Section 413 Accidental Discovery
Zeng Lu asked curiously: "By the way, I'm suddenly curious, what kind of rewards will those who win on the court have?" Xiao Fei smiled slightly, and said in a hidden way: "Then Miss Zeng, what kind of reward do you think?"
Xiao Fei said unhurriedly: "Archaeological research tends to win the team and the captain of the team rewards are unexpected and jaw-dropping, they will all be sacrificed! Because according to the religious devotion of Mesoamerican civilization, the sacrifice to the gods should be sacred and the best, so the sacrifice should be the most muscular and skilled final victor." However, don't speculate on the thinking of the ancient Mayans based on our thoughts, because people are different, and they cannot treat others with their own lives, and the ideological consciousness of the ancient Mayans is quite high. It turns out that according to the ancient Mayan worldview and outlook on life, human life has to go through three levels: the lowest is the underworld, the middle is the world, and the highest is heaven. Everyone is fortunate enough to get rid of the level of the underworld and live on the level of the human world, and if you are lucky enough to sacrifice yourself to the gods, then you can take the bullet train and use this fast track to ascend to heaven earlier. To our jaw-dropping, and to our great surprise, an ordinary hot-blooded man of the ancient Mayan people, his lofty ideal was not to buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law, nor to be well-off in an all-round way, nor to realize the Internachonar, but to quickly ascend to heaven by sacrificing himself. Moreover, it is a very glorious thing to give to God, and the sacrifice of one person is glorious to the whole family. Since they can be sacrificed if they win, of course, they are scrambling to get the award, and I guess they have been brainwashed and successful since childhood. There is also a heart-to-heart sacrifice that is also a unique skill. The priest's skill of dissecting the heart must have been perfected, otherwise, if there is a slight mistake in the pool, and the heart does not beat alive soon when it is taken out, then it will not please God. In this way, the priest must have mastered human anatomy, have a great deal of medical knowledge, and have many years of clinical experience.
Zeng Lu stuck out his tongue mischievously, and said in horror, "Oh my God, it's too terrifying to hear, being a man in Maya is really pouring eight hundred molds, which makes people tremble when they hear it, by the way, where is Hu Jiaojiao, why didn't you see her?" Xiao Fei hurriedly said: "Be careful, don't accidentally fall down, this is a holy well, unfathomable, there are a lot of beautiful bones in it, you will be scared half to death after you fall." Hu Jiaojiao tilted her head and asked curiously: "What is a beauty bone, a flower, or a medicinal herb, I have never heard of it." Xiao Fei was beaming, and continued to say: "You don't know this Miss Hu, listen to me and listen to you slowly, in fact, in the sacrifice of this major event related to the national fortune, the ancient Maya people pay special attention to the equality of men and women, and there is no gender discrimination. Boys have boys' sacrifices, and girls have girls' sacrifices. There is a ball game for boys, and a holy well for girls. What does that mean? The young beauty was to be thrown into the well as a saint and offered sacrifices to Chuk, another god of rain and thunder. The ancient Maya people poured beauty, gold, silver, and pottery into the well for many years, turning it into a place of pilgrimage. Only with water can there be life, only with water can there be food, and only with water can people survive, so in order to ensure that there is sufficient and clean water source, the ancient Maya people did not hesitate to put these beautiful Mayan beauties into the well and dedicated them to the Chuck brother as his wife. If you are an ancient Mayan girl, the more beautiful you are, the more opportunities you have to dedicate yourself. However, the ancient Maya girls may not see it this way, it is estimated that they have been brainwashed successfully, they feel that this is an infinitely glorious thing, which reminds me of the story of our ancient Chinese Hebo marrying a woman, it is really the same way, Chinese and foreign integration, so there are a lot of beautiful bones in it. ”
Brother Yixiu said with a fluttering eyebrow: "If it is really a holy well, then from the perspective of archaeology and culture, this holy well is simply a treasure! There are not only beautiful bones but also a lot of gold and silver treasures in it, or let's go in and salvage it, I dive well, there should be no big problem." Xiao Fei shook his head and said: "This matter is too troublesome, it takes time and energy, once an American archaeologist Thompson carried out dredging and fishing at the holy well for six years, and barely fished out some gold, silver, bronze, jade, and of course, a large number of beautiful bones." But we don't have that much time now. Brother Yixiu sighed in disappointment,
Hu Jiaojiao said disapprerovingly: "Then these Mayans are really backward, and they are barbaric, what's so good." ”
