Taken together, although the skin man has no sexual characteristics, his facial features are soft and closer to that of a woman. His face is pale, with blush on his face, and his slender eyebrows fly into his temples. His lips are crimson, his eyebrows are red, and he wears a nine-piece headband. The crown of the tree is decorated with small golden crows, which tremble and have exquisite tassels.
These leather men were all uniform, as if they were standing under the canopy of trees and staring directly at them. No matter what they were, it was always uncomfortable for everyone to look at them.
"Why do you always feel like these things are abnormal?"
When Yue Guanchao watched the end, the more he looked at it, the more hair was on his body. If he didn't look at these things, his facial features would return to normal immediately.
Song Siyuan shined a flashlight on the stone statues and explained: "The facial features of these figures have been distorted and deformed. Although they still have eyes, ears, mouths and noses, they seem to be pieced together from different people. Even if they are barely mixed together, it just feels like It’s abrupt and inappropriate.”
"When people see such facial features, their brains will instinctively reject such an image. At the same time, the statue combines these abrupt facial features into a seamless face. When the human brain sees this abrupt but complete face, it will only look more and more. The more terrifying it is, it's like looking into a mirror. The longer you look at it, the more you feel that the face is not your own, which creates an indescribable feeling of discomfort."
"Actually, it's just using psychologically created contradictory images to coordinate."
After Song Siyuan finished speaking, she looked at Wu Mi Feng: "Old man Wu, no matter what these statues are, at least they all use the same distorted face?"
Song Siyuan just discovered that whether it was a mask, a bronze statue or a stone statue, they all used the same face. Even if the face was forged and spliced together, it at least meant that behind this face, there must be some special meaning to the altar and the witch god.
"I haven't seen an altar before. I'm really not familiar with this place. I only know that the things in the altar are statues passed down from the ancient witch kingdom."
Listening to his uncle's words, Wu Xuanyu's eyes flashed with strange color, and he seemed to have some understanding and explained: "Wu Du'amu once said that it is said that Chi You once briefly visited the mirror world, and the unknown gods he saw were like this It was a strange image, and later he painted this image on totems and also used it to make masks.”
"Thousands of years later, the Witch God Kingdom divided into various tribes, and the masks and totems gradually became more complicated. Only the horns were preserved, forming a consistent feature. The masks here are closest to the original image of the ancient Witch God Kingdom. Probably, they are Those things in the mirror world that Chi You sensed."
What the little witch said made Yue Guanchao become curious about the mask: "Could it be that all the gods in the mirror space and time look like this? Then this is too different from humans. No matter how strange it is, it won't grow How about this."
Song Siyuan looked at the statue and said, "I remember Miss Lan said that some images in the human world are actually projections of unknown objects in mirror time and space in real time and space. In that case, could these weird statues have also been distorted? The image is like the facial features that have been patched up. It’s just how Chi You sees it, not what they look like?”
Wu Xuanyu nodded: "What you said is possible. Up to now, no one can understand the mirror space thoroughly. What you said is indeed possible. Maybe Chi You saw more than one image at that time and pieced them together. That’s why it formed the weird appearance it has today, so it makes sense.”
"If the gods are like ancient gods, then what are these leather figures? Couldn't they have been put together by Chi You based on the images of mirror gods?"
Xu Xiake looked at these leather figures. The images of paper figurines in altars or tombs were somewhat supernatural. They were mostly used to scare outsiders or serve their masters. They were all hanging under the canopy of the tree, and their meaning seemed to be moving forward. These directions move closer together.
Wu Xuanyu was very familiar with this and continued to explain: "This is the Wu Xian Goddess, similar to the Xiangyin God who scatters flower petals around the gods in Han Dynasty to play fairy music, and the Gandharva who worships flowers and fruits in Buddhism. It is specially used to Serving the ancient gods, most temples have these images, they are spirits that serve the gods, and we usually call them mountain ghosts."
"Mountain ghost?"
Song Siyuan became curious.
Wu Xuanyu nodded matter-of-factly: "Yes, it is the mountain ghost in Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs". Wu Xian does not distinguish between ghosts and gods. The mountain ghost is actually the mountain god. He is responsible for the stacking of mountains and forests, and the promotion of vegetation. Among the twelve gods, the mountain witch is actually the mountain ghost, but the mountain witch is more noble and is the master of all mountain gods."
"Mountain shamans will summon the souls lost in the forest as mountain ghosts to serve the ancient gods. Later, the mountain ghosts will become the witch goddesses and appear in sacrificial occasions. They will not only be used in statues and paintings, but also in the kingdom of witch gods. In major sacrificial ceremonies, there will also be female priests dressed as mountain ghosts."
"The mountain ghosts here wear the golden tree wreaths from the Witch God Kingdom, which indeed serves as a worship service."
"Keep going, we have to go see the shrine."
Yue Guanchao and the others walked around the strange stone statue, walked to the square at the end of the flower bed, and came to the central shrine.
The shape of this shrine is equivalent to a smaller version of the altar of the shaman god, the same size as a sedan. The octagonal altar is built with pointed green tiles on the top, and there are golden owls shining on it.
The curtains of the shrine overlap, and there are shadows inside, as if there is a person sitting there. Yue Guanchao shines a flashlight on the curtains, and the light diffuses to the golden gauze curtain, reflecting a bright light, and even the statue of the god behind the gauze curtain is illuminated. The holes in the gauze curtain scatter countless tiny spots of light.
He carefully opened the curtain, and sitting inside the curtain was the statue of the Witch God.
As mentioned before, the Witch God is actually Chi You's head and Du Lu's body, and the figure that appeared in front of them is indeed like this.
The whole statue is wearing a slightly slim-fitting wide-sleeved dress. The green robe is on the outside, with a red shirt lining vaguely visible. The white silk shirt at the collar tightens the neckline, and the hem is slightly fluffy. The waist is gathered with a leather belt to create a straight figure. Two The sleeves are extremely wide, almost reaching the top of the feet.
The outermost green robe is embroidered with the totems of the Seventy-Two Villages. These totems are made of five-color stone beads, and then gold and silver threads are woven through the stones to weave patterns. figure.
If you look up carefully, you can see a reasonably well-fitted head on the tall body. This head is wearing the alien mask they saw. It has a sinister face, terrifying horns, and the mask is covered with paint, like a Rakshasa. Ghostly, confusing and strange.
After that, the statue's hair was black and shiny, with distinct roots, flowing down like a waterfall on the shoulders, a protective aura began to appear on the back of the head, a pair of eyes that were as deep as stars, and a gold skull armguard on the hands. , holding the long-handled sword with both hands like a wat, standing like a pine tree in the shrine.
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