Chapter 637 The Second Kingdom Exploration, Ancient Myths, and the Grand Mayan Epic!

"Oh, you are talking about the descendant of the Heavenly Serpent God, that is incredible!"

The long river goes north, and the lagoon flows. Red Lake Town is located between the river and the lake, and seven long boats are anchored at the junction of the river and the lake. At this moment, the epic poems of various Mayan tribes were slowly carried in the evening breeze at the mouth of the river. Just a few words spanned thousands of years of rise and fall!

"This starts from the bygone golden age! The entire Mayan land, from the coast of Yucatan in the north to the mountains of Guatemala in the south, is more than two thousand miles from north to south. From south to north, it can be divided into seven hundred There are hundreds of tribes and city-states scattered in this vast rain forest, which lasts for three thousand years!"

Tikalo looked distant and raised his head slightly, as if he was reminiscing about ancient memories. He paused slightly and his tone became serious and serious.

"However, although the Mayan tribes are scattered north and south, they have a common origin, which is the Maya in the Golden Age, the city-state of the gods in the Central Basin! Thirteen hundred years ago, in the endless rainforest of the Central Basin, many descendants of the gods were everywhere. Under the guidance of God, the golden age began and the most glorious ancient poems were written. At that time, the entire central basin was filled with cultivated farmland, built canals, vast cities, continuous star observatories, and towering towers. The temples of the clouds!”

At this point, Ti Carlo's eyes were filled with yearning. He couldn't help but sang a Mayan ballad that had been passed down for thousands of years, with a timeless and melodious voice.

"The gods came from the sky, leaving behind the gods in the forest to guide the people on the earth! The Mayans, bathed in the starlight of the gods, under the leadership of the gods, built towering temples and vast Stadium, build a tower of stars, build a magnificent city-state!”

"There are eight million stardust in the sky, and eight million mortals on the earth. There are 80,000 bright stars in the night sky, and there are 80,000 stargazing platforms high up. The gods have 8,000 shooting stars, and the city-states have 8,000 shooting stars." There are eight hundred gods in the divine world, and eight hundred descendants of gods in the human world!"

"Countless mortals work day and night, and countless pyramids rise from the ground. Long-term stone tablets carve myths and epics, and inherited boards record the mysteries handed down by the gods. Corn people, just follow the footsteps of the gods, and the footsteps of the giants will follow. It will never stop! Like the lava flowing in the volcano, like the strong wind blowing on the sea, from the earth of the world to the starry sky of the divine world, the soul will never stop!"

Ti Carlo sang loudly, with longing, imagination and dreams for the golden age. Chihuaco, the veteran militiaman, blinked and thought about it for a long time before he came back to his senses and shook his head with emotion.

"Ouch! My God! How many people are there with eight million people in the seven hundred miles of rainforest? How can we build so many temples if we stay in the rainforest?"

"Eight hundred gods, eight hundred descendants of gods? Damn it!"

The main god priest Tomat raised his eyebrows and his eyes were sharp. Then, he thought of the Kingdom’s miraculous hot air balloon and muttered to himself,

"From the earth of the human world to the starry sky of the divine world? The Mayans will never stop?"

"With so many people, so many descendants of gods, and so many city-states, why don't we just turn them into a pot of porridge? No wonder we have to build so many human sacrifice stadiums."

Puap stared and touched the copper ax on his waist. Soon, he began to urge urgently.

"Where is the descendant of the Serpent God? Say it quickly, say it quickly!"

"The Mayan city-states of the Golden Age were densely distributed in the central basin. The most glorious among them were the god capital Tikal and the snake capital Calakmul. The two great city-states competed and fought with each other. The struggle for the leadership of the Mayan tribes lasted for hundreds of years, and finally ended with the victory of the divine capital! Tikal has since become the capital of the gods, and the leader of each tribe has led the Mayan tribes to the peak of the golden age. Sheng!”

"However, according to the records of our ancestors, the real name of the god thousands of years ago should be Yax Mutal, 'the great knot'. In ancient times, the knot also meant the divine snake. And 'Kala' is a snake, and Calakmul means 'the place where the divine snake lives'. Therefore, the descendants of the gods who rule in these two most glorious city-states all inherit the blood of the Serpent God. The most respected descendant of the Heavenly Snake God!”

"Ah! Okay, okay! What is this Tikal, what is Calakmul, where is the location?"

Puap couldn't wait, clenched the copper ax in his hand, and asked through gritted teeth.

"Are there many of their divine descendants? Can they be caught?"

Tikalo smiled half-heartedly, glanced at Puap, and shook his head.

"The City of Gods and the City of Snakes are both in the rainforest deep in the central Maya. From here to the east, you have to go through more than a thousand miles of jungle to reach the ruins of the two great city-states."

"What! Ruins?"

