Chapter 660

Yucatan is a state of Mexico, located in the northern Yucatan Peninsula, north of the Gulf of Mexico, the capital is Merida.

The whole Yucatan Peninsula is one of the cradles of ancient Maya culture.

According to the stone inscriptions that have been found, the Mayans established cities in the northeast of Lake beden Itza in the south of Yucatan Peninsula at the beginning of A.D.

In the 5th-6th century, they established the city of Qiqin Itza.

The city of Qiqin Itza not only has exquisitely carved and vivid statues, but also has monuments painted with honey, egg white and lime, as well as the world-famous Mayan pyramids.

Among the hundreds of pyramids, the most famous is the kukurkan pyramid, which stands in the open space of the tropical jungle.

The original meaning of "kukurkan" in the local Aboriginal Language is: a place for dancing and singing, or a snake god with feathers.

Kukurkan pyramid is about 30 meters high, surrounded by 91 steps, a total of 364 steps, plus the feather snake temple on the top of the tower, a total of 365 steps, symbolizing 365 days in a year.

On both sides of the steps are side walls up to 1 meter wide. At the lower end of the north side wall, there is a large stone carving of snake head with feathers. The snake head is 1.43 meters high, 1.80 meters long and 1.07 meters wide. The snake has a big tongue out of its mouth, which looks very frightening.

What's more, the most mysterious place of kukurkan pyramid is on this snake statue: every year at sunset on the two days of spring equinox and autumn equinox, the side wall of a group of steps on the north side of the pyramid will form seven curved isosceles triangles under the sunlight, together with the snake head carved at the bottom, just like a giant snake swimming from the top of the tower to the earth, as if to climb out of the temple.

Each time, the illusion lasted for a full 3 hours and 22 minutes.

This mysterious landscape is known as the snake shape of light and shadow.

In ancient times, whenever the snake shadow spectacle appeared in the kukurkan pyramids, the Mayans would get together and sing and dance to celebrate the arrival of the feathered snake god.

According to the information provided by Sophie, Chu Yang came to cukulkan pyramid south of the University of Mexico on February 28 of the Chinese lunar calendar in 2012.

February 28 of the Chinese lunar calendar is the vernal equinox.

Equinox: the equinox of day and night means the fourth of the 24 solar terms. At this time, the sun is directly on the equator, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the warbler flies and the grass grows. It is suitable for farming, field management, sightseeing, etc.

Because kukurkan pyramid always has the mysterious phenomenon of "light and shadow snake shape" at the spring equinox and autumn equinox, there will always be a large number of tourists here on this day.

Chuyang, dressed like a Mexican in a floral shirt, is among the tourists.

Just like those famous scenic spots in China, kukurkan pyramid also has special brochures with copper plate and colored paper.

"Light and shadow snake? Hehe, it sounds very mysterious, but I don't know if the snake will crawl over and say hello to me when I arrive. "

After a casual look, Chu Yang went to a small temporary coffee shop, ordered a cup of cat dung coffee, which is said to be made from coffee beans pulled from cat's asshole, and asked for a Cuban cigar (he was sure that both of them were fake versions, because they only cost more than ten dollars.), He raised his hand to help the white cowboy hat on his head and asked the Mexican girl who had just finished greeting the guests: "Hi, miss, there are a lot of guests today. Do you come to see the light and shadow snake?"

The Mexican chick with a little bit of dark skin and a pair of enchanting eyes seems to have a good look at someone's Asian white face.

First of all, she gave him an exotic and ambiguous eye. Then the Mexican chick showed her white teeth and sat opposite him, holding her chin in one hand and pulling down her low collar in the other hand, which made the ditch under the two mountains deeper. Then she clamped her left eye and replied, "yes, at this time, There will be a lot of tourists here. But this year there are a lot of them. "

With a casual glance at the girl's chest, Chu Yang looks up quietly, looks at the crowd outside the shed and asks, "Why are there so many guests this year?"

"Because at midnight tonight, there is a sacrificial ceremony."

The Mexican chick looked around, leaned in front of chuyang, and said in a mysterious low voice: "according to the prophecy, December 21 this year is the end of the fifth solar age, and the high priest shakku emerged in front of the altar more than a month ago. Huyeo, the new high priest, said that shakku had gone to ask the sun god for permission. The plumed serpent god who came to the world more than a year ago will appear tonight to save the dying world. Therefore, a sacrificial ceremony will be held at midnight today to welcome the arrival of the plumed serpent god.... "

"The Plumed Serpent will show up tonight?"

Hearing this, Chu Yang asked: "is that high priest Hu Yeo sure that the plumed serpent god will appear tonight? Where did you get the news? Oh, by the way, how is the sacrificial ceremony held? What's more, how to determine the truth of the plumed snake god? "

Chu Yang came to Mexico this time just to see the place where shaakuku became an immortal, hoping to get some useful clues.

