王の成り立ち
生活で重要な自然現象(植物も含む)への感謝。供え物(自分にとって大切なもの)をするようになる。家族やコミュニティが出来上がる。徐々に拡大し、代表者が決まっていく。それを繰り返す。
それと共に、代表者は「村長」から「王」へと変わっていく。
大いなる自然現象とその恵み(のちの神)への感謝表明を司る存在が王だ。
供え物の風習は規模が拡大し、「儀式」となる。
儀式
雨が降らず、食物が育たず、海が荒れ、魚が獲れず、飢餓に苦しむときもある。命の危機にさらされることもあっただろう。消えてしまう村や国もあっただろう。
その深刻な事態に見舞われ、それは時に、怒りとも捉えられただろう。雷はその代表例だ。その怒りにも見える現象を抑えるために、何ができただろうか。
より大きな感謝(捧げもの)をもってより大きな願い(祈り)をかなえるためには、自分たちにとってより貴重な、大切なものを、より多く捧げるようになっていく。当時、最大の価値は命ではなかっただろうか。
雨を呼ぶ
雷を収める
時には偶然、大いなる存在の怒りに見えたものが収まっただろう。
そして、
喜びを表現する
騒ぐ→逆転→「踊る」
叫ぶ→逆転→「歌」
叩く→逆転→「音楽」
それは繰り返され「儀式化」していく。
忘却・形骸化・意味の希薄化・システム化され、本質を失っていく。
その儀式の進行役が王である。
やがて王が神となる
神との通信装置(に見える)だった王は、やがて神「のように」大きな存在となる。農耕の発達による人口増加により「人間の形をした神」では統治できなくなっていく。村→町→都市→国と拡大していく中で、より大きな力が必要となる。きっかけは些細なことからだっただろう。信頼や尊敬の念から、小さな墓が生まれ、供え物が置かれ、やがて、古墳や神殿となる。原初の神が完成する。そしてノウハウ化され、継承され、王族の神格化が始まる。
神々の戦争
争いや分裂により、コミュニティは拡大や縮小を繰り返す。安定・拡大すれば、近隣のコミュニティとの摩擦も起こる。それが戦争だ。当時は食糧確保の臨界線における、衝突が主だっただろう。
率いるのは神格化された王だ。それは時間と共に物語化し「神々の争い」の伝説となっていく。
神とは知性と集団性という武器を最大限に活用するために「人間が作った」ものだ。それは生存戦略であり、進化の「現れ」であり、それを可能にしたのが「言葉」だ。
神が言葉を作ったのではない。
言葉が神を造ったという事になるだろう。
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👑The Origin of Kings
Gratitude for natural phenomena (including plants) that are important to daily life. Offerings (things important to oneself) begin to be made. Families and communities are formed. Gradually, these communities expand, and a representative is chosen. This process is repeated.
🧑🌾As the representative changes from "village chief" to "king."
The king is the figure responsible for expressing gratitude to great natural phenomena and their blessings (later known as gods).
The custom of offerings expands in scale and becomes a "ritual."
✨Ritual
There were times when rain failed, food did not grow, the seas became rough, fish could not be caught, and people suffered from famine. Their lives were in danger. Some villages and countries may have disappeared.
Such serious situations were sometimes perceived as anger. Lightning is a prime example. What could have been done to suppress this seemingly angry phenomenon?
To fulfill greater wishes (prayer) with greater gratitude (offerings), people began to offer more of what was precious and important to them. At that time, wasn't life the greatest value?
🌧️Calling rain
⚡Calming thunder
Sometimes, what appeared to be the anger of a greater being was calmed by chance.
And then,
🎉Expressing joy
🔊Noisy → Reverse → "Dancing"💃
📢Shouting → Reverse → "Singing"🎶
🥁Beat → Reverse → "Music"🎵
This process is repeated and becomes "ritualized."
As it is forgotten, becomes meaningless, its meaning is diluted, and it becomes systematized, losing its essence.
The king is the master of ceremonies.
🧞Eventually, the king becomes a god
The king, who once appeared to be a communication device with the gods, eventually became a being "as great" as a god. As the population grew with the development of agriculture, it became impossible for a "god in human form" to rule. As the country expanded from village to town to city to country, greater power was needed. It probably started with something trivial. Out of trust and respect, small graves were created, offerings placed there, and eventually they became burial mounds and temples. The primordial gods were perfected. Then, knowledge was developed and passed down, and the deification of royalty began.
⚔️War of the Gods
Conflict and division led to repeated expansion and contraction of communities. As communities stabilized and expanded, friction with neighboring communities arose. This was war. At the time, these conflicts likely centered on critical food security.
They were led by deified kings. Over time, these conflicts became narratives, becoming legends of the "war of the gods."
🧠Gods were "created" by humans
To maximize their intelligence and collectivity. It was a survival strategy, a "manifestation" of evolution, and it was "language" that made this possible.
📜God did not create language;
💡It would be fair to say that language created gods.
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