The little witch stared blankly at the huge statue of a female deity, her body trembling and helpless.
She has grown up and has never heard of the First Mother Goddess looking like this.
The Great Witch has never told what the First Mother Goddess looks like.
I just started teaching them various ritual blessing songs from an early age.
Therefore, God has always been a vague and mysterious existence in her heart, like a shadow that covers the sky and is everywhere.
Therefore, the stone gate worshiped on Mother's Day is also a style inherited from ancient times, which refers to the reproductive function of women. The sacrifice of the first mother is to hope that men and women can have more children through intercourse.
As for the First Mother, no one has ever solidified her into such an abstract image of a woman, because the First Mother is everywhere, she created everything in the world, and human beings are just one of them.
"Chen Ga, the First Mother...is it Mu Ga?"
The little witch was at a loss for words at this moment, her mind went blank, and she tightly grasped Xu Chen's hand with great nervousness, her little hands were cold and trembling.
"Don't be afraid. This is the statue of the First Mother that I made according to God's guidance. The First Mother reproduces everything, so it is naturally female."
"She...she gave birth to a baby?"
The little witch stared at the baby in the arms of the statue of the First Mother, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
"The First Mother Goddess does not give birth to children. She can be anything, but I think since she is the ancestor of mankind and the mother goddess, she should be maternal. The babies in her arms are us. She created and raised us.
, I hope we can return to her arms again after our death.”
"Yes, we are all children of the First Mother Goddess. I also want to lie in her arms..."
Under Xu Chen's explanation, the little witch's nervous mood slowly calmed down, and a flush of excitement slowly appeared on her dull and pale face. Then she gently broke away from Xu Chen's hand, walked slowly to the statue, and held up the golden statue.
The scepter slowly lay on the ground on all fours and began to sing an ancient song.
The clear and ups and downs of the voice echoed in front of the cave.
Muba and a group of women also started singing together.
The loud sound made the silent mountain forest seem to become ethereal in an instant, as if an ancient and mysterious atmosphere was slowly awakening.
Xu Chen stood alone at the edge of the open space, looking at the group of pious women, and finally slowly knelt down on one knee.
It's not like he suddenly believed in ghosts and gods.
It was the sacred atmosphere created by this ancient song that made him feel that he could not be independent of this spiritual belief.
Because it is in this progressive belief and worship that human beings finally step out of the wilderness step by step and achieve a glorious civilization.
In order to achieve his hegemony, he must rely on the power of God.
Regardless of whether God exists or not, he must take the lead in establishing this lofty belief.
Because the longer he stayed in contact with the little witch, the more he became aware of the status of God in the heart of the witch. It was a spiritual realm that could never be shaken. He would never be able to stand aside from the world and watch the great god in her mind with cold eyes.
And remain indifferent.
Because no god in the world can exist beyond the First Mother.
If one day Xu Chen despised or blasphemed the First Mother Goddess, maybe the first one to betray him would be the little witch.
Although the little witch is now full of unparalleled blind worship for him.
But this kind of worship still remains at the level of witchcraft.
He may be the King of Witches, but he is definitely not a god.
Even in the mind of the little witch, Xu Chen can blaspheme himself, but he must not blaspheme the First Mother and other gods, otherwise it will bring fear and disaster to the tribe.
The appearance of this statue of the First Mother Goddess immediately made Mother's worries disappear, and was replaced by a feeling of incomparable sanctity, piety and excitement.
She was originally worried that the first Mother's Day sacrificial event held by the Ba people would be ridiculed and ridiculed by other tribes because it was too simple, so she had to provide better hospitality as much as possible in terms of food and accommodation.
But with this real statue of a god, no one will doubt that it was an accident that the Ba people obtained the mysterious inheritance of the great witch, because the god is in the Ba people, in the cave where the Ba people originally lived.
Look after the Ba tribe and protect all the tribes who come to worship.
Not everyone can participate in the main ceremony of Mother's Day. Only the men and women selected for marriage every year can participate on the spot. Others can only participate in the wedding after the mating ceremony on the periphery, and then there is a half-day of communication and transactions.
Activity.
But Xu Chen decided to break this tradition.
After all, times have changed, and he needs to use more extensive god worship activities to continue to enhance the reputation of the Ba people, enhance the prestige of the Ba people's great witch, and enhance his own prestige and dominance.
Therefore, after a serious and serious rehearsal ceremony, Xu Chen discussed the main arrangements for this event with his mother, his mother and the little witch.
He wanted all the people who came to attend the meeting to go up the mountain to worship the Mother Goddess in order to obtain the favor and protection of the Mother Goddess.
Mu and Ba did not have any objections to Xu Chen's proposal.
Moreover, Xu Chen has a more long-term plan. He plans to expand the cave into a temple for the deceased mother after the Mother's Day, and receive worships from tribesmen and outsiders all year round.
The three of them didn’t know what the temple was, but after Xu Chen’s explanation, the three of them were extremely surprised, especially the little witch. She said excitedly that she could move to the temple on the mountain to live there, so that she could live every day.
