Chapter 5: Nimi-Tatu-Rhodes-Hefiona

...... I spent the last day of the year 1481 in Hephionena, and the new year began as the bell for the year 1482 rang.

In so many areas I have passed, Hefiyuna's tour guide is the most slippery, and he opens his mouth to say what we Hefiyuna had in the past, what we built, and how brilliant it was.

But if you really ask the other person, you said Hephiona so well, then where are the glorious buildings you talked about now? Can you give me a field trip?

At this time, every Hefiyuna tour guide was like a cat with its tail stepped on, saying something like "Have you heard of Hefei? The name of Hefei Yuna comes from the first two syllables of Hefiyuna!" "As for I want to see the real thing, I'm sorry, it was either destroyed in the tug of war between Roman Hefei and Hefei, or it was moved by these two countries, so it is a pity that none of Hefeiyuna's physical objects were seen in history. ......

Chapter 6: Spair—Carrollet—Argos—Mysycam—Chavín—Rosney—Loikaxiu—Terross

...... Coming to this area, I feel like I am back in Hefei, for example, I am obsessed with human ladder art again, which is much more important than the area in front of Roman Hefei, but not as good as Hefei locally.

But it would also be wrong to say that they were Hephi, for there were many slight differences in their customs from their eastern relatives, and their accents were also different. ......

...... Leaving from Mysekham, I have to go north along the official road, which is a sad action, if it weren't for my poor strength, I could just leave the official road and go all the way to the south. —......

Chapter 7: The Efonchi in Roman Hefei

According to the introduction of the team leader, if you want to go to Chavín, a big city in the west, taking a boat on the Hamadan River is the fastest choice.

To my surprise, the Chamber of Commerce that ships on Hamadan was not a Hesfi or a Romanhef, but a novel race I had met in Hefiuna, the Aiphonqi.

I have briefly introduced the Aiphonqi people in Hephiena's travelogue, but it is necessary to say it again here.

[Added after finalization: Since there was no direct contact, my initial knowledge of the Ai Feng Qi people was all from the mouth of a tour guide Hefiuna, and the knowledge he said was not all right.] 】

According to the guide's description, further west from Terross, the westernmost part of the Romanhefei territory, is the territory of the Efonci. Of course, the Efonci called it a colony, and they said that his true homeland was on a huge island on the other side of the ocean, but now it was occupied by a group of barbarians, and they could not return for the time being.

Hearing that there were islands on the other side of the ocean, I was curious at first and wanted to go over and browse them, but unfortunately, the leader of the caravan was not me at this time, and they would not let me go to the islands, so I had to regretfully put this idea on hold for the time being.

Roman Hephi didn't know much about Efonci, and the further east he went, the less he few, and I remembered that in the Fennae Tavern, I had heard a Heffian swear that he had promised his drinking friends that the Afonqi were just a joke made up by the Western Hefists to entertain them, and that they absolutely did not exist.

However, considering that the first time Ai Fengqi and Roman Hefei sent official envoys to each other was in 1469 in the Great Calendar, and it has only been more than ten years since now, it is understandable to say this.

Actually, when I arrived at Hephiona, I met the merchant Aiphonci, but it was a pity that the merchant was busy walking at that time and did not talk to me much, which is a pity.

The Afonchi were distinct from the Romanhefi in that they worshipped unique river deities, while others worshipped forests, mastered fishing, and sailed the seas.

Therefore, the Ai Fengqi people took advantage of these characteristics to open a shipping chamber on the Sifei Plain in just over a decade, and it seemed to be very profitable. I took a boat on the Hamadan River, and I took a boat from their chamber of commerce.

The Afonchi respected the Hesfetic faith, and when the bell rang in 1483, even though we were on the Hamadan River at this time, the Afonchi made as many things as they could for the New Year, and provided sacrificial utensils for those who were in the boat. ......

Chapter 8: The Dual Deity Worship in the Heffite Cultural Sphere

Speaking of the Hefian cultural circle, there is a strange phenomenon that cannot be left unmentioned, that is, the worship of dual gods, which is completely different from that of Oschug. [Added after finalization: According to my later travels, I found that this dual god worship is not only very different from Goshy, but also unique and incompatible with other cultural circles.] 】

As we all know, the gods worshipped by our Oschuge and even the entire Sulasi cultural circle are the mysterious and vast Star God, and only His Excellency the Star God can have a sculpture in the altar, as for the other gods of the same system as the Star God, only the name is engraved on the altar.

However, Hephi is different, his altar is a special double deity, simply put, there are two statues, one is the god of blood and the other is the god of war.

Although the history of Hefei is not as good as that of Surassi, it is more than a hundred years later than Surassi, but in terms of the scale of the millennium of the Great Calendar, it is also a very ancient country, far from being comparable to those barbarians who have no history, and he has created a very brilliant civilization in the past.

