Starting From The Stone Age And Becoming Extraordinary After Constructing Stonehenge - Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Gods and Humans

While Tan Weili was returning to the palace with Hathor and Bastet, Isis was not idle either.

She first announced the news of Horus’ birth to her and Osiris’ temple.

When the priests of both sides learned that the god they believed in had a child, they naturally did not dare to be negligent.

They erected the statue of Horus in the temple.

After a round of consultation, the priests of both sides decided to jointly fund the construction of a temple for Horus. They also drew manpower from the priest groups of both sides to provide enough servants for the new god. At the same time, some of the priests of Isis were running around amongst Egyptian nobles, telling them about Osiris’ death and the birth of Horus.

As the Egyptian nobles in this world were all secular forces in charge of land and military power, there were very few individuals with divinity among them.

Naturally, the gods’ interference with them was also very little.

And this also made them maintain a skeptical attitude towards the existence of gods.

As the Ethiopia King had just killed the old pharaoh in the Pharaoh’s Palace, the new pharaoh had chased away the enemy’s surprise attack force by himself.

Thus, in the eyes of many secular nobles, Osiris’ death and the birth of Horus also had an unusual meaning.

The aristocrats were all guessing whether there was a hidden game between the pharaohs and the priests behind this legend…

While they were speculating, Tan Weili brought the two sisters back to the palace.

Isis expressed a warm welcome to the two sisters, especially to Hathor.

Under her arrangement, a grand banquet was held in the palace.

In order to prepare for this banquet, Tan Weili, at the request of Isis, organized a grand ceremony in the human world in the name of the pharaoh to target Horus, Isis, Hathor, and Bastet.

The priests offered large amounts of livestock, meat, bread, and wine to the altar, and used them to project delicious food to the Divine Realm.

Then, under Tan Weili’s orders, the sacrifices were sent back to the palace by the priests.

Then, a few young girls wearing masks, who played the images of Isis, Hathor, and Bastet, held a banquet with Sekeheim, who was the subject of Tan Weili’s identity in the human world.

After the corresponding preparation ceremony was completed in the human world, the gods began to hold a banquet in the Divine Realm.

At the banquet, Isis was very enthusiastic about Hathor. She asked her to eat more and asked her about her physical condition since she had just woken up.

She also asked Tan Weili to take Hathor around and prepare all kinds of gifts for her.

Under Isis’ passionate attack, Hathor’s face was red.

Tan Weili, on the other hand, was a little absent-minded. He only occasionally showed an awkward expression when his eyes met Bastet’s.

However, this trace of embarrassment fell into Bastet’s eyes, and she couldn’t help but laugh.

She looked like a fox who had stolen a fish.

Just an hour after Isis and Hathor chatted, Horus’ mother, the Goddess of Magic, suddenly changed the topic and asked Tan Weili,”On your way back to the palace, did you feel anything wrong with the noble groups?”

“What?”

Tan Weili was obviously taken aback when he heard Isis suddenly ask him this.

He thought to himself, ‘Could it be that some noble saw that I’m young in the human world and my status is not firm, so they’re preparing to attack me?’

If that was the case, Tan Weili didn’t mind showing the noble what it meant to have inviolable royal power!

Looking at the murderous look in Tan Weili’s eagle eyes, Isis certainly saw through her son’s thoughts.

She said helplessly, “What are you thinking? I didn’t mean it that way!”

“I’m asking you, did you hear the nobles discussing Horus?”

Tan Weili only reacted when he heard that.

He carefully thought about it, and finally remembered that he had indeed heard the nobles talk about Horus.

Because of the existence of gods in this world, those who had divinity and could hear the voice of the gods would naturally be siphoned away by the religious group and become a member of the priest group. This also caused the nobles who ruled the secular world to generally lack divinity, and there was basically no communication and interaction between them and the gods.

Many nobles even questioned the existence of the gods, thinking that those gods were just a scam created by the priests to fool the lower class.

Therefore, in the face of Horus’ birth, they inevitably linked this incident to the previous Ethiopian King’s bloodbath in the palace, the killing of the old pharaoh, Possibson, and the driving away of the new pharaoh, Sekeheim. After Sekeheim came to power, he massacred the group of priests who had offended him and supported the priests who listened to him.

Because they had always been skeptical about the existence of gods, the nobles connected the series of recent events and came to a logically self-consistent but slightly different conclusion from reality. They concluded that all this was the new pharaoh’s campaign to seize power!

Before Sekeheim came to power in Egypt the pharaohs were all the incarnations of Osiris, the messengers of Sun God Ra to rule the world.

Therefore, from a legal point of view, the pharaoh had to make a lot of compromises to the priests who worshipped the gods.

However, after Sekeheim came to power, the messenger of Ra, Osiris, died, and the news of the birth of Horus, the God of Royalty and Law, began to spread widely.

In the eyes of the nobles, the new priest did not want to be the messenger of God Ra, but wanted to rule Egypt with his own power!

Tan Weili didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the nobles’ imaginations.

However, because the logic of the story was self-consistent and quite in line with his aesthetics, Tan Weili did not raise any objections. Instead, he acquiesced to the aristocrats looking at the problem with this historical materialism.

Thinking of this, Tan Weili asked Isis in confusion,”I’ve heard about the nobles’ thoughts, but I can’t comment on it… After all, the nobles cannot come into contact with the gods, so it is good for them to think this way… If we explain it to them, we’ll only create unnecessary trouble.”

But Isis said, “Child, it seems that you still haven’t noticed where the problem is.”

“Alright! Your rate of growth has already exceeded my imagination. Perhaps I should tell you the nature of gods.”

The nature of gods?

Tan Weili was curious when he heard that.

Tan Weili had grown up in 21st century China.

He knew very little about theology.

Moreover, it was still uncertain if the theology of his previous life could explain the gods of this world.

Therefore, the nature of gods had always been a problem that troubled Tan Weili.

After taking a deep look at her son, Isis suddenly asked him, “Child, in your opinion, in this world, is it the gods who created humans, or the humans who created the

gods?”

“This…”

Upon hearing this, Tan Weili instantly recalled his life in the Stone Age.

It had been millions of years since human civilization learned to walk upright from the trees in the African jungle in ancient times.

The gods appeared much later.

At the very least, the gods of the Egyptian pantheon had only been around for a few hundred years.

With this understanding, Tan Weili replied, “If there must be a creator and a created one between humans and gods, then I’m inclined to believe that humans created

gods.”

Upon hearing this, Isis sighed and said, “Child, why do we have to separate a creator and a created one?”

“Why can’t we and humans create each other?”