Chapter 694: Blessed are those who worship their ancestors

The battle of the wolf totem is open to live broadcast. Players only need to pay ten silver coins to see every corner and even the details of the battlefield with the perspective of God.

This sum of money finally allowed the wolf totem to earn nearly 20,000 gold coins, which can repair most of the buildings in the city. Fenrir was still unhappy: "Uncle! I'd rather lose two million Han Yuan than one hundred thousand gold coins. ”

The main monster responsible for this consequence is the sandworm. Sandworms, also known as worms, are dead insects endemic in the Mongolian steppe. Accounts of this legendary bug appear in explorer Roy Chapman Andrews's book "In the Footsteps of the Ancients":

"It's like a two-foot-long sausage, with neither head nor feet, but it's so poisonous that the slightest touch of a human or animal can cause instant death, and it lives in Mongolia's most inhospitable Gobi Desert."

In his book, he wrote: "Although it is rare to see the 'death bug' and 'sand worm' today, the local Mongols are very firm about the existence of the 'death bug' sand worm, and the accounts of those eyewitnesses are surprisingly similar." β€œ

Some Mongolian herders insist that the "death bugs" and "sandworms" are not invented, but that they do exist. The monster spits out a corrosive yellow saliva like sulfuric acid and is capable of generating an instantaneous electric current that is powerful enough to electrocute an adult camel to death. However, these are all eyewitness accounts, and so far, no one has taken any photos of the "Death Bug" or "Sandworm", and no one has found enough evidence to prove that the "Death Bug" actually exists.

This strange and terrifying creature, the game will never miss.

As can be seen from the screenshot left by the first master, the length of the sandworm is not fixed, some are similar to the player's height, and some are three to five meters long, and the thickness is enough to swallow an adult whole! The insect of death was the color of red flesh, had no legs, no eyes, and could not see where the creature's ears and nose were, a large mouth thicker than its body when opened, full of sharp teeth, and countless tentacles protruding from the inside of its mouthpartsβ€”a creature that would make you feel sick at the first glance.

The sandworm can pass under the sand, and the rammed earth walls and fortifications that are popular in the northwest are like fish facing a pool of clear water in front of it. The player can use ranged attacks to kill this creature, but there is nothing they can do about the sandworms that have crept underground.

It wasn't until near the end of the video that the player realized that both earth and water mages had a strong ability to restrain this kind of thing. Earth magicians can use earth magic to flip sandworms out of the earth, while water magic can debilitate and damage exposed sandworms. That's right, this kind of monster with high physical defense and resistance to fire, wind, and earth magic has almost no resistance to water magic, unless it can hide under the sand all the time.

In addition to causing massive damage to the player, the Death Worm can also have a devastating effect on civil buildings, and when the Sandworm climbs out of the load-bearing wall of a rammed earth building, the house will instantly become a dangerous house. The player will either kill it immediately or watch it burrow into the dirt wall again - the second time it climbs out of the wall, the house will most likely collapse. The biggest headache for players is that when the sandworm feels the dragon power emanating from the black dragon's phantom, it will immediately burrow into the sand. The Black Dragon Scroll has no effect on this thing.

Encountering such a monster, it is no wonder that Fenrir is in pain.

Shengshengman looked at the video: "Let's build a city in the Western Regions, the guild station, will we also encounter this kind of monster?" ”

Twilight. Orange: "Hard to say. But we have to deal with it. ”

How to deal with it? No one can help it. Everyone felt a heavy heart. If you rely on manpower, you must have a sufficient number of earth and water magicians to destroy it. But there are many of these two kinds of people, how to arrange the professions needed to destroy other monsters? Players are stationed at the guild station, and there are only 120 places in the sky!

Realizing that everyone's morale was not high, Twilight laughed and said, "Didn't Fenrir build the station?" We're okay too. What should you do, what are you going to do? Amir, have you found your fishskin coat heritage? ”

Amir said: "Isn't this because of the Qingming Shanghe Tu incident that he was called back?" We generally only commemorate the deceased on the day, 3rd, 7th, 20th, 40th and anniversary of the deceased's death, called "Nazil". Its form is to feast the villagers to do "dewar", that is, prayers, chanting, etc. Of all the memorial activities, the anniversary festival is the most solemn. The meal at the festival is pilaf made from large pieces of beef and mutton. Before and after meals, they make "dewars", or prayers, and express condolences to the families of the deceased. In the city, in addition to pilaf, there are other foods such as sugar, dried fruits, pastries, etc., which are placed on the table or table. During the festival, no alcohol, no loud conversation and no laughter, and no music is played indoors, and the whole scene is solemn from beginning to end. All visitors to Nazir were to bring gifts according to the traditional practice. After the annual festival, Nazil is generally no longer held. So our pole activity is relatively simple. We found the graveyard of Hala and Zhuo near the Flaming Mountain, offered their best food and drink, and sang and danced in front of the cemetery at nightfall to show their happy life. Ancestral rewards have three to five stat points, two or three skill points. Basically everybody has it. However, compared to the Pamir Eagles, the Kyrgyz, we still get a little less benefit. ”

"We Kyrgyz people regard Manas as a common ancestor, but Manas's mausoleum is located in Tanas, Kyrgyzstan. We can't go and worship. ”

The Kirghiz people in the Guild of the Seven Swords found a sculpture of Manas in the town of Artush. Everyone gathered and went together.

