He took a few steps forward and stared at Dewey. "… Since you have such an opinion, it proves that you can think. Then what is the point of your thinking? A stone doesn't need to eat or earn money. What is the difference between you and it? Why do you find it fun to stand here and listen to other people's discussions? " When Amon saw this, he quickly stepped forward and pulled Barmenides back. "So I was just talking about Socrates. I've heard of this name. You asked me if I was from Plato Academy. Can I ask you about another sage from Plato Academy? His name is Aristotle. "
Barmenides replied, "Oh, he's no longer in Yalun. I heard he's a court teacher in the Kingdom of Macedonia. It's very far from here." As he spoke, he wanted to chase after Dewey, who was about to leave, and Amon took the opportunity to disappear into the crowd in the plaza.
The next day, Aesop said to Amon, "My god, the Yaluns also like to watch all kinds of plays. Mortals perform stories of the gods on the stage. This is different from the acrobatics of other countries in the continent. If this kind of performance was performed in Eygut or Hittite, it might be considered blasphemy. But the Yaluns love to watch it. "
Amon was very interested. "Oh? I also heard yesterday that there is a special theater here. People put on costumes and perform stories of the gods and mortals. How did it first come about? "
Aesop replied, "The earliest ones came from the discussions of the people in the Temple Plaza. Clever actors and actresses turned the topics about the gods they heard in the Temple Plaza into a play for passersby to see. As a result, it was very popular. Later, there were sages who wrote plays for the actors and actresses to perform in the theater. This is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Yalun. "
Metatro interrupted, "I went out for a walk yesterday. I heard that there are three playwrights whose plays are the most famous. They write tragedies that earn men's breaths and women's tears. I want to see them too."
Amon nodded and said, "That's good. Let's go watch the play together! I have never seen such a performance, and no other city has ever seen such a theater. " Aesop was the "master", sitting in the carriage, Medanzo was the "bodyguard", riding a horse and following the carriage in an awe-inspiring manner. Amon was still the inconspicuous coachman, driving the carriage to the busiest theater in Ya Lun City. Aesop asked for the best seat. Today's show was "Prometheus".
At the beginning of the show, a group of artists on the stage should be playing the role of God's messengers, singing poems praising the gods. This scene was no different from the scene of the various countries praising the gods in the heaven's core continent, but ordinary people replaced the identity of the God's messengers on the stage. Amon just watched with a smile on his face. After a while, he gradually became entranced, because the "God" appeared.
This was the story of the birth of the Olympus divine clan. According to Amon's understanding of the Olympus divine clan, Zeus had fused with the divine kingdoms of the original gods and created the Olympus Divine Kingdom. This process was also accompanied by a war of the gods. The difference from the war of the gods in Anunnaki was that Zeus sought to prove a higher achievement than the God of Creation.
The legends of the human world were expressed in a way that people could understand, but in Amon's view, Prometheus was a god on the losing side in the war of the gods, and also the opponent of Zeus.
In the myths and legends of the human world, it was vaguely hinted that he had achievements equivalent to or higher than the God of Creation, which surprised Amon.
Because in the story, Prometheus mixed soil with river water and molded it into the shape of a human according to the image of the gods. The Goddess of Wisdom, Yalena, gave the soil a body and a soul that could think, and so there was the first man. This coincided with the background, that is, the first God of Creation of the Olympian gods was not Zeus. Generally, in the myths of various places, the so-called Creator was the first God of Creation, and Prometheus was just a representative name.
The next story on the stage was the interpretation of the human world, and it was more interesting. As a god, Prometheus was biased towards humans, and did not hesitate to deceive the gods for the sake of humans. This angered Zeus, and Zeus decided not to give the fire to the human world. But Prometheus violated the decision of the Lord of the Gods, and used a stick of incense to steal the fire from the sky, and brought it to the human world.
Seeing this, Amon couldn't help but smile. He remembered the cave dweller tribe of Link, where there was an undying fire in a large cave to worship the gods. He also remembered the holy fire of light that the Potsdam Empire worshiped. These were all related to the most primitive gods and the origin of religion. Fire symbolized light, warmth, protection, and hope, and was also the beginning of human wisdom from ignorance.
In the myths and legends of various places, it was the gods who created the human world, and gave them light and warmth, and the situation here was no exception. But the playwright of Yalon City adapted the structure of the myth, and the fire became the fuse of the conflict between humans and gods, which was the so-called "name and the true language" in Eygut's myth.
The name referred to the achievement of the gods, and the true language referred to the method of achieving this achievement. For mortals, it was the secret to becoming a god, and Amon's personal experience confirmed this process. The name referred to the achievement of the gods, and the language referred to the method of achieving this achievement. For mortals, it was the secret to becoming a god, and Amon's personal experience confirmed this process.
