Chapter 296: Sacrifice
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"Don't worry, take your time, you've only been studying for a year. By the way, what about the people sent by the Yan clan to study witches? He suddenly thought of this, there was no way to get the children sent by the Xiyi people here.
"There's one, take it back."
Su Yang learned that the Yan family sent someone over last year, but because of his poor talent, he was persuaded to retire this year. In this respect, the Niutou tribe is relatively honest and did not collect materials in vain.
But the Yan clan has obviously sent five people to learn witchcraft one after another, and it has been more than four years at the longest, why is there only one person here, so where are the remaining four people to learn witchcraft?
"Dundun, that is Wu Zhu, let's learn from her."
Looking in the direction of the big girl's finger, I didn't expect that Wu Zhu was not a white-haired old man, but the one standing on the left. The white-haired old witch is a wizard, and the one on the right is a witch. It is equivalent to one person worshipping the gods, one person healing, and one person divining.
At this time, the crowd was divided into separate teams, and the armed ones stood together, and the women and children stood together, and this woman and child also included male non-combatants.
It's just a bunch, not an orderly arrangement, enough to roughly calculate how many people there are. There were less than 3,000 people present, plus those who didn't come, and the people guarding the mountain below, the total population of the Niutou tribe should be more than 3,000.
There are not many fighters with weapons, there are only four or five hundred people here at present, and with the outside, it is estimated that there are only six or seven hundred. Maybe it's because there is no war all year round.
If the tribe is in a relatively peaceful environment and does not intend to expand, it will definitely reduce the number of warriors and use labor elsewhere.
Su Yang was more curious about how the Niutou tribe developed, and there was no breeding, so there was really none. There is planting, only tubers, or scattered in the mountains and forests. In addition, I didn't see a salt mine, I didn't find that I was burning pottery, and I lived in the mountains, which was completely subversive.
"Roar!" The roar of the beast came, but it was the three of them who grabbed a beast and dragged it over with their joint efforts just now, this beast was very large, although it could not be compared with a mammoth, but it was no longer inferior to the Kui Niu.
It had hooves, which proved to be herbivores, and when he got closer, he could see that he looked like a cow, but not the kind he usually sees.
"It's a beast cow, it barks like a wild beast, and it has a lot of strength to break through the wolves." The eldest girl answered for him, after all, she has lived here for a year and knows a lot.
Su Yang nodded, and he noticed that one of the hands was on the nose of the cow, which was the correct way to catch the cow, just like wearing a cow rope. But even so, three people dragging a cow is terrifying.
It can almost be proved that the totem warrior is abnormal, because on the other side of the mountain forest, even Xia Bu does not have such arm strength, that is to say, he is not an ordinary person, and he was not born like this, so how did it change.
At this time, the three witches stood in the middle, more than a dozen elders stood on one side, and the other side was a totem warrior, which shows that the status of the witch is higher than that of the elders.
The witch on the left came out, his age was probably in his thirties, which could not be regarded as young, because primitive people rarely lived past the age of fifty, even if there was no accident on the way, no disasters and no diseases, they would not live long, which was related to diet, living conditions, etc., freezing three feet is not a day's cold.
This witch Zhu is more cumbersome to wear, with ornaments hanging on his neck, hands and feet, waist, etc., with feathers on his head, and some tattoos on his body, which does not look exaggerated.
The cow was dragged to the front, and the rest of the totem warriors went together to carry the cow to the fire, and the witch suddenly danced a very powerful dance, not at all demonic, not so wild, this dance is not a random dance, it is regular, and it is transmitting information with its limbs, like praying for blessings.
Su Yang finally followed Yan Lan to dance and burned two bamboo poles, the dance steps were skillful, and the aesthetics in this area improved a lot, so he looked into it, and moved with every movement of Wu Zhu, and under the light of the fire behind him, it seemed to turn into flames, and he was going to go with the wind, hazy.
"Hey, clip."
"Mo Yan, Mo Yan, yes yes!"
The bull-headed man shouted in an incomprehensible intonation, as if he were beating a beat, stepping his feet to the sides, squatting slightly, not a bewitching pelvic dance, this movement was almost on the upper body, opening and closing, slapping, lifting, and shaking.
Primitive, it's this primitive feeling that comes to mind. These dances, even if they are replaced by modern people, as long as they draw the scoop in the same way, they will have this kind of shocking power.
Could it be that Wu Zhu is using this dance to communicate with the gods? Yan Lan said before that the so-called witch wish is to be able to do things invisibly and to soothe the gods with dance, which is difficult to understand, but it should have something to do with dance.
After jumping for a while, the witch Zhu suddenly used his palm as a knife and wiped it on the cow's neck, and immediately spurted out a stream of blood, which was splashed out of the cow's blood and fell into the burning fire.
"How did she do it?" Su Yang was shocked, his empty hand was like a blade, and he directly wiped the cow's neck.
The beast roared and the ox let out a sad roar, and struggled frantically, but to no avail, and was held down by the warriors, allowing the ox's blood to spill into the fire, which only fueled the fire, and burned more and more.
Wu Zhu stretched out his hand again, caught some ox blood in the air, and jumped in front of the warrior, and everywhere he went, a totem warrior knelt down and pressed her finger on her eyebrows.
"It turns out that this is how the mark on the center of the eyebrows came from, the color of the witch painting." He felt that the mystery had been solved, but there were more unsolved mysteries.
"Big girl, have you learned this?" Su Yang asked softly.
The eldest girl was watching intently, and Dongdong replied on her behalf: "I didn't learn, I just watched." ”
Well, can this be seen? It's better for him to burn two bamboo poles in Yanlan, he didn't feel anything at the time, just thinking of the bamboo tube rice, now that he recalls it, it seems that he has learned something, but if he wants to say it in words, and he doesn't know how to express it, could it be that this is the legend, but it can only be understood and not spoken?
No, you can't be superstitious, if you want to believe in superstition, you can find a thousand reasons for yourself, such as going out and falling, instantly thinking of dropping knives, forks and chopsticks at breakfast, or having a dream last night, today's horoscope is weak, the natal year is impulsive, and there are villains around you ......, if you want to crack it, then you must be more superstitious.
He forced himself to come to his senses, maintaining a state of awe but not indulging, as if he was looking at beautiful things with a critical eye, attacking and retreating.
Suddenly, Wu Zhu grabbed the dying beast cow with one hand, it was the cow ear that was caught, and she said to the cow ear: "God, I sacrifice you with the head of the cow, please shelter my people." ”
Wait, what do you mean by that? Su Yang felt as if he had heard it wrong, why did he say that it was sacrificed with a cow's head, isn't the totem of the Niutou tribe a cow's head, or a horn, or a cow? (To be continued.) )