The Sacred Spring Chapter 22: Touching the Golden Tomb (5)
The fat man raised his head, looked at the mural behind us, scratched his stomach and said, "Then old Hu, look, what are a large group of people doing in this painting, bonfire party?" -
I followed his line of sight, and the wall painting behind us was different from Wang Shao's arrangement, with bright colors, I reached out and touched it, and exclaimed: "It's gold dust!" -Everyone was attracted by my discovery, the glasses fell off in fright, we pointed all the lighting at the mural I found, and under the strong light, the whole mural refracted a dazzling golden light, and the fat man almost bit his tongue and shouted: "Gold, a wall of gold: my mother, how much is it worth!" -
This mural is six meters long and more than four meters wide, and it is engraved with a long scroll of history similar to a war picture, I was really nervous by the spectacular gold painting in front of me, and I stepped forward again, touched it with my hand, and said with certainty: "This is not a pure gold wall, only the content of the stone wall is smeared with gold powder, and the content on this mural must be very important, otherwise the craftsman who painted will pay attention to it and dare to cover the entire mural with gold dust-
The gold wall painting immediately aroused all our attention, I don't know if it was my hallucination, under the golden light, even the candle in the corner shone with a golden light. Wang Shaoru was like a treasure, and exclaimed loudly: "This mural is so important, it is the core part of the story, oh my God, you see, what we are looking for is in the painting!" -
I stared at the scroll and looked closely, and in the middle of the scroll, a giant with long eyes and a long beard shining with golden light, holding an axe in one hand and a staff in the other, bathed in the lake with his arms facing the sky, followed by countless Indians, and in front of him knelt rows of long-legged monsters with horns on their heads. At the other end of the scroll is the Three-Eyed Longbeard Man leading Indian warriors to bury the Horned Monster in a giant pit. The three-eyed mask on the bearded man's face is familiar to me, and it is the mask of the Inca princess that was stolen from the National Museum by the man with the bamboo pole.
The bald scoop has been with Wang Puyuan for a long time, and he has long known the research by heart, the history of the Inca Empire, he remembers it more firmly than anyone else - when the new king ascended the throne, the Incas would wrap it with gold dust into a golden figure, and then dip it into the holy lake with a large number of gold objects, and the new king would bathe in the lake to wash off the gold dust on his body, symbolizing the precious wealth dedicated to the sun god, as for why there is this custom, it is probably because of the creation myth of the Incas, the two founding gods Manco Capac and his wife Mama OcliuBoth of them came to earth from the shore of Lake Titicaca on the Holy Lake. Therefore, the Incas firmly believed that water was the medium between the human world and the palace of the sun god-
I said, "You mean, the only country that had so much money to paint the gold wall and worship the sun god was the Inca Empire." What is recorded on the golden wall is the history of the Incas' victory over the unicorn? -
Wang Qingzheng was fascinated by it, and he continued to interpret: "They are not defeating unicorn monsters, but gods. At the top is a group of frescoes with moire and disc symbols of the sun god, these one-horned people came from heaven and taught the Incas cultivation techniques and astronomical knowledge. Here, you see, there is a building carved with a disc of the sun, and there is a man with a long beard with a crown who has been inspired by the sun god to destroy the one-horned god in front of the building. Everyone pays attention to his expression, staring at him and opening his mouth is obviously frightened, but in the next set of stories, a three-eyed mask made of gold falls from the sky, and after the long-bearded man puts on the mask, he has a golden axe and a golden scepter in his hand, and since then he has gained divine powers. The Impas were then given divine power to destroy the one-horned gods, and under his leadership, the Incas slaughtered their enemies, sawing off the horns of the one-horned men, and then breaking their bones and burying them alive. This tomb is the history of the decline of the one-horned god and the first step towards the prosperity of the Inca Empire-
The shocking content on the mural records the whole process of the slaughter of the one-horned god, although it is a simple stone wall carving painting, but the picture of the one-horned god being cut off is portrayed vividly, especially a group of murals when they collectively face the sky and roar and struggle, people can see as if they are in the gem, and they can hear their desolate wails with their own ears. After reading these murals, it is not difficult to understand the origin of the name - Hundred Ghost Pits, piled up and buried in this underground cave, are the one-horned gods who were slaughtered back then, the rulers at that time were afraid that the gods with advanced scientific and technological knowledge would seize their rights, so on the surface they pretended to flatter, but in fact they were secretly murderous, taking advantage of the time when the gods were sleeping, they were exterminated. The mural features a giant with a golden crown on his head, a three-eyed golden mask, a golden axe in one hand, and a golden staff in the other, and a mountain of one-horned human heads at his feet, announcing the complete victory of the royal power over the divine power in that war thousands of years ago.
