Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

"...This, it is said that Lord Fox God who wants to invite you to serve, to take a post in the Gaotai Church, be worshiped by believers, and share incense..."

Uh?Not only the DND gods in Seattle, but even the Gaotai sect in the south want Lord Fox God to join?

Go to bed early tonight, no update, post tomorrow morning

Some relatives came to Hangzhou to play, and my parents were weak and unable to entertain them, so I had to accompany them around the West Lake, from Su Causeway to Bai Causeway, to Leifeng Pagoda, and to Huagang to watch fish and tigers. Running in the spring, the children of my relatives seem to have endless energy, but I am so tired that my legs are shaking and my head is dizzy. I really don't have the energy to type out a chapter. I hereby ask for leave.

Get up early in the morning after getting some sleep to update the code words, and the next chapter is expected to be released tomorrow morning.

Chapter 238: Empress Daji doesn't want to be ridden on the head by Jiang Ziya

Louisiana, St. Martin Parish, Cao Dai Temple

The administrative divisions of Louisiana are different from other states in the continental United States. There are not counties under the state, but parishes.

The so-called "parish" means the jurisdiction of the church, because Louisiana was originally a colony of France and Spain, and both established formal Catholic churches. The local government was established based on the parishes divided by the local church, and each settlement was Developed around the church.

After being incorporated into the United States, Louisiana once broke up the parishes and re-established counties, but later restored the names and plans of the parishes, which have been followed to this day.

However, despite retaining the name of the parish, today, Louisiana has long lost such a strong Catholic atmosphere.

Even many remote churches in the local area were used for other purposes after the loss of believers, sharp drop in income, depression and dilapidation.

For example, the Cao Dai Temple in St. Martin Parish in Louisiana was rebuilt on the basis of an American-style country church.

——The bell tower, chapel, arches, spires, stained glass floor-to-ceiling windows are all available, and there is a small fountain pool in front of the door.

It's just that the cross on the top of the clock tower is gone, replaced by a triangular badge with eyes inlaid in the middle.

The cherub in the fountain pool was also removed and replaced with a round stone ball with an eye also engraved on it.

This small American country church originally imitated the white exterior walls and colonnades of the Greco-Roman style, but now it has been repainted by the priest of the Gaotai Church into eye-catching yellow walls and red columns, and the vermilion columns are also painted in black and white Panlong to enhance its "Oriental" style attributes.

In addition, the Gaotai priest who bought this place added a purely decorative blue-tiled cornice above the main entrance of the church, and placed a super small stone lion on the left and right sides of the main entrance...

In short, it is very nondescript, and the mix and match cannot be mixed and matched.

If you go through the gate and walk into the interior of the Gaotai Temple, which was magically reformed in this small country church, you will see more mix-and-match elements.

——The layout of American country churches is almost the same.

They all enter from the main entrance of the church, and there is a large chapel with rows of benches, windows on both sides of the wall for lighting, an aisle in the middle, and an altar with a cross and the priest at the end. Sermon podium.

Churches with ample means, perhaps against the walls, had gigantic pipe organs for the choir.

The holy water pool for baptism of newborns is usually placed at the corner of the altar.

In addition, on one side of the altar against the wall, wooden boards are usually used to separate the confession room where the pastor communicates with believers.

After the church was converted into a Cao Dai Temple, all the benches in the chapel were removed, allowing believers to sit directly on the marble floor tiles.The Christian altar where the cross was originally placed was changed into the shape of a gossip table with a globe hanging in the middle to cater to the oriental style...

That's all right, but under the long walls on both sides of the chapel, there is also a shrine that can be seen in three steps by the Gaotai Church. There are incense cases and tables for offerings everywhere, and there are large portraits suspected to be taken from comic exhibitions everywhere, like an oriental style. The Pantheon is full of bells and whistles and colorful to the extreme!

No way, Christianity prohibits idolatry in theory, while Cao Daiism is a synthesis of Eastern and Western idolatry.

If there is only one altar in the temple, how can there be so many all-encompassing statues?

When Megumi Akiyama and others walked into this "super mash-up" Caotai temple, the priests in the temple were organizing daily rituals of worship.

First, they sang the core teachings copied from the Tao Te Ching.

"...All religions are united, all gods coexist—"

"...Everyone is hey, like enjoying a prison, like spring on stage—"

More than 20 believers dressed in white, under the leadership of a Cao Dai priest in a blue priestly robe, are devoutly worshiping the God of Cao Dai.

——According to the regulations of the Cao Dai Church, believers should wear white clothes when they worship, and there are three types of priests: blue clothes, yellow clothes, and red clothes: blue-clothed pastors are Taoist priests in blue robes, and yellow-clothed pastors are monks with long hair in cassocks , the red priest is the dress of a Catholic cardinal (simplified version).

In this way, it reflects the "unity of all religions" of Gaotai Teaching, which is eclectic.

Then, according to their teachings, "Gaotai" is the most honorable supreme god, who created everything in this universe.

