As the commander-in-chief of the project, Xu Chen did not participate in the hard and tiring specific projects of dam building and trenching.
In addition to inspecting the progress of the project every day, he spends most of his time busy with other things.
After the full moon night in mid-March, the annual Mother's Day will begin.
According to traditional customs, Mother's Day will be held in whichever tribe the great witch is.
Therefore, this year the Ba people will undertake the first Mother's Day event in history.
Xu Chen is the backbone of the Ba tribe, and the mother Ba and the little witch have no experience in holding Mother's Day, so they have to discuss arrangements with him.
Of course, Xu Chen is even more inexperienced.
But lack of experience does not mean he is not good at it.
After all, this is a sacrificial activity. He has never eaten pork and has seen pigs running away. The rituals of the ancient emperors' sacrificial ceremonies that he has seen in film and television programs are much more complicated and grand than the newly formed god worship of these primitive tribes. If he wants to mess up the sacrificial rituals,
Okay, it’s enough to shock people’s minds. Just increase the scale and it’ll be over.
But after all, the Ba people have limited manpower, and they don’t have much manpower and financial resources to allow them to spend extravagantly on image and face-saving projects, and it’s too late to create a spectacle.
Therefore, Xu Chen arranged this year’s Mother’s Day event held by the Ba people to be held in the cave where they used to live.
In order to create a visual and spiritual impact on all the participating tribes, he led a group of craftsmen to carry out a large-scale transformation of the cave, using bricks and stones to build a two-meter-high human figure at the fire pit at the entrance of the cave.
The building was then plastered with terracotta mixed with lime to make it look like a giant statue kneeling on the ground holding a baby.
This statue is in the shape of a woman, naked, with a charming figure and a dignified appearance.
However, this charming and dignified figure is Xu Chen's own description. In fact, the proportions are seriously imbalanced. The body is long, the arms are long, the neck is long, and the face is long. The appearance is very similar to the Sanxingdui characters, and the body and appearance are seriously deformed.
The main reason is that he is not good at the creation and processing of this type of art field.
Therefore, it can only develop towards abstract aspects.
But in the eyes of a group of craftsmen, this goddess statue, which made him feel so guilty that he couldn't sleep for several days, was simply miraculous and full of mysterious charm.
After drying for a few days, Xu Chen used various paints to perform secondary processing on the statue. He painted the eyebrows, mouth, nose and other facial features. Especially after the eyes, which accounted for one third of the face, the whole statue suddenly seemed to
It came to life, looking down at the world like a god. At that time, a group of craftsmen responsible for helping were so frightened that they fell on their knees in front of the statue, kowtowed and screamed.
They were just a group of savages, and they had never seen a real God.
This statue, regardless of its appearance, charm and temperament, conforms to all the images of God they imagined.
It looks like a human but not a human, and looks like an animal but not an animal. It is scary and mysterious, but also has human characteristics.
Moreover, Xu Chen said, this is the First Mother Goddess, the common ancestor of all races. For a group of primitive humans, there is no need for any reason to worship the First Mother Goddess.
After the statue of the Mother Goddess was completed, Xu Chen had people clean up the inside and outside of the cave. All the grain cellars and sleeping stone nests that were originally built in the cave were thrown out. The thorns and weeds in the open space outside were also pulled out, and the wells were filled with leaves.
They also dug it out and cleaned it up. After tidying up in this way, the entire cave was clean and brand new inside and outside.
In order to make the sacrificial venue look more serious.
Xu Chen took a wooden ladder to the top of the cave wall covered with various graffiti, and used a stone ax to slowly figure out the three slightly seal-style characters of the Goddess of the Almighty. He also painted them with homemade cinnabar paint.
After finishing all this, there are only four days left before Mother's Day.
But he felt that there was still something unfinished, so he used various colors of paint to draw the flags of the seven tribes of the Ba Alliance, including the Lei Tribe, on the cave wall. He also imitated the ancient rock paintings.
There are some sun, moon, stars and very abstract patterns of humanoid birds and beasts, as if humans are fighting wild beasts in the wilderness.
These patterns are mixed together with the diaries he wrote before, forming a colorful and magnificent picture.
As Xu Chen further processed and completed these text patterns, a group of craftsmen were completely shocked by Xu Chen's magical and rich creativity. They looked at him with more and more awe, almost wanting to worship him as a god.
Xu Chen’s activities on the mountain, including his mother, his mother and a group of other women, were not very clear.
Because both groups of people perform their own duties.
Time is short and tasks are heavy.
Xu Chen was in charge of setting up the venue, while Muba and Amu took all the women in charge of preparing accommodation and food.
There are more tribes coming this time than in previous years. Even if each tribe brings their own dry food, the Ba tribe, as the host, should still be more generous and provide food and accommodation as much as possible. This is also the way to treat guests.
In addition, this time there are not only young men and women who choose to get married, but also seven or eight clan leaders and two great witches. The friendship between landlords must be fulfilled, and the Ba people cannot become like the Wu people who held the witchcraft ceremony last year.
