Chapter 1025 Ancestor Renlu, Shenshan Cangtian, Tengger!
"Blessed by the Lord God! Captain Zuvalo, are you sure you want to go to the mountains in the north to meet the old grandmother of that tribe?"
"Of course! The Lord God is witness! Shi Jian, we dealt with those two hunters. We invited them to a dinner and gave them gifts... Wasn't it just to meet their leaders and priests, to know the details of this area, and to find the local tribal associations?" Is it possible for an alliance?"
"Indeed! But the captain... These hunters said that their sledges can't carry too many people, they can only carry four or five people... This is obviously an excuse! The risks involved... Lord God! These tribes on the other side of the sea, give I have a very dangerous feeling. Their eyes are indifferent, not simple and enthusiastic at all, they seem to be different from the glue men on the west coast and the extreme north!..."
"It doesn't matter! The Lord God blesses me! In order to spread the glory of the Lord God and His Majesty's enlightenment, so what if I take some risks! Didn't they leave behind an important woman who won our trust, um, good-looking?... Shi Jian, After I leave, you take that hostage and wait patiently for me to come back! If I can't come back...then you will treat me as dead, lead the entire advance expedition team, and get ready to fight the Lord God!..."
"Well, I understand! Captain...May the Lord God bless you!..."
"Haha! The Lord God will definitely bless you!..."
The snowflakes rustled and fell on the white ground, dyeing the green of the vegetation and the taupe of the ground into white. In the fluttering snowstorm, the warriors of the two eastern and western tribes looked at each other silently outside the simple camps in this frozen bay. Groups of huskies squatted on the snow, their silly faces full of curiosity. From time to time, they shook their stupid heads to shake off the snowflakes on their heads, and then they used their paws to plan the snow pits indiscriminately, howling excitedly!
"Aww! Aww!..."
"Be obedient! Shut up!..."
"Aw... woo... woo..."
A Kotelmen huntress in a leather robe and buckskin hat waved his whip impatiently, making a crisp "crack" sound. Seeing her movements, the surrounding huskies all shuddered, lowered their eyebrows and whimpered twice, becoming well-trained again. The hunting captain Mu Quan glanced at the tall and fierce huntress, pursed his lips, and felt a little guilty on his face.
"Msona, my daughter...the old grandmother..."
However, the huntress Msona didn't look at her father, Mugou, and didn't care what the other said. She just held her head up, chest out, squinting her eyes and looking down at the "Head of the Sea" Zuvaro who was talking.
"This is the leader of the Haibu? He seems to be able to fight without the fighters next to him. Can he control the tribe?"
Looking at Zuvaro's not-so-tall and not-so-strong figure, the huntress had some doubts in her eyes. But when she saw the row of kingdom warriors in bronze armor behind Zuvalo, many tall northern sailors, and the wall-like longship frozen by the small river in the bay, her eyes immediately became scorching hot.
"Ancestors! Warriors of the Sea! Bronze armor, bronze spears and big ships..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Welcome, the granddaughter of the old grandmother of Yamabe, the dog trainer who can control the white wolf dog!..."
The exploration captain Zuwaro made a decision, and then he smiled and nodded to the huntress Msona. The huntress raised her eyebrows sharply, pursed her lips, and bowed her head slightly in return.
"Witness from the ancestors! The leader of the Haibu who came from afar... I hope you have enough courage to live up to the expectations of the old grandmother and bring back the head of Chief Lubu to become my future husband!..."
"Huh? You said... what?"
Exploration Captain Zuwaro blinked his eyes, looked at the complicated eyes of the huntress, and couldn't understand the other party's words. He looked at Shanbu's translator, Wu Hai, who just smiled friendly, but didn't translate anything.
"Lord God! It's really strange...hostage..."
Exploration Captain Zuwaro scratched his hair, suppressing some doubts in his heart. He already knew from Wu Hai that the chief of the mountain tribe was a wise old grandmother. And the hunting captain, Mugou, is the leader of the tribal hunters, the most skilled fighter, and also the son-in-law of the old grandmother. As for the dog trainer Msona, she is the granddaughter respected by the old grandmother, or "daughter-in-law".
Yes, the Kamchatka tribes in extreme northern Asia, whether it is the northernmost Chukchi tribe, the Koryak deer tribe in the north, or the Kotelmen mountain tribe in the south, are all related to the Wunan tribe in the Aleutian Islands. Like the Canadians, it is an ancient matrilineal clan.
In these matrilineal clans, the bloodline and social status of the family are passed down through the matrilineal line, that is, determined by the mother. And the highest status in the tribe is the old grandmother who has many children, is respected by the elders, and has the shaman inheritance!
"Witness of the Lord God! Going to the camp of the opposing tribe, it's useless to bring too many people... I just need to bring the hunter Xiong Da, and then bring a kingdom warrior in armor!...It's not too late! Let's go now! ..."
The cold wind was blowing on the body of the exploration captain Zuvaro, but he didn't feel the cold at all. At this moment, the blood of adventure, like so many successful experiences in the past, boiled in his warrior-like body. With a heroic face, he confidently got on the sleigh at the top of the mountain with only two entourages, sitting right behind the Mu dog.
"Aww! Aww! Aww!..."
Soon, the continuous howling of dogs sounded again. The tribal hunters in the mountains silently boarded the sled, steered the obedient husky dogs to turn around, and quickly disappeared into the snowstorm in the north. And on the snow-covered snow field, only the lonely huntress Msona, and dozens of kingdom warriors and tribal sailors in armor and spears remained!
"Ah! Spiritual ancestors, benevolent divine deer, warm divine mountains, and the highest heaven..."
Until this moment, facing the soldiers of the Haibu alone, the young huntress Musona felt unconcealable anxiety in her heart. She knew the old grandmother's intentions, and also knew what the upcoming negotiations meant!
If the negotiation between the two parties is successful, she will leap forward and become a bridge of trust between the two tribes, stand out from the many grandchildren of the old grandmother, and even have the possibility of inheriting the shaman inheritance!
And once the negotiations between the two parties break down, the old grandmother who is as cold as a snow field will never let the leader of the Haibu come back alive! As for her who was kept as a hostage, there is no doubt that she will be ruthlessly abandoned by the old grandmother and become a sacrifice to the sacred deer and the sacred mountain...
"All living things! May you bless me!..."
As the wind and snow approached, the huntress Msona lowered her eyes and prayed in a low voice to the spiritual beings in the beliefs of the mountain. She praised the ancestors and shaman spirits of the past generations, the oldest Renlu who raised the tribes, and the sacred mountain that blocked the wind and snow and provided warmth to the tribes. And when she sang about the last and most lofty sky, she used a not-so-old foreign vocabulary that gradually spread to the Kamchatka Peninsula from the Ewen tribe in the west.
"Huh? Is she praying to... the gods of the local tribe?"
The warrior captain Chakapu Shijian pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the prayer of the huntress Musona. Then, he keenly caught a word that appeared repeatedly at the end, which seemed to be a certain extremely revered god. And the name of this god is called "the highest god of the sky"... "Tengri"!