Chapter 69: A Legacy for Yourself
Hadu was stunned in place, he finally knew why he could open such a transmission channel, and why he would say that the "predatory ability class" could not be transmitted to the past. The reason for the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" is that in history, he did transmit something to the past, but not the ability to plunder, but the unified system of symbols.
Now he understood, why when he first entered the consciousness space, he was able to immediately understand the characters displayed on the lines. At that time, he felt how natural and standardized these symbols were, efficient and easy to understand, and now he realized that they were actually things he had already learned, organized and passed on to the past.
Having barely recovered from the shock, Hadu began to think about an important matter: how he decided what knowledge about the runes to convey.
The reason for this suspicion lies in the situation that Hadu faced at the beginning: the grassland was constantly disputed, the languages of the various tribes were different, the primitive worship was chaotic, and the living environment of the grassland inhabitants was relatively different. At this time, what the people needed most should be a simplified language that was efficient, less linked, easy to learn and easy to use, but what Hadu obtained at that time was basically a complex language based on existing runes, and there was no outstanding reform significance.
From the current point of view, the acquisition of this old concept of the rune is more to mix in the old high-level to get into a higher position, but this itself is contradictory: in that era, people with knowledge are more likely to be worshiped by ordinary people, if Hadu directly obtained the efficient rune system, he can directly set up another mountain gate himself, directly make the old high-level ineffective, it is easier than he has to sneak into other people's camps.
Hadu thought about it in many ways, and in the end, it was basically decided that there was a specific factor that determined the language environment at the time: the structure of the people who used the symbols.
When the steppe tribes were not yet unified, basically only the ritual personnel, the high-level tribal leaders, and especially the inheritors of polytheistic runes could get the opportunity to learn the runes, or only they could use the runes. Most of the people in ordinary life only need to do things step by step, and the average life expectancy at that time is not long, and many children die soon after birth, so it is difficult to carry out early education. It can also be said that at this time, only the runes are used at the top level, but the runes can be passed on more completely. In that era, the runes represented knowledge, and if ordinary clansmen were rashly allowed to use the runes, at some point these clansmen might go directly to other tribes, which would easily give the enemy a greater advantage, and the original tribe would lose their inheritance. It is inevitable that a tribe without inheritance will not be able to survive on the grassland for a long time, so it is even more impossible for ordinary people to come into contact with the knowledge of runes.
And Hadu didn't just climb the line of the old high-level at that time, and only when he reached that level did he have the opportunity to come into contact with the unified tribe. If you want to say that Hadu's foundation is really not excellent: he is not an adult, and he cannot obtain the inheritance of the divine note in the clan branch; the leader at that time was still there, and his clan branch did not have the opportunity to run for the leader; there were many internal and external troubles in the "Ka-Sin-Ki" back then, and the tribe was on the verge of extinction, and Hadu almost did not survive. In this case, if there is more knowledge in the "Ka-Sin-Ki" than the inheritance of other tribes, it will definitely cause trouble, and it will only bring them faster progress in extermination. In other words, it was because of his low profile that Hadu was able to successfully complete the great deeds that followed, instead of dying at the beginning.
Thinking like this, Hadu finally felt a lot relieved, but not to mention, when Hadu obtained the runic system that now seemed extremely troublesome, he only felt easy to use and comfortable. Admittedly, there is no high or low without comparison.
However, if Hadu was asked to dig out his old knowledge again, it would be a headache for him. It's just that the last time he got a new rune development order vocabulary was 2400 years ago, and now he wants to think back to the old runes he used 8000 years ago, which really kills him. Not only has that set of characters been abandoned for a long time, but it has not been used for too long, only for a year or two.
Hadu needs to remember the ancient system of symbols used by the Ka-Sin-Ki tribe.
