Aztec Eternals

The sound of silent footsteps echoed through the ancient stone fort. It passes through the long stone steps, pushes open the dusty stone door, and enters the wide stone hall, until it reaches the vicissitudes of stone slabs.

Shilot stopped. He looked at the stone slabs, wooden murals, and various gold, silver, and jade cultural relics that had gone through time in the temple, and said solemnly sideways.

"Sage Jadiri, here we are. This is the place where the ancient books are stored in the palace."

Jatiri nodded solemnly. He took two steps forward excitedly, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and carefully stroked these precious long-standing inheritances, just like stroking delicate and fragile pottery.

"River turtles live under the pine and cypresses in the water. The river turtles are getting older, but the sacred tree is getting taller... Since I received the inheritance at the age of 24, I have been with them for a full thirty-six years! Wang On the night they fell, I fled the palace in a hurry, thinking I would never see them again..."

The knowledgeable elder rarely lost his demeanor, showing ups and downs in his emotions. He carefully checked for a while before turning around and bowing to His Highness with a wry smile.

"Your Highness, I made you laugh..."

Shulot shook his head lightly and bowed back earnestly.

"Seeing this scene, I will only be in awe of you."

The two saluted each other and smiled at each other. Then, Jatiri straightened his expression. With a calm smile, he led Shilot to one of the oldest stone slabs.

"His Royal Highness, please let us start here! You must have heard the legend of the five sun eras. The world was conceived from nothingness, and the gods became the supreme sun in turn. The world was destroyed by the gods again, the sun fell, and life withered. All these reincarnations, to this day, is already the fifth solar era. This original slate talks about the past four eras."

Shilot looked at the huge stone slab. With simple brushstrokes, four ancient and clumsy board paintings are depicted on it. In the center of each panel is a radiant sun.

"His Royal Highness, the sun is located in the center of the slate, and it is the object of common reverence for all the ministries in the world. If you want to unite the people of the world into one, it will not be easy, you need to start from the myth of the sun and tell a complete and credible story."

Hearing the words, Shulot looked serious and nodded slowly.

"There are thousands of people in the world, and the future is not easy... The sage knows my heart! The big thing I want to do, in the feudal kingdom, only the sage can help you!"

The myth of the era of the five suns has been circulated in the world for a long time, even among the easternmost Mayan tribes, but different tribes have different mythological expressions. For the vastly different ministries in the world, this common mythological origin may be a rare place where consensus can be formed between ministries.

In the heart of the young king, there has always been a great ambition like the first emperor. He not only wants to shape a vast empire with his own hands and promote the change of the times, but also to knead the various savage parts of the world together and shape them into an inseparable national whole. This vast process is like the Han people, Zhao people, Wei people, Chu people, Yan people, Qi people, and Qin people who were different during the Warring States Period and finally merged into Han people.

In order to achieve this grand goal, Shulot has enough ambition, enough patience, and enough time. All the tribes in the world look alike and marry each other. The various ethnic groups have been wild for a long time, the grammar has not been established, the concept of nationality has not yet appeared, and even the writing is still in its infancy. This is the last and best opportunity for integration to build a truly unified nation on this vast isolated continent!

In order to lay the foundation for the unification, in addition to the same text, the same track, the unified religion, and the same law, it is also necessary to start from the source of culture and weave a bond of connection.

The ties of Zhu Xia are the descendants of Yan and Huang, the descendants of the dragon, the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors, and the History of Zhou Li. And all the tribes conquered by the Mexica Alliance also needed a tall sacred tree with connected roots, a myth and legend of common origin, to form a strong cultural bond. This legend must be tolerant and credible enough, acceptable to all ministries, fit the known history to the greatest extent, and stand up to the scrutiny of later generations.

It is with such a vision that the young king searched repeatedly in the city of Qincongcan and invited the knowledgeable elders of the Prepecha people to come and tell the epic of the inheritance of the people in the lake. After some temptation in the hall, the two sides have mutual intentions and tacit understanding.

Seeing the calm smile of the knowledgeable elder, Xiulote looked at the slate again carefully, comparing the differences between the Aztec sun myth and the Prepecha sun myth.

