Aztec Eternals

Silent footsteps echoed in the ancient stone castle. It passes through the long stone steps, pushes away the dusty stone door, enters the wide stone hall, and reaches the vicissitudes of the stone slab.

Shulot stopped. He looked at the time-honored stone and wood murals in the hall, as well as various gold, silver, and jade cultural relics, and said solemnly.

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

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

"The river turtle lives under the pines and cypresses in the water. The river turtle is getting older, but the sacred tree is getting taller. Since I accepted the inheritance at the age of 24, I have been with them for a full 36 years! The capital fell That night I fled the palace in haste, thinking I would never see them again."

The knowledgeable elder lost his posture rarely, showing emotional ups and downs. He checked carefully for a long time before turning around, saluting and apologizing to His Highness with a wry smile.

"Your Highness, I made you laugh."

Xiulot shook his head slightly, and returned the salute seriously.

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

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

"Your Highness, please let us start here! You must have heard the legend of the five sun eras. The world was conceived from nothing, and the gods became the supreme sun in turn. The world was destroyed by the gods, the sun set, and life withered All these reincarnations, until today, is the fifth solar era. This first slate is about the past four eras.”

Shulot looked at the huge stone slab. Four ancient block paintings are depicted with simple brushstrokes. In the center of each board painting is a sun radiating light.

"Your Highness, the sun is located in the center of the stone slab, and it is the object of common reverence for all the ministries of the world. If you want to unite the people of the world into one body, it will not be easy forever. You need to start with the myth of the sun and tell a complete and credible story."

Hearing this, Xiulot nodded slowly with a serious expression.

"Thousands of people, it is not easy for a sage to know my intentions! The great thing I want to do, in the midst of the feudal kingdom, only you, a sage, can help!"

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

In the heart of the young king, he has always had a lofty ambition like the first emperor. Not only did he personally shape a vast empire and promote the change of the times, but he also kneaded the various ministries of the world into an indivisible nation. This vast process is like the Han people, Zhao people, Wei people, Chu people, Yan people, Qi people, and Qin people who were different in the Warring States period, and finally merged into the Han people.

In order to achieve this ambitious goal, Xiulot has enough ambition, enough patience, and enough time. The ministries of the world are similar in appearance and intermarriage. All ethnic groups have been barbaric for a long time, grammar has not been established, the concept of nationality has not appeared, and even 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 great unification, in addition to the same script, same track, unified religion, and unified law, we must also weave a link from the source of culture.

The ties of Zhu Xia are the descendants of Yan and Huang, the descendants of the dragon, the three emperors and five emperors, and the historical records of Zhou rites. And the various parts of the world conquered by the Mexica Alliance also need a tall sacred tree connected by roots, a myth and legend of common origin, to form a strong cultural bond. This legendary story must be inclusive and credible enough to be accepted by all ministries, and it must also fit the known history to the greatest extent and stand the scrutiny of future generations.

It was with such a vision that the young king searched repeatedly in Qincongcan City, and invited the knowledgeable elders of the Prepecha people to come and tell the epic of the people in the lake. After some trials in the main hall, both parties have mutual intentions and a tacit understanding.

Shulot looked at the calm smile of the knowledgeable elder, then looked at the slate carefully again, and compared the difference between the Aztec sun myth and the Prepeca sun myth.

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

The first four eras are: the first era, which is the era of the four jaguars, and the representative god is the original sun god Tescatlippo. In the second era, the age of the four winds, the Feathered Serpent God Ketsarkovatel. The third age, the age of the four rains, Tlaloc, the god of rain. In the fourth era, the era of the four waters, the goddess of rivers and lakes, Chalci Hetlicui.

On the Prepeca people’s inheritance slate, in the first era, there is a jaguar, accompanied by a human holding a torch and a spear; in the second era, there is a sweeping wind, and there is a weeping rubber tree in the wind; The third age was the mighty rain, and in the rain were towering pyramids; the fourth age was the spreading flood, and in the flood were canoes that traveled between islands.

And around these board paintings, there are many complicated graphic texts inscribed, vaguely showing the sun, moon, statues, masks, gold jade, pottery, corn, turkey, spears, shields, flames... and the dead.

Xiulot looked carefully for a long time, but he didn't gain much except for identifying the common jaguar, wind, rain, and water. He turned his head and asked Jadiri sincerely.

"I also ask the sage to interpret it and tell me the truth."

Jadiri looked at the old board paintings and smiled leisurely.

