"This is the area where the Mayans once lived, although the civilization is backward, but the remnants of divinity are really intoxicating, savage and bloody, and the most primitive power."

Something seemed to be shaking under Zorgen's clothes.

"Looks like you're familiar with this place?"

In the eyes of the ancient Americans, the city-states of Copan, the Mayan city-states, the Aztecs, the Incas, etc., were very different, just like the distinctions between several countries in East Asia, but in Takahashi's poor view of the ancient civilizations in the Americas are all the same.

"I'm not familiar with it, but if you want to get what you want from here, you're going to have to work hard." Zorgen walked ahead, Takahashi followed diagonally behind, "From these vanished corpses of civilization, there are many transcendent things that we can use, and sooner or later you will understand this truth." ”

Compared to the Mayan ruins such as Tikal and Chichen Itza, Copán does not have as many tourists, the level of security in the whole country of Honduras hinders the development of tourism, and the whole Copán ruins are also small compared to other ruins, and all the facilities in the ruins can be completed in a few hours, whether it is summer or winter, the whole Copán is shrouded in heat.

"Quack!"

Huge macaws flew in front of Zorgen, and the multicolored macaws seemed to fly out of the paintings, and it was hard to imagine such brightly colored creatures in nature.

Like humans, there are not only Mu Qiang in the animal kingdom, but also Mu Mei and Mu Shuai.

The colorful color of the macaw is dedicated to courtship, the brighter the color, the more favored by the opposite sex and the same sex, and the bright feathers in most cases also represent the health and strength of the body.

"It's the macaw, a bird native to Mesoamerica, these little guys are a symbol of divinity in Mayan mythology, and the main bird god worshipped in many Mayan city-states is the macaw."

"Hmm." Although he is a mythical being, Takahashi is not interested in this aspect.

The worship of parrots and crows and peacocks is just the dream of ignorant human beings.

Zorgen walked across the pitch and introduced Takahashi to the mythology of the Mayans in island Chinese: "In the mythological concept of the Mayans, the world was in chaos at the beginning, the world was in chaos, there were no mountains, rivers, birds, animals, and all things were chaotic, and there were only four creation gods - Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, who were married, and Tepew and Quetzalcoatl...... Quetzalcoatl, you always know, right? The words of the husband and wife gods can be understood as Fuxi and Nuwa in East Asian mythology. ”

"These four creator gods created the four directions of the world, east, west, north, and south, and together created mountains, rivers, and forests, and then created all kinds of animals."

"But animals don't have the wisdom to understand the meaning of the creator gods, so the husband and wife gods imitated their own image and kneaded people out of clay, but the first generation of clay people melted when they encountered water and were too fragile."

"Then they created the second generation out of wood, but the second generation did not have a heart because it was made of wood, and over time they forgot to be grateful to the creator God, so the husband and wife God flooded the wooden people."

"Some of the surviving wooden people turned into monkeys, and that's how the ancient Americans understood where monkeys came from, which was at least a little more advanced than the Bible, which forgot about monkeys."

"In the blasphemous age in which the second generation of human wood people lived, there was a macaw with divine powers that quickly swelled up and proclaimed himself the greatest sun."

"It can emit sunlight from its beak, and the sunlight shines on the moon to make the moon shine at night, and the sun parrot has two sons, one is the 'Zpana' crocodile god who makes mountains, and the other is 'Kabbalaka' who creates earthquakes, and the three monsters create chaos in the world and destroy the order of the world."

The Yucatan Peninsula, where the Mayan civilization was located, was surrounded by towering mountains and frequent earthquakes, and the ancient people used various images and brains of the surrounding life to perfect their simple worldview.

"What happened to the sun parrot?"

The two of them had unknowingly walked through the bloody court, and in the millennium that the city-state of Copan had been standing, I don't know how many people had been beheaded and sacrificed directly after kicking.

On one side of the pitch is a small pyramid-like stone building, which is sheltered by the authorities at the central axis of the main body of the building with a canvas canopy twenty or thirty meters long, which looks like a step from a distance.

"Later, the grandson of the god of husband and wife, that is, the two twin sons of the god of corn, shot the sun parrot, and the earth finally returned to peace."

The two of them strolled up the stairs and could clearly see the spectacular scene under the cover of the plastic shed.

More than sixty steps ascend one by one, as if leading to the distant heavenly dome, but it is not the height of the steps that is spectacular, but the masonry of these steps themselves.

Each piece of masonry is carved with mysterious reliefs, which look like pictures, but faintly carry the meaning of a writing system.

"This is called the Sacred Writing Ladder, each brick and stone drawing is actually a hieroglyph, a brick and stone may only record a few words, or it may record a whole story, I don't know how many years ago, how much manpower was spent, the Copan Maya carved more than 2,000 hieroglyphic reliefs combined with this sacred text ladder."

"Even after the demise of the Copáns in the past thousand years, the history and mythological system of Copan can still exist on the basis of the ladder of sacred writing."

"But unfortunately, many of the relief bricks and stones of the Sacred Text Staircase we see now are no longer the original, and the order has been disrupted."

Suddenly, a piece of masonry of similar texture appeared in Zorgen's hand, and the carved masonry was the common image of a bat in Copan, which was the reward he received from the regimental commander.

The embossed bat has exaggerated horror on the side, and the convex nose lobe is carved to resemble an obsidian knife, and this particular bat is widely distributed in the jungles of the Americas.

"Do you know what the bat symbolizes in Mayan mythology?"

"Ominous, death?" Takahashi subconsciously said that in mythology around the world, bats should be a symbol of bad luck.

"Yes, legend has it that it was the bats who cut off the head of the eldest of the hero's twins in the Hell of West Balba......"

As he spoke, Zorgen inlaid the relief of the bat into a small gap in the steps.

"The heavenly realm, the human realm, the underground realm, this is the mythological concept of the Mayans, and the secret of rebirth is hidden in the underground realm called Sibalba."

The bat masonry was embedded, and the ladder of sacred words shook suddenly.

"The bat cut off its head, and the corn god was reborn in the mouth of the lizard."

"Roar!"

The roar of a monster can be heard beneath the flat surface of the Copan ruins.