Chapter 161: The Gushou
In the middle of the island, sparse scrubland.
Three striking ancient altars stand, and the other four are too old to be damaged or scattered with stones.
Accompanying a graduate student of Pan-Pacific Culture, Crocot introduced several altars.
"The oldest altar is 800 to 1,000 years old, according to archaeological research. The largest altar is more than 200 years old...... About 100 years later, a sacrificial altar was built. Crokot walked to a large rock round platform with a height of five meters and a diameter of six meters: "This dozens of platforms should be about 230 years old. It is the largest altar found in the French Polynesian archipelago......"
Professor Zhao visited around the altar, and Mo Fan looked at the stone stairs of the altar: "Can you go up?"
"Yes. "It's uninhabited, and the monuments on the island haven't been maintained for years......
Crockett had a somewhat sad tone, looking like the people who were going to make a donation...... Mo Fan pretended to be confused and walked straight up.
Some of the rocks on the island used for the altar are polished and smooth, and some are still sharp. The altar is very flat and all the rocks are carefully polished...... It is conceivable that in a distant time, the priests sang and danced on it......
The scale of the altar is not small, and for the aborigines of the small island who do not have iron tools, these altars are definitely super projects. It is estimated that life on the island is too boring and idle.
The telekinesis reached out and extended into the interior of the altar.
There is a large pit at the bottom of the altar, which contains a small amount of coral reef and a large number of bones. A simple observation has determined that there are a large number of whale bones in the sacrificial pit at the bottom, most of which are humpback whales. Several other 'thief holes' were discovered.
Mo Fan didn't wrinkle slightly, suddenly smiled, and said, "There won't be a treasure buried under the sacrificial table, right?"
Crokot smirked, "Perhaps." ”
"What baby?"
According to the records, there is a sacrificial pit under the sacrificial platform. These altars were destroyed by the French......" Croct pointed to the pile of rocks, and added: "There are also people from the South Island who have destroyed them. The three well-preserved altars in front of me have all been stolen. ”
"There are blood corals, whale bones, and other things in the sacrificial pit. ”
"Aren't the Nanatas the most whale-worshippers?"
"For the sake of hunger, they will also hunt. ”
The Nanata worship humpback whales, and humpback whales serve as totems. A similar culture is abundant in the small Pacific island tribes and is still preserved today. For example, a tribe on a small island in the eastern Pacific still maintains the custom of hunting whales, and it is the most primitive hunting custom, taking a raft out to sea, using a connected spear and speargun...... They hunt whales, but they also worship whales.
The whales are very large, and the tribe on the island does not have a large population, and hunting two or three is enough for the entire tribe to live comfortably for a whole year.
Knowing that Mo Fan likes whales, and he has also lived on Macatea Island for a while, he realized that whales are really very spiritual animals, and hurriedly said: "The Nanata tribe has stopped hunting whales for a long time. They learned to follow the humpback whale song to hunt in fish-rich waters. ”
Mo Fan shrugged, as far as he knew, the number of cetaceans in the entire Tahiti sea was not much, and it was very rare. Mo Fan has lived here for a long time, except for the whales brought back by Xiao Mo, Mo Fan has never seen other cetaceans.
Professor Zhao found the text on the altar...... For some simple drawings, ask Crockett for advice......
These are very simple drawings, mostly of which record scenes of whaling and meat splitting.
Mo Fan's telekinesis extended, probing the entire island, and found that there were not only seven sacrificial pits on the island, but also several more ancient sacrificial pits that had been completely hidden by the years.
It is said that around 400 A.D., the Polynesian people lived in Tahiti. The year is 400 A.D., that is, 1600 years ago......
The ancient sacrificial pits are well preserved, there are no traces of theft, and there are corals and bones inside. It has archaeological research value, but it has no practical value, so Mo Fan just looked at it and was not interested.
Professor Zhao watched while he asked his two assistants to take pictures.
Mo Fan was bored, and it was hot, so he handed the mineral water in his hand to the professor: "Professor, I'm wandering around by myself." ”
"Hmm. The professor nodded, pulling Crocot to talk about the Pan-Pacific culture.
Mo Fan went down the hill and jumped onto the Xinghai sub-boat docked on the shore, although it was a sub-boat, it was nearly 14 meters long.
Bath, which means 'inaccessible' in the local Aboriginal language, has many islands and reefs that outcrop from the sea, and they are dark rocky reefs. In the shipwreck, Maloya floated at sea for several days, and according to the location of the accident, he most likely found the bones of jade birds on one of the islands and reefs in this area......
Mo Fan's spiritual power can reach a distance of one kilometer, and with the help of Xiao Mo's spiritual power in the space, the detection range can reach a radius of 10 kilometers.
The Bath Islands have a large number of islands, but there are very few places worth paying attention to. After searching around, I didn't find the blackstone island I was looking for, but I found an ancient shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. It's an old sailing ship, the kind with cannons.
The wreck has long been occupied by corals......
The wreck was about 650 meters above the sea, and the telekinesis swept by, and it turned out to be a ship carrying treasures. The hull of the ship crawling with coral, inside there are several large chests filled with blood coral, pearls, and more. The chests were soaked in coral, and it was unclear if the contents were still valuable. However, gold coins, silver coins, and other ornaments were also found.
The ship?
Around 1520 AD, the Pacific Islands became the target of European adventures, and the Portuguese and Spaniards successively carried out overseas colonial exploration under royal patronage.
In 1767, British Captain Samorlis, who was the first European to discover Tahiti. Later, the first French explorer to circumnavigate the globe also set foot in Tahiti in April 1768, and when he returned to Europe, he described the island as a paradise on earth inhabited by "noble savages" and "Venus-like women", thus making Tahiti a strange place famous in Europe......
Later, the Protestant Church in London helped a large local family take control of Tahiti, and the Austracy should have come into view in the mid-18th century, when coal-fired steamships were already used.
Mo Fan didn't know much about these histories. Looking at the distance of the expedition members, the distance was very far, Mo Fan thought about jumping into the sea, diving quickly with the help of Xiao Mo, and then working together to bring the wreck into space. A 31-meter sailing boat......
The Bath Islands are not large, and with Mo Fan's exploration ability, it only took the second half of the day to carpet patrol around, and there were no special discoveries.
The Star Ocean stayed in the Bass Islands for two days, completing the basic scientific mission and setting off for the next goal...... 2k reading web