The God of Gaotai has no shape, but sometimes observes the world with one eye, so the God of Gaotai decided his logo to be one eye.

But the problem is that one of the symbols of Freemasonry is also the "all-seeing eye" embedded in the pyramid, and it is also printed on the dollar bill.

Therefore, looking at the "one eye" of the highest god in the Cao Dai Temple, especially the shape and style, many people can't help but dream about it.

There are even conspiracy theorists who do not know much about this claim that Cao Dai is actually a Southeast Asian branch of Freemasonry and so on.

But in fact, if these nonsense conspiracy theorists can watch a whole set of Cao Dai religious activities.

One knew that the Cao Daoism and the Freemasonry were, if not worlds apart, at least completely different things.

——After worshiping the God of Gaotai, the next object of worship for the believers is the three sages of the Gaotai Sect.

Which three sages?Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo (the French writer who wrote "Les Miserables") and Nguyen Binh Kiem (a Vietnamese poet).

After the worship of the three sages of the Cao Dai Sect, the pastor will lead the believers to pay homage to the many saints of the Cao Dai Sect.

The place where the cross was originally placed in this small church is now covered with statues of various celebrities. The four saints on the central axis are superior saints, also known as superior gods, and from top to bottom are Sakyamuni , Li Bai, Jesus, Jiang Ziya.

The statues of these four superior saints are arranged vertically.Shakyamuni is at the top and Jiang Ziya is at the bottom.

On both sides of the central axis, there are four middle-level saints, or statues of middle-level gods, including Laozi, Confucius, Guanyin, and Guan Yu.

Looking at the names of these saints, you can tell that there are both Taoist and Buddhist figures.

Therefore, the leader of Gaotai Sect is known as "Gaotai Immortal Bodhisattva Mahasattva".

——Xianweng is the title of Taoism, and Bodhisattva Mahasattva is the title of the Buddhist venerable, which shows the degree of mixing and matching.

Further out, in the many shrines under the other walls of the church, there are more inferior saints, or inferior gods, including Newton, Shakespeare and Churchill in England, and Clemenceau in France...

——The Gaotai Sect believes that the famous people in history are the messengers of the "Gaotai" god, the embodiment of truth, and they will be made gods afterwards.

Of course, in order to do as the Romans do in this part of the United States, this Caotai Temple also enshrined several famous presidents such as Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt in a wheelchair, plus the black leader Martin Luther King, the inventor Edison, and the satirist Mark Twain Waiting for American historical celebrities...

And in the most remote corner, Akiyama Megumi even silently saw a small shrine dedicated to Transformers and Ultraman.

——If we say that Christianity’s attitude towards believers is that you are only allowed to believe in God, the rest are false gods and evil gods!

Then, the attitude of Cao Tai Sect towards believers is: whichever kind of saint you like, we will enshrine that kind of saint. Among so many saints in the temple, there is always one you like.

If all of them are really not to your liking, we will add some new saints to it!

Because the core purpose of the Gaotai Sect is "All religions are united, all gods coexist"!

With this eclectic attitude, the Cao Tai Sect has developed 300 million believers in Vietnam, and even had its own cataract army in its heyday.

Overseas, although the Cao Dai Church also has missions, the total number of believers is only [-]. Among them, there are less than [-] Cao Dai believers in the United States, and most of them are in California.

As for Louisiana, there are only a handful of 2000 Cao Dai believers who often donate money to the temple.

The size of this believer...how should I put it?It is even far inferior to many cults in Japan, South Korea and other places.

Therefore, it is no wonder that this Cao Dai temple is so shabby.

The temple is an abandoned Christian church bought at a low price, and the statues are either the simplest plaster statues, or made of plastic or even inflatable rubber.The decorations inside and outside the temple also look like they were taken from studios, comic exhibitions and second-hand goods markets, and then messily pieced together on this building, making the overall painting style of the Caotai Temple look more mixed and harmonious Hybridity.

Originally, Fan Qingren, the blue-clothed pastor (Taoist priest) who presided over this Caotai Temple in Louisiana, tried his best to preach and sell the faith, but hit a wall everywhere, and after achieving little success, he was already dejected and planned to live like this Hanging for my life.

Unexpectedly, this year's America suddenly changed. First, there were plagues everywhere, and then there were supernatural manifestations, and gods came down to earth...

All kinds of dizzying changes made Fan Qingren, the pastor in blue, dizzy to watch.

It also made him "an old man talking about being a teenager", and the long-dead ambition in his chest beat violently again!

——As we all know, when the class is solidified, for the poor boy who wants to climb up, chaos is the ladder to achieve class leap.

On the other hand, for the small church lingering in the cracks, chaos is also a good opportunity to turn around!

However, just as Fan Qingren wanted to carry forward the Gaotai Sect, he looked around the many shrines in the temple, but found a very serious problem.

Well, it can be said to be a very, very serious problem!

Except for the main god "Gaotai" who has no real image, and Guanyin Bodhisattva, who doesn't know whether he should be regarded as a man, a woman, or a transgender person, among the so many all-encompassing gods in the Caotai Temple, all of them are male , not even a goddess!

