The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
When we returned to the palace bedroom from the Prince's Mansion, it was completely dark. The more than ten oil lamps in the bedroom were shining brightly, illuminating the whole room very brightly. Several beloved concubines helped the king into the room and asked him to sit on a large chair. At this time, the two beloved concubines who were waiting for him helped the king into the back room separated by a screen. The back room is where the king sleeps. There is a golden bed. The bed is very large and can sleep four or five people on it. Neatly placed on the bed were some blankets and some quilts made from the finest alpaca wool from the Inca Empire. But the Incas did not have mattresses. When sleeping, they used quilts and blankets as mattresses on the bed, and then covered them with quilts and blankets. Next to the big bed, there was a row of large wooden boxes, inside and on which were placed the clothes of the king and his beloved concubines.
The two beloved concubines supported the king by the bedside, spread out blankets and quilts, and began to undress and undress the king. Then they slept beside the king, one on each side. At this time, a beloved concubine came over and blew out the oil lamp inside, and then blew out the lamp on the other side of the screen. Only the next lamp was on, and a beloved concubine stayed in front of the door all night to keep vigil for the king. .
At about nine o'clock the next morning, the king began to have breakfast. Because the Incas only ate two meals a day, usually around 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Therefore, breakfast is as rich as dinner. The king likes to eat some wolf meat and pig's trotters in the morning, and then eat some boiled corn and tomatoes. After dinner, the king will go to the meeting hall to handle some official matters. If there is no important official business, the king will play with his beloved concubines, or invite some royal relatives and important ministers to drink and chat together.
The Incas did not drink wine with meals, but exclusively during leisure times. The alcohol content is not high, but it is very delicious. Moreover, the Inca people have a habit of drinking, that is, regardless of men or women, if they don't drink, the drinker will get drunk. After dinner, the king sat on a chair in the dormitory, thinking that his prince Ninan Kuyuki would soon die, and he felt upset.
A beloved concubine named Yi Na served the king like a daughter and could understand the king's thoughts very well. So, I suggested that the king call Prince Pabalak, a senior official of Kipchak Province, and ask him to tell everyone stories, because Prince Pabalak can tell many interesting stories. Moreover, the king likes to listen to stories very much. He will forget his sadness when he hears interesting stories.
The king agreed, and Yina sent someone to summon Prince Pabalak to enter the palace. Prince Pabalak lives on Fugui Street next to the Palace Square in Quito. After a while, Prince Pabalak came to the inner chamber of the meeting. The inner meeting hall is the place where the king receives his family, relatives and princes. Although the king always sat majestically on the golden seat when he received the princes and nobles, the people he received had to lie down on the ground with their foreheads pressed to the ground. But when I am relaxing and entertaining with my wife and family, I sit on a small wooden bench with everyone.
The king asked his concubines to prepare chicha wine. This kind of corn beer was specially brewed for the king by the virgins of the Virgin Palace, and was delivered by postmen from Cusco, the capital of the Incas, 1,500 kilometers away, through a stop-by-stop relay. The king and Prince Pabalak were drinking wine, and a beloved concubine stood beside him with a wine jar, pouring wine for them. More than a dozen beloved concubines sat nearby and kept cheering for them.
Myths are the legends and stories passed down by many peoples and countries in the pre-literate period. Because there are no written records, these legends and stories can only be passed down orally. The things passed down orally are often distorted due to memory or emotional factors, and thus become a kind of fantasy in people's continuous imagination and artistic processing. Legend has become a way to express people's wishes and ideals. However, myth is not just an entertaining legend and story, it is also an inner driving force that guides and inspires people's thoughts and emotions, embodying a nation or country's judgment and understanding of the right and wrong of things, the beauty and ugliness of things. The Incas often called myths oracles, which means that people's extraordinary judgment and power are due to the guidance and drive of gods.
