Chapter 10 Uruk's Ritual
The vast National Mall was crowded with people, wearing gorgeous dresses, all facing the center of the square and watching.
With the tall golden pagoda temple as the background, a spacious and gorgeous stage was set up in the middle of the square, on which more than a dozen priests in costumes were performing a sacred ceremony that attracted much attention.
"It's just started, just in time!" Sansa pulled Enkidu and the lion forward in the crowded crowd, pointing excitedly in the direction of the stage and shouting.
They were still far away from the stage, but the crowd around them was already complaining.
Zhang Chengyue grabbed Sansate and said, "Forget it, you can see clearly from this far away, just look here!" Anyway, he was a head taller than ordinary people and his eyesight was very good.
"Ah? How can I see clearly here? I'm not as tall as you!" Sansate disagreed.
"I can carry you on my shoulders!" Zhang Chengyue said to her.
Sansate glanced at Enkidu's iron-hard body and smooth and tight muscles, imagining that she wanted to wrap her legs around his neck, and her face turned red: "No... no need."
"Is it okay..." Zhang Chengyue muttered. He originally meant to carry her on one shoulder, but a subtle chemical reaction unknowingly occurred in the air, making the two of them embarrassed. He originally wanted to explain
But he didn't say any more.
"What about me carrying you?" Pengpeng squatted down, reaching the height of an ordinary person.
"Okay, okay..." Sansate climbed up without saying a word, supporting her knees in the shallow hollow on the lion's back, her petite and light body lying behind the lion's big head, and grabbing the top of its head with her arms, like this
It is much higher than the audience in front.
But she didn't stand up straight immediately. Instead, she buried her chin in the lion's fluffy mane, her face still secretly blushing.
She didn't know that Pengpeng was feeling dizzy and in a state of ecstasy right now. The girl's fragrant and soft body was pressed against his back, which was simply wonderful!
There were male and female priests on the high platform, holding gold trays in their hands, which contained various offerings to the gods. They lined up slowly on the stage, and a tall priest chanted melodiously.
The voice resounded throughout the audience:
Uruk, the creation of the gods,
Aiana, the temple descending from the sky,
Its majestic city walls are like dust and mist, touching the ground to the sky.
great sky goddess,
O pure Inanna!
Where does your silver skyship travel?
Take a look at your favorite Curaba,
Return to your favored Uruk!
The incomparable Eanna,
Ann’s residence, your home garden,
Like a tall me mountain,
Magnificent and glorious;
One square mile of sacred garden,
full of exotic flowers and plants;
A rich tribute,
High piles overflowing...
Pengpeng asked: "Who is the Inanna they sing?"
Sansate said: "The goddess of love and fertility, our main god in Uruk! Every city-state in Sumer has its own main god!"
Zhang Chengyue heard a problem and asked Sansate in a low voice: "Listen to what they chanted, what do you mean, the goddess Inanna is not in Uruk now, and people are calling her back?...I mean, she is a physical being
, a living god, not a statue or...a spiritual body, a conceptual body or something?"
Sansate rolled her eyes at him: "Of course he is a real god! You will find out when you visit the temple in the future! Beef, lamb legs, fruits and wine are placed on the altar table. What kind of things are not real and edible?! God is also
You’ll be hungry!”
"Wow, that's it..." Zhang Chengyue murmured in his heart, is there really a living god in Uruk? Isn't it someone pretending to be an immortal to deceive these kind-hearted humans? He asked tentatively, "Then... the goddess is now
Where is she? When will she come back?"
Sansate shrugged: "I don't know!...The goddess Inanna has not been to Uruk for many years. She can go directly to the zenith or travel to the end of the world. If it is closer, maybe she is in Alata now.
Or Bad Tiberah... there are many places to worship her."
"That's it..."
The system has said that the most important information is information about "gods". Is there really a god in this era?
At this time, the priests holding tributes had gathered on the left side of the stage and looked towards the right side of the stage.
As the drums beat slowly, it seemed that some big shot was about to appear.