The mythology of the Aztecs was inherited from the Toltecs, and each era had different symbols to symbolize civilization, as well as different gods as the sun.

The first four eras are: the first era, which is the era of the four jaguars, and the representative **** is the original sun **** Tezcatlippo. In the second era, the age of the four winds, Quetzalcovatel, the Quetzalcoatl. The third era, the age of four rains, the rain **** Tlaloc. In the fourth era, the age of the four waters, the goddess of rivers and lakes, Chalchi Hetlicui.

On the Prepecha heritage tablets, the first era is a jaguar accompanied by a human with a torch and a spear; the second era is a sweeping wind with a tearful rubber tree in the wind; The Third Age was a mighty rain with towering pyramids; the Fourth Age was a spreading flood with canoes traveling between islands.

And around these plate paintings, there are many intricate graphic texts inscribed, and there are vaguely sun, moon, statues, masks, gold and jade, pottery, corn, turkeys, spears, shields, flames... and the dead.

Sherlot looked at it carefully for a long time, except for identifying the common jaguar, wind, rain, and water, there was not much gain. He turned his head and asked Jatiri sincerely.

"Also ask sages to interpret and tell the truth for me."

Jatiri looked at the ancient board painting and smiled.

"His Royal Highness, there are only pictures on the inheritance slate, and the images are ambiguous. The explanations are all in one mind, and it depends on the current situation. When you master the inheritance, the priests and sages have the power to speak. Most of the ministries in the world are like this... Today Since His Royal Highness asked, the old man will talk about the truth of clan inheritance, which is passed down by word of mouth but not outside."

"For the four epochs that have passed, all the ministries in the world have different interpretations and different lengths of time. In these epochs, after the gods and symbols, it is actually the dead ancestors and ancient civilizations. The more the epoch, the more Going forward, the more abstract and ambiguous the mural epics of each division, the more the symbols have in common. It is difficult to verify the ancient times, and the commonality of the epics can be used as evidence of the same origin and unity of all divisions.”

The knowledgeable elder was full of deep meaning and said these difficult words. Then, he stretched out his thin palm and stroked the figures on the four eras.

"The first solar era was the process of the ancestors rising from the jungle. They lit fire, made stone weapons, drove and tamed wild beasts, established settlements, and became kings of the jungle like jaguars. The specific process , Now no one knows, and the origin of the ancestors is also elusive. The first era is like the original sun **** Tescatlipo in Mexica mythology. It is the impermanence of the world and the wind of the night, elusive know."

Shirot pondered for a long time. His eyes looked to the far northwest, to the end of the world. After a while, he nodded solemnly.

"What the sages say is right. The first era is elusive, there is no history to test it, and it also includes all peoples."

Jati smiled inside. He moved his palms, resting on the rubber tree in the wind.

"The second solar era is the earliest ancestor that can be traced back to the various tribes, the Olmec. Or means rubber, the Mec is the ethnic group, and the Olmec is the ethnic group of the rubber people. Their era, dating back to today It has been two thousand years. The Olmecs are in the middle of the world. They were the first to discover and use rubber, the first to build magnificent step pyramids, the first to build tall megalithic palaces, the first to carve sacred sacrificial jade, and also The first to worship the jaguar and the feathered serpent."

"In that era, there were probably many wild tribes, many small settlements, and many loose forces. But the most civilized and famous were the Olmecs. Today, all the tribes in the world are related to the Olmec. People have some origins. The **** of the Second Era is the Quetzalcoatl God of Quetzalcoatl, and wherever the belief in the feathered snake exists, it has been influenced by the Olmecs.

Whether it is the Teotihuacan people on the plateau, the ancient Zapotec people in the jungle, or the Maya people in the far east, they all originated from the Olmec civilization to a greater or lesser extent and received the Second Age Brilliant! "

"Two or three thousand years ago, it was the era of ancient Greece and the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou... The glue man civilization, the ethnic group who used rubber."

Shulot pondered and murmured in his mouth. His grandfather had told him stories of the Olmecs. The Totonaks of the eastern seas occupy the ruins of the Olmec civilization, and also gave the ancient masks of the Olmecs at the coronation ceremony of Avit.