"Yes! No matter how magnificent the golden age is, it will also come to an end, just like the sun will go to dusk. When the city of Tikal was at its peak, the confident and ignorant descendants of the gods did not know how to offend the gods. The gods led them He left in anger, and terrible disasters came immediately, which lasted for two hundred years! Two hundred years of floods and droughts, two hundred years of fighting and sacrifices, and unrecorded horrific disasters. Two hundred years later, the Central Basin Hundreds of city-states were destroyed by divine disasters. It was a dark age when countless descendants of gods were wiped out and countless tribes died! Even the long-standing stone tablets were forever stopped six hundred years ago, with only a few words of fear engraved on them. An obscure and dark history.”

Tikalo's expression turned gloomy. He pursed his lips and gritted his teeth, still unable to calm down the fear and sadness in his heart for that era. This is a deep and indelible emotion that our ancestors left unclearly in their epic poems. After a while, Ti Carlo sighed quietly.

"The rainforest has re-covered the farmland, and birds have nested on the top of the temple. The observatory is covered with spider webs, and the stadium is filled with hares. The central basin, which was once populated by people, suddenly turned into a green desert. The remaining tribes are like fleeing. , stayed away from there in fear, no longer willing to stay in the dead city. The golden age of Maya came to an end! Then came the great migration from north to south in the Dark Age."

"The remaining descendants of the gods from various tribes, with fragments of knowledge about the gods, re-established new city-states in the Yucatan lowlands in the north and the Guatemala highlands in the south, and even formed alliances. From the Great Migration to the present, there have been For more than six hundred years, the North and South Maya also flourished again. Of course, compared with the Golden Age, this kind of prosperity is nothing more than a kestrel compared to a golden eagle, and a bright moon compared to the sun!"

Having said this, Tikalo blinked and spoke calmly before Puap asked anxiously.

"Each of the descendants of the Heavenly Serpent Gods from the Divine Capital and the Snake Capital migrated to the Yucatan lowlands in the north, where the fleet was about to arrive. More than six hundred years ago, they all established new settlements in the northern lowlands. The city-state gradually grew and prospered. However, the descendants of the gods only lived for a hundred or two hundred years before the Toltec army surged from the plateau! "

"The Toltecs rushed like tigers, gnawing at the flesh and blood of the descendants of the gods. They believed in Quetzalcoatl, and their capital was Chichen Itza. With the help of Mayan craftsmen and divine knowledge, they built The Great Temple of the Quetzalcoatl at Chichen Itza! This temple contains countless astronomical knowledge. It is a remnant of the golden age and an inheritance handed over by the descendants of the Serpent God after they surrendered. However, in the Toltec Under the rule of humans, the descendants of the Serpent Gods have always been in a miserable situation. The Toltecs often held great sacrifices, taking away the blood of the most respected descendants of the gods, and offering them to their main god, the Quetzalcoatl God Kuku, in various ways. Erkan.”

Speaking of this, Ti Carlo clenched his teeth, his expression filled with unconcealable hatred. Chihuaco glanced at the Mayan merchant strangely, and the other party suddenly realized it, lowered his eyes, and softened his tone.

"The cruel rule of the Toltecs, centered on Chichén Itza, lasted for two hundred years and finally came to an end. Two hundred and seventy years ago, floods and droughts broke out alternately, and divine omens revealed the demise of the dynasty. Chichen Itza The kings of Chen Itza were frightened and performed sacrifices more frequently."

"The warriors of Chichen Itza captured a young serpent god and threw him into a deep sacrificial well. They wanted to use the god's revered blood to please Chak, the rain god who controls rainfall. . And this descendant of the Heavenly Snake God is destined to be extraordinary, and his name is Cocom!"

Tikalo paused, looking at everyone present with some kind of inexplicable expectation. However, everyone came from the Mexican plateau and had no understanding of this name that was resounding throughout the Mayan tribes and recorded in mythological epics. The bald Mayan businessman lowered his head and coughed twice in embarrassment before continuing.

"Ahem! Cocom, the divine descendant, was born extraordinary. There was something strange in the night sky when he was born. Chagar birds were surrounding his house and chirping incessantly! The nobles of Chichén Itzá were afraid, so they tied his hands and feet and threw him into the deep. The sacrificial well is two hundred meters deep underground!”

The Sacred Cenote is a famous deep underground well and cave near the Chichen Itza Temple. There are no large rivers in the northern Maya lowlands, so the famous large city-states are located around deep natural wells to obtain stable and reliable water sources.

"Born to be extraordinary? Two hundred meters underground?"

The main priest Tomat frowned, with suspicion in his eyes. However, there was no doubt on the face of the Mayan businessman Tikalo, only respect and admiration from the heart.

"Kokom, the descendant of the god, has the most respected blood. He comes from the city of Tikal, and is blessed by the Serpent God! He fell into a deep well, and the elves in the water helped him remove the rope, and the elves from the earth took him with him. Give him great strength! Step by step, he climbed from the steep bottom to the entrance of the cave. Then he came back from the death sacrifice, bringing with him the blessing and blessing of the gods, and brought back a new name: Hunac Ceel Cauich, 'The Bearded Squirrel'."

"Uh, how is that possible? This Cocom was really rescued by the elves, not secretly rescued by others?"

The old militiaman scratched his head and asked doubtfully.

