The divination of ritual ugliness is very simple, even rough. He did not light a fire with special materials, did not ask for sacrifice, and did not make any amazing moves. He just begged a stone ornament from the White Wolf and threw it into the fire. This kind of stone is taken from the river bed. Compared with ordinary stones, the surface is warm and smooth. Although the ornament is not a gem, it has a different style of aesthetic feeling. It is not clear what people in the grassland call cheese, but in the books he read, this stone is called Jade, a word directly translated from other languages according to pronunciation. As for where the language is popular and who is the user, there is no record in the book.


    "I don''t quite understand." While the shaman was talking to the fire, Lothar asked the cheese. Even though he had foreseen the next large paragraph of words that the mage could not understand, he was still curious about divination. It''s no wonder that this kind of thing is mysterious and rarely spread abroad, and some interest in it is normal.


    Cheese took his eyes back, and the divination ceremony could not be seen with the naked eye. It''s very impolite to peep at other people''s rituals with magic vision. Besides, many divination rituals are very alert. Besides, the gaze of a third party other than the diviner may make them escape or even leave messages randomly. That''s very bad, "don''t you understand what?"


    "If I understand correctly, the relationship between shamans and the gods they serve is actually much like a knight and the king he swore allegiance to." The count tried to interpret what was happening in a way that he could understand. "Because the knight would perform his duty for the king, the king would help him when he was in trouble. Divination can also be regarded as one of these kinds of help. But, you just said that Shaman''s divination can not pass through the gods he serves. What does that mean? Who else can he turn to besides the king


    "There''s nothing wrong with your metaphor." The mage tilted his head and seemed to be thinking about how to tell what he knew according to Lothar''s thought, "the problem is, you think things too simply. From knights to kings, even in small countries, there are several classes, not to mention shamans, who have just been selected from the "leaders". They are far from the real nobles. Although they can see the king directly, they can''t really let the latter do anything for them. "


    "In other words, the king is indeed a knight''s object of loyalty, but there are quite a number of levels between them, some of whom are subordinate to the knight, and some are completely divorced from this relationship. Now what he''s doing is asking for help from these people at some cost. As far as the effect is concerned, the spirits of plants and plants born in the local area must know more about the land under their feet than the gