When Guo Kang first learned about this organization, he thought they were strange. In other words, it has the unique "mix and match" style of the Purple Horde Khanate.
Of course, some of these views are outrageous enough even to a less devout believer like him - for example, some more radical priests believe that the whole world is actually a dialect of Chinese. It's just that they were too far apart and separated for too long, which led to the current seemingly completely unrelated situation.
But even so, some people still follow this line of thought and examine ancient phonetics.
By searching ancient Seris rhyme books, they actually found traces: For example, the word "father", according to the records in the documents, it is speculated that ancient Chinese should be pronounced "ba". Comparing this pronunciation, it is not difficult to find that it is the same in many other places.
For example, in the church, the word father that is often used is called "papa", whether it is Greek, Latin, or even the various languages of the Germanic barbarians. Until now, priests still use this name, and even the bishop of Rome uses it as his title. Thinking about it, this word should have originated from Chinese. In the process of spreading, slight consonant changes have occurred, forming what it is today.
The clergy believed that this was a good proof. But on the other hand, it also shows the importance of words.
Why don’t words like “father” and “mother” change? Because everyone is born from father and mother. This concept is too basic, so even after all these years, it has not changed significantly. But for other words, there is no guarantee.
If there is no text as an anchor, once there is a change, everyone will not be able to understand the current scriptures, let alone communication.
This is not alarmist.
On the east coast of the Mediterranean, people sometimes find ancient ruins where people wrote with strange letters, with strokes like wooden wedges. Some people speculate that this is the text recorded by the ancient Greeks about the Persian Empire that was destroyed by Alexander.
However, no one recognizes these things now, not even the Persians themselves. Because the Persian language in the Middle Ages changed to a newer set of letters, as a result, all the previous characters were forgotten...
The Persians can be regarded as a civilization with a longer history and a deeper accumulation. The situation of other people is not as good as them. It will definitely not work if this continues.
Therefore, they believe that no matter what kind of classics they are, it is best to use Chinese characters as the original version and record them uniformly. When needed, convenient popular phonetic symbols are used according to different dialects to facilitate explanations to believers.
Guo Kang actually felt that their theory did not stand up to scrutiny.
For example, because parents in different languages have the same pronunciation, it is far-fetched to say that they are all derived from Chinese. This observation cannot prove that "Greek and Germanic languages all come from ancient Chinese". At most, it can only show that "Greek, Germanic languages and Chinese have a common origin." The rest is all forced argumentation.
Their theories are popular not so much because they are logical, but because they are in line with everyone's needs.
After all, these days, if this "born from mother" theory is used to prove that Germanic languages are descendants of Chinese, the Han people feel that enlightenment is spread everywhere, and the Germanic people feel that they have climbed a high tree. Although it is far-fetched, everyone will be happy;
But if we argue on this basis and say that Chinese is a descendant of Germanic languages, then Han people will think it is a curse, and Germanic people will only think that someone is deliberately sarcastic. Everyone doesn’t like it, so naturally it won’t become popular…
Guo Kang thought this was quite ironic at first. But then I thought about it, it was actually pretty good.
Although the theory does not conform to traditional teachings, and the understanding of linguistics is completely different from the results of modern research, not only is the purpose good, but when it is implemented, it does a lot of good things. An organization like this is already rare, what more can you ask for...
The biggest problem is that although this theory is widely circulated and has completed a series of discussions, there are still two dark clouds that are not big but cannot be ignored over the theoretical edifice they constructed.
One of them was done by Guo Kang himself.
On a whim, he suggested to his adoptive father that he send some idle old Greek nobles to Crete for archeology. As a result, my adoptive mother heard it and found it very interesting. With the push of her and her grandfather, this matter actually happened.
As a result, the old nobles have really dug out something one after another over the years. Some ancient pottery sherds have ancient letters that are completely unknown to them, and even the most knowledgeable scholars don’t know what they mean.
At present, they can only estimate that this is a record left by people in an era earlier than the classical period. But now, the Greeks have long given up this way of writing, so no one still recognizes it.
This project has continued since then, and even in the past few years, they have continued to find new evidence.
On the island of Crete, according to Guo Kang's memory, hieroglyphs can really be found, thus verifying how hieroglyphs developed into alphabetical characters.
If this set of hieroglyphs, which are different from those in the Central Plains, is discovered, the theory of "The Origin of All Things Seris" will probably be exposed.
Compared with this, there is a closer dark cloud, which is in Egypt.
Over in Egypt, there are still many relics from ancient times. Kings in ancient times built a large number of tombs, temples, and monuments, many of which are still on the surface today. You can see them at a glance when you travel around the place.
The ancient Greeks called these ancient kings "Pharaohs," which means huge palaces. It's probably the same as how people in the Central Plains address their majesty. They don't address him directly, but use buildings instead to show respect.
Ancient Greece and ancient Egypt had close contacts and were greatly influenced by their civilizations, so they also learned this title.
There are many things that are obviously hieroglyphics in the ruins from the Pharaonic era. Such traces are so obvious and numerous that they cannot be ignored.
The priests of the "Tower of Babel" have also noticed this.
Their theory is that "only Chinese characters are regular characters, and other so-called characters are phonetic codes." However, if ancient Egypt had a separate set of characters, then this theory is not easy to explain.
Therefore, they can only say that there may be something similar in Egypt, which proves that writing is very ancient and may have something to do with Chinese characters. However, the Egyptians later degenerated and gave up their true writing. As a result, they collapsed and never prospered on their own. This tells people how much influence the real products of civilization have.
This explanation is of course also far-fetched, because no one can prove that Egypt is also a derivative of the Central Plains. Therefore, some priests are becoming more extreme.
Some people try to verify the chronology of Egypt and prove that it is much more recent than the prehistoric dynasty of Seris; some people simply deny it, saying that many of the ruins today are forged by later generations.
——For example, Ptolemy, the Egyptian Diaspora, was a man who was both cultured and cunning. In order to gain support from the locals, he often imitated the pharaohs and even built temples to Egyptian gods. In order to improve his status, he also claimed to be an Egyptian god. These evidences proving how old the Egyptian civilization is are, at first glance, forged by Ptolemy and others for the sake of bragging.
As a special note, the doctrines and sects of the Roman Church in the book are basically made up by me unless the text specifically explains "what happened in history."
There are many referenced parts of reality, such as Taoism, Gnosticism and Sufi mysticism, and even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but it is too elaborate, and it is impossible to tell which part is purely a reference... Anyway, just treat it as a fiction.
Someone asked me about it today, so I thought I would talk about it specifically. Don’t be taken seriously by others…
In addition, I will look back and see if I can compile the "Brother Tian's Salvation Sutra". In fact, I feel that this is the most interesting part of writing a book.
Thank you for your support
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