World Occult User Guide

"Misuru, our chief does not allow you to hunt here!"

"Tribes that are not protected by 'ancestral spirits' should get out of our 'Tiger Fish' tribe's territory!"

"You actually killed a hippopotamus..."

After a desperate fight with a male hippopotamus, the man known as Misulu ran out of weapons, leaving only a few lonely arrows.

In contrast, this group of people who came out of the jungle were fully equipped. If I read correctly, their leader actually had a pistol on his waist.

Looking at this backward thermal weapon, Lin An finally had a sense of returning to modern society.

After drifting in the rainforest for so long, he almost felt like he had traveled to another world.

The infrastructure of Eagle Country and Bantu are completely different, and the degree of completion is at least several centuries apart. It is difficult to imagine that they are two countries on the same planet.

Misulu knew he was outmatched, so he clasped his hands at his sides, trying to maintain a harmless look, and spoke in a calm and depressed tone.

"I had no intention of going against the decisions of the 'ancestral spirits', nor did I intend to break into this place. It's just that I chased the male hippopotamus that killed my father for five days, going down the river. In fact, I didn't know that I was Where is it?"

"You...you killed this hippopotamus by yourself?" The leader looked at Misulu, whose body was covered in mud and blood, with fear in his eyes.

Lin An could feel this man's evil intentions from all the way away. Misulu's powerful hunting ability and his feat of lurking for five days and killing a large prey such as a hippopotamus in one fell swoop made him feel threatened.

The best way is obviously to make up a few lies, such as claiming that this hippopotamus was bitten by its own kind while fighting for territory, and that he has taken a ready advantage to avoid this person's hostility.

It's a pity that Misuru was silent for a moment and answered with a stiff neck.

"That's right!"

These words brought up a series of gasps. Even among the tribe, the hunter who single-handedly killed the hippopotamus was still a phoenix.

The leader with the gun on his waist raised his hand to divert the attention of others with a cold expression.

"Misulu, you have broken into our hunting territory. So not only do we have to confiscate your prey, but you also have to accept punishment."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin An was dazzled and filled with smoke.

It turned out that the leader drew his gun and fired without saying a word, and Misulu quickly followed the vines back to the woods.

The bullets whizzed past, causing the woods to tremble.

Sir, times have changed...

If it weren't for the leader's poor marksmanship and Misuru's unusual reaction, he might have been killed on the spot.

The laws of modern society?

It is difficult to popularize it in this land where the mortality rate is extremely high and the average life expectancy is less than 35 years old, let alone the rainforest where few people visit.

The leader gave an order, and the able-bodied tribesmen climbed up the big tree where Misulu was hiding at the same speed. The leaves shuddered, and a fierce hand-to-hand battle seemed to have taken place inside.

In less than a minute, Misulu's body fell heavily to the ground, and new blood stains were added to the old scars.

Before he could stand up, the leader stepped forward and pointed his gun at his head.

"Ping!"

No unnecessary nonsense, this is a pure hunt.

The leader pulled the trigger. The shadow of death enveloped Misulu, and he could only grit his teeth in despair and glare at the cruel leader angrily.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, causing the leader to fly backwards.

A young man with black hair, black eyes and a slender figure flew across the flowing river like a big bird. He approached Misuru in the blink of an eye. He was suspended behind this person, holding a double snake entwined in his hand. wand, eyes indifferent.

The leader, whose back hit a tree, did not sit still. He reversed the muzzle of his gun and shot Lin An simply.

"Woo!"

Lin An activated the Philosopher's Stone, and the airflow enveloped the bullet. Immediately, the inside of the metal changed, and an iron nail inserted into the leader's left eye with a "pop".

Sir, times have changed again!

It's "Kemmers" time!

"Ahhh!"

The leader who was blinded by an iron nail screamed loudly, shocking the stunned tribesmen.

They felt the young man floating in the air glance at them with a faint look, screamed "oh oh" in fright, and fled in a hurry.

The leader wanted to run with them, but a tentacle tied his ankles. Soon it snaked up the leader's calves and tied him up in an instant.

Fear and faith drowned in the ocean Ⅴ, summoned by the tentacles of [Luska].

Lin An floated forward and looked at his prisoner condescendingly.

The leader's appearance is completely different from that of Misuru. He is a native of the Hutu ethnic group.

The Hutu are a typical image of southern China, with short heads, protruding chins, thick lips, and flat noses.

Lin An glanced back at Misulu. It seemed that his light skin color was not due to the sun, but because he had blood that was different from the rainforest natives.

Misulu has long arms and legs, high cheekbones, and a hooked nose. Except for his darker skin, he seems to be from the Mediterranean area.

I heard that the ancestors of some Bantu ethnic groups came from the Kingdom of Abyssinia and were close relatives of the ancient Greeks.

