Chapter 1042
"You want to say that Mithra's godhead is related to the stars?"
Bai Yaksha asked keenly.
"That's right."
Emperor Shitian nodded and pointed to the sun in the center of the stars in the sky.
"As a star that moves in the sky, the sun is considered to rule the sky and the stars in the night sky. Isn't it surprising?"
"Well! After all, our sense of existence is so strong, it's not surprising that the sun is regarded as the master of all things."
As the star spirit of the sun, Bai Yaksha nodded without humility.
As the most important star in the sky, the sun was once considered to rule the sky and bestow life blessings. This was true for the sun gods Ra and Amon in Egyptian mythology, and the Eastern Emperor Taiyi in Eastern mythology.
It is not surprising that the sun god Mithras was worshiped as the lord of the stars.
But, what does this have to do with the contract?
Shiroyasha gave him a questioning look.
Emperor Shakti also did not show off.
He slightly activated his divine power to make the stars in the sky rotate.
At this moment, the center of rotation of the stars is not the sun overhead, but the North Star.
In fact, modern people have long known that the stars in the sky are rotating, not because the stars are rotating, but because they who observe the stars are rotating with the earth.
And this axis of rotation is the axis of rotation of the earth itself.
The ancients extended this axis of rotation as a dotted line, and the one closest to this dotted line would be regarded as the North Star.
That is what people often say, the stars guard Ziwei.
If we only consider the rotation of the earth, then the positions of the stars will inevitably return to their original positions after one rotation.
In other words, the star map seen at the same time every day is exactly the same.
But in fact, that's not the case060.
Because, in addition to rotating, the earth still revolves around the sun.
This causes each day's star chart to be slightly different from the previous day.
It may not be detectable in a short period of time, but after long-term recording, humans will definitely find clues.
As time goes by, people who record the records will find that every three hundred and sixty-five days, the recorded star charts are exactly the same as the previous three hundred and sixty-five-day star charts.
This is the time it takes for the relative positions of the Earth and the Sun to coincide.
That is a year in the Gregorian calendar sense.
"The stars in the night sky, which gradually shift away every day, will return to their original positions as promised in about three hundred and sixty-five days."
Emperor Shitian accelerated the rotation of the stars, and after a little more than three hundred and sixty-five turns.
The starry sky pattern on the round wall was restored to its original position.
"About four thousand years ago, after people at that time observed this, they regarded the miraculous phenomenon of stars' fixed return as a manifestation of following a certain law or contract, and deified it."
Emperor Shakti gave the answer.
"It is for this reason that Mithras is called the God of Contract!"
"Its original meaning is the existence that drives the stars in the night sky to sign contracts with all things in the world."
983 Precession phenomenon, error in star return
After listening to Emperor Shitian's words, Bai Yaksha suddenly realized.
Mithraic Covenant Authority.
It is actually taken from the return phenomenon of the stars in the night sky.
"Was it possible that humans four thousand years ago, that is, two thousand years ago, were able to observe the celestial phenomena so carefully?"
She couldn't help but exclaim.
She knew that as she had considerable knowledge of human history.
Two thousand years ago, even the four ancient civilizations had not been able to solve the problem of food, clothing and security. They still struggled with the surrounding environment, wild beasts and tribes.
In an era when humans couldn't even afford food and clothing, how could anyone actually look up at the stars?
It’s incredible!
"Yes, this is human!"
Emperor Shitian smiled proudly.
As the most humane god, he never hides his love for the human species.
"Although many gods regard humans in the primitive period as beasts, you must know that as early as humans began to walk on two legs, they had already begun to look up at the stars!"
It is precisely because of starting so early that mankind has been able to establish the modern civilization it is now.
As a benevolent god who strives with mankind to complete human history to this point.
Emperor Shaktian is definitely qualified to share this honor together.
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"We finally understand the connection between the sun and the contract. They are all related to the rotation of the stars. The phenomenon of star return is the original core spirituality of Mithras."
Bai Yaksha summarized Emperor Shaktian's views and then asked questions.
“But, what does this have to do with killing cows?”
Emperor Shakti did explain clearly the origin of Mithras' godhead.
But this cannot be linked to Su Mo's authority as the organizer.