"The Olmecs are the ancient Greek city-states with splendid culture in Mesoamerica, or Luoyi and Chengzhou who spread the patriarchy. The descendants of Yan and Huang...the descendants of Jiaomen..."

The young king thought for a moment, and his eyes became brighter. He looked at Jatiri, and the knowledgeable elder also smiled meaningfully.

"His Royal Highness, go to the Great Lakes in the west, Maya in the east, rain forests in the south, and plateaus in the north. The world starts from the glue people. This is the first main root that binds all peoples!"

Jatiri said in a deep voice, with the pleasure of determining the ages in his words. Then, he continued to move his fingers, pointing to the pyramid of the third era.

"The Second Era is the origin of the tribes. All the tribes in the world are one. It's just that at the end of the era, after the fall of the Olmec kingdom, they scattered and formed different branches. The similar but different pyramids in all parts of the world are the Witness of branch development!"

"In the legends of the various tribes, the third era began to differ. A thousand years ago, the Mayans in the far east built the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent in the city of Tikal; the Teotihuacan people on the northern plateau, established The Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon; the ancient Zapotec people in the southern jungle built the Pyramid of Mount Alban; and the Loma Alta people in the western lake built the lakeside pyramid. These pyramids of the same origin are the The second root system that binds the people!"

Hearing this, the pupil of the young king suddenly shrank. He came from the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon, and has always been in awe of these ancestors' ruins. In this era, both commoners and nobles alike worship these ancient magnificent wonders and entrust their spiritual destination in the shocking wonders.

"Very good statement! The same ancestor, different branches... The pyramid witnesses, unites all peoples..."

Shilot pondered for a long time and nodded solemnly. The third era was a thousand years ago, about the period of Rome and the Han Dynasty, and also the era of the spread of Hellenism and Sinicization... Then, he was slightly puzzled and looked at the knowledgeable elder.

"Guzapotec? Loma Alta?"

"The ancient Zapotec people are the ancestors of the Mistec and the Zapotec people. They are located in the central canyon of Oaxaca in the far east of the Antarctic. Alban is the green mountain."

"As for the Loma Altas..."

Jatiri smiled deeply again.

"They are actually the ancestors of the Prepecha people, who settled on the south side of Lake Quetzeo, north of Lake Patzcuaro. When His Royal Highness's regiment went south, they must have passed there. Many of the fortresses by the lake are It's an ancient pyramid reconstruction."

Shiroute paced with his hands behind his back, pondering.

"In this way, all the tribes in the world can be assigned to different branches of civilization. The Teotihuacan people worship the rain **** Tlaloc, which is indeed in line with the gods of the third era in Mexican mythology. Then The northern tribes, the Mexicans, the Otomis, the Tlaxcalans, the Vastecs... all belong to the Teotihuacan family..."

Hearing this, Jatiri smiled lightly. Shirot's face turned red. Since the other party is a knowledgeable elder, it is impossible to hide the origin of the Mexicans and Tlaxcalans. He continued to speak calmly.

"Western ministries, Turks, Trapanics, Prepechas... all belong to the Loma Alta line. Southern ministries, Mistec, Zapotec... Guzapo The Turks, the Totonaks of the middle, let them continue to be direct descendants of the Olmecs."

The knowledgeable elder nodded and answered with a smile.

"In this way, the world has the same origin of glue people, and then divided into four branches: east, south, west, and north. Although customs are different, all people are one!"

Hearing this, Shilot first nodded, then shook his head.

"No, the world has the same origin and one ancestor, and then divided into seven branches. There is another branch in the far north of the White Calamity, living a life of migration and wandering; one on the island of the Great Eastern Lake, driving a canoe to and fro; finally A branch through the jungles of the far south and established a kingdom of gold."

"The White Calamity in the extreme north... Does Your Highness mean the tribes of the dog race?"

Hearing this, Shulot laughed without saying a word, and Jatiri continued to speculate.

