Sanxingdui conjecture

He opened the drawer and rummaged around inside, threw me a work badge, carefully wrapped the helmet and took me into the laboratory building.

The two buildings are next to each other. You have to pass through the overpass on the fifth floor. There is a coded door in the middle. I used the old man's badge to get in.

There are various laboratories on both sides of the corridor. Some of the doors are made of thick alloy. It seems that some important archaeological materials and equipment are stored inside. The old man looked back at me and told me that most of them were ancient corpses and told me not to be afraid. I nodded like a chicken eating rice and said yes, don't be afraid.

The old man took out a set of keys and opened the door to a laboratory. He operated the equipment there and asked me to take the helmet out of the box and put it into the observation room.

There is also a door in the room, which is very heavy. I went in according to his request, placed the helmet, and hurriedly exited. Through the large piece of glass, I could see him operating the robotic arm inside to scan the helmet, and at the same time, the image was displayed on the screen in real time. middle.

It can be seen that the skull is not small. Little Sima's guess is correct. This person was put on a helmet when he was a child, and his head was cut off after he became an adult.

What's even more surprising is that not only on the helmet, but also on the skull inside, I saw a crack. This discovery makes me very troubled. What's going on? Could it be that when he was carving the three-eye mark on the helmet, he made a mistake and killed the person inside?

The old man was very calm. He printed out the images and asked me to hold the helmet and follow him.

We left the laboratory and walked to the back, passed through a corridor, and went down to the third floor. This side is filled with exhibition rooms. Some cultural relics have extremely high environmental requirements, such as constant temperature and drying, so the doors are all equipped with electronic locks. , people without certain permissions may not be able to enter at all.

We walked to the end and came to a slightly smaller showroom. The old man opened the door and went in. I looked around. The shelves in this showroom were full of skulls, with some kind of fabric underneath. The bones had no environmental requirements. So strict, no special preservation methods were used.

The old man hung the image data he brought on the wall on one side and said to me, "I haven't sorted it out for some time. Please help me find skull No. 315." After he finished speaking, he added, "Wear gloves."

I sighed and put on my gloves while walking through the racks. Once inside, I discovered that these racks were not only filled with skulls, but also many other bone objects with labels attached underneath. They were all human. body.

Many of the markings were not in their original positions. We searched for more than ten minutes, and finally the old man found skull No. 315 on a shelf at the back.

The old man put the skull under the photo, and I saw at a glance that there was a crack on the skull in his hand, right on the forehead, almost forming a perfect three-eye mark with the eye socket.

I was a little surprised. First, there were cracks in this skull, which meant that this was not an accident. There was obviously a certain pattern. The second is that the position of the crack is too straight and unbiased, just like it is carved on the bones after death. Otherwise, how could such a standard pattern be formed.

The old man glanced at me, and I immediately leaned over. He pointed at the skull in his hand and said, "Look, the edges of the opening are not neat. There are traces of healing, which means it was opened while he was still alive. And judging from the healing, Look, this man lived for at least three to five years. This is an ancient skull. There were no anesthetics or modern medical equipment at that time. Can you imagine how they did it?"

I asked in disbelief: "Could it be trauma? Caused by a blunt instrument?" In fact, even I couldn't convince myself of this guess. The opening was very neat, and judging from the position of the opening, it was not accidental at all. The old man shook his head.

I was really shocked at the moment. Besides shock, how did those people perform craniotomy hundreds or thousands of years ago? Compared with this technology, what I can't even guess is why these people can watch their heads being drilled without anesthetics?

A kind of "craniotomy" that is not accidental. What is the purpose of doing this?

The old man put skull No. 315 back to its original place, took off his gloves and placed it gently on the table. He let out a sigh of relief: "I knew this three-eyed mark was more than just a symbol."

The old man must know something from his tone, so I sat down and asked sincerely: "Tell me about it, my eyes have really been opened today."

The old man pulled down the image on the wall and said, "Go back to my office and tell me you can't smoke here."

We were sitting in the old man's office. He swept away the books on the sofa. I took out a cigarette and handed it to him. He looked at me in surprise and said that he didn't expect that young people of this age would still like to smoke Baisha. , I said follow the elders at home.

He took a few puffs of smoke, held the cigarette between his thumb and index finger and lit the ashes, and said: "This three-eyed mark is actually not very special. The same mark has been found in other research institutes. Although it is rare, it is not yet known. It's considered special. In our long history of five thousand years, there have been many more incredible things than this."

