Aztec Eternals Chapter 97

The golden sun rose to the center of the sky, blooming the most dazzling light. The original sun has already returned to its place in the sacrifice, and the next step is the blessing of the sun god.

The sun shines from the zenith of the Temple of War, and the four-meter-high solid gold sculpture of Huizilopochetli is shining brightly. Around his neck is a necklace of hundreds of turquoise and topaz, sparkling and radiant. In his right hand is a nearly three-meter-long silver spear with a brilliant sapphire at the tip, symbolizing the power of lightning. His left hand is a two-meter-diameter silver shield with mother-of-pearl, ruby, and quetzal feathers inlaid around it.

Witnessed by the God of War, the God of the Sun and the Patronus, Avit was wearing a bright red blood-colored Sun King suit, with a tall king carrying the flag behind him. With a feather shield on his left arm and empty hands, he stood majestically in front of the Temple of War.

In front of him was the high priest Kezar in the same divine attire with a solemn expression. Kechar raised the topaz inheritance scepter with both hands, and declared loudly to the sky.

"In the name of the **** of war, the **** of the sun, the patron saint of Huitzilopochtelli, a new sun has risen! The grandson of the great Montezuma I, the beast of Lake Texcoco, the great Avetso Ter ascended the throne as the new Tratoani! The sun of Mexica will once again shine on his people, leading the brave and fearless Mexica to execute the will of the patron saint, to conquer the evil darkness, to conquer this world!"

At the Great Temple, Kechar's chant was high and furious, and then hundreds of priests repeated it loudly, and the gorgeous chant shook the world in an instant! At this moment, all the ceremonies in the temple area have stopped, the nobles and warriors of Mexica stand together, and the foreign merchants and envoys are pale. There is solemnity between heaven and earth, only the declaration of the gods.

Next, Arvet knelt down on one knee and raised his hands high. Kechar then handed the inheritance divine scepter into his hands solemnly. This symbolizes the authority given to the king by the gods to rule the world of the Mexicans.

Avet immediately stood up and raised his scepter with his right hand, the topaz shining brightly in the sun. Kechar knelt down on his knees and fell to the ground. This is the priest's allegiance to the king and following the king's will!

The chief priests group immediately fell to the ground, followed by the feather-crowned priests of all levels, then the nobles in Chinese clothing, the cotton-armored warriors of all levels, foreign merchants and envoys, and slaves in the temple area.

The priests who conveyed the instructions ran all the way out of the temple area, shouting all the way: "The king is on the throne, everyone salutes!" The priests along the way heard the sound and also shouted to pass, until the lake of Texcoco.

In the eyes of Shulot, with the continuous shouting, the crowd fell to the ground in an instant, like a wave spreading from the center. The residents of the entire city stopped their movements one by one, knelt down to the position of the Great Temple, and crawled in the mud in front of them.

"Congratulations to the king!" Kechar recited again.

"Congratulations to the king!" The voices rose and fell, and hundreds of thousands of people chanted, shaking the clouds in the sky. From the golden statue, to the blue lake, to the distant sky!

Looking at this scene of thousands of people crawling, Avette's face quickly burst into a radiant look, with a red light all over his face. He stared at the capital under his feet for a moment, and couldn't help but spread his arms to embrace his own country.

"In the past, there was a soup. Since Diqiang, there is no one who dares not come to enjoy it, and no one dares not to come to the king. It is said that Shang is the norm." Xiulote sighed in his heart. scene.

The salute lasted for a full quarter of an hour before King Avet lifted the chief priest up. Next, the priests brought a huge brazier and placed it in front of the Temple of War. A priest who had already arranged for it came running, holding a torch in his hand. This is the holy flame passed all the way from the top of Mount Estella, running all the way from early morning until noon.

"Light the holy fire and pay homage to the sun god!" Kechar sang loudly.

King Aveit took the holy flame solemnly and lit the brazier in front of him. The faint blue light of the fire instantly made a big splash, and the pungent smoke quickly drifted away. The nobles and warriors under the Great Temple once again exclaimed and fell to the ground. After a while, the light of the fire gradually became smaller and turned to a normal bright yellow.

This is a new link added by the chief priests after seeing the ritual of worshipping the gods of the Tarasco people. Put a certain amount of sulfur in the brazier to color, plus liquid grease to help burn.

Seeing the performance of the people's convincing, Kechar nodded lightly, and the effect was indeed good.

"Cut your flesh and blood, and pay tribute to the God of War!" Kechar continued to sing.

Ugel held an ancient obsidian dagger in both hands. Avit took the dagger, exposed his left arm, and the blade slowly penetrated into the flesh. He gritted his teeth secretly, carefully controlled the depth of the dagger, and then slowly cut it down. But for a few seconds, pesized beads of sweat flowed. After dozens of seconds, a large piece of flesh was cut off and thrown into the fire. Arvet dropped the dagger and raised his scepter again.

