The name Noah was given to him by God. When he was one year old, god came to examine his body and decided that his genes, development, brain size, and physical condition were so good that he chose him as his successor. So Noah's original name was immediately discarded by his parents. As an envoy of God, he could only use the name given by God, which was a supreme glory. Noah's tribe worshipped three gods, Zeus, Prometheus, and Hera. Today is Noah's sixteenth birthday, Zeus came to take Noah to the temple, to complete the coronation ceremony for Noah. From now on, Noah was a novitiate deity, which made Noah nervous and excited.
Soon they reached the temple of God, and Noah was surprised to find that it was a building on a cliff, made entirely of metal—a metal stronger and smoother and colder than the bronze made by the tribe's best smelters. The gods used such precious metal for houses, not for hunting. The house even has Windows made of clear crystal to keep out the wind and rain without blocking the view! The world of god is indeed vastly different from the world of man. After entering the temple, Zeus, Prometheus, Hera, and Noah sat around the table. Zeus signalled the ceremony to begin, so Hera took out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote on them. Noah envied the paper so much: it was light, clean, as white as snow, and as light in his hand as nothing, much better than the animal skins with which he wrote at home. Noah had begun to have visions of his life as a god and must be able to write with paper every day.
When Hera had finished writing, she handed the paper to Noah and motioned for him to read it. There were three lines on the paper, and Noah read the first line: "Cecilia."
"Yes." "That's my name."
"Isn't your name Hera?" Noah asked.
Hera shook her head. "I lied to you. If you look down, YUAN is the name of Zeus, and KAI is the name of Prometheus."
Noah was a little confused, but he remembered the three new names at once, and asked, "shall I call you that?"
"No." Prometheus shook his head. "Today we will tell you the truth of the world, beginning with our real names, and where the three of us came from."
"I see! " Noah was excited. He knew that human beings were created by Hera, but by whom was Hera created? How did this world come about? Noah thought about these questions every day. At that moment, Hera took out a "portable display" and put it in front of Noah. It showed many animals in a line from left to right. The two animals next to each other were very similar, but little by little they were different. Noah's first reaction was that this was a diagram of biological evolution, and to his surprise, at the far right, it turned out to be humans.
Noah looked at Hera with puzzled eyes, and Hera said, "first of all, you have to believe one thing. The man was not created by me, but by evolution, like other animals."
If someone else had said this, Noah would have criticized him severely, but now it was Hera himself who told him the truth. Noah froze, his eyes wide with astonishment.
"The other thing I can tell you is..." "Everything we have taught you about us, about the world, is false."
"Will he did not take it too well..." "Said Prometheus. "This is the reverse of his understanding."
Zeus smiled. "He must accept it. If you have any questions, Noah, feel free to ask them."
"Oh, I understand." Noah nodded, and then remained silent. He was still digesting the incredible knowledge that human beings were not created by Hera. "Please go on, I'm listening."
Hera continued to slide on the portable display, showing the other pictures, and Hera explained, "human beings have evolved for tens of thousands of years, but it was not until about five thousand years ago that human beings slowly evolved into wisdom and civilization. Before that, human beings were not much different from animals, just smart."
"Pass that, and let him learn on his own." "Said, Zeus." Focus on how the old human race became extinct."
Hera rubbed Noah's little head, stared at him, and said, "My dear boy, are you all right? If you don't feel well, call it a day."
Noah shook his head. He had complete confidence in Hera, a slightly older woman whose eyes were full of love, and though she was not the mother of Noah, in his heart she was the mother of all. The three great gods brought to light and warmth to the tribe, and Noah had vowed to be their faithful heir until his death.
"Such a great Mother !" said Noah, "You tell us that you are our creator. What is the purpose of this?"
Hera smiled and said, "because a nation's culture needs religion to support it, as I will explain later. Now, are you clear that humans evolved from animals and have lived on the earth for thousands of years?"
Noah nodded. Hera went on to say, "As the number of human beings increased, they gradually occupied the whole planet, and there were not enough resources to live on."
Noah asked, "What is a planet? Is it another name for the earth?"
Zeus could not help laughing: "I told you not to mention too much knowledge! It'll take you half a day to explain! '
Prometheus said, "the earth is not flat under our feet, but a ball... Forget it, you can always learn the relevant knowledge later."
Hera nodded her head and her eyes suddenly filled with tears. Noah had never seen the kind goddess sad, and he was in a great hurry. Hera wiped away her tears and said, "it was a catastrophe from nature. In just a few days the earth experienced volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, extreme weather, and other disasters. There were nearly 10 billion people on the planet at that time, but after the disaster, almost all of them died, with only a few frozen fertilized eggs and children living in underground shelters. But because of the lack of a normal social and educational environment, these people who survived, they had no knowledge at all, they had no opportunity to learn, they all went back thousands of years to the time when human beings first became human beings."
Although the word fertilized egg still to Noah scratching their heads, he quickly understands the clever Hera, he said: "so, in a long time ago, all tribes, all adults died in the disaster, survived only a few children, but these children because nobody imparts knowledge to them, so they do not know anything about the world. And that also includes me?"
"Not you." "Said, Zeus." Your father and mother, or the adults of your tribe."
"I see!" Noah nodded slowly.