Later, they intermarried extensively with the Hutu people, and this ethnic concept became relatively indifferent.

Even before the arrival of the Flemish people, the Bantu had no concept of "race". People were divided into Tutsi and Hutu based on class. The former owned the property of ten cows, while the latter did not have ten cows.

That's all.

"Who are you! Let me go!" The bound Hutu leader's face turned darker with fright, and he shouted in a stern voice, "Our ancestors of the Tiger Fish Tribe will not let you go!"

Another ancestral spirit.

Not a priest, a chief, or a "sir."

What official title is this?

Combining the local mythology, Lin An had a flash of inspiration in his mind and came to a conclusion.

If you want to explain the term ancestral spirit, you must start from the mystical theory of Bantu, or the entire Central and Southern State region.

The Bantu people believe in a cosmology called Bakongo, in which an important feature is the sun and its motion.

Initially there was only a circular void called mbngi, but the creator Nzambi Mpungu summoned sparks and caused them to grow until they filled the void and exploded.

The hot elements released by the sparks together with the sun, stars, planets, etc. formed the universe.

This is very similar to the Big Bang theory.

However, why the backward Nanzhou could give birth to such a "scientific" creation myth is still a mystery.

After the Creator created the world, he turned into an energy that constantly changed clockwise, so he was nicknamed Kalnga, the God of Change.

The world created by Karenga presents the pattern of the cross in murals and artifacts, and the Creator himself is hung in the center of the cross, symbolizing the origin of life and the power of movement.

Whether the cross symbol of the Savior originated from this, or whether Pentecostal missionaries influenced the indigenous people, is also one of the topics of modern occultism.

The Bantu cosmogram is divided into four areas by crosses, which refer to the rising, noon, setting and disappearing moments of the sun, and also correspond to the four stages of life: conception, birth, and maturity. and death, also called Muthoni time.

The four cycles are distributed in the form of circles on the cosmic map. For the Bantu people, anything with life can pass through these stages, whether it is planets, plants, animals, humans, societies or even ideas.

The horizontal line on which the Creator is located is called the Karenga Line, which means "the threshold of the two worlds", the middle passage between the body and the soul, the boundary and intersection between the living and the dead, usually formed by rivers, Representation of concepts such as the ocean.

The upper half of the Kalunga represents birth and maturity, or Kunseke, while the lower half represents the spiritual world of the ancestors, corresponding to conception and death, known as Kumpemba.

The Kalunga Line separates the two worlds and places all living things on both sides. The Bantu people believe that this line is like a river, carrying people between life and death, and this process is repeated over and over again. People continue to die and be reborn.

The Bantu people's view of life and death coincides with the concept of "reincarnation". This philosophical idea only appears in Zhongzhou. The rest of the area believes that death is the end of life, and the human soul will return to the Creator, rather than in the form of new life. Return to the world.

"Ancestral spirits" are those ancestors who are in the spiritual world of death, waiting for the next conception.

To explain in the language of the Dragon Kingdom, the "ancestral spirits" stand on the Naihe Bridge waiting for the souls to drink Mengpo soup and queue up for reincarnation. They were relatively powerful during their lifetime, so they retained their consciousness.

The Bantu people believe that some priests and witch doctors can get help from ancestral spirits by communicating with the spiritual world; they also believe that some ancestral spirits will take the initiative to cross the Kalunga Line to solve problems for the living.

The act of invoking the "ancestral spirits" to respond is very much like the core concept of the Way of the Holy Spirit, and communicates with Orisha to receive the gift of witchcraft. Considering that this Caribbean coast religion is derived from Yoruba mythology, it is not difficult to find that they are closely related to Bantu mythology. similarities.

All in all, ancestral spirits are souls who possess extraordinary wisdom and power and have not lost the memory of their previous lives. Most of the time, they are more powerful than any living human being.

The group of people mentioned the word "ancestral spirit" repeatedly in the conversation before. The leader said that the "spotted lion" tribe without the protection of the ancestral spirit was an inferior existence. Misulu also mentioned that there was more than one "ancestral spirit".

Lin An guessed that the ancestral spirit refers to either a warlord who controls arms, or another name for a mysterious person.

"Lord Ancestor Spirit?"

Misulu's shocked voice came from behind. He was closest to Lin An and had good eyesight. He saw clearly that he just waved his hand casually and then effortlessly deflected the bullet. He was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

His reaction made Lin An even more convinced.

Very good, the ancestral spirit is most likely the mysterious person in the rain forest.

Combining the information obtained, Lin An thought about it carefully and thought of a way to quickly integrate into the Bantu tribe.

To gain their admiration and trust, he does not need to pretend to be a lofty son of a god, a prophet, or a great shaman. He only needs to say a simple and plain word.

"Yes, I am your ancestor." Lin An said to the stunned Misulu. (End of chapter)