"Integrating the canines is both difficult and easy. They do not establish culture, they advocate force, and they are elusive. Only by completely defeating them and occupying the water source and arable land in the northern desert can the canines be brought under their command. Once they are subdued. , assimilation is very fast."

"The canoe in the Great Eastern Lake... Your Highness is talking about the Taino people, the people of the islands who eat cassava? The Taino people are wild and weak, rich in tobacco. There are uncertainties in the Great Lake, and they want to find their island, but it is also a piece of paper. Not easy things."

"As for the jungle in the far south, the south of the Maya is a mountain forest rich in emeralds. Where is the Golden Kingdom mentioned by His Royal Highness?"

The young king smiled and said nothing. He just looked at the fourth slate and asked softly.

"Sage, is the civilization of the Fourth Era a continuation of the branches of the Third Era?"

"His Royal Highness, we can tell this, and Wanmin is willing to believe it."

Jatiri's wrinkles stretched out in the smile, like a trembling fox.

"Actually, the Fourth Era is only a few hundred years ago, and the records of various pictures are quite clear. It was an era of erratic showers, sometimes floods, and sometimes droughts. It was also a turbulent era when the northern people went south. The dog descendants of the Wa language moved south one after another and poured into the Mexica Plateau. They collided fiercely with the native tribes, and then quickly merged with each other to form a new alliance and kingdom!"

"Canines move south, Nahua-speaking tribes..."

Shirot's eyes moved slightly. The Fourth Era was about the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, accompanied by the cooling of the global climate and the abnormality of the astronomical climate. This is the era when the nomads went south in an all-round way, the era when the Vikings invaded the south on a large scale, and it was also the era when the Chichimeks kept moving south.

In fact, all the tribes that speak the Nahua language in the world come from the canine descendants who have migrated southwards over hundreds of years, and have merged with the local native groups. The Tepanek people, the former overlords of the Mexica Valley, the Tlaxcala people at the headwaters of the Balsas River, the Totonak people on the eastern coast, and even the Prepecha people in the Land of the Lake, all say Na Wa-speaking tribe. The Mexica were the last Nahua tribe to migrate south to the Mexica Plateau. The Nawa tribes have similar languages ​​and similar appearances. They are actually brothers by blood, and they have always been good at fighting in ethnic groups.

Correspondingly, the Otomi, Vastec, Mistec, Zapotec... use another similar language and inherit the heritage of more ancient civilizations. Of course, with the ceaseless wars and exchanges between the ministries, the languages ​​of the ministries are also infiltrating each other.

"His Royal Highness, the Fourth Era is an era full of turbulence, and the symbol of the **** is the **** of rivers and lakes. Unpredictable precipitation, disordered agriculture, and the southward migration of dogs have had a severe impact on the north of the world. All the ministries are in Constant wars and migrations. If the canines are also classified into the same branch, then the Fourth Era is the era of the reintegration of all peoples! And the integration of all peoples is destined to be completed in the current Fifth Era, through the hands of His Highness. !"

"All peoples are of the same origin. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com has experienced separation and development, and then moves toward mutual integration until they are reunited as one family. The story is perfect and self-consistent, destined by the gods and inspired by the gods. This is the fate of the five epochs, which can truly lead The world, connecting all peoples, unifying the myths and legends of all ministries!"

Speaking of this, Jatiri's old face showed a little excitement. He stared at Shirotte with burning eyes, and the young king also stared at him firmly. The eyes of both of them are burning with a huge flame, which will burn all over the world for a hundred years!

The knowledgeable elder looked at it for a long time before calming down and said solemnly again.

"Your Highness, the Fourth Era has left many definite epics. In the Mexica Valley, the kingdom of the Toltecs rose and fell, and finally passed through the hands of the Tepanek to the feet of the Mexica. And in the land of the lake, there are the two kingdoms of Urixiu before and after. They perished, revived, and perished again in the southward migration of the dogs, and then the kingdom of Tarasco was established and prospered!"

"The reason why these once powerful kingdoms perished is not only because of the impact of the dog descendants going south, but also because of internal reasons. And the most important factor is here!"

Saying that, Jatiri strode out a few steps. He stretched out his hand vigorously, pressed down on the stone slab next to it on the second side.