It seemed to imply that Prometheus wanted to tell the world the secret to becoming a god, and Zeus did not want the guidance of the Lord of Origin Power to be made public. It seemed to imply that Prometheus wanted to tell the world the secret to becoming a god, and that Zeus did not want the guidance of the Lord of Origin Power to be made public.
Whether such a thing really happened, Amon was not sure. He did not know much about the internal secrets of the Olympian gods, and the stage was just a play of the human world. He could not help but ask Aesop, "If someone could write such a play, it means that the legend has been passed down for a long time. According to the legend that you know, what kind of god was Prometheus?" Aesop frowned and replied, "When I was a child, I heard a long time ago that Prometheus was a sinner among the gods. This man used tricks to deceive the gods, so he was punished by Zeus and imprisoned forever in chains.
And in the play we see, it is clear that the myth has been reinterpreted, and the god has been given another form, and the legend has been given another kind of relief. "
Amon was slightly moved 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. The 'human' that Prometheus created is also an allusion to the believers of the defeated god, like my ancestors and the people of Duc. "
Medanzo touched his nose and said, "Now that you mention it, it really does look like it! If it was not the Olympian myth but the Anunnaki myth, I would have thought it was an allusion to the story of Duc. If Prometheus was not the god of the defeated side, but one of the sinners, then it would almost be an allusion to your story. "
Amon smiled and said, "In the world under the sun, there are always shadows of deja vu. This play made you think of me, but it does not have to be me, it is just a story made up by a sage. I am just curious, why did the person who wrote this play want to incorporate a new legend on the continent and change the myth? "
Amon was asking a question, and Aesop replied, "Although the myth has the shadow of the gods, people only pass it on in the way they understand it, and in the process add their own wishes. Many of the stories I have told are the same. The person who wrote this play has never seen Zeus, but he has seen all kinds of people in the world. Those who try to resist but are unable to resist the authority become the father of the gods in the myth, and their wishes become the actions of Prometheus. "
Medanzo also replied, "People have awe and longing in their hearts, which makes them imagine the gods, and their anger and dissatisfaction with the world also makes them question the gods. People desire to have the same power and freedom as the gods, and sometimes, a neighbor that they cannot afford to offend can also become Zeus in the play. "
Amon did not comment and continued to watch the play. The following play made him think of the people of Duc and the thousands of years of suffering they had endured.
On the stage, the "humans" were punished by Zeus. The Olympian gods created a charming and lovely girl named Pandora, who came to the world with a magic box to tempt Epimetheus' brother Epimetheus. The tempted Epimetheus opened the box, and all kinds of plagues and disasters flew out of the box. At the bottom of the box was "hope", but Pandora closed it and left it in the box.
Seeing this, Amon asked again, "What's with this box?"
That box was just a story made up by a dramatist, but Amon's question clearly had another meaning. Medanzo replied, "People revere the gods and fear the unknown, so they pray to the gods in their hearts for hope.
People are dissatisfied with their situation, so they hate the gods who brought it all. Hope and disasters become the symbols of the gods, containing both 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 goal of the protest, which is to stay in the unopened magic box."
Amon did not speak again, and the next person to be punished on the stage was Prometheus himself.
Zeus ordered the Oracles to chain Prometheus to the precipice of the Caucasus Mountains, where thirteen generations of people lived. He suffered from hunger and cold, and an eagle pecked at his internal organs every day. His wounds healed immediately, and he endured endless torment. There was a fruit tree on the cliff, and the branches of the delicious fruit hung in front of Prometheus' eyes. When he tried to open his mouth to eat, a gust of wind would blow the branches away.
This time Amon did not speak, but Aesop muttered to himself, "Hope is right in front of you, visible, but never attainable?"
Gradually, the play came to an end, and the moment of liberation came. A demigod, the son of the gods, the mighty demigod Heracles, passed by the Caucasus Mountains. This strong man sympathized with Prometheus' suffering and shot down the eagle that was pecking at him with an arrow, and broke the chains to free Prometheus.
In the end, Prometheus and Zeus ended their confrontation and finally made peace, but Zeus still asked Prometheus to wear an iron ring, which was chained to a rock on the cliff, symbolizing that he was still chained to the Caucasus Mountains.
Seeing this, Medanzo muttered to himself, "The person who wrote this play did not understand the existence of demigods, so he understood demigods as the descendants of gods and humans."
Aesop asked, "Is there really a strong man like Heracles in the human world?"
Medanzo replied, "Of course there is. I've seen one, for example, Enkidu."