This is really not in line with universal values, and seriously violates political correctness!

What's worse, according to a certain priestess, at the beginning of the revival of spiritual energy, all the gods will descend to the earth, with women first, and male gods will have to wait a year or two.

According to Pastor Fan Qingren, how can this work?

If the Cao Tai Sect continues for another year or two, this rare opportunity will be snatched away by other religious groups that worship the goddess!

So... one or two years is too long, seize the day!

Of course, this problem is not irreparable: the greatest advantage of the Cao Dai religion is the flexibility of worship objects and religious rituals.

Since there is a lack of goddesses in the church, let's quickly invite a few goddesses to join us.

According to the consistent mix-and-match painting style since the establishment of the teaching, Fan Qingren, the pastor in blue, has no psychological burden at all.

However, even if you want to add a few goddesses to the Gaotai Sect, at the moment when your spiritual energy has recovered, you can't just randomly pull people around.

To be on the safe side, it is best to choose a goddess who has descended to the mortal world and has shown supernatural powers, rather than throwing a net aimlessly.

After all, now everyone can't predict foretelling, who knows which goddesses will recover next, and which goddesses will continue to die?

Gao Taijiao's capital in the United States is too small to afford to gamble.

Moreover, before deciding to enshrine a certain or several goddesses, one has to talk to the priest who serves the other party to discuss a series of things such as the status and treatment of the other party after joining the Gaotai Sect, publicity plans, and priesthood teachings.

Otherwise, if in terms of title, status, and rituals, because the goddess is not satisfied because of self-talk, and even breaks a taboo, it offends the goddess, and even attracts curses and divine punishment... Then this Things are about to turn into a self-defeating act of asking for trouble.

Pastor Fan Qingren, who presided over this small temple, would not make such a low-level mistake.

Therefore, when he learned that Megumi Akiyama, the maiden of the nuclear explosion, passed by here, he immediately invited the other party to come as a guest through his personal relationship.

After Akiyama Megumi and his party arrived, Pastor Fan Qingren entertained them as warmly as possible, and sincerely confessed his plan to invite the Fox Goddess to join the Gaotai Sect.

In this regard, Akiyama Megumi and the ancient fox god Yuzaoqian & Inari God & Empress Daji who she served had no choice but to agree.

——Although the influence of the Cao Dai Sect in the United States is really negligible, it is barely considered a local leader in Louisiana.

If you can get the cooperation of the Gaodai Sect, it should be somewhat beneficial for the establishment of the local Inari Shrine.

However, what seat does the Gaotai Sect plan to arrange for the ancient fox god?

Pastor Fan Qingren said that the most noble three sages under the Gaotai God are really difficult to change, so they can only add a place among the high-level gods.

"...Therefore, the position of your lord in our religion can be the fifth high-level god under the four high-level gods."

Pastor Fan Qingren pointed to the vertical rows of Shakyamuni, Li Bai, Jesus, and Jiang Ziya on the wall, and said so.

The little witch Qiu Shanhui raised her head and looked at the blank space under the statue of Jiang Ziya. For some reason, she always felt something was wrong.

But before she figured out what was wrong with it, Tamazamoe-sama residing in her body couldn't hold back anymore.

A small nine-tailed white fox jumped out from the top of her head, glared fiercely at Fan Qingren who was wearing a blue robe, and roared angrily:

"... Duh! How dare you let Jiang Ziya ride on Bengong's head, you are a bold madman?! Could it be that you have lost your life?"

PS: The temperature in Europe has finally cooled, but the range is a bit large. The UK has plummeted from 41 degrees Celsius to 3 degrees Celsius in a week.

The reason is said to be "the largest La Niña phenomenon in the world".

Chapter 239: Even a mere big-eyed bead wants to be the Supreme God?

The four high-level gods of the Gaotai Sect are not lined up horizontally on the eight trigrams platform, but are stacked upright on a pillar.

On the top is Sakyamuni, the next one is Li Bai, the poet fairy, Jesus is below Li Bai, and Jiang Ziya is below Jesus.

Then, in order to save space, these four statues are stacked one on top of the other in a compact way, similar to the style of students taking group photos.

Therefore, if you stand in the center of this Caotai Temple and look up from the perspective of worshipers, the painting style is about the majestic Sakyamuni riding on Li Bai's head, and Li Bai riding on Jesus Christ with a brush. On the head, Jesus is riding on Jiang Ziya's head...

If Yuzaoqian/Empress Daji were to become the fifth high-ranking god, wouldn't she be placed at the bottom of these four people and act as a load-bearing pier?

Not to mention how indecent it is for a goddess to pose as a "big man" in front of believers.

Just because the guy riding on her head is actually Jiang Ziya, it will make the ancient fox god fly into a rage.

——Ahem, what is the relationship between the favored concubine of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, Empress Daji, and the founding hero of the Zhou Dynasty, Qi Taigong Jiang Ziya?