Chapter 821: The Origin of Mythology
It is the truth of the universe to become complex, and after things grow up, because they continue to become complex, they begin to be controlled by individual will, such as the development of the Xuanniao tribe.
At the beginning, it was still a small tribe of only four hundred people, and by "pretending to be a god and playing ghosts", Chen Kan could still command the tribe like an arm, but after the Xuanniao tribe slowly became stronger, some things were no longer under Chen Kan's control.
Just like some inventions are created, what will happen to the invention in the end, has nothing to do with the will of the inventor, such as Edison's invention of the gramophone, his idea is just to keep people important words, such as wills, he did not expect to be used in the field of music at all.
After the Xuanniao tribe walked out of the mountain, it was like a snowball, and the tribe began to get bigger and bigger, becoming a large tribe, and some became the most powerful tribe among the bird totem tribes, but this is not the end, this is just the beginning.
In the end, several large tribes of the Bird Totem Alliance were also annexed by the Xuanniao Tribe, and some of the Xuanniao tribes took the initiative to start a war, but more of them took the initiative to provoke because they were worried about the strength of the Xuanniao tribe.
In addition to the use of force, there are also tribes that have completed the merger through relatively peaceful means, but only relatively peacefully, and there is also bloodshed, and the reason is very simple, because the leaders of those weak tribes are not reconciled.
Suppose the history department of China Normal University and the literature department are to merge, then the leaders of the relatively weak history department are basically opposed, because before the merger, the director and secretary of the history department and the director and secretary of the literature department were at the same level, but if the two sides merge, there can only be one director and secretary, and the weaker history department is in a disadvantageous position, and they are naturally not happy.
The same is true of the merger of the tribes, so even if it seems to be a relatively peaceful merger, there is a strong smell of blood in it, and after continuous annexation and expansion, the territory of the Xuanniao tribe has expanded to the coast of the East China Sea, almost encompassing the entire Shandong, and now part of Henan and Hebei.
After unifying the Bird Totem Tribal Alliance, is it over?
Far from it, this is still just a new beginning, the tribes of this alliance have been solved, but there are other totem tribes, such as the old rival Ox Totem Tribe, the Ox Totem tribe has also formed a relatively strong core tribe, such as the bear tribe and the Gonggong tribe farther away, these are strong enemies.
However, these have nothing to do with Chen Kan anymore, because Chen Kan has no longer care about things, Chen Kan has sat in the position of co-leader for five years, completed the basic unification of the bird totem tribe, and then abdicated and handed over these things to the next co-leader to deal with.
Chen Kan is still the priest of the entire tribe, but the difference is that Chen Kan is the high priest and not the only priest, and Chen Kan is still the person who holds the most slaves in the entire tribe.
After Chen Kan knew that there were still bear tribes and gonggong tribes in the distance, he left the Xuanniao tribe, because the names of these tribes were very familiar.
There is a bear tribe in history there is a cow man, called "Yellow Emperor", is the ancestor of Chinese civilization, and the word "Gonggong" needless to say, a very familiar mythological figure.
Chen Kan was very curious, he couldn't wait to verify what kind of plane this plane was, but the final result was very disappointing, these were just two tribes, and there were no mythical characters as Chen Kan imagined.
There is a bear tribe, is a huge tribal alliance, the most powerful of which is the Gongsun clan, the co-owner of the tribe calls himself "Yellow Emperor", this tribe has a high degree of civilization, in addition to being Chen Kan cheated the Xuanniao tribe, the bear tribe is the most civilized tribe Chen Kan has ever seen, there are cars and ships, music and linen clothes also appeared.
The Gonggong tribe is a tribe that is good at water control, and the tribe's internal water conservancy system is quite developed, not only that, Chen Kan has also seen a series of tribes with mythological names such as the Houtu tribe and the Zhurong tribe.
In fact, this is the prototype of mythological stories, mythological stories and mythological characters are not made up blindly, otherwise there would not be a special discipline for the study of mythology in the discipline of anthropology, almost every mythological character and story has a prototype, and what Chen Kan sees is the prototype of Chinese mythology.
The civilization of the bear tribe is the most developed, and the co-owner is called the "Yellow Emperor", so in the future, people will put all these inventions and achievements on a person called the "Yellow Emperor", in fact, this person is the name of the co-owner of the tribe.
Gonggong tribe is good at water control, so Gonggong is worshiped as the "god of water" in mythology, some mythologists put forward that the father and son of Kun and Dayu may come from the Gonggong tribe, because in history Kun has been due to the unfavorable water control caused by the flood, there is a saying in the ancient book about the death of Kun is "Yao Ling Zhurong killed Kun in Yushan", this record is just in line with the myth of Gonggong and Zhurong battle, after the fiasco, Gonggong angrily touched the mountain and caused a monstrous flood.
Chen Kan of the Zhurong tribe also saw that it was next door to the Gonggong tribe, because of their proximity to each other, there were often wars between the two tribes for the sake of interests, and the totem that Zhurong believed in was a grass, which was not an ordinary grass, this was the grass used to light the fire and store the fire.
In addition to these, there are others, such as the Houtu tribe, this tribe is good at architecture, has the most magnificent earthen city walls, in this era when most tribes still live in thatched houses, the Houtu tribe has a large number of earthen houses, so "Houtu" has become a representative of "soil" in mythological stories, and this tribe maintains many ancient traditions of matriarchal clans, and the co-owner of this tribe is a woman, which also explains why Houtu is a woman in mythology.
These things all prove one thing, that is, this plane is a very ordinary plane, maybe the Neolithic Age five or six thousand years ago in the real world, there are no mythological characters at all, and the so-called "priests" have no way to communicate with ghosts and gods, just intellectuals in the tribe.
So why did the cruise ship choose this plane for Chen Kan?
What is the purpose of this?
Since you can't elevate yourself in this plane, do you want to leave?
Chen Kan did not choose to leave in the end, or continued to stay, Chen Kan believes that the cruise ship will not choose such a "useless" plane for no reason, you might as well take a look again, and as a historian, can participate in history or even change history, is there anything more exciting than this?
There's still a lot of time anyway.
Chen Kan also went to "visit" the Ox Totem Tribal Alliance, and Chen Kan also saw a familiar name in the Ox Totem Tribal Alliance, the most powerful in the Ox Totem Tribal Alliance is the Jiang clan, and the co-owner of this tribal alliance is called "Emperor Yan".
The farming technology of this tribe is the most developed, and it has used the method of slash-and-burn cultivation to grow crops, and there is a relatively high level of medical skills, which is the source of the story of "Shennong's" tasting herbs and planting grains in mythological stories, and Shennong's is the head of the cow in the mythological story.
After understanding that the Ox Totem Tribe was the tribe where Emperor Yan of the Shennong Clan was located, Chen Kan suddenly remembered another fierce man, if there was not much difference in the historical records, this person should have appeared in the Bird Totem Tribe.