Chapter 68 Stone Formation, See The Stone Formation Again!
Levin's banquet didn't start so soon. Before that, Firenze took Levin to wander around the centaurs tribe.
The centaurs in the tribe are each doing the work at hand,
But when they saw Levin, whether he was weaving fabrics or drying herbs, even the centaurs who were about to go out turned their attention to the boy.
Whether in his past life or in this life, Levin has always seen only male centaurs.
But in the tribe, he finally met some female centaurs he had never seen before.
According to Levin’s observation, the living conditions of these centaurs are similar to those of relatively primitive tribes:
Men are responsible for hunting, defending their homes, and patrolling their territories, while women are responsible for the relatively safer work of gathering, handicrafts, and food processing.
This also made Levin understand why he rarely saw female centaurs. The work in the Forbidden Forest was all done by male centaurs, and female centaurs naturally did not need to show up.
As the name suggests, the upper body of a female centaur is naturally the image of a human female.
Overall, compared with male centaurs, their bodies look more slender and delicate, but this does not prevent them from having muscle lines full of wild beauty, which is much stronger than that of human women.
Female centaurs usually have long hair, which is the same color as their body hair. They like to braid their hair and tail hair into interesting braids, which are also equipped with hairpins and bells. Wizard-style jewelry, in short, in terms of aesthetics, they are very different from human women.
The only thing that surprised Levin was that these female centaurs would also wrap their upper bodies with clothes, which was not in line with the traditional wizarding view that "centaurs don't wear clothes."
But this is reasonable. Since horse people have similar aesthetics to humans, they will naturally have a similar sense of shame.
In fact, if the horse people didn't wear clothes or anything, they would have been old people for a long time.
No matter how proud and closed-minded the horse people are, they are an intelligent race after all, and they will inevitably interact with humans.
And if there is communication, they will influence each other.
As a smaller group with a weaker culture, the horse people will be more or less affected by human society.
The wizard jewelry of female centaurs is a typical example.
Although most male centaurs are naked, they will not refuse a feather, a belt, a cloak, etc...
Levin could even see that some of the centaur guards were wearing armor.
As a guide, Firenze explained to Levin in a timely manner: "Our ancestors, as well as many conservative centaurs tribes in Europe, believe that wearing armor is a cowardly act...but if it can reduce the casualties of centaurs, then armor is a useful artificial weapon. .”
"At least, when fighting against eight-eyed spiders, these armors can resist the harm caused by their fangs.
"Actually, many ponies have secretly made friends with some of the little wizards in your school. Your wizards' accessories are very attractive to young ponies." Ronan also added in a timely manner. .
Speaking of this, Bain was a little unhappy: "If the guys who did this were hunting boys, then I would definitely ask them to take it down! In the Forbidden Forest, those clanking things will reveal our location... .…”
They just chatted and strolled forward, passing through the scattered tents and arriving at the center of the tribe.
It was a spacious open space with the largest tent standing in it.
This tent is decorated with the most complicated pictures, and there are always two centaurs patrolling around it.
Levin estimated that this tent either belonged to the tribal leader or was an important gathering place for the entire tribe.
In front of the tent, there stood a huge stone array, the stones in it were at least one meter high.
The stones in the stone array seem to be randomly distributed. If you look closely, you will find that these stones form approximately four to five concentric circles.
These concentric circles all take the tallest stone as the center, firmly guarding it in the center.
Each stone here is painted with different stone carvings, and the stone carvings on the central stone are particularly complex.
"Can I come over there and have a look?"
Levin points to the stone circle.
"This is the totem of our centaurs tribe, our place of worship, and our place for stargazing."
Firenze introduced Levin:
"But you are a man of destiny and a distinguished guest of the centaurs tribe, so you can visit at will.
"Thank you very much." Levin thanked him, "I won't mess around."
After saying that, he patted Lari's neck again, indicating to the unicorn to wait for him outside, and then walked into the stone formation alone.
But he didn't come in here out of curiosity,
Levin didn't even look at the stones with different textures around him.
Walk straight towards the center of the stone formation.
As early as when he approached the stone formation, Levin felt the violent reaction of scholar Yue Shi.
After arriving at the centaur tribe, it began to react violently.
As Levin approaches the formation, the moonstone's energy flickers turn into high-frequency pulses.
Levin extremely doubts that the stone formations in the centaurs tribe, like the stone formations in the Moonstone Garden, are the remnants of Druidism during the reign of the Celtic ancestors.
At least related to Druidism,
There are many stone formations on the British Isles, and the most famous one is of course "Stonehenge", also known as Salisbury Stone Circle.
They are almost all products of the Celtic ancestors era,
Levin suspects that the so-called Stonehenge is actually a Druid ritual site.
It is even very possible that the birth of the race of centaurs is itself a product of Druidism or the power of nature.
There is certainly a reason for Levin to think so.
He still remembered that in the library of Hogwarts there was a diagram of the golden section anatomy of a centaur modeled on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man".
Judging from that anatomy diagram, the body of the centaur is quite abnormal.
They not only have the chest cavity of the human body, but also retain the abdominal cavity of the horse body.
At the middle connection, there is a thick layer of supporting diaphragm to divide it.
Compared with humans, horse people have longer lungs and a more bloated digestive system.
It even retains 12 pairs of human ribs, 18 pairs of horse ribs, and two large hearts.
This kind of biological structure can never be the product of natural evolution, but can only be shaped by the day after tomorrow.
Considering that there is no god in the world of Harry Potter, and considering the habits of centaurs, it can only be the function of the force of nature.
This is also supported by Otherworld,
For example, in Jaina's hometown, in the world of Warcraft, the centaurs are the sons of the forest demigod Cenarius and the descendants of an earth elemental princess.
It is a combination of the power of nature and the element of earth,
Their half-man, half-horse appearance is derived from their father's half-man, half-deer appearance.
Being half-human and half-deer is a typical characteristic of natural divinity - the human half represents intelligence and the animal half represents natural wildness.
Maybe the centaurs in this world are the creations of the Druid religion (Wang Qian is good)?
The culture of the Congma people also has a deep connection with Druidism.
The three major specialties of the horse people are herbal medicine, astrology and hunting.
Levin doesn't understand the Druidism of this world,
But as far as he understood, the power of druids is usually divided into two main areas, the earth, which represents plants and vitality (Earth Society), and the moon, which represents the stars, moon and wildness (Moon Society), which is in line with the expertise of the centaurs. They are closely related, and no one believes them if they are not related.
However, the above are just Levin’s conjectures,
But today, he seems to have a chance to prove all this.
When Levin stood in front of the central boulder,
He immediately discovered that there was an obvious semicircular pit in the center of the stone.
The size is exactly the same as the Scholar Moon Stone in my hand.
Is there such a coincidence in the world?
At least Levin doesn't believe this.
Looking at the dent in front of me, and thinking about the moonstone in the bag,
Levin took it out by mistake and stuffed it into the dent.
The next moment, the situation suddenly changes!