousands of years ago.

Looking at the so-called bronze cauldrons around him, although the contents had long been hollowed out, he felt a little nauseous when he thought of that horrific scene.

"It sounds really disgusting. It seems like this used to be a canteen, and the food is our compatriots."

Blake felt a little chilly. Before he really came into contact with these weird things, he felt that his psychological quality was very strong.

Until he realized that there really was a period when humans themselves felt that it was normal to sacrifice flesh and blood and eat their own kind, he began to get a little inexplicably angry.

"Believe me, Sheriff, those of us who engage in academic research, when we first learned the truth, felt no better than you. But that era of barbarism and ignorance has passed. As future generations, our duty is to faithfully record and move towards Look ahead.”

The professor sounded as optimistic as ever, but his eyes were a little unclear under the gas mask. Is there really a trace of sadness in his eyes?
Amanda was a little confused and asked:
"But why do we have to sacrifice flesh and blood of the same kind? The productivity of that era should be enough to capture wild animals for sacrifice."

The professor didn't expect anyone to ask this question. Instead, there was a temporary explanation for a topic studied by a colleague. The professor said:
"In ancient cultures, human beings were created by gods. We and gods are of the same posture. Therefore, the most solemn sacrifice must be a human sacrifice. Even in the Age of New Gods, sculptures in Western culture and human figurines in the East still serve as Substitute existence.”

"Whether they are sculptures or human figurines, they are all meant to be close to the so-called most essential posture of human beings, stone or soil. Perhaps in a certain civilization in the past, there was no flesh and blood at all, and it was all stone, hahaha—— "

stone?
For some reason, the image that came to Amanda's mind was that of the piles of Nexus' corpses that looked like stones in the giant cemetery.

The giant of light is also a stone.

　This chapter is about the thoughts about the Giant of Light→Stone Statue→Humanity, which can be regarded as the origin of the possible giants in this world.All settings in this book will be as logical and self-consistent as possible, and at the same time, they will correspond to the real development process of ancient civilization as much as possible.

　　
　
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