People are full of complaints and dissatisfaction.
As the great witch presiding over the ceremony, the little witch was also the first to preside over Mother's Day, so she seemed very nervous and stayed in her room almost all day to familiarize herself with the witchcraft songs.
In addition, in order to make this event more colorful, Xu Chen specially selected a group of thirty young women from the two tribes to rehearse ritual songs and dances with the little witches.
In the past, this kind of sacrificial activities were held by the Uzbek people. The Uzbek people are very familiar with sacrificial activities and do not need to rehearse at all.
But the Ba people can't do it. This is the first time. In order to make sure there are no mistakes and to make the event as successful as possible, we have to train and arrange everything from scratch.
In addition, the songs and dances of the Mother's Day gatherings held by the young women of the Gonghuo and Qia tribes who have newly joined the family are also different from those of the Uzbek Alliance, and they need to learn them again.
Fortunately, the little witches are familiar with the content of these songs and dances, and after seven or eight days of rehearsal, they seem to be in style.
There are only three days left until Mother's Day.
The venue layout on Xu Chenshan Mountain was all completed, and he decided to hold a rehearsal in advance.
The entire ritual of Mother's Day is a kind of primitive fertility worship. In the past, in the forest where the Uzbek people were buried, there was a simple shape made of huge rocks, which reflected an ancient and primitive prehistoric style.
The venue designed by Xu Chen has a completely different style composed of statues, text, patterns and other complex elements. It is full of a real civilized atmosphere and has a hint of religion.
From primitive blind worship to concrete personification of gods, this is a big step for mankind from wilderness to higher civilization.
From ancient witchcraft to religion, this is also a big step in the evolution of spiritual beliefs.
The current witches represent the gods. They carry the power and will of the gods, mainly lead and enlighten wisdom, and have the supreme status.
When it comes to religion, the gods have been completely pedigreed, and the profession of witches has begun to be divided into hierarchies. They no longer have the supreme status, but have reached the point of being close to the gods through their own worship of the gods, gradually fading out of people's lives and sight, and slowly
Slowly evolved into an independent religious group.
Therefore, anyone who is close to the gods has a very unique inheritance system from beginning to end.
The inheritance of witchcraft and religious inheritance go hand in hand.
It’s just that as the people’s wisdom becomes higher and higher, their understanding of nature becomes clearer and clearer, and their understanding of gods becomes more and more different. Eventually, the reverence and worship of gods become more and more differentiated. Belief or not, it becomes
A kind of freedom.
But no matter what, during the development of human civilization, the worship of gods has always existed, and will even continue throughout the entire process of human civilization until the day when humans disappear.
Because compared to the entire universe, as human understanding and exploration progress further and further, there will be more and more things that are difficult to reach and understand.
Gods may still be the ultimate spiritual support of human beings.
In this barbaric era, gods and witches are the spiritual pillars of all primitive savages.
Only under the guidance of witches can we receive the care and blessing of the gods, and can humans obtain sufficient food and living conditions.
Because compared to the wild nature, human power is too small. Food, clothing, accommodation, fertility, disease, pain, everything carries the threat of death. Without the guidance of wise men and the care of God, there is no one.
Tribes and humans can survive.
The statue of the First Mother Goddess personified by Xu Chen will provide a stronger spiritual support and reliance for all the people of the alliance tribes with a new look.
The two family leaders, Muba and Amu, led a group of young women participating in the singing and dancing ceremony, and surrounded the little witch wearing a brand-new witch dress and holding a golden witch scepter up the mountain.
Everyone still very much agreed with the rehearsal activities proposed by Xu Chen.
Especially the little witch, she was always very nervous, fearing that she would make a mistake in the ceremony, blaspheme the gods, and bring disaster to all tribes.
The road up the mountain is deserted all year round and is overgrown and slippery.
It took a group of people more than half an hour to finally climb up the mountainside.
However, when a group of people walked through the thorny grove and looked at the cave that suddenly opened up in front of them, they all suddenly seemed to be under a spell of immobilization, and their faces were indescribably dull.
The familiar cave in the past seemed to have completely changed its place, as if it suddenly appeared in a completely different time and space.
"Mo...Moxi Gaga?"
After a full two minutes, Mother came back to her senses and pointed at the statue and asked tremblingly.
"First mother quack!" Xu Chen replied with a smile.
"Ouch~~"
Before Mom could understand, the loud-voiced grandma threw herself on the ground, bent down on all fours and began to salute.
"First Mother...First Mother..."
Mother's lips trembled as she softly chanted twice, then she also lay on the ground, her limbs lying on the ground and not daring to raise her head.
The remaining group of young women who participated in the sacrificial singing and dancing also followed them down with awe on their faces. Regardless of whether there were mud bugs on the ground, they lay on the ground in the most pious and awe-inspiring posture, and each of them chanted various things.