Lord of the Silver Crow

"I still have some questions."

Yago continued to ask, trying to solve all the questions in his mind:

"The source of those'mirror worlds' are wizards. What about those'gods'? The relationship with the mirror world is..."

The mirror world was left behind by the power of wizards and distorted the world.

So, what about those gods?

What is the origin of the "cleric" who existed with the "wizard"? What is the origin of the "god" they worship?

What is the relationship between path and "God"?

Regarding Yago’s question, Attila just glanced at him:

"In the ancient history we investigated, the wizards themselves were separated from the clergy."

"Ok?"

Yago focused his attention.

The answer was a little bit beyond Yago's expectations, but there was nothing wrong with it.

He had thought deeply about what the term "witcher" meant before.

In previous lives, the predecessor of the concept of "witcher" was animist priests.

The earliest primitive nature worship was a primitive religion formed under the complex emotions of fear, hope, and awe of various natural phenomena and creatures.

However, under normal circumstances, Animism has gradually developed with social factors such as private ownership, and will basically gradually develop into polytheism—

For the concretization of various anims.

Priests and sacrifices were transliterated as "shaman" in his previous life. In the early days, there were also paraphrases such as "sorcerer" and even "Confucianism".

In the history of the celestial dynasty, "Confucianism" refers to the ceremonial officials during adult ceremonies, weddings, funerals, and sacrifices. In other words, it is a sacrifice derived from the worship of the **** of thunder.

And "witch" directly refers to those who pray, "transmit divine will", "transmit providence", and perform primitive dance-like performances in sacrificial activities.

Moreover, it usually refers to women at first, as opposed to male covetousness.

After the linguistic scope and appellation were created, they generally developed in the direction of simplification, generalization, and expansion of the meaning of words.

Wuben refers specifically to women, and later became the collective term for this type of personnel, and covetousness gradually disappeared.

As society develops, religion will also "progress" and divide.

Tianchao likes to use free translation in the translation of foreign texts, but when a concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is often forgotten that it is a local vocabulary and is considered foreign.

The logic behind it should be-"Because it is roughly similar to the local xx, so use **** as the translation".

As a result, many people subconsciously think-"This word is not local."

Under this influence, things with original meaning will be artificially separated from later things.

This situation is not only in translation, but in various fields.

For example, Confucianism is a sacrificial official who masters some knowledge of the high class. After the direction of mastering knowledge is continuously strengthened in people's impressions, the original meaning will be forgotten. The impression of a "reader" formed by specialization will be produced with the original meaning. So that when mentioning priests, they will subconsciously separate the two—

Sacrificial officials are priests, and Confucianism is Confucianism.

The term shaman, which originally referred to the priests of the Pan-lings, is also distinguished from the "clergy".

At least, in Yago's current understanding, the world's concept of "witcher" in the "now this age" is another term for mastering knowledge and mastering various magical spells, which is opposed to church clergy.

Why does she say this?

While this knowledge popped in his mind, Yago couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Then, the other party came up with this sentence:

"What do you think caused the separation of wizards and priests?"

Yago couldn't help frowning. Although the entire head, except for the crow whose beak was covered with feathers, had no eyebrows, it was not important.

What caused it?

The difference between a wizard and a priest is not a natural development in this world, but something caused it?

"No one is born to know everything."

Attila looked at him and said with emotion:

"It's the same with wizards. You shouldn't have the idea that wizards are originally knowledgeable groups?"

Yago did not respond, and waited quietly for her next word.

"Where do you think the knowledge of wizards comes from?"

"Knowledge comes from experience and lessons, or initial knowledge, is the summary of experience, or experience itself is a kind of knowledge, it is the initial knowledge."

"So, where did people who have not experienced this get this knowledge?"

church.

In this context, what the other party wants to say is self-evident.

However, this is essentially inaccurate.

Should come from the priesthood.

Experience and lessons come from the ancestors.

The ancestors summed up the experience and lessons, summed up the knowledge, and then passed on.

This is Yago, the conceptual model of the celestial people.

Because you are a priest, you have mastered knowledge and spread knowledge?

No, this is not correct.

At least, in his world, human civilization did not originate from any religion.

Before the advent of animism, primitive humans and even wild beasts would give their offspring the knowledge that was roughly extracted from experience.

Animism, polytheism, and monotheism, these religions are just a process in history.

Animism, polytheism, monotheism?

Animism, monotheism?

Animism, ancestor worship?

Animism, ancestor worship, atheism?

Or is animism directly developing atheism?

Yago prefers the penultimate.

Emphasis on experience and lessons, empiricism is a characteristic of the culture of the celestial dynasty, and the development lines from empiricism to positivism to objective materialism all emphasize experience, empirical evidence, usefulness, conformity to reality, and objectivity.

The people of the celestial dynasty often viewed various religions from these perspectives.

If it exists, if it is confirmed, then admit it and study it.

If you can't confirm, then doubt, and don't affirm and deny without conclusive evidence.

This kind of value judgment often runs through the lives of most people in the celestial dynasty.

However, everything has advantages and disadvantages.

This kind of value judgment has a high error tolerance rate and will reduce the failure rate but...

A person’s cognition is often limited by his knowledge.

Under this kind of values, if the level of knowledge is not enough, you will be restricted even more deadly.

Based on his own experience and education, Yago subconsciously began to doubt Attila’s words:

"You want to say that the knowledge of wizards comes from clergy, for knowledge, they—"

Conspiracy theorists are not uncommon in the celestial dynasty.

Although the development route from empiricism to positivism to objective materialism is the mainstream in China, these things are not developed, and the former will disappear.

It is not because of having a positivist viewpoint that you have already stepped out of empiricism.

In the reality of the celestial dynasty, emphasizing reality is often feasibility.

What works will often be accepted, and what doesn't work will be rejected.