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Chapter 72 God-doubt

"Wang Yu, we have something you want to know here."

It was Hassan's voice. In the few conversations we had, this man was either threatening me or lying to me.

I closed my eyes and then looked at him calmly. "I thought you had said everything you wanted to say."

Hassan pursed his lips: "Remember when I asked you to be careful about those people?" I didn't respond and waited patiently for him to continue. "I suspect Dr. White is between us."

This time I was surprised and looked at Li Yuan. The two of them thought of going together.

"Why are you telling us this now?"

"Because of Laila. Originally we thought the transformation had stopped, but we seemed to be wrong." Hassan whispered: "My transformation disappeared. It found Laila again."

I gave him a confused look. So the magnetic field recognized the person it wanted, and that person was not Hassan, but Laila?

Hassan suddenly stretched out his hand towards me. Before I could react, Li Yuan grabbed his wrist.

"Sure enough, you were the one who was transformed, not her." Hassan's face was as dark as water. Both his and Laila's eyelashes were thick, as if they had their own eyeliner. "The fire of hell is not extinguished that easily."

Li Yuan let go of his hand.

Hassan looked at me deeply, then spoke again, and sang again:

"He saw the deep seabed, the foundation of the nation.

He peeked into the secret and knew everything.

He knows where the gods rest.

He acquires all wisdom,

Saw the treasure, solved the mystery,

Brought the message from before the flood.”

Li Yuan and I said at the same time: "The Epic of Gilgamesh?"

Hassan nodded.

I hissed.

I have just finished talking about Maya, and now I am talking about Sumer. There is still doubt whether Maya has ores with strange magnetic fields, but a piece of it was unearthed in the ancient city of Ur under the radiation of Sumerian civilization, and I have seen it with my own eyes.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at Arno. He and Alex were standing next to Laila and watching the stars together. He just told me the origin of [Boiling Snow], but he didn't talk about the [Eternal Eye] yet.

How did it come about?

"Is this also sung by the old people in your village?" Li Yuan's question brought me back to the present.

"Yes." Hassan showed a wry smile. "The old people said that there were priests who once searched for the treasures in the songs and wanted to unlock the secrets about the gods. Because they believed that the world was not like this. According to legend, as long as

Once you find the treasure, you can summon the ancient Egyptian gods.

As descendants of priests, we have not performed our duties for a long time, and the gods have punished us."

According to Hassan, it was when Thutmose III was a priest at the Karnak Temple that he came into contact with the "stones" enshrined in the temple and thereby obtained the "oracle." At the same time, because the priests were waiting for a long time,

The temple was also radiated by the magnetic field and transformed. In ancient Egypt, priests were also passed down by blood.

Hassan said that in order to maintain his rule and realize that there was a problem with the stone, Thutmose III built a temple in the Sahara Desert in the west by guarding the border. However, there is no record of the temple in the hands of the priests, so we need to learn from our archeology

The team came to find the answer. Hassan and the others are descendants of the priests, but they know nothing about responsibilities other than blood. His grandfather restarted the family sixty years ago, or in other words, twisted the family's forgotten destiny.

Laila was the one who inherited the priest's bloodline, but Hassan was transformed in the Valley of the Kings.

So is there any "Oracle of the Sun God" hidden by the priests?

The religious reform during the Akhenaten period and the restoration of royal control over the temple in the later period were all related to the control of the temple by the priests, including the hieroglyphs of the holy monks. I remembered that the two altars were engraved with the holy

The calligraphy is also called the holy monk's script. It is written on the base of the statue, so even the pharaoh will not see it.

"Not all Pharaohs will see."

Hassan looked at us.

"Thutmose III?" Hassan nodded. "And Akhenaten."

No wonder. These two were pharaohs who had many entanglements with religion.

The sun god Amon is the "hidden god", and the right to sacrifice is firmly controlled by the priests. And the god Aten can perform worship rituals wherever the sun shines. The sun is the source of all things. In a

In ancient societies that respected the power of nature, whoever had the right to interpret the laws of nature could control everything.

As Pharaoh, Akhenaten certainly wanted to take back this power from the priests.

"The mission of the priest is to return the borrowed full moon." Hassan murmured to himself: "But who borrowed the full moon? Just because he failed to prevent people from entering the desert, Laila was already going to suffer hell.

The fire. If you fail to return it to the full moon on time, what will be the consequences?"

The Arabs more than a thousand years ago and the world wars of the last century did not lead to the fulfillment of the curse of the "ancient Egyptian priests", but the people who came sixty years ago restarted their destiny.

But this ancient Egyptian could take the ghost-catching stories in Sumerian epics seriously after listening to them? He also summoned the ancient Egyptian gods, why not call the dragon out?

Li Yuan didn't think this was nonsense. He stood up and looked directly at the priest who had been abandoned by the gods: "What do you think of Maya's prediction of the end of the world?"

"A prophecy of the end of the world?" Hassan whispered: "What if Maya's is not a prophecy, but a curse."

curse?

"how you said that?"

Hassan looked at Laila. The ancient Egyptian astrologer priest was looking up at the starry sky, his thin body trembling slightly as if overwhelmed by the moonlight. But we all know that it was Laila who was undergoing transformation.

