Invincible urban management

61. The Tyrannical and Perverted Gods

Accompanied by a series of noisy flutes, drums and firecrackers, the only pyramid in Hope Harbor, or the square under the water tower, began a ceremony to worship the rainbow goddess Icahill.

The surrounding area of ​​the square was crowded with people, and most of the residents who had no work on this day came here to watch the excitement.

Although the person who presided over the sacrifice was the princess of the old enemy Aztecs, the awe of the gods was common throughout Central America.

Accompanied by two maids with red paint on their waists and colorful plastic feathers on their heads, Xue Ji Dai Lan wore a three-point bikini swimsuit and a samba dancer's feather costume with a serious look Cross the square and walk up to the top of the pyramid.

Several Aztec warriors who came with her then vigorously beat the big drum in front of them.Next, all kinds of pottery incense burners, simple wooden altars, and temporary statues of Goddess Ikahir made of wood were all carried up one by one.

The Pyramid of Hope Harbor is actually a water tower, only three stories high in total, and the wide top is basically occupied by a reservoir, and there is no platform or open space for religious activities.Princess Xueji Dailan could only keep things simple, and placed all the sacrificial utensils on the edge of the pool about 2 meters wide, then waved a lupine and a scepter, danced with words, and began to pray to the goddess Icahill.

——Fortunately, Icahill is also a water god, so holding a sacrifice next to the reservoir coincides with the teachings.

Wang Qiu stood at the other end of the reservoir, touching his chin with great interest, watching Xue Ji Dailan's sacrificial performance.

In fact, as a staunch atheist who grew up under the red flag, asking him to learn and understand a cult that likes to engage in human sacrifices, and to understand the messy and contradictory primitive myths of the Central American Indians really made Wang Qiu was in a bit of trouble.

Although Princess Xue Ji Dai Lan has been sparing no effort to promote the various powers of the gods these days, hoping that this "foreign god" can agree with the gods of the Aztecs, but the result is that chickens talk to ducks, which makes people Wang Qiu was even more confused when he heard this.

So far, Wang Qiu's only impression of the gods believed by the Aztecs is that these evil gods who like to sacrifice the living are all a group of super-heavy perverts who enjoy killing and torture!Even the Chainsaw Massacre and Jack the Ripper in modern urban legends are pure, kind and good citizens compared with the bloodthirsty and bloodthirsty Aztec gods.

—Look at what perverted evil gods these are!

The first is the original boss among the gods, the wizard god Tezcatlipoca, the black "primordial sun".The Aztecs elect a beautiful young man every year to serve as the incarnation of Tezcatlipoca. Serving him is like serving a living god. In the last 20 days of the year, even the emperor will abdicate , and personally changed his clothes, and gave him four beauties representing the four goddesses for him to enjoy, and then asked him to climb the pyramid... After climbing to the top of the tower, the priests would give this "living god" to him with a knife. Chop it up, put it in the pot to make various meat dishes for the emperor and nobles to enjoy.

Plus, Tezcatlipoca loves collecting the hearts of one-year-old babies... what a beast!

The second is Quezalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent God, the only "conscience" among the Aztec gods, and the legendary educator who taught the Aztecs to learn farming, fortification and weaving, and the only A humanist who demands human sacrifices, but substitutes dogs, monkeys, and other animals.Of course, in terms of actual operation, I am afraid that it is still a bit barbaric and rude. Compared with our Chinese people who eat monkey brains alive, they are considered gentle.

However, this guy's character seems to be a bit problematic, just because he was jealous of the original sun god Tezcatlipoca shining in the sky, he kicked him down, so Tezcatlipoca had to become a wizard god.

Later, due to his poor character, the Feathered Serpent God himself was defeated by the other gods, lost all his territory, and let the god of war, Vichilopochtli, become the boss.But the Feathered Serpent God only had time to leave a harsh word "I will come back again" before leaving, and fled to the eastern ocean.

As a result, the Spaniards who landed in the Gulf of Mexico in 1519 were regarded by the Aztecs as the incarnation of the returning Feathered Serpent.

The third is the sun god Tonatiu, the lucky one who took the opportunity to seize the throne of the sun god after the "primordial sun" Tezcatlipoca was kicked off by the Feathered Serpent, and the big household who consumed living sacrifices.Its tongue is a knife made of obsidian, protruding from the hole in its mouth, drooling, waiting for the blood and hearts of the people to support it.

Therefore, the Aztecs basically dissected prisoners of war every day and dug out their hearts to sacrifice to the sun god Tonatiu, praying that the sun would rise as usual every day.Every 52 years of the "big cycle", thousands of living people will be used to make a big sacrifice to Tonatiu - because he is afraid that he will quit and destroy the world.If the sacrificial ceremony did not have the heart of a prince or general, the picky Tonatiu would still think it was cheap and refused to accept it.

The fourth is the god of war Vecchilopochtli, the tribal god of the Aztecs themselves, and the guy who sucks the most blood among the gods.Before he became a god, this God of War killed all four hundred brothers, and then took the weapons and territory of the brothers as his own. Sacrifice.In many cases, the Aztecs launched foreign wars specifically to catch sacrifices for him.

