primitive survival evolution

Chapter 28 Sacrifice
morning.

The drizzle is rippling, weaving densely diagonally, intertwining quietly, without making a sound, this rain seems to be a little different from the past.

The totem tree propped up a large piece of cloud leaves, greedily absorbing a little bit of drizzle.

Under its protection, the bottom of the tree was dry and dry. At this time, all the members of the Taka tribe gathered here, and today they all wear a string of white shells on their hands.

Everyone sat down around the sacred totem tree.

A piece of grilled fish, a bowl of small corn rice, a bowl of black witch fruit, a bowl of white witch fruit, and a roasted doodle bird.

This is the sacrifice for the totem tree.

A jade cong and a jade wall.

This is the sacrificial vessel passed down from generation to generation in the tribe.

Mu woke up the tribe early in the morning to gather around the totem tree and told everyone the story of Pangu opening up the sky and Nuwa creating man.

"God created everything."

"We are descendants of God."

These two sentences are often mentioned by Mu, just as all the tribes on the Pangu continent regarded themselves as descendants of gods.

Li Yan thought more than once, since Nuwa created human beings, how could we be the descendants of gods?

He once asked Mu for advice, but who knew that Mu was furious, saying that he did not respect God. This was the first time Li Yan saw Mu lose such a temper. Since then, Li Yan has stopped questioning Mu about witchcraft.

After Mu finished telling these fairy tales, he and three elderly women painted their faces yellow with yellow paint, painted a circle of red around the eyes, painted two vertical white lines at the corners of their mouths, and wore bird feather crowns. Put on a yellow grass skirt.

They are singing and dancing, sometimes like a Latin dance, with a very large body, sometimes like a dancer, crazy.

They took pottery bowls of water and sprayed them everywhere, spraying them on the surrounding clansmen.

These dances danced by Mu and the old woman are very sacred, and the tribesmen respect them very much. The more water they spray on their bodies, the luckier they will be.

It was obvious that Li Yan was the one to be taken care of.

Soon, he was sprayed drenched. This is a sacred ceremony and a tradition of the tribe. He had no choice but to let the water spray all over his body.

Finally finished spraying, Li Yan heaved a sigh of relief, and the old women in the middle knelt under the totem to pray.

"Brother, help me tie my hair up." Ying who was next to him suddenly took the straw rope and handed it to Li Yan.

Li Yan couldn't help hesitating when he saw her greasy hair.

However, he still tied it up for her, and complained: "I told you to wash your hair every day, you must have forgotten it, just learn from those big hairy children, if you don't pay attention to hygiene, I will ignore you."

He has tried to change the habits of his tribe more than once, but it is very difficult. It is not a matter of overnight for the tribe to change their behavior habits for many years.

Sakura readily agreed, nothing happened at all.

"If you continue like this, no male from any tribe will be willing to marry you!" Li Yan couldn't help saying.

"Who said that?" Sakura didn't care.

Ying is the heir of the white witch of the tribe, and she cannot marry outside. She can only find a man with the same surname to ration her. However, in this primitive era where fatness is considered beautiful, a woman like Ying with a slender figure but not big enough buttocks is completely ugly. female symbol.

Li Yan was worried that it would be unreasonable for her to have no one, just like Wen Ge's spouse is a thin woman from the tribe, so the tribe can only exchange with other tribes for a disabled person like Wen Ge.

Especially now that the men of many tribes are unwilling to marry out of the tribe. The Taka tribe is already poor, and it is even more difficult to intermarry with other tribes. It is a loss-making business every time.

"Okay, clansmen, put your shell ropes in front of you." Mu said suddenly.

Hearing this, Li Yan took off the shell bracelet on his left hand and untied the shell chain.

Li Yan's bracelet has a total of sixteen small shells the size of fingernails.

Soon, an elderly woman was holding a wicker basket, walking in front of each clansman and putting down a small shell.

Tom asked everyone to string the shells again.

Every year at this time, Mu will give everyone a shell, and this string of shells belongs to the individual until the clan member dies and is buried with the string of shells.

Mu said again: "The clansman who has a bracelet of thirteen shells in his hand, come up to the sacred tree."

On one side, three half-grown children who met the requirements quickly stood up and ran to Mu in front of Mu.

These three children are two boys and one girl, they are very thin, dirty, short and thin, with yellow and thin faces, it is not obvious that they have survived thirteen adult sacrifices.

They respectfully kneeled in front of the sacred tree and accepted Mu's blessing of "sprinkling water".

When you have thirteen shells, you will become an adult. This string of shells is the only personal item of the tribe, and every tribe cherishes it very much.

Li Bi.

They sat back happily.

Mu asked Li Yan to stand up again.

"Yan, these three children will be adults in the future. We have agreed with the Wenjia tribe. This year, our Taka tribe will visit the Wenjia tribe to exchange marriages. I hope you can bring population to the tribe."

"Uh-huh."

Whenever a man or woman in the tribe comes of age, the tribe will exchange marriage with the intermarried clan. At the same time, this is also the time to test the ability of the tribe chief.

In the late period of the matrilineal clan, exchange marriages did not distinguish between men and women, and could be exchanged with labor or goods. Usually, it was a human exchange, but women were more valuable than men, because women could increase the population after they were brought back to the tribe.

Mu ordered people to pass the jade cong to Li Yan.

"This is the jade cong of our Taka tribe. You put it away first. After fifteen days, you will take the unmarried men and women of the tribe to the Wenjia tribe to exchange marriages."

Li Yan took it, nodded and said, "I will definitely increase the population of the tribe!"

"Tama, Li Yan has never been to the Wenjia tribe, you go with him and help him." Mu said again.

"Yeah." Tamar nodded.

Li Yan couldn't help asking: "Mum, besides bringing the clansmen, what else do you need to prepare?"

"Prepare whatever the tribe needs," Mu said.

"Then what exactly do you need?" Li Yan was puzzled.

"It's dried meat, animal skins, and fruits. The one next to it" Tamar replied.

"I see, it turned out to be a bride price." Li Yan suddenly realized.

Marriage is a very happy thing, but it seems that everyone's complexion is a bit uneasy, as if they are very worried about this exchange marriage.

Li Yan was puzzled, could marriage in primitive times be very violent?
A total of four men and women were brought to the exchange marriage, three newly grown children, and Sakura.

Because Ying is the heir of the White Witch, she is looking for a man to join the tribe. Ying is one year younger than Li Yan, and no man has been willing to return to the tribe with her for three consecutive years.

The same is true for Li Yan, because he used to be thin and thin, no woman liked him during the exchange marriage, and later he became the patriarch, so there was no need for the exchange marriage.

However, Mu has ordered Tamar to find a fat tribal woman for Li Yan.

(End of this chapter)