For example, regarding the snake god, there is also Quetzalcoatl in other tribes, which is a winged god with very fierce fighting power. However, from our modern understanding point of view, this kind of snake with feathered wings is a bit strange.

What? A snake is a snake, so how can it grow wings and fly?

In fact, it’s not difficult to understand here. Let’s think about it. Snakes usually live in deserts or woods, and some even live in grass. But when snakes attack, do they look like flying? Anyway, they are very fast, especially when they attack from trees.

Does attacking the animals under the tree feel like flying down from the tree? Does this feeling make our ancestors feel that snakes have a pair of invisible wings, so this is where Quetzalcoatl comes from?

Then we will analyze a very important god, the sun god Ra, which is the sun god. As for the sun god, as the most supreme god in the ancestral tribe, what does he do? Why does he have the highest position?

Sun God: Creating the heaven and earth, creating life, and dominating light are the highest beliefs of our ancestors. The Sun God himself is also the highest god.

In fact, when we talk about this, it seems that it is immediately clear what our ancestors were thinking in their heads. In fact, the reason why the Sun God is supreme is because of his powerful magic power. However, these magic powers are not fabricated by our ancestors.

It is true, even if we understand it from our modern scientific perspective, it is true that the sun god himself created the prosperity of heaven and earth, created life, and even dominated light.

But in the thinking of our ancestors, the sun god must die every night. Death? In fact, it means that it will be dark, and then he will be resurrected the next morning, which means that it will be bright again, and this process will never end.

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From here we again see the lack of knowledge of our ancestors, but it is not difficult to see from this that our ancestors actually defined the position of God and even what he controlled based on their imagination based on the actual situation, and

Many elements are not imaginary at all, but actually exist in our physical world.

So let’s go back to the previous dog-headed god and the concepts of resurrection in the afterlife. Of course, the shedding of the snake god symbolizes death and rebirth, and its poison symbolizes pure death. Can we understand from this,

Are our previous guesses correct? In fact, our ancestors used their imagination based on these actual existences, and then defined God and the power and status of this God. However, later on, the spread of God became more and more popular, leading to

It’s just changed beyond recognition, but we modern people today can still push through the hazy layers of fog from these mythical stories that have been changed beyond recognition, and get a glimpse of the real world of our ancestors at that time.

So strictly speaking, all the myths and stories that have been passed down to us today have certain research and exploration value. If you are interested, you can study it specifically, but we will not talk about it here.

Then we continue to return to our ancestors. The ancestors who live on the edge of the desert here now have mythical stories that seem to be very perfect, and even almost complicated to the point of being very powerful. It can be said that the imagination of the ancestors has begun to explode.

Because mythological stories are not the ones we talked about before, there are too many, such as Nine Pillars, Horus, Sobek, Atum, etc.

Therefore, the structure of our ancestors' current tribe is really too complicated. It is almost comparable to our modern country. But speaking of simplicity, it is quite simple. The core of our ancestors' tribe is built on the temple.

on, and the temple is built on these numerous myths and stories. Every time there is a major event or a major change of rules in the tribe, this is the will of the gods, so it feels relatively simple to understand it this way.

But no matter what, with more elements and more people, more resources are needed, more land is needed, and the land needs to continue to be expanded, and more temples need to be built, and even more sacrifices need to be made.

As the number of gods increases, the number of sacrificial rituals also increases, etc. If you look at it this way, isn’t it very complicated?

Such a complex system, which is currently not a very sophisticated concept of literal gods, certainly cannot be managed better. If it is managed with blind violence, it will create an illusion for everyone. This illusion is: as long as you are strong enough, you can

You can also be the sun god and rule all the people. How do you actually say this? This is not an illusion, right? This is true. We people today may have heard a joke. This sentence is: Killing a person is

A murderer, if you kill ten people, you are a murderer, if you kill a hundred people, you are a murderer, if you kill thousands of people, you are a conqueror, if you kill everyone, you are a god!