In addition, just as there was a "marriage of the river god" in ancient China, the Aztecs often searched for some beauties of noble blood to "marry" the god of war, Vecchilopochtelli.It's just that if you marry a beautiful Chinese woman from the river god, you can end up with a dead body anyway.However, the bride married to the God of War, Vichilopochtli, will be skinned and dried soon after the wedding, and then paraded on the priest of the God of War, Vichilopochtli... It is said that other countries once had a special The unlucky princess was sent here by her father who didn't know the truth and turned into a human fur coat.

The fifth is Hippe Totek, the god of corn. Don’t think that the plant god will be kinder. This corn god is a skinning madman. The living sacrifices offered to him are not killed directly, but some Toy weapons made of wood and feathers, fighting with heavily armed Aztec warriors, you have to be beaten and bruised before you can be killed.After the death of the living sacrifice, the human skin will be peeled off, and without any processing, it will be draped bloody on the murderer's body, and it will be taken off after 20 days of parade in the street to celebrate. It is said that it is imitating the growth period of corn seeds. Peeling...

The sixth is Traet Kutli, the mother of the earth. It is a bit like Pangu who opened the world in Chinese mythology. He was torn in half by the wizard god and the feathered snake god to create the world.But the mother of the earth was much crueler than Pangu, and she refused to allow all things to grow up until she drank enough human blood.

The seventh is the hunting god Miskoatel, who is also a cruel and bloodthirsty pervert.When offering sacrifices to him, first hit a woman's head against a stone, and it is strictly stipulated that the head should be hit four times to make her unconscious. The man held the woman's head and showed it to the crowd, and finally dug out the man's heart...

The eighth is the goddess of fertility, Trazorte Otel, who is also the most perverted among the Aztec gods.A group of girls from good families who are selected to sacrifice to her every year will be used as camps to endure the ravages of strong soldiers in turn.Until the prescribed number of men have done enough (I don't know whether it is "thousand people beheaded" or "ten thousand people beheaded"), these poor girls will be dragged to the pyramid to beheaded and dig out their hearts, and then the corpses will be treated as dirty. Garbage, thrown directly into the swamp of Texcoco Lake, let it rot and stink... Meow, this is really a woman, why is it so hard for a woman...

By the way, the standard of this goddess is like squatting with bare buttocks to defecate, because she also has a priesthood as the toilet goddess.

The most important gods in the Aztec religious system are basically the above-mentioned ones, and there are some other minor gods, so I won’t go into details. Anyway, all of them are extremely strange, cruel and bloodthirsty killers.

Why are these Aztec gods so cruel and bloodthirsty?

Because the Aztecs have always believed that the world is a huge food chain, and the gods want to drink and eat human hearts and blood, just as humans want to eat animals.Therefore, the priests consider themselves the chefs of the gods, digging out people's hearts every day to provide energy for the gods, so that the world can continue to run.In order to make the "dishes" dedicated to the gods more novel and delicious, the Aztec priests even racked their brains all day long to come up with all kinds of weird and wonderful ways to kill people, and even created the method of steaming people to death. Very imaginative means of "cooking".

In comparison, the European Inquisition, which only knows how to burn people with firewood, is really unimaginative and weak.

In short, due to the cruel and bloodthirsty religious beliefs, the entire Aztec society was permeated with a sick feeling of worshiping blood. The standards of good and evil they pursued were completely different from those of other societies, and all social activities revolved around sacrifices.The Aztec army has therefore become one of the most peculiar armies in the world. Although they have sharp obsidian machetes and bows and javelins, the training the soldiers receive is not how to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but how to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Knock out enemies on the battlefield so they can be dragged back as sacrifices.

In a sense, the Aztecs’ way of warfare seems to be very humane. If someone becomes a prisoner of an Aztec warrior, he will usually be provided with good food and drink, so there is absolutely no need to worry about lack of food. wear less.But the problem is, when you look fat and white, you will be sent to the top of the pyramid, and then let the priests with quick hands and feet act as the chief surgeons, cut your chest and take out your heart. The operation process will not exceed In 5 minutes, the corpse will be cut into pieces and cooked, so that everyone can share the human flesh hot pot.

Fortunately, the number of living sacrifices needed for each sacrifice to the gods is strictly regulated. It is not good to have less, and it is not auspicious to have more.So at least some of the prisoners of war survived and served as slaves to the Aztecs, but they might not have escaped the catastrophe—wait until the next sacrifice, in case there were not enough prisoners of war , maybe I can only find some slaves to go to the pyramid to dig out the heart to make up the number.

And if a captive is a famous warrior, or a noble priest, general, or prince, then he can even enjoy the gold-level VIP treatment, and get the chance to single out with the eagle warrior or jaguar warrior during the sacrifice. !

Of course, the weapons used by the human sacrifice will be worse, usually a toy stick decorated with feathers, while the opponent will use a sharp obsidian machete... eh?Feel unfair?Meow, if you don't use a knife, what should you use to peel your skin after the beating is over? !

Even in such an unfair one-on-one fight, some particularly powerful prisoners of war have also created incredible miracles.There was once a famous Tlaxcala warrior who overturned 28 fully armed Aztec warriors with a wooden stick in a one-on-one fight after being captured, until the 29th warrior went into battle with a knife. , the Tlaxcala warriors were really exhausted, so they were cut down and bloodletted and skinned. The duels of the Aztecs were different from the gladiators of ancient Rome. Zhong also could not escape death.