Vol 2 Chapter 285: See a play

Chapter 285: Watching a Show
Barnemend shifted his goal, stepped forward and stared at Dewey and asked, "You have such a view that proves that you can think. What is the significance of this thinking? A stone does not need to eat or need To make money, what's the difference between you and it? You stand here and listen to others, why is it fun? "
When Amon saw this scene, he hurried forward and held Parmenides, saying: "It turned out that I was just reciting the question of Socrates. I have heard the name. You asked if I came from Plato College, can I Ask you about another sage from Plato College. His name is Aristotle. "
Barimend replied, "Oh, hey, he is no longer in Aaron. It is said that he went to be a court teacher in the Kingdom of Macedonia, far from here." He still wanted to ask Dewey, who was about to leave. Amon disappeared into the crowd on the square.
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The next day, Aesop told Amon: "My god, the Aaron people also like to watch various dramas, and mortals perform the story of the gods on the stage. This is different from the juggling of entertainers in other countries in the Tianshu continent. . Such performances may be regarded as blasphemy if they are in Egu or Hati, but the Aaron love to watch them. "
Amon asked with interest: "Oh? I heard yesterday that there is a special theater here. People put on costumes to perform the story of gods and humans. How did it first come?"
Aesop replied: "It was originally from the discussions on the Temple Square that clever artists compiled the repertoire of topics about the gods they heard on the Temple Square and played it to passersby. The result was very popular. There are sages who write repertoire for artists to perform in theaters, which is one of the most popular entertainment among the people in Aaron. "
Medanzo interjected: "I went out and took a lap yesterday. I heard that there are now three playwrights whose repertoires are the most famous. They all write tragedies and earn enough men's sighs for women's tears. I also want to see . "
Amon nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the theater together! I haven't seen such a show, and no other theater in such a city-state has appeared."
Aesop is the "Master", riding a carriage, and Medanzo is the "guard". He follows the car with a mighty horse, and Amon is still an inconspicuous driver. He drove to the most lively city in Aaron. A theater. Aesop asked for the best seat, and today's play is "Prometheus".
At the beginning, a group of entertainers on the stage should act as gods, singing singing praises to gods. This is no different from the scenes of praises to gods by the nations of Tianshu, but ordinary people replaced the gods on the stage. Identity. Amon just looked at it with a smile, and after a while he gradually looked into God, because the "god" appeared.
This is a story at the beginning of the Olympus deity. According to Amon's understanding of the Olympus deity, Zeus merged the original kingdom of the gods of the world, thus creating the current Olympus heaven. This process is also accompanied by a battle of the gods. What is different from the war of the gods of Anuna, is that Zeus has verified a higher achievement than the creation god.
Human legends are expressed in a way that people can understand, but in Amon's view, Prometheus is the who should fail in the war of the gods, and is also the opponent of Zeus. In the mythology of the world, Ammon was amazed by the vague hint that he had the achievement of the creation or higher.
Because in the story, Prometheus combined the soil with the river water, and made it into a human appearance according to the image of the of heaven. The of wisdom, Yalena, gave these clay bodies a soul that can think, so there was the first person. . This implies a background, that is, the earliest creation of the Olympus deity is not Zeus. Generally, in the myths of various places, the so-called creator is the original creation god, and Prometheus is just a representative Sexual names.
The next story on the stage is a human interpretation, and it is more interesting. As a god, Prometheus was biased towards human beings. He deceived the gods for the sake of mankind, which annoyed Zeus. Zeus decided not to give the tinder to the world. Prometheus, contrary to the decision of the Lord of the Gods, stole the tinder from the sky with a stick of incense and brought it to earth.
Seeing this, Amon could not help but smile, he remembered the original cave savage tribes tribe, lit an unextinguished fire in a large cave as a worship, and also thought of the bright flame offered by the Poz Empire, This is all related to the most primitive deities and religious origins. Fire symbolizes light, warmth, guardianship, and hope, and it is also the beginning of spiritual wisdom from obscurity.
In myths and legends everywhere, gods created the world and gave light and warmth, and the situation here is no exception. However, the playwrights in the city of Aaron adapted the structure of the mythological story. Tinder became the fuse of the differences between the gods and the conflict between people and gods, chanting a spirit of resistance to the will of the gods.
In this story, Amon realized another meaning, which was not understood by other audiences in the theater. It was the so-called "name and true language" in the myth of Eju. The name refers to the achievement of the gods, and the real language refers to the method of achieving this achievement. For mortals, it is the secret of becoming a god. Amon's personal experience has confirmed this process.
If the "tinder" in this play is replaced by "name and true language" in Aju's myth, then the legend has another insinuation. It seems to be suggesting that Prometheus wanted to inform the world of the secret of becoming a god, and Zeus did not want to make public the guidance of the Source Forces.