The Inca people had no written language, but they also had their own myths and stories, and used these myths and stories to pass on their culture and longing for good wishes. They passed down these mythical stories from generation to generation through oral narration. The Incas rarely had any entertainment. Apart from singing and dancing, they also liked telling and listening to stories. As for the high-level Inca nobles, they prefer to gather together to drink wine and listen to stories. Therefore, the king often invited some people into the palace to tell stories to him and everyone.
Prince Pabalak, who is over fifty years old, is an "Amaota", which is a teacher at the Inca Noble School. He teaches students to learn Inca religious etiquette and knot making. He knows many love stories and myths, and even knows about military affairs. and sacrifices. Therefore, the Inca King often invited him over to drink and talk about heaven and earth, as well as essays and martial arts.
After a few drinks, Prince Pabalak began to tell "The Story of the Wind God and the Rain God". He said that Pachacamac was the head of the gods and knew the nature of those gods. Although the gods were respectful and obedient in front of him, once he left this place and returned to the distant sky, it would be difficult to control them. The gods will also be free to do whatever they want, which will naturally cause a lot of trouble and chaos. In order to keep the gods in peace and order, he summoned all the gods and established the hierarchy and rules for them.
He appointed the honest, elder-like Icona as the father of the gods to supervise the gods on his behalf; he appointed the earth goddess Chelibia, who was loving, kind and nurturing to all living beings, as the mother of the gods to do her best on his behalf. Nurture and multiply all creatures on the earth; make the benevolent and kind-hearted Bokov the God of Shepherd, as the eldest son, responsible for the life and death of birds and beasts, breeding, hunting and husbandry; make the just and honest Chuzkut the God of Air, the second son, responsible for He was responsible for enforcing good folk customs, driving away evil, and regulating the morals of the gods; he made Omitu Chitri, the god of wine, the third son, and was responsible for weddings, funerals, and red and white sacrifices and celebrations; he made Turasoturte, the goddess of dissoluteness, the third son. The fourth daughter is responsible for the love between men and women; the evil god Vitshup Chitli is the fifth son, who is responsible for vendetta and war; the wind god Estuyak is the sixth daughter, responsible for the prosperity of flowers, trees and music. The matter of chanting; the rain god Tlaloc was made into the seventh daughter, specializing in accelerating germination and releasing buds, and bathing in rain, dew, frost and snow.
After Pachacamac distributed the names and responsibilities of the gods, he floated away into the sky. After the gods paid homage to Pachacamac and left, they established the House of the Gods in the picturesque Ukaiyi Valley with beautiful mountains and rivers, and each performed his or her own duties. At first, the gods could still remember and abide by Pachacamac's teachings, abide by relevant duties and rules, live in harmony, and live in peace. They did not dare to be bold and presumptuous, fearing that Pachacamac would punish him and punish him after he learned about it.
However, over time, it is inevitable that some gods will do some excessive and ridiculous things, and they will not be blamed or reprimanded or punished. As a result, some gods became bold and unbridled, repeating their bad habits and ready to take action. The Incas have a saying: Wine can mess up the nature and is the root of all evil. Once, the god of wine Omitu Chitri hid in the mountains and old forests and brewed a strong old wine. Then he returned to the house of the gods and said to the gods, "This is my newly brewed wine. It is fragrant and sweet." It’s delicious, and you’ll be intoxicated after three sips.”
When the charming and voluptuous goddess Turasotourt heard this, she floated over like a gust of wind, leaned against the God of Dionysus, and pouted her little mouth coquettishly and said, "The wine you brew is No matter how fragrant it is, it's just some rice milk that's sweet or not, sour or not, how can it compare to the fragrance and fragrance of me?"
The God of Dionysus salivated and said in a provocative way to the goddess of dissoluteness, "As long as you take a sip of this wine I brewed, you will know how fragrant the aroma of the wine is. It will definitely be more enchanting than the aroma on your body. Otherwise, Take a sip and try it!"
Vitshup Chitri, the evil god who specializes in vendettas and wars, shouted in a rough voice, "If this wine still offends me like it did before, don't blame me for not sparing you!"