In the past, at least until the 9th century, Hephi's worship of the gods was no different from that of Sulassie, and they all worshipped only one god, and there was only one statue of the god in the altar, the god of blood.

And about 500 years ago, the god of blood suddenly claimed to have sublimated himself, the god of war took his place, the new god of war became Hephie's faith, and the statue of the god of blood in the altar needed to be replaced with the god of war.

[Leng Yi Note: The God of War is the first generation of the God of Blood, that is, the one who conspires against the God of Hunting, and the current God of Blood is the second generation of the God of Blood, he is the God of War, that is, the former divine servant of the first generation of the God of Blood, and was awarded the Godhead as a divine servant in the God Realm War after the fall of the ancestral god]

This proclamation was incomprehensible to the Hephis, who believed that the god of blood had been killed by the god of war, and rebelled in revenge for the gods, attacking each other with those who supported and those who opposed it.

As for the real causes of the rebellions, the uneducated guides who received me claimed that the rebellions were inseparable from the devil. However, it was still a long time before the appearance of the Red Gate, and the grandfather of the Hellbringer was not born, so where did Hefei come from the devil in the 9th century?

I've done some analysis, and I can only try to guess that the fallen gods of hell were involved in these rebellions, but it's too old and I don't have much evidence to be sure if this is correct.

Due to frequent rebellions and suspicions, the god of war wondered if he was doing something wrong, so decades later he reversed his previous proclamation and announced that the new god of blood had returned, and that the statue of the god of blood could be rearranged in the altar.

In my opinion, this is a stupid trick, and history proves it.

The new proclamation was painful for the Hephis, and their minds became more confused, both those who had embraced the cult of war and those who had adhered to the cult of blood, which caused even more confusion.

As far as my personal feeling is concerned, the beginning of Hephie's centuries-old decline can be traced back to those two proclamations.

It was precisely because of the conflict between the repeated replacement of the Cult of War and the Cult of Blood that eventually led to the occurrence of the Civil War in the Blood Moon in 1012, which brought Hefei into a troubled era, and until the invasion of Roman Hefei, the Hefei people were still in a situation of vendetta against each other.

On the other hand, Roman Hephi also endured two repeated civil wars, but not as protracted as Hefei, and their wars only lasted from 926 to 944, establishing the cult of war on the cult of blood.

The history after that is still very complicated, in the words of the Hefists, that is, "our history is like the hair on the human head, dense and overlapping", and I can't understand too much about the limited time I have stayed in Hefei, so I will only mention the pattern of worship now.

Hefei, the easternmost region, is the god of blood over war, while the Roman Hefei territory in the middle is the god of war over blood, and Sifei, which is located in the western plains, is adapted to local conditions. The situation that has taken shape today is said to be closely related to its history, and once again I will not repeat it.

Chapter 9: Gome-Sivazi Observations

...... In front of Romanhephie's territory, I saw twenty or thirty Afonqi merchants scattered around, and I had long been full of curiosity about the Afonqi merchants, and after leaving Terross, I could finally see the city of the Afonqi people.

There was no need to worry about the journey from Terross to Gsome, as the people of Efonchi were very enthusiastic in building official roads connecting the two cities, and repairing them free of charge, only asking for some commercial concessions, even if it was for a long time.

Compared to the conservative eccentricity of the Heffis, the arrogance of the Romanhefists, and the cunning of the Hesfies, I feel that the Efonchi seem more sincere, although Gome and Sivazi are far from being comparable to the prosperity of the Romanhefists, but it is understandable that the history of these cities is not deep, they are only developed from the colonial strongholds built by the Efonchi people in the past hundred years.

The Aifunci guide, with whom I came into contact, deeply regretted that I could not go to Pendo, and he told me that Pendo was the greatest hero of the Efonci, and that Lesono had personally planned it and belonged to the most glorious essence of the colony.

And when I talked about the lost homeland of the Afonqi people, the Efonqi people looked very proud, and he said that my news was outdated, and that the Afonqi people had recaptured some coastal cities in their homeland through the thirty-year Nanmaosu War, and he believed that in the near future, the Afonqi people would be able to regain all the lost territory. ......

...... When I left Sivazi, I felt some gloom, not because I could no longer walk on the official road or walk in the country, but because there were some manifestations in the country of the Aifunqi people.

The Afonchi are very lenient towards the barbarians, and they accept the Rodin who have naturalized their culture as Elo, which reminds me of the past of the Sulassi and the Suhi.

In addition, even though I had only been in Afonqi for less than two months, I felt that there was something very wrong with their religion, the original worship of the Great River, the worship of the forest revered by the barbarians, the cult of the sun that came out of nowhere, and the cult of war and blood from Roman Hephi.

In general, I like the country very much and can only hope that the star gods will bless them and not become the second Hephi.