[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

"Boom, boom, boom—"

The animal skin covering the half-empty tree trunk was slapped.

As the sun sets, all the men in the tribe line up in a phalanx, holding farm implements or weapons such as sticks in their hands, jumping left and right with the drumbeat, and the whole phalanx slowly moves towards the sunset.

The leading man chanted something aloud from time to time, and the other men followed up and repeated in unison, and the ancient sacrificial words echoed loudly in the wilderness.

Yi Nan sat on a round stool made of polished wooden piles, admiring/studying the rituals of primitive tribes, and secretly sighed while watching - this is not a performance in a folk museum, it actually happened in 6900 BC A scene on the banks of the Euphrates.

There were no other women watching the ceremony, and Yinan was specially invited to attend the ceremony because of her status as a "god".

This is a small tribe that settled on the banks of the Euphrates River. The number of people is about 200 according to Yinan’s estimate. This number was confirmed by Yinan to the boy Dan: the boy Dan once pointed Yinan to the system used by the whole village to record the number of people. "Population board", round holes are chiseled on the wooden board, and branches representing each person are inserted in the holes, which is about the number.

The person who presided over the ceremony was Tu, the elder whom he met earlier in the wheat field—to Yi Nan's surprise, Tu was also a "witch".

The reason why Tu is not called "Wizard Tu" is probably because he has not yet had the great achievements of "obtaining oracle" and "starting planting" like Wizard Dan.

The ceremony hosted by Tu this time is to worship the ancestors of the tribe, including the wizard Dan who led the tribe to complete great changes.Yi Nan roughly understood the sacrificial speeches of the men in the tribe, among which were words of thanks to Wizard Dan.

She rested her chin on the side and meditated: In the period of primitive civilization, ancestor worship was an important part of primitive belief.Through various rituals, people try to communicate with their ancestors, hoping to inherit their wisdom.People even think that they are their ancestors.

At this time, Dan, the young man who was at the front of the square, suddenly turned around, faced Yinan, stretched out his hand and said loudly, "My venerable goddess, Dan is very honored to meet you again—"

Yi Nan was taken aback, the tone and voice suddenly reminded her of the little boy she saw before hibernation.

Standing behind Dan now was his father, the leader of the tribe's warriors, Ku.As soon as Ku turned around, he raised Dana's two small arms, and lifted the child off the ground.

Dan was held by his father's arms, kicking his feet in the air, and he said to Ku behind him rather dissatisfied: "Put me down quickly, I have sensed my great-grandfather, so now I am your grandpa..."

Ku immediately put Dan's face down on his knees, and slapped his butt a few times with a few "chi chi", his voice was cold, and his face showed no expression: "It doesn't matter who you perceive, I am your father! "

Dan struggled on his father's lap, desperately raised his head to glance at Yi Nan, and shouted, "I really... really sensed Wizard Dan..."

The rest of the tribe looked at the father and son and laughed together.

Yi Nan didn't think it was particularly funny—she thought it was a form of ancestor worship. The ancestors tried to put themselves in the position of the ancestors, as if they had perceived the ancestors, but most of them were just a psychological suggestion in the ritual environment.

But Dan was not discouraged at all. He struggled to get off Ku's lap, rushed to Yi Nan, folded his hands on Yi Nan's knee, raised his bright eyes, and prayed: "My God, I can also imagine Just like my great-grandfather, I will obey your instructions. I will do what you say, and let me be by your side, okay?"

Yi Nan instantly felt that time and space were chaotic, as if he was still 100 years ago, and in front of him was a little boy holding a wild pea in his hand and staring at him intently.

"Can I?" Yi Nan raised his head, his eyes were on Ku behind the boy Dan.

After entering the tribe's resident and observing for so long, Yi Nan has already discovered that Ku Cai is the one who has the decision-making power in this tribe - he is a brave man, not a witch, but at the same time inherits the lineage of a witch, so he monopolizes power and even overshadows it. Now witch.

And Yi Nan's situation in this tribe is a bit awkward, because Ku doesn't want to believe that this "weird woman" is the "goddess Yi Nan" that his grandfather met back then.

When they first met by the wheat field earlier, even though Dan and Ku's tribal members testified and described how calm and brave Inan faced these people of the Kashan tribe, Ku refused to believe it.

The only thing that moved Ku and made him nod and agree to let Yinan follow him back to the tribe were the three safety ropes he retrieved from the wheat and pea fields—these ropes were stronger than all the ropes Ku had ever seen in his life, and they didn’t even look like a rope. It is not known what material is used to weave it, so it can be called a "magic object".

Now that Yi Nan asked like this, Ku remained silent, staring at Yi Nan and his son for a while, and finally let out a "hum" from his nostrils.

Yi Nan didn't understand what he meant, but Dan cheered and ran behind Yi Nan, with his chest and belly protruding like a little follower.

There was still a tail in the ceremony. After Ku nodded, Tu hurriedly led the people to finish the rest of the sacrificial speech.

Young Dan has been following Yi Nan.Yinan asked Dan in a low voice, "How did you get into a grudge with the Kashan tribe? Why did they come to burn your wheat fields?"

