The sea chrysanthemum clam is a rare pearl oyster that is a precious clam with a large, convex, spherical shell and a very thick shell. There are thorny protrusions of varying lengths on the ribs, and some spinous protrusions are long and curved, resembling chrysanthemum petals, which is very beautiful. The shell is bright in pink, purple and yellow-white. Among them, the pure color sea chrysanthemum clam with the same color throughout the body is particularly precious, and the pearls they breed are often pure in color and moist throughout. The shell of the solid color sea chrysanthemum clam has been a treasure of sacrifice and noble collection since ancient times, symbolizing rebirth, life and hope.
In the remnants of the tropical jungles of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula or Guatemala, we can often see huge stone pillars of different sizes and heights, finely carved, coated with bright colors and beautiful patterns, magnificent and mysterious, telling the vicissitudes of time, these giant stone pillars record the history of the Maya civilization in 1500 BC, from the hundreds of stone pillars that have been found to preserve the mayan column chronicle for more than 1,200 years.
Although hundreds of years of wind and sun, rain washed away, and dust buried, these historical testimonies engraved on the stone and condensed in the stone still stand in the creator's home. They are like a frozen epic, even if the scriptures that record it are lost, and the people who spread it orally are gone, they can still echo over the homeland, so that all those who set foot on this land can feel the immortal culture of this nation, as if the ancient masters still exist, these cities still exist. In fact, these stone-carved portraits and buildings are so large that many visitors, while sighing, suspect that they are not human!! The myth of the gods grew louder and louder, and the Maya were elevated in this remembrance to a position between the gods and men. However, as long as we return to these hundreds of persistent stone tablets, back to the real world depicted in these chronicles, it is not difficult for us to find that the history witnessed by these stones is completely the history of humanity, and it is completely within the reach of human beings.
The Solar Calendar of the Maya adopts two systems of 20 and 18, 20 days a month, 18 months per year; and every 20 years for a large cycle, that is, the chronograph calendar, the Maya in order to commemorate the celebration of the end of the 20-year cycle, will choose a most beautiful woman to wear the costume of the corn god dressed as a goddess, the woman is beautified into the corn god (the main product of the Mayans is corn), she in order to commemorate the end of the old chronograph calendar and the beginning of the new stage to summon the power of rebirth and regeneration.
The headdress of the Mayan corn god costume is decorated with a quadrant beast head (two-headed viper monster) with feathers and hieroglyphs, a monster that symbolizes nature's path to the supernatural, its head is a favorable expression of the intervention of supernatural forces, and it is considered to be the entrance to the underworld.
In the hair ornament and waist ornament protrusion, the sea chrysanthemum clam is inlaid to symbolize the ocean and the womb, symbolizing life, prolificity and rebirth. All the ornaments gathered together to form the costume of the corn god, and in the sacrifice, complete the psychic transformation of the real world and the underground world of this goddess.
The Maya were a people who valued history, and every twenty years, in order to record the events of the time, they had to erect a stone tablet or a stone pillar in their town, and carve the original and carefully what happened on it. This is the world-famous Mayan chronicle pillar. These chronicle pillars are precious historical materials for the study of Mayan culture, and it can be said that it is precisely because of these pillars that the Maya culture has become the only culture in the ancient history of the Americas that has an era to examine.
The Maya left few books, and perhaps the Mayan ancestors had already experienced the devastating power of fire in forest fires or in their own fires that burned trees for corn cultivation. Now, everything that can be burned is burned, and only these stones are left. Despite centuries of wind and sun, these historical testimonies, carved into the stone and condensed in the stone, still stand in the creator's home. They are like a frozen epic, even if the scriptures that record it are lost, and the people who passed it on are gone, they can still echo over the homeland, so that all those who set foot on this land can feel the immortal culture of this nation, as if the ancient masters still exist, and these cities are still glorious.
4,000 years later, in September 1995, the Nevado volcano near Ampato was erupting, and ash gushed out of the summit for up to 1 mile and landed on ampatto's ridge. The ridge at the summit of Ampato is covered with thick layers of ice, 30 feet wide. Dark volcanic ash is very easy to absorb the sun's light and heat, so the ice and snow melt in large quantities, causing the ridge to collapse.
Anthropologist John Reinhard and fellow mountaineer Miguel Zarat arrived, and John was stopping to take notes. Suddenly, he heard a soft whistle from Miguel, who was walking ahead, and looking up, he saw Miguel's wheeled ice axe stall in mid-air. John hurried over, and in the direction of Miguel's fingers, a cluster of small fan-shaped red feathers, sandwiched among the rocks of the nearby hillside. It was a kind of tiara on a small statue statue commonly used in Inca rituals! The two men grew excited, and Miguel tied the rope around his waist, climbed the crooked steep slope, and carefully pulled out the figurines of the feathered headdress, one, two. It was a first-class Inca figurine, carved from gold, silver, and rare shells of sea chrysanthemum clams, buried facing the top of Ampato Mountain, and the multicolored costume wrapped around the outside looked like new, and the feathers that attracted John and Miguel were also very complete, and it was obvious that the two figurines had not yet been exposed to the ground. John and Miguel continued on their way, and as they were about to reach the summit, a rock covered in ice caught their eye: there was a cloth wrapper there that looked like a mummy. "It could also be a discarded hiking backpack." Miguel said. They climbed over the rock pile and saw clearly that the tightly wrapped cloth was indeed an Inca mummy!
John and Miguel were almost overjoyed. In 15 years, John has climbed more than 100 Andean peaks and completed various high-altitude archaeological excavations, but such mummies are seen for the first time. Fragments of some fabric were scattered around the mummy. On the nearby ice, they found a female figurine carved from the shell of a sea chrysanthemum clam, camel bones, pottery fragments, and two cloth bags containing chaff and corn ears. John photographed them one by one, and Miguel used an ice axe to cut through the ice and remove the mummies frozen on the rocks. At this point, they saw it clearly, it was the face of an Inca girl, and later studies showed that the 13-year-old girl was poured a lot of gigasque wine and forced to take coca leaves (including cocaine, hallucinogenic, and controllable drugs) before she died, and eventually froze to death. In a ceremony called "capacocha" held at the Yuyeyako volcano in the Andes, she was offered as a sacrifice to the gods, a sacrifice that originated in an ancient empire.
In the mid-15th century AD, an indigenous Indian tribe near Lima, Peru, established a slave state, the Inca Empire, by constantly annexing neighboring tribes. Its capital was built in a place called Cusco. It is said that the Incas worship the sun god very much, they see that the outer edge of the shell of the sea chrysanthemum clam has thorns of different lengths, just like the sun's rays spread outward, and the gold shines with the same brilliance as the sun's brilliance, so they especially love gold, gemstones and sea chrysanthemum clam shells, and try their best to gather gold, and precious statues such as sacrifices are made of gold, gems and sea chrysanthemum shells, alluding to life and hope.