Hera gave a long sigh. She picked up the piece of paper on the table and said, "like this piece of paper. Where did the paper come from? You cut the tree down, you cut it into pieces, you grind it into powder, you flatten it, you go through the process, and you end up with a piece of paper like this."
"Amazing!" "Said, Noah." How wise they were then!"
"Wisdom also brings destruction." Zeus looked around the temple. "Just as you build your houses of stone and your clothes of animal skins, people in those days changed everything in their natural environment into something they needed. But think ten billion people, and how many people are in your tribe?"
"Now there are four hundred and ninety-eight." Noah calculated. "That might be... Oh my god, twenty million tribes!"
The four men were silent for a moment, and then Noah continued, "They must have needed so many resources that the earth could not contain them all!"
"Clever boy! " Hera rubbed his head again.
"One more thing. You remember when you smelted bronze, you cut down trees to burn it, did not you? " Zeus scratched his head. "I'm not sure... Are they burning trees now, or are they burning coal?"
"Is there any coal left?" Prometheus frowned. "I remember the coal ran out in the year 2152."
"But mankind has used nuclear energy and solar energy for more than 100 years!" Zeus said, "Will the coal be re-formed?"
"You silly approval, the coal formation takes millions of years!" Prometheus smiled sadly.
Zeus continued: "this is the most serious point. You burn wood and you get smoke, and smoke damages the environment, and in those days all human activities were going to damage the environment, much more than burning wood. Over time, the land where people live has been seriously damaged."
"And then it almost went extinct?" Noah frowned. "It's... Isn't that terrible?"
All of a sudden the three great gods stared at Noah, which made him nervous.
"That's why we chose you." Hera said, "Human civilization has begun anew, and we need to guide it to multiply, to advance, to continue. Lead your tribe forward in the name of God, just as we do, and when you are old, choose a successor to take your place and continue to lead your life."
"I understand! 'said Noah." I will live up to your expectations! It's just..."
Noah hesitated. Zeus asked him, "Tell me, if you are confused, tell me directly."
"Why don't you just tell us the truth?" "Noah asked." Would not we be alarmed if we knew that people before us had died because they did not care for their environment?"
Prometheus continued, "So, instead of telling you the truth, we told you that we were gods and united you in our religious faith. Thousands of years from now, with the development of technology, people will start to believe in science and believe that there is no god, and that doesn't matter. But now, a nation that is just emerging needs to have a religion, needs to believe."
Noah took these words to heart in silence. He asked, "What are you..."
"Just what you think." "We are the survivor of the old human race. This place is not a temple, it's called a spaceship, and it can take us out of this world. We went to explore other worlds, and when we came back, the human race was extinct."
Hera wept again, then forced herself to laugh, and said, "It is a good thing we found you, Noah."
Noah tried to imagine in his mind, but he could not imagine the loneliness that Hera had suffered. He said, "I will always be your child, mother. I will fulfill the task you have assigned me and become a qualified god."
"Good boy." Hera took Noah in her arms.
Zeus gave Noah a small portable monitor and said, "This thing is called a cell phone. It will be yours from now on. You can use it to communicate with other heirs, and it has a translation function."
"Other heirs?" "Noah asked." where are they?"
"In... Other continents." "At that time..." said, Hera, "It was a huge team of people from many different countries who went to explore other worlds... Or people from many different tribes. After we decided to rebuild our civilization, we went back to where our tribes were, and we used the history of our tribes to rebuild our civilization."
"Then may I go and see another heir named Noah?" "Said, Noah." There must have been some other god who established a religion about Noah in some other tribe?"
"Not so much." "Noah was a Christian figure, and the first inheritor of Christianity, his name was Adam."
"We wanted to call you Adam, too," Zeus shrugged. "But the Yankee would not let us. He said it would confuse future generations of scholars."
Prometheus laughed and said, "Can Noah be any better?"
"It doesn't matter." "After all, there should be no separation between tribes. After all, we are all human beings and one race. "
"Come, Noah," said Zeus, standing up, "First show you what our land is like."
They took Noah to the "cab", this is the first time Noah came to this place in the temple. He was placed on a large chair, fastened with a "safety belt", and then with a shock, Noah saw the temple flying in the window.
Noah still thought that Hera and the others were gods. How else could they make the temple fly?
The higher the temple, the lower the horizon, the farther the earth. But the flat earth at your feet, as Prometheus said, is, in fact, a great ball. A big ball of blue and yellow.
Noah looked at it as if it were from another life.
Even as Zeus slowed the ascent of the spaceship, Noah was still sick from the shock and was flustered as he floated in the spaceship. Hera held Noah as if he were her own child.
"When we're old, this spaceship will be yours, Noah. You can call it the ark if you like. And, most important of all..." said Hera. Kissing Noah's hair, " we will give you the revised religious documents. You have to be a kind god according to the information, and spread the concept of caring for the environment to all your people so that they can love other people, love the earth we live in, and protect it."
Zeus brought a portable monitor that showed a large ball. Noah noticed that it was very similar to the big ball in front of him, except that the yellow one in front of him was only dotted with a bit of green, while the big one in the picture had a very high proportion of green, and the blue part was purer. Hera pointed at it and said, "look, this is what our home looked like before. Its name is earth."
"The earth..." Noah said the name to himself, "Mother, I will love it as I love you, and I will make my people love her."
"Such a good boy." Hera touched Noah's head gently. 'and... The earth is our mother."
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