From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Thebes, dark night.

At the home of the second priest Alba (bald-headed Ba), the open-air courtyard is filled with tempting aromas.

Dill, wild garlic, shallots, sage... Many spices are soaked in exotic imported olive oil, and after soaking out the aroma, they are evenly spread on the strong leg of argali.Immediately, the leg of lamb was sent to the fire, roasted to give off a burnt aroma, sizzling with mutton fat.

The finished product is carefully cut into thick slices of uniform size and delivered to the guests' plates.

Alba munched on the freshly grilled mutton, seemingly not afraid of burning his mouth at all.

Occasionally, he would stop, suck his lips, and then sigh again: "It's better to be argali, which has no smell. When the priests were in power, what kind of sacred animals were they chosen?"

The priests feasted on the offerings offered to God Amon today, and all the best parts were sent here.And most of the clergy of Karnak Temple can also get a share.

Opposite the bald man, who was eating a lot of oil, sat an old man in his 50s, with white beard and hair, thin face, and dark complexion. He was the bald man's boss, the first priest of Karnak Temple picture.

He seemed completely uninterested in this freshly grilled plate of mutton.But the attendants of the second priest's mansion knew that the first priest only ate the thin slice of meat on the cheek of the argali.

This sounds uncomplicated, but it requires the attendants to roast the huge argali head in its entirety, and then carefully slice off the complete piece, which is quite labor-intensive.

In short, the first priest is much more picky than the second priest and the third priest.

"cough--"

Facing the unrestrained bald man in front of delicious food, Platu couldn't help frowning, coughed twice, and asked solemnly, "Did you mention sacred animals in front of the envoy today?"

"It's not a sacred animal, but an animal form. That beauty... No, the envoy of Amon didn't show the form of a beast head and a human body, so I asked. But she asked back, does God Amon have an animal form?"

"Did she really say that?"

The muscles on Plato's face twitched suddenly.

"That's what you said." The bald-headed Ba finally wiped off the oil on his hands, nodded and responded seriously.

Then I became a little panicked, "Boss, what do you mean by her? Could it be that God Amon doesn't have an animal form?"

"In the past few decades, the animal forms of the gods have been whatever the priests say, and the sacred animals are what we think is delicious. Is it true that the authentic angel of the gods is here today and wants to pick us on this matter? What's wrong?"

Plato immediately rolled his eyes at the bald man, and scolded in a low voice: "It's all caused by your appetite! Do you think that the gods of Amon came here specially from Lower Egypt? Don't you know that the gods Is there an animal form?"

"If you don't have it, then you don't have it!" The bald man didn't care, and said with a wipe of his mouth, "The big deal is that from now on, there will be no statues with the head of a sheep and a lion's body next to the Shinto in front of the temple, and all the pillar statues with a human head and a human body will be built. "

"So you haven't figured out what you did wrong today?"

Platu looked annoyed, but seeing the confused faces of Bald Ba and the others, he had no choice but to explain himself: "You shouldn't have stopped the envoy outside the city at all today."

"If you invite her into the city early in the morning, at least our people will be able to watch her control her and control her every move. It's better for you, the fence on the water channel will block the envoy, and the envoy will come into the city by himself in a flying boat -"

There was a sudden silence in the hall.Everyone felt that what the first priest said was right.If he had known this, the bald man should have invited people in respectfully back then, and even invited them into the Temple of Amon early. With the ability of the priests, I am afraid that the entire Thebes today will not hear the slightest word about the envoy of Amon.

The bald-headed Baba was still not convinced: "I didn't expect it at the time! I have never heard that God Amon has divine envoys and followers, and they came from Lower Egypt."

Plato nodded: "Yes, it is a doubtful point. Belief in God Amon is not prosperous in Lower Egypt. I heard that many people there have not even heard of this god. It is indeed suspicious that an envoy suddenly appeared in Lower Egypt. .”

"So, how could I have thought so far at the time. I looked at the face of the envoy, and the only thought I had was why the third child was not sent on this errand."

Hearing what bald-headed Ba said, everyone in the courtyard suddenly laughed.

Platu turned his head to look at Roach, the third priest of the Karnak Temple, and saw that the other party was staring at a row of coolly dressed dancers standing under the pillars in the distance.

The most beautiful of these dancers is also throwing winks at Roach - the third priest may not even know what the people in the courtyard are talking about at the moment.

One only knows how to satisfy the desire of appetite, and the other is addicted to beauty all day long...

Platu looked coldly at these companions who had been following him for many years, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Is it true that there is no one... no one who can find the greatest satisfaction in the pursuit and control of power like him?

"Boss, there is nothing to worry about."

Hearing Plato's sigh, the bald man knew what the first priest was worried about, so he comforted him, saying, "Actually, as long as there is no problem with the selection of the temple tomorrow, so what if the envoy of Amon visits Thebes?" ? Can she stay here permanently?"

As he said that, the bald-headed Ba stretched his hands around his abdomen, made a gesture imitating his pregnant Liujia, and said, "Look at her appearance, she will give birth soon. Upper Egypt has always disobeyed the Pharaoh of Lower Egypt. How dare she dare to give birth?" Live the Pharaoh's successor in Thebes?"

Plato closed his eyes immediately, indicating that what the other party said made sense.

