I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 69 Stop the Ritual of Living Sacrifice
To hold a grand sacrificial ceremony for the gods, not only must hundreds of thousands of people be mobilized to participate, but also livestock such as cattle and sheep should be offered as sacrifices to the gods.

In this era of scarcity of materials, sacrificial ceremonies for the gods will only be held on important festivals or when wars are won.

If sacrificial ceremonies were held for the gods every now and then, it would not take long before all the cattle, sheep and other livestock of the tribe or city-state would be killed as sacrifices.

Thebes tribe.

After the song and dance performance dedicated to Mnemosyne, the goddess of the earth, a group of maidservants led cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs and other livestock to Harmonia.

Harmonia walked up to these sacrifices with a bronze saber, and under the quiet gaze of everyone, he swung the bronze sword and killed all the sacrifices, letting the blood of the sacrifices pour into the earth.

After beheading the sacrifice, Harmonia said to the Thebes around him.

"My dear people! The great goddess of the earth nourishes all things, and all life comes from the goddess of the earth, so we must use our lives as sacrifices to sacrifice to the goddess of the earth. Today, stupid foreigners invade our territory, and we are on the earth The invaders are defeated with the help of the Goddess, so we should sacrifice the highest grade sacrifices to the Earth Goddess."

Hearing Harmonia's words, the surrounding Thebes shouted loudly.

"Kill the stranger! Kill the stranger!"

"Sacrifice foreigners as sacrifices!"

"We want to inject the blood of foreigners into the earth."

To the cries of the Thebans, a group of Theban men brought twelve Phoenician captives before Harmonia.

Seeing that Harmonia was sacrificing the Phoenicians as sacrifices to the goddess Mnemosyne—

Roy hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but speak out loudly.

"Priest of Harmonia, I am against the use of living human sacrifices."

Hearing what Roy said, Harmonia turned to look at Roy in surprise.

The surrounding Thebes all glared at Roy.

Without the presence of Harmonia, Roy believed that the surrounding Thebes would swarm him and kill him.

After all, Roy's obstruction of the sacrificial ceremony is undoubtedly a blasphemy against the goddess of the earth, Mnemosyne.

Under the eyes of everyone, Roy mustered up the courage to walk to Harmonia and said to the surrounding Thebes.

"Dear Thebes! Let me introduce to you, I am Loi, the priest of the Athenian tribe. The god I serve is Metis, the goddess of wisdom and the sea from the sea. The goddess Metis is not only related to the goddess of the earth, Mnemo Cyne is the same goddess, and the goddess Metis is the same goddess of snakes as the goddess MnemoSyne. Because I am a priest serving the goddess Metis, I know that the goddess has no requirements for the sacrifices offered by humans, even if The benevolent goddess would not mind without a sacrifice."

After Roy finished speaking, in order to prove Roy's identity, Harmonia continued.

"People! Priest Loi is not only a priest who serves the gods with me, but he is also the benefactor who saved me and our Thebes tribe. It is because of the help of Priest Loi that I was able to kill the invaders The leader. So I ask you to respect Priest Loi the same way you respect me."

Hearing Harmonia's words, the people of Thebes put away their hostile gazes on Roy.

Roy gave Harmonia a grateful look, and then said to the surrounding Thebes.

"Everyone of Thebes! I believe that you all, like me, think that the great Mnemosyne is a goddess of love and motherhood. So think about it seriously, the loving goddess Mnemosyne would like Do you sacrifice your own kind as sacrifices? In fact, offering captives as sacrifices is a tradition created by priests and leaders in the past. Priests and leaders want to turn captives into sacrifices because there is so little food to feed themselves Not enough, of course there is no surplus food to feed the captives. So kill the captives as sacrifices to prevent the captives from consuming their own food."

The reason Roy said was indeed one of the reasons for using living people as sacrifices.

But that was the reason for priests and chiefs to sacrifice captives in ancient times when food was scarce.

Now the people of Thebes are sincerely sacrificing living people as sacrifices.

If they lost the war with the enemy, the Thebes would even sacrifice the leader's family as a sacrifice.

Legend has it that during the reign of King Creon of Thebes, the city of Thebes was besieged by seven heroes. The youngest son of King Creon of Thebes was used as a sacrifice to sacrifice his life to the gods in exchange for the gods helping the Thebes defeat the invasion. By.

Because the current Thebes really regard living people as sacrifices for sacrifices, Roy's reason did not convince the Thebes.

"We can use livestock as sacrifices, and of course we can use captives as sacrifices."

"Could it be that we use our own people as sacrifices because there is not enough food?"

"Human beings are the highest level of sacrifice, don't interfere with our sacrifice ceremony."

Even Harmonia couldn't help saying to Roy.

"Priest Loi, why do you offend all the Thebes for a group of captives?"

"Because the sacrifice of a living person is a cruel ritual that must be abolished."

After responding to Harmonia, Roy turned his head to look at the top of Mount Helicon and shouted.

"Great goddess Mnemosyne! If you don't agree with the Thebes sacrificing a living person to you, let a miracle show your will."

Mount Helikon.

Snow-capped peaks.

There are obviously no living creatures here, but a beautiful female voice suddenly said.

"What a bold human being! If I don't respond now, I will definitely be regarded as a god who desires human life as a sacrifice."

Thebes tribe.

After Roy finished speaking, he realized that his use of words to force Goddess Mnemosyne to perform miracles was undoubtedly an offense and blasphemy to Goddess Mnemosyne.

Seeing Harmonia beside him looking at him with disappointed eyes, Roy couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

at this time--

The peak of Mount Helikon in the distance burst out two golden rays of light, shining on Roy and Harmonia respectively.

miracle!

This is clearly a miracle of the goddess Mnemosyne.

Roy immediately said happily.

"Thebes! You have all seen that the goddess Mnemosyne used miracles to show her will. She does not want living people to be her sacrifices."

Harmonia looked at Roy's profile in surprise, but she didn't expect the goddess Mnemosyne to respond to Roy.

The surrounding Thebes even knelt down one after another, worshiping the divine light descended by the goddess Mnemosyne.

"Everyone!"

After recovering from the surprise, Harmonia said to the surrounding Thebes.

"The great goddess Mnemosyne regards us as her children, so the goddess Mnemosyne does not want us to cruelly sacrifice the living. Now I will obey the will of the goddess Mnemosyne and abolish The tradition of sacrificing the living as sacrifices."

The goddess Mnemosyne had miraculously demonstrated her will, and certainly no Thebes were foolish enough to oppose Harmonia at this time.

The twelve Phoenicians who were originally sacrificed survived fortunately.

(End of this chapter)