145 Myth vs Truth(1/2)
While listening to Tang Erwa being thoughtful, Bai Tianxiu calculated the time.
Two years ago, when Tang Erwa graduated from university, it was in 2012.
After the so-called round, it is 2024.
Of course, Bai Tianxiu from 2126 will not forget that in the junior high school history textbook, 2024 is called the first year of destruction.
Tang Erwa's "crazy talk after drinking" no matter whether others believe it or not, she has been revealed during the day.
It is precisely because of my belief that Bai Tianxiu developed a strong sense of curiosity.
There are many different opinions on why the planet that was known as the Golden Age suddenly collapsed.
There are thousands of sayings circulating among the people and on the Internet, and none of them have credibility.
Even the history professors who claim to be authoritative cannot explain the real reason for the destruction of that year.
And now, Bai Tianxiu is infinitely close to the truth.
According to legend, only the ten guardians know the root cause of the destruction.
At this time, the person who was sitting at the same table with Bai Tianxiu was exactly one of the patron saints of the future.
The puzzle that puzzles that have been confused for a hundred years in the future is right in front of you, and you can imagine how Bai Tian showed his mood at this moment.
He asked directly: "Why is the world destroyed?"
Tang Erwa was shocked: "Brother, aren't you scared by me?"
Bai Tianxiu smiled and said, "Just treat it as listening to the story, you can just say it, I can just listen to it."
"Okay, I'm missing someone to listen to the story. Don't you know how miserable I have been in the past two years. I don't even dare to say that my old man is, for fear that they will send me to a mental hospital!"
Tang Erwa seems to have been holding it in for too long, and the secret in her heart is unhappy if she doesn't vomit.
Now it is rare to meet a soulmate, Tang Erwa has made a sacrifice:
"It was 2012, and there was a saying in the West that the world was destroyed in 2012 and Noah's Ark needed to save some people."
"I don't believe in this at all. That [Guiyuan Zhenren] brainwashed me every day, and every time I fell asleep, I would instill some unscientific things in me."
"I woke up during the day and ran to check the information. I wanted to criticize the old man in my dream, and the theory of scolding him was untenable."
"Do you know that the more information I checked, the more reasonable the old turtle said."
"I checked for two months and I've believed what he said..."
Speaking of this, Tang Erwa began to drink again to suppress his shock.
Bai Tianxiu clinked a cup with the other party and asked, "What did that real person Guiyuan say?"
Tang Erwa put down his wine glass and began to discuss it in a long way:
"He told me a few stories, don't look at the old man who is an oriental, he tells all the stories of foreigners."
"The first story is about the Sumerians. The cuneiform clay tablets unearthed back then record the myths and legends of Mesopotamia. In ancient times, a shocking flood occurred on this planet."
"The clay board records this way: in the distant era, four gods ruled the planet together, namely the God of Heaven, the Great Guardian God, the God of War and Love, and the God of Water."
"The water god cares most about human beings and is the guardian god of mankind. In that era, the earth was very dense, human beings continued to reproduce, and the whole world was full of noise, like a roar of bison, which made the gods unable to sleep. When the guardian god heard the noise of the world, he said to the gods on his seat: The noise of human beings is really harsh, and it makes us unable to rest."
"Then the gods decided to destroy humanity."
"The God of Water Pity and came to the palace and stood outside the reed wall and told the king in the hall that a great disaster was about to happen on earth. He had to build a ship to save the lives of the family."
"The God of Water said: Demolition your house, build a ship, abandon all your property, and run away quickly! Don't be attached to the real world, save the soul is important... Listen, quickly demolish the house, build a ship with a balanced and proportional length and width according to a certain size. Store the seeds of all living things in the world in the ship."
Hearing this, Bai Tianxiu let out a mouth: "Why does it sound a bit like the legend of Noah's Ark?"
"If it were that simple, I wouldn't be scared." Tang Erwa smiled bitterly: "The Sumerians who had long been extinct appeared in the Middle East. If I hadn't checked the information, I wouldn't have known that the same plot would have appeared on the other side of this planet."