"And this strange name, what does it mean?"

".Cocom, the divine descendant, is blessing the Serpent God. There is no doubt that dozens of divine descendants have witnessed it with their own eyes!"

Mayan businessman Ti Carlo answered firmly with a straight face.

"As for this name, oh, that's incredible! Cauich means foresight, foresight, and the divinity of a prophet. And Hunac Ceel, on the surface, is a 'bearded squirrel,' but if you think about it, a squirrel with a beard is also Like what?"

"What does it look like? A squirrel can't pretend to be a bobcat even if it has extra beards. Can't it be a tiger?"

Chihuaco scratched his head, looking at Ti Carlo's darkened face and smooth head, he suddenly realized.

"Could it be a hairless monkey or a hairy turtle?"

".It's a divine snake!"

Tikalo gritted his teeth and told the answer with a dark face.

"In Mayan mythology, the bearded squirrel is the divine snake! At that time, Hunac Ceel was regarded as the incarnation of Quetzalcoatl, but in fact, he was the incarnation of the serpent god! Also That is to say, the god Cocom is the son of the snake god with the ability to predict, and he was born to lead the Mayan people and establish a new kingdom! "

"The god Cocom performed miracles and declared the name of the god! His deeds were spread among the northern Mayan tribes, and he became a hero respected by the Mayans. The nobles and warriors of the Mayan states all respected his divinity and united under him. Under the flag! The confederations fought against the rulers of Chichen Itza for decades, and finally overthrew the rule of Chichen Itza and established a new kingdom two hundred and seventy years ago! "

Speaking of this, Mayan businessman Tikalo's eyes shone with reverence.

"The heroic god Cocom led the Mayan nobles from various states to overthrow Chichén Itza and resettled the capital in Mayapan! Mayapan is a holy city with a long history and an ancient city established by our Mayans in the Golden Age. , and has nothing to do with the Toltecs.”

"Since then, Mayapan has been the land of the gods, the capital of all states, the 'model and standard of the Mayans', and the immortal city of gods! And Cocom, the heroic god descendant, is also in the temple of Mayapan, among countless gods. The descendants and nobles bowed down and became the 'Kings of the Maya'! The Cocom family, descendants of the Serpent God, became the royal family of Mayapan and ruled the northern Mayan tribes for two hundred and twenty years!"

"That's it! Descendants of the Serpent God are from the Cocom family, in Mayapan!"

Puap suddenly realized. He grinned, showing sharp teeth, and held a copper ax in his hand.

"Tikalo, so as long as we go to Mayapan, we can find the Cocom royal family? Meet the descendants of the Serpent God?"

".Hahaha! No more, they are all dead!"

Tikalo suddenly threw his head back and laughed. He laughed miserably for a long time, and even his eyes were a little moist. Then, under everyone's doubtful eyes, he shook his head and sighed.

"We Mayans all respect the royal family Cocom and regard them as the real kings of the Mayan tribes! However, forty-eight years ago, the leader of the Xiu family, Ashupan Xiu, led tens of thousands of warriors and suddenly rebelled against the Cocom The royal family launched a surprise attack on Mayapan, the royal capital! He led the family warriors and brutally massacred the royal capital for ten days, and then set fire to the magnificent Mayapan. This was a long-planned rebellion, and it was a despicable betrayal! All the Kokom royal family and all the descendants of the Heavenly Snake God were killed by the Xiwu family!"

"From then on, seven hundred miles from north to south and nine hundred miles from east to west, the great Mayapan Kingdom was destroyed! The entire northern lowland Maya was immediately divided into sixteen clan emirates, ruled by different divine families. The inheritance came from the divine capital of Tikal. One lineage, the most respected descendant of the Serpent God, has completely died out among the Mayan tribes."

"What! The descendant of the Serpent God, is gone?!"

Hearing this, Puap was shocked, his face turned green and white, and his whole body felt weak. Chihuaco looked at Lao Pu doubtfully again, thought for a moment, and spoke.

"Ti Carlo, I remember you said before that in addition to the city of gods, there is also a city of snakes, which is also the descendant of the gods of heavenly snakes! Where did they go after that? People with noble bloodlines like this are all You can fool people. You Mayans also seem to believe in that noble blood, they will definitely be good at it!"

"Captain Chihuaco, you are really like a turtle, with great quiet wisdom."

Ti Carlo smiled and praised him sincerely. Then, he pursed his lips, gritted his teeth secretly, and then said with a flat smile.

"The descendants of the Serpent God in the Snake City are closer to the northern lowlands. They also escaped from the divine disaster and more descendants and tribes escaped. They established their rule in the city-state of Uxmal and merged with the ancient local nobles. . Subsequently, they knelt down and cooperated with the rule of Chichen Itza, and continued to grow and develop. In the last years of Chichen Itza's rule, they also joined the army of the hero Totom, participated in the overthrow of the old dynasty, and established themselves in the new kingdom. Become a powerful leader of the city-state until the kingdom is destroyed. And their family is Xiu!”

The map of the Mayan Land is in the Easter Egg Chapter, which you can see later.