Chapter 2344: Betes Fauves (Middle)
Chapter 2344 bêtes fauves (middle)
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a shepherd who accidentally found them in a cave. Due to the dry climate, the parchment and papyrus were well preserved. In addition to the Hebrew version of the Old Testament, there were also fragments of the Book of Enoch.
Compared with his grandson Noah, Enoch is not as well-known. This book records what happened before the Great Flood.
In ancient Rome, the work of reviewing books was always done by the Roman Cultural Works Prosecutor, and later this position was gradually replaced by Christian monks. The church has always been infamous for its ideological confinement, but even though the secular world now has freedom of publication, the priests still do not intend to change.
There are contents in the Book of Enoch that are suspected of slandering angels. When the angels came to the world and married human women, they gave birth to giants. Because the giants were huge and ate much more than ordinary people, they began to rob human food and livestock, and even began to eat people, so a brutal war broke out between humans and giants.
This is similar to the giant war recorded by wizards, but the difference is that the giant war does not record the origin of the giants, but records how to fight the giants.
Giants love to drink, and often want to get drunk without restraint, which became one of their weaknesses in the giant war. At that time, wizards and Muggles did not separate, or rather, they fought side by side. Even if the giants hid in the forest after being defeated, they were still wiped out and almost on the verge of extinction.
In ancient Greek mythology, after Kronos overthrew his father Uranus, in order to avoid being overthrown by his children as predicted, he swallowed his children as soon as they were born, and only Zeus survived. When Zeus became an adult, he designed Kronos to spit out his brothers and sisters, and led them to overthrow the Titan gods headed by Kronos. Most Titans were imprisoned in hell, but some were imprisoned on the Caucasus Mountains like Prometheus, or supported the sky like Atlas.
Legend has it that the king of North Africa is a descendant of Atlas. The Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa are named after Atlas, but the area is inhabited by Berbers. In Berber language, the word for "mountains" is Adra or adras, so this is also considered to be the origin of the name of the Atlas Mountains.
Although the Berbers are now concentrated in West Africa and a small number can be found in Egypt, they were actually active in Syria at first. At least they once established countries in Algeria and Tunisia, which are close to Carthage. They lived as nomads in their early years.
Later, the Berbers began to do business, monopolizing the "Silk Road" through the Sahara Desert, and also played a very important role in the Mediterranean trade. They are distributed not only in Africa, but also in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Frankincense originated in the Red Sea area. The "Spice Road" is a trade that coexists with the "Silk Road" to communicate Europe, Asia and Africa. They are both depraved and needed for worshiping God, such as the gorgeous robes worn by priests and the incense in their hands.
In the Book of Enoch, angels taught women and their children how to make beautiful handicrafts, leading humans astray. In addition, their giant children became increasingly cruel. They drank blood as wine. The earth, unable to bear such sin, protested. Then the Supreme God sent angels to tell Noah that the whole world would be destroyed, and the flood would fill the earth and destroy everything. Noah had to choose the seeds of the world, and all those he chose would live, while those illegitimate children and fallen people would be destroyed.
There is a country called Abyssinia on the Red Sea, but this is the name of the Christian world. It is an "enclave". Da Gama once led the Portuguese musketeers to defeat the army of Sultan Adal, but was defeated and killed by Arab mercenaries. Emperor Galavides led the remnants of the Portuguese army to defeat the Sultan's army with fewer troops and regained the lost land.
The Bible records that the Queen of Sheba once went to Jerusalem with rich gifts to meet King Solomon of Israel. King Solomon met all the requests of the Queen of Sheba and gave her gifts according to his own kindness, so the queen and her servants returned home.
She took away more than just Solomon's gifts. It is said that the queen gave birth to King Solomon's offspring soon after returning home, and this child later became the emperor of Abyssinia.
During the Great Schism of the Eastern and Western Churches, the priests of the diocese were neither Roman Catholics nor Greek Orthodox, but Arians. After the emperor recovered the lost territory, Portuguese missionaries came to Abyssinia and tried to establish the authority of Catholicism in the diocese, which led to the outbreak of civil war. Then the emperor expelled the Portuguese missionaries and restored the traditional religion. Then the Solomon dynasty gradually began to Byzantineize. More than one emperor was killed by his son, the emperor's power declined, the status of the dukes, governors and tribal leaders of the provinces rose, and the empire gradually disintegrated into a series of independent or semi-independent kingdoms.
In 1773, a Scottish explorer named James Bruce came to Abyssinia to explore the secrets of the giants.
At that time, the Book of Enoch could no longer be found in the whole of Europe, but it was still in the Abyssinian Church. He copied a copy by hand and brought it back to Europe.
Although the printing of this book was not allowed in the UK, people were not prevented from copying it by hand and circulating it.
Talleyrand published "Letters of German Patriots" in Prussia to oppose the rule of Habsburg. The Habsburg family married everywhere and almost surrounded France. To the east was the Habsburg of Austria, to the south was the Habsburg of Spain, and to the west was England across a sea. Only in the north was Louis XIV allowed to annex it in the name of "heritage". This Spanish Netherlands was later annexed by the Habsburg family. Charles II, who happened to be expelled by Cromwell, was in exile in France. The two formed an alliance and attacked the Netherlands ruled by the Orange family together.
