Chapter 53 Faith
There were probably more than 800,000 newborn humans, which was much more than what was described in later myths.
But considering that the area of Kaos in this world is much larger, and the area around the Mediterranean Sea may have been a super-sized island here, so these people do not appear to be too many.
As the God-King, Cronus and the gods who lived on the mountain received the largest share. They returned to Mount Odiles with 300,000 humans, including the original human king.
The Lord of the Outer Sea received one hundred and fifty thousand men, and Pontus and Uriah each received one hundred thousand. The two sea gods brought humans to the island, which was transformed from the fallen celestial bodies and the shattered continent during the battle between Heavenly Father and the gods. And the God of the Mountains and the God-King together brought humans back to their birthplace.
Of the remaining two hundred thousand, Gaia left one hundred thousand around her residence, and the rest was divided among the true gods. Some followed the God of Sky Light to the Underworld, while others were taken to a place on the western border of the continent by the God of Celestial Bodies.
It was the closest place between heaven and earth after the First Age. Koos asked his two daughters to take care of these humans on his behalf.
Before leaving, every god who participated in the creation of mankind left their own image in the Oracle of Delphi. Under the influence of the power of the gods, the oracle has become extraordinary.
One hundred thousand human beings who followed Mother Earth lived together in the great plain surrounding the temple. They built houses imitating the oracles and prayed to the gods for food to survive. So plants that humans can eat grew naturally around them. Every time they picked one, another one would grow, and their vines would never wither.
Newborn humans are grateful. They had nothing else to do except eat and rest, so they worshiped heaven, earth, sun, moon and gods devoutly.
Under the instructions of the gods, temples were built one after another. The first generation of golden humans were naturally strong, had amazing endurance, and had excellent learning abilities. Human beings who were taken away by different gods often used different gods as the main objects of sacrifice. They built temples in different styles according to their preferences in serving the gods.
In this process, perhaps due to the union of soul and body, coupled with devout worship, a mysterious power was born.
The gods noticed it, or maybe they didn't, because they didn't pay attention to it. Perhaps the creation was too deliberate. Human beings in the Golden Age only had positive and beautiful emotions. On this basis, the birth of those mysterious powers also seemed very weak.
This weak power may have some effect on the regional gods. But every god who participated in the creation of man is a true god, and they obviously don't care about this insignificant existence.
Ryan is not surprised by this. At this time, human faith is not strong, because this is the case with life in the spiritual world. Even because they have no body, the faith they bring to Ryan is even rarer.
"Perhaps only a life that has both intelligence and body, and whose mind has not been modified, can give birth to a large number of beliefs."
"Zeus in later generations can even use this to break the upper limit of the priesthood, making the humanistic priesthood equal to the natural priesthood. Even if it is obtained from faith, it must be limited by faith, but this is scary enough."
With some emotion, Ryan looked at the origin of [wine] in the spiritual world.
Weak and weak. Even if the gods are full of praise for this, the so-called 'Bacchus' can only become the true god's gatekeeper with weak divine power.
In comparison, the Dionysus of later generations even took the position of the twelve main gods of Olympus. As long as there is an endless stream of faith, Dionysus will be a powerful god.
Regarding this, Ryan only had some guesses, but since there were still very few beliefs, he was not very sure.
But what he can be sure of is that as the master of spirituality, Chaos is the first to come into contact with the existence of faith. Even he can at most prevent the emergence of faith, but cannot take the faith of others as his own.
It can be seen from this that faith may indeed be biased toward spirituality, but it is by no means derived from pure spirituality.
And Ryan vaguely discovered that obtaining faith does not seem to rely entirely on the so-called 'devout worship'. In other words, the faith gained from simple prayer may only account for a small part of the total, and it fluctuates and may fluctuate at any time due to the mood of mortal beings.
After all, even as the creator of life in the spiritual world, there are only a few spiritual beings who truly believe in Ryan. Even the spiritual beings born later, those who have never seen Ryan, only regard him as more of a symbolic existence.
They respectfully call him the 'Great Ancient Spiritual Will' and consider him to be the world itself without personal thought. In contrast, spiritual beings often worship angels in the spirit world who shuttle between different levels.
"But even so, the faith that Christos have gained is still far less than mine."
"Sure enough, compared to worshiping, which leaves a profound trace in the history of a race, one's own priesthood has extraordinary significance to the race, and has even become part of the cultural inheritance of civilization. The faith brought by these actions is more meaningful than worship. "
Just like the beings in the spiritual world at this time, although they did not have many beliefs in birth, Ryan could still feel that compared to their unconscious sacrifices to themselves, the concept of himself as their creator and the creator of the spiritual world, It brings significantly more faith than the former.
This time, Ryan also went to create humans to verify this conjecture. After all, no evidence can stand alone, and the experience gained simply from beings in the spiritual world may not be suitable for all situations.
But now, Ryan can confirm his thoughts.
As the creator of mankind, Ryan can feel that even if no human knows what kind of god he is, there is still faith coming from the human collective.
He even had a vague feeling that even if the human race of this era completely disappeared from history, not a single living thing would survive. But as long as the 'traces' they left on the world remain, this kind of faith that does not come from worship will continue to flow.
It may be reduced, but it will not disappear completely. This is the intuition brought to Ryan by the priesthood of [History]. Perhaps this magical power derived from intelligent life has a special essence that is difficult to erase with time. Even after passing through the years, it will still last forever.
"It's so magical. Civilization, faith, and life are really the most elusive things in the world."
"But if you put it that way, Prometheus' fate seems not surprising."
"A person who realizes it first? A person who realizes it later?"
"Obviously, it's just that the great fool is like the wise and the great wise is like the foolish."
Recalling his own operations similar to Metis' when the two brothers were born, Ryan gained a deeper understanding of the secrets hidden behind the myths of his previous life.
As the first beings to come into contact with bronze humans, the Fire Thief and his brother may have vaguely discovered the mystery of faith, but in the end, the two made different choices.
The three generations of god-kings also discovered this. Perhaps Pandora's treasure box and the great flood that destroyed the world were essentially Zeus's attempts to test the nature of faith.
He discovered this power, which was still weak at the time, and tested it. The result was gratifying. He further completed the missing part of emotion on the basis of the bronze human being, and then understood that faith is more than just kneeling and worshiping.
And this is probably the key magic weapon that Zeus uses to fight against fate and infinitely delay the birth of the next god king.
Even the subsequent Dionysus and the Twelve Trials of Heracles were just his further exploration of the power of faith.
"Civilized? It coincides with my original plan."
After looking at the empty third spiritual world and the empty third oracle tablet, Ryan finally set his sights on humans.
Following the connection between the spiritual master and the soul, he gently plucked the string in his hand.
So Khaos's first dream was born.
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