Starship Girl Express

Chapter 627 Native Beliefs

The people who came to the city were also rich people - those who brought radios, and when they sat on the floor and rested, they were surrounded by groups of people who listened to the radios.

According to our observation during this period of time, those with portable radios belonged to the "rich" people, who sat on the floor and even had newspapers to put on their backs.

The radio broadcaster's pronunciation is absolutely standard "Mandarin", and now the master's deep learning has also calibrated the standard pronunciation, so Bai Mo Wu started to learn the language according to the standard radio pronunciation.

In addition to "babbling and learning" while building huts, Mowgli also overheard a lot of general knowledge and information about the world from people's conversations in the process of learning.

With no intelligence assistants around him, Bai Mowo sorted out and analyzed the information by himself, and roughly summed up the information as follows.

First there was the war.

According to the content of all the people on the mountain, the official statement in the radio news is that it has been fought for 155 years without interruption.

A pamphlet on national history that I picked up by chance, leaving aside the political propaganda content and looking at the facts, can completely corroborate the content of the citizens' casual conversations - it can confirm that history is like this, not people just talking about ...... at least this country's history is like this.

When the excitement is over, the sun sets in the east, and Bai Mo Wu takes a break for lunch, it is time to analyze the information. As an absolute outsider, he felt like listening to a fictional story and liked to make analogies and conduct an in-depth study called "comparative history".

The two world wars of the 20th century on earth were actually the same in nature, but there was a hard "truce" for 20 years, and as a result, popular history was divided into World War I and World War II, not by nature, but by time span, for easy explanation and memory.

On the other hand, the world has been fighting this continuous war since the post-colonial era, and now the new industrial empire.

After 155 years of fighting, the feeling to Bemoe is that it is from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I and World War II all the way to the Cold War. The military, technology, and social structure had been renovated several times, but the war had never been interrupted, which sounded very exciting.

The two warring factions were the United Caelian Alliance, the Pact of Pune-Keluchen Accords, and the Punjab Pact.

These are the things that people talk about, but the booklet doesn't tell us about the War of the Three Kingdoms, it tells us that from the beginning the war was fought between the Kailash and the Punjab Pact, and that the two opposing military blocs were not officially called the Kailash or the Punjab Pact, but the Pact and the Pact.

The second is the common knowledge of planetary countries' geography and time.

This planet is called "Betty" by the people in this area, and this is the pronunciation, and the translation of the main premise is "blue planet". 41% of the land area, the rest of the sea, according to light fluctuations, particle theory to explain the "sky is blue", light refraction and reflection, particles Riley scattering two sets of theory make sense.

Before the white Mo Wu with Nai Qi sisters they discussed this, because of the white Mo Wu origin of ancient Earth should be tested Department, Newton is junior high school, high school physics leading, so his light wave theory is also the main direction of study, the main study of refraction and reflection, Newton's famous prism refraction sunlight experiment in textbooks, and particle theory is not in the textbook test points such as, in fact, that the sky is blue reasons, whether it is atmospheric refraction, or particle wavelength diffusion are right.

The reason why the world thinks that the planet is blue, according to a parent, is also based on refraction - after all, the most intuitive and easy to understand, while the particles say that the explanation is troublesome.

Anyway, now White Mowgli can call them the "Pythia", with a definite article, instead of the "natives".

According to the spin direction of the planet, it's okay to translate "east" and "west" the other way around, but Mowgli felt that he would get confused, so let's just say "rising west and setting east".

One hour and 60 minutes, one minute and 60 seconds, and four meals a day: breakfast at the first meal, morning meal or lunch at the second meal, swallowed rice at the third meal, and dinner at the fourth meal. The first two meals are picnics in the mountains or food from farmers' stalls, and the worshippers leave before dark because of the curfew and martial law.

After 15:00, they start to disperse.

There are four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the moon in the sky is a bit confused, so there is no concept of "month". The calendar is derived from farming, and there is no month to describe the date, so the year is divided into three seasons according to the three crops that are planted in rotation, the first quarter is spring and summer, the second quarter is summer and fall, and the third quarter is winter and spring.

Please farmers talk about the three growing quarters, the city fiasco people, talk about the three semesters - two semesters a year for children on Earth, here according to the quarter, three semesters a year.

The number of days in a year is 732. Every three years there are 12 "leap" days, and in a Betty's Run year, the number of days is reduced by 12, so a leap year has only 720 days.

The concept of the week comes from the ancient astronomy of Balthasar, the "zodiac", the twelve constellations in the sky, with each constellation defining a day.

The "Mother River" to the north is called the Kad River, and the city of night visits is called Cardassia, a newly industrialized city that grew out of a river port town with rural marketplaces outside the various temples, or market towns. Farmers would not enter the city because of martial law, pulling goods in and out of the city without a permit.

The country's name was Mwasaya, and it belonged to the Punjab Convention, a group of convention countries.

The core area of influence of the pact is the "ancient land of the Najib", where people believe themselves to be the birthplace of world civilization and the orthodoxy of mankind, and worshippers and pilgrims talk about it with a sense of pride.

