The Holy Grail War of God's Blessing

9 When the Toltec Empire was dying, the Aztecs who migrated from the Mexica came onto the historical stage. In order to swallow up the local residents and integrate with them, the Aztecs adopted their religious worship and rewrote the Toltec mythology.

0Thus, in Aztec mythology, Topilchin was the incarnation of Quetzalcoatl, and his name was Topilchin Quetzalcoatl.

4 Topilchin spent four years in asceticism in the city of Tulancingo, where he founded the cult of Quetzalcoatl and promoted that holy life.

8 The Toltecs of Tula heard about this and invited him to the city of Tula to carry out reforms.

4 Topilchin gladly accepted the invitation and went to Tula to promote the faith of Quetzalcoatl.

2 He broke all the previous sacrificial rules, defeated the other Toltec gods, and took control of Tula's politics and religion.

9 Topilchin announced his own laws on a hill in Tula, ushering in the golden age of Tula.

In the mythical city, gourds, peppers, and cotton grew in abundance. Corn had to be held in one’s arms to be picked up, and cotton had colors as it grew, including red, yellow, rose, purple, green, blue, copper green, ivory, gray, rose red, and coyote colors like a rainbow. Birds of all kinds sang clear songs every day.

5 During Topilchin's reign, various processing techniques and better tools were constantly invented, and the priests were able to directly access the kingdom of God to seek wisdom. They built walls with gems and palaces with colorful materials.

But despite this prosperity, Topilchin still personally led his people in a practice of penance, which included fasting, pricking their flesh with thorns, bleeding, and bathing in icy water in the middle of the night.

But even this could not prevent the decline of the Topilcin dynasty, as described in the Florentine Codex: "Finally, Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs became lazy."

The true history should naturally be that Tezcatlipoca's admirers gathered together to oppose Topilçin's rule and eventually overthrew him.

There are many versions of the myth. One of them is that Tezcatlipoca came to the world along a spider silk thread and turned into an ocelot. He drove Topilchen Quetzalcoatl, the sacrificial king, back to the city of Cholula.

The second is that Tezcatlipoca appeared in front of Topilqin with his obsidian mirror. Quetzalcoatl, in human form, was unable to resist the power and was distorted in the deepest part of the mirror.

The third is that Topilchin was ill, and Tezcatlipoca came to the world in the form of a white-haired old man, offering Topilchin a cure and promising that "you will cry, you will be merciful, forgiving, and compassionate. You will think of death and return to childhood."

And this bottle of potion was tequila. After drinking tequila, Topilchin seduced his sister in a drunken state. After waking up, he went mad, burned down his city, hid all the treasures, drove away the birds, let the cocoa trees die, and finally left the land alone.

Finally, there is a myth that Quetzalcoatl, who was incarnated as the priest-king Topilchin, voluntarily chose to end his rule. He put on the most gorgeous clothes, put on a turquoise mask, walked up to the pyre and burned himself there.

As the raging fire devoured his body, his soul ascended into the sky and turned into the bright planet Venus.

However, although there are various versions of the story about Quetzalcoatl as a priest king, people still have a beautiful vision for Quetzalcoatl who eventually gave up the city of Tula and left.

At the end of all the stories, Quetzalcoatl made a prophecy when he left the land, saying that one day he would return to the land, destroy his enemies, and re-establish a prosperous golden age.

It was not surprising that Quetzalcoatl ruled here; he was supposed to come back to rule the land again.

But the king would not manage every city under his rule. The city where Quetzalcoatl descended was Eridu, and her temple was built there.

Although Ur was not a small city, it was still some distance away, and those left in the city were those who had lost their awareness and fighting spirit.

These people are not very useful, and nothing will happen if we just leave them here, but there is no need to manage them carefully.

In Eridu, those who still had fighting spirit and determination were regarded as important living sacrifices and trained in preparation for the upcoming battle.

Letting the leopard people manage this place can save some trouble.

But for Manshu, it was undoubtedly a detour and a waste of time.

Since it is managed by the leopard, just let him take you there. No wonder she was able to propose this plan, after all, it is her own job, but she did not say the real key points.

