From Chief to Ball

At that time, there was snow all over the ground, and footprints were left on the ground. They followed the footprints to find them, and finally all those footprints disappeared in front of a water mouse hole on the bank of the river.

After eating that black mushroom, Wu Ling communicated with the spirits of all things, and the answer he got was that those people lived in this water mouse cave, and when they came to the ground, they would turn into humans, and there were only ants hiding in the cave so big.

When he was a child, he had dug an ant nest, and he had seen ants moving, so he believed in it, and led his people to dig the mouse hole in the winter. There was nothing but some mouse droppings and some plant seeds and nuts.

After eating those seeds, several tribesmen developed a high fever.

Wu Ling believed that their souls had been taken away, and they had to be killed and burned, otherwise the whole tribe would suffer...

Once on the grassland, he saw a large number of people from some tribes die. It was a symptom of this kind of fever, leaving only some empty tents. Such legends and traditions have been circulating on the grassland, so he killed those people and burned them. , while killing several slaves as sacrifices to the spirit of war.

The three stones smeared with blood are the altar of the spirit of war, but he was furious when he sacrificed!

Someone actually urinated near the altar. It was winter, and there was a circle of yellow marks on the white snow. The people were so frightened that they slaughtered a horse as a sacrifice, praying that the spirit of war would not be angry.

He knew that this kind of thing would definitely not be done by the tribe.

Because of this god, the tribes on the grassland shed countless blood, no one dared to blaspheme, he could only think of the tribe hiding in the rat hole.

They migrated from the far west, and many tribes who migrated with them believed in the spirit of war. No one dared to desecrate it, even if it was a hostile tribe.

These tribes drank the blood from the skulls of their enemies, and tanned their scalps into handkerchiefs for glory. They seemed majestic, but in fact these migratory tribes were losers.

Since it failed, there was always a war, and the cause of this tribal war was because of the gods.

All things have spirits, but there must always be a leader just like humans.

The head of the gods of the steppe tribes is the spirit of war, and has been for a long time, solving problems with war, bows, horses, and javelins.

However, in a distant hometown, a tribe on a certain riparian grassland gradually began to believe in the spirit of the earth. They began to burn wasteland and plant, and their sacrifices to the spirit of war were no longer so pious. Over time, the spirit of the earth actually replaced the spirit of war.

In mythology, the spirit of war holds a bow and arrow, rides a white horse with swan wings, and is invincible with the flame of the sun burning on his body.He rules bows, hunting, horses and victory.

In the myths of several tribes in the south, the Spirit of War not only declined in status, but also lost to the Spirit of the Earth in the story.

They call the earth their mother, no longer sacrifice to the spirit of war, and even no longer need witch spirits to communicate with the spirit of war.

They don't know that the level of gods in mythology is closely related to the productivity and lifestyle of the tribe. The status of the land god will gradually increase with the beginning of planting until it becomes one of the main gods. Understand, but will not allow your status to become dispensable.

So a war broke out like this, the spirit of war won, but also lost.

Those tribes who believed in the mother of the earth migrated south after the failure. After the war, these tribes who believed in the spirit of war began to annex and fight. More and more tribes left the flat, black soil, and everywhere with their beliefs. Grassy grasslands, continuously to the east.

Every older clansman has a deep memory of that war. Many tribes who believed in the spirit of the earth were slaughtered. The witch spirits smashed the altar of the spirit of the earth and re-enshrined the spirit of war. It is the heads of those tribes who believe in heresy.

Because he believed in the spirit of war, when the leader saw the Chen Jian tribe, he felt oppressed like a dark cloud covering his heart.

The neat army formation is exactly the army formation of the spirit of war in mythology, because the moon and stars are soldiers of the spirit of war, they rise and fall in an orderly manner, and will never be chaotic. This is what every tribal leader on the grassland desires for himself The tribe can do it.

Ever since he met the tribe chasing the deer, he knew that the tribes in the south were not easy to deal with, and he never thought of killing them all like other tribes.

He just thought that since they were all in the south, maybe the tribe that defeated the deer-chasing tribe also had those swarthy weapons, the looted earthenware pots that could hold water and milk, and salt and the rest goods.

If you can beat it, you can grab it and kill it. If you can't beat it, you can consider exchanging. This has always been the way on the grassland.

He wants to exchange, exchange some urgently needed items of the tribe, and the sheep and horses owned by his tribe can be exchanged.

