Chapter 960: The Blessed Daughter, the Hope of the Totonac People!
In the quiet wooden house, the king loudly announced his daughter's name. In the Nahua language, "lhutl" means light, alluding to the sun in the sky. "Tlacoatl" means
"The long snake of the rain god, the sacred giant snake". The two names together are "the sun and the giant snake", that is, the "light snake".
Everyone in the room was silent for a moment, and then they understood the political meaning behind the name. The eyes of the doctors and priests soon showed deep envy. They looked at the daughter held by the king, and then looked at their faces.
The snake girl couldn't believe it and congratulated the king.
"Blessed by the Lord God! When the Sun God gives a divine princess, he will also give the princess a sun-like appearance and health!..."
"Praise the Lord God! The divinity of the Rain God turns into a long snake on the seashore and guards the princess! She will rise on the snake, travel around the East China Sea and mountains, and control the vast sea and land!..."
"Master of the family! Blessed by the Lord God and protected by the ancestors! You have another sacred heir! ... and she is also a caring princess..."
"Haha! Hahaha!..."
Shuluo laughed heartily. Among the congratulations from everyone, it was the words of the guard captain Ekart that suited him the most. He smiled and nodded to everyone, then touched his daughter's wrinkled little face, and then said:
With the child's powerful cry, he handed his daughter to the Priest of the Goddess of Spring who was looking after him. Only then did he look at the weak and nervous snake girl Miava, nodded slightly, and reached out to touch her.
Woman's cheek.
"Miawa, take good care of yourself! Don't work too hard, don't think too much, take care of your body and take good care of our children!..."
"Yes! Your Highness!...I, I originally wanted to give birth to a child for you..."
Miava's weak voice was trembling, even inexplicably aggrieved. Shulot raised his brows, glanced at the healthy and lively daughter next to him, and interrupted the woman before Miava could finish her words.
"Well. As the Lord God testifies, my daughter is very good! This is our daughter, I like her very much! You have to take good care of her! Do you understand?..."
Seeing the sharp and serious eyes of the king, the snake girl Miava was startled, lowered her smooth neck, and nodded obediently.
"I obey you! My Highness..."
The rising of the sun is accompanied by new life. But under the clear sunshine on the seaside, in the smooth and smooth Golden Bay City, there is a "wise" messenger whose mood is neither clear nor smooth at all. He is waiting in prison.
In the cage-like main temple, I feel restless all the time.
"Hey! Lord God! It's been seven or eight days! Why hasn't His Highness Shulot met me yet?... We agreed to meet today, but why did we cancel it at the last minute? Could it be... Could it be!... His Highness is very dissatisfied with me?
You don’t even want to give me a chance to meet?!”
"Ah! If I can't see His Highness, what will happen to me, the words I have thought up, and the surrender of Priest Papu... What should I do? What should I do!... Tilandidan's two children are still in the kingdom.
In my hands, I don’t know if it was sent to the Alliance!…”
Mayan businessman Tikalo was worried, stroking his wise bald head, and looked anxiously at the door of the courtyard guarded by red-haired warriors. He looked at it for a moment, stood on tiptoes, and tried his best to look outside through the tall skylights on both sides.
He looked around, but couldn't see anyone. After looking back and forth like this for a while, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and came to the door of the courtyard, with a shy face and said with a smile in unskilled Guaquili.
"Two respected warriors! The Lord God protects you! I... want to go out and communicate with the filth deep in the earth..."
"What? What are you going to do?"
The two Guakili warriors guarding the gate looked puzzled, looking at Maya's bald head running back and forth, wondering what the other person was talking about.
"Uh... I said, I want to go to the toilet..."
"What! You want to squat?"
A Guakili warrior was startled, stretched out his hand, pointed at the barrel in the corner of the courtyard, and replied carelessly.
"Isn't that a wooden barrel? You go and squat there! Hurry up, someone will come over to change the barrel in the morning, just once a day, and it's time to have breakfast..."
"Uh... cough! This respected red-haired warrior... um... I can't get out here. I want to go to the toilet in the temple outside..."
The newly built toilets and strict hygiene laws in various Totonac city-states and temples were one of the new policies brought about by the kingdom's conquest.
"Huh? You don't need to be in a separate pit, but you have to be crowded with others in a lively way?"
The Guakili warrior looked at the bald Maya in front of him in confusion, as if he were looking at a fool. He thought for a moment and shook his head resolutely.
"No! There is an order from above that you are not allowed to leave the yard! Unless the Chief of Death summons you!..."
