The long wind on the coast is warm and humid, and the islands in the Caribbean are lush and green. On the seaside outside the Taino village, a long boat with a novel style is docked, and the kingdom's warriors in armor and spears step out. From the domed huts, people walk out carrying food and drinks.
Taíno villagers with happy faces. Under the sun and the sea, distant tribes met, like brothers they had not seen for many years, only warm and sincere welcome.
Soon, cans of tobacco were lit, and the aroma filled the air. Young Taino men and women gathered around with curiosity, looking at the tribesmen coming ashore one after another in the lake.
Huitu Puap, carrying a copper ax on his shoulder and a spear on his back, stepped out of the boat cautiously. He held the copper ax at his waist and first looked at the men in the village.
"Ah! Lord God, why are you so tall? You are also wearing strange clothes."
Taino men are generally tall in stature, but simple and gentle in appearance. They all have shoulder-length short hair, with black stripes like cat whiskers painted on their sides, and their necks are surrounded by shells, white stones, pearls and fine bones.
White necklaces. Some men even wear several necklaces, and there are some strange patterns engraved on the necklaces, which should be related to the gods. As for their clothes, most of them are bare with rough upper bodies and shorter crotch cloths tied on the lower bodies.
, bare and wide soles of the feet.
"This kind of outfit seems to lack cotton and is not very rich!"
Puap squinted his eyes, moved his eyes, and fell on the empty hands of the men. Most of the men's hands only had calluses on the knuckles and palms from using daggers and small tools. The only way to do this was by walking from the canoe.
Only the fishermen below carry long harpoons, and there are thick cocoon marks at the tiger's mouth. As for the thick thumbs that appear when using bows and arrows for a long time, they are almost non-existent among the crowd.
"Huh? Witness the Lord God! How come these Tainos, one or two, have never held a spear or fired a hunting bow? They also have simple faces, and they look like they have never seen blood or killed anyone.
Looks docile."
The dust warrior Puap observed carefully for a while and curled his lips. He finally used his own way to confirm that these tall Taino people living on the island did not pose any threat of combat, nor did they have any ill intentions.
Trap. These Tylenol men were generally 1.78 meters tall, a head taller than him. But at this moment, these people fell into his eyes, just like harmless deer in the eyes of a gray wolf.
"Ha! If you don't have weapons, you can't kill people. What a waste of such a tall and burly figure!"
Puap shook his head slightly and moved his eyes to look at the women around him. After a moment, the gray earth warrior's eyes seemed to be attracted by a magnet, and he exclaimed in surprise.
"Ah, this? This is too much? Tsk!"
The Taino women in the village save more cloth than the men. Only the older and married women have a short crotch cloth to block the sight of outsiders. The unmarried girls are all ordinary.
, as natural as a deer, waiting to be chased and explored by hunters. What is even more special is that Taíno women will use white tree paint to draw bright and abstract patterns on the front and back of their lower abdomen, like mysterious
lure.
"Hiss! Two sharp points are tilted upward, and one is straight downward, connecting three key points of this symbol?"
Puap's eyes widened and he looked at the most beautiful Taino girl. On the girl's wheat-colored belly, there was a mysterious three-pointed symbol, which was like the "Y" shape of a tree branch. He felt inexplicably that such a symbol
It looked very familiar, so I kept looking at it for a long time.
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"Ahem! Old Pu, stop looking! The village chief asked us to come to his dome hut to talk."
Chihuaco turned his head and patted Lao Pu's shoulder hard. Puap shuddered, licked his lips, and followed the old militiaman into the leader's hut with a high dome.
Only thirty or forty people could stay in such a large thatched hut. Most of the kingdom's warriors stayed outside. The enthusiastic Taino villagers presented soft cassava cakes and fermented and slightly sweet cassava juice.
Smiles gradually appeared on the cold faces of the kingdom's warriors. The fleet's food was insufficient, and they were indeed hungry after rowing for a long time.
"Hey, another Y-shaped symbol? Is this a wood carving of a god?"
Puap looked into the leader's hut and saw no decent weapons. He only saw many tall wooden carvings. The top two wooden carvings were engraved with the moon and water, and the sun and mud. This seemed to symbolize the most important
There are two gods, and the moon is still in front of the sun. The wood carvings that follow are engraved with white tree lacquer Y shapes, with hills and cassava at the bottom. After that, the patterns on the wood carvings are various.