Dan Yi pouted: "The Kashan Tribe wants to drive us away and monopolize this territory!"

Yi Nan pouted: "Why? They...don't farm, right?" She wanted to say that the Kashan Tribe lived on gathering and hunting, but she was afraid that Dan wouldn't understand.

Dan shook his head: "No! But they think we will steal their food if we live here."

Yinan: In the final analysis, this is still the contradiction between the limited productivity and the growing material needs of the people!

In fact, if the Kashan tribe is willing to merge their manpower with Dan's tribe, cultivate more farmland, and begin to domesticate and raise livestock, the resources of this land can fully meet the common needs of the two tribes.

Conflicts cannot resolve fundamental contradictions, and common development is the last word.

Thinking of this, Yinan asked Dan: "The other party is called the 'Kashan' tribe. What's the name of our tribe?"

Dan shook his head: "Our tribe doesn't have a name."

This is... an unknown tribe? ①

After the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestors, Dan led Yinan to the tribe's residence.

The women rushed forward to greet her—they had already heard about Yinan's "brilliant deeds" from the two young girls who participated in the planting work.

But at the moment when they saw Yi Nan's true "God", the women still cringed; unexpectedly, the next moment, this cringe was immediately replaced by curiosity.The women forgot to salute and surrounded Yinan directly:

Wow, what exactly is the goddess wearing on her body?It looks like yellow sand in color, but it feels nothing like it, soft and smooth;

And the hair of the goddess is black and shiny; the skin of the goddess is as white as snow; the face of the goddess is as smooth as jade... I really want to try it out!But they all immediately remembered the "blasphemous warning" brought back by the two companions earlier, and drew back their hands at the critical moment.

Dan squeezed into the crowd and rescued Yi Nan: "Yi Nan, my god, come and meet my mother!"

Dan's mother is named Huan, she is a shrewd, slightly rich middle-aged woman.Yinan judged that she should be an important figure in the management of the tribal settlement.

Sure enough, Huan greeted Yinan to the tribe's camp with a smile on his face, saying that he had received the news and that the tribe was ready to welcome the goddess.

"The food is ready," Huan took Yi Nan's hand very familiarly, "God must taste the meal we prepared for you..."

Yi Nan thought to himself: It would be better if it is not the kind of cold table food.

However, according to visual inspection, this tribe, which is shifting from "pantheistic" belief to "polytheistic" belief, has not yet developed the custom of offering "offerings" to the gods.Even seeing a certain "god" with his own eyes is actually just a secular invitation to the resident to treat him with food and drink.

The cooking smoke in the resident is curling up, and you can even smell the oily aroma inspired by the barbecue.Huan suddenly became nervous and knelt towards Yinan: "Beans and wheat... Would you like to enjoy it?"

Yinan speculates on Huan’s thoughts: people with pantheistic beliefs often think that “god” is the consciousness and emotion possessed by natural things—since Yinan inspired the wizard Dan to plant peas and wheat, then Yinan may be the god of peas or wheat, It is the incarnation of those magical plants.

Serving Yi Nan with food made of peas and wheat, wouldn't it mean that the goddess would eat herself? —— Huan obviously forgot this before.

Yi Nan comforted him with a smile: "It's all fine, I have no problem..."

Huan obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and with a pleasant smile, he reflected Yi Nan into a small open space in the middle of the residence.

A bonfire was lit in the middle of the clearing, women and children gathered on one side, and Kuhetu led the men on the other side.

Yinan only took a few glances, and he roughly figured out the population structure of the entire tribe:

In addition to the agricultural planting laborers and brave men she met today, there are also some elderly people, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and many children in this tribe. The big ones have four or 50 people in total.

Sedentary agricultural tribes had a higher proportion of children than hunter-gatherers—a consequence of settlement.

While Yinan was still looking left and right for "observation", Huan had already brought several young women along, serving food on wooden trays to everyone.

The scent quickly aroused the hunger in Yinan's stomach, and she was also very interested in the diet structure of primitive tribes:

What will humans eat around 7000 AD, wild game or dark food?

Yi Nan took a look at the food brought up: Oh, this is a bit different from what she imagined.

The author has something to say: ①It is only temporarily "unnamed", but in fact the tribe has a name.

By the way, to answer the questions raised by everyone in the comment area:

① Does it involve other civilizations, such as ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, etc.?

Answer: It will be involved, but the home field where the story takes place is in Mesopotamia.

②Will the heroine go dormant again, the kind who misses a lot of plots at once?

Answer: Yes, everyone can understand that the heroine travels through the long river of civilization, directly participates in the most critical stages of the development of civilization, and seduces the most handsome man (bushi) in history.

③Is the CP set?

Answer: The CP has been decided, please believe that the author Jun also knows how to write emotional dramas.In addition, the setting of this article is to be able to reincarnate with a small amount of memory (or consciousness).What the heroine thinks is "psychological suggestion" or "ancestor worship", is actually the embodiment of this memory or consciousness.But this kind of memory needs to be awakened, so the male protagonist may not always realize that he is actually a genuine male protagonist wearing a "vest".