Amon did not say anything more. After the performance was over, he said to Aesop, "Well, it's really worth watching. Come back tomorrow!"
The next day, Amon came to the theater again. He did not sit in the best seats with Aesop and Medanzo, but as an ordinary coachman, he mingled with a group of people in coarse linen clothes in the most crowded auditorium to watch the play. Yesterday's play surprised Amon, but today's play shocked the god. It was called "King Oedipus", and it was a thrilling story with ups and downs. On yesterday's stage, the gods appeared directly, but in today's play, the gods were only looming shadows, and only showed their existence through oracles. The story took place in the kingdom of the human world.
At the beginning of the play, the stage was also a familiar scene that had happened in many countries on the continent. A plague broke out in a city called Thebai. King Oedipus ordered the priests to pray in the temple of Apollo, praying for the help and salvation of the gods, and to guide the people through the disaster.
Apollo was the Olympian god of light and youth, and also the patron god of the city. On the wall of the temple of Apollo, there was a famous inscription: "Know thyself."
Apollo gave an oracle to the city of Thebai: "Find out the sinner hiding in the city, punish the murderer of the king, and the plague will be eliminated."
Then the second scene changed to the queen's memory of the king. Oedipus was not the first husband of the queen. The late king of the city had been killed by a strongman while he was away, and the son of the late king had been abandoned three days after his birth. The kingdom was left without an heir.
Why did the king abandon his son? This was also because Apollo had once sent down an oracle, predicting that the late king would be killed by his own son. Why would the gods give such an oracle? The scene went back to the past. It turned out that when the King was young, he had robbed the son of another king, so he was cursed by the gods.
Where did the current King Oedipus come from? Then the scene changed again, and the memory of Oedipus took over.
Oedipus was the son of another King. One day, when he was praying to Apollo in the temple, he heard the voice of the gods, telling him that he would have the terrible fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. In order to resist this fate and prevent the oracle from coming true, Oedipus ran away from home, vowing never to return. On the way, he had an unexpected conflict with a group of people. He drew his sword and killed an arrogant nobleman, then arrived at the city of Thebai.
At that time, the city of Thebai was enveloped by a great disaster. A sphinx guarded the road, asking passersby a riddle. If they couldn't answer it, they would be eaten. Not too long ago, the king of the city-state was killed by a powerful person. In order to save the city-state, everyone decided that whoever could solve the riddle and save the city-state would be able to marry the late king's widow and inherit the throne.
Seeing this, Amon had already guessed what the playwright wanted to write. Oedipus was the son of the former King, and the man he killed was the former King of the city of Thebai. The oracle may be a symbol of fate, and the words inscribed on the wall of Apollo's temple were the root of the tragedy. People don't have eyes that can see everything like the gods. Oedipus didn't know where he came from, and everything he did was to fight against the fate foretold by the oracle.
At this time, Amon noticed that there was a head in the front row of the audience that stood out, because the person was bald, which was very rare in the Ya Lun gang. There were fine hair stubble on the green scalp, and it didn't seem like he was born bald. Amon recognized this man. It was Vincent Bos, who had walked with Amitabha in the Syah Desert, and later met him in the city of Taleng. This man was a transcendent who had been guided by another kind of power.
Suddenly seeing this person again in Ya Lun City, and in a position where he could reach out his hand, Amon was taken aback. Vincent Bo also felt it. His shoulders tightened, and he turned back to recognize Amon. Then he nodded and smiled, and turned back to continue watching the show. But a voice came to his soul. "Amun, how did you enter the realm of Olympus? It seems that you have not obtained permission from the gods. Doing so may cause disputes. "
Amon asked in his soul, "Aren't you here too?"
Vincent Bo replied, "I'm just here to watch the show. I won't show or use any of your so-called miracles."
Amon said, "I'm just here to watch the show. I won't show or use any of your so-called miracles."
Vincent Bo said, "Oh? Then the way you looked at me just now was not that of a mortal. It had the power to penetrate the six senses. If I were a god of the Olympian pantheon, I might be alarmed or angered by you. "
Amon smiled and said, "I know you are not a god of the Olympian pantheon. You are just watching the show in the crowd like me. In order to confirm your identity, I only had that kind of vision. You can feel my soul-penetrating gaze. Is this a kind of miracle? "
Vincent Bo replied, "The guidance I received is different from the path you are familiar with. I am just self-sufficient, which is different from your so-called miracles."
As he spoke, he imprinted a piece of information in Amon's soul. This practitioner called a certain method 'magic', but it was different from the so-called miracles of the pantheons. It was just an extension of perception. When this ability was possessed and used, it would not have any extra impact on the world.
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