On the ancient high mountains, sacrificial songs were sung again, and many people had gathered in front of the rock paintings of the Sun God. The ancient rock paintings had existed for at least six thousand years, and going back up to 30,000 years.
When the Shuigou Cave people disappeared in the flood six thousand years ago, no one knew where they went or whether they survived. All they left behind was this rock painting, and then they came back here again. The people who grew up on this land regard these rock paintings as the works of the sages and even as the supreme principle of sacrifice...
They respect and worship it, even to the point of foolishly believing in it.
Who is this sun god?
Maybe it was a certain sage who first lit the fire, or maybe he was the first ancient ancestor to calculate the trajectory of the sun. It is even more likely that it does not exist at all. Like the sun gods in other regional ancient cultures, they are all just illusions. It's just a sacrificial object.
For example, in the vast Hongshan Culture, several sun gods were unearthed in various regions. One of them had the horns of a cow and was also called the "Bull God" by the archaeological community.
There is another statue of a bald sun god squatting with his chin in his hands in a daze. Perhaps he has become stronger now that he is bald.
There is also a female sun god with a crown on her head and squatting on the ground, like the oldest Xihe myth, which reflects the worship of the sun goddess during the matrilineal clan society.
There are too many ancient sun gods. The further you dig in each region, the more you will find different sacrifices to the sun gods. Therefore, in general, the worship of the sun has existed since ancient times...
When a primitive man looked up for the first time, what he was in awe of, apart from the stars in the sky at night, was the shining sun in the daytime.
As for the moon, unfortunately, there are some myths that have been passed down for thousands of years, indicating that in ancient times, the myth of the moon was attached to the myth of the sun. In other words, the moon was probably considered to be the sun by primitive ancients a long time ago. ...
It's just that it's dark and the sun's light has dimmed, so in their minds, it's possible that the sun and the moon are the same thing. It wasn't until a long time later that they could tell the difference between the sun and the moon.
But this "era long ago" was at least before the Three Emperors.
"Sun God!"
With Ran's wizard shouting loudly in front, offering sacrifices and bowing, people climbed up the mountain one after another, tiredly. Two days had passed since the chaos in the Hanhuang Kingdom. This mountain was really far away. The people were exhausted and had eaten a lot of the dry food and cattle and sheep they had brought with them. There were dead people everywhere on the road. Some people died in the wilderness with fear, and some died in the mountains with fanaticism.
The female priest came with the soldiers from the Hanhuang Kingdom. A wizard from the Ran family immediately jumped up and cracked the whip. The cattle and sheep started to move. He jumped on the big stone, pointed at the female priest in the distance, and used a An almost crazy voice scolded her:
"Goddess! What are you doing here again! People like you, do you think that this great mountain is also part of your Hanhuang Kingdom? This is a sacred and ancient place for worshiping heaven! How dare you? You’re messing around here!”
"Those who are in the country of Xuanyuan's husband and women dare not shoot arrows to the west because they are afraid of the power of Xuanyuan Terrace; the ancestors of the land of Zunye do not dare to shoot arrows to the north because that is the platform of Gonggong and are afraid of the majesty of Jiuzhou Bo."
"People from the Central Plains will not enter Dayulu Mountain because there are the ancient temples of the emperors of the past dynasties; people from Juyeze will not climb Mount Tai; people from Shangqiu will not dare not to sacrifice to Emperor Kuang; people from Chengjiu's country will not worship the Emperor Their totems were smashed! This is all caused by their respect for gods, ancestors, and sacrifices!"
"I beg you, don't touch the wrath of the Sun God, otherwise the God of Fire will punish you! The gods in the world have not died out yet. There are still Gods of Thunder in Lei Ze, there are still strong men in the North Pole, and there is no sun in the netherworld. In this country, there are candles and dragons illuminating the world..."
The female priest pointed at the sun god rock painting and angrily rebuked:
"But the gods you mentioned later are all gods from ancient times, and this sun god is a god from six thousand years ago. He is the ancient among the ancients, the myth among myths! In six thousand years, all the dead bones turned into soil. , The stones must have rotted away!"
"Qi refiners cannot survive for such a long time. Ten thousand years ago, thirty thousand years ago, what a long time it was, how many times did the totems disappear... No, in that era, there were no totems at all!"
A wizard from the Ran family became excited: "Aren't the things worshiped by our ancestors our totems? Isn't this how everything we know has been passed down since ancient times!"
"Following the nature passed down from the past is the right path! Tigers will roar when they are born, leopards will climb to the top of mountains, cattle and sheep will know how to eat grass instead of meat, field rats will know how to dig up the soil, and insects will know how to weed themselves. When the cocoon comes, the fish born in the sea will swim back to the river. Has anyone taught them this?"
"Human beings are one of all things. They also have this kind of nature. No one needs to teach them. This is a kind of memory inheritance among wizards!"
The female priest refuted: "Wrong! We have nothing to do with the ancestors here!"
A wizard from Ran family laughed and said:
"So this is the reason why you turned your back on the sun! In the past, our ancestors saw this rock painting and offered sacrifices sincerely, which really attracted the protection of the gods. Later, the gods gradually disappeared, and the years also moved, and now You actually brazenly said that you have nothing to do with your 'ancestors'!"
"For those of you who have abandoned your ancestors and totems, the gods will not protect you, nor will they respond to you. No wonder you two goddesses never feel the call of the Sun God, nor can you contact the God of Fire! Hanhuang... Han Huang, this country’s name was obtained in order to abandon the sun and flames!”
"You want to replace us! Destroy our ancestors!"
The wizards of the Ran family were still unwilling to give up. The people around them got up and pushed the soldiers of Hanhuang Kingdom angrily. Some people were very confused, but they had already arrived here. Maybe praying was really useful?
And they had all seen before that there was indeed a brilliant light on this mountain, although it was only for a moment...
But if that wasn’t the light of the sun god, what could it be?
That must be a response to the sacrifice!
But the rainbow light from the sky flew over, and the sharp sword energy was like the glow of the sun and the moon. The vast light curtain did not come down. Outside the mountain, the restless crowd fell into a daze, and an arrow came in response.
The arrow fell in front of the wizard, causing him to take a few steps back in fright. Yuzai and Hongchao ran from a distance. They climbed the mountain, and Yuzai could tell at a glance that he saw the sun god. of petroglyphs.
But, be reasonable.
This painting is really ugly.