As expected, with a moving chant that sounded like silver threads being thrown into the sky, a gorgeous woman in gorgeous clothes appeared on the stage, shining brightly in front of people's eyes.
The audience became slightly commotion: "Oh...oh...goddess...Inanna..." They all clasped their hands in front of their chests and murmured in their mouths.
"Is that the goddess Inanna?" Pengpeng and Zhang Chengyue asked in unison.
Sansate replied in a low voice: "That is Tara, the most beautiful priestess of Uruk. She plays the role of 'Inanna'. She is as noble as a goddess in this festival!"
The actress who plays the goddess has a pair of beautiful big eyes. She wears peacock blue eye makeup, uses a dark blue pen to outline the long tail of the eyes, and is decorated with shining diamonds to the temples and long eyelashes.
The eyelids dyed golden with gold powder are opened and closed, and those eyes are so breathtakingly beautiful that they are more dazzling than all the gems in the world!
Her figure is also impeccable, and when she rotates, the exquisiteness of her body is fully revealed.
The dancer's arms covered with gold powder sometimes bend and sometimes stretch. Layers of gold bracelets extend from her arms to the back of her hands. Her gold-dyed fingertips are like blooming orchids coiled around her beautiful cheeks.
She danced an ancient and sacred dance, elegant and slow. Rather than dancing, she was imitating the movements and postures of the gods. She raised her hands and feet, smiled and looked around, and it was so beautiful that it took your breath away.
All dances in the world probably originated from "dancing the gods", an imitation of gods in ancient sacrifices.
This performance is truly the most beautiful of all, and she deserves to be the most beautiful woman in Uruk. Even if the goddess herself comes, she should be nothing more than this?
The audience watched intently and intoxicated, and Enkidu and Pengpeng seemed to be fascinated by it.
Sansate pouted and said, "It's not surprising. In order to play the role of a goddess well, Sister Tara thinks about the ultimate in female beauty every day, from movements to eyes. I don't know how many years of practice she has! But the priests who have seen the goddess
It is said that although Sister Tara is beautiful, she lacks a bit of the pure and delicate beauty of a girl, because even after tens of millions of years have passed, the goddess Inanna still maintains the appearance of a girl, and at the same time mixes that kind of unparalleled elegance.
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"Oh my god...how beautiful would a real goddess be?" Pengpeng was speechless.
"It is said that the goddess Inanna is ten thousand times more beautiful than sister Tara!" Sansate said.
At this time, all the singers on the stage sang together:
Beautiful Inanna!
Please stay, please stop,
Look at the Uruk you once favored!
But after hearing such lines, the goddess on the stage still hesitated, looking back step by step at the praying priests on the other side of the stage, neither coming nor going away.
During the stalemate, a young man with a shining body suddenly appeared on the stage.
The man had brilliant short golden hair, a slender body, and was wearing a priest's white robe embroidered with gold thread. His back was facing Zhang Chengyue and the others, and he slowly walked onto the high platform with his clear-cut arms stretched out, his whole body exuding light.
The first thought that flashed through Zhang Chengyue's mind was that this was a god!
In the myth, Inanna has a twin brother, the "Sun God" Utu, whose whole body exudes golden light and is extremely handsome. Together with Inanna, they are the most beautiful pair of gods in the sky and on earth. Could this person be playing the role of the Sun God?
Then Zhang Chengyue's second reaction was to wonder about his own thoughts: Why do I think this person... is a god?
He rubbed his eyes, took a closer look at the handsome man, and saw something amazing: his skin would glow!
The skin of the "goddess" also glows with gold, but that's because her arms are covered with gold powder and she wears complicated gold bracelets.
But that man was completely different. The skin of his arms was snow-white, like slightly transparent jade, glowing with a faint golden soft light. To describe it, it was like the warm sunshine in the morning passing through the golden wheat field, tempering the
The same as in milk. His fair and glowing complexion, paired with his brilliant blond hair, and his clothes that combine pure white and gold, look elegant and noble.
At this time, Pengpeng also rubbed his eyes and said to himself: "Eh? Is this a special effect on the screen? Why does that person have a soft light effect in the sun?"
Chapter completed!