Chapter 228: The Virgin of the Sun Palace
(Thank you for the monthly pass of my friend Xiaotou monk, and the two tips from my friend Kunpeng 3357~~)
Escobar Jr. commanded several of his subordinates to excavate, and the heavy tool hammered down on the stone face, and the stone chips flew and the stones gradually cracked, and when they broke into a depth of two meters, a stone door with carved ornaments appeared.
Little Escobar turned his head and asked, "What's next?"
Mu Qingcheng said: "Keep hammering and break the door!"
Little Escobar waved his hand, the sound of hammering again, and the stone chips on the stone door peeled off, if there were real cultural relics experts present, they would definitely be distressed and shouted loudly, but no one here was.
It didn't take long for the stone gate to be hammered open a big hole, and a stream of foul air rushed in, and the torch was stretched in, the flame swayed, getting weaker and weaker, which could only wait for the turbidity to slowly dissipate, after all, not everyone had an advanced life support system like Little Escobar, and not everyone was a cultivator, even if they were masters of dark energy, there was a time limit for holding their breath.
Taking advantage of this time, everyone ate one after another, Mu Qingcheng and Kelly had their own dry food, and everyone on both sides ate their own, and after about three hours, the air in the tomb was barely acceptable, so they walked in turn.
The walls of the cave are carved with intricate patterns, but no one cares, and they are all bent on moving forward.
Different from the traditional tombs in China, after the Yongdao, there is a huge main burial chamber, with an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, the main pedestal of the coffin is located at the back of the tomb, and there is an altar in front of it, about two meters high, slightly lower than the main pedestal.
Everyone climbed the altar, a radius of nearly 100 square meters, the center is a statue of the sun god Inti about two meters high, compared with the outside, from the sitting statue to the standing statue, around the statue, there are dozens of clay pots neatly standing, about one person high.
Little Escobar said, "I bet it's a mummy inside, you ...... Past open. β
"Yes, young master!"
The guards went to open the clay pot, the clay pot was divided into three layers, the innermost layer, there was a mummy, from the appearance, it was a woman, her hair was intact, her black and yellow skin was exposed, her whole body was not a strand of hair, her body was complete, but there were traces of stitching in the chest, and it was deflated, and it was clearly ripped out of her heart.
Look at the altar in front of the statue, there are dozens of purple-black shriveled hearts.
"Keep it open. β
Escobar Jr. waved his hand.
The subordinates opened the clay pots one by one, and they were all female mummies with red fruits, all in a sitting position, and their hearts were also gouged out.
Unlike Egyptian mummies, which need to be disemboweled, because the plateau climate is cold, there is no need to take out the internal organs, Inca mummies do not eat for at least seven days before the sacrifice to keep the stomach clean, and then apply a unique antiseptic material to the skin, and then directly kill it and put it in a clay pot.
"Hey~~" Li Qi sighed: "It is said that the Incas sacrificed with living people, and I finally saw it."
The bones were all twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, from the palace of the Sun Virgins, which I heard were all young and beautiful virgins, selected by the Inca kings from all over the country to be eight years old and adopted from childhood, nominally, the Sun Virgins were the wives of the sun god Inti, and were not allowed to have contact with any men for the rest of their lives, and their task was only to be sent to the altar and sacrificed to the sun god.
However, the exception of the Inca king, he can enjoy the Sun Virgin as IntΓ's representative, once the Sun Virgin is broken, he must leave and go to the royal palace to serve as the queen mother's maid or servant, and if lucky, he will become the concubine of the Inca king.
Look again, is the center of the altar slightly bulging? These sun saints at that time were stripped naked and turned on their backs, so that their breasts could be raised so that they could be held up by the auxiliary priests, and then the chief priest would cut out their hearts and offer them to the sun god Inti.
Because they believed that the sun was going to ruin and that some self-sacrifice must be made to keep it radiant and prevent it from perishing, they fed the sun god with human hearts and blood.
However, unlike what we imagined, including the Sun Virgin, the Incas were proud to be sacrificed, competing to dig out their hearts and sacrifice to the sun god, and the number of people dying for this is also increasing, in the 16th century, the Spaniards found 13,600 skulls on the sacrificial skull, and according to archaeology, in order to celebrate the completion of the Pyramid of Textratiran, in the four days of sacrifice, 360,000 people were killed, these people are called human sacrifices.
Of course, among human sacrifices, the sacrifice of twelve or thirteen-year-old virgins from the palace of the Sun Virgin is the most pious, the holies, and the most loved by the sun god Inti. β
Escobar Jr. added: "It was a pleasure to be killed with a single sword, but the worst was the prisoner of war, who had to be skinned alive, and the high priest who presided over the sacrifice solemnly took off his robes, burrowed into the bloody human skin, and danced with the onlookers."
If the slain priest had been a brave warrior, his body would have been cut up and given to the nobles and the masses, with the priests having their hands and feet for their own sake. β
Everyone looked at Montezuma in unison, isn't this the priest of the Indians? When he looked at the gate of the blood sacrifice of the ten pure-blood Indians he brought, even his face remained unchanged, if the Inca Empire was still there, I am afraid that he was the one who danced in the human skin, right?
Although there are no good people here, it shudders to think about!
On the contrary, it was Montezuma, who took it for granted.
Kelly couldn't help but snort: "No wonder there are mass graves in Mexico one after another, in the early decades, the drug lords in Colombia were also murderous, hehe, it turns out that there are traditions." β
As soon as these words came out, Mexicans and Colombians showed unhappiness, after all, there are almost no pure-blooded Spaniards in South America, all of them are more or less mixed with Indian blood, and even many are mixed with blacks, even little Escobar, whose blood is not pure.
"Let's go, there's a clay pot in front, let's go to the front and have a look. β
Little Escobar waved his hand helplessly, but in the mausoleum, there was a faint sound of singing.
Like a girl's whisper, full of joy, appearing here, people can't help but feel creepy.
"Who, who? who?"
Except for Mu Qingcheng and Montezuma, everyone's complexion changed greatly, but relatively speaking, Kelly's performance was not bad, but she subconsciously caught Mu Qingcheng, after all, she had seen Xie Lin.
Mu Qingcheng opened his divine sense, only to see that in the mausoleum, I don't know when it began, there were gray shadows, and then swept them with the eyes of the candle nine yin, it was clearly a ghost, there was no resentment, there was a faint fluctuation of divine power around the body, and the expression and their singing were also full of joy, so he said to Montezuma: "It must be the undead of the virgin of the Sun Palace, do you have a way to communicate with them." β
Montezuma opened his mouth to hear a burst of Indian vernacular, and there was also a chirping sound in the space.
After a while, Montezuma shook his head and said: "They are the souls of those girls, they were originally asleep, we disturbed them, they have nowhere to go but to wander in the mausoleum, hey, I don't know what to do, but they are very kind, as long as we don't go too far, they shouldn't hurt us." β
In fact, Montezuma still didn't say a word, and those virgins of the Sun Palace asked him why he didn't go to the world of the sun god Inti after he died!
How can he answer this!
Everyone was also staring at each other with big eyes.
Everyone heard it, even if they were honest in the mausoleum, the virgin of the Sun Palace would not attack them, if it was excessive, it would be difficult to say, so if it was too much, would it be too much to open Yu Panki's coffin and even take away the crystal skull?