The fat brother asked Yanqiu: "Do you also know about this?" Is it the same as the black and white impermanence in our mythological stories? Their Mongolian impermanence is this virtue. ”

Yan Qiu shook his head and said to the fat brother: "You are confused, the soul envoy and the soul envoy are not the same thing. ”

The fat brother urged Yan Qiu: "You say more details." ”

Yan Qiu found a place to sit down by the wall and beckoned us all to come over.

I had just woken up, and with the nervousness of the section just now, I was really a little tired, so I sat down with Yan Qiu.

Yan Qiu told everyone: "The soul seducer is to seduce the souls of the living and bring them to the world of death. And the soul messenger is to direct the souls of the dead to where they should be. In Chinese mythology, the soul-seducing messengers should be impermanent ghosts, but they are definitely not the ones who attract souls. If you have to name one, it may be Meng Po, drink Meng Po soup, cross the Nai He Bridge, that is the real Yin and Yang separation. ”

Jiang Li likes to listen to Yan Qiu's stories the most, and asked Yan Qiu excitedly: "Then you said that this thing is a soul envoy, who is the soul envoy?" ”

Yan Qiu smiled and said: "The cultural history of various countries is different, and I don't know this thing, let alone other ghosts in the same system as him, but this is a soul attractor at first glance." The hideous face is used to deter ghosts, and the multi-legged indicates a long period of rapid action, one hand is a light guide tool, and the other hand is a special decoction in a water bag. ”

Yan Qiu's analysis is very reasonable, even if there are loopholes, we laymen can't see it, but after her explanation, I can imagine the scene of this ugly monster with a short stature holding a candle, followed by a row of ghosts.

Jiang Rou said: "Don't you usually study Mongolian history? Did you mention this thing? ”

Yan Qiu shook his head and said: "Mongolian historical records are relatively small, our archaeology is still based on history, myths and stories are only used as a reference basis, and the scope of coverage is not so wide, so we know that there are some gods they worship, which are basically from ancient shamanism." ”

Jiang Rou asked again: "Are there any myths from other countries that can be related to this thing?" ”

didn't wait for Yanqiu to answer.

I said to Jiang Rou, "Why are you so interested in this ugly monster?" It doesn't matter what it is, a bronze statue is just a scare at best. ”

Jiang Rou glared at me and said, "What do you know?" If you don't figure out the origin of this guy, you will break the rules of others, and the road behind must be bumpy. For example, there are some old funeral rules in our country, which correspond to myths and stories. It is said that people have to cross Bird Mountain after death, and the dead have millet in their pockets, and that women who go to the underworld after death can't touch the ground with their feet, so they burn a paper cow on their backs, and such sayings abound. In case people have a saying about this, and then make some traps according to it, can you get by? ”

I didn't think about this, but after Jiang Rou reminded me like this, I really had to take it seriously.

If Yan Qiu said that the back is the main body of the tomb, then it is inevitable that there will be traps, maybe this guy really has something to do with the traps behind, then it is very necessary to figure out its existence.

Jiang Li still mainly listened to stories, and when he heard his sister say this, he immediately catered to him: "Yes, yes, it's necessary to figure it out, Sister Yanqiu, think about it." ”

Yan Qiu said helplessly: "There is really no contact with him, if you want to hear it, let's waste some time, I will tell you in detail." ”

Later, Yan Qiu told us some about the feudal culture of seducing souls and attracting souls.

According to Yan Qiu's narration, there are probably three factions in the main mythological story system that affects mankind. They are Chinese mythology, Greek mythology, and biblical mythology.

Needless to say, Chinese myths and stories have been exposed to since childhood, what is the Lord of Yama, the impermanence of ghosts, the capital city, and the underworld, we have to talk about it, I am afraid it is more colorful than Yan Qiu, so this part of Yan Qiu skipped.

There are not many myths and stories about people after death in the Bible, but the god of death announces the death of people, and then imprisons the soul until Christ is resurrected again for the final judgment, and those who believe in him follow the angels to heaven and live in paradise, and those who do not believe in him follow the devil to hell and suffer in the sea of fire.

