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Chapter 774 The High Priest's Remarks

The sacrificial activity lasted for three hours before it was considered over.

Except for the singing and dancing at the beginning, most of the following links are performed by playing music, and all the instruments used are also very ethnic.

Including the most eye-catching performance in the middle is a ventriloquist similar to Humai.

The performer simulates dozens of animals and musical instruments with only one mouth, and the sound is long and distant with an indescribable vigorous feeling.

The master is among the people!

After waiting for all the ceremonies to end, Qin Fei led Bai Munan and others directly to the backstage.

"Stop, stop."

The boys in the background stopped them one by one: "Don't go in, you are all changing clothes."

"What are you going to do?"

"That... I'm here for business."

Briefly introduced them: "I want to meet the high priest just now. I am very interested in today's sacrificial activity, and I am also particularly interested in the culture of the Huns. Can I meet him?"

"It's done."

The young man nodded, "But wait a minute, I'm changing clothes, let you in now, I'll be wasting my day."

Qin Fei looked behind the young man, but he didn't quite understand.

Although the word "in" is used, in fact the place where they change clothes is a small shed, and it doesn't matter if they are high priests or actors, they are all wearing clothes, just take off the special clothes outside. That’s fine, it doesn’t involve privacy at all.

The young man smiled when he saw him, and at the same time held a cigarette in his hand and put it to his mouth.

"This is because you don't understand it, and it's not because I'm afraid you will read it."

"It's all the old men who are afraid to take a look at it. The main reason is that after this kind of sacrificial activity, they will have a mysterious ceremony, which is said to be a gift to the gods."

"But I'm not a priest, nor a ghost boy, so I don't understand."

"They will come out in a moment!"

Feng Rui asked from the side: "Brother, are the ghost boys you're talking about the people behind the high priest just now?"

"Correct."

The young man nodded, and just as he was talking, he saw the high priest coming out from inside.

"Just ask him if you have any questions now."

The young man smiled, took the 200 yuan given to him by the high priest, and ran away.

"Hello everyone, I am the high priest on the stage just now, what can I do for you?"

He actually heard the conversation between Qin Fei and the others just now, but this is a person who doesn't like to be troublesome, and they also have this rule for the priests, so they are pretending to be stupid here.

Of course, Qin Fei could also see it. How could he not understand this after so much experience?
So he just smiled, and then said his appeal clearly again.

And this time, Qin Fei also said that he himself is a lover of Xiongnu culture.

The high priest looked at him, smiled suddenly, and then grumbled a set of words that no one could understand, and then stood there motionless and looked at them with expectation in his eyes.

But everyone was stunned, they couldn't understand and they didn't know what to do now.

But after a while, Qin Fei also imitated what he did just now and muttered something, and when he looked at the high priest, his eyes were different, and he was full of surprises.

"Mr. Tan, you can speak Turkic?!"

That's for sure, if Qin Fei is in the antiques business, he will naturally not refuse anyone who comes to the antiques.

Turkic, Uyghur, Manchu and so on, you need to understand some of these minority languages. The high priest just used Turkic, but modern Turkic, not what he said on the stage before. Old Tungusic Turkic language.

The difference between the two was still huge.

The ancient Tungus Turkic language itself was used during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, while the subsequent Turkic language was spread by the Huns who emerged from near the Caspian Sea thousands of years later.

In history, there was a view about the emergence of the Huns, that they were the remnants of the Huns who were defeated by the Han Dynasty and then moved westward, but there are still doubts about this.

Tan Fei talked eloquently and after determining the basic nature of all this, he translated it for everyone.

"Just now the high priest asked me if I was willing to accept the scrutiny of a flying eagle. I said I was willing, and I was willing to become another soaring eagle."

"Many tribes of the Huns, Shan Yu, etc. regard the flying eagle as their own totem."

"Sheng said it well, said it well."

The high priest was really overjoyed at this moment, but he had to ask one more question: "But do you know why this happened?"

It is said that the totems of the grassland peoples who are relatively close to the Huns should be similar to the Huns, but according to all the evidence found now, the totems of the grassland peoples are mostly wolves, not the flying eagles used by the Huns.

The question of the High Priest is very profound.

But it was still a piece of cake for Qin Fei: "Because the Huns believed that they could level everything on the earth, only the sky was beyond their reach, so they used the eagle that conquered the sky as a totem."

"What about the sea?"

Bai Munan asked from the side: "Did the Huns still conquer the sea?"

"Because they can't see the sea at all..."

Tan Fei couldn't help smiling while talking, the little fairy glanced at him, and hummed, "How do you know?"

"Because according to existing information and archaeological evidence, the sea is nowhere to be seen from where the Huns lived in our country."

What else is there to explain?
Bai Munan stopped talking, but Qin Fei also knew that she was not trying to argue, but her desire for knowledge was at work.

At least he thought so.

The high priest was overwhelmed by his answer: "I really didn't expect Mr. Tan to be so knowledgeable and talented. Well, if you have anything to say, we can sit down and discuss it. Don't think I'm just a farmer, but you might as well tell me Dozens of generations of our ancestors have been the high priests of the ancestors of the Huns in this area."

The profession of sacrifice can actually be regarded as a family tradition in some aspects for thousands of years.

Especially for those ethnic minorities in history, because their culture is different from that of the Han, they value the inheritance of blood more. Using the grassland nation as an example, some of them claim to be the golden family and think that this blood is the best. Noble, and will always be passed down.

The same goes for the Huns, especially under the circumstances at that time. They believed that sacrifice was not only a profession that could communicate with gods, but also an ability unique to the rent-paying bloodline.

There are many relevant records in the literature, but not many can be preserved with the changes of the times.

(End of this chapter)