Aztec Eternals

Beside the hot springs, in the green forest, egrets fly high above the clouds, and wild foxes hum in the grass. The guard warriors were wearing armor and holding sticks, and they were on guard at the periphery. Venerables brooded around the dying stag, breathing traditional witch medicine to life.

Na was tall and slender, with a delicate and calm face. Hearing His Highness's order, she nodded solemnly, strode her long legs, and walked to the dissected stag. Then, she stretched out her slender right hand, and without caring about the blood in front of her, she accurately stretched out the dagger.

"His Royal Highness, Princess. In the inheritance of the priests, every part of our body strictly corresponds to the days of the calendar. In our body, there is the enlightenment of destiny, and it also communicates with the whole world."

Naxiu's expression was serious and her voice was like smoke. She talks about the foundation of the entire witch medicine, and it is also the world in the eyes of the priests, that is, the correspondence between time, destiny and the human body!

"In the calendar, January has twenty days. The first day is an auspicious day, the crocodile day, which corresponds to the heart. Children born on this day are blessed by the gods and have an excellent destiny. The second day, the windy day, corresponds to the heart. Tongue. The third day, the day of the palace, corresponds to the mind. The fourth day, the day of the lizard, corresponds to the liver... These are the first four days of the month, which are auspicious days blessed by the gods, and also correspond to the most sacred in the human body. Four organs."

Hearing this, Shulot nodded slightly. According to the traditional concept, the first four days are all auspicious days, and the corresponding four organs contain special powers.

The mind, heart, and liver will not be mentioned for the time being, let’s talk about the tongue first. The leader of the alliance was called the big talker, "Tratoani". The etymology of the name comes from the human tongue, "trachtoli". Because, in people's cognition, the tongue has the power to make the people obey and rule.

After speaking, Naxiu paused for a while. She quietly glanced at the girl in white who was attentively listening to the lecture, with an indifferent smile on her face.

"...In a month, there are also several bad days involving death. The ninth day, the water day, corresponds to the skin. The tenth day, the dog day, corresponds to the nose. The eleventh day, the monkey day, the twelfth day The sun corresponds to the hands. The grass sun corresponds to the intestines... This is the fourth day of the month, which contains ominous signs. The organs corresponding to these four days can reflect the proximity of death. Of course, there is also the sixth day , Day of the Dead, corresponds to the hair."

Hearing this, Shulot lowered his eyes slightly. He used the title "Death" and was most familiar with these expressions. Wrinkled skin, old man smell in the nose, unsteady hands and feet, difficulty in eating, hair turning white... are all symbols of death in Nahuatl religion. Children born on these ominous days are often regarded as curses, and even deliberately discarded.

"Finally, at the end of the month, it's an unlucky weekday. The seventeenth day, the Earth's moving day, corresponds to the teeth. The eighteenth day, the stone knife day, corresponds to the ears. The nineteenth day, the rainy day, corresponds to the eyes. The twentieth day, the flower day, corresponds to the chest... The last four days symbolize a peaceful life, and the child born has an ordinary life. The corresponding organs have no special religious meaning."

Having said that, Naxiu looked at His Highness and smiled complicatedly. She was born on the last four days, and should have been calm and ordinary. But after she was selected by the priesthood as a child, her fate changed completely, and she has only lived for another person since then.

"very nice."

Shulot nodded, showing praise. Then, he looked at the glamorous female warrior, and ordered in a deep voice.

"Naxiu, keep talking!"

"Follow you."

The female warrior bowed her head. Afterwards, she muttered to herself, chanted incomprehensible incantations, faced the dead deer, reached out and touched the deer head, deer heart and deer liver respectively, and performed a simple requiem ritual.

"His Royal Highness, in our body, there are three special life forces, located in three sacred organs. That is 'Tonali' in the brain, 'Tejolia' in the heart, and in the liver The 'Ihotel'!"

"'Tonali' is located in the head. It is given to us by the Lord God when we are born and placed in the body. This life force controls our growth and arranges our destiny. It determines the vitality of the body and Vitality also determines the aging and fatigue of the body... Priests can affect the 'tonali' of the head by holding rituals to communicate with the gods and taking sacred mushrooms and herbs, and even let it temporarily leave the body. When we die, 'Tonali' will be left in our bones, to the earth..."

Hearing this, Shiloh touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

The concept of "Tonali" is similar to human divinity in religion, but in medicine, it is about the collection of nervous and endocrine systems, which carry out thinking, perception and body regulation... The inherited witch medicine is precisely the From these cognitions and practices to explore.

According to the practical experience of generations of witch doctor priests, the priests generally know the function of the brain in the human body. In order to affect the "Tonali" in the head, they will use black feather jade, mandala, psilocybin, ayahuasca, frog venom, scorpion venom, snake venom... to gain fantastic insights and heal the body and mental illness.

These animal and plant medicines contain special alkaloids and hormones, which can act on the brain and the whole body, effectively anesthetize, calm, relieve pain, sterilize, and even completely change people's mental state.

"Tonali...the nervous and endocrine system...the corresponding drugs...well, Naxiu, go on!"

"'Tejolia' is located at the heart and is the seat of knowledge and vitality. It determines one's life and destiny after death. When we die, 'Tejolia' separates from the body and goes to To the sky of the kingdom of God, and then to the afterlife of man... The fate of a man after death, the whereabouts of 'Tejolia', is determined by the way of his death, especially the destination of his heart. Therefore, the sacred sacrifice Not only to satisfy the gods, but also to promise the sacrificer's afterlife..."