The word "Punjab" is just a pronunciation, which means "the Punjab", a geographic concept. So the Punjab Convention Organization, if translated by the alien, would mean "continental armies".

It may not sound like much to others, but Bai Mowo himself feels that he may get mixed up with a certain concept, which is weird, so let's just call them "side by side".

In the past, there were only four moons in the sky, and the industrialized world war eventually ended in space orbit, and the moon was naturally one of the targets, the battlefield.

The pamphlet states.

"The Union State disregards the safety of the lives of all human beings, the lives of all the planet's creatures, the safety of the entire planet Betty Tower, and is bent on going ahead with this, insane and crazy to the point of using extreme measures to blow up Aiha as a mass weapon to attack the ancient land of Najia, which is anti-human, anti-life, an evil group that violates all the principles of justice in the world, and is doomed to failure, doomed to be destroyed by justice ......".

So that's how the fifth moon, the Moon of Amu, came to be. It looks like the moon-cutting blast was not calculated properly, and the gravitational interactions of the various complex celestial bodies did not have enough impetus to change their orbits, and the Moon of Amu ended up in a stable moon-orbit around the planet, with no possibility of falling on the surface of Bethesda for a foreseeable billion years.

The pamphlet is silent on the role of the Allied Powers, the evil gang that wanted to hit the Earth with the Moon, and the role of the Covenant in the lunar war.

The space war went crazy, and as a result, the orbit into space was completely blocked by garbage, and both lunar bases were caught in a dilemma when they couldn't get supplies from the ground.

However, White Mo Wu believes that, after breaking ties with the country, the war on the moon will definitely be more bloody and fierce than the war on the ground, which is a real war of survival.

Then we learned some general knowledge about religion, economy and livelihood.

This mountain temple, officially called "District 12 temple", is said to be the oldest temple in this area, the building is quite old, some say more than five hundred years, some say five thousand years, in short, as 3A tourist attractions are qualified.

The "temple" refers to the entire area, including the wall, and the main hall is called "Budeishtri", while the forest behind the main hall is the "tomb forest".

The main religious concept, which is a little bit of Taoism, is to translate the sutra that the big-robed priests here recite to the worshippers the most, which is - to believe is to have, not to believe is not to believe, to believe is to do well yourself first, don't count on God, don't count on God, if you don't work hard, God will not help you!

So that's the old question: Why do people come to worship if they believe and pray to God in vain? White Mowgli just can't understand this, so he is not a believer. However, he still has respect for the Buddha, which is a basic attitude brought by the cultural system.

The doctrine feels very casual, but the S'ouk rituals are more complicated, for example, the Buddhist ritual of Jodo, the Christian ritual, the Orthodox ritual, the different ways of cross. There are seven steps in the full set of the Siouk ritual, which is also shortened to "seven rituals" in the human talk, each step is equivalent to fold the hands and cross the fingers.

Each step is equivalent to join the ten, cross. They are called the rite of meeting, procession, salutation, pilgrimage, worship, swallowing rite, and regeneration rite.

These seven rites should be done in full when worshiping, but in fact, they are subdivided into four major categories, according to the order, the first three steps, the rite of meeting, the rite of performing, and the rite of experiencing, also known as the three personal rites, "human rites," which is equivalent to the ritual of shaking hands when two people meet and greet each other on earth in normal times.

In worship, the meaning of the ritual is to tell the gods "I am coming," and later on, the ritual gradually evolved and became popular in the mundane world. When human rites existed in daily life, society became very civilized and polite.

After that, pilgrimage and worship were the main rituals of worship and prayer, so they were also called "divine rituals.

After that, one must pray for one's elders who are still alive.

The last type of rite is the "rite of farewell", which is only one step, the rite of rebirth, a visit to the god of heaven must naturally have a beginning and an end, after informing the god of his arrival and completing the prayer, and finally to leave, naturally one must take leave.

S'ouk, the religion of the gods, naturally has a lot to do with the sky, the constellations are a key element in the religion, and the temple can be seen everywhere with the symbols of the stars.

Is it a long ago memory of the starry sea? White Mowgli guessed so.

There are 12 days in a week, three of which are rest days, the 12th is the absolute day of rest, and then the 5th, 6th, and 11th can be flexible, with the pick of two days of rest, called the adjustment day, these three days in the daily life collectively known as the rest day.

On the days of rest, the number of people coming up to the mountains to worship is naturally the highest, as well as the number of peasant farmers who come to work as roadside vendors, and the number of buying and selling transactions is also naturally the highest.

Regarding the economy, Mwasaya, it sounds like it has been in a planned economy for a long time, but the farmers and citizens are not complaining, rather they are saying that life is better now.

Many of the old people who come to worship are nagging their families about how hard it was for them back then, and how happy they are now, with enough food and warm clothes, worshipping the gods, and just waiting for the enemy to be defeated.

It sounds like before the planned economy was a wartime economy, or even no economy at all, people were eating what they had, using what they had, and taking what they saw. ...... Many of the older generation, who had fled to Cardassia with their families when they were young, had a lot of common language, and sat on the clean marble floor of the temple and talked loudly about the mountains.

One day after that, White Mowgli had the honor of witnessing a great deal.