The great temple was instantly filled with jubilation, and the nobles and warriors praised the king's courage and determination! In martial Mexica society, the king had to be a true warrior. For two hundred years, every Mexican king has sacrificed himself at his enthronement ceremony. The more you don't change your face, the more you don't fear pain, the more you can get the respect of the warriors!

The priest next to him hurried forward and wrapped the wound tightly with cotton cloth soaked in medicinal juice. The white cotton cloth was instantly dyed bright red.

Avit gritted his teeth, unable to speak in pain. The chief priest once suggested to take the specially made holy water before the ceremony, but he refused, but now he regrets it a little.

"Let the hummingbirds fly and pay tribute to the patron saint!" Seeing the king's performance, Kechar had a serious face and a smile in his heart. The days are long, and there will always be a chance for the king to drink the holy water. And holy water is the best weapon to control the king.

This is the final step. The priests and elders gave a red hummingbird into the hands of the king. Avit stretched out his right hand and released it slightly. The hummingbird drew a red lightning, flying from the blood-colored temple to the golden sun. From death to the sun, this is the end of the Mexica beliefs.

The nobles and samurai once again cheered and saluted. The sacred steps have been completed, and with the approval of the Lord God, King Avit has officially ascended the throne!

After the crowd cheered, the envoys of each state moved forward one by one, offering tribute to their own state. The enthronement ceremony was a bit rushed this time, and a large number of tributes were being collected or transported to the capital. The messengers only offered symbolic gifts to the Great Temple.

The Aztec Empire was an alliance of city-states with the capitals of the three cities as the core.

"The system of the former kings: the state's inner clothes, the outer state's clothes." The entire alliance can also be simply divided into: Wang Ji, the state's inner and the outer.

The Texcoco Lake District of the three capital cities is Wangji, and the remaining eight states of Mexica are states. Further out, the surrendered Vasteks, Mistecs, and Zapotecs are foreigners. The neighboring Tarasco, Tlaxcala, and Otomi are neighbors.

"One hundred li will pay Na, two hundred li will be charged with chonium, three hundred li will have straw clothes, four hundred li of millet, and five hundred li of rice."

Similar to the "five clothing" era in China, in the Stone Age with low productivity, there were no large livestock, and long-distance transportation was extremely difficult. The levy of tribute by the alliance had to change with the distance, but also with the property of the city-state.

Following the high priest's loud announcement, dozens of city lords from the Mexica states stepped forward one after another with a respectful expression. Because of the short distance, the tributes in the state are generally larger in quantity and lower in unit price, and are more inclined to ordinary warriors and military nobles.

The plain city-states provided a large amount of food. Includes corn, kidney beans, squash, herbs, bell peppers, and cocoa. There is also a variety of meats such as deer, turkey, rabbit, domestic dog, wild duck, quail, honey, as well as river prawns and ant eggs.

The Forest City-State offers a wide variety of woods. There are sandalwood and rosin for burning, charcoal for heating, and wood for building. Shulot noted the hard sandalwood, ironwood, and oak that the messengers mentioned as very good bow materials for making good longbows.

The mountain city-states offer a variety of stones. Obsidian for stone tools, granite and volcanic rocks for construction, and lime for engineering. Along with the stone, there are cheap tin ore, daily mineral salt, and high-quality clay.

All city-states will provide all kinds of cotton blankets. The sizes range from one meter to several meters, and they are magnificent and varied in style. The edges of the blankets are decorated with various threads and feathers, and the blankets are painted with drawings that fit the Mexica aesthetic.

Seirot carefully observed that the skull symbolizing death appeared the most, followed by the brave eagle and jaguar, then the great sun, and the long snake symbolizing the feathered serpent god.

The blanket dedicated to the king by the riverside city-state is densely sewn with a layer of duck down, which makes it extra soft and comfortable. Avit touched his hand and nodded with satisfaction. He wants to take it back to his lovely daughter.

The northern city-state hand inherited the Toltec craftsmanship. They are able to weave all kinds of exquisite and gorgeous garments. Often, the dress is strung with bright feathers on the chest, delicate flowers are embroidered on the back, and the shoulders and hem are inlaid with shimmering gold, silver and precious stones. These costumes will eventually be rewarded to the wives and concubines of kings and nobles.

Avette deliberately kept a few small women's fine clothes.

The southern city-states are close to the rainforest and have contributed a lot of novel fruits. Includes pineapple, banana, custard apple, sapodilla, guava, avocado and prune. Along with the fruit, there are all kinds of beautiful flowers, especially the roses with roots. Some of them are purple, some are bright red, some are white as snow, and the fragrance is rich and elegant.

Avit also nodded and accepted. He wants to open up an additional rose garden in Montezuma Palace to facilitate Alyssa's play.