Therefore, it is the god of death who seduces the soul, and the one who attracts the soul is probably the angel and the devil.

I have heard relatively few Greek mythological stories, and the content contained is also very rich, no less than our mythological story system, so Yan Qiu focused on this part.

The underworld in Greek mythology is called the underworld, and the Lord of Hades there is naturally also called Hades.

I still know a little about this, and I also know that Hades's name is Hades. But I don't know anything else about the underworld.

According to Yan Qiu, the name of the soul seducer in Greek mythology is Kerrys.

When the goddess of fate determines the date of a person's death, she sends Kerryth to invite the dying person.

The goddess of fate here is our judge, and Keris plays the role of the impermanence ghost.

Ancient Greek wars were frequent, and this Kereus would often float above the battlefield, wearing a large red robe.

His skin was like a dried corpse, dead black, his eyes flashed like phosphorus fire, and his teeth were frighteningly white against the skin.

Whenever a soldier is dying on the battlefield, he lets out a terrible scream and swoops to the ground, sucking blood from the wounds of the deceased before taking him to the underworld.

I judge that it is the result of the mythologization of scavenging birds.

In our mythological story, the underworld and the yang world are connected, and they have to pass through a capital city.

In Greek mythology, the underworld is also connected to the human world, from the yang world to the underworld, there are four Styx rivers, the Nur River, the Resentment River, the Grief River, the Fire River, the four small tributaries of the Styx River called the Forgotten River, drinking the water in it, just like drinking Meng Po soup, you can forget the past.

Legend has it that the water specific gravity of the River Styx is lower than that of the Yang world, and even the feathers will sink to the bottom, so you must use the boats of the River Styx to cross it.

There are two rivers with a boatman on each of them, known as the Styx Ferryman, which is the soul messenger in Greek mythology.

The first was called Charon, the boatman of Hades, and is usually depicted in mythology as an old man with a beard.

He is not only a ferryman, but also responsible for distinguishing the identity of the comer, mainly distinguishing between the dead and the living who have entered the underworld, so people call him the god of discernment.

The important point is that this boatman has to pay a fee, and if he does not pay the expensive ferry, he will be ruthlessly thrown into the river.

In astronomy, Pluto's moon 1 seems to be named after him.

The second is called Philejias, the fate of this ferryman is a bit bloody, he was originally the son of the god of war Ares, became the king of Sali, and his daughter fell in love with the sun god Apollo.

But Apollo's messenger, the white-feathered crow, spoke nonsense, making the sun god think that his woman was cheating, so he shot her with a bow and arrow.

When his daughter died, Firetias burned down the temple of the sun god in a fit of rage, and he was put to death by the sun god.

After the sun god knew the truth of the matter, he turned all the crows in the world black and deprived him of the right to speak, that is, the constellation of crows in the sky.

After his death, Filertias became a ferryman.

Although the story is wonderful, it really has nothing to do with this bronze statue.

In comparison, the soul-attracting characters in other mythological stories seem to be much taller than this dwarf monster, and I don't know who created it? The imagination is really rich, and it is difficult to graft this weird look.

The fat brother said impatiently: "What the hell is it, I'll abolish him first." ”

I was afraid that the fat brother would come up and compete with the bronze statue, so I hurriedly persuaded him: "That's a bronze statue, can you move it?" ”

The fat brother said proudly: "It's not easy to use your brain when you see it, listening to Yan Qiu's story, you haven't figured out something?" ”

I shook my head in confusion.

The fat brother said again: "Yan Qiu's story is clear, impermanence has iron chains, death has a big sickle, Meng Po has Meng Po soup, and even the ferryman has a boat and oars, which shows that these goods themselves have no ability, and they rely on the guys in their hands to mix." As long as the candle of this little ghost is blown out, I see how capable it is to take us to death? ”

In fact, these are superstitions, but the possibility of blowing out the candle to crack the mechanism is not impossible, this trick can be used, anyway, it is not difficult to blow out a candle.

Without waiting for the fat brother to react, I held my breath and blew the candle first, mainly to make a joke with him.

Unexpectedly, the candle was not extinguished.