Chapter 655

It is not so easy to use the power of mythology just like using the power of fairy tales.

(ceaf) Even Athena, the goddess of wisdom, has doubts about this.

"Even if it's the myth where I live, I don't think those poets have the same identity and that's why they sang the content!"

The silver-haired petite goddess said very puzzledly.

There are traces of the ideas of fairy tale writers.

Whether it's Grimm's fairy tales or Andersen's fairy tales.

A large number of its stories have been compiled and adapted by the author.

Since it comes from the mouth of one person, it is not surprising that there is some ideological unity.

Therefore, it is not difficult to extract the core from the fairy tale.

But the myth is different.

The intricate myth itself has a confusing origin, and has since been embellished and re-created by various poets.

Athena is a goddess who came to the earth thousands of years ago.

During the Age of Gods, they also had a certain understanding of the human world.

Therefore, she knew very well the nature of those poets who sang myths.

Those poets with a casual style basically have all kinds of strange personalities, and what they value is completely different.

It is simply impossible to expect these casual poets to reach some kind of consensus in the creation of myths.

These poets have different thoughts and experiences in different eras.

A myth that is unified after creation.

To say it was a big mess would be an understatement.

I want to find some kind of unified core in the myths compiled by these poets who have never collaborated with each other.

That's simply impossible.

This doubt about Athena.

Su Mo just shook his head.

"Consensus is something that cannot be achieved by agreeing in advance."

"Since it is the core of the record of the myth itself, as the key to the myth, it is naturally the content that is least likely to be modified."

"No matter how the gods themselves change, no matter how the myths themselves are distorted and rewritten, the most precious thing about myths is the ideas that can still be preserved over a long period of time."

Even if it is the world of God Killers.

This god of disobedience has many vests and a world where the relationships between gods are complicated.

Even in these myths, even the very important gods are not even their own gods.

The core of the myth itself has still been preserved.

No matter how the name of the god changes, no matter how the deeds of the god change.

In the end, what remains unchanged is the most precious core of myth.

"That is - cosmology.".

Chapter 520

"Cosmology?"

After hearing Su Mo's words, Athena tilted her head in confusion.

She is no stranger to this term.

In the study of mythology, this is often mentioned.

Cosmology refers to a kind of conjecture and hypothesis about the composition of the world by ancient humans as reflected in mythology.

This also includes human beings’ understanding of the world.

The most important thing is naturally the discussion of the universe model.

For example, China was born very early and established the Tao idea of ​​the unity of nature and man.

On the basis of this unchanged thought, the hypothesis of the universe model has been advancing with the times.

From the round sky and the square place to the theory of Gaitian, Huntian and Xuanye.

Getting closer and closer to the real universe model.

in this regard.

Western civilization also had an era of the theory of cosmic motion. After the theory of cosmic motion was denied, it was gradually replaced by the theory of seismic motion, leading to today's scientific universe model.

If the so-called cosmology refers to this.

It's exactly what Su Mo said.

No matter how the god's divinity changes.

No matter how distorted the myth itself is.

As the most basic setting of the world view, it almost never changes.

"It's just that this kind of thing doesn't have much to do with the main theme of the myth, right?"

Athena asked very puzzled.

If the myth itself is a story, the model of the universe is nothing more than a stage.

The stage itself, no matter how it is changed, shouldn't have much meaning.

At least, it shouldn't be able to determine the core of the story.

"Yes, the model of the universe itself is not particularly important."

Su Mo nodded and agreed with her statement.

Then, the words changed.

"However, a cosmology is not the same as a cosmology model."

After shaking his head, he didn't say anything, but said it bluntly.

"As the core thing of mythology, the most important thing about the cosmology itself is not the settings about the universe model, but the discussion about the relationship between human beings and the world."

Literary works are, after all, people-centered and human-centered narratives.

This is true even for myths and legends.

Therefore, compared with the model of the universe, the relationship between humans and the world is the most important part of the myth system.

