Chapter 318
Jon can certainly take care of his own life.
During the time when Secretary Jin delivered the box, Jon even made himself a cup of coffee, and then sat on the sofa to read some reference books left by Joanne.
About muggle world For me, the study of ancient myths and civilizations.
Joanne looked at this and said it was to perfect the world view in her novels. After all, her novels are more biased towards realistic biography, but after all, there are many fictional things. Magic world itself is in a civilization. In the chronological state, she wants to perfect the world view of this book, and the impossible writing is exactly the same as the current magic world, so it is very necessary to learn from the creative description of the "fictional" world of the predecessors.
At this point, Jon and Joanne's views are basically not too different.
His research direction is mainly the evolution of world civilization. Mythological Era, as the most important content in this part, occupies a very large position in his research.
Because the Western magic civilization was dated from the Dark Age, and was the home of Mythological Era before the Dark Age, these myths are also very useful for him.
In the final analysis, muggle world and magic world are both worlds made up of humans. Their records of some things were not very different when they were very old.
What does mythology mean to people of their age now?
Leave aside the magic world to talk about it, it is just an ancient ordinary person's way of observing the surrounding world, and the myth is the result of the events formed by them observing the world.
For the ordinary person, mythology is not just a collection of stories about the age of the gods and heroes, it also provides the ordinary person with some ways to understand the world.
Because in that era, people would not understand why a huge sun in the sky would rise tomorrow morning, then circle the sky, and finally sink into the west.
They don’t know what it is or how he moves, and when they don’t know that it is due to gravity or other galaxy rotations, the emergence of myths It seems very logical.
This is just a conclusion, and it happens that while this fact exists, there are indeed gods appearing in this world. They use their own power and rules to influence the world, such as The magical effect of covering the heavens and shielding the sun can be formed in a certain place, but they cannot directly affect the operation of the entire world.
Because for gods, the world is also the basis of their existence, not all gods can live in chaos and chaos.
Therefore, the gods themselves are also driving the formation of the mythological system among ordinary persons. These conclusions are a very good thing for ordinary persons who cannot touch the mysterious world. If they If they accidentally see something that they shouldn’t see, they can attribute this to the existence of myths and gods, and their interpretation will allow them to further develop their unique understanding and perception of this world. , And then let this experience form a correspondingly mature system. In this shaping process, the gods also get involved, forming an indispensable part of the content.
Because in a world where not all lives are in a state of myth and science and technology are not developed, the existence of myth can become a mechanism to protect life against the indifference of reality, hiding Driven by the gods behind the scenes, mythology can become a cultural pillar in an ordinary person society. It supports the life of this society, faces ignorance and the unknown, and makes people's lives more meaningful.
This is the so-called spiritual pillar. As a god of the world, they have the obligation to guide an ordinary person-even an ordinary person who doesn't know how to be magical, to live in this world, because for the gods , Whether it is a wizard with magic or an ordinary person without magic, they are not much different.
But this is not the case for ordinary persons. In the age of ignorance, a wizard who owns magic can gain a deeper understanding of the world by studying magic, while ordinary persons do not have the help of timely science. It is difficult to see the true appearance of this world, and the unknown will bring many problems, such as chaos and fear. The role of myth is to stabilize chaos. While giving the ordinary person spiritual beliefs, it also brings order. Controllable and a certain degree of knowledge. In the age of gods and the early dark ages, it is the result of the research of the wizard living on the side of the mysterious world, which teaches ordinary people how to live in this world.
Unlike the deeds of the gods created artificially after the Dark Ages, these mythological systems naturally derived from Mythological Era can be perfectly embedded in the life of every ordinary person.
Unlike some religions preaching that the Lord is almighty and Supreme, among these ancient myths, the myths are everyday all wandering outside of people's lives.
His everyday all is constantly repeating the process of creation, destruction, re-creation, and re-destruction. In this cycle, the myth is no longer exclusive to the gods, but is involved in the ordinary person. Of self-life.
This has led to ordinary persons living in that era, and even wizards can occasionally become the protagonists in a fairy tale. When the mysterious leads the society, the wizards with mysterious power are often The authority to explain some unusual things.
And these wizards are often subordinates or believers of the gods. Under the direction of the upper-level will, they interpret these unusual events as insignificant nature, just like ordinary events that occur in secular life. Phenomenon, and attribute them to the influence and ease of the gods on the world, thus bringing the gods closer to the ordinary person’s world within the realm.
At this stage, the gods are not aloof and remote. They occasionally appear in the world and act as guides to play their role. Combined with some classics that Jon has read, behind all this is the will of the world , That is, [Youlan Deep Sea] is pushing everything to happen.
The world is developing in a spiral manner, and as the will of the entire world, He only hopes this world moved towards a good direction, and has no other ideas.
Jon found a book about ancient Egyptian mythology from Joanne’s collection. This kind of information belongs to the description and reshaping and sorting out of latecomers, and can only serve as a supplementary role. Just about to open it, the doorbell rang suddenly.