The border city-states focus more on the production of military equipment, and their tribute is various cotton armor, shields and throwing spears. The cotton armor will be pressed several layers, dense and thick, with hard crocodile leather inlaid in the front, and feathers in the back. Shields were mostly woven from wooden strips, or rattan, which was more difficult to handle. Skinned wooden shields are more expensive. The drooping of the shield will adhere to the feathers of various colors. Throwing spears are often made of wood, and the tips are grilled over charcoal. Advanced throwing spears are equipped with sharp stone blades.

From these tribute equipment, Shulot can judge the level of armament of the border city-states of the empire: it is slightly worse than that of the warriors directly under the capital, but obviously stronger than that of the inner city-states. The materials they use to make their weapons are very flexible.

The chief priest Kechar once again announced that the envoys from outside the state were sorted according to their relationship and made tributes.

The Vasteks are the most loyal affiliations of the Empire. They love music, art and dance and are not good at war. Since they settled in the warm tropical plains, they also have the habit of being naked. The Vasteks paid tribute to a hundred young girls who could sing and dance. The girls wore simple costumes that made people blush, with seductive shell ornaments hanging from their bodies, and walked with the rhythm and rhythm of music.

The Mistec are somewhere between loyalty and infidelity. They are the people of the cloud, they are good at fine gold and silver jewelry, and they are the best precious metal craftsmen. The offerings of the Mistecs were solid gold headbands, sterling silver earrings, gilt stone tools, and gold and silver necklaces inlaid with turquoise.

The Zapotec are the furthest away and the least loyal. They also claimed to be elves in the cloud, but they were influenced by the Mayan culture and used words similar to those of the Mayans. The Zapotec paid tribute to the milled and shaped cochineal, from cochineal or cochineal. They also brought tropical flowers.

The final announcement came to the neighbors. Their gifts called themselves congratulations, declared tributes.

Cholula is the holy city of Nahuat religion and has a special status, so it ranks first. Their messengers also represented the Tlaxcalans who were unwilling to bow their heads. The gifts of the city-state of Cholula are the exquisite jade sculptures of the **** of war, as well as the bows and arrows of the Tlaxcalans, which are wrapped with silk threads to create exquisite patterns.

Mexica, the messenger of the Tarrascos, is out of place. With his head held high, he offered a sharp bronze battle axe, a sturdy bronze helmet, and even a sturdy bronze armor, half intimidation. Avit weighed the weight of the bronze armor with both hands and smiled. This armor craftsmanship is still immature and too heavy to be used in large-scale wars.

The Totonaks merged with part of the Toltecs and inherited the ruins of the Olmec civilization. Their dress is quite simple, wearing solid-colored robes. The gift of the Totonaks is an Olmec mask from hundreds of years ago, along with beautiful seashells, conch, coral and bags of pearls by the sea.

Avet carefully stroked the mask of the ancient civilization, and then handed it over to the priest for good collection. This treasure can connect the Mexica with ancient civilizations and increase the legitimacy of alliance conquest of the world.

Then came the messenger of the Otomi people, from the city of Ottopan where the contract was signed. Although the city of Hilotepec is still under siege, this does not prevent the city of Ottopan from carefully maintaining contact with the empire. As for the Otomi nobles who sacrificed today, the sacred sacrificial ceremony is a tribute to the noble blood, and in the eyes of the Nahuatl tribes in Mexico, it is not insulting.

The gifts of the Otomi people are much simpler, just some blankets woven from agave threads. There are also some novel animals, such as northern eagles, kestrels, eagles, crows, wild cats, Snakes, and even centipedes and scorpions. If the Otomi were able to traverse the Gobi where the Chichimeks roamed, they could capture another tribute that the Alliance desperately needed: the bison.

And finally the Mayan merchants. As always, they paid tribute to tobacco, spices, shells, and oriental plants and flowers. Shilot vaguely saw a familiar figure, but he couldn't be too sure. After all, the Maya's slender heads, cockfighting eyes, and strange facial accessories seriously affected the recognition of their appearance.

These are the "five servers" of the Mexica City-State Alliance. As for the other city-state forces, they were either too scattered and could only offer some bright feathers, or they were too far away to arrive in time.

The tribute ceremony finally came to an end. Avet raised his scepter high and greeted all the city-state messengers. The messengers also bowed respectfully on one knee. In the slightly west-slanting sunlight, he walked down the high platform of the Great Temple, and the king's banner shone brightly in the sunlight. Behind him, the family warriors, fully armed, followed.

The samurai's tour of the city has ended, and the next step is the new king's mighty tour of the city. Let all the citizens of the capital have the opportunity to pay tribute to the great king.

On the Great Temple, the common name of the sacrifice sounded again, but it was replaced by Ugel's voice. The chief priest group once again opened up the road to the Sun God Kingdom and sent blue sacrifices one by one on their way home.

At the chief palace, the elder watched the enthronement ceremony with a calm expression. He finally turned his head and looked at Shirlot calmly.

"My child, are you ready?"

Behind the elder, the captain of the guard, like a statue, watched silently. He clenched the pottery pot in his arms with his left hand, and held the sharp copper axe with his right hand.

Chapter end

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