It was also the success of the Habsburgs that made Spain once intend to marry the Abyssinian emperor.
At present, the Abyssinian Church adopts the patriarchal system, which is similar to the Orthodox Church, but not the same. The archbishop of this diocese is concurrently served by Patriarch Alexander. Patriarch Alexander is second only to the Patriarch of the West and the Patriarch of Constantinople, and higher than the Patriarch of the East and the Patriarch of Jerusalem. In other words, the Patriarch of Tsarist Russia cannot control them.
The Eastern Patriarch had no control over them, and the Western Pope had nothing to do with them, and the Scottish explorer might have been mistaken as an envoy of the Church of England, otherwise the Book of Enoch would not be open to "mortals".
This was Georgiana's guess, and she was not sure whether it was true. In the past, merchants only sold cheap books with rough paper to rough people, and only wealthy churches could afford books with beautiful bindings. Belgium has rich coal resources, and there is a lot of charcoal in the Ardennes region, but this can only be used for burning fires for heating, not for industry.
If the alkali process equation of Leblanc is followed, carbon monoxide gas will be produced. The useful part of coal gas is mainly carbon monoxide, and water vapor will hinder combustion. Although sulfur monoxide can burn, it will produce an unpleasant odor and is not suitable for burning indoors.
The gas lamps newly installed in Paris cost only one-fifth of the cost of street lamps burning with whale fat. There was once a Swiss who improved the oil of kerosene lamps so that the black smoke and odor produced by burning were not so strong. However, when he applied for a patent, he accidentally touched some terms, which led to the failure of the patent application. His technology was "open" for use, and others made a lot of money, while he died in poverty.
And even if the patent is applied for legally, there will be people who refuse to pay, and there will even be people who will find ways to prevent the patent owner from continuing to hold the patent when the patent expires. For example, John Lombe, an explorer from Derbyshire, learned about the twisting machine in a book introducing Padua machinery, and then went to Italy to look for it. After he imitated the machine he saw to twist cotton yarn, he applied for a patent for fourteen years. He built a factory on an island and kept it strictly confidential. He made a lot of money because of this. When he wanted to extend the patent period, other manufacturers made him give up in the form of compensation and rewards.
They could also use "impolite" means, but it would be bad for everyone, not to mention that Thomas Lombe, who provided funds to John, has become a member of parliament and a viscount.
People should stop when they see the good, and not be too greedy. Even the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk did not kill the golden chicken that laid eggs. The giant just shouted to the poor chicken every day, "Lay more eggs, you useless bird." The scolded chicken could not lay eggs because of tension. The giant did not kill it, but made a fairy harp and played a beautiful melody to comfort the poor chicken.
No wonder the giant lived in the sky like the Titans, and Jack "took" the chicken and the harp away when the giant took a nap, and then he quickly cut down the vines to prevent the giant from chasing, and then he announced that the chicken and the harp were "free" and would live "happily" with Jack!
"Lay more eggs, you useless bird."
Many years later, will the old Jack say the same thing as the old giant? Or Jack, who "defeated" the giant with wisdom, killed the chicken and looked into its belly to figure out why it laid golden eggs?
The animals on Noah's Ark were all in pairs, and the chicken that laid golden eggs would also grow old. Before it got old, find a partner for it so that its offspring could continue, and young hens could lay eggs.
Severus always scolded the children as little trolls. Although trolls are as tall as giants, they are different species.
But wizards would not believe that giants are the descendants of fallen angels, which is too ridiculous.
Even if the Ardennes Forest no longer produces charcoal, paper can be made from wood, but is there such technology now?
This is a good question. The forest is a lawless place, a paradise for thieves who rob and kill people, and a refuge for the weak. Whether it is villagers avoiding war or homeless vagrants, they all settle in the forest belt. They drag their children and squeeze into huts made of branches and grass stems. Only a few people get rich by reclaiming wasteland, and then have brick and wood houses built.
Places like Cayenne are similar, with nothing but trees and swamps, so how did Pichegru return to the civilized world from that place of exile?
Although the nobles also had to hunt, unfortunately they sometimes forgot to exercise this right. Many wild animals harassed the plains. Deer would eat the farmers' crops, and pigs would dig up the potatoes in the fields. The cost of maintaining the land was more than the tithe, especially the hares, which not only destroyed the vines, but also ate the wild fruits that could be collected. The lords did not hunt, or they all ran away to Versailles. The villagers did not have the privilege to hunt, so they had to hire hunters to deal with it.
In order to kill these harmful animals, the king allowed ordinary people in Provence to use lassoes, traps or guns within their own cultivated land, and allowed them not to put ropes on sheepdogs. This violated the ban of the local high court, but whether it was allowed or not, farmers always caught prey.
There are always people who want to eat meat, especially when famine occurs, they want to eat everything.
Those pairs of eyes in the dark glowed like wolves, so that it was difficult to tell whether the people hiding in the forest were people or beasts...
They may be more dangerous than wolves, because they are intelligent and can hide, at least not as conspicuous as giants.
If the giants were not extinct, then where did the giants go?