If you want to trace the origins, legend has it that the runes were brought by the Zikon clan, and their main purpose in inventing this script was to better record the results of research on predatory abilities. From the glyph point of view, the words in the ancient runes are divided into nine parts, left, middle, right, upper, middle and lower, each of which has its own special meaning:
1. Center, which is used to stipulate the part of speech of the character, that is, from nouns, dynamic words, action form words, action trend words, word order words, state adjectives, concept adjectives, number words (without measure words), and special referents;
2. In the middle of the right, it is used to stipulate the existence of the rune, that is, whether it belongs to an ordinary rune or a Shenyin rune - if it is an ordinary rune, it needs to be filled in with pronunciation;
3. In the middle of the left, it is used to stipulate the historicity of the symbol, and the steppe tribes are divided into three periods: "Ben-Mao'ol" creation, "De-Dju" (i.e., the creation of life), and "U-Cja'ar".
4. On the right, it is used to stipulate the rhythm of the rune, including tone, length, weight, rhyme, suitable notes, etc., in addition to ordinary use, it is more used in ritual regulations and some ode music;
5. The upper left is used to stipulate the reading order of the character, that is, the narrative, the flashback, the interpolation, and the supplement;
6. At the lower right, it is used to stipulate the reading mark of the symbol, and in some recitation parts, it is necessary to be voiced by multiple ritual personnel at the same time, so as to distinguish it from this mark;
7. The lower left is used to stipulate the right to use the symbol, that is, to stipulate which words are used by which people, so as to avoid blasphemy, bad luck, taboos, etc., and the main authority is priest, patriarch, and personal guard;
8. In the middle and upper, it is mainly tribal markings, which are added to the beginning and end of a sentence, which are used to mark tribal territory in stone carvings in some areas; in other clay tablets, this tribal mark is used to indicate the nobility of the tribe's belief in gods;
9. The middle and lower are used to mark the skimming mark, that is to say, the character is written incorrectly, but it cannot be erased and rewritten in the stereotype and engraving, so it can only add a "wrong mark" to indicate that the symbol is skipped when reading aloud.
It can be said that the traditional rune is a kind of "procedural rune", and the rune itself does not record which sound should be pronounced, but the whole rune is written according to its specifications, and the corresponding pronunciation can be "output". For example, fill in:
Center, noun, right center, leave blank, left center, hunting stage;
Upper right, long pronunciation, short before and long after, upper left, serial, lower right, single/multiple pronunciation is acceptable, lower left, priestly only;
Middle-upper, "Ka-sin-ki";
Then the word "output" is "A-Bu" (God of Hunting).
Such traditional nine-square grid characters are by no means understandable to ordinary people, and even the highest-ranking high priest sometimes needs to look up the table to understand the meaning of what was written before. Fortunately, this kind of rune is still used in the circle of a few people, and if it is promoted to all clansmen in this way, then everyone may prefer not to use runes and not want to make so much trouble for themselves.
In "Ka-Sin-Ki", this traditional glyph has undergone a certain change:
1. Due to the lack of music used in rituals, the upper right rhythm specification lacks knowledge about suitable notes, which leads to the pronunciation of many divine note characters is very awkward, such as "De-Dju" (God of Joy), which should be pronounced as "X_u" if translated into Chinese pinyin, but "Ka-Sin-ki" is generally pronounced as "Sh_u";
2. In "Ka-Sin-Ki", there is only "Yijun" to defend the tribe, that is, there is no pro-guard system, and there are indeed special words for pro-guard in the runes, which leads to the fact that when the talismans are inherited, the new generation of ritual personnel also need to learn these words that are no longer used;
3. Probably out of fear of extermination, each rune of "Ka-Sin-Ki" needs to be filled with the name of the tribe in the upper middle grid repeatedly, which is really complicated and inefficient, and it is easy to make it difficult to see where the beginning and end of the sentence are, which brings a huge obstacle to re-reading the past literature.
