Chapter 658: Zuatu
The gods who are in charge of agriculture have always been the most important gods in the divine system
In Azeroth, Freya, the Lord of Life, plays the role of the Titan god of agriculture.
And as far as Kane knows, there is no such god in the Loa god system.
A very important reason is that the troll civilization is not a farming civilization, but a hunting civilization.
Kane even believes that this characteristic of the troll civilization is also a major reason for its transformation from victory to decline. Because there is no agriculture, fishing and hunting alone is not enough to feed a large population.
In fact, at the peak of the troll empire, there was already a food problem, which also prompted the trolls to repeatedly strengthen the breeding and taming of wild beasts, and even the intelligent, free, and fierce velociraptor and the irascible and proud Tyrannosaurus rex surrendered and were driven by it, which shows the advanced technology in this area.
Also, it is precisely because of the characteristics of hunting civilization that the beast gods are quite popular in the belief in the gods of trolls.
In the forefront, there are many believers, and they are basically beasts. And like the thin-jawed dragon, frog, etc., they obviously have good magical gifts, but they are still small.
Gayale is a relatively high Loa deity, different from the falcon god Ekilsson, Gayale's divine power attributes, and even divine arts, are more inclined to spells than combat skills.
For example, the more famous Dragon Eagle Spit can be as long as the dragon's breath, and its high-temperature flames can kill even fire elemental spirits and even flame walkers who swim in lava.
It is precisely because of this that when the information first became the god of agriculture in Gayale, Kane felt very strange and strange.
Azeroth also has corn as a crop, and Gayallé's agricultural priesthood takes care of the crop, which the trolls here call the golden grain.
If Kane himself is there, knowing this information, he will inevitably feel ridiculous. Because the Mayan civilization in the origin world was based on corn as the staple food, its status is equivalent to the wheat of the pasta people, and the rice or millet of the grain people.
Kanson didn't know about it, but he knew what corn was. You can also figure out why there is a god of agriculture who specializes in taking care of corn crops.
They had not seen any large beasts along the way.
If the trolls here were still known for hunting, it meant that the food chain was broken.
Kane believes that it is precisely because of the need, or rather the desire to survive, that the trolls here have completed the transformation and have switched to farming instead of hunting.
In addition, the memories of the trolls also explain the existence of the small settlement.
It was the edge of the city-state of Zuatu, and the trolls were the outer patrol that would check on the situation from time to time.
Their main thing is not to prevent invasions from other city-states or anything, but to check the erosion of the Nightmare. Because it is walking around the outermost part of the city-state, it is quite hard to walk a lot in a day.
But it was necessary, the Bad Spirits were always on the way, threatening their survival, and they relied on believing in God to give God enough strength to support the Circle of Protection.
If the circle of refuge is reduced, it will be attributed to the lack of faith, and more so that someone is not religious enough, and then religious persecution, such as sacrifice, is born. Blood clan, how can you be worthy of the clan name if you don't play with snow?
In addition to this, some scattered information about the city-state of Zuljin has been collected, such as the fact that they have mining areas, trade areas, and even trade routes, etc.
By the time Kane digested the information, they had walked about 3 kilometers or so, and in the distance, they could already see the outline of the city of Zuatu.
It's not a majestic city, but it's characteristic, but it's nothing for Kane's long-lived life. What's more, he used the magic eagle to overlook from the sky at breakfast time.
Now he's focused on the corn fields that the trolls have cultivated. Through the details, you can see the quality of agricultural technology, such as whether it is deep ploughing, whether it is canal irrigation or more cattle dripping, whether it is farmhouse fertilizer or plant ash, and so on.
And these are closely related to the yield of crops.
As the saying goes, the people live on food. Whether the trolls are fishing, hunting or farming, if they can't get their hands on people's bellies, then something will go wrong.
The condition of the fields proves that the cultivation here is quite primitive and bloody.
Kane saw some half-buried bones, which should have been trolls' if he hadn't seen anything worse.
Serfs, this one is also very Maya.
According to the memories of the patrol trolls, in Zuatu, when a slave is killed, it is directly chopped up as fertilizer. Even the free people, after death, have the theory of faith and money.
Faith fat means that the soul goes to the kingdom of God, and the body is donated as fertilizer. The money fee is to sell the corpse, of course, you can also use it for your own use.
Both Alexstasa and Ysera found the trolls who did so brutal and cruel.
Kane can be somewhat considerate, this is not a psychological distortion for the sake of abuse, but for survival. For those who have not tasted chronic hunger, it is difficult to understand what a torturous ordeal it was, and how many boundaries can be broken, including moral conscience, in order to solve problems.
Feed and think. On the other hand, when you can't even solve the most basic problems of eating and drinking, it seems a bit ridiculous to say anything about etiquette and morality.
Of course, understanding is understanding, but he would not let Kane fight for the well-being of the trolls. He is, after all, a selfish man, not an internationalist, no, interstellar fighter.
So Tanaka buried the bones, but his mentality was very good, and he didn't say Oh, you guys are so pitiful, I want to play the role of a savior to help you get out of the sea of suffering.