It's not clear whether such a thing ever happened. Amon didn't know much. He didn't know much about the secrets inside the Olympian deity, and the stage was just a human drama. He couldn't help but ask Aesop: "Somebody can write such a drama, which shows that the legend has been around for a long time. In the legend you know, what kind of is Prometheus?"
Aesop frowned and replied: "I have heard long-standing legends since I was a kid that Prometheus was a sinner among the gods. This man used conspiracy and deception to deceive the gods, so he was punished by Zeus and locked by the chain forever ... And the drama we've seen clearly reinterprets the myth, giving the another image and giving legend another interpretation. "
Amon said slightly: "Sinners? The story of this play should have the earliest origins. Such a should belong to the defeated party in the ancient battle of the gods of the Olympian system. Prometheus created the" human "It is also a signal to believers who believe in the gods of the defeated side, like my ancestors, the people of Duke Township."
Medanzo touched his nose and said, "If you say that, it really looks like it! If it wasn't the myth of Olympus, and replaced it with the legend of the Anuna Kai, I would have thought that it was suggesting Duke The story of the town. If Prometheus is not the of the defeated party, but one of those sinners, then it is almost an insinuation of your story. "
Amon smiled slightly: "The world in the sun always has a acquaintance. This play reminds you of me, but it doesn't have to be me, it's just a story written by a sage. I'm just curious. , Why did the people who wrote this play integrate into the new legend on the mainland and change this myth? "
Amon was asking a question, Aesop replied: "Although the myth carries the shadow of the gods, people only spread it in the way they understand, and add their own wishes in the spread. Many of the stories I have told are the same. Write The people in this show have not seen Zeus, but they have seen all kinds of people in the world. The authority that people tried to resist but could not resist became the fathers of the gods in mythology, and their wishes became Pro. Mithus' behavior. "
Medanzo also replied: "People have awe and longing in their hearts, which makes them imagine the gods, and their anger and dissatisfaction with this world also makes them question the gods. People desire the same power and freedom as the gods, some In those days, the negligible neighbors may also become Zeus in the drama. "
Amon was undecided and continued to watch the show. The following performance reminded him of the people of Duke Town and the millennia of suffering suffered by the people.
On stage, "human" was punished by Zeus. The gods of Olympus created a charming and lovely girl called Pandora, holding a magic box and came to the world to seduce Prometheus' younger brother Epimetus. The tempted Epimetus opened the box, and various plagues and disasters flew out of the box. At the bottom of the box is "Hope", but Pandora shuts it down and stays in the box.
Seeing here Amon asked again: "What's the matter with this box?"
The box was just made up by the dramatist, but Amon's question clearly pointed otherwise. Medanzo replied: "People fear the gods and fear the unknown, so they pray for the gods in their hearts. People are dissatisfied with the situation, so they hate the gods who bring them all. Hope and disasters have become the symbol of the gods, including prayer And fear. "
Aesop replied: "This is a protest that can be seen everywhere, such as the hatred of tyrants. It also contains the ultimate purpose of the protest and stays in the box that has not yet been opened."
Amon stopped talking, and it was Prometheus himself who was punished on the stage. Zeus ordered the gods to lock Prometheus on the cliffs of the Caucasus Mountains and spend the entire thirteen generations of the world. He was hungry and cold, and an eagle pecked at his internal organs every day, and the wounds healed again, and endured endless torture. There was a fruit tree on the cliff. The delicious fruit was bent and the branch hanged in front of Prometheus. When he wanted to open his mouth to eat, a gust of wind would blow the branch away.
This time Amon didn't speak, Aesop muttered to himself: "Hope is in front of you, you can see it, but you can never reach it?"
Gradually, the show is coming to an end, and the moment of liberation is ushered in. A powerful half-human demigod, Hercules, the son of a deity, passed by the Caucasus mountains. Sympathizing with the miserable fate of Prometheus, the hercules shot down the eagle that ate him and broke the chains to rescue Prometheus.
In the final end, Prometheus and Zeus ended their reconciliation, but Zeus still asked Prometheus to bring an iron ring with a stone locked on the cliff, symbolizing that he was still locked in the Caucasus .
Seeing this, Medanzo said to himself: "The person who wrote the play did not know what the existence of the demigod was, so he understood the demigod as the descendant of the deities and people."
Aesop asked, "Is there really a Hercules like Hercules?"
Medanzo replied: "Of course I have, I have seen it with my own eyes, such as En Qidu."
Amon didn't say much, and said to Aesop after leaving: "Well, it's really worth seeing, come back tomorrow!"
