Chapter 23 Killing the God-King: Gods Die Too

Man, who created gods in his own image, is mortal, and he naturally thinks his creatures are in a similarly deplorable condition.Therefore, the Greenlanders believe that the wind can kill their most powerful god, and that if a god touches a dog, he will surely die. When they hear about the Christian God, they always ask him if he will never die. Amazed, and said He must be a very great God indeed.A North American Indian answered Colonel Dodge's inquiry and said: The world was created by God.Ask him which great god he is referring to, is it good or evil? "Oh, neither," he replied, "the God who created the world is long dead. He cannot have lived so long." A tribe in the Philippine Islands told the Spanish conquistadors that the Creator's tomb was in the On the top of Mount Bunyan.The Hottentots had a god or divine hero named Hertz-Irby who died several times and came back to life again.His graves are usually found on the narrow roads in the mountains.When the Hotuntaut people walked through his tomb, they would throw a stone towards the grave to pray for good luck, and sometimes they would say in a low voice: "Give us a lot of animals." The tomb of Zeus, the great Greek god, goes to 20 At the beginning of the century, it can also be pointed out to tourists who come to Crete.The body of Dionysus was buried at Delphi, next to the golden statue of Apollo, and his tomb bears the epitaph: "Here is dead Dionysus, son of Semele." According to one According to one theory, Apollo himself was buried at Delphi, because, it is said, Pythagoras carved an inscription on his tomb, describing how the god was killed by a serpent and buried under a bronze altar.

The great gods of Egypt themselves could not escape this common fate.They too will grow old and die.Later, the art of oil embalming was invented, which could prevent the corpses of the dead from decomposing, and gave the souls of the dead a new chance of life. God also shared the benefits of this invention, and had a reasonable hope of eternal life.As a result, each region has its own tomb and mummies of the god of death.Osiris [Egyptian god name, equivalent to Dionysus, the Roman god of wine. ]'s mummy was later seen at Mendez; Denis was proud of having Anhori's mummy; Heliopolis was delighted to have Taumu's mummy.The great gods of Babylon, though only in the dreams or visions of their worshipers, were supposed to have human form, human feelings, and a fate like that of man; for they were born into this world like man, Love, fight and die just like people.