923 The Ritual of the Primitive Tribes
And when Gu Zheng handed over one of the dusty and hot plates to the hands of the fierce man, the man who had seen the celebration with Gu Zheng was excited and asked with his lips, "This, this is pottery?"
Fearing that his judgment would be wrong, he carefully tapped his fingers on the surface of the plate.
And when the gray pottery plate made a few crisp tinkling sounds, the fierce male turned red with excitement and then laughed.
"This is pottery, pottery! We have pottery and pottery. ”
You must know that they have the only set of pottery in the clan of the Yan clan, and it was exchanged by the old priest for a large amount of money from the messenger of the Chong clan.
But who would have thought that they had just arrived in the Weiping Plain, and before they even spent the first autumn, their tribe would have their own pottery.
And this kind of pottery, although not as exquisite as the pottery made by Tao he has seen, but in this era when everything is scarce, it is enough for the clansmen to use.
Moreover, with this kind of pottery, they have the confidence to exchange goods with other tribes, and they will no longer be called hillbillies who wandered from the mountains.
The excited patriarch wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, held the slightly pitted clay plate above his head, and announced the exciting news to the people behind him.
"From today onwards, we have the Vicious Clan and the Tao!"
"Cheer for our great priests!"
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
"Hideous!"
The sea of cheers from the clansmen did not affect Gu Zheng's next work.
Instead, he looked at the pile of pottery in the pottery kiln that had broken during the firing process, and shook his head with some distress.
This is the first pottery he has exercised, and he is still a little greedy.
The success rate was not as rosy as he had imagined.
However, when he taught the pottery making steps to his people, the problem would be solved one day with the attempts of others.
So, let's take a look at the adobe bricks that are more important for the current Youyi clan.
Gu Zheng, who had his hands behind his back, led the excited clansmen to walk quickly, and saw from a distance the wooden troughs where adobe bricks were stored one after another on the brick drying yard, as if they were soldiers waiting for review, arranged neatly.
When Gu Zheng casually walked in front of a dry adobe trough and lifted the shaped wooden trough in its entirety, a square adobe brick stood straight on the loess.
'Bang'
In order to test the strength of this brick, Gu Zheng also used a lot of strength to knock on the brick.
And this adobe brick did not even leave a single scar except for shaking off some of the floating soil attached to it.
It seems that the quality of the adobe bricks they made this time is first-class.
Although they are not mixed with solidified materials such as cement that modern people are accustomed to, the batch of adobe bricks they made is enough to block the wind and rain.
So, it's time to light up the new tech tree!
This is a milestone in the advancement of human civilization and a criterion for future generations to consider when unearthing cultural relics.
In the Stone Age, they built the first adobe house in human history.
It's exciting to think about.
The creation of a house means the construction of a community's houses, and as it expands, a community's gathering place will become a village, a town, and eventually an exciting country.
Thinking of Gu Zheng here, he is struggling to write.
A simple diagram of the structure of the house composed of a charcoal strip and animal skins was put on paper and handed to the hands of a team of craftsmen led by Ingenuity.
The rest of the work was left to the tribesmen, and he just sat by him, drinking the thirst-quenching drink brewed from the cool leaves, and went about the more important things like a true priest.
So what are the more important things waiting for Gu Zheng to do?
That's what a priest should do, a sacrifice.
When the tribe of the Hideous Clan finally found their new gathering place, in order to thank the beast for its protection and help on the migration road, it was reasonable that the entire tribe of the Hideous clan would hold a decent celebration to thank the beast for taking care of it.
As an unprofessional priest, it is time to begin this work.
Gu Zheng, who said he would do it, was wholeheartedly dedicated.
Even the seven brothers of the Hideous family, who had just returned from hunting, were also pulled by him to be strong men.
Among them, there are eight live animals to be used on the day of the sacrifice alone, and one copy of each of the clan's products, as well as the blood of the clansmen returning to their origins, which has been attached to the essence of the beasts of the Hideous Clan.
All of this needs to be worried about by him, Gu Zheng.
Related to this, he wanted to build an altar in the center of the gathering place.
On a full moon night without wind or waves, he performed his first formal blessing ritual in this world.
And this night came quietly in the tense and busy cooperation of the clansmen.
……
The night of the Weiping Plains is really cool as water, and in this spring day, a full moon hangs high in the sky, which is indescribably magnificent.
And to match it is the equally shocking city wall that belongs to the Youyi clan.
In this gathering place surrounded by a huge city wall of four meters and four, all the clansmen and strange beasts spontaneously gathered around the altar in the center of the gathering place when the moon had just risen, and looked at the person standing alone on the high platform with excitement and reverence...... Priestly hideous.
Today's priests are dressed up in full costume and are quite solemn.
He wore a hideous beast mask stained with the blood of strange beasts, held a scepter in his hand, and wore animal skins, looking up at the bright moon.
And when the moon rose to the highest sky, his empty and spiritual voice fluttered in the sky above the tribe of the Youyi clan.
"The auspicious time has come, the beasts are coming, the clansmen of the Hideous clan with the bravest bloodline, bow down to our most noble ancestors!"
As Gu Zheng's words fell, the people under the high platform knelt down for a while.
Reverently and earnestly, they pressed their foreheads against the cold earth, feeling the blessing of the beast they revered most.
Seeing this, Gu Zheng did not stop his sacrificial footsteps, but raised his hand in a dashing manner, and threw the bone meal in his hand in the direction of the two torches burning on the high platform.
"Bang!"
For some reason, when the powder touched the flames, it made an earth-shattering noise.