"Divine authority replaces royal authority?"
Although everyone was confused, after hearing what Song Siyuan just narrated, they could understand what was going on. They looked at Song Siyuan curiously, wanting her to continue to explain.
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During the birth of the witch-god civilization, the production conditions of the ancestors were not yet developed. They could only join a group to keep warm and use the blood relationship of the matrilineal society to unite the strength of the same clan. In this process, the high-medium mother temple will become the cultural link of the matrilineal tribe. .
Then, the person who communicates with the old grandmother of the tribe undoubtedly has the most important authority, and this person is often a witch or Xian.
These psychic people are no longer involved in finding food and prey, but only focus on channeling or thinking about the future of the tribe and family. They are likely to also bear the burden of passing on knowledge, whether it is handwriting on clay tablets or tying up ropes to record events, they will write down what they think about. Read the records and form new experiences to pass on to the tribesmen, in response to the tribesmen's support.
When a prostitute in primitive society can set aside a lot of time for thinking, he will be intellectually superior to ordinary people, use experience to guide production, and form various conventional knowledge.
Over time, the tribe will take the witch as its leader. They not only hope that the witch can communicate with the ancestors, but also hope that the witch can pass on knowledge. In fact, the witch must be immortal and produce the next generation. This also contributes to the emergence of male witches.
In the history of various countries around the world, clergymen who undertake religious responsibilities or sacrifices are usually passed down from generation to generation. This is not caused by the inferiority of primitive society, but due to the need for the inheritance of knowledge. Although witches and priests are born, old, sick and die, as long as they produce For future generations, for the tribe, the knowledge of witchcraft will be preserved and continue to be used to guide the production and life of the tribe.
Over time, witchcraft has naturally become a profession passed down from generation to generation, and it has also monopolized hereditary power. This is generally the case for various tribes of primitive ancestors. This is an era where witchcraft is used to transmit knowledge.
This kind of relationship can be maintained when the number of people is small, but problems will arise when the number of people in the tribe increases.
As the number of people in the tribe increases, the amount of grain, food, furs, herbs, fruits, and medicinal materials collected will also increase, enough to supply other witch blessings, and it is even possible to supply multiple witch blessings at the same time.
At this time, Wu Zhu's status was still very high, but the authority of the tribe was declining. In order to maintain their authority, they could only rely on psychics and divination. The more accurate the divination, the more trust they would gain from the tribe. Otherwise, they would be A bad witch abandoned by the gods, once the witch can no longer channel spirits and no longer produce knowledge, his status will be abandoned.
At this time, in order to ensure their own status, the witches would form a group to keep warm and monopolize the function of sacrifice. At the same time, they also monopolized the opportunities for ordinary people in the tribe to contact predictions and divination. In the process, the witches who stayed in a group to keep warm lost their respected status, but they also lost their respected status. Because they huddled together to keep warm, a new force was formed - theocracy.
After the divine power monopolizes sacrifices, it monopolizes the power to communicate with heaven. If this continues, the divine power will always be over the heads of the people. In order to break the monopoly of the divine power, the only thing that can compete with it is the royal power of primitive society.
When witches are highly respected, the royal power can only lead the tribe to find food, hunt and build houses, which is equivalent to just helping the witches. When the authority of the witches declines, the royal power will realize that without the guidance of the witches, the tribe will not be able to survive. No matter what, anyway, the knowledge accumulated through thousands of years of organized production can already exist without witchcraft.
The divine authority discovered that whoever can accumulate knowledge can control the highest power. At this time, the divine authority represented by Wu Zhu and the governing authority represented by the royal family will inevitably conflict.
In this process, although Wu Zhu monopolized the sacrifices to gods, he could not monopolize production. Even the royal power only organized production. When the royal power accumulated production experience, the wizard was channeling spirits. When the royal power created knowledge books, the wizard Wish you fortune telling.
The fruits of royal power bring good harvests to the people, while the fruits of witchcraft may be able to enchant people's hearts when the productive forces are underdeveloped, but when the productive forces are developed, they are just deceptive. Comparing the two sides, royal power will inevitably replace divine power and become the new leader of primitive tribes.
Before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was an era when divine power was greater than royal power. Wu Zhu relied on hereditary sacrifices to dominate himself and everyone believed him.
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, royal power and divine power coexisted. The royal power began to weaken the sacrificial and divination functions of the divine power, completely separate ghosts and gods, and monopolize communication with gods. Officials, when encountering problems, turn to knowledge instead of turning to ghosts and gods.
After the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, royal power completely defeated the divine power. They began to monopolize knowledge and sacrifices. Through this move, witchcraft and blessings were completely excluded. Respecting heaven and ancestors became the mainstream. Gods were exalted on altars and ghosts were trampled into the underworld.
At this time, the witches and blessings have been reduced from being orthodox in their country to being wild worshipers of chaotic gods. They can only appear in the countryside and pray for the people who need to communicate with their ancestors, so that they can get a bite of food and avoid dying of cold and hunger.
The people could not worship the righteous gods. Once they encountered something and wanted to seek help from the gods, they could only use witchcraft to realize their wishes.