But he never thought that he, the "plumed snake god" identified by Sophie, would come back to China to "torture" Chai Murong. After he came here, he would encounter some kind of sacrifice ceremony.

Moreover, listen to this girl, it seems that huyeo is certain that the Plumed Serpent will appear this evening.

In this way, chuyang had great interest, and then asked the Mexican chicks a series of questions.

Seeing that chuyang only cares about her words, the Mexican chick turns a blind eye to her pair of nietzu who are about to jump out. She suddenly loses her interest. After shrugging her shoulders, she lifts her collar to cover the "exotic scenery". After shaking her head, she doesn't say anything and stands up to leave.

"Ah, I asked you something!" Chu Yang see others want to go, quickly reached for her left hand.

Mexican girl a frown, just want to say what, but saw Chu Yang out of his pocket seven or eight large dollars into her hand, eyes also began to stare at her chest: "ha ha, I haven't asked what your name is. Can we be friends? Are you free tonight? I'd like to invite you out for a drink

"My name is marina." Seeing that chuyang was on the road like this, with money and "male se", the Mexican girl was in a good mood. She put those dollars directly into her bra, sat down next to him and began to answer his questions

The difference between the Egyptian pyramids and the Mayan pyramids is that the Egyptian pyramids are the tombs of the Pharaons, while the Mayan pyramids are mainly used to hold various religious ceremonies, and only a small number of pyramids have the function of tombs.

When the Mayans hold various religious ceremonies, the sacrificial ceremony is an indispensable part.

In ancient times, the sacrifice activities of the Mayans were frequent and cruel: War, festivals, praying for harvest, and many other activities had sacrificial ceremonies. The sacrifice not only had rich treasures, but also used the hearts of living people to sacrifice to the sun god.

But with the continuous development of society, this cruel way of sacrifice has been stopped by the local government.

However, with the advent of December 21, 2012, the Mayans, who take "saving mankind as their own responsibility", under the leadership of their high priest, have secretly held this kind of cruel sacrificial ceremony on the midnight when the Plumed Serpent God appeared on the spring equinox and autumn equinox for several years.

However, although modern sacrificial rites still use living people to offer sacrifices to the sun god, the process is not so bloody, which is also infected by modern civilization.

According to the information revealed by Marina, a local aborigine, chuyang knows a little about the process of sacrifice: the "offering" to the sun god is usually a beautiful young girl. Before the ceremony, the girl spent 16 days of fasting in front of the sun god in a temple. When it's midnight on the spring equinox or autumn equinox, the girls will be fumigated by all kinds of spices, then put on gorgeous clothes and walk up to the altar at the top of kukurkan pyramid with the accompaniment of monotonous drums.

When the midnight bell rings, the frail girl will be pressed on the altar by four saints in Mayan costume.

Then, the high priest will pierce her heart with a long iron nail, let her "purified" blood flow down the altar, and finally disappear under the altar at the top of the pyramid.

When the girl is "accepted" by the sun god, the high priest will hold up the scepter of the skeleton in his hand and shout some ancient Maya sacrificial sayings of "red nimanima" to the believers around the pyramid.

At this time, the people around the pyramid and the four saints on the altar will all crawl to the ground, hoping to win the arrival of the plumed serpent god with their piety, and bring mankind to a new era before the end of the world.

Although this kind of sacrificial ceremony in the middle of the night can't be concealed from the local government, as long as no one goes to the police station to report a case, they won't be able to control it.

Because local government officials are also convinced that December 21, 2012 is the end of the fifth solar age, and they are eager to have a God to save them

When Marina told her story, in order to make the problem clearer, chuyang paid a little price: more than a dozen US dollars, and a sweet kiss on the forehead.

Bewitched by money and "beauty", Marina stops even doing business in a small coffee shop. She leads Chu Yang affectionately and walks into a temporary tent where she has a rest.

Chu Yang doesn't mind spending money to buy news, and he can accept the reality of giving "sweet kisses" to girls. However, he really doesn't want to, and doesn't have the ability to, and this girl, who is full of the smell of estrus of female animals, to be in a place close to the gods.

To put it bluntly, Chu used the pretext of "doing this as blasphemy" to stop Marina from taking off her clothes, and promised that after tonight, he would invite her to the largest hotel in Mexico to "deepen" her feelings in detail.

Although she can't taste the taste of Asian handsome man for the time being, the carefulness and sweet words of someone in Chu still intoxicated marina and told her all she knew: "John, you just asked how to verify the true body of the plumed serpent god, which is very simple."