Chapter 8 [Ritual of the Transcendent Dead]

The ritual of the Indian soul transcendence is a bit similar to the ancient witchcraft shaman jumping gods in Northeast China. As the wizard of the entire tribe www.biquge.info Uncle Eric, Lefou, wears an ancient set of clothes made of bison leather, with some colorful strips of cloth hanging from his body.

Then he put on a bull's head mask made of gold and a small drum in his hand, and then all the tribesmen, including the little chief Lefu, wore the most traditional costume belonging to the bison tribe. And he came to the buffalo castle barefoot, and a bonfire was lit by a stone bullpen behind him.

In this stone-built cattle pen is a white bison with a height of more than two meters and an unusually strong white bison, and the status of this bison is not simple, it is the living mascot of the bison tribe for generations, and the doppelganger of the bison god in the world.

This albinistic bison has been worshipped by the bison tribe for generations and is a symbol of the spirit of the entire bison tribe and a mascot. There are more than 100 of these white bison in a small population, and they have been living in the bison tribe since hundreds of years ago, and the two sides depend on each other.

This white bison herd has never attacked the people of the bison tribe, and the bison tribe also worships the white bison herd as a god, and the relationship between the two sides has been quite strong for hundreds of years. And this bison living in the cattle pen behind the bison castle, is also the leader of the contemporary white mutant American bison herd, is fifteen years old, has been the mascot of the bison tribe for ten years, and is quite humane, is the pet raised by Lefou's father and the old chief.

After the bonfire burned, the living mascot very consciously walked out of the bullpen and came to the bonfire to lie down on his stomach, facing the burning bonfire, not panicking like other beasts, but quite calm.

When the ritual of transcending the undead began, the sound of the small drum in the hand of the wizard sounded, and with the rhythm of the drum, the white bison began to roar in the sky, and the roar of the cow resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the roaring sound was particularly pessimistic, as if communicating with the soul of the dead old chief, the scene was very weird.

The shamans frantically danced a dance of prayer, accompanied by the howling of the white bison, and then the real protagonist appeared, the little chief Lefou, dressed in a traditional costume with a disheveled head, kneeling by the campfire, his hands crossed over his chest, and his head tilted to the sky looking at the stars in the sky.

Mother Tears sang loudly an ancient prayer song in the Indian language, which every boy in the Niutou family had to learn at the age of three. Because this prayer song is used to pray for the sacrifice of the dead, each generation of chiefs must master more than ten such prayer songs, which include ten kinds of prayer songs for the transcendent of the dead, for the celebration of the harvest, and for the birth of a child.

This prayer song sung by Lefu is a prayer to the dead, informing the belief that the god Bison will exert his divine power to bring the departed souls of the Bison tribe to heaven. The content of the song is very simple, divided into several parts, the first part is to inform the bison god Bison tribe of the exact location of the dead, so that the bison god can send down divine power to take the lost soul of the bison tribe to the sky.

The second part is to describe the beauty of heaven, all the deceased tribesmen, in the form of souls, live happily and abundantly around the bison god, and get the blessing of the bison god, Lefu sings every sentence, and the kneeling tribal high-ranking personnel around also sing a sentence, although the on-site prayer ceremony is simple, but very solemn and sacred, and the atmosphere is slightly sad but full of many happy tones.

After all, there was not much fear of the Indians dying, and the prayer ceremony lasted for a total of an hour and twenty minutes before it ended, and when the bonfire in the center of the field burned out, the white bison, as the mascot, stood up from the ground, and then raised its head to the sky with a cow roar, ending the whole ceremony.

The sound of the cow's roar represents the souls of the old chieftain and his wife, who were taken to heaven by the buffalo god, and lived together, with eternal peace and eternal protection, and no longer had pain, sorrow, hunger, disease, and trouble, and lived with all the deceased bison tribesmen and ancestors.

After the prayer ceremony was completed, Lefu personally sent the white bison mascot back to the cattle pen, Lefu is sixteen years old this year, and the white bison mascot is fifteen years old, and the two sides can be said to have grown up together since childhood. They know each other and often play together when they are young, so the white bison mascot is very obedient.

After returning the mascot to the cattle pen, Lefous smiled and took a small bag of apples from Mr. Abdul-Jabbar's hand, fed the white bison mascot himself, and then personally added some forage to it, which took an hour and a half, and the ceremony of over-undead officially ended.

It was a blessing to stay barefoot in the snow for an hour and a half without freezing to death, so Lefu was given three days off after the Ritual of Transcendence of the Dead. As soon as the three days passed, the pre-coronation training for the little chief officially began.

The first step is to contact the tribal government, although the bison tribe has a population of only more than 35,000 people, and more than 100 years ago, the bison tribe has developed a complete, legal framework, all tribal peoples will abide by the legal framework to live in harmony.

It is rare that there will be a situation in which the tribe fights me, and I fight you, but the tribal government affairs are actually to understand all the assets of the tribe, the personnel arrangements of the tribe's high-level officials, and so on.

The first thing the little chief took over was the financial situation of the tribe, after all, where could he not survive without money? The Bison tribe has been living on the reservation for more than 170 years, and the wealth they have accumulated over the years cannot be said to be rich, but it is not much inferior to those of the top American giants.

Taking gold as an example, the Indian tribes have accumulated gold for hundreds of years by the indigenous tribes of the Americas, which is a huge amount, and even now in 2006, the gold in the vaults of the entire bison tribe has reached about ten tons.

Moreover, the two parts of the bison tribe's finances, most of which account for 60% of the tribe's public finances, are used to meet the salaries of the tribe's top officials, to pay for medical expenses, study expenses, and to subsidize the family funds of tribal members in difficulty. Accounting for 60 per cent of the total wealth, the amount of funds available is more than $1 billion, and the other 40 per cent of the cash is in the personal property of the chief, more than $250 million, which provides for the daily expenses of the chief's family.

In addition to this cash, there are also large amounts of real estate owned by the sheikhs, such as stocks, U.S. Treasury bonds, art investments, and gold reserves, all of which are privately owned by the sheikhs, and it would not be an exaggeration if these real estate add up to more than tens of billions of dollars.

Other words? After Lefu became a minor chief, he had more than $1.3 billion in cash and more than $10 billion in real estate, which were only the property that belonged to the chief, and was also the total property of the tribe.

In addition, the more than 35,000 ordinary tribal people of the Bison tribe cannot be said to be millionaires, but the results of the 2005 tribal people's living standard census show that even ordinary ordinary people's families will not have less than 50,000 yuan in savings.

There are a few millionaires, multimillionaires, and even billionaires among ordinary people, so the whole bison tribe is in the upper echelon of all the Indian tribal confederations in the United States, and it is quite rich.