"Actually, I don't think we can't think about it and use some more extreme but more convenient methods to solve the problem."
After two days of rummaging through the humus of books, Craft succeeded in proving that the Wood family really did not have an ounce of archaeological or historical talent in their genes.
It's normal when you think about it. Teachers Old Wood and Anderson have studied anomalies for most of their lives, but they haven't collected even a single relic that has some unnatural power. Facts speak louder than words, which is a good explanation of the problem.
It has nothing to do with memory or learning ability. Just because a professor in a medical school can accurately clamp the retracting and spasming arterial stump in a mess of blood and flesh does not mean that he can find useful information from a pile of paper that can be considered for recycling.
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Brother Raymond, Coop, and Yvonne were successively recruited into this huge project and helped clean up a corner of the sea of books.
The actual effect is relatively limited. All the text that can be saved is seriously incomplete, with a beginning but no tail, a tail but no head, or simply only half of it. The rest is in a state where the full content cannot be seen without peeling it off, and peeling it off will directly destroy the paper.
The paradoxical state of destruction.
Fans of difficult puzzles will probably like it, but it's a pity that everyone here has some puzzle-related traumatic stress disorder.
The previous preliminary guess was correct. The main components were contributed by the monastery library, which highlighted a large and comprehensive range of information. In addition to religious academic documents, which accounted for the majority, it also included regional hydrogeographic records, practical reference books such as crop cultivation.
Kraft even found a book on herbal medicine in it. It was not a general textbook, but about how to use unique local products to simply treat some common and frequently-occurring diseases.
It is estimated to be a practical guide summarized by the early pioneering monks. It took a wild path and has obvious personal characteristics. You can see some ingredients that are not mentioned in the conventional pharmacopoeia. Unfortunately, it was severely damaged and can only be collected as an antique.
"Keep this copy for me." After eliminating the suspicion, I might be able to send it back to Dunling and give it to Dr. David. I believe he will be interested.
The remaining few books may be personal belongings, but they are gathered together in a unified way for some reason.
These books usually do not have a special title on the cover, and the content is very diverse. You can find almost anything, such as personal notes, diaries, income and expenditure accounts, hobbies and other miscellaneous items. They have no literary value and lack practical significance.
Also implies a lack of identifiable characteristics.
From this, we can get a glimpse of the life of the monastery. Under the restrained and conservative rules and regulations, almost everyone maintains a repressive and regular life, a bit like some kind of never-ending closed management school.
Even hobbies are "regular" such as calligraphy and writing, botanical medicine, hymns and music, and historical and literary research. They have to be written down in notes meticulously. It is difficult to judge whether it is a real hobby or an attempt to convince yourself that you have a hobby.
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If things go on like this, it is normal to develop some mental illness.
These records can be regarded as the only personal expressions. Objectively speaking, they are indeed more interesting than those long theological classics.
So Kraft left the task of reading the tomes to professionals without any burden, and picked and read these selected niche texts himself.
At the beginning, he still had the idea of looking for something, but as the reading gradually deepened, maybe because he had not read Xianshu for too long, he did resonate with some subtle pleasure.
The lower-level monks are often the group that interacts the most with the locals. Through their records, we can see how the church entered the fragmented mountainous area step by step and visibly and intangibly ruled its spiritual world territory.
First, a few humble missionaries arrived. They did not reject the unfamiliar local humanities and primitive and unique belief systems, but had normal contact with them, and even actively participated in them, observing, understanding, and recording.
After just flipping through a few books, I discovered several natural spirits and ancestor worship behaviors. The recorder tried to describe these things with words or hand-drawn drawings. Due to the mountainous terrain, natural totems are mainly mountain beasts, which can guide people across the mountains.
Birds of water source for.
The burial customs and ancestor worship are also related to mountains, advocating high places where they can get long-term sunlight, and further developed the more intuitive imagination of climbing from mountains to the sky and entering the clouds.
After understanding the customs and taboos, the missionaries began to spread the teachings in a localized manner, focusing on universal values, persuading them to do good, obtain blessings after death, and win over a small group that was willing to listen and accept.
When the scale reaches a certain level, church groups that gradually obtain resources will build churches or monasteries. The main purpose is not to gather people to pray, but to carry out social services based on this.
The missionaries provided the residents with near-free consolation medical care, valuable basic education, shelter when necessary, and small amounts of food and clean water distributed every Sunday.
With long-developed and mature social service capabilities, local primitive beliefs cannot compete at all. In terms of Bible debate, they have suffered from the dimensionality reduction attacks of monks who have received relevant education.
Generally within two generations, the mainstream teachings will be completely localized and replaced. For some pagans who are really capable and want to resist stubbornly, the church does not mind letting them experience its traditional teaching methods of more than a hundred years ago.
Various superstitions scattered in small settlements gradually became text specimens, which were quietly rotted in these notes. Then studying these primitive beliefs became a kind of knowledge and hobby.
Some remnants of the past can still be found in the local adaptation of the folk and the church, and the monks are also happy to record the relevant content collected during their outings.
In folklore, those who failed to return after going up the mountain and did not find their bodies were often thought to have been taken away by some huge flying creature and therefore disappeared without a trace.
Similar anecdotes, mentioned repeatedly, were the source of much of the early cult of fear of the unknown in nature.
The unreachable mountains and unfathomable clouds and mists provide too much room for imagination, and are endowed with various elements that bring fear, such as fangs, bat wings, sharp claws, and scales. Elements are constantly piled up according to rumors.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Some monks speculate that this description may be related to the evolution of some classic monster images in traditional stories, or at least serve as a reference.
The long-lasting worship of mysticism has given mountains, clouds and monsters a special place in the hearts of local people, which in turn has influenced the lords and churches that settled in from outside. The former obtained inspiration for their family heraldry, and the latter transformed many churches into
The location of the monastery was moved to a high-risk location.
"It's very interesting." Brother Raymond was still classifying the piles of religious classics, and Craft had already finished reading more than a dozen essays.
I would definitely not want to force him to learn about history and religion, but it would be different if it were turned into a hobby book.
Based on his memory, it was actually not much different from memorizing it. The words from various sources were piled up like grains of sand and gravel, forming a half-old and half-new sand table, presenting a specific image of this land.
"I have an idea. How about adding folklore as an elective in the future?"
"As long as you are willing to hire someone or write the teaching materials yourself, I have no objection." Raymond straightened up from the waist-high stack of books, slightly worried about the future workload, "Why do you mention this suddenly?"
"I don't know if you have realized that Dunling's incident has brought a lot of inspiration. Some things have not been taken away by time. They have never left and are always around us, but they exist in other forms that we are accustomed to.
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"For example, some unexplainable habits and tendencies, familiar stories, you can't feel them because they are already a part of us."
"Say less, Mr. Craft, it's a bit scary." Coop wrapped his clothes tightly and felt something colder than early autumn wandering around.
He didn't know if there was any problem with the monastery, but Kraft had really made him feel that something was not right recently, and it was time to find an opportunity to talk in private.