"The Bible clearly records the myth: God's Lord God regrets creating man when he sees the sins of mankind become increasingly greater and all his thoughts are evil things all day long, so he regrets creating man, so he said, "I will destroy all the people and beasts, insects, and birds in the air from the earth, because I regret it."
"But there was a perfect man named Noah, who had three sons. The Lord of God told him, "You shall make an ark with Gopherwood, and make one by one, and apply rosin to the outside."
"The Lord told Noah's method of making the ark, and then said, "I will make the flood over the earth and destroy the world. All living creatures with flesh and breath on the earth will die. But I will make a covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your wife, your son, and your daughter-in-law. All living creatures with flesh and blood, two, one male and one female, will bring them into the ark, and for your sake, your life will be preserved."
"Then Noah followed the command of the Lord, and after seven days the flood began to flood. The fountains of the great abyss were cracked, and the windows of heaven were also opened."
"The heavy rain fell for forty days and nights, and the water surface became higher and higher, and the mountains in the world were submerged, and all life was eliminated from the earth, and the water continued for a huge period of 150 days. Then the water gradually faded, and the ark stopped on Mount Aralat."
"The top of the mountain appeared, and the earth dried several months later. The Lord asked Noah and his family to come out of the ark and lead all the pairs of creatures to breed in the earth after the disaster."
After a pause, Tang Erwa picked up the wine glass and said, "I thought at the time that one of the authors of these two stories must be copying homework, and I don't know who copied whom."
Bai Tianxiu nodded: "These two stories are indeed the same, maybe it is a coincidence."
"If there is another story, it won't be a coincidence."
Tang Erwa was bored and told the third story:
"There is a similar legend in Greek mythology."
"The god Zeus ruled the earth. Seeing that humans are becoming more and more cruel and unjust, people's hearts are becoming more and more sinister, the strong are prey on the weak, justice and etiquette are gradually leaving people, he said: Humans are the source of disasters in the world. If they pity them and let them enjoy themselves, they will reproduce immediately and become arrogant and arrogant. If they punish them and cause them to suffer some disaster, they will certainly restrain themselves, but they will fall in an instant and do everything evil. Therefore, it is better to destroy them at once."
"Zeus called the gods to meet at Mount Olympus and decided to make heavy rain and cause floods to drown humans."
"Prometheus, who was punished for stealing fire to humans, had a son named Jukelin who was living with humans in the world. Jukelin advised humans to be good from time to time so as not to be punished by God."
"One day, Jukelin visited his father at Mount Olympus. Prometheus told him: Zeus will soon drown all mankind with the flood, so you should prepare for your life."
"After going down the mountain, Jiukailin immediately built a solid boat and put daily necessities on the boat to take refuge. Sure enough, in a few days, heavy rain fell from the sky. After several months, the flood flooded the entire land and even the mountains were submerged."
"A few months later, the heavy rain stopped, and the boat of Jukelin drifted to the top of Mount Parnasas. Soon the water gradually receded and the earth appeared again, but my eyes were vast, and I could only pray to the oracle and instruct them what to do. God said, "Cover your heads, walk up the hillside, and pick up your mother's bones and throw them back."
"They guessed that since their mother was the earth, their bones were stones, so they picked up the stones and threw them back. Sure enough, miracle happened. What Ju Kailin lost became a man, and the stones thrown by his wife turned into women, and humans reappeared on the earth."
After listening, Bai Tianxiu fell into deep thought.
Until Tang Erwa clinked glasses with him again, Bai Tianxiu came to her senses and said, "The three stories you told have a unified view - human beings are the source of all evil, and will be destroyed at a certain stage."
"Yes, I felt that way at that time." Tang Erwa led Bai Tianxiu as his confidant and said endlessly: "But True Man Guiyuan has another view. He believes that kind and upright people are worth continuing."
"He felt that good people were not rewarded was a saying of revenge on society. The human beings who eventually survived in the three stories were a group of kind people."
"The old turtle also went from theology to science with me. He said that the descendants of good people inherit the genes of goodness and pass on them from generation to generation, the new human beings in the future will evolve into a new direction."
"The old man also said that when the number of human beings accumulates to a certain level, sin will inevitably breed, and then another destruction will be caused."
