Both Eastern and Western societies have experienced a period of longing for the gods. In ancient China, there was also a record of "sacrificing to Hebo", whenever the year was bad or when there was a flood, some people organized to worship Hebo and pray for good weather.
Facts have proved that this is nothing more than some gangsters taking advantage of the opportunity to make money, taking advantage of the people's fear of the gods and intervening in the affairs of the world under the pretense of the gods.
In the end, under the choice of thousands of choices, in order to eliminate disasters and cause trouble, rich families will choose to spend money to do things, and in the end, most of the people who are injured are poor people who have no money, no people and no resources.
Such things have existed for quite some time in the history of human development. To sum up, there are many tricks and brains, and if you look at it now, you can see the flaws at a glance, but at that time, it was widely recognized and inherited.
If we want to explain the reason, it may only be said that the cognitive limitations of the common people at that time and the development of science limited their ability to distinguish between the true and the false. It can also be said that the ancients were more "simple" and easy to fool.
I flipped through the history books, and although there were some reasons for the compilation to be imaginative, there was nothing particularly out of the ordinary. When I looked at the West, which prides itself on being civilized, I found something that surprised me.
In the "History" written by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, an "interesting" incident is recorded. According to the book, the women of the ancient Babylonian country had to go to the temple of Aphrodite to be a "holy prostitute" once in their lives.
To tell you the truth, it was the first time I saw the word "holy" and "prostitute" together, and the so-called "holy prostitute" was an ancient Babylonian woman who went to the temple to sell her body once, and then donated the proceeds of the sale to the temple.
As for the selling price and when to do it, there are not too many restrictions, it is simply to donate the proceeds from this sale to the temple.
As a result, women from all over the world gathered at the temple, and the temple staff used a long rope to isolate a passage, and men from all over the world had to walk on this passage to find the woman they liked.
Once you find it, you can throw the coin in your hand at the other person and say, "I bless you in the name of the goddess Milita."
No matter how old the man is, whether it is their dish or not, they must obey unconditionally. The two parties had to complete the transaction in front of the idol, and then the woman would donate the money to the temple and go home with peace of mind.
When a large number of women come to the temple, there is also an invisible "involution" behavior, and the young, beautiful and elegant women quickly complete the task, while those who are old and ugly will have to wait here day after day for someone to favor.
Although it is said that radish greens have their own loves, it is not excluded that some people who are particularly ugly and have a particularly poor figure due to illness or other reasons, these people are placed in the pile, and they naturally become "leftover women".
And this has given rise to some men who serve these "leftover women". They don't do good deeds, they also charge a fee.
It is unfair for these "leftover women" to pay someone else to cooperate with them in completing this "holy prostitution" ceremony, and then donate the money to the temple to complete their mission.
But the high priests turned a blind eye to this phenomenon, and what they cared about was that as long as the daily income of the temple was not affected, they did not care whether the men and women who participated in the "holy prostitution" ceremony themselves were employed.
These so-called high priests, using theocracy as a tool, while advocating theocracy, fooled the people in the country to openly collect wealth for such absurd reasons, I have to say that this is really a profitable business.
If you really want to explain, let's just say that these priests are all gods who use divine power as a guise to do evil. Under this system, women in ancient Babylon were the most oppressed.
The reason why such a system was able to be implemented can be summarized as follows: the men of ancient Babylon pushed their wives and daughters into the temple with their own hands, and these so-called priests only took advantage of the weakness of human nature.
The money for the temple was paid by the men of ancient Babylon, and the price was paid by the women of ancient Babylon, and for men, they took the opportunity to do what they wanted to do in their hearts, so they never really wanted to overturn the existing system.
The men of ancient Babylon could go to the temple to spend money and earn some money if they wished, while the priests, taking advantage of the weakness of human nature, obtained money at a very small cost.
From the perspective of species evolution, this method is an effective measure conducive to the development of ethnic groups, and it is a model similar to "group marriage", which is not so difficult for the ancients to accept in their hearts.
One link after another, these gods just cleverly connected these links, and found a way to make money, I have to say, it is really amazing.
This has been the case since ancient times, and the poorer and more backward the place, the more these bad customs will be. The reason for this phenomenon is mainly because of people's own level and lack of cognition, so that these bad customs can be successfully implemented.
Just imagine, all the problems explained by "gods" do not stand up to scientific scrutiny, and the rituals promoted under the banner of "gods" are more than another form of deception.
History is never just the past, but a mirror, and the things that have appeared in history can be seen in reality.
The significance of our study of history lies in the fact that we can learn from the experience of the ancients to protect ourselves.