The God of Wine grinned at the Evil God and said, "If you don't believe me, you can have a drink. I'm not bragging. As long as you have one drink, you will fall to the ground without any effort on my part." As he said that, he sprayed wine. Xiu said to the slutty goddess who was dodging, "How about it, little beauty, take a sip of my wine, and then let me taste your charming jade body, how about it?"
At this time, the God of Wind and Rain arrived at some unknown time and shouted, "Okay, we just want to see which of you is the male and which is the female." After saying that, he took the wine from the hand of the God of Dionysus. Liquor jar, open the lid at once. A strong aroma of wine spread out, and the gods were intoxicated by the aroma. They couldn't help but inhale the aroma of the wine, and were greatly surprised by the mellow aroma of the wine. But what is even more unexpected is that the God of Wind and Rain was so intoxicated by the aroma of wine that he could not help himself. His body was unstable and his heart was in confusion. He cried out, "Drunk, drunk!" and then turned over and lay down next to Chuzkut. On the jade couch, he fainted.
"Look, what do you think, my wine is good, isn't it?" the Dionysian shouted proudly. As the god of fauns, Bokov and the air god Chuzkut, one is a kind-hearted eldest son, and the other is a just and honest second son. Although their minds were intoxicated by the fragrance of wine, they still felt worried when they saw this scene. and worried, they got up from their intoxication and sat in a corner of the hall, sighing while watching the other gods get up from the ground, rush over and grab the jar of wine and drink it all.
The god of wine shouted, "I'm drunk, I'm drunk." Then he fell to the ground drunkenly with other drinkers. Icona, the father of the gods, who supervises the gods on behalf of God Pachacamac, and Chelibia, the mother of the gods, who nurtures and reproduces all creatures on behalf of God Pachacamac, were the most heavily drunk. By the time the drunken gods had woken up from their intoxication, the two of them were still sleeping, making the drunken gods uncontrollable, like a group of wild horses running wild, tossing about according to their temper, and soon they were Ruining a good human world into a shambles and a mess. Men, women, old and young, under the temptation of Tula Soturte, chased women, making it ugly; the wind and rain were out of control, the solar terms were disordered, it rained and snowed suddenly, and the wind was raging, so that the flowers and forests could not bloom and grow according to the season. For a time, beacon smoke was everywhere, the sound of killing was loud, the blood was everywhere, the sword was shining and the shadow was blood, humans were killing each other, and animals were eating their own kind.
Seeing that people had lost their minds and were no longer as good as animals, the God of Shepherd Bokov was very sad, so he drove his livestock to the deep mountains and forests in despair, never wanting to show his face again. And the air god Chuzkut, who was responsible for persuading good folk customs, driving away evil, and regulating the moral customs of the gods, was busy running around to persuade the folk customs and clean up the mess, while at the same time awakening the innocent wind god and rain god, which made the world clear and clear. Good weather.
But the evil god Vitshup Chitli was so wild that he was chased by Chuzkut and fled everywhere. Later, he simply ran to a remote place in the countryside, where he set up camp and committed evil deeds. He avoided Chuzkut and never returned to the home of the gods. Chuzkut was happy with the peace in front of him, and he was really powerless to control him.
The lingering poison of Tula Soturt is the most difficult to eliminate. In addition, she is good at dressing up skillfully, hiding in the crowd and playing hide-and-seek with Chuzkut. She neither confronts him face to face nor returns to the home of the gods. Chuzkut takes it. She had no choice but to wander around with her.
The God of Wind and Rain was originally innocent and innocent, but when he saw that the other gods were enjoying themselves, but he was restrained and behaved, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy in his heart. The two sisters hit it off as they talked. Taking advantage of Chuzkut's running around all day, wiping Tula Soturte's butt, they took a short errand and fell to the human world to try the taste of human fireworks. .
In order to stay in the world as long as possible before Chuzkut was found, they were born in the home of a middle-aged couple named Chuulka on the remote Suraka Mountain.