In fact, this sentence is not nonsense. No matter how we think about it and think about it carefully, it makes sense and is not nonsense. Therefore, the ancestors and patriarchs also knew this truth, so in order to avoid this kind of thing happening

, so in such a complex tribal culture, this is equivalent to worrying about how to manage it every day?

Of course, we must first build more temples, so that rituals such as sacrifices can allow everyone to better communicate on issues of faith, and then develop other things. However, to develop other things, this requires recording a large amount of data.

Recording data is too cumbersome, such as the data we mentioned before, the number of weapons, the approximate number of people, the amount of food, the number of soldiers, and even quarrels between civilians, which also require corresponding rules.

To process, etc., and all this data has not been classified yet, so what should we do?

Under such multi-faceted pressure, the clan leaders, senior officials and even some nobles had to face a huge test, because when the number of people in the clan exceeds the rated size, there will be divisions. The root cause of the divisions is because

This large amount of data cannot be processed at all. If the data is not processed well, this will lead to more conflicts between people. Think about it, a certain civilian handed over a bag of animal skins of food, but after a few days, the senior people

I came to ask for it again, and the civilian said that he had already given it to me before. There are records of this, but they are very complicated written records, and it is too troublesome to find them!

Let's imagine that there is a huge room filled with clay tablets or stone slabs, all of which are recorded with words. The words here include the number of weapons, the number of people, the amount of food, and even disputes between civilians.

There are also some rules and order, and there are even new rules set by the Sun God, etc.

And more importantly, all these data put together are changing every day! This is very serious. If we can't find the record of this civilian paying food before, does it mean that he didn't pay it before? Let him do it again.

Hand it in again? What would he think if he was asked to hand it in again, right?

So in this case, with huge pressure from all aspects, the clan leaders, witch doctor class and even the top people had to make a choice. Should we drastically reduce the population? How to reduce it? Kill it? Because it can't be managed?

This kind of thing has really happened, that is, the witch doctor put poison into the water source of a civilian area, and then wiped out this civilian area, killing this group of civilians to achieve the effect of sharply reducing the population, so that the data will be reduced, which is suitable

Managed.

And even if others ask, this kind of thing can actually be easily solved, because almost everyone does not understand the concept of medical treatment and will blame these things on the gods. Then the clan leader asks the witch doctor to lead people to start large-scale sacrificial rituals, or even blood sacrifices.

Finally, the antidote is used to rescue some civilians, which also makes other civilians trust the higher-ups more and be more obedient.

But the ambition of the clan leader is too great, and he always wants to break through the population limit, but he can't find a better way, so this kind of killing that leads to a sharp decline in the population actually happens frequently. Another one is,

The common people themselves do not live very long, and under high-pressure control, they usually only work all their lives, and have no chance to gain access to knowledge. They basically build magnificent temples, and the food they eat is not good, resulting in

Due to malnutrition and high-intensity fatigue, the mortality rate is very high, but no matter how high the mortality rate is, it is not as high as the birth rate, and the clan leader is still very ambitious.

So this situation did last for a long time. In the end, the patriarch wanted to go deeper into the desert and build a larger temple, mainly to bury himself. After all, the patriarch also believed in the concept of this life and the next, and believed that he was higher than others.

I don’t know how many levels there are, so he has the right to enjoy these.

But to enjoy these, building a temple deeper in the desert requires more data and more people. What should we do? Is this thing going to be delayed like this?

No! The patriarch ended up looking for people everywhere, mainly to offer rewards. Whoever can solve the problem of large amounts of data will be given generous rewards, whether it is food or gold. As long as the rewards are generous enough, some people will definitely start to use their imaginations.

In the end, someone actually solved this problem initially.

Why do we say that this problem has been initially solved? In fact, it is not completely solved. It has indeed classified all the data, but this concept is not called a complete classification.

However, in any case, the birth of this kind of classification thinking led to the tribal population of our ancestors. Because data processing was better than before, the tribal population of our ancestors broke through the previous limit and moved towards a more glorious future.

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Chapter completed!