After finishing speaking, she looked up at the giant door above her head: "If we guessed correctly, this place is probably the mother temple of the ancient Chu ancestors. The ghost gate we saw is actually the gate of the mother temple. There are many The tribesmen live in the cave outside the mother temple. After such analysis, there are three different guesses!"
First, the ancient Chu ancestors guarded here to guard something in the ghost gate for the purpose of protection.
Secondly, the ancestors of ancient Chu monitored this place for the purpose of imprisoning ancient people who made mistakes in ancient times.
Thirdly, the ancestors of ancient Chu settled here, with the Gao Mediator Temple as the center, leading the lives of the people. However, as the environment of future generations changed, they gradually moved away from here, and this place was abandoned. About the Ghost Gate of Youdu What the myth describes is probably the story of ancient Chu ancestors living in caves and reproducing here.
In either case, it at least shows that the ancient Chu ancestors once established a complete tribe here. Their era is even earlier than the pre-Qin era, and it is likely to be traced back to the flood era before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. So, the ancient Chu ancestors The name is completely wrong. It should be that there was Shaman Festival first and then Ancient Chu. Ancient Chu culture was inherited from Shaman Festival culture.
Song Siyuan's heart about the culture of shamanism continues to tighten, and it becomes clearer and clearer in her mind over the years:
In ancient times, witches and gods were not distinguished. The ancestors regarded natural objects such as mountains, rivers, trees, etc. as gods. Good ones were gods, and evil ones were ghosts. They worshiped the ghosts and gods with prayers and witchcraft blessings, and prayed for the ghosts and gods to help them with their divine power. This formed the witch gods. Civilization uses witchcraft culture to guide production.
Then with the advent of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, primitive society transformed into a slave society.
During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, witch sacrificial beliefs also evolved into the joint governance of religion and royal power. During this period, the Xia Dynasty and the Yin and Shang Dynasties advocated human sacrifice and tortoise shell divination. Although they had royal power, they had to divination and ask the sky for all major and small matters, and they had to ask questions about the gods. Sacrifice shifted from guiding production to praying for divine revelation, leaving behind countless sacrificial rituals and witchcraft secrets.
After the Zhou Dynasty, the Emperor Zhou stopped the sacrifice of wild gods and ghosts, sacrificed animals instead of human beings, and only regarded ancestors as gods, known as the ancestors of worshiping heaven. From then on, the civilization of shamans and gods was replaced by the civilization of gods. Land is reserved.
Here, the witch-god civilization and the beliefs of the Chu people were combined to form the ancient Chu culture. These people are the ancestors of ancient Chu.
Later, the Qin Dynasty unified all the countries, respected the eight gods of Qi and Lu, and regarded the ancient Chu culture, which originated from the shaman civilization, as a wild festival. Their suppression of the ancient Chu culture also caused the ancient Chu culture to disappear quickly, leaving the only culture They moved to various places and survived with various primitive cultures.
"We have always thought that these were the ancestors of the ancient Chu. In fact, they should be the ancestors of the witch gods, the ancient ancestors who had the belief in the witch gods thousands or even ten thousand years ago."
Listening to what she said, Yue Guanchao couldn't turn his head around and frowned: "Song Qianjin, this is getting more and more outrageous. You mean these ancestors in the cave are actually here to avoid disasters!"
"right!"
Song Siyuan became more and more determined in her thoughts. She looked at the crowd and confirmed the vulgar martial artist's opinion: "Yes, they are here to avoid disaster. When we went to Wu Coffin Town, we heard Aying's parents talk about the history of their ethnic group."
The ancestors of the Sushen people came to Daxinganling very early. If the Sushen culture came from the mainland, there is no need to use these words. To explain the origin with this word, it shows that the birthplace of the Sushen ancestors was not in the mainland - they were originally After entering the Daxinganling Mountains as a guest, they merged with the local primitive beliefs to create the culture of the Sushen Wu Clan!
In this way, it is easy to explain why they can see images of gods such as Mountain Ghost, Shao Siming, Da Siming, and River God in Wu Coffin Town, whether they are the ten gods of ancient Chu culture or the gods of Sushen culture. The Twelve Gods, or the witchcraft culture of the three southwestern provinces, are actually the remaining traces of the worship of natural gods in the ancient witch-god civilization. They are the variant cultures formed after they were dispersed by orthodox civilization and scattered around the world!
Song Siyuan has been discussing with them, and her thinking has become clearer and clearer: "From this point of view, the witch god civilization is indeed avoiding the encirclement and suppression of the god civilization, so that they are everywhere from the coast to the east, to the forest in the north, and to Sichuan and Hunan in the west. Shadow, if we identify all these locations, we will find that most of these cultures with the color of shamans and gods are excluded from the Central Plains."
There was light in her eyes, and she felt more and more that she was getting closer to the truth: "The Central Plains is what the ancients called the world of Kyushu. What is outside the Kyushu? It is the barbarian Rongdi, the barbarian alien race that is not enlightened. It can be said that, The shaman civilization has been under siege since the end of the Xia and Shang dynasties. It may be for this reason that the ancient shamans had to avoid disasters in places like this."
"Yamei, why is the Ziwu Shen civilization being surrounded and suppressed? Is it because you like to die alive?"
Ren Peacock's ancestors might have been surrounded and suppressed by the god's civilization, and she became curious about these things.
Song Siyuan did not think that living as a martyrdom was a big deal. She explained: "It has nothing to do with living as a martyrdom. The Zhou Dynasty only abolished human martyrdom, and still had to sacrifice a large number of livestock alive. Besides, in subsequent dynasties, many emperors buried their concubines and ministers as martyrs. Yes, if you just die alive, then the god’s civilization should destroy itself.”
"What they are afraid of is actually the replacement of royal power by divine power!"
