Accompanied by a series of earth-shattering flutes, drums and firecrackers, the only pyramid in the harbor of hope, or the square below the water tower, begins the festival to worship the rainbow goddess Ikahir.

The square is crowded with people, and most of the residents who do not work on this day come here to watch the excitement.

Although the presiding priest was a princess of the Aztecs, the fear of the gods was common throughout Mesoamerica.

Accompanied by two naked maids, with only red paint on their waists and colored plastic feathers on their heads, singing and dancing, Snow Ji Delan wore a three-point bikini and a samba dancer's feather costume, and walked solemnly through the square to the top of the pyramid.

Several Aztec warriors who accompanied her immediately beat the big drum in front of her. Next, various pottery incense burners, simple wooden altars, and temporary statues of the goddess Ikahir made of wood were all carried up one by one.

The pyramid of Port Hope, which is actually a water tower, is only three stories tall in total, and the broad top is basically occupied by a cistern, and there are no platforms or open spaces designed for religious activities. Princess Snow Princesses had no choice but to put the sacrificial utensils on the edge of the pond about 2 meters wide, and then began to pray to the goddess Ikahir with a feather fan and a scepter, and danced with a lot of words.

- Fortunately, Ikahir was also a god of water, so the sacrifice next to the cistern coincided with the teachings.

Wang Qiu stood at the other end of the cistern, touching his chin with interest, watching Xue Ji Dailan's sacrificial performance.

In fact, as a staunch atheist who grew up under the red flag, it was really difficult for Wang Qiu to learn and understand a cult that likes to make human sacrifices, and to understand the chaotic and contradictory primitive myths of the Mesoamerican Indians.

Although Princess Xueji Dailan has been sparing no effort to promote the various powers of the gods in these days, hoping that this "foreign godman" can identify with the gods of the Aztecs, but the result is that chickens and ducks talk about it, which makes Wang Qiu even more confused.

So far, Wang Qiu's only impression of the gods believed by the Aztecs is that these evil gods who like to sacrifice people alive are a group of super hardcore perverts who take pleasure in killing and abusing people! Even the chainsaw massacre and Jack the Ripper of modern urban legends are innocent and kind citizens compared to the murderous and bloodthirsty, murderous Aztec gods.

- Look at what kind of perverted evil gods these are!

The first is the original boss of the gods, the wizard god Terscatlipoca, the black "primordial sun". Every year, the Aztecs would elect a beautiful young man to serve as the incarnation of Texcatlipoca, and serve him as if he were a living god, and in this year he would abdicate for 20 days, and personally change his clothes, and also give him four beautiful women representing the four goddesses for him to enjoy, and then invite him to climb the pyramid...... After climbing to the top of the tower, the priests would chop up the "living god" with a knife, and make various meat dishes for the emperor and nobles to enjoy.

In addition, Texcatlipoca is also fond of collecting the hearts of one-year-old babies...... What a beast!

The second was the Quetzalcoatl god of Quetzalcoatl, the only "conscience" among the Aztec gods, the legendary great educator who instructed the Aztecs in farming, building cities, and weaving, and the only humanist who did not require human sacrifices, but replaced them with animals such as dogs and monkeys. Of course, in terms of actual operation, I am afraid that it is still a little barbaric and rude, and our Chinese live eating monkey brains can be regarded as gentle compared to them. …,

However, this guy's character seems to be a little problematic, but because he was jealous of the original sun god Texcatlipoca shining in the sky, he kicked him down, causing Tezcatlipoca to become a wizard god.

Later, due to his poor character, the Quetzalcoatl God himself was defeated by the other gods together, lost all his territory, and made the god of war Vecchilopochtli the boss. Quetzalcoatl, however, had time to leave a cruel "I will come back" before leaving, and fled to the eastern sea.

As a result, the Spaniards, who landed on the Gulf of Mexico in 1519, were regarded by the Aztecs as the embodiment of the returning Quetzalcoatl.

The third is the sun god Tonatiu, who took the opportunity to seize the throne of the sun god after the "primordial sun" Tskatlipoca was kicked down by the god Quetzalcoatl, and the big family who consumed human sacrifices. Its tongue is like a knife made of black stone, sticking out of its mouth, salivating, waiting for its people to offer it human blood and human hearts.

Therefore, the Aztecs basically dissected the hearts of prisoners of war and sacrificed them to the sun god Tonateu every day in order to pray that the sun would rise as it normally would every day. Every 52-year "great cycle", a large sacrifice was made to Tonatyu with thousands of living people for fear that he would provoke him to destroy Shijie. If there was no prince or general's heart at the sacrificial ceremony, the picky Tonateu would still be too lowly and refused to accept it.

The fourth is the god of war, Vecchilopochtli, the tribal god of the Aztecs themselves, and the one who sucks the most blood among the gods. When this god of war was not yet a god, he killed none of his four hundred brothers, and then took the brothers' weapons and territories as his own, and after he became a god, he would have to sacrifice tens of millions of people at every turn. In many cases, the Aztecs went to war with foreign wars specifically to capture sacrifices for him.

In addition, just as in ancient China, there was a "river god to marry", the Aztecs often recruited some beautiful women of noble blood to "marry" the god of war Vecchilopochtli. It's just that a Chinese beauty who married a river god can still end up with a whole corpse. The bride who is married to the god of war, Vecchilopochelli, is skinned and dried soon after the wedding, and then draped over the priests of Vecchilopochtri, the god of war...... It is said that there was once a particularly unlucky delicate princess in other countries, who was sent by her father, who did not know the truth, and turned into a human fur coat.

