Chapter 198.1
I remembered and looked at the first part of the book I was about to put away, and sure enough, it said something about a God of Beauty. I had skipped over it, thinking it was just a legend. What did this mean?
At least according to my knowledge so far, this world was monotheistic. It was the same in the game. So, I wondered if I needed to rethink the question of why this world ended up being monotheistic in the first place.
Based on my knowledge from my previous life, polytheism started with a belief in nature. It represented the awe and longing towards nature as something beyond mans power, a God. Since there was day and there was night, so it was only natural to imagine a God of Day and a God of Night.
Monotheism, on the other hand, generally started by someone. While polytheism was born from the worship of nature, monotheism was born from the worship of a guru, or a founder, or whatever the expression or terminology used, and that someone would be the first to say that there was only one God, and that would be the beginning of its spread.
In such cases, the concept of God needed to exist first, so the basic pattern in the history of civilization was that the concept of polytheistic Gods would first have to emerge from the belief in nature, then it would be followed by the emergence of believing in only one God.
However, this pattern might not necessarily be the same in this world. In any case, since miracles of God and magic actually exist, it would not be strange if a God also directly descended and bestowed magic to people, bypassing polytheism altogether.
Nevertheless, it seemed like there were still polytheistic beliefs at that time.
I suddenly looked at the shelf. If this shelf was a shelf that held books related to the country of Zermunbeck, then the answers to these questions might also be somewhere on this shelf.
Zermunbeck, where there was no record of magic, and the myths that indicate the existence of polytheism
What if in this world the spread of monotheism was the result of God teaching magic?
UmWelner-sama?
Oh, sorry.
I made her uneasy when I kept quiet and was deep in thought. I guess I should mention this anyway.
Lily, you can read that book, but dont talk about its contents outside.
Eh, ah, yes.
Im begging you.
Yes.
She assured me, so I had to trust her. The existence of the library itself was a secret to most people, but polytheism in a monotheistic world had a different, more dangerous undertones. I assumed that there was no such thing as an inquisition in this world, but I have no confidence that there would never be one.
The duel trial itself was held for the first time in about 20 years, so there might be a good chance that I would not even know about an inquisition if there had been a big time gap when it was last held. I should look into that next time.
For now, I should put my worries about the inquisition to rest and see if this shelf really contained more information about Zermunbeck and its religions.
After all, it might merely be a coincidental collection of different pieces of information on these shelves. Dealing with unorganized stacks could be a real pain in the neck and a real nuisance.
I guess Ill have to focus my research on this bookshelf for the time being, I guess.
Umm, Welner-sama, in that case you might want to take some of the books with you and sit down in a brighter location to read them.
Yes, thats right. Ill take a little break as well before I start.
Yes.
We moved to the same place where there was a desk and chairs for a break. I was planning to bring a book that would be a sequel, but in the end, I came back with the same book that I had earlier in order to read it again in more depth. I wish I could take the books home with me.
We could not eat a proper meal in the underground library, so I became concerned about our health after half a day of not eating anything. I prepared something light to snack on, reasoning that I would lose concentration if I didnt have a change of pace. The book was valuable, so I was careful not to make it dirty.
Next, I had a little chit-chat with Lily as we nibbled on some baked nuts as a snack. The tree that produced these nuts was named Horual, a shrub that grows in many villages.
Because of the high storage time of the nuts and the short height of the plant itself, children often collect these nuts as a snack. Mazell and Lily also used to collect them in the village of Arlea.
When we were kids, we used to compete with each other to see who could collect the most. I won most of the time.
A surprising side.
It warms my heart to imagine Mazell and Lily as kids climbing a tree or something. It occurred to me that Mazell was someone who would lose on purpose to make others happy, and when I told Lily about it, she nodded at me with a wry smile.
Incidentally, Mazells parents used to serve the roasted nuts with salt sprinkled on them as a snack for sake. I would rather drink sake than wine if I could do that.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