Chapter 182 The long history of vampires
"The beasts in the wilderness will meet jackals, the wild goats will yell with their companions, and the monsters at night will live there and find a place to rest."
Su Qi looked through the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament and found this passage.
"Is this what we are looking for at night monsters? Is it too simple?"
The main content of the Old Testament of the Bible is some stories of gods. More emphasis is placed on worship of the Lord's divine nature, and there are not many other details.
Eden's Night Demon, Night Monster
“But there are many stories about it.”
Alice asked the hatter to carry a thick stack of books.
"In the Akkad myth, she is the embodiment of storms and natural disasters, Ms. Nanfeng, the evil god who hurts children, and the nightmare of night.
In Jewish literature, she is Adam's wife and the curser, the demon who offers to the sea of blood.
In Michelangelo's Genesis, she was the snake of original sin and the beginning of lust.
In the mouth of the Benedictine missionary, she is the demon who fell into hell and the ancestor of vampires.
Since Judaism, both doctrine and literature have involved this night monster, the Night God of Eden in the testimony."
"A vassal originated from a doctrine of faith and doctrine, gradually enriching the image of a god through folk stories and legends, and creating one, or even multiple ghosts and gods with different abilities in the same name."
Andersen rubbed his cane.
"This looks like that, right?"
Everyone present nodded, only Su Qi was a little confused, not knowing the "that" they said was "which one", and looked at Mr. Andersen.
Andersen smiled and said:
"It's a vampire."
vampire.
This etymology originated from Slavic folklore in Eastern Europe.
But its prototype and history can also be traced back to the above. There are blood-sucking monsters in Hebrew civilization, ancient Roman civilization, and ancient Chinese civilization, which appear in the Bible, the Dead Sea Documents, and the Mountains and Seas.
Even more primitive, without writing.
The barbarians eat raw meat and drink blood, and believe in totem. For blood and meat, which are both own and also food, there is natural blood worship.
The best understanding is the custom of "living people sacrifice" in primitive society. People should eat animal meat, and Gods, who are more omnipotent than humans, want to eat human flesh, a simple recursive logic.
Although no one has believed these absurd logics with the development of civilization, they are still active in folk stories as legends.
Vampires evolved from this ancient blood worship and gradually complicated their definitions.
This is the ancient times that traces upwards.
Vampires are primitive totems, demons in church propaganda tools, can be blamed by the Black Death, and are fragmented symbols.
But if it comes to the Enlightenment.
Literary works give vampires a more specific anchor and rebirth again.
Byron's vampires gave this group "romantic" and "nobleness".
The appearance of Dracula even finalized a specific anchor to the original owner.
Because of "Dracula", vampires took advantage of the rise of the Hollywood film industry and were once prosperous.
Really left footprints in history.
Bloodsucking, immortality
This is a fantasy inherited from blood worship. At the same time, in the process of industrialization, we have found our own position and imprinted our own symbols.
"Vampire is definitely enough to be called the mysterious scale of the previous era, but this mysterious anchor is very fragmented because there are too many so-called ancestors, Dracula, Cain, and Judas."
Ms. Sanruzod flicked her nails.
"We still don't know whether the anchor of this mystery gathers has formed ghosts and gods, created transcendent people, or whether the holder dies and becomes the original owner.
If it is the original owner, is it in the hands of anyone, and has it reached the level of transcendence. However, it is not uncommon for active vampire groups in London, so we have to ask professionals."
Sanruzod signaled to Oliver, and Oliver took the sentence.
"In the past few years, there were many vampire organizations active in London. I led the branches there to destroy more than 30, and I have also seen some of their methods."
Oliver spread out the photos in the profile.
"It's very similar. They all use life, blood, organs, and ** as mediums to perform a ritual that desires eternal life, transforming themselves into the image of a vampire in the story, and gaining longer life."
Su Qi listened to Oliver's words and said:
"In other words, this is a mysterious ritual in the vampire mode, borrowing the concept of blood worship to achieve eternal life. Those who participate in the organ case will eventually gradually approach eternal life as the ceremony."
"What they don't know is that the anchor of this ceremony can only point to one person, and this person is likely to be the instigator behind it, the planner of this ceremony."
"But, how did he instigate so many ordinary people to commit murders?"
"In the mystery of vampires, there is a concept called first embrace, which transforms people into similar types, so that they will automatically be transferred to the camp and become accomplices."
"This is really an amazing set of mysterious logic."
Su Qi couldn't help but sigh.
The vampire mystery I heard today is the most comprehensive and detailed mystery among the mystery he has been exposed to.
Building a mystery means formulating a set of rules.
The rules formulated will be thrown into this world, practiced in this era, and have the best adaptability, the most extensive communication, and the most favorable logic, and it will slowly settle into the truth.
The mystery of vampire is almost such a nearly perfect mysterious rule. If you have to talk about flaws, it is probably the magic of this mysterious division, and there is no concentrated beneficiary.
If there was no such division, the vampire mystery would have to carry a transcendent person.
The organ case that is happening in Tokyo is imitating such a mysterious rule, and may even be using this mysterious rule.
"Can we infer the real purpose of the instigator? Is it to use this ritual to harvest anchors or to create ghosts and gods?"
Green said.
Oliver turned and looked at Alice and Dorothy.
This decision is crucial and is related to the direction of Black Gate's next action.
"spirits."
"spirits."
"Of course it's ghosts and gods. The rituals and words are too specific. He wants to create a ghost in Tokyo."
Dorothy said.
Andersen rubbed his cane for a while and said:
"What about the motivation"
"We cannot speculate on these clues. At present, we can only check them according to this idea first and then look for possible motivations."
Director Alice shook his head.
"Okay, the next task will prevent further initial crowds from spreading more people and find instigators."
Chapter completed!