The chief wanted to stick to the wall, but his heart was full of fear, and he only pointed to the mask, covering it with his hand, and then pointed to the golden staff, and kept drawing the action of inserting it into the ground. "He said that the yellow-skinned man used the three-eyed mask to exchange the tribe's golden scepter from the witch doctor. When the witch doctor died at the hands of our spear, he became a thief and took the mask and the golden axe for himself, and proclaimed himself the 'Olabun' of the god-king. He is now too late to repent, and begs us to leave him behind, so that he can repent and atone for his sins in the cave for the rest of his years-
I said to the chief, "Your passivity is not a long-term solution, and we must have the courage to catch up in the face of difficulties." In our country, there is a leader as great as your Inca king, that - Eulabun, who taught us not to be afraid of mistakes, and to dare to correct mistakes is the most correct choice. Cheer up and join us in retrieving the treasures left by our ancestors. You see how clearly it is engraved on the mural, when you have a mask, a golden axe, and a golden scepter, you will be a triune god-man, and when the time comes, why can't you take the villagers to make a fortune and walk out of the rainforest - the bald scoop translated my words, and the mask chief was obviously very moved, and nodded to me.
Wang Qing read the contents of the mural hungrily, and the fat man laughed at him. Four Eyes defended him: "Wang Shao, this is not pretending, people from professional backgrounds, you and I can't imagine, their interest in archaeological relics is far beyond ordinary people-
The fat man said, "According to what you said, judging from my love for Mingqi, isn't it a professor-level person?" -
I said, "That's what you love, that's money, it's a matter of —
No, my Wang loves money, and he loves the shining red flag even more, no matter how many tickets you give, I can't replace my fiery red heart, - the fat man put his foot on the pile of skeletons, and drew a posture of charging into battle. I analyzed: "It is now certain that this is an early Inca tomb. The temple we are looking for is probably the one on the fresco—a discovery that is very important to us, as it proves that the Inca temple did exist; Second, it corrects the wrong concept that we have always had, including Wang Puren, we have always believed that the Sun Temple in the Amazon jungle was built in the late Inca Empire, when the second line was retreated, from the content of the murals, the Sun Temple has long existed in the world, but the Incas gradually forgot about it in the later migration and development, until the Spanish colonization broke in, so that the empire was broken, and the king at that time remembered the last piece of land left by the ancestors in the jungle, so the whole country moved to. It's no wonder that Princess Lilia didn't forget to salvage the Three-Eyed Mask, a symbol of their Inca kingship, a godsend from the sun god when she was in trouble.
There are two things that I still can't understand: first, why Princess Lilia and Professor Green traveled thousands of miles to China after they became husband and wife, and finally were found frozen to death in the ice of the Andes; The second is the role of the golden scepter in the mural, the bamboo pole took great pains to steal the mask from the museum, is it just to exchange the golden scepter with the chief? If this is the case, then the golden scepter must have played a pivotal role in the search for the temple, and this role is unknown to our team. When I think about this, I can't help but have a headache, and I always feel that there are some key parts that have been forgotten and I can't remember anything.
Vulture continued: "Now that the mystery of the Golden Mask has been solved, it's time for us to hit the road, this place is a graveyard after all, and it may not be a good thing to stay for a long time-
Wang Qingzheng also wanted to read the entire mural, but he reversed his temper and made a record in a small notebook at this moment. I told him that since the Hundred Ghost Pit has been excavated by us, it is not a matter of how your Wang family wants to investigate and study it in the future, so why rush now. There is an Inca temple waiting for us in front, and you can't afford to lose the overlord seal of your ancestors.
Wang Shaozheng was in the mood, no one pulled away, waved his hand and said: "If you have a kind of pull me to try, Lao Tzu will not leave-before the words fell, the torches and candles in the corner of the wall suddenly - fluttered - and extinguished at the same time. In the darkness, I don't know whose teeth are chattering.