36. Shiva's Eye (3)

"And what kind of object is the so-called Shiva's eye?"What kind of objects?"?

Lin Hainan put down the information, "And how to trigger the task prompt? Generally, if you look for something, you will directly tell us how to find it." Are we not doing anything?"

The four members of the Forbidden City team once again opened their taskbar, but this time, the team information had a new hint.

Contingent:

【Please select Teleport】

"When did this quest come out?"

"Do we have to keep refreshing?"

The four members of the Forbidden City team were all surprised, maybe they had just focused on the information and ignored the task prompt. However, what triggered the mission, the four of them couldn't figure it out.

"Anyway, let's go first. "Lin Hainan Dao, after the other three people prepared, Lin Hainan took the lead in teleporting," Teleportation. ”

Standing in a metal corridor, Lin Hainan walked for a while, and he didn't know where he teleported, and he launched the skill of summoning teammates, but he didn't succeed, Lin Hainan was a little worried, the Interstellar Development Group mentioned today that the equipment is in the trial operation stage, maybe there will be any failures, Lin Hainan clicked on the main interface, but it was empty, all the options disappeared, Lin Hainan could only turn off the main interface and walk forward, this passage was very similar to the corridor that he walked in the Imperial Island at that time.

However, three seconds later, the scene in front of him changed again, and when he looked up, Lin Hainan came to the edge of the ancient Indian area.

It was still empty.

"Summon teammates. ”

Feng Jianfei, Youmi and Xu Jin soon appeared, and Lin Hainan stayed in the passage for at least a minute, but Feng Jianfei and the others didn't ask, and they didn't seem to know about the minute that Lin Hainan disappeared. Lin Hainan pursed his lips and didn't ask. I guessed that there was a mistake in the equipment.

"This is the Ancient Indian Zone?"

There are four people around, and there are two bronze statues facing each other. Ancient India was a land of mythology, and religion and philosophy were extremely developed. As a result, ancient Indian bronze statues are often mythological symbols, religious icons, and philosophical metaphors, incorporating the spirits of the gods. The tradition of bronze statues in India is very long, dating back to the Indus River period, around 2500-1500 BC.

"Is it possible that Shiva's Eye is a bronze statue?"

On the right hand side of Lin Hainan is the most important and famous of the existing icons of Hinduism, which is the bronze statue of Shiva cast in the Chola era, called Nataraja, which means the king of dances or the king of dancers.

In Hindu statues, Shiva is usually dressed as a yogi ascetic, covered in ash, with knotted hair, a crescent moon on his head, a long snake around his neck, a string of skeletons on his chest, a tiger skin around his waist, and a trident, axe, tambourine, club, or doe in all four hands. He had a third eye on his forehead that could spew divine fire and burn everything to ashes.

On the bronze statue of Shiva, Shiva is depicted dancing the celestial dance that creates and destroys the world. His hair fluttered in a mess with the dance, to the rhythm of the hourglass-mounted snare drum he held in his right upper hand. Complementing this moment of creation is the simultaneous destruction of the universe, symbolized by the flame around the chakra ring and the single flame in Shiva's left hand. This single flame reduces everything to nothingness: precisely in balance with the drum of creation in his right hand. The lower right hand signifies to soothe his believers and bless them with a reassuring fearlessness. Further blessings are given to the left hand of the lower hand (gaja hasta). This "flag" gesture consists of a finger dropping down to caress the elephant's trunk, in this case pointing to the left foot raised from the back of an ignorant dwarf. This symbolic gesture frees believers from Maya's suffering.

"Then why isn't the Eye of Shiva called 'Shiva Statue', 'Shiva Statue' or 'Shiva Statue'?"

After all, this name is a translation of a foreign word, and there shouldn't be many things that can distinguish between names. Lin Hainan couldn't say for sure, this was just a conjecture on his part, "Is there any information on the origin of the name 'Shiva's Eye'?"

Yumi opened her database, only to find that the information sent by Li Jianshu that she had just read had also been entered word for word, and the database had become her reading recorder. "There is no detailed document. On the contrary, there is one thing that I am very concerned about, a hundred years ago there was a little bit of record of Shiva's eye in the codex of Jackson, which said: 'I don't know how to open this thing, but when Shiva's eyes are closed, it means destruction, and when it is opened, it is regeneration and creation.' ’

Does 'this thing' refer to the eye of Shiva? If so, he used one word, 'open'. ”

"If this is the case, it can be assumed that Shiva's Eye is actually a container," Lin Hainan looked intently at the bronze statue of Shiva in front of him, and many of the details on the bronze statue are very interesting, including a skeleton adorned on the crown of the god and a crescent moon, symbolizing Shiva's phased appearance in the universe, even when hidden. In his bun with the ashes of the deceased, Shiva took on the Ganges River that fell from the sky – a miniature image of the goddess Ganges stood on his right side of his hair. She is a hybrid mermaid statue with a female upper body and a mocaro lower body. The symbolism is endless, and for Shiva devotees, the icon is an illustration of the mercy and power of the dancer who created and destroyed the universe.