"Then the infinite cycle, and the surviving part of the good people will continue to continue and continue to evolve."
"He said that humans who are on the right path of evolution must pursue truth, goodness and beauty."
Hearing this, Bai Tianxiu was stunned for a moment.
When he was a child, he heard from the old director of the welfare home that decades ago, when the alliance had only 500 million people, people were very kind, helped each other, and were willing to help others. At that time, people were relatively simple.
It was not until the alliance's population exceeded 800 million, and it gradually became more and more scented.
After a billion people, in this era when people showed their lives during the day, people's hearts are no longer so simple.
This shows how many cybershocks he experienced on his way to winning the championship.
Despite this, Bai Tianxiu still didn't believe such a mysterious statement in her heart: "The so-called gods always use a flood to solve problems? This is not right. Dayu, the flood control in our east, is very positive."
"Haha, I was also against that old man like this at that time." Tang Erwa laughed and soon couldn't laugh again: "But the old man used another story to make me hurt."
"Before Dayu controlled the flood, the earliest major flood in Chinese mythology originated from Gonggong's anger that hit Buzhou Mountain."
"The Gonggong and Zhurong fought, and the Gonggong soldiers were defeated and crashed into Buzhou Mountain. The Buzhou Mountain was a pillar supporting the sky. It was broken by Gonggong's collision. So half of the sky collapsed, and a large hole was exposed in the sky, and the earth also cracked into ditch marks. Floods gushed out from the ground, rolling waves spread across the earth, and a vast ocean, and humans could no longer survive in this situation."
"Niwa, who created humans, saw this tragic disaster, refined five-colored stones to repair the sky, cut off the four legs of the turtle as pillars to support the four directions, kill the black dragon to save Jizhou, and pile up reed ash to stop the big water. The sky is repaired, and the four directions are straightened. The water is dry and the sky is laid again, and the cautious and kind people can survive."
"Note that it is the cautious and kind person who survives."
"This myth doesn't clearly point out that human beings were corrupting at the time like other stories, but it also sets a point - only kind people can stay and enter a new era."
Bai Tianxiu thoughtfully and started a discussion: "Do you believe this myth?"
Tang Erwa revealed the temperament of a down-and-out artist: "I think myths, legends, and superstitions are three different things. They cannot be beaten to death just because they don't sound very scientific. I used to study art and studied many statues and buildings, but some things cannot be explained, such as the Egyptian pyramids and the giant statue of Easter Island."
"British ethnologist Fraser once pointed out that among the more than 130 Indian races in North, Central and South America, each race has a myth with the theme of the Great Flood."
"From such records spread all over the world, we can draw a conclusion: in ancient times, humans did go through devastating flood disasters. This historical memory spread all over the world could not be a random myth. These flood myths actually express the same historical reality."
Bai Tianxiu asked, "So, did you still believe it?"
"It was shaken, but I didn't believe it all." Tang Erwa said: "The true man Guiyuan didn't believe it when he saw that I was beaten to death, so he started a debate with me. The sin I thought in my heart was just those who committed serious crimes. The old turtle had another view, and the sin was hidden in the hearts of mankind. Therefore, every major disaster would destroy at least 90% of mankind."
"I asked him: Is the Sumerians just quarrel at the gods in the sky, and they caused a catastrophe. Is it fair?"
"He did not answer whether I was fair or not, and said lightly: The square dance on the ground will make the gods in the sky not peaceful."
"I asked him again: Is it appropriate for Jesus to destroy mankind just because he regrets creating mankind and leave only Noah's family?"
"He answered this: If the Lord saw the present human beings, he would regret it even more."
"I was not convinced and asked him again: Zeus had the final say. He said that human beings are the source of disaster in the world. If one disagrees, he would destroy all human beings. Is it reasonable?"
"The answers to the True Man Guiyuan this time are different. He said: Is it the source of disaster in the world? I will take you to see it."
Hearing this, Bai Tianxiu was extremely curious: "What are you going to see?"
Tang Erwa drank again and said with a slight fear, "He took me through time and space. That night, I seemed to have experienced countless years and couldn't wake up. I saw the future 2013, 2014, and until the last 2024."
To be continued...