The Mayan Snake God of Orcs

So love you, why can't you feel it?So care about you, why can't you give me another chance?don't leave me, ok?Su, you are the most precious treasure in my heart..."

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10. God's Sacrifice 1...

God's Sacrifice 1

Su Ai felt that he had to escape from here, and that feeling really broke him down. He didn't want to conceive another little snake, although Jia Lan comforted him every day, treated him tenderly, and thought of ways to get him all kinds of treasures every day. Eat wild game, and keep teaching him many strange spells, but he thinks that if this continues, they will be 'full of children and grandchildren', just like what he once dreamed, he doesn't want to!

One time when Jialan was out hunting in the jungle, he left the Feathered Serpent Temple by Lake Ina and brought his precious little snake with him. The father and son went on the road just like that.

After walking for a whole day in the Anar mountain forest, he finally saw a large-scale city-state in the evening. Looking down from the big rock on the mountainside, he could see a majestic and beautiful city with gray stone buildings .

In the center of the city in the dense jungle is a majestic pyramid, and around the pyramid are regularly arranged temples, pillared halls, warrior temples, green football fields, bustling crowds. There is also a strange snail-shaped megalithic building in the big market. These are all made of gray stones. Looking down from the hillside, the whole city is majestic and has an extraordinary bearing.This is the famous Mayan city-state Chichen Itza!

Judging from the majestic Feathered Serpent Pyramid in the center of the city and the iconic football stadium Suai next to the pyramid, he could tell that this was Chichen Itza, the capital of the Mayan Empire he was looking for.

Chich'en Itza "Chich'en Itza" means the wellhead of the Yicha people, and Chichen means 'wellhead' in Mayan.Suai learned from the archaeological documents he had seen that this city was the capital of the Mayan Empire and a flourishing flower of the Mayan civilization. Many mysterious stories originated from here.

When Suai stepped into the beautiful Mayan city Chichen Itza, he felt a strange excitement in his chest. Walking on the bluestone-paved streets, he felt that he could smell the smell of the market. There is a familiar feeling, has he been here before?

Walking through the Square of Thousand Pillars and the Temple of the Warriors, and hearing the words spoken by the Mayans coming and going in the market, he was surprised to find that he could understand and speak them, and even the accent he spoke was similar to that of the Mayans. The accent of the city of Chichen Itza is the same, and some people even thought he was a local when he was shopping in the street market.

He first walked around the city, where there are famous courts. Chichen Itza’s ball court is the largest Mayan court. There are high platforms on both sides of the rectangular court, stone rings protruding from the walls, and feathers can be seen everywhere around the court. There are temples on the east, south and north sides of the statue of the snake god. The ball game is a very important thing in the life of the Mayans, and it is used for religious ceremonies in the festival ball game.The scene of human sacrifice during the game is depicted on the wall of the stadium.

He also went to Chichen Itza's amazing snail-shaped observatory, the Great Market and the Temple of the Warriors, which is located on the north side of the city, just northeast of the Great Pyramid of Feathered Serpent, the square at the bottom of the temple's main staircase There are more than 200 stone pillars erected on it, and each side of each stone pillar is carved with the image of a Toltec warrior.These carvings are all painted in bright colors, forming a square of thousands of columns.At the entrance of the temple there is a statue of Chuck, the rain god, whose stomach tray is used to receive offerings - beating human hearts.

And the most legendary well of sacrifice (CenoteofSacrifice).The Mayans who believed in Chuck, the god of rain, regarded this as a holy place. Every year, the Mayans would put treasures and sacrifices into the holy well as a sacrifice to Chuck. Boys are periodically thrown into the well as offerings at the holy well.

Walking in this city, Suai was amazed by this majestic and beautiful city on the one hand, and on the other hand he was shocked by the bloody and cruel concept of "living sacrifice" in the Mayan concept. In this era, the Protoss is above everything else. , all Mayans believed that the gods ruled their lives and worshiped them, while the royal family and priests occupied a position far higher than that of ordinary people. The status of priests in Mayan society was second only to the royal family, and the high priest The Mayan Empire was second in power only to the king.

He learned from the citizens of Chichen Itza that their high priest was named Isis, who was cold, harsh, and possessed extraordinary leadership. With a perfect fusion, almost everyone in the Mayan Empire feared and revered the noble high priest Isis.