"Yes, she controls the area around this city. Anyone who escapes will be intercepted by her first. Only an outstanding warrior will experience true fear."

"I see. I have nothing to ask you. Just continue doing your thing."

So Manshu had nothing more to say, and the priest nodded and left, leaving Manshu alone in the room at the top of the pagoda.

There are no statues of gods in this room. It does not look like a place for worshiping gods, but rather like a bedroom.

Manshu didn't quite understand the layout here, he just felt it was a little strange, but he didn't mess with it much.

Even though the technicians have changed their actions and the gods will no longer respond to this tower temple, its original function has not changed.

Although it is a god that has never been used, you never know when it might be used, and there is no need to do unnecessary things out of thin air.

Manshu rested here, without any further movement, and spent the day peacefully, which was also a way to recuperate his spirit.

The next day, when it was light and the sun had not yet risen, the bright planet Venus appeared in the sky first, and the leopard had already appeared.

Many aspects of the gods in Aztec mythology are quite strange, or rather, they are overly complicated.

Quetzalcoatl was the god of wind and was also considered the god of water. He was considered the morning star and was seen as the god of dawn.

She is sometimes seen as the Sun's rival, and only when it disappears can the Sun rise, due to her Venusian identity.

In the Aztec mythology, stars represent the night sky, which is in opposition to the sun.

Just like the birth myth of the Aztec racial god Huitzilopochtli, the unborn Huitzilopochtli was persecuted by hundreds of his brothers and sisters who were star gods and moon gods, and these gods hunted down Huitzilopochtli's mother.

Huitzilopochtli was born with weapons and armor, and he killed all the pursuing gods on Snake Mountain.

This is the struggle between day and night in Aztec mythology. The star god and the moon god were killed before the day came.

⑼ But at the same time, Quetzalcoatl was also regarded as the sun god, which is quite self-contradictory.

4. While Quetzalcoatl was the god of wind, he was also seen as the bringer of rain and was sometimes worshipped as a rain god.

8 But as the god of Venus, Quetzalcoatl was seen as the enemy of rain and the bringer of drought.

Most of the gods in Mesoamerica include two contradictory aspects. People are skeptical and distrustful of the gods, but they are also grateful to them.

4 However, at dawn, even though it was already the time of Quetzalcoatl, the Leopard Man came to the temple to take away the living sacrifices offered today.

㈢However, the leopard man who had just entered the temple was a little confused. He looked at the person sleeping on the bed, walked forward quickly, and took a deep breath through his nose nearby.

Three "I can't tell, meow. Tezcatlipoca's magic is too powerful. I can't tell if this is him or not."

0 The leopard woman naturally remembered what happened to Manshu, but with Manshu restrained, she couldn't find Tezcatlipoca's scent and could only wonder if the man in front of her was him.

⑤Chapter 132: Temple

The Leopard Man didn't seem to have much to consider. After hesitating for a short while, she chose to give up thinking and planned to follow the normal process. This way, no matter what happened, it would have nothing to do with her.

The process of transporting the living sacrifice was not so friendly. The leopard man simply grabbed the sacrifice lying on the bed with one hand, then threw it into the container woven with plant branches on his back, and started running towards Eridu.

This was not a very good treatment. There was no need for him to be comfortable while being transported as a living sacrifice. It was enough for him to be delivered to Eridu alive.

Therefore, the container woven from branches does not have any redundant parts, and there is not even any room for buffering, which is quite uncomfortable.

At this time, it is impossible to continue pretending to be asleep. I can only struggle to get up with a sad face, so as to avoid my upper body staying down and being beaten by the wall of the container.

The leopard man runs in the jungle at a very fast speed, jumping up and down between the trees, to a level that can make people's stomach churn in just a few minutes.

All we can say is that the Leopard Man will ensure that the person he is carrying will not die, but whether he can reach Eridu in a conscious state is another matter.

This is exactly the test a warrior should undergo. This dual magic of body and spirit can transform a person into a warrior more quickly.

Anyway, there is no possibility of death. Even if he really died, when he arrived in Eridu, the master there also had the power to resurrect the dead.

