Chapter 335 Mythology (Please vote and subscribe)
That tribe is not small, with two to three thousand people, but it cannot be considered a tribe. In other words, they are more like a tribal alliance, composed of more than a dozen small tribes, living together in a gathering place, and they also have one thing in common, that is, they have all been attacked by cannibals, and later, by chance, they decided to gather together to resist.
There are quite a few people in this tribal alliance. Although they cannot grow crops, they have learned to domesticate wild beasts. Many of the big-horned deer, alpacas, and wild donkeys on the plains have been captured, and they have been bred for several generations under artificial breeding, gradually moving towards the direction of livestock.
Moreover, the people of this tribal alliance, men and women, old and young, all practice riding. Whether it is alpacas, wild donkeys or big-horned deer, they are all developing in the direction of mounts. It is said that this is to gain fast mobility and to escape easily when they are attacked by cannibals.
There are also many elders in this tribal alliance, similar to the witches or elders of other tribes. They also inherit the knowledge of their respective tribes, as well as a common myth in their area.
This myth was widely circulated in the form of pictures. It was said that not only their tribal alliance knew about it, but there were other alliances like them nearby, and they also knew about this legend. Several elders showed Youye and his group the pictures carved on the stone slabs and told them the stories in the pictures, which shocked Youye and his group at the time.
After reading the pictures, Youye asked the two team members who were good at drawing to copy the pictures on animal skins and sent them back with the letter, and also attached a text version of the story.
This is a prophecy story. The story begins in a valley where an ape was born. Then the ape grew bigger and bigger, and finally grew to be twice as tall as its own kind.
This is the content of the first picture, which should be an introduction to the origin of the giant ape. However, Luo Chong didn't really believe that the giant ape had a genetic mutation and grew twice as tall as its own kind. Even if it had gigantism, it would not increase its normal size by twice its normal size. Luo Chong didn't know about other animals, but this was almost impossible for humans.
The average height of a normal human is about 1.7 meters, but Luo Chong has never heard of anyone on Earth who is over 3 meters tall, even if they have gigantism.
In fact, Luo Chong doesn't care about these. These may be the speculations of those primitive people about the origin of the giant ape, and the credibility is very low. However, the valley drawn in the first picture attracted Luo Chong's attention very much, because the valley looked round and very high, which reminded Luo Chong, a modern man
, of a volcanic crater. In fact, Luo Chong had already speculated that there was a volcano here, especially when he first saw the banded veins in Babaoshan. At that time, he said that the banded veins were all caused by volcanic eruptions and magma flows. Otherwise, most of the minerals accumulated by normal geological changes are stored in a layered manner. The
second picture continues the plot of the first picture. Because of its huge size, the mutated giant ape began to be unable to eat enough food, so it started to eat its own kind. Because of this change, some of his kind left the valley.
Before they left, they held a grand ceremony, and then the mountain collapsed, and countless rocks fell to the bottom of the mountain, and then turned into a lot of water, and finally merged into a river, flowing far away, and the migrating apes followed the direction of the river and walked away together.
This painting is very strange, because according to the introduction of the story they circulated, the plot is too fantastic, but if Luo Chong were to translate it, it should be that the apes in the valley split up, and some migrated out, and held a ceremony before leaving.
As for the landslide, the stone turned into water. According to Luo Chong's understanding, it might be a painting of a snow mountain. The snow mountain melted, and the ice turned into water. This is easier to accept.
Then the ice and snow melted into a river, flowing to the distance. This is likely to mean that the water source of this land is the ice water melted from the snow mountain.
Next, the migrating part of the people migrated along the river. This is easy to understand. After all, human survival requires water, and there is no problem surviving along the river.
The third painting is still a continuation of the previous plot. The part that migrated out multiplied along the river, and many tribes appeared. The giant ape tribe in the valley had more giant apes, and they were also multiplying.
After that, the giant ape walked out of the valley, followed the river to those small tribes to catch people, ate some, took some away and continued to live with them, and then hunted together and ate people.
The meaning of this painting is not easy to understand, and it has always been a problem that troubled Luo Chong. At that time, he had seen similar murals in the Black Rat Tribe, saying that the giant apes caught people and raised them. This is not very realistic.
But now combined with the previous two paintings, it is not difficult to analyze the reason. It should be that the giant apes still regard these humans as their former tribesmen, just like they lived together in the valley before. Although some people have left, they are still of the same lineage, so the giant apes think they are still the same kind.
If we analyze it according to this idea, it will be easier to accept, and it also explains another phenomenon. The giant apes living on the snowy mountains still have long golden red hair, while the humans who migrated out, because they went lower and lower along the river, it became warmer and warmer, so in the end the long hair on their bodies degenerated and gradually became the humans Luo Chong saw now.
The fourth painting is still the giant ape going down the mountain to catch people, but this time it also brought some of the humans who merged with them again. This should be the current cannibals. The following things are to continue the content of the third picture, eating people, catching people, merging, the cannibals grow stronger, and then return to the snowy mountains.
The fifth painting is about the humans who migrated out. They couldn't stand the continuous attacks of the cannibals, and gradually began to gather together to live and formed a tribal alliance.
This is very interesting, because no matter whether it is the tribal alliance that Youye and his friends encountered, or the current Han tribe, if you insist on following this plot, it is indeed the case. Luo Chong does not know how the tribal alliance came together.
But on the Han tribe side, whether it is the Tree Tribe that joined first, or the Black Rat Tribe that joined later, and the latest batch of new members, apart from the fact that Luo Chong deliberately made trouble, they really came together to fight against the cannibals together. Whether it is a tribal alliance or a single Han tribe, according to the explanation in this painting, it all makes sense.
(End of this chapter)
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