Chapter 25: Sacrifice

The evening of the fourth day after the snow melted.

The totem pole of the Snake Tribe is safely placed in the middle of the clearing, and several roaring bonfires are set up around the totem poles.

A roasted deer, more than a dozen roasted fish, and dozens of plump fruits were placed on the ground in front of the totem pole, all of which were tributes from the snake tribe to the gods.

Next to the food, there is also a fish cage and an adobe brick, which represent the two techniques granted by the gods to the snake tribe, which are able to save the snake tribe from the difficulties of starvation and increase their ability to defend themselves against wild beasts.

The people of the Snake Tribe were all around, their eyes in the center of the field.

The sacrifice began.

Dressed in animal skins and barefoot, the witch jumped up and down his body, including his face, which was covered with red and white stripes, to the center of the field, and he was shouting loudly and loudly what his people could not understand, and dancing around the totem pole in a strange dance.

The clansmen couldn't understand Wu's words or Wu's dance, but they all stared at the center of the venue and didn't lose their minds at all.

Jian, who had just joined the Snake Tribe, and his people were even more curious about this scene, and looked at the center of the venue more seriously than the others, they had already integrated into the Snake Tribe, and they also wanted to understand and accept the culture of the Snake Tribe.

Fortunately, the previous strong tribe did not have witches and did not sacrifice to the gods, if the strong tribe also had witches and sacrificed to the gods, then the strong tribe may be very difficult to integrate into the snake tribe, and the two sides are likely to have violent conflicts.

In the venue, only Su Yan looked at Wu's "Jumping God" with interest without the slightest fear.

Su Yan suspected that this witch didn't know what the words in his mouth meant, nor did he understand the meaning of this dance, it was very likely that Wu had been passed down from generation to generation, anyway, ordinary clansmen didn't understand, witches fooled clansmen, clansmen didn't know, and at the same time, the words and dances with unknown meanings also gave Wu a layer of mystery, after all, witches can communicate with gods.

In the Snake Tribe, all the clansmen, including Wu and the chief, believed that Su Yan could also communicate with the gods, so Su Yan had a high status in the Snake Tribe, and Wu was the first clansman in the Snake tribe who could communicate with the gods.

I'm afraid that only Wu himself knows in his heart that he can't communicate with the gods, he doesn't know if the previous Wu can communicate with the gods, anyway, he can't communicate with the gods at all after he becomes a witch, he doesn't dare to say it, he is afraid that the tribe will think that he deceived the tribe, and finally sacrifice him to the gods.

He has been a witch for so many years, and he once doubted whether there were gods, when this thought just popped up in his mind, the next moment he was cut off, as a witch, he should not have doubts, it is the gods who protect the tribe, so that the tribe can survive, if the gods abandon the tribe, the tribe will soon die.

It wasn't until Su Yan, who was able to communicate with the gods, appeared that Wu breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that the gods would no longer protect the tribe, and Su Yan's appearance made Wu feel that the gods had given more blessings to the tribe, and the tribe would have better development in the future.

As for the fact that Wu himself can't communicate with the gods, Wu directly made up his own brain: there can only be one person in the tribe who can communicate with the gods, and since Su Yan can communicate with the gods, it is normal for him to not be able to communicate with the gods.

The sacrifice continues.

After a strange dance, Wu came to the totem pole, and he picked up the fish cage and then the adobe brick, still shouting in those incomprehensible words, as if to praise the fish cage and adobe that the gods had given to the snake tribe.

Then the witch will bow to the totem pole in the direction of the fish cage and adobe bricks, and as the witch kneels to the totem pole, all the clansmen of the snake tribe in the entire field follow the witch to bow to the gods.

After kneeling down several times in a row, Wu stood up, and there was an extra stone bowl in his hand, and the red liquid in the stone bowl should be the blood of the prey caught by the snake tribe today, and perhaps something else was added to it.

Wu first dipped his fingers in the stone bowl and drew a line on his face with blood, and then Wu jumped around the field, his hand was stained with blood from the stone bowl, and then bounced at the tribesmen in the field to make a kneeling gesture, and a drop of blood fell on the tribesmen.

After turning around, the witch returned to the totem pole, and the next part of the ritual began, and the leader led the five tribesmen, three men and two women, who had just reached adulthood, to the center of the field and stood in a horizontal row.

Wu took the stone bowl and danced around the five people while saying the words he didn't understand, and after a few turns, Wu stopped in front of the first person on the left, and Wu fingers stained the blood from the stone bowl, and wiped it on the face of the first person, leaving a blood mark, followed by the second person, the third person, the fourth person, the fifth person, and the five people all left a red mark on their faces.

Wu Xiang held a stone bowl and danced around the five of them, saying the words they didn't understand.

This is the coming-of-age ceremony of the people of the snake tribe, every adult clansman has passed through such a time, the blood-colored marks on their faces, the dance and words of the witch, as if to give them courage and strength, these five newly grown clansmen have fanatical expressions.

The sacrifice was about to end, and when it was time for Su Yan, the divine envoy, to play, Su Yan's little face showed a resolute look, and he walked to the totem pole step by step, and after walking in front of the totem pole, Su Yan turned around and faced the front.

"God's will: increase the height of the brick wall! Build a house! Increase the number of tribesmen! Learn Words! ”

As an oracle, Su Yan read God's will in Mandarin.

When Su Yan finished speaking, all the clansmen, including Wu and the leader, knelt down in the direction of the totem pole several times, and only Su Yan was still standing in the entire venue.

The snake tribe believes in the gods, and Su Yan can't change it for the time being, and in the eyes of modern people, this is ignorant.

Only with enough knowledge can human beings understand that there is no god in this world, and that human beings can only rely on themselves, and now these primitive people have not learned much knowledge, they are still learning, and it is very likely that they will understand that there are no gods in this world.

Su Yan is powerless, and he doesn't plan to make some attempts to change now, on the contrary, Su Yan also wants to use the identity of the divine envoy to lead the development of the snake tribe, until he has a certain amount of force when he becomes an adult, and then he can try to use force to gain control of the snake tribe.

When the sacrifice was over, the tribesmen cheered with joy and then received food for dinner.

Naturally, no god will eat the food offered to the gods as tribute, and after a day, the leader will distribute these tributes to the tribesmen to eat, and it is not allowed to waste food in the snake tribe.