"This is a totem worship sculpture of ancient ancestors." The curator of the museum saw that I seemed to be interested in this thing, so he explained it. "The humans who once lived here were in a harsh natural environment. They believed in ghosts and gods. If you can help yourself, as long as you offer enough sacrifices, you can gain powerful power - they have formed a writing system represented by specific graphics, but it is a pity that this writing system has been dated for too long, and it is not Simple phenotypic writing, so until now we have no way to know what the life of our ancestors was like. However, the excavated cultural relics depict a large number of sacrificial and hunting scenes, with many characters in them, and have reached a certain level. It is separated from the original civilization and has a certain power stratification."
She pointed to the totem carved on the stone and said: "When the totem was unearthed, it was located on top of a stone platform, and it was in the center of the depicted sacrificial scene, so we speculate that this is the representative of the gods they worshiped."
"This doesn't seem to be a simple belief in natural gods?" I said thoughtfully, looking at the content depicted on the totem.
The overall square shape of this totem is exquisitely carved, and its graphics are very flat. The content is not the animals and plants of traditional primitive worship. The content depicted is closer to the worship of heaven and earth. The meaning of abstraction is very serious. However, the strangest thing is that this There is a dark circle in the center of the totem, surrounded by abstract symbols that resemble the natural mountains and rivers of heaven and earth, filling the world.
Is this a different world version of Tianyuan Diji?
To a certain extent, what this totem represents has transcended ordinary primitive beliefs and has become a stipulation or exploration of the possibility of the nature of the world. It can be regarded as a certain kind of philosophy.
The curator of the museum was slightly startled and seemed surprised that my question was so special: "Yes, this kind of totem actually expresses the understanding of the world. This may indicate that they have broken away from the period of fighting for tribal survival. Instead, they begin to understand the world in which they exist.”
"But this level of productivity seems to be -" I looked at the relics around me, and I have to say that the level of development does not seem to be as high as expected. "It is really strange. Their weapons and utensils are very primitive."
The curator of the museum answered it for me with great interest: "This was also a question at the beginning. Local scholars have made many efforts to study these relics. They asked the veterans about what happened when they excavated these things. It is a pity that , there are actually only a small part left here, and many items were destroyed or stolen due to improper preservation. However, as far as the memories of the time are concerned, these ancestors already had simple magic skills. Many engraved stone slabs with simple magic circle principles were dug out. Although they can no longer be used due to time, we still restored the functions of these patterns - fire, water creation, stone building and wind cutting."
Simple magic can already allow these humans to survive, which is why the humans here do not worship natural gods so deeply.
"But this kind of thing seems difficult to explain." I pointed to the dark round hole in the totem in front of me and said, "Is this the sun?"
"Indeed, we have been unable to find a convincing reason for many years to explain why they worship... a 'black sun'." The museum director said softly, "The most surprising of these reasons What they believe in is the solar eclipse hypothesis, because among all nature worships, sun worship is the most difficult to be restored by magic, so in their view, perhaps those who can swallow the sun must be some powerful beings."
I'm slightly disappointed.
This kind of totem has indeed met the conditions for the birth of gods, but unfortunately it has been too long.
However, Nolan Lusi squinted his eyes for a while and then showed a thoughtful expression.
So while the museum curator was explaining, I quietly asked Nolan Lusi: "Did you find anything?"
She frowned and said, "I feel strangely familiar with this thing."
I was shocked: "Have you seen it?"
This thing is earlier than the Dark Ages, and judging from this, the demon race was probably not even born at that time.
If Nolan Lusi had really seen it——
So scary, so scary.
"No, this sense of familiarity doesn't feel like I've seen it before." Nolan Lusi said seriously, "Because I don't know this graphic, but this atmosphere."
"...Can it be said that this religion has really survived?"
"The arrangement of this ceremony is very similar to that of the Demon Tribe Council. Although it is very different, the atmosphere is very strong."
My heart skipped a beat, feeling that this problem might be getting bigger.
"The origin of the demon clan?"
Nolan Lusi shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, but it should have something to do with it."
I gasped.
How could there be an unexpected harvest on this trip today?
The museum director also stopped at this time and looked at us questioningly.
I quickly waved my hand and said, "Let's stop here for today...I've learned a lot, I have to go back and digest it."
He looked a little disappointed, but happily took us out of the museum.
After exchanging polite words with the library director, Dige walked towards us and asked, "Aren't you going to the library?"
"It probably won't be needed for the time being."
Since the ground has been dug once, there should be no relics from the gods buried in the ground, and there is no way to talk about the relics of the gods, so I turned to another direction of investigation.
"So, is there any decent legend about Ganger?"
Digg's expression was well controlled, but I could still tell that he was very confused about my actions.
This is not at all like what a person who looks like a messenger should do. Instead, it seems like someone is out to gather news.
"Anything that may cause panic will not spread in the city for too long." Dige thought for a while and said, "So, unfortunately, these things did not happen or spread."
An expected answer.
On the way here, I had actually paid attention to the conversations of passers-by on the street, but most of the things they talked about were about the war. Anecdotes passed down by word of mouth and thoughts that could easily form gods were non-existent. .
So I simply gave up searching in the city and asked instead, "Can I leave the city?"
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