"Your Highness, there are only pictures on the inheritance slabs, and the images are vague. The explanations are all focused on the current situation. After mastering the inheritance, the priests and sages have the power to speak. Most of the ministries in the world are like this today. Inquiry, then the old man will talk about the truth in the tribal inheritance, which is passed on orally but not outside."

"For the four past epochs, each part of the world has different explanations and different lengths of time. In these epochs, after the gods and symbols, it is actually the past country of the past, the dusty ancient civilization. The more the epoch Going forward, the more abstract and ambiguous the mural epics of each department are, the more common the symbols are. The ancient times are difficult to verify, so we can use the common parts of the epics as evidence of the homology of the various departments.”

The knowledgeable elder said these difficult words with deep meaning. Then, he stretched out his skinny palm and stroked the graphics on the four eras.

"The first solar era was the process of the ancestors rising from the jungle. They ignited flames, made stone weapons, drove and tamed wild animals, established settlements, and became kings of the jungle like jaguars. The specific process , now no one knows, and the place where the ancestors originated is also elusive. The first era is like the original sun god Tescatlipo in Mexica mythology. It is the impermanence of the world and the wind of the night, elusive know."

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

"What the sage said is right. The first era is unpredictable and has no history to test, and it also includes all peoples."

Jati smiled. He moved his palm and stayed on the rubber tree in the wind.

"The second solar era is the earliest ancestors that can be traced back, the Olmecs. Orme means rubber, Mek is the ethnic group, and Olmec is the ethnic group of rubber people. Their era, from now on It has been two thousand years. The Olmecs are located 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 First to worship the jaguar and feathered serpent."

"In that era, there may have been many wild tribes, many small settlements, and many loose forces. But the most civilized and famous were the Olmecs. Today, all tribes in the world are all related to the Olmecs. People have their own origins. The god of the second era was the Feathered Serpent God Ctesarkovatl. Wherever the Feathered Serpent belief 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 Mayans in the far east, they all more or less originated from the Olmec civilization and accepted the second era the brilliance! "

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

Shulot pondered deeply and murmured. His grandfather used to tell him stories about the Olmecs. The Totonaks on the eastern seaboard occupy the ruins of the Olmec civilization, and they also sent the ancient masks of the Olmecs during Avit's coronation ceremony.

"The Olmecs are the ancient Greek city-states with brilliant culture in Central America, or the Luoyi and Chengzhou who spread the patriarchal clan. They are the descendants of Yanhuang and Jiaoren."

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

"Your Highness, go to the Great Lakes in the west, the Maya in the east, the rainforest in the south, and the plateau in the north. All the people in the world are born from glue people. This is the first taproot that binds all peoples!"

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

"The second era is the origin of each ministry. All the ministries in the world were originally one. But at the end of the era, after the fall of the Olmec kingdom, they were scattered around and formed different branches. The pyramids that are similar but different all over the world are the A witness to the development of the branch!"

"In the legends of various ethnic groups, there are differences in the third era. A thousand years ago, the Mayans in the far east built the Feathered Serpent Pyramid in Tikal; the Teotihuacan people on the northern plateau built the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon; the ancient Zapotecs in the southern jungle built the Alban Mountain Pyramid; and the Loma Alta people in the western lake built the pyramids by the lake. These pyramids of the same origin are Harness the second root system of the people!"

Hearing this, the young king's pupils suddenly shrank. He came from the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon, and he was always in awe of these ancient ruins. In this era, both civilians and nobles adore and worship these ancient grand wonders equally, and entrust their spiritual destination in the shocking wonders.

"A very good statement! The same ancestor, different branches. Pyramids witness, unite all peoples"

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

"Ancient Zapotec? Loma Alta?"

"The ancient Zapotecs are the ancestors of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs. They are located in the central valley of Oaxaca in the far east and south. Mount Alban is the green mountain."

"As for the Loma Altas."

Jatiri smiled deeply again.

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

Shulot put his hands behind his back, paced, and murmured.

"In this way, all the ministries of the world can be assigned to different branches of civilization. The Teotihuacan people worship the rain god Tlaloc, which is indeed in line with the gods of the third era in Mexica mythology. Then The tribes of the north, the Mexica, the Otomi, the Tlaxcalans, and the Huastecs belong to the Teotihuacan family."

Hearing this, Jatiri smiled slightly. Shulot blushed. Since the other party is a knowledgeable elder, it is impossible to hide the origin of the Mexica and Tlaxcalans. He continued to speak calmly.

"The tribes in the west, the Terkos, the Trapaniks, and the Prepechas all belong to the Loma Alta family. The ministries in the south, the Mixtec, Zapotec, and Guzapotec tribes, Totonaks in 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 people of the same origin in the world are divided into four branches, east, south, west, and north. Although the customs are different, all people are one!"