"At first we also saw this symbol on another piece of bronze. At that time, we judged it to be the totem of a certain ethnic group. I didn't care at first because we also found a lot of similar totems, but then the 315 skull was unearthed. I suddenly woke up, this three-eyed mark is definitely not as simple as a totem, it must be some kind of symbol, because if it is a totem, it cannot be used on a human body, and besides, this mark is still an eye."

"In ancient times, eyes were a very high level of worship. They represented an existence that transcended people's own dimensions. No one had the right to put them on their bodies. That was a kind of spiritual blasphemy. And you don't believe it either. Craniotomy was possible in ancient times, but it existed. What does it mean? This kind of surgery with a fatal rate must have some real effect. It does not just exist in the sense of the naked eye. There is no visible effect or obvious performance, otherwise we would not be willing for anyone to do this."

The old man took a puff of cigarette and continued: "Let's put the technology aside and just talk about what this effect is. What do you think will make them make holes in the head without hesitation?"

Hua Tuo is so nb, but he was slaughtered by Cao Cao just after he proposed the plan. Who knows why they can accept the drilling. I smiled bitterly and said: "Don't embarrass me. I have to rely on you to answer this kind of question."

"Have you seen the bronzes from Sanxingdui?"

I was stunned by his sudden question, and said a little confused: "I've seen it before, I've read it in a magazine."

He looked at me without saying anything, and I looked at him doubtfully. What does this mean? Do I have to understand it myself? I have really seen all the bronzes unearthed in Sanxingdui, but they were just human figures and masks... Suddenly my mind twitched, and I was dumbfounded and said, "No way."

I hurriedly took out my mobile phone and checked several bronze men and masks unearthed in Sanxingdui. Now it seems that if the bumps and pillars on the heads of these masks are cut off... then it will be the three-eye mark.

I was stunned, shook my head and looked at the old man: "This is a coincidence, this is incredible."

The old man turned around and took out a brown paper bag from the drawer, and took out a few photos. They were all photos of bronze figures or masks he had printed. Some of them were partially enlarged. He pointed at the masks and said, "You Look, the diamond-shaped eyes of these copper masks, this is the helmet you came to wear, do you think it's a coincidence?"

"What about these bumps? These are not eyes." I still didn't believe it.

"No one said they are eyes. What we emphasize is openings. Do openings have to be eyes? Couldn't they be some kind of passage? Like some kind of portal." He pointed to the bulge on Liren's forehead in the picture. : "Then these bumps are abstract representations of channels."

"Souls can come and go freely?"

He affirmed: "Yes, the most original meaning of this three-eyed mark is to represent a kind of communication. Through a certain technology, the head is opened, so that the soul can freely enter and exit, maintaining communication with higher-level existences."

The old man was a little excited. I lit a cigarette and handed it to him. He took a few puffs and continued with fiery eyes: "Judging from the helmet you brought, it also confirmed another hypothesis of mine, the theory of sacrifice."

"This kind of craniotomy is not suitable for anyone, not prisoners of war, not patients, not sacrificers, only priests. They are chosen by God since childhood, wear helmets, and do not show their true colors to others, because they are the spokespersons of God. , responsible for communicating with spirits through souls."

"Although the three-eye mark has been unearthed occasionally across the country, the skull hole you brought was the second one, and 315 was the first, and has never been found again. This shows that this technology was only mastered by very few people at that time. In the hands of some people. The other tribes do not have this technology to communicate with gods, but they firmly believe that the three-eyed mark can bring divine descendants."

"Another important point is regionality. Transportation in ancient times was not as convenient as it is today. There would be almost no large-scale migration unless there was a natural disaster. They would live in the same place for decades and hundreds of years. And ancient people had short lifespans. Logically speaking, It is said that we should have found more open-hole skulls in the place where 315 was unearthed, because after all, the priest's identity is unusual and he will be buried in a special way after his death, but the result is exactly the opposite, we have not found any other open-hole skulls."

Speaking of which, the old man sighed, "This also leads to the denial of the three-eyed craniotomy theory."

I saw that the old man was a little forlorn, which reminded me of Teacher Zhuo, another person who advocated theories but was not recognized by the outside world. If what the old man said is valid, then the three eyes must be related to the ghost tribes. They They have been trapped by this mysterious group for most of their lives.

I smiled bitterly in my heart, whether it was my father, my second master, or even me, so why not.

"315 was discovered in the Northeast. Do you know where your employer's helmet came from?" the old man asked me.

"I think it might be Bashu."

"I knew that these things were scattered all over the country. I thought there must be some geographical requirements for communicating with heaven and humans through the openings, otherwise they would not have traveled all over the country in ancient times when transportation was very backward."