Yumi pointed to the appearance of the goddess of the Ganges, Xu Jin also thought about everything, but Lin Hainan continued: "The focus we have been focusing on before is on Shiva's third eye.

Shiva's most powerful weapon is the third eye on his forehead. This eye can emit a divine fire that destroys everything in the universe, and it is recorded in the ancient Indian Sanskrit epic Mahabharata that Shiva once used the divine fire emitted by the third eye to destroy three giant castles in space.

At the end of each cosmic period, Shiva will open his third eye, and all the gods and animals in the universe will be destroyed by his divine fire. However, "no longer looking at the bronze statue of Shiva in front of him, Lin Hainan turned around, turned his back to the bronze statue of Shiva, looked at Feng Jianfei, Youmi and Xu Jin, and said: "Our direction may be wrong, in ancient Indian mythology, Shiva looked at the world with his eyes open, then the world existed, and was protected, when Shiva closed his eyes, the world died, and became as extreme tranquility as Shiva, without life and vitality."

And this British explorer's codex probably means the same thing. The eye of Shiva is not necessarily a statue of Shiva, it is very likely to be a container, and this thing, like Shiva's eyes, has to be opened. ”

"So if this thing has nothing to do with Shiva itself, but is just a metaphor, then what is the point of us being transported to ancient India?" Yumi asked rhetorically.

"No, this is not the Old Indian Quarter. Xu Jin suddenly retorted, "Take a closer look here, it's not the same as ancient India." And this bronze statue of Shiva, we didn't see it when we first investigated. ”

The Chinese area that was teleported to before was exactly the same as the Chinese area of the four ancient civilization areas in the Oasis Development Zone, this time, the four members of the Forbidden City team all had preconceived ideas that they had come to the ancient Indian area after seeing the bronze statue of Shiva, but Xu Jin's words made the other three suddenly realize that this was not the Oasis Development Zone.

“…… Crossing?" Yumi's throat rolled up and down, surprised.

"What nonsense. Feng Jianfei rolled his eyes. "What to wear, somewhere in the holographic world. ”

"I see. Yumi frowned at Feng Jianfei. Turning his head, he turned on his search function, and after half a minute, Yumi said slowly: "This is the ...... of the Indian peninsula in the late Vedic era."

The four of them raised their heads, their faces stiffened, and Yumi complained: "This crossing is too sudden." Not prepared at all. Are we going to meet the Aryans? Aren't they particularly murderous or something?"

In the late Vedic era, Brahmanism arose at this time, in addition to the varna system. Brahmanism believed in primitive nature worship, with Brahma as the main god, Shiva, the god of destruction and dance, and Vishnu, the god of light. Brahmanism also preaches the concept of the reincarnation of good and evil, and advocates the idea of the unity of Brahmanism and self. In addition to this, Brahmanism also advocates human sacrifice, which is extremely barbaric.

"I shouldn't be caught if I'm so good-looking, right?"

Feng Jianfei had other concerns, "At this time, they started to use gold coins, right? Let's take a look and take a look." ”

"We shouldn't be able to meet NPCs. Lin Hainan shook his head and walked forward.

"We may be in Rajasthan, and it's a shame that we didn't travel back to the Bronze Age to see Haraba and Mohenjo Daro. Xu Jin sighed that India's prehistoric civilization may be more valuable for Shiva's eyes.

"But the system has teleported us to this era, and nine times out of ten, the Eye of Shiva is here. "Lin Hai South Road.

The city was indeed deserted, and in the distance were forests that had been cultivated, and the fields were heavily ploughed, planted with beans and wheat. There are traces of human life everywhere, but there is no one.

"Brahmanism considers the sacrificial activities to be of special importance. The priest is the intermediary between man and God, and through sacrificial activities, he both offers sacrifices to God on behalf of man and preaches to man on behalf of God. Sacrificial activities were an essential element of early human spiritual life, and priests served as communicators between man and God. Let's find a place to sacrifice!"

The four of them immediately dispersed, and twenty minutes later, Lin Hainan found the temple of Brahmin on the outskirts of the city.

The temple is built of stone with beams and pillars and a stacked structure. Its shape is connected into a whole from the base to the top of the tower, and it is covered with carvings. The entire temple symbolizes the Brahmanical trinity of Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.

The temple is not large, there is a shrine and a foyer, both of which are square planes and stand together on a high pedestal. The cornice of the foyer part is raised horizontally, and the upper part is a dense eaves square conical roof, and the uppermost end is an oblate spherical treasure roof. On the top of the shrine is a square conical tower, the body of the tower is densely covered with convex ridges, the tower curve is soft, and the top of the tower is also an oblate spherical treasure top.

There is a temple in the temple with doors open on all sides.

"Summon teammates. Summoning the other three, Lin Hainan couldn't wait to enter the temple, but unlike the appearance, the temple was empty, in the center of the temple, there was a simple half-human highland stone pillar, on which a bronze metal ball with a diameter of about twenty centimeters was placed.

Lin Hainan picked up the metal ball, and at the same time, the world channel refreshed:

[Congratulations to the Chinese Forbidden City team for finding the Eye of Shiva!]