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The next day, Amon came to the theater again. He didn't sit in the best seat with Aesop and Medanzo, just as an ordinary driver, mixed with a group of people wearing burlap clothes. Watching a show in the crowded auditorium. Yesterday's repertoire surprised Amon, but today's repertoire inspired this god. Its name is "Oedipus King", an ups and downs and thrilling story.
On yesterday's stage, the gods appeared directly, and in this play today, the gods are only looming shadows, and only show their existence through the gods. The stories all happen in the kingdom of the world.
At the beginning, the stage was also a familiar scene that happened in many countries on the continent. A plague occurred in a city state called Worship. King Oedipus ordered the priest to pray in the Temple of Apollo, asking for help and salvation from the gods, and how to guide people through the disaster.
Apollo is the of light and youth in the Olympian deities and the patron saint that this city-state believes in. On the walls of the temple of Apollo, a famous phrase was inscribed: "Know yourself."
Apollo lowered the oracle to the city-states: "Identify the sinners hidden in the city and punish the murderers who killed the first king before the plague will be eliminated."
Then the scene of the second act turned, turning into the queen's memory of the first king. Oedipus was not the queen's first husband. The city ’s first king was killed by strong men when he went out. The first king ’s son was abandoned three days after he was born, and the kingdom lost his heirs.
Why did the first king abandon his son? This is also because Apollo had lowered the oracle-foretelling that the prince would be killed by his son. Why did the gods drop such a shrine? The scene goes back further, and it turns out that the emperor had plundered the son of another king in his youth and was cursed by the gods.
Where does the current King Oedipus come from? Then there was another scene on the stage, which became the memory of Oedipus.
Oedipus was the son of a king in 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 the terrible fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. In order to counter this fate and prevent the oracle from being fulfilled, Oedipus ran away from home and vowed never to return. On the way, he had an unexpected conflict with a group of people. He drew a sword and killed an arrogant nobleman, and came to worship the city-state.
At that time, the worship of the city-state was shrouded in a huge disaster. A sphinx banshee stood by the road, and asked a passer-by a passer-by. If he could not answer it, he would be eaten. The king of the city-state was recently killed by a strongman outside. In order to save the city-state, everyone decided-who can solve the mystery and get the city-state out of doom can marry the widow of the prince and inherit the throne.
Seeing this, Amon had already guessed what the playwright was going to write—Oedipus was the son of the first king, and the man he killed was the former king of the city-state. The oracle may symbolize destiny, and the words inscribed on the wall of the Temple of Apollo are the source of tragedy. People don't have the eyes to see everything like a god, Oedipus doesn't know where he comes from, and everything he does fights against the destiny foretold by this deity.
At this moment, Amon noticed that one of the front-row viewers had a more prominent head, because the person had a bald head, which was very rare in the Aaron City Gang, and there was fine hair on the scalp's scalp. It doesn't look like a born bald. Amon recognized this man, Vincent Bu, who had walked with Infinite Light in the Syrian desert, and later met in Salem. This man was a detachment who was guided by another way.
Suddenly he saw the man again in the city of Aaron, and was squeezed into a place where he could reach, Amon was taken aback. Vincent also had a sense. His shoulders turned back to recognize Amon, and he nodded and smiled, then turned to continue to watch the drama, but a voice came in his soul: "God Amon, how did you get in? Olympus's Divine Realm? You should look at you without permission from the Department of God. Doing so may cause disputes. "
Amon asked in his soul, "Aren't you here?"
Vincent replied: "I just watch the show, I will not show and use any of your so-called miracle means."
Amon: "I just watch the show, and I won't show miracles."
Vincent: "Oh? Then you just looked at me, but you do n’t belong to mortals, and you have the power of penetrating the Six Senses. If I were the of the Olympian deity, I might be shocked or irritated by you . "
Amon smiled: "I know that you are not the of the Olympian system, but just like me in the crowd to watch a show. I only have that vision in order to confirm your identity. You can feel what I wear Is it a miracle to see through the gaze of the soul? "
Vincent-Buddell said, "The guidelines I have accepted are different from the roads you are familiar with. I'm just superbly self-sufficient and different from what you call miracles."
As he spoke, he imprinted a message in Amon's soul: the practitioner called a certain method "supernatural power", but it was different from the so-called miracles of the various deities. It was just an extension of perception. And when using this ability, there will be no extra touch on this world.
Vincent's explanation is very interesting and has a new inspiration for Amon—
For example, the so-called "eye-link" can be seen from far away, and even some scenes of the past and future, which are related to the mana and realm of the practitioner. Among the methods that Amon has mastered, detective or informational magic has reached a very high level, and it can do the same, but Vincent explained the difference.

ps: Today's update is a bit late, because it's not easy to write!
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