Xiao Fei couldn't help but say: "Then you can't say that, in fact, these Mayans are very powerful in addition to the cruelty and barbarism of sacrifices, and they have cultivated new varieties of food that have made great contributions to our human beings in agricultural production, such as corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, beans, sweet potatoes, peppers, cocoa, pandan grass and tobacco, among which the cultivation of corn has contributed the most to human beings." Corn was originally a wild plant in the Americas, but it was cultivated by the Mayans and turned into a high-yielding grain variety. Corn has many varieties, high nutritional value and large yield, which is not only the material basis of American Indian culture. After Europeans arrived in the Americas, corn spread to the whole world and became the main food in many parts of the world, helping people in many parts of the world to survive countless famines, and making indelible contributions to the continuation and development of mankind. The Maya were also breeders of turkeys. Turkey is now a must-have delicacy in European and American families, and the achievements of the Mayans in European and American food culture are recorded in history. They also have a city economy that was ahead of its time. There are many Mayan cities, according to statistics, in the eight centuries A.D., different Mayan tribes have established more than 100 cities, among which the more famous ones are Palenque, Copan and so on. This is the result of the development of the Mayan economy. The reason for the economic development was because of the high level of craftsmanship of the Maya, who would make all kinds of utensils out of clay, flint or obsidian for all kinds of tools and weapons, cotton to weave into cloth, and elements such as gold, silver, copper, and tin to make alloys, which were processed into various utensils and ornaments. The market is very developed, and there are markets in general market towns and cities, and people from all walks of life can trade in the market. The goods include cotton, honey, bee wax, flint weapons, salt, fish, and various daily necessities and foodstuffs. Commodity trading already has a currency, and their currency is cocoa beans. There are hotels next to the market for merchants to stay. The mutual market generally has a fixed date, like the Great Song Dynasty catch-up market, or every single and double, or 369, or every year and festivals. Due to the development of the commodity economy, the Maya not only had a developed internal economy but also had extensive external trade. Its economic activities have reached as far as Colombia in South America, as well as Peru, Chile and other places. Hu Jiaojiao nodded thoughtfully as if she didn't understand.
Quicksand couldn't wait to say, "Aren't we going to the pyramid?" "But very strange, I flew down the ancient and somewhat mottled steps with Xiao Fei to a strange small door, and came to the top of the stone room, which is dedicated to a 6-meter-high temple dedicated to the snake god Kukulkan, and some scattered sacrificial things, there is a lifelike statue of Quetzalcoatl, this Mayan statue of Quetzalcoatl and the Chinese invention of bull head antlers, snake body fish scales, tiger claws and long whiskers, can soar the clouds and drive the fog, there is really a bit of similarity. At least in the basic combination of the main body of the snake body and the momentum of take-off, it is consistent. The statue's nails, teeth, and eyes are inlaid with shells, and inside are two rows of finely arranged human bones, as well as a delicate statue of a red leopard.
There was no note left for us by Mr. Wang Dalong, so we went to look for other places, and after looking for most of the day, in vain for half a day, we did not find out where the entrance was?
Xiao Fei said with a wit: "Don't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, let's use the instrument to probe us first, and touch the situation inside." "We quickly took out Xiaofei's small and delicate instrument and used 3D resistivity tomography to detect it, which made all of us close our mouths in surprise, and it felt really fantastic and incredible. It turns out that there are pyramids inside and below the inside of the pyramid, and there are eight small pyramids hidden in the inner and lower parts of the pyramid, which are like matryoshka dolls, and these pyramids are actually built on a cenote, and the image shows that the well is full of water. And the instrument can also show the approximate time when these pyramids were built, it shows that these different pyramids were built at different times, not at the same time, the smallest pyramid was built BC, the smallest pyramid was built about 550-800 AD, the middle was built about 800 AD, and the largest was about 1000 years. And the shape of these small pyramids is exactly the same as the big pyramid, they are all flat tops, the tower body is square, the bottom is large and the top is small, layer upon layer, and there is a temple on the platform at the top of the tower, but the scale is a little smaller.
We have also discovered mysterious craters beneath the Mayan pyramids through probing, a new technology that is so advanced that it is possible to study the structure beneath the temple, a small detector that can detect the course of the rock structure and distinguish the current of water and the relative position of the rock. So we unexpectedly discovered the existence of a deep pit, this pyramid is really ingenious, built on the natural pit, actually standing for thousands of years, it is really magical, extending about 34 meters, the depth is about 20 meters. We feel that this cave is very mysterious, the cave below the mystery can be connected to other caves or underground lakes, and at the same time has a deep religious significance, which is very important in the Mayan culture. But why did the cave under the pyramid exist and what is its religious significance? Why did the Maya build the pyramid 1,000 years ago on top of a huge natural pit? It is estimated that they believed that the building built on top of the pit was part of their religious beliefs, because the pyramid of Kukulkan contained a Mayan snake god, or a feathered snake, which was a snake god that the Mayans worshipped very much. It is estimated that these Mayans felt that the snake god needed water, so the temple was filled with a deep pit of water, and the flow of water flowed from north to south.