Unlike most ethnic minorities in the Western Regions, the Kirghiz have three types of worship: ancestor worship. This practice originated from its long-standing belief in the shamanic concept of "the immortality of the soul". Shamanism believes that after death, the soul is separated from the body and wanders in space, and once the soul is possessed, the person can be resurrected. This worship was first expressed in funeral rites. The ancient Kirghiz practiced burial and had a variety of funerary goods. In the tombs of the ancient Kirgiz people in the Yenisei River valley, it was found that the burial goods of the deceased included cattle and horses, as well as various daily necessities. The worship of ancestors is also manifested in the rituals of the dead. During the ceremonies, cattle, sheep and horses are usually slaughtered to prepare rich food for the deceased. In the section "The Festival of Kokotaii" in "Manas", the grandest scene of the festival of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz people is described.

The worship of ancestors is often also the worship of heroes, and most of the ancestors worshiped are heroes of their own nation. Manas is regarded by the Kirghiz people as the ancestor of the whole nation, so the most concentrated expression of the commemoration is the worship of the hero Manas. This is true not only in the Epic of Manas and folk literature, but also in modern life, to this day, the Kirghiz people still worship Manas as their object of worship and still pray for Manas's protection in times of trouble. People often swear by "If I break my promise, let the soul of Manas punish me, let the tomb of Manas punish me, let the power of Manas punish me". This is a close combination of ancestor worship and hero worship.

The second type of worship of the Kyrgyz belongs to nature worship, which is a major shift and progress in consciousness with the development of society. With the advent of ancestor worship, the Kirghiz people gradually understood the strength, role, and personality of man, gradually strengthened the confidence and courage of human beings in overcoming and transforming nature, and gradually evolved from nature dominating the fate of mankind to dominating the destiny of mankind themselves. This is a leap forward in understanding.

The traces of shamanic culture in the life of the Kyrgyz people can still be seen everywhere today. To this day, even the Kyrgyz people, who have long believed in the religion, still believe that "Tengri" (the heavens) is the supreme and supreme one, and they often pray for the blessing of "Tengri" in case of trouble, and so on. Now all the activities of the Kirghiz people in the traditional festival "Norrouz" are the ancient customs left over from the shamanic culture, even if the carnival dance danced during the * religious festival Eid al-Adha is still a shamanic dance. In the folklore of the Kyrgyz people, the remnants of shamanic culture can be seen everywhere. Shamanic culture is even more common in the Kyrgyz heroic epic Manas. It can be said that shamanic culture has laid a solid foundation for the Kirghiz culture, and its influence on the Kirgiz people cannot be underestimated.

The third is religious practices.

Ajibayi sang:

Rushing river

How many have withered,

Green river beach

How many have become Gobi,

How many untouched wilderness

It has become a lake and a beach again,

The flat earth was washed into a deep stream,

The towering cliffs become lower and collapse.

Since then,

How much the earth has changed:

Stones were left on the Gobi,

The rocky beach has become a forest sea again,

The green field becomes the river beach,

The rocks of the mountain stream have been moved.

Everything has changed dramatically.

Only the epic left by the ancestors,

It is still being passed down from generation to generation.

We lit a bonfire in front of the statue of Manas, offered goat's milk, milk, wine and mutton, and invited Manaschi to sing "Manas" and everyone sang and danced together. The reward we get is a minimum of five attribute points and a minimum of three skill points. Oh, the stronger the ancestor worship, the more benefits it will get in this large-scale event! ”

Knowing that this was a good-natured mockery from his partner, Amir was not annoyed: "How much do you think you have gotten in good fortune?" Picking up ancestor worship, who of the thirteen ethnic groups in the Western Regions is comparable to the Han people? Believe it or not, ask Boss Twilight and see how much he gets! ”

Twilight Boss gets six skill books, a war treasure, a purple high-grade material, and a rainbow blue dragon scale. "The materials are put first. Of the six skill books, I want to take three, "Hundred Birds and Phoenix Spear", "Falling Horse Chaoyang Gun", and "Sword in the Gun". There are also three books, which don't quite match my attributes. These three skills, including "Seven Sudden Snake Spear", "Floating Snow Pear Flower Gun", and "Bamboo Plum Blossom Gun", the guild's requirement is to exchange the guild's contribution. At the same time, it is also subject to the review of the core group, and only those with the right attributes can receive it. For example, in "Floating Pear Flower Gun", don't think about the people who are part-time fighters in the fire method. In other professional competitions, the ice method is preferred. ”