When you are with the First Mother Goddess, you will be able to understand God's revelations more quickly and better protect your tribe and all tribes.
Although Xu Chen was a little surprised by the little witch's thoughts, he felt that this might not be a bad thing.
As the little witch grows up, her physical maturity will inevitably bring about some physical and psychological changes. It is indeed not a good thing to stay with a group of men and women who eat and drink well and start driving piles in chaos every day after dark.
He even worried that he would get drunk and run into the wrong room one day.
After all, the two of them live next to each other. If... if there is an uncontrollable situation, the situation that he has worked hard for so long may collapse.
But it's definitely not possible for the little witch to move to the mountains alone.
It takes more than an hour to go up and down the mountain. If there is not enough safety guarantee, he will definitely not feel at ease.
Since they moved down the mountain, their main activity range has been at the foot of the mountain, and it is also rapidly expanding to the large river basin outside the valley. Especially after recently subduing a group of wild horses, Feng and other hunters' activity range has reached outside the Uzu Valley.
That huge river beach.
In the past, walking on foot would take a whole day to go back and forth to the Uzu, but now there are more than ten horses, which come and go like the wind. It takes half a day to go back and forth easily. The purpose of Feng and others is neither to explore the road nor to explore the road.
Either to do business or to take advantage of hunting opportunities to show off to the Uzbek people.
I have been bragging every day since I came back recently, saying that a group of hunters from the Long and Wu tribes are almost drooling. They wait at the river beach every day for them to go hunting, and then I can take the opportunity to lick my face and ask to ride a horse.
The activities of the tribe are getting further and further away. Except for gathering wild fruits in autumn, activities on the mountain have almost completely stopped.
When people retreat, nature and beasts advance.
Recently, monkeys have started to be heard on the top of the mountain, and the roars and roars of various wild animals can be heard day and night.
All signs indicate that the mountain is not suitable for human habitation, especially a little girl alone.
There is no condition to arrange for more women to live together and take care of them. After all, a large family needs to eat and clothe, and women have to farm and cook, so the population is not enough.
Arranging men to guard her is even worse.
Who knows if someone could not help but show their bestiality and cause trouble to the little witch.
The Witch King and the Witch can have an affair, and the Pope and the Holy Maiden can have stories that they have to tell, but everyone else is spared, and one of them will die.
Therefore, Xu Chen did not immediately agree to the little witch's request, but said that he would wait until the temple was repaired before making arrangements. The urgent task at the moment was the Mother's Day sacrificial activities.
There are two days left until Mother's Day.
Xu Chen suspended the canal project and summoned all Uzbek men, women and prisoners to hold a grand mobilization meeting for the entire ethnic group.
There is only one topic at the meeting, which is to make every effort to ensure the safety and orderliness of Mother's Day activities.
Feng led the hunting team to increase their hunting efforts in the past two days, hoping to capture as many wild beasts as possible to provide enough food for the sacrificial activities.
Ju led a group of people to clean and defend the camps of participating tribes, and arranged for people to be stationed at the fortifications at the mouth of the valley to deliver messages and receive reception.
Mo took the remaining men to maintain the road and safety leading to the cave.
Dozens of prisoners all wore rattan armor and carried spears, and in groups of ten, they patrolled back and forth from the entrance of the valley to the tribe's garrison.
Most of these prisoners had received simple military training. They ran in formation and chanted slogans in a decent manner, and they already had a somewhat strict and unified appearance.
Men's work is more intuitive, they are very practical characters, and they are also face projects.
The tasks of the women are more tedious, and Xu Chen does not have many requirements. That is to ensure that the food and accommodation are arranged so that the tribal guests who come from afar can feel the solemn atmosphere of the sacrificial meeting.
The hospitality of the Ba people.
Being frugal and frugal is not a bad thing, and being simple and rudimentary is not a problem, but the Ba people must show the serious attitude they should have as hosts and cannot make it as messy as the Wu people's shaman leader conference last year, which was criticized.
In order to make this sacrificial event more successful, Xu Chen also specially designated Ye as the record officer, responsible for registering the number of people from all tribes who came to participate and ensuring the reasonable distribution of food.
The mobilization meeting was very simple and ended in less than an hour, and then everyone began to perform their duties and get busy.
The entire Ba tribe instantly entered a very serious and busy state.
The wind led a group of hunters riding more than a dozen horses out of the valley to hunt and fish.
Ju and Mo Ye each led the remaining men according to the arrangement and began to patrol the entire valley for drills and arrangements.
Muba and Amu took all the women from the two tribes to prepare firewood and pottery.
The little witch led a group of young women to continue rehearsing ritual songs and dances.
Ye and several older children also began to excitedly and nervously prepare ceramic board study registration records.
Xu Chen rode his pony and led four personal flag teams including Gu Heju to patrol the valley and make final preparations to welcome all the tribes who came to participate in the event.