Sacrifice to the moon is an indispensable part of the Maya worship of Quetzalcoatl at midnight.
What is the purpose of worshiping the moon? Some people say it is because the ancestors of the Mayans went to the moon. Some people say Quetzalcoatl lives on the moon. Some even say the moon is the final residence of mankind at the end of the world, so it is worshiped.
Worship it.
No one has verified which of the above statements is correct, but everyone knows that if the moon does not come out tonight, then the sacrificial ceremony cannot be held. As the high priest, Juyeo knows this very well.
a little.
Why doesn't the moon come out?
This is definitely because the high priest got a woman to sacrifice to the great god. He got angry and blocked the moon!
Hundreds of thousands of Mayan believers had this in mind and walked towards the pyramid shouting, "Change the sacrifices."
Listening to the increasingly louder voices below the tower and looking at the crowd slowly approaching, Juyeo's legs began to tremble. He was really worried that he would be kicked out of the tower by those fanatical Mayan believers (or believers).
He was pulled down and his body was broken into pieces.
As for the moon and stars being covered by the night, Juyeo is still not sure whether this is because the sacrifices were 'unqualified'. The only thing he is sure of is: if he is still standing here like a fool,
Then he will definitely be torn to pieces by the increasingly angry cultists!
What should I do... With this thought in his mind, Juyeo turned his head and looked at Chai Fangan, who was standing at the forefront of the tower on the left.
Different from the majority of Maya believers, Chai Fangsuan did not believe that the moon did not come out because Shang Lige was not a virgin.
But he knew very well: the hundreds of thousands of people under the tower all had such stupid ideas.
If Chai Fangan wants to completely 'conquer' these Mayans, the only way at present is to rely on the bracelet and become the Quetzalcoatl in their minds. There is no other way at all.
It seems that tonight's plan to rely on Shang Lige to kill Chu Yang will come to nothing. Well, let's let this woman go for the time being, so as not to arouse the anger of these stupid people... Chai Fanfan pursed his lips tightly, and then
He nodded slightly towards Juyeo.
After seeing Chai's brazen consent, Juyeo immediately took a deep breath, raised the staff in his hand high, and shouted loudly: "Gramaximos (don't ask me the specific meaning, because
I’m not sure, it’s basically telling the congregation that I’ve agreed to their request, right?), haha…”
Sure enough, after Juyeo shouted at the top of his lungs for a few times, the noise under the tower gradually calmed down, and the people whose faces started to get excited also stopped the footsteps approaching.
After seeing that everyone had calmed down, Juyeo, who was sweating all over his body, finally felt at ease. He quickly turned around and said to the four saints: "Quick, help the sacrifices down from the tower first, and let Le Lin
Ge (Juyeo’s successor) quickly presented the spare bull’s head!”
The four saints, whose faces turned pale with fright, did not dare to neglect after receiving the order. They quickly picked up Shang Lige and dragged her down to the Kukulkan Pyramid.
"Beat her to death, beat her to death!"
After seeing Shang Lige being lifted off the pyramid by the saint, those fanatical believers came over and beat her to death, because it was her impurity that prevented the moon from rising.
The four saints who were responsible for supporting Shang Lige were shocked when they saw countless believers shouting slogans and walking step by step from the front of the pyramid. Someone let go of Sister Jiu'er's arm and prepared to
Flash: If these believers rush over, the four of them will definitely be torn into pieces. Who wouldn’t be afraid?
Just when the four saints let go of Shang Lige and were about to turn around and run away at all costs, several black figures jumped out from behind the pyramid.
Before these saints could figure out what these people were doing, they grabbed Sister Jiuer who was lying limply on the ground, turned around and ran towards the back of the tower!
Seeing someone suddenly coming out from behind the tower and snatching away Shang Lige, the four saints were shocked. One of them was about to catch up, but was stopped by his companion: "Ge Li, don't go! Could it be that you
Have you forgotten that on the night of the sacrificial ceremony, no one is allowed to go behind the tower? Otherwise, they will be blamed by the gods and sent to hell!"
"But, those people snatched the sacrifice away! If we don't snatch it back, if the Archbishop finds out, we will still die!"
This saint named Geli naturally knows that on the night of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, behind the Kukulkan Pyramid is a forbidden area designated by God, which prohibits mortals from passing through. (This was also the last time someone from Chu was able to successfully climb from the back.
The reason for going to the pyramid, he just didn’t know it at the time.)
The saint who held Geli looked up at the high pyramid and said nervously: "We are standing at this angle, and the archbishop cannot see us! Even if he wants to kill us when he sees it,
It is much better than being blamed by God and putting disaster on our family! Well, we might as well take advantage of the dark night and quickly go to the place where the former high priest Shakku lives and beg God to bypass us!