Likewise, there are hurricanes, lizards, dogs and trees, and some abstract people.
There are two low wooden benches around the wooden carvings of the gods. The elderly Taino village chief sat down on the upper wooden bench. There was also a Y-shaped symbol on the wooden bench, which was the image of the village chief and the wooden bench.
The name of the tribe is "Yukamu". The Yukamu village chief personally lit a brazier filled with sacred smoke, then looked at Chihuaco and pointed to the wooden bench next to him. The old militiaman did not refuse, and just before the village chief
At the invitation of the distinguished guests, he sat on the wooden bench of the distinguished guests.
Everyone else was sitting on the floor, including more than a dozen elderly Taíno elders. Huitu Puap also sat beside the elders, watching them take out their leather drums and wooden flutes, beat and play, and sing ancient greetings to welcome guests.
Ballads.
"Dong dong dong! The sun and the moon both walked out of the caves of the holy mountain and rose high into the sky!
Boom, boom, boom! The pure ancestors also walked out of the cave and scattered on the islands everywhere!
Boom, boom, boom! When we stood on the beach and saw the boats coming from afar, we knew: ‘Ah! Those are brothers coming from afar.’”
The old songs sounded, accompanied by the low drums, intermittently, as if they were telling ancient stories, or the origin of the Taíno people.
Chihuaco's expression suddenly became solemn, and his old waist straightened up. Because he knew that such songs were not only sung for the guests, but also to inform the gods and ancestors, and to obtain testimony and blessings.
"Dong dong dong! Atabeyra, the mother goddess of the moon, turned the moon into the sun, shining on the people on the island and the people sailing on the boat.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Boom, boom, boom! Yucahu, the white god, gave birth to souls from cassava, crossed the sea and mountains, and brought us food.
Boom, boom, boom! Guabancex, the storm goddess, controls the sea and waves, making people see each other and making them disappear.
Boom, boom, boom! The divine ancestor, Maquetaurie Guayaba, transformed into a dog, guarding the dead and deciding our afterlife."
The Moon Goddess, the Cassava God, the Storm Goddess, and the Death God Ancestor. These four gods are the ones that the Taíno people pray to most often in their daily lives.
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Chihuaco listened intently, very attentively. He could not understand the language in these songs, but he could feel the peaceful and solemn atmosphere and the full emotions of the singers. Among those emotions, there was both reverence and admiration, as well as calmness.
memories, as well as beautiful expectations and yearnings.
"The Tainos are really a kind group. They don't seem to have sacrifices and killings, and they don't have such bloody rituals."
The old militiaman recalled the scenes inside and outside the leader's hut, and indeed he did not see the red altar, which is the most common among Mexica and Mayan tribes. He turned his head and wanted to ask Kuba, the translator, but saw that Kuba had already read the song of his ancestors.
, tears welled up in my eyes.
"Dong dong dong!. All things have spirits, and people also have spirits. We incarnate into all things, and all things incarnate into us.
Boom, boom, boom! The souls of the dead go deep underground. They will turn into bats to inhabit, and then reincarnate from bats into all things.
Boom, boom, boom! The gods and ancestors of divinity are in the sky, looking at us whose lives are short. We are the root system of trees, and our souls are connected as one under the earth.
Boom, boom, boom! New shoots sprout from cassava, tubers form from cassava. Flowers bloom and fall, life and death."
This is a song that has been passed down by the Taino people for thousands of years, and it also inherits the spirit of the tribe and their understanding of the world and people. The islanders' herbal medicine is very ignorant, and the life span of the Taino people is usually not very long. They
Living in villages, there is no complicated social structure, and their minds are generally pure. They believe in the afterlife and reincarnation, and are much more open-minded about life and death.
The sacred smoke lingers in the thatched hut, and the leather drum beats in people's hearts. The old singing spreads outside the house, attracting the villagers to sing harmoniously, like a prayer that despises life and death, but also like a tranquility without competing with the world.
"Dong dong dong, guests from far away! Flowers welcome butterflies, cassava welcomes birds. We welcome you to our village!"
"Let our roots be connected, let our fruits grow, let us share the divine smoke, let us drink water together. Until the moon comes, until the tribe grows long!"
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