Li Yuan remained calm, but the transformation that took place in him was no better than that of a derelict priest.

"When did Laila's situation start?"

"Just now, not long after the full moon came out." Hassan turned back, "We were fooled, Dr. White lied to us. The curse of the gods has not ended, and we have to find a way to return the moon."

"But why were the priests of ancient Egypt cursed in the first place?" I have never understood who was expelled by Hassan and his group of priests, and what taboos they committed to inexplicably bear such an unlucky curse.

"Because they questioned the gods." Hassan smiled tiredly, "Although Dr. White lied to us, he did bring some truth."

In the fifteenth century BC, Thutmose III returned to the throne from the temple with the support of priests, and became a pharaoh who combined religious and secular power. More than a century later, Akhenaten's religious reform began vigorously.

, and then annihilated in despair.

Some scholars believe that Akhenaten was trying to eradicate the religious forces that threatened the imperial power, cut off the wings of the priests, and return the right to interpret the world to the pharaoh.

Although the stubborn priest group later returned to the peak of power, those priests who had enjoyed supreme status during the period of Thutmose III were nowhere to be found.

Regarding this erased history, Dr. White provided another idea: the expelled priests were not questioning the ancient Egyptian gods, but the new gods. In other words, they were questioning the ancient gods that other priests wanted to restore.

"Ancient gods?" I asked, "A god before the formation of the ancient Egyptian belief system? Like the one in Hierakonpolis where the Falcon God was worshiped?"

"Even earlier than that. In fact, we know very little about the ancient god. We have no idea where it came from, when its worship began, or why it existed." Hassan took a deep breath before continuing.

: "But according to legend, its believers can have the ability to turn stones into gold, and even blood can turn into flowing gold, and finally become part of God."

"Can anyone who believes in this god eventually become a god?"

Where can such a god exist? If people who believe in him can become gods, then wouldn’t the whole world be gods? I scoffed.

"Besides, the ancient Egyptians believed that the hair of the gods was lapis lazuli and the bodies of the gods were gold. This all comes from their cognition. But this cognition is just wishful thinking."

"What is the difference between modern people and ancient Egyptians? Do they really have a glimpse of how the world works? In fact, for so long we have tried our best to explain the world within our own abilities, but we have just replaced religion with science.

"Hassan laughed at himself. "I originally thought that I was a 'civilized' person. I went to a modern university, learned modern knowledge, and had scientific thinking. But I no longer dare to say with certainty that God does not exist. Otherwise, how can I explain my sister?

Where is the curse on you?"

Hassan seemed to have been tortured and stunned by the ancient Egyptian curse.

Ali once mentioned that the temple discovered under our archaeological site was dedicated to the god who could turn stones into gold. Later we also found traces of him in the Temple of Set, but we still don’t know his face.

and name.

I don’t know if this is protection or fear of that god.

I don't buy Hassan's rhetoric about "ancient gods." I am indeed interested in the history of ancient Egypt before it became ancient Egypt, but this idea is too far-fetched. The existence of anyone, anything, or gods

They all leave traces. Unless we really find evidence of the existence of that god in the temple of Thutmose III hidden deep in the desert, I will not believe that there is really a god who is willing to work voluntarily and put

Man becomes god.

Of course, this may also be an exaggerated explanation of miracles by the ancient Egyptians. For example, they believed that the goddess Isis could protect the dead. In fact, it was just because vultures could eat the internal organs of the dead and reduce the moisture in the human body. And the sun naturally

It wasn't the dung beetle that rolled it up.

Speaking of explaining something.

“What do you think about the end of the world in Maya?”

"I think what Hassan said makes sense. It's not necessarily a prophecy, but it's not necessarily a curse." Li Yuan closed the computer and took off his glasses. "What if the Mayans saw the past instead of the future?

"

"You mean, is it possible that the end of the world in the Mayan prophecies actually happened?"

Li Yuan nodded. "Didn't you say that you archaeologists will reasonably speculate on the past based on existing evidence? Maybe the Mayans got a piece of ore with a magnetic field by chance, and then interpreted it by mistake.

Something. It's just that they don't know if it's the past or the future."

Although this matter is a fantasy, the transformation of the Yin family has shaken my understanding of common sense.

"Why do you think the curse on Laila reappeared now?" Li Yuan asked.

Actually I don't understand this either.

Is the transformation of co-authoring a one-time thing for some people, but it is ongoing for others? Does that mean that with every transformation, Li Yuan is one step closer to his final appearance?

In this case, what hangs above my head is not the moon, but the Sword of Damocles.

Mustafa specifically mentioned the German children in front of Li Yuan and I. Alex said that her mother went exploring after she fell ill. We all know where her mother went twelve years ago.

But Alex's "illness" is indeed cured. That proves that either her mother succeeded, or...

"They have more suitable sacrifices."

With a snap, the bonfire jumped. Sporadic firelight splashed onto the sand and then went out.

The moonlight reflected in Li Yuan's eyes.

Two cars came from the darkness. Lou Shiqi and the others were back.

It is still difficult to explain what happened in the distant past, and predictions may not be history.

(End of chapter)