Manshu stripped off all these things first, and only used magic to disguise his face, making him look listless.

Leopard people are quite accustomed to the jungle environment and can move quite fast.

It takes about half a day to walk from Ur to Eridu at normal speed, mainly because the jungle environment is not very friendly to sensitivity.

It took the Leopard Man only about two hours to arrive at Eridu.

"Okay, we're here, meow! Behind this wall of dense forest is Eridu. You're in pretty good shape, and you're still awake. You'll be a good living sacrifice."

Here one can already feel the strong aura coming from not far away, that is the breath of Quetzalcoatl.

In his perception, Quetzalcoatl was not far ahead. It seemed that she had not traveled and was still staying in Eridu.

At this time, Kuiwuzhar Koyatluar had not yet chosen to go to Uruk every day to take away a hundred people as sacrifices. This event would probably not happen for another month or so.

When the city of Nippur had fallen into a paradise for monsters, the monster goddess Gorgon had already issued a warning of the final destruction. Only then would Quetzalcoatl leave Eridu every day.

Therefore, it is unlikely to find the time when Quetzalcoatl leaves to explore the land ahead. At most, there may be such time when the three goddesses hold a meeting.

But the three goddesses had just met not long ago, and it was hard to say when they would meet next, and there was no need to wait.

Even if I don't have the chance to fully check the situation this time, I will always come here again in the future.

"..."

Manshu was too lazy to pay attention to the leopard man. He acted listless and seemed like he didn't hear what the leopard man was saying at all.

"Well, it seems that he is just holding on. Although he is not unconscious, he is not conscious either."

The leopard woman didn't say anything else after coming to this conclusion. She was just surprised at the guy behind her. If it wasn't Tezcatlipoca, it would be pretty good that he could hold on without fainting.

But if there is no response, it will be meaningless, as it is only 20 meters away from Eridu.

Only a wall made of trees separated the city of Eridu from the outside world. The city of Eridu was not small, after all, it was the place where the royal power first landed.

Although Eridu's city status declined due to factors such as environmental changes and river reconstruction, it still retains its past splendor and prosperity.

The appearance of this city is not much different from that of Ur, but because the dense forest originally extended from here, the city was more seriously eroded by the forest.

The city looks like it grew directly out of the forest, rather than the forest invading the city, because the trees are really lush.

The only regret might be that I didn’t have the chance to see the tower temples that were once built in the ancient city of Eridu.

The city god of Eridu is the water god Enki. The tower temples of Eridu are also extremely ancient. The god Enki rose here before the concept of Sumer was born. In the ancient times when writing had not yet appeared, the tower temples of this city had already begun to appear.

Before the emergence of civilization, there were two cultural societies in the Near East, the Halaf culture in Upper Mesopotamia and the Ubaid culture in Lower Mesopotamia. These two cultures appeared around 6000 BC.

By around 50 BC, Ubeid culture had overtaken Halaf culture and became the dominant social form in Mesopotamia.

The ruins of Eridu are an extremely important site of the Ubeid culture. It is a city that existed from the Stone Age until its demise in the sixth century BC.

The architectural ruins stacked up under the pyramid temple of Enki are temples built in an earlier era. The bottom one was built before 5000 BC.

But unfortunately, the tower temple dedicated to the god Enki can no longer be seen in this city. Instead, there is a pyramid temple that does not blend in with the surrounding architectural style, although it can also be regarded as a tower temple structure.

The pyramid-shaped structure, which is stacked from bottom to top, is relatively easy to build and relatively stable, so it is quite normal for similar structures to appear in various civilizations.

It is better to say that most early civilizations were indeed able to build such buildings. If there was a need for important sacrificial ceremonies, multi-story platform buildings would be quite useful.

The indigenous civilizations such as the tower temples of Mesopotamia, the pyramids of Central America, and the pyramids of Egypt all had such buildings, and some ruins actually existed in China as well.

In the cities of the Shijiahe culture period, there were three-tiered sacrificial sites. In the earlier urban sites of the middle and late Neolithic period in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, such as the Chengtoushan Ancient City, they were similar to Sumer, cities built around sacrificial buildings.