Without this mind, even the trolls of Azeroth were placed instead of sitting and watching them be slaughtered, including the waste of some experimental projects on them.
Here, Kane feels that he has been distorted from the cognitive point of view, and the difficulty of training is too great to be cost-effective. What's more, he hasn't escaped yet, so he doesn't want to have those who don't have it.
From a distance, the most conspicuous thing about Zuatu is the dozen or so pyramids of different shapes and sizes, which are basically stepped pyramids, and the tops of the towers are shining with divine light, which is obviously different from what the previous temple of the spider god Yazma saw.
Continuing towards the city, troll slaves toiled in the fields.
The bodies of these slaves were generally emaciated, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they were in shape, and their skin quality was obviously poor, although stone gray was the common skin color of blood trolls, but there were also differences in finish and delicacy, and these roughness were like rock skin, and the color was dull, revealing an unhealthy yellowish gray, which naturally meant that their condition was very problematic.
There is also a way to distinguish the health of trolls, which is to look at their fangs, which are not able to support large, smooth, curvaceous fangs, which are an important criterion for judging beauty and ugliness for trolls, compared to the beard of a dwarf.
Kane doesn't appreciate this, so he plays a troll, with fangs that are more of a female troll, that is, a normal lion tiger, rather than more exaggerated than a wild boar or a saber-toothed tiger.
At the end of the farmland is the city wall and the moat.
Maybe it's because the temples are built like fortresses, not bad protection, and the trolls are not very keen on the city walls, they are generally relatively low, but they are generous, and they like to decorate, and they are generally large-scale carved pictures, describing some glorious deeds or something.
About 100 kilometers southwest of Malukda, there is a place called White Sands.
There is a legend that this is a piece of land purified by a feathered serpent, and there is also a legend that it is a cursed land, in short, there must be something strange here, otherwise why is it always cloudless and white sand?
Hilma and the others were also fortunate enough to witness the celestial wonders of the White Sand Plain, whether it was white clouds or dark clouds, all on the horizon, and the top of the White Sand Plain was always blue.
This blue is usually only seen in the depths of the desert, and the beautiful color is impressive.
White sand is also rare, it is not visually misleading in the environmental background, but it is really white grains of sand, not pure white, but grayish-white.
It was in this white desert that the Green Umbrella Group built a complex of buildings characteristic of ancient Egyptian temples.
This is a play of surplus capacity after the construction of facilities for the Gaskara tribe. After that, more than 10,000 weavers of the construction engineering corps were pulled out and sealed together with the construction equipment to prevent awakening.
The architecture of ancient Egypt is naturally majestic, the key is that it is rich in culture and goes well with the desert environment, especially Ethan's choice of dark gold as the main background color of the entire complex.
With such a color and a certain amount of distressed treatment, the senses are very long-lasting precipitation.
Graveson also asked Sylma about this: "This is ...... Temple Ruins?"
It was only through the priest's magic that Shima knew that this place was not ancient.
Gadot said: "The creator's creations are full of the precipitation of time and the beauty of art, whether it is the architecture here or the fortress built for Gaskara, they all have strong cultural characteristics. ”
"Well, there must be a civilization behind the creators, and it is likely that there is more than one civilization, and it is difficult to estimate what changes their arrival will bring to this world. ”
Graveson frowned, "Didn't you say that you are a believer in the Radiant Avenue?" The half-dreamers have a good relationship with us, although their way of thinking is a little weird, but they obviously hate the morally corrupt. ”
Sylma explained, "Most of the half-dreamers are orderly and kind, but the Radiant Avenue is orderly and neutral. This means that the creators do not necessarily share our values and the universal morality of the Kovaré continent. ”
Gadot smiled and didn't say much. In her opinion, Graveson's thinking is still too narrow, or that most of the Church knights have such characteristics.
Named Karnak by Kane, it is not actually a faithful representation of the Karnak Temple, but also has elements of other temples such as Abu Simbel, Hatshepsut, Namtis, Derbaikhli, Philae, etc.
It can be said that this Karnak is the condensation of ancient Egyptian civilization in terms of architecture, but there are no pyramids, and a pyramid in the true sense of the word requires a lot of astronomical data to assist, and Ethan is not interested in building a pyramid with nothing to show for itself.
The whole complex covers an area of 2 square kilometers and is square in shape, it is built on a stone platform more than 30 meters high, and the circumference of this base is 6 kilometers, and on the stone wall is a magnificent relief group of pictures, which recounts all the major events of ancient Egypt until its demise.
At the foot of the entrance steps, Hilma and the others met the guards of Karnak, dressed in an ancient Egyptian style, with a bronzed body and a beautiful golden falcon helmet and jackal helmet.
Falcon and jackal, these are the two most representative animals of ancient Egyptian culture, others, cats, crocodiles, vultures, etc. are not as distinctive as the two, and the meaning is profound.
Soon after learning of their intentions, the group was taken directly to Ethan's place to practice martial arts.