"In a society that tends to be stable, people living in the same era often have certain commonalities in their thinking about the world. This commonality is the key that even the poets who collect myths, process and create them have not noticed. ”

If we say that the mythical stories themselves are sung by the poets who sang epic poems.

Then, I am afraid that when they created these myths, the poets themselves were not aware of the self-consciously justified thoughts in their minds!

It is as if fate borrowed the hands of the poet to complete the mythical epic.

"For example, Zoroastrianism, or Zoroastrianism, has a cosmology based on the concept of [good and evil dualism]."

"They believe that humans should resist temptation and devote themselves to good in order to defeat evil."

"In this cosmology, 'good' and 'evil' are naturally the two most important cores. And, according to the prophecies in mythology, good is destined to defeat evil."

"Therefore, only good gods and evil gods can get the greatest support from the Zoroastrian cosmology, and the evil gods will eventually be defeated, and the good gods can dominate everything."

Su Mo used Zoroastrianism, which he was very familiar with, as an example to explain.

Compared with other myths.

Zoroastrianism's cosmology is the most famous and the easiest to understand.

The Zoroastrian mythology tells one thing from beginning to end.

- Good will defeat evil!

Therefore, if you want to get enough power bonus in the Zoroastrian mythology system.

You only need to have the attributes of the good god and get the corresponding destiny bonus.

Although I don't know how big this bonus can be.

However, since the Last King has obtained the bonus of the Hero's Fate, he can obtain combat power that surpasses the God Slayer level.

Then if Su Mo passes the Demon God Ceremony and becomes a three-digit omnipotent domain.

If he obtains the corresponding destiny bonus.

Wouldn't he be able to access the power of the cosmic truth level.

Directly become a three-digit exception, and even have the hope of being promoted to a two-digit omnipotent domain? !

If that's the case, it would really be a step to heaven.

Of course.

The myths of the God Slayer world are naturally not enough to support this level of power.

Only the myths of the box garden world can allow Su Mo to obtain enough bonuses.

"The dualism of good and evil..."

Hearing Su Mo's example, the petite silver-haired goddess nodded slightly.

The doctrine of Zoroastrianism can be said to be a rare type that is put on the surface.

It is indeed not difficult to grasp the main theme of this myth.

If other myths are the same.

It seems that it is not difficult to grasp the main theme.

"However, the Greek mythology where I am now seems to have no definite main theme."

Athena thought for a while and frowned slightly.

Half of Greek mythology is Theogony, which tells the story of the gods, starting from Uranus and Gaia.

The other half is Homer's Epic, which mainly tells the story of heroes with heroes as the protagonists and the gods occasionally interfering.

The goddess of victory Athena occupies a lot of space in it.

But even as a witness of the myth, she could not imagine that her own mythology had any clear theme like [dualism of good and evil].

In Greek mythology, heroes are active in the center of the stage, but even if they are the sons of gods, they are not necessarily victorious.

The gods' interference, conspiracy, betrayal... There are not a few heroes who died in various trials, and the heroes have failed many times.

As the center of the myth, the gods are not divided into different poles of good and evil like Zoroastrianism, fighting each other according to camps.

Instead, they are overthrown again and again in the continuous cycle of replacement.

For this type of myth, it is difficult to extract a sufficiently convincing core.

Even as the goddess of wisdom, she is a little stuck.

However, after a little thought, she realized something, but she just didn't grasp the key point.

·· ····Please give me flowers··· ·····

Noticing that she was just one step away from success, Su Mo reminded her.

"Remember the myth of Sisyphus?"

Sisyphus is the founder and king of Corinth in Greek mythology.

He was punished by the gods for kidnapping the god of death and was required to push the boulder to the top of the mountain.

But because the boulder was too heavy and the top of the mountain was too steep.

So every time before reaching the top of the mountain, the boulder would roll down and all the previous efforts would be wasted.

He had to push the stone again.

Sisyphus accepted this hopeless punishment day after day, and his story was also called a typical example of repetition, endless, and ultimately futile.