The fifth is Hippe Totke, the god of corn, don't think that the god of plants will be merciful, this corn god is a skinner, and the human sacrifice offered to him is not to be killed directly, but to give him some toy weapons made of wood and feathers, and to fight heavily armed Aztec warriors, who will not be killed until they are bruised. After the death of the human sacrifice, the human skin is peeled off, and without processing, it is bloodily draped on the murderer's body, and it is paraded through the streets for 20 days before it can be taken off, which is said to imitate the peeling of corn seeds during the growth of corn......

The sixth is Traetkutli, the mother of the earth, a bit like Pangu, who opened the heavens and the earth in Chinese mythology, and was torn in half by the wizard god and the Quetzalcoatl god to create the heavens and the earth. But this Mother Earth is much crueler than Pangu, and she will not promise to let all things grow up without drinking enough human blood.

The seventh is the hunting god Misco Arter, who is also a cruel and bloodthirsty pervert. When sacrificing to him, he first smashed a woman's head into a stone, and it was strictly stipulated that she had to be hit four times to make her unconscious, and then he slit the woman's throat with a knife like a wild animal, cut off the head, and had a man hold the woman's head to show it to the crowd, and Zuihou dug out the man's heart......

The eighth is Trazolteol, the goddess of fertility, and the most perverted of the Aztec gods. A group of maidens of good families who are chosen to sacrifice her every year will be used as camp prostitutes, and will be ravaged by the rough soldiers. It wasn't until the allotted number of men had done enough (I don't know if it was "a thousand beheadings" or "ten thousand beheadings") that the poor girls were dragged up to the pyramid and beheaded and their hearts gouged out, and then their bodies were dumped as filthy garbage and thrown directly into the swamps of Lake Texcoco, where they were left to rot and stink...... Meow a mi, this is really a woman's suffering, what a woman's suffering.........,

By the way, the standard posture of this goddess is like squatting with a bare ass, because she also has a priesthood who is a toilet goddess.

The main gods in the Aztec religious system are basically the above-mentioned ones, and the rest of the minor gods will not be talked about in detail, anyway, they are all extremely murderous and bloodthirsty murderers.

Weishenme, these Aztec gods, are so cruel and bloodthirsty?

Because the Aztecs always believed that this shijie was a huge food chain, and that the gods would feed on the hearts and blood of men, just as humans would feed on animals. Therefore, the priests consider themselves to be the chefs of the gods, and every day they have to dig people's hearts to provide energy to the gods in order for Shijie to continue to function. In order to make the "dishes" dedicated to the gods more novel and delicious, the Aztec priests worked hard all day long to come up with all kinds of strange and strange ways to kill people, and even created such imaginative "cooking" methods as steaming people to death.

In comparison, the European Inquisition, which only knew how to make fires on pyres to roast people, was too unimaginative and weak.

In short, because of their cruel and bloodthirsty religious beliefs, the whole Aztec society was permeated with a morbid sentiment of worshipping blood, and they pursued a completely different standard of good and evil from other societies, and all social activities revolved around sacrifice. The Aztec army was thus one of the most exotic in Shijie, and although they were armed with sharp obsidian machetes, bows, arrows, and javelins, the soldiers were not trained to kill enemies on the battlefield, but how to knock them unconscious on the battlefield so that they could be dragged back as sacrifices.

In a sense, the Aztecs seemed to be very humane in their way of warfare, and if someone became a prisoner of the Aztec warriors, they were usually fed and fed without worrying about lack of food and clothing. But the problem is that when you look white and fat, you will be sent to the top of the pyramid, and then let the priests who are quick with their hands and feet act as the chief surgeon, cut a knife on your chest and take out the heart, the operation process will not take more than 5 minutes, and then the body will be cut into pieces and cooked, so that everyone can share the human flesh hot pot, and it is not in vain that they have raised you for so many days.

Fortunately, there are strict regulations on the number of human sacrifices needed to sacrifice to the gods every time, and it is not good to have less, but it is unlucky to have more. So some of the prisoners of war survived and survived as slaves for the Aztecs, but they didn't necessarily survive - when the next sacrifice came, if there were not enough prisoners to make up the required number of prisoners, maybe they would have to find some slaves to dig their hearts in the pyramid to make up the numbers.

And if a captive is a famous warrior, or a noble priest, general, or prince, then he can enjoy the gold VIP treatment, and get the opportunity to go head-to-head with the Eagle Samurai or the Jaguar Samurai during the sacrifice!

Of course, the weapons used for the human sacrifice will be a little worse, usually toy sticks decorated with feathers, while the opponent will use a sharp obsidian machete...... Well? Think it's unfair? Meow a cat, if people don't use knives, after the fight is over, what should you use to skin you?!

Even in such an unfair heads-up, some particularly powerful prisoners of war have created incredible miracles. There was once a famous Tlaxcal warrior, in the heads-up after being captured, he actually knocked over 28 heavily armed Aztec warriors with wooden sticks, until the 29th warrior went into battle with a sword, and the Tlaxcal warrior's physical strength was really insufficient, so he was cut down and bloodied and skinned - the Aztec duel was different from the gladiators of ancient Rome, and no matter how many outlanders won, Zuihou could not escape death in the wheel battle.