The Shaman Wants Transcendence

74 – What Witches and Fairies Have in Common

Human sacrifice.

The act of sacrificing a living person.

This heterogeneous consciousness, which began when humankind formed a society and religion began to emerge, has developed into a form in which human malice and madness are concentrated.

In the Inca Empire, there was a witchcraft ritual to sacrifice a child called capacocha, and in what is now called the Middle East, it is said that a newborn baby was put in a furnace and burned alive. In the Mayan civilization, children were periodically sacrificed to the god of the underworld because of the belief that precious things should be offered to the gods.

In China, human sacrifices were made by boiling people alive, and during the Shang Dynasty, the state led human sacrifices using prisoners of war as ingredients.

The time when human sacrifice was most severe in the Shang Dynasty was in the late period. At this time, it is said that they performed horrific rituals such as throwing people alive into poison snake dens or making them walk on heated copper poles.

These horrific rituals of human sacrifice were common all over the world.

In some regions, people are eaten alive by crocodiles, and in some regions, chains are wrapped around the body and drowned in the sea to pray for a good catch. In some places, it was said that it was dedicated to the god enshrined in the shrine, and they were locked in an airtight room in the shrine and starved to death.

Religious reasons.

Magical reasons.

The madness of humans wanting a huge price to return after a terrible ritual.

The insanity of humans boiling to see blood.

Human sacrifice was not a simple magic ritual, but it was no different from simmering human malice and madness and creating it in the form of magic.

Does human sacrifice contain human malice and madness?

Did human malice and madness create human sacrifice?

The word human sacrifice has become something of a taboo in modern times, and even mentioning it has become a profane ritual.

Such an ominous word came out of the devil’s mouth, out of Iserin’s mouth.

“This, human sacrifice. What. What do you mean…?”

She looked at Jinsung with her questioning face.

“First of all, I have a few questions before I explain. Now, Iarin. Have you never seen this pattern before?”

Arin looked at the painting for a moment at his question, then shook her head.

“None.”

“Yes? Then I’ll narrow the question down further. When I went to see your friend, there was a fortune teller on the street. There was a picture painted on the tent there, and I’ve never seen a picture like this before?”

“Dot… Home? No…? No… Is it a strange place there?”

Lee Ah-rin asked again, showing a bit of fear and anxiety, but Jin-seong turned her head to Lee Se-rin and asked as if she wanted to hear an answer.

“Have you ever looked closely at that fortune teller?”

“Oh, no… It’s the first time I’ve been down that road yesterday… Eh, I’m not very close with Ella either…”

After hearing what her younger siblings had to say, Jinseong nodded her head.

‘At least these guys weren’t the main target.’

Chrome Cruach.

It was the name of the highest god worshiped by the Gaelic people until the 5th century, and at the same time it was the name of the most feared object of the Gaelic people.

Chrome Cruachy had many names, including Ken Cruach, Chrome Doub, and Chrome Cruach. Most of these numerous names had terrible and cruel connotations.

It means twisted hills, bloody heaps, top of the hillsLee, blood-soaked piles of grain, twisted blood-clad monsters, twisted darkness, bloody blackness, and so on.

Although the name Ken Croithi or Kenncroithi meant ‘the head of all gods’, the name was not used very often, and only those containing fear aspects were widely used.

This terrible supreme god is in charge of fertility and the sun, and when human sacrifices were made to this god, it is said that the warm sun beat down on the region and made people’s lives peaceful. However, as time passed, he lost his solar symbol to the Tuatha Dé Danann, and became a god responsible only for fertility.

This twisted idol demands only one price.

First born.

Of all living things, I wanted the first.

If fruit is opened, the one that opened first.

If you harvest grain, harvest it first.

The first animal caught in the coming season.

And, the first born child.

Of all the dogs, the Twisted Darkness’s favorite were children born of men, and children who were not in season. Therefore, people did not distinguish between sons and daughters for the firstborn child, but offered it to Krom Cruach as a newborn baby. So I kidnapped the first one and cut off his head.

According to the Dindsenchas, an Irish place-name legend, the evils of this bloody and bloody human sacrifice were so great that when the field was dug a little deeper, a dead body appeared with eyes wide open from resentment, It is said that the severed heads that were used formed a hill.

The bloody hill gave off all sorts of stench and poured out words of resentment at passers-by, but this terrible structure is said to have stood still until a distant future, when Sanctus Patricius appeared and destroyed it.

This hero, called Saint Pactrik in English and Naomh Pádraig mac Calprainn in Ireland, is said to have spread Christianity by carrying a three-leaf clover. It is said that he defeated evil people and destroyed twisted idols.

‘Even if it’s the first, the twins have different symbols, so it seems they weren’t selected as sacrifices.’

Jinseong turned his head to look at his innocent little sister, who had unknowingly put his head in the tiger’s mouth and pulled it out.

The human sacrifice ceremony at Krom Cruach is performed according to a procedure.

And one of the procedures is to check the ‘qualification of tribute’.

It was a procedure designed to make sure that the child abducted from another tribe was the ‘first’, and that the child taken from a poor villager who was trying to avoid human sacrifice was the ‘first’.

For human sacrifice, the first one had to be offered, and if not, drought or disaster would come instead of a good harvest, so this confirmation work was necessary.

What was needed there was the pattern of this Chrome Cruroch.

This pattern was made so that only the sacrifice could recognize it, hidden among the other symbols.

First born child.

In other words, beings suitable for human sacrifice were able to recognize this hidden pattern.

In addition, the pattern also included suppressive spells such as subduing the mind and putting it to sleep so that the sacrifice that recognized the pattern could be easily captured.

It was literally like a painting that would surely die once you saw it.

Fortunately that’S sisters did not recognize the pattern of the hidden Chrome Cruroch, and they could not find any traces of other spells, so it could be said that they were relieved…

‘Tsk. Marten. Dambira…’

Can Ella B. Winter, his old colleague and friend of Iarin, be relieved?

* * *

Jinseong’s explanation didn’t take long.

That the tent I saw when I went to Ella’s house was suspicious, that there was a bloody smell, that when I checked it, the pattern of the human sacrifice ceremony was drawn, and that the fortune teller was trying to use someone as a sacrifice for the ritual.

That someone could have been Lee Arin, Lee Serin, or Ella.

And since they didn’t recognize the pattern, Iarin and Lee Se-rin escaped from the sacrifice, and Ella also had to check it out.

The explanation wasn’t long, but it contained enough information for Iarin and Lee Se-rin to understand.

Lee Se-rin, who heard the story, readily accepted Jin-seong’s request.

And Irene…

“Sat, rabbit! Rabbit is dangerous!”

She was ready to run toward Ella’s house with her face contemplative.

Jinseong looked at Arin, who was restless in her, and spread her hand out wide and held it in front of her eyes. Then, without mercy, he grabbed her face and recited her mantra.

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“In pace in idipsum dormiam et requiescam quoniam tu, Domine, singulariter in spe constituisti me.”

As I grabbed her face and recited her advice, Arin’s face changed to a calm one, and perhaps her body became languid. Besides, her eyes were half-closed as if she was drowsy.

Looking at this, Jinseong threw a nag.

“You didn’t practice martial arts properly. Not only physical training and chukgi (蓄气), but also the mind should be sufficiently trained.”

This A-Rin tries to open her eyes at her concern about her rabbit, but she just closes her eyes at the sight of Jin-Sung trying to nag her.

“If the mind study was done properly, I would have been able to resist the drowsiness. No matter how much martial arts I am learning is imitating a beast, I have to be able to resist this much…”

And then she just ran away.

To the world of sleep where nagging is not heard.