"Uh... Dear red-haired warrior, please be accommodating! It's been seven or eight days... This is an old habit of mine. I'm really not used to being alone!..."
Mayan businessman Tikalo's eyes flashed. He was eager to know news from the outside world and His Highness's arrangements for him, so that he could think of a response in advance. And the priests of the main gods in the temple were his best sources of information!
The local priests of Totonac are much easier to deal with than these barbarians in the wasteland who don't know anything. And if a smart man like him is kept locked up and thinks, sooner or later he will give himself up.
Driven crazy.
"Ahem! Dear red-haired warrior, I have two small items that I want to present to the priest of the main god... Well, I ask you to pass them on for me..."
Tikalo thought for a while, reached into his arms, quietly took out two small jade ornaments, and stuffed them into the hands of the two gatekeepers. Then, he said with a smile on his face.
"Please take care of me and be a little accommodating..."
"Eh? Lord God! This slippery feel...is it from jade? Valuable jade?!"
The two red-haired Guakili warriors held the jade ornaments in their hands and looked at each other for a while, with some changes in their eyes.
"Yes! It's Mayan jade from the east. It can be exchanged for a lot of...um...cloth and pottery!..."
Mayan businessman Tikalo looked at the two red-haired warriors with a smile on his face and asked softly.
"Blessed by the Lord God! Two respected warriors, these two jade ornaments... are my thoughts and cannot be regarded as respect!..."
"..."
The two red-haired warriors looked at each other for a moment, their eyes flashing. They hesitated for a moment, and then whispered a few words in the dialect of the wasteland.
"…what do you think?"
"Take it! It's the same in the wilderness anyway, it's no big deal."
"Uh, that's okay...then let's do it!..."
The two chatted for a while, then nodded understandingly and accepted Ti Carlo's bribe. Seeing this scene, the smile on Ti Carlo's face became even brighter. He moved lightly and was about to go there immediately.
As he walked out the door, he was caught by two samurai!
"You, go out the door, what are you going to do?!"
"Uh!...This? Me?! Haven't you already agreed?..."
"What do you agree to?...Oh, you mean that? Okay!"
The two red-haired Guakili warriors smiled naively, pointed to the corner of the courtyard, and spoke seriously. After hearing a few words, Tikalo became dizzy and almost fell down in shock.
"Witness the Lord God! We are not as particular as your southern tribes. We don't need to carry any barrels... Aren't you used to being alone? Come on, we will squat with you, one on each side!..."
While the three of them were talking, a clear ringing sound suddenly sounded from the main temple outside. The ringing sounded like flying feathers, and then became more and more urgent, until a deafening bone horn sounded! The long skin and bone horn blew out
The melodious and melodious tune resounds throughout the Jinwan Temple and the city-state. And if those who are familiar with rituals listen carefully, they can clearly hear that this is the beginning of a formal ritual to worship the gods!
"Woo! Woo! Woo!..."
"Praise the Lord God! All the priests of the Lord God, come to the main hall to gather! Hurry!..."
The shouts in Mexica and Totonac echoed throughout the temple of the main god. Soon, dozens of priests of the main god from various tribes gathered in the main hall of the temple. Then, Jinwan City
Yin Muyu, a local second-level priest, held the snake-headed inheritance scepter and shouted with joy, his voice as loud as a trumpet.
"Praise the supreme God! Praise the bright sun! Praise the sacred serpent!..."
"Under our most revered Temple of Death, the most supreme Western King, just got a sacred eldest princess! She is also the daughter of the Snake Mother Chief, a blessed daughter with the blood of the sun and the divine snake flowing at the same time!...
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"The sun shines on the seaside, and the divine snake coils around the coast. The blending of the sun and the divine snake is the queen who is destined to unify the seaside land in the myths and legends of the seaside tribes!... Come! Let us recite the Ali Sutra and pray for us.
The eldest princess of the seaside, sincerely pray loudly for the hope of our seaside tribes!...The Lord God bless you! Praise the bright sun! Praise the sacred giant snake!..."
In the temple, after hearing such good news, dozens of priests from various tribes in Totonak suddenly showed ecstasy from the bottom of their hearts. In this era, the power of myths and legends is so profound.
The human heart. And where the human heart is headed is the real rule and power!
At this moment, the priests from all the seaside tribes shouted and danced like crazy, not only for the descendants of the gods predicted in the legend, for the hope of the seaside tribes, but also for their own bright future!
"Blessed by the Lord God! Praise to the Lord of Death! Praise to the sun and the giant snake!...Praise to the blessed daughter of God, the hope of the seaside tribes!..."