The tall pyramid standing behind the residential area of Eridu is Quetzalcoatl's own temple. The strong American style of the pyramid also explains its identity.

That pyramid should be built according to the Pyramid of Kukulkan built by the ancient Mayans in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Of course, it should be said that it is indeed the temple of Quetzalcoatl himself.

However, it was a building from the late pre-classic period of Mayan culture, which was more than 2000 years ago, and was an earlier Mayan pyramid.

Compared to the largest pyramids in Central America, the 66-meter-high Pyramid of the Sun and the Cholula Pyramid, the Kukulkan Pyramid is only half the size of the Pyramid of the Sun, at about 30 meters high.

It is a 9-story circular altar built with earth and stones, 29 meters high, about 55 meters wide on each side, and about 250 meters in circumference. The highest level is a 6-meter-high square altar temple.

There are 91 steps surrounding the pyramid, which adds up to a total of 364 steps. Adding the altar on the top floor, there are 365 steps in total, which is equivalent to the 365 days in a year.

There is no need to elaborate on Mayan astronomy. They left numbers indicating the laws of celestial movement everywhere on their buildings, integrating sacred numbers into their architecture.

This was supposed to be the location of the temple of the god Enki. When Quetzalcoatl came here, he used his power as a god and according to his own laws, reconstructed the temple below and transformed it into his own temple.

So this is a pity, I can't appreciate the ancient tower temple, but it is another kind of gain to have the opportunity to see the Mayan pyramid temple without going to America.

The pyramid temple looks similar to the city. The jungle has also invaded the temple, or rather, the jungle extends from the temple to the outside.

There is lush green scattered irregularly on the stairs and even every part of each floor of the pyramid temple, giving the gray-white stone temple a green touch.

However, the place where the Leopard Man was going was not the pyramid, and there was no need to throw the living sacrifices into the temple. In front of the temple was the residential area, and all the sacrifices and the people who originally lived here lived there.

However, in addition to the pyramid temple of Quetzalcoatl, there is something even more amazing in Eridu. That thing is more eye-catching than the Mayan pyramids that stand on the ground and have a completely different architectural style from the surrounding ones.

A huge battle axe was inserted into the ground behind the pyramid temple. The battle axe looked even bigger than the temple of Quetzalcoatl. At least, although it was inserted into the ground at an angle, the axe handle that pointed upward still looked taller than the pyramid.

That battle axe is the Axe of Marduk, and in the story here, the god Marduk used the battle axe to slit the throat of the goddess Tiamat, killing her.

That battle axe was the weapon used to kill the god Tiamat, so it undoubtedly also has a special attack against Tiamat and is a weapon that can be used in this singularity.

The only drawback of this weapon may be its overly large size. It looks to be at least forty or fifty meters in size. It is impossible for a normal person to use this weapon normally.

Even if one has the strength to pull the axe out of the ground and swing it, it is still difficult to hit someone with it.

It can probably only be used to attack larger enemies. If you use it to attack human-sized enemies, you'll probably have to rely on luck.

The enemies in this singularity are indeed quite large, so they are indeed useful, and Manshu also possesses the power of the god Marduk.

In Manshu's perception, he could indeed use the weapon. Although he did not possess the complete power of the god Marduk, he only obtained a part of the power and integrated it into his spiritual base. However, with this power, he could also exert some of the power of Marduk's Axe.

If Manshu were to use this battle axe, at least he would not only be able to use the surface strength and weight of the battle axe, but would also be able to exert some of the great power of the god Marduk.

Of course, this is a later story. The key point at this moment is still on Quetzalcoatl. The Axe of Marduk will not be very effective against Quetzalcoatl.

The leopard man threw Manshu into the living sacrifice in Ur, Eridu. The Lord was responsible for letting this group of people teach the newcomers what to do. He did not stay here any longer, but returned to the jungle.

The leopard man would not gain much from working here, so she just went through the routine and returned to the jungle.

Only in the jungle can you earn a little extra money. Although the news that you can never return from this dense forest has spread to the outside world, there are always unlucky people who walk into this dense forest and can never get out again.