Among the words Su Mo said, this is the one involving Mitralinga.
——I kill the cow to move the gear.
Emperor Shakten's introduction simply analyzed Mithra's original spirituality and could not be connected and unified with Su Mo's words.
If this were the case, it would not help solve the Sumeringa puzzle.
"Don't worry..."
He probably had already guessed that Bai Yaksha would say this.
Emperor Shaktian shook his head and asked her to wait patiently.
At the same time, he speeds up the output of divine power.
The star map reflected on the hemispherical wall is rotating faster and faster.
It originally took dozens of seconds to rotate the star map three hundred and sixty-five times.
Under the acceleration of Emperor Shitian.
It becomes 10,000 revolutions per second.
If converted to normal star map operation, the star map is equivalent to undergoing about thirty years of changes in one second. .
At this speed.
The blue-purple starlight almost rotates into a line and then connects into a surface.
If you use human vision here, you must not be able to see the star map, and you can only see the starlight covering the entire hemispherical rock wall.
After all, the frame rate that the human eye can recognize is only thirty frames at most.
Normally, there are only sixteen frames.
But with Bai Yasha's vision.
You can easily see the subtle changes in the star map in each rotation.
But at this moment, you don't actually need such good vision.
In fact, human vision is enough.
Because Emperor Shitian's focus is not on those stars that move and change, but on the star that does not move.
Or, the star that should not move!
- North Star!
According to the cognition of ordinary people and even most intellectuals in ancient times.
The position of the North Star is eternal and unchanging, which also symbolizes that the status of the emperor cannot be changed.
All the stars in the night sky should revolve around the North Star.
It is natural and will always be so.
But in fact, people who have really studied astrology, or modern people who pay a little attention to the stars, will know that the position of the North Star will often change.
Just like the changes in the star map on the rock wall.
In the first few seconds, the position of the North Star did not move significantly.
But as tens of seconds passed, and the time in the astrological sense gradually passed by a hundred years, two hundred years, and more than three hundred years.
Then you can clearly see that the North Star, which should have been fixed, has gradually deviated!
Seven hundred years later in astrological time.
The North Star named Xiaowei, or Ziwei Youyuan Er, gradually deviated from its original position.
It was replaced by the star named Beiji Four in modern astrology.
The North Star has changed!
At this point in the simulation, Emperor Shitian finally stopped and let the star map stop.
He looked at Bai Yasha.
"It is exactly 700 years since the last star map!"
"According to the theory, the position of the star map will return to its original state every 365 days or so, which is one year of the Earth's revolution."
"' 〃It should be exactly the same position now. Do you think it is the same as the star map 700 years ago?"
Indra used the solar calendar to take into account the leap year factor and strictly adjusted the star map at this time to the same state as the relative position of the sun and the earth 700 years ago before stopping.
According to the law, the star map at this time should be exactly the same as it was 700 years ago.
But what is the reality?
Even the position of the North Star has changed. How can these two star maps be the same!
As a star spirit of the sun, Bai Yasha is naturally familiar with this phenomenon.
"Precession!"
She uttered the name of this phenomenon.
Even if the changes in revolution and rotation are taken into account, it is still impossible to guarantee that the star map every other year will be exactly the same as the previous year.
Ancient humans would think that the star map would return completely after one year, just because their observations were not complete enough and they could not find the slightest changes.
After all, it takes hundreds or even thousands of years of accurate observation to capture a tiny change.
It is natural that humans in ancient times lacked recording methods and could not capture this change.
In fact, because the earth is an ellipsoid, not a perfect sphere.
The equatorial part of the earth is more prominent, and the poles are slightly flat, which leads to the strong attraction of the sun and the moon on the protruding part of the equator, causing the earth's axis to move slowly around the ecliptic pole.
In simple terms, the earth's axis of rotation is also changing!
It is this change that causes the dotted angle of the extension line of the North Pole of the axis of rotation to change continuously, thus causing the phenomenon of the replacement of the North Star.
The movement of the earth's axis, together with the revolution of the earth.
The timekeeping of the zodiac - the tropical year, and the standard timekeeping with the sun as the coordinate - the sidereal year, have a difference of twenty minutes.
This subtle difference was named precession by the ancients.