Seeing the killing intent on the other side, he knew that the leader who entered the other side's territory rashly would not be happy, just like the footprints that disappeared in winter, he could feel this kind of anger.

So he restrained the tribe, and according to the rules on the grassland, he put a human skull on the ground, which contained wool and horsehair.

If the other party is willing to exchange, they will turn the skull over and put it on the ground. Even if they disagree, this is still a kind of gesture.

Chapter 78 Lightly open the frontier

The same skull has different meanings in different cultural circles.

At least, Chen Jian didn't understand what that person meant. He thought it was a kind of prayer, or witchcraft to pray for victory in the war.

The opponent kept retreating, one arrow away, and Chen Jian let the team move over slowly, without letting the formation disperse.

"Wolfpi, go get that thing."

The wolf fur rode the horned deer, left the team, and circled from the left. Instead of rushing forward, he circled diagonally, so that he could go back from the right without stopping. The rider's worst fear was to stop and go If you turn back in the opposite direction, you will die countless times like that on the battlefield.

The horned deer came to the vicinity of the skull along the arc. One foot of the wolf skin was on the foot rope, and the other hand was holding the rope that fell on the antlers. Copy it in your hand.

There was a lot of applause in the army. He is a person who likes to brag and listen to people's praise. When he heard others applaud, he deliberately turned his body upside down on the back of the deer, raised his skull high at the enemies, and shook his head. Twice.

In winter, he was the one who suggested peeing on the rocks, and it was he who beheaded those people, so he thought that these people were here for revenge, so he simply provoked them.

And those people didn't know that it was the person in front of them who caused the confusion. They still thought it was a group of people the size of ants living in the mouse hole. When they saw the other party's superb riding skills, they couldn't help but screamed. Say hello, and whistle for another one.

Wolfpi didn't expect this to be the result. He thought that the other party would become angry with embarrassment, and felt helpless for a while. After returning to the army formation, he handed the skull to Chen Jian and asked, "What's the matter with those people? What are you doing?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

He didn't understand either, because like Wolfpi, he was a participant in the winter incident, so he had a misunderstanding in his thinking, thinking that the other party must have come to fight him.

But now it seems that this is not the case, the wool and horsehair in the skull are not special, even if he is clever, he can't figure out what it means.

The group of horsemen on the opposite side looked at him holding the skull, and they couldn't help feeling a little resentful. According to the meaning of the grassland, they picked it up and didn't put it on the ground, which means accepting your offer, but they don't want to exchange it for the time being. This skull is for you.

The leader on the opposite side asked the witch spirit priest beside him uncertainly.

"What does the opposite mean? Do they not trust us? Or is there nothing to change?"

The witch spirit priest first looked at the other side with his eyes, and found that they were all holding almost the same weapons. Although they were not the dark weapons they had changed before, they could never be stones, and stones would not be processed so consistently.

Moreover, the clothes the other party was wearing were not animal skins. Obviously, the other party had enough food and clothing, and it was not the kind of tribe that had nothing to change, maybe it was just because of mistrust.

After he figured it out, he took out from his pocket that kind of mushroom that grows on horse manure and can be magical. Only after eating these mushrooms, can he make what he wants to say in a mysterious way, as if it is the word of war. Speak in words as directed by the Spirit.

After a while, he saw hallucinations in front of his eyes, and his whole body became hot.

The hallucinations in front of him are the imagination behind his mind, manifested in a grotesque way under the effect of hallucinogenic herbs.

He seems to have seen a vast and fertile land behind the army formation, where the rivers flow not water but goat milk and honey, where the land grows not grass but a kind of tree, and a kind of fruit is directly The tree of weapons, these people can fight by picking the fruit; the sheep grow fat and big, even in winter, there will be no snow but green grass... It seems that this is the place where the legendary heavy god was born.

He himself didn't know what he said after the hallucination. After the hallucination subsided, the leader had already led him and his tribe back.

"What does the spirit of war tell us?"

"It is a fertile land, and the people there are very strong, but they don't want to exchange with us for the time being, maybe they will agree when the horse gives birth to a foal."

The witch spirit priest will not know what he said in the hallucination. He is a human being when he is awake. He can communicate with all spirits only after hallucinations. But basically correct.

The leader called his youngest son and asked him to lead a few people to watch from behind to prevent the other party from attacking him on a horned deer. Even after the deal was concluded, he had to be careful, let alone now.