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

"No, the world has the same ancestor, and then there are seven branches. There is another branch in the far north of the white disaster, living a life of migration and swimming; one is on the island of the Great Lake in the East, driving a canoe to and fro; and finally One branch passed through the jungles of the far south and established the kingdom of gold."

"White calamity in the far north. Your Highness is referring to the various tribes of dog descendants?"

Hearing this, Shulot smiled without saying a word, and Jadiri continued to speculate.

"Integrating the dog-born is a difficult and easy thing. They don't establish culture, advocate force, and are elusive. Only by defeating them completely and occupying the water source and cultivated land in the northern desert can the dog-born be brought under the command. And once they are subdued , assimilation is very fast."

"The canoe on 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, and they are rich in tobacco. The great lake is turbulent, and it is not easy to find their islands. matter."

"As for the jungle in the far south, south of Maya is a mountain forest rich in emeralds. Where is the golden kingdom that His Highness mentioned?"

The young king smiled and didn't answer anything. He just looked at the fourth stone slab and asked softly.

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

"Your Highness, we can say this, and Wanmin is willing to believe it."

Jadiri's wrinkles unfolded in his smile, like a quivering fox.

"Actually, the Fourth Era was only a few hundred years ago, and the records of various pictures are quite clear. It was an era of erratic rains, sometimes floods, and sometimes droughts. It was also a turbulent era when the northerners went south. Many say that The dog descendants of the Wa language moved south one after another and poured into the Mexica Plateau. They collided fiercely with the original ethnic groups, and then quickly merged with each other to form new alliances and kingdoms!"

"The dog descendants migrated south, the Nahua-speaking tribe"

Shulot's eyes moved slightly. The Fourth Era was around the period of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, accompanied by the cooling of the global climate and the abnormality of the celestial phenomena and climate. This was the era when the nomads moved southward in an all-round way, the era when the Vikings invaded the south on a large scale, and the era when the Chichimeks continued to migrate southward.

All the Nahua-speaking tribes in the world actually come from the dog descendants who migrated southward for hundreds of years and merged with the local original ethnic groups. The Tepanek people who once dominated the Mexica Valley, the Tlaxcala people at the source of the Balsas River, the Totonac people on the east coast, and even the Prepecha people in the land of the lake all said that Wa tribes. The Mexica were the last Nahua tribe to migrate south to the Mexica Plateau. The Nahua tribes have similar languages ​​and appearances, and they are actually brothers in blood, and they are always good at fighting in ethnic groups.

Correspondingly, the Otomi, Vastecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs used another similar language and inherited more heritage from ancient civilizations. Of course, with the never-ending wars and exchanges between the various ministries, the languages ​​of the various ministries are also permeating each other.

"Your Highness, the Fourth Era is an era full of turmoil, and the symbolic god is the god of rivers and lakes. Unpredictable rainfall, disordered agriculture, and the descendants of dogs moving south have had a severe impact on the north of the world. All ministries are in Constant wars and migrations. If the dog descendants are also included in the same branch, then the fourth era will be the era of the reintegration of the peoples! And the integration of the peoples is destined to be completed in the current fifth era through the hands of His Highness !"

"All peoples have the same origin, after separate development, and then move towards mutual integration, until they return to the same family, unified under the root of the same sacred tree! The story is perfect and self-consistent, and it is determined by the gods. This is the fate of the five eras, It can truly dominate the world, connect all peoples, and unify the myths and legends of various ministries!"

Speaking of this, a little excitement appeared on Jadiri's old face. He stared at Shulot with scorching 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 throughout the whole world for a hundred years!

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

"Your Highness, the Fourth Era has left behind many definite epics. In the Mexica Valley, the kingdom of the Toltecs prospered and declined, and finally passed down to the feet of the Mexica through the hands of the Tepaneks. And in the land in the lake, there are two Urihiu Kingdoms. They perished during the southward migration of the dog descendants, revived, and perished again, and then the Tarasco Kingdom was established and prospered!"

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

Saying that, Jadiri strode out a few steps. He stretched out his hand vigorously, and pressed down heavily on the second adjacent stone slab.

The author read some literature, reorganized the legends of various ministries in China and the United States, and thought about it for a long time. If you want to maintain the unity of the empire for a long time, you must establish a common cultural understanding and unite the tribes into a nation. Then, the author tried his best to use his brain, imitating the legends of Yan and Huang, and processing the myths of the five sun eras to construct a roughly unified theory, and strive to include all tribes. Political theory is not completely true, but processed history.