Shirot's expression froze. The sacrificial ceremony of the alliance, the reason why people's heart is so important is precisely because of the "Tejolia" in the heart. In religion, "Tejolia" can be seen as the soul. In medicine, "Tejolia" is the circulatory system of blood. Thinking of this, the young man asked loudly.

"Naxiu, what results have the witch doctors researched on 'Tejolia'?"

"His Royal Highness, 'Tejolia' melts in blood and is the source of the human body's vitality. Once a person is injured and the blood flows too much, they will lose their vitality and even lose their soul. Therefore, witch doctors will find ways to reduce human trauma. blood loss."

Naxiu pondered for a while, recalling the commonly used methods to stop bleeding.

"On the wound of trauma, apply ink leaves, spicy grass, yucca juice, honey or even a group of spider webs to effectively stop the bleeding. In order to prevent the wound from cracking, you can also use cotton cloth or vine bandage. If the wound rots and festers , you can put the larvae of the mung bean fly to eat the dead flesh and speed up the healing... Of course, the high priest of the alliance also has a secret method of hemostasis, which he learned from the Mayans, which can deal with long and narrow battle sticks cut."

"Well, it is true. As long as the larvae of the mung bean fly are cultivated in a clean environment, they can be used for the treatment of rotting wounds. The larvae of the mung bean fly are strictly scavengers, only eating rotten and necrotic tissues, and will not affect the healthy living body. Part. These larvae also secrete chemicals that kill microbes..."

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Shilote thought for a moment, then nodded slowly. Maggot therapy, popular in the Alliance, seemed disgusting, but saved many wounded samurai from infection. Afterwards, he became interested and asked with a smile.

"What's the Maya's secret method of stopping bleeding? Can it deal with long and narrow cuts?"

Alyssa next to her blinked, as if thinking of something.

"Um...is that an ant?"

"Yes! The princess is knowledgeable."

Naxiu smiled and gave some orders to the nearby guards. Soon, a samurai was holding a sealed clay pot and stepped forward cautiously. Naxiu opened the pot, stretched out her long fingers, quickly squeezed in, took it out quickly, and closed the pot.

"Huh? Is this a marching ant?"

Shirot looked between Naxiu's two fingers. A tropical army ant the size of half a fingernail was constantly opening and closing its sturdy upper and lower jaws, shaking its big head, struggling in vain.

Naxiu smiled lightly and brought the marching ant to a stab wound in the buck. Smelling the smell of blood, the army ant suddenly opened its jaws and bit **** the wound. Then, with a precise pinch of the slender fingers, the army ant's body fell off, leaving only the round head, biting tightly on the wound.

"That's it!"

Naxiu curled her fingers and gently touched the head of the army ant. The jaws on the head were closed, biting on the buck's wound, just sewing the corner of the knife's edge, which became a natural "suture". This "suture" is not only tight, but also carries sterilized saliva, which can help disinfect the wound.

"His Royal Highness, you see, as long as there are enough army ants, you can sew up your body's wounds. And the army ants in this clay pot are all prepared by me in advance for you..."

Seeing this, Shulot was amazed and sighed in his heart.

"Teyolia is about blood! Various herbs treat wounds, maggots resist infection, and ants sew wounds. And in Europe in this era, bloodletting is still widely used... The medical level of the ancestors of Central America is actually not at all. Not weaker than the West of this era, and even stronger!"

Of course, in the Mexica Alliance, these precious witch doctor inheritances are only monopolized by middle and high-level priests, serving a very small number of nobles. The great nobles of the alliance often lived to be over fifty, and it was not uncommon for the elders to be in their sixties and seventies. But at the same time, the average life expectancy across Central America ~www.readwn.com~ is only in the early twenties. There is a distance between heaven and earth between the god-born nobles and the ant commoners, from the quality of life to the length of life.

"His Royal Highness, the last life force, 'Ihotel' is located in the liver, which controls a person's emotions and desires, and also determines his health and charm. The meaning of 'Ihotel' is breathing, is 'Qi'. It is invisible and invisible, and its function is extremely mysterious... The priests are still exploring the understanding of it, and there are many different theories. The common snack in towns and villages, fried grasshopper, is in the form of Complementary shape. Use grasshoppers that look like livers to enhance the 'ihotel' in the human body...and when the person dies, the ehotel will die."

After Shirott recalled it for a while, he remembered what a fried grasshopper was. That's the Mexican snack of later generations, es. It is also a medicine that can help with diuresis, treat kidney disease, and relieve gastrointestinal pain. Then, he pondered the last life force, Ehotel.

"Ihotel is the Qi of breathing, and it is somewhat like the 'Yang Qi' of traditional Chinese medicine. In religion, it symbolizes mystery and unknown. In medicine, it is related to breathing, urinary, endocrine, and digestive systems. Well, mysterious and unknown...that is...that is, full autonomy of interpretation!"

The young His Royal Highness straightened up, his mind suddenly bright. He raised his head and looked at the steaming water mist above his head, changing into different forms, and sighed in a low voice.

"Like fog, like rain, like wind, like clouds, like snow, and like dreams... It is necessary to integrate the two systems and spread the medical knowledge of later generations in this ignorant era... It is still necessary to learn from the ancient discourses of traditional Chinese medicine in China. !"Click to download this site APP, massive novels, free to read!