Is there a general God in the world? Leave this issue aside. As far as religion is concerned, it is the product of human nature in a repressed environment. In their bones, human beings never believe in any gods, never worship any gods, but only believe in themselves and only worship themselves. And the key point that enables humans to worship is ability. If Moses hadn't split the Red Sea and led the Israelites out of Egypt; if what came out of the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun was not an immortal golden elixir, but an ordinary baked potato; if...whether there will be religion in the world is still a question.
When human beings are relatively weak in their ability to grasp nature, we regard the ability to grasp nature as gods or regard any intelligent creatures that can grasp nature as gods. When man's ability to conquer nature becomes stronger with the development of productive forces, we take back some of the power from God. That is, the more powerful the human beings, the less power the gods have. If we could one day govern the entire universe with the laws of physics, there would certainly be no gods by then. To put it bluntly, the object of religious worship is a man rather than a god, and what people worship is the future man.
This view is also suitable for the situation when "God" really exists because what impresses humans is not God's form, but God's power, which has a lot of evidence in prehistoric mythology. In the primitive myths of various nations in the world, the form of gods is not preserved, and what is left in large numbers are only incomparably powerful abilities. We call them "magic powers", the legend of the Arabian magic lamp, and the seventy-two magical powers of the Chinese Monkey King. Wait, without these powers, these gods are just like us, and we wouldn't worship them. God is the power itself and the carrier of power.
Of course, modern orthodoxy does not recognize the existence of gods in religions and primitive myths, because primitive people imagine gods out of thin air. Since there are no gods, myths are of course nonsense.
So, are the gods and spirits in the prehistoric civilization of human beings imagined out of thin air, or is there a certain factual basis?
"What is God?" This is a serious and absurd question raised by people in the process of studying the worship of gods, myths, and idols of early humans in recent years. The reason for this problem is as follows: it is generally believed that after the primitive people personified the power of nature, they produced the first gods, attached the history and viewpoints of the early human struggle with nature to these gods, and produced beautiful Fascinating myths. But the science of thinking also tells us that human imagination is not a wild horse, it is also subject to certain constraints. No matter how strange a god is, it is always created with the reality of some reality as a background; no matter how strange a myth, it can eventually find its original material in reality and desire. For example, human beings express the dream of flying with the wings of a bird, and express the wish of "god walking" with a story of "quick shoes".
For everyone to better understand the mysterious concept of "God" in religion, let's first look at a real process of creating gods that took place in our age!
During World War II, the U.S. Navy occupied a small island in the South Pacific in 1943 for the benefit of the Pacific theater. There are some indigenous primitive tribes on this island. Before the U.S. Marine Corps came to the island, they had no chance to contact foreign civilizations. They only stayed on one island, accompanied by blue sky, seagulls, and endless waves every day. The inhabitants of the island have always lived a difficult life.
After the U.S. Marine Corps landed on the island, they brought such advanced science and technology all at once. The indigenous people saw that the planes flying bang bang landed on the newly built airstrip and brought a large number of materials. Of particular interest to the natives is the fact that the planes brought in all kinds of food so that those who wore strange clothes could eat such good food every day with almost no labor. They feel that all the secrets come from those planes. The planes can automatically produce all kinds of food, just like the mythical "cornucopia".
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But it didn't take long for the U.S. military to abandon the island for strategic reasons. The indigenous people watched with mixed feelings as those "gods" disappeared into the vast blue sky and blue sea on the plane. This small island was quickly forgotten by modern civilization, and no one paid any attention to its existence. However, the island and its original aboriginal people will never forget the deep impression that modern civilization has brought on them.
Decades later, when an expedition landed on this small island, they were amazed by the scene before them: the inhabitants of these islands, by memory, made a model of an airplane out of grass and trees and made a model of an airplane. An airstrip-like road was built in front of this model aircraft. Not only that, but these residents also hold grand religious sacrifices next to the airplane model every year, eagerly looking forward to the "gods" who drive airplanes to visit the island again. Undoubtedly, the U.S. Marines and planes have become "gods" and "artifacts" in the eyes of the islanders. Those old people, whenever they do sacrifices, will tell the younger generation such a "myth": a certain year, some gods, riding on flying dragons, came to this island...
From this real process of creating gods, how should we understand ancient myths and ancient gods?
German linguist Father Schmidt has long noticed that in the religions of the Indian and European peoples, the root of the word "Supreme God" (God) means to shine. The gods of many peoples of the world come from the sky or are associated with meanings such as light, lightning, etc. For example, the word "God" in the Bible means "people from the sky" in ancient Hebrew.
In Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, the word "Shen" is written as "Zaozi", which is like a lightning bolt, which indicates that the ancients associated gods with things like lightning and fire in the sky when creating characters, which is similar to the "God" in the Indo-European language. "The root of the word is the same. We take out several characteristics of the "god" in the original mythology: the sky-lightning-god, and to connect them is: the god drives a lightning bolt and descends from the sky. The most representative expression is in the biblical Gospel of Mark, where Jesus said: "The Son of Man came from the clouds with great power and brilliance." This easily reminds us of a spaceship that is descending.
The idea that God comes from the sky is also manifested in the religious ceremonies of the nations of the world. The oldest form of religion in China is the worship of the Emperor of Heaven, and its highest ritual is Mount Tai offering sacrifices to the sky. Tai (Tai) Mountain worships the sky, which means that its shape is high and close to the sky. This idea has been around since ancient times. "Book of Rites Sacrificial Law," says: "Burn wood on the altar of Tai, and sacrifice to heaven." Tai here does not refer to Mount Tai, but the high altar. The Temple of Heaven where later emperors offered sacrifices to heaven was generally raised from the ground to match the ancient meaning of "Tai Tan".
Not only in China, but almost all ethnic groups in the world have altars raised from the ground, and fire must be raised in high places to offer sacrifices, just like the ancient Persian Zoroastrianism that originated in more than 600 BC. On the high platform, and to use fire, like some Indian tribes in America, every sacrifice must have a fire.
After listing a lot of evidence, Daniken, the author of "Car of the Gods", directly put forward the view that God is an astronaut. He believes that in ancient times, a group of highly intelligent aliens drove spaceships to the earth. The primitive earthlings were shocked by the huge flash and roar of the spaceship's propulsion system, and called them "gods". In mythology, preserved within carvings and frescoes, this is the origin of the gods.
After a systematic analysis of myths, we believe that when "God" came to this earth, there was no human in the modern sense on earth at all, only many animals of various kinds, and it was God who created human beings. When the "God" got along with the created man for some time, the "God" left the man. Mythology is a record of this memory. This inference may be consistent with the consistency of the myth of all mankind.