Volume 2: Snow Ridge Please Spirit - Haidong Imperial Tomb Chapter 283: Ancient Arts
Song Siyuan looked at everyone and formally introduced the technique:
The ancestors of Su Shen believed that all things have spirits, mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, flowers, birds, insects and fish have corresponding gods, and this worship of the power of nature actually comes from the earlier Wuzhu culture, they believe that the human soul is too dirty, and if you want to communicate with the gods, you need a medium and a special shaman.
Whether it is the Great Witch of Su Shen or the ancestors of the Shen Clan, it is essentially just a type of person whose soul is pure and can communicate with the gods, but the way the Great Witch of Su Shen communicates is to accommodate the remnants of the ancient gods, that is, reincarnation.
The way the ancestors of the Shen Ya people communicated with the gods was to use plants and trees to control beasts as gods!
In the early Xia Shang period before the Zhou Dynasty, the ancients believed in witches more than gods, obscene wild sacrifices were very common, but where weddings and funerals, groundbreaking, walking around, must first be divination and ask witches, know the good luck and evil before this will start to act, the things used in divination are oracle bones.
The method of asking the witches of the ancestors of the Evil Beast is to use the beasts domesticated by plants and trees to ask about the will of heaven, let the beasts make choices and directions for the ancestors, and then lead the men and women of the whole clan to do things according to the guidance of the gods.
Their so-called beasts should actually be domesticated wild animals, such as wild wolves, wild boars, bison, wild dogs, and even tigers, lions and leopards.
Over time, they developed a method that could drive wild beasts to do things for them, that is, the art of the Northern Clan, which is the source of the Northern Tribe's Wild Arts, which is a forbidden spell method that can breed plants and trees, and drive away beasts and insects.
Later, the ancestors of the Yan Ya created a national tribe, and this kind of ancestor art was no longer used as a means of asking witches, but was presented as a part of the sacrifice to the ancestors.
It is precisely because of this that the Haidong Naturalist will reveal that Zuorong was dreamed of by the ancestors in his dream, and then he remembered the ancestors' arts.
Song Siyuan finished talking to everyone about the origin of the Sycophantasia technique, and looked at everyone: "The snake in front of us is huge, slender like a snake, with webbed membranes on its limbs, brown fur from its head to its tail, and likes to hunt in rock karst caves, which is very similar to the description of the cave newt. ”
"I guess that since the black catfish can be domesticated as an alienated beast, can't the newts in this cave? At that time, when the mausoleum was built, they must have found cave newts, and deliberately left them in the cave to become beasts to protect the underground palace. ”
"This cave newt can grow so big, eighty percent of it has something to do with that Lechuan River!"
Then, she looked at Uncle Yu: "Uncle Yu, you are the closest to this snake, you should know the proximity of this snake very well!" ”
The old man had just been relieved from danger, and remembered the situation when he observed the snake from a close distance, and said tremblingly:
"Girl, when you say this, I have also smelled a strange smell, this snake has the smell of Ganoderma lucidum, and there is a strong smell of corpse oil, it should be contaminated with these two things for many years, it is like pickling the smell, and you can smell it even if you are not there."
Song Siyuan saw that her guess was confirmed from Yu Bo's mouth, and she had a lot of confidence in speaking:
"Yu Bo's words, everyone has also heard, the snake is estimated to be nourished by the corpse of the Ganoderma lucidum and yin oil for thousands of years, will be huge, bloodthirsty and cruel, but anyone who has tasted human blood, most of them will eat the marrow and taste and become like to devour living beings, this newt has been corroded for thousands of years, and it is not strange to become what it is today, the newt is an ancient creature, and the ancestors of snakes and crocodiles are very similar, it is reasonable to say that it is a newt!"
"Compared with the bloodthirsty snake, what I am more worried about is the Yin corpse array laid by Yin Zun, nearly 10,000 corpses arranged like this, it seems to be related to feeding the snake."
"Although there is no record in the Haidong Naturalist, we can empirically imagine the mechanism of the ancestors' sacrifices, once the ancestors of the Yan Dynasty wanted to ask the witch, they would invite the domesticated beasts to come out and ask the witch in front of the clansmen, so as to ask the heavens to make it clear so that they could act according to the will of God."
"The ancients involved the sacrifice of the gods, an unavoidable word entitled sacrifice, after the Zhou Dynasty gradually replaced the human sacrifice with six animals, the dynasties before the Zhou Dynasty were mostly obscene and wild sacrifices, what they pursued was to respond to their requests, so what the gods like to eat, the ancestors will sacrifice something, and people, as the spirits of all things, bear the brunt of becoming the sacrifices of the gods."
Yue Guanchao's eyes widened: "You mean, the sacrifices of the Yi sacrifice are actually living people?" ”
"Yes!" Song Siyuan gasped in a low voice for a moment, although she was not sure but it was logical, she could only nod her head and acquiesce:
"That's right, only by sacrificing a living person can the ancient gods be happy, if from my point of view, the so-called making the ancient gods happy is no different from making the beast happy, what the beast needs is not a living person!"
"Even if there is no information, I dare to be eighty percent sure that the sacrifice of this sacrifice is a living person, and it is just one of the ways to make a person into a yin corpse."
The cat master was reminded by Song Siyuan like this, and it suddenly dawned on him:
"Whew~ Now it seems that the infant corpses in the cave and the Yin corpse array on the Lechuan River are not cruel burials at all, and the burial of infants and young children is too evil, and it does not conform to the regulations of ancient burials at all, if it is interpreted as worshipping ancient gods, sacrificing people, and raising beasts, this can be explained."
"Then, the people who go to the tomb of the Bohai North Dynasty are actually selected as sacrifices?"