"Isn't it?" The third priest Luo Qi finally figured out what everyone was talking about, "Even if she is a genuine Amon God, she has another identity, the first princess. The Upper Egyptians have always disliked the lower Egyptians." Pharaoh, and she must be one with Pharaoh. If something goes wrong, we can also use this as an excuse to drive her back to Lower Egypt."

"In the end, the key is tomorrow!"

Plato clasped his hands together and held them up to his chest in a gesture of determination.Then he turned to look at Roach: "Is everything ready at the temple?"

The third priest Luo Qi nodded and said: "Boss, don't worry, all the organs in the temple have been checked, and the results tomorrow will be exactly the same as those in recent years..."

In the Thebes hotel, Erich was asking the young couple of the fourth priest about the belief in Amon.

"How long has it been since the Temple of Karnak was built?"

"The Temple of Karnak has been under construction since before the Great Turmoil. But it was finally completed 50 years after the Great Turmoil, and maybe even later..."

"The Temple of Karnak... Has it always been the temple of God Amon?"

Erich has always wanted to know how long Thebes' belief in the god Amon has lasted.

But as an envoy of God, she couldn't just ask this question when she came up, so she could only use this method to beat around the bush.

Ferlin could not guess that the honorable envoy of Amon in front of him actually had limited knowledge, and immediately replied respectfully: "No. About fifty...60 years ago, Thebes began to gradually believe in our righteous envoy. god."

"Why did you suddenly change your letter?" Alicia asked without emotion.

"My father was a priest at the Karnak Temple at that time. I still remember that I asked him about the gods when I was very young. He answered me. At first, it was just a rumor. I believed in the god of Amun, and Thebes Si can get rid of the coming disaster and usher in good luck."

"This rumor has been circulating for a long time, about 40 or [-] years."

"But no one knows who the god Amon is and how powerful he is. Therefore, despite the rumors, the Thebes did not immediately change their beliefs."

"Later, an outstanding priest suddenly realized that if God must appear and be known before he can believe in it, then in essence he doubts about God and is blasphemy. Therefore, he advocated that the people of Thebes worship Amon—"

"According to what we think and what we want, we will paint the appearance of the great god, and then start our worship."

"In this way, the people of Thebes began to worship Amon. Since then, the fortunes of Thebes city have been really good. A new oasis was discovered in the desert to the west, a road to the sea was opened to the east, and the conquered land was conquered in the south. Nubians, northward from Pharaoh's..."

Feilin wanted to say that Xiangbei would break away from the pharaoh's rule, but he suddenly realized that the person opposite him was the pharaoh's first wife, the first princess of Egypt.

Mushana looked at her husband with great sympathy, but Alixi just raised her eyebrows slightly, indicating that it's okay, just keep talking.

"As people became more and more convinced of the god Amun, when my grandfather was young, people finally changed the temple of Karnak to the temple of Amun."

Alicia thought deeply.

When the priest of Anubis, Opt, told her that the god Amon was rising in Upper Egypt and that the center of his belief was in Thebes, they were not lying to her.

But this does not mean that the god Amun really exists.

All that exists is a rumor.

But this rumor made a wonderful foreshadowing for the rise of the gods.

Alixi raised her head slightly, thinking that the outstanding priest back then might have had the same thoughts as herself, regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones, let's talk about designing an object worthy of belief.

"Then before? Which god was dedicated to the temple of Karnak before?"

"Atum-Ra God." Ferlin replied without thinking.

"Atum-Ra?"

Alixi was very surprised: she knew that Atum was the name of the original creator.And Ra is the name of the sun god whose worship center is in Heliopolis.

Those two once shared the same main god identity for a relatively short period of time.

After the original Creator faded out of sight, Senmuth once mentioned that he may have fallen.

The city of Thebes, which was originally dedicated to the temple of the god Atum-Ra, was dedicated to the originally unknown god Amon.

Together with the three to forty years that have been widely circulated, someone spent nearly a hundred years paving the way for the rise of a new god?

"What about God Amon's title, his image, and his exclusive mark?"

Thinking of this, Alixie couldn't help but beat a small drum in her heart.

Unexpectedly, Felin was more timid than her, and he lowered his head shyly and replied: "For so many years, the priests of the Karnak Temple have never really obtained the oracle and understood the title and mark of the gods. They...they are actually all According to my own understanding... Therefore, these will change every once in a while..."

Alixie: Er... It seems that everyone's calculations are actually the same!

"However, the three-person council in Thebes has become more and more aggressive in the past ten years. They have already changed the worship of gods into a tool for power struggle."

"My lord, only you, only you can stop—"

When Feilin said this, his whole body became excited, his right fist was clenched tightly, his eyes were firm and urgent, and he looked at Erich hopefully.

On the other hand, Mushana's cheeks were slightly flushed, she raised her face full of love, and looked at her husband beside her.

Alicia laughed when she heard Ferlin's introduction to the temple.

"That's the funniest request I've ever heard." She smiled sarcastically.

"Fourth priest, have you ever thought that if you were in the position of the first priest, and the current first priest happens to be your subordinate, your subordinate will be like you tonight, under the cover of your wife, disguised Came here in disguise and begged me—"

Feilin blushed immediately, and clenched his right fist even more tightly, feeling great shame that the other party compared him with the other three priests.

Unexpectedly, Alicia was completely indifferent to his anger, and just asked a question calmly: "What I want to know is the difference between you and them—"

"What exactly do you want?"