4. Due to years of foreign aggression, the last priest in "Ka-Sin-ki" who knew how to write skimming marks also died 5 years before Hado's birth, which led to the infallibility of the rune records in the tribe. If you make a mistake, you have to write it again from the beginning (by Hadu's time, in order to save time in recording, the ritual staff at that time simply used a piece of wood to write down each rune, and copied it when needed);
The main reason for these troubles is that no one dares to touch the pre-established system itself, even if it is just to create a new skimming mark, if a difference is found in the inter-tribal exchange, it can easily lead to distrust between the two sides - and even worse, the tribes have no way to prove that their own lineage is correct with each other, and the other party's lineage must be wrong.
This is also why the inter-tribal exchanges on the steppe are more between hunters, and rarely even very rarely involve ritual personnel, because their runic inheritance itself is full of loopholes, and the slightest carelessness may make the tribes of two generations of compatriots turn against each other because of the correctness of the inheritance-the high priest is a "god displeaser", even the old patriarch's generation does not dare to say more.
But it cannot be said that traditional characters are meaningless: they are, after all, a unique writing system. And it is precisely because this system is complex and cumbersome that it has stubbornly survived in the long historical years. Another embodiment of the value of traditional runes is also the annexation and plundering between tribes: it is precisely because traditional runes are the most cohesive symbol of wisdom in tribal inheritance, and obtaining the traditional runes of a tribe is equivalent to obtaining the advanced knowledge of the tribe. Of course, at that time, the "Ka-Sin-Ki" basically had no inheritance that other tribes could look up to - except for their relatively strong hunters, but the population base was pitifully small, and if it weren't for their "Yijun" and the higher-ups still having the strength to fight, and their main rivals had not yet had time to arrive, they would never have survived under the alliance of "Mo-Ruq-Fa" and "Mu-Tua-Yin".
Speaking of sigil traditions, "Cin-din-ta" is good at digging caves and mines, "Mo-Ruq-fa" is good at domesticating livestock and wooden buildings, "Mu-Tua-Yin" is good at building mud and wood structures, and "Luo-Fe-Yon" is good at domesticating and feeding wild animals when they are young. Each tribe has one or two strengths, which allows them to develop thousands of people. That is to say, with the symbols, there is the stability of cultural inheritance.
However, it wasn't the hardest thing to get Hadu to recall all the runes used in the steppe at the time - it was the most troublesome thing to get him to eliminate some of the runes that weren't in "Ka-Sin-Ki". After Hadu became the high priest back then, he didn't stay in the tribe for a long time (he soon set off to meet the enemy), which led to the fact that the time he actually checked the past ritual documents was basically 0, and more often it was a vague glimpse.
Fortunately, Hado's use of traditional runes in the tribe is still relatively rare, and the last few times he uses it is in other tribal areas, such as shouting to the opposing priest next to the tower of "Mo-Ruq-Fa", and communicating with the other party's sacrificial soldiers when encountering the ore escort of "Mu-Tua-Yin", and rarely using the runes at other times - the runes used in other tribes are more complete, unlike the lack of horizontal and sparse characters in "Ka-Sin-Ki".
Hadu was a little glad that after unifying the grassland, he did not create a new rune system based on the runes of "Ka-Sin-Ki", which would definitely cause complaints and disgust from all the clansmen.
The next step is to repeat and repeat, and try to extract all the things in the depths of your memory.
"Ah, it seems that Comrade Hadu is going to do more useless work in one fell swoop. The Speaker squinted his eyes at Hado, who was contemplative in the video, and commented sarcastically, "It's a shame that he's still a predator, and he doesn't have any experimental spirit at all, and he still uses these old-fashioned methods to do things." ”
"Sir, what do you mean ... The little councillor asked with a little confusion: "Hadu should directly put all the rune memories he knows into the 'reserved value traversal channel', so that the system will automatically separate the rune knowledge that should appear in this history, am I right?。。 ?”
"Indeed, I thought that Comrade Hadu 'really' understood the actual meaning of predatory power itself, and it was ridiculous that he was still immersed in his illusions about predatory ability. ”