When the priest's power surpassed the king's power, it was a sign of the eve of the outbreak of danger, and he seemed to smell an atmosphere of imminent rain.

Suai found a hotel in Chichen Itza and stayed first. One day at noon, he found that almost all the people in the city were going to the Feathered Serpent Pyramid in the center of the city.

"Where is this going?" Suai asked Chad, the hotel owner who was in a hurry.

"Today is the day of the sacred ceremony. All Itza people will go to the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent God, where the high priest will hold the most important sacrificial ceremony of the year to worship the Feathered Serpent God."

Suai had heard about this ceremony, and he felt very interested to see the Mayan ceremony, and followed Chad to the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent in the center of the Mayan capital Chichen Itza.This is a magnificent building. There are 91 stairs on all sides of the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent God. Including the temple at the top of the pyramid, there are a total of 360 five steps. Each step represents each day of the Habu calendar. God avatar.

When he came to the square in front of the pyramid, it was already crowded with people. He heard many people talking about who would be the lucky god in this important festival held every four years, although he didn't know what the god was. What, just listening to the tone of these Mayans, it seems that everyone admires it.Suddenly everyone fell silent, and he heard someone shouting that the high priest was coming.

On top of the tall pyramid, he looked up and saw a tall man wearing a black robe with golden spells embroidered walking out of the temple at the top of the pyramid. Although he was a little far away, he could still vaguely see Obtaining the appearance of this high priest, this man's stature is much taller than the average person, and there is a strong aura all over his body. The black robe makes his skin look too pale, but the man's facial features are extremely handsome. Yes, those black eyes are like a thousand-year-old cold pool, and people can't help shivering when they see them. There is a very mysterious power in those obsidian-like eyes.

Although he was far away and in the dense crowd, Su Ai felt that the man in black seemed to have seen him, because those black eyes were extremely sharp when they swept across him.

"This is Isis, the High Priest revered by all." Chad and Suai whispered in his ear.

The Mayan Empire was an ancient country with a strong religious atmosphere. The position of the high priest was next to that of the king, and he possessed powerful power.

Suai heard the high priest Isis announce the beginning of the ceremony to the people in the square below in Mayan language. The sun began to set, and the corner of the building cast seven isosceles triangles on the steps on the north side of the pyramid. In people's sight, the boundary It gradually changes from straight to wavy until it reaches the head of the feathered snake at the bottom of the pyramid, and slides down in the north with the position of the sun, just like a feathered snake crawling down from the top of the tower.As the sun sets, the shadow of the snake gradually disappears.

Everyone knelt on the ground devoutly watching the miracle come.

"The Feathered Serpent God has come to the world!"

Suai heard the high priest Isis announce loudly: "God has chosen his sacrifice among you, and that is him..." The high priest pointed in his direction and said to the assistant: "Bring him to the temple, and in the evening we will dedicate him to Feathered Serpent in a sacred ceremony."

The author has something to say: special statement:

As an article with Mayan history as the background, this article cites many Mayan monuments.

Part of the Mayan ruins information comes from: Tomb Raider Chinese Station

and: Baidu

Feathered Serpent Pyramid (El Castillo, Castillo Pyramid)

rain god statue

warrior temple

observatory

Thousand Columns Square

Stadium (Bloody Stadium)

The Well of Sacrifice (the holy well is the place where beautiful young men are thrown into the well to worship the rain god Chuck)

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11. God's Sacrifice 2...

"The Feathered Serpent God has come to the world!"

Suai heard the high priest Isis announce loudly: "God has chosen his sacrifice among you, and that is him..." The high priest pointed in his direction and said to the assistant: "Bring him to the temple, and in the evening we will dedicate him to Feathered Serpent in a sacred ceremony."

Sacrifice?

Why is it him again!It can't be such a coincidence!

Su Ai sadly found out that he was really destined for this winged snake. Under the envious eyes of everyone, several assistant envoys grabbed his arm and lifted him up from the high steps of the pyramid. In the temple at the top of the pyramid, there are many murals carved on the walls of the temple. These are the same murals of the Feathered Serpent God in the cave by Lake Ina, except for the altar burning with flames, in the center of the temple return