"
After hearing what she said, the other three saints were silent for a moment, then gritted their teeth and nodded, heading northeast along the base of the pyramid.
Similarly, after seeing the impure sacrifice being carried behind the tower, the Mayan believers who were pressing forward step by step also stopped.
Although impure sacrifices deserve to die, there is no need for everyone to enter the restricted area of sacrifice for her.
…
After seeing the angry believers shouting slogans and forcing them to come over, Shang Lige thought that she was dead this time. Even if Chu Yang could appear at this time, he would not be able to stop so many angry people.
However, just as Shang Lige, who was so weak and weak, was waiting to die, three black figures ran out from behind the tower, snatched her away and ran towards the back!
Who are these people... In Shang Lige's huge suspicion, three black figures carried her and ran quickly towards the woods not far behind the tower.
Shang Lige didn't know where these people came from or where they were driving her, but she had no idea what to do because she didn't even have the strength to speak now.
Soon, Shang Lige was carried by three black figures into the woods about 500 meters away from the pyramid. They ran forward for more than 100 meters before letting her down.
Although Shang Lige had no strength, she was able to open her eyes. She saw: a black figure jumped down from a tree above her head.
After the black figure jumped down, he quickly bent down and took her into his arms, and said to the person on the left: "Jin Xi'er, I really have to thank you this time!"
Ever since she was caught, Shang Lige had been drugged, and she no longer had any strength in her body. She even wanted to close her eyes and never wake up... But because her life could be lost at any time, she kept using her last breath.
Her perseverance forced her to stay awake.
But after being held in this person's arms, Shang Lige's tense nerves immediately relaxed. She was about to say something, but her eyes went dark, and then she didn't know what was going on.
…
Because of the angle, Chai Fansi and others standing on the top of the tower could not see what was happening below the tower.
Besides, the pyramid is surrounded by darkness, and there are only seven torches above the top of the tower. People standing below can clearly see the people above, but those above cannot see clearly those below, so
Chai Fansi and others did not realize that Shang Lige had been snatched away, and the four saints did not come to report.
They just breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the believers had stopped shouting and stopped pushing towards them.
After seeing all this, Juyeo was finally in the mood to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, but his nerves remained tense: If the moon doesn't come out after sending the bull's head up, then what should I do?
What should I do and how should I explain it to these people?
If Shang Lige hadn't been seen to be a little woman, the moon wouldn't have come out. Of course, he didn't care about Juyeo's affairs. Even though he was a high priest, it seems that the high priest couldn't control these things, right?
But the problem is that Shang Lige was discovered by those 'insightful people' that he was not a virgin!
In this way, the majority of believers can justifiably blame Juyeo for the reason why the moon does not come out: If you had not made a Xibei thing come out, then God would not be angry!
So, the one who is most worried now is Juyeo.
Chai Fanwang forced Juyeo to do all this, but did he dare to say it?
…
The angry Mayan believers felt much better after seeing the sacrifices being sent down to the top of the tower. Everyone sat on the ground again and looked at the top of the tower with their chins raised.
And some experienced old people also took this opportunity to tell the people around them: "The impure sacrifice has been knocked off the top of the tower, and it is time to replace it with a bull's head. I hope Quetzalcoatl can forgive the high priest."
What a stupid thing to do is to let the moon appear as soon as possible so that the moon festival can go smoothly."
The voices of the people below the tower were not too loud, but Chai Bofan at the top of the tower could hear them clearly. He naturally sneered at this statement: "Oh, what a bunch of fools! Does the moon come out? It has nothing to do with the sacrifices."
Relationship? If it weren’t for the large number of you, I would have to destroy you..."
Not to mention Chai Fanfan's self-comfort there, anyway, since Shang Lige was taken down from the top of the tower, these believers have become much more stable, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of the bull's head.
After about half an hour or so, when many Mayan believers were talking louder and louder and showing great impatience, a light finally appeared on the east side of the pyramid: several men were panting, carrying one with a stick and scrubbing it clean.
The bull's head came over in time.
When Juyeo ordered people to place the bull's head on the altar, the four saints who went to the place where Shakaku transformed into an immortal to worship also came back in time and stood on their original positions.
In the direction.
Except for the person on the altar who was replaced by a bull's head, the rest of the people were still in their places, and everyone looked piously into the dark sky again.
After the four saints came back, Chai Fanfan deliberately asked them: Where did they send Shang Lige?
But he was afraid that his random movements would arouse the dissatisfaction of the believers, so he had no choice but to imitate Juyeo and look at the night with his chin upturned.