Gu Fengchun quickly analyzed these ruined scenes in his mind. It seemed that they were describing a large-scale sacrifice.
The relief carving technique is clumsy and the lines are relatively stiff, but Gu Fengchun can clearly see that the people in the portraits are very tall, and some people are wearing exaggerated and huge masks on their faces. These looks are very powerful, so Gufeng Chun
Chun judged that the status of these masked people was very high. Gu Feng Chun felt that this kind of dress was vaguely familiar. Gu Feng Chun knew very well that in ancient sacrifices, wearing masks to hold ceremonies was the most commonly used dress by wizards.
In primitive times, the status of figures with divine power was very noble, because they were responsible for communicating with gods and were equivalent to the spiritual leaders of the tribe. Some wizards also held the position of tribal leader.
Judging from the first relief, there are a total of eleven masked people kneeling on the high altar. They are tall and still look mighty, but under the altar, there are countless people kneeling in darkness.
In the depiction of people with rough lines, Gu Fengchun felt that except for the priests who were kneeling on the altar wearing uniform masks with expressionless expressions, the expressions of the people kneeling below seemed to be very desperate.
What makes people so desperate? Gu Fengchun couldn't figure it out. Several consecutive scenes were all describing the process of sacrifice. What surprised Gu Fengchun was that during the process of sacrifice, eleven priests wearing masks
They ended their lives with sharp weapons. In every scene, there was a priest who gave his life.
Gu Fengchun knew that in ancient times, wars would occur between tribes, and those captured in the wars would usually be killed to offer sacrifices to the tribe’s gods. Only the strong labor force would be used as slaves, enslaving them to obtain surplus value. However,
However, Gu Fengchun couldn't understand that in ancient times, priests from the tribe were actually allowed to offer sacrifices. These all symbolized the authority and sanctity of the tribe! What happened to allow these noble priests to replace slaves and become slaves?
Where are the sacrifices on the altar? Gu Fengchun felt very troubled by the contents of this relief. After reading these pictures, he had slowly walked several hundred meters into the corridor.
Ye Ya was not idle for a moment. After he finished giving Zhou Dingxuan the potion, he dragged him and Liu Wensheng to the side. After they were lined up side by side, he took out a miniature camera to take pictures of the reliefs on the stone wall on the other side. Gu Fengchun
He only saw a relief on the stone wall, and Ye Ya took the initiative to take pictures of those that Gu Fengchun didn't see. His intuition told him that he must collect such precious information. He calculated the time in his mind, and Zhou Dingxuan and Liu Wensheng could probably
They will be able to wake up within twenty minutes. After Zhou Dingxuan wakes up, they will continue to move forward.
Pictures are different from words. Words from different eras may not necessarily be understandable. As for patterns, as long as they are not the work of symbolist or abstract painters, most people should be able to understand what the paintings are. Although Ye Ya is very familiar with ancient characters
I don’t know much about him, but the reliefs of the ancients are not difficult to find him. Starting from the first picture, it depicts a war, a fight between tribes, both sides were very fierce, and there were many aggressive animals.
Participating in it, Ye Ya secretly wondered: What? In ancient times, were people able to tame tigers and lions? What made Ye Ya curious was that there were round and square things above people's heads. Because in the previous pictures,
In the picture, these two things almost appear at the same time. The round one can be interpreted as the sun, but what is the square one?
As the picture continued to change, Ye Ya's expression gradually became serious. The people who were fighting in the picture suddenly scattered in all directions, as if something was chasing them. After a while, these fleeing people fell down one after another.
The earth opened a huge gap, swallowing up those who could not escape, and then a giant lang swept across the earth. This giant lang was just like the ones they had just seen. There were fleeing people and animals everywhere, but they
The last struggle seemed so powerless in the face of nature's wrath, and countless people and animals drowned.
Ye Ya was sweating coldly when he saw this scene of great destruction. If the ancients had not personally experienced this scene, it would have been absolutely impossible for them to record it so realistically. Ye Ya soon discovered that the tragedy depicted on the relief was not just this.
, the relief immediately behind the giant lang was filled with thick smoke, covering the sky and the sun, and lava spraying out. Of course, many people ran away in panic, and even more people lay on the ground howling in despair, waiting for the final fate.
Tragic encounter. Although the relief picture is rough, Ye Ya can clearly feel the panic and helplessness in the hearts of the characters.
Ye Ya sighed deeply. He looked back at Gu Fengchun, who was still intoxicated with the relief scenes. He couldn't help but sigh loudly: "Look at these scenes, it's like the end of the world!"
Gu Fengchun was still burying his head in sorting out his thoughts. After listening to Ye Ya's words, he asked strangely: "How do you say it?" The picture he saw was different from Ye Ya's. He only saw a group of priests wearing masks.
He was wiping his neck. He was still thinking that these priests had a sense of déjà vu.
Ye Ya approached Gu Fengchun and realized that the pictures they saw were not the same. Ye Ya's eyes quickly focused on the last picture. The priests who turned down the altar all had faces.
Lying on the ground facing the sky. He was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Why is this face so familiar?" Gu Fengchun also nodded and said: "I remember these faces are very familiar, but even if I don't remember where I saw them,
Already?"
Zhou Dingxuan had already woken up. After hearing the discussion between the two, he slowly came closer. He took a look and said, "Aren't these the bronze masks in the Sanxingdui cultural system?"
Of course the two of them knew what the bronze masks Zhou Dingxuan was talking about. When they thought about it carefully, they immediately thought of the thirteen huge bronze masks unearthed in the No. 7 Pit of Yin Ruins in Henan and the mask on the head of the priest on the relief in front of them. Then the two of them
I took a deep breath. Yes, I didn't need to look at anything else, just look at the huge vertical eyes, and I could tell it immediately. I had been doing research on the pile of bronze masks for several days, how could I do this?
Suddenly lost his memory and forgot about this? But Ye Ya said in shock: "Professor Zhou, you mean, those bronze masks are worn by these people?" Ye Ya has not forgotten how wide these bronze masks are,
The weight is so horrifying; if it can really be worn on the face, how tall and big were people in ancient times? When Ye Ya thought about this question, his heart skipped a beat and thought: Such people are still considered human beings.
?
After hearing Ye Ya's confused words, Gu Fengchun's mind was spinning very fast. He couldn't help but carefully look at the mask on the priest's face, and he didn't forget to compare the people kneeling on the ground with those on the altar.
The height proportion of the standing priests. He really found that there seemed to be a big gap between the body proportions of the priests on the altar and the kneeling people. At first he did not take this issue to heart, because at the beginning he
I thought this was the artistic treatment of primitive artists, just to highlight the noble image of the priests. Gu Fengchun suddenly changed his mind: If this is all realistic, then wouldn't the priests on the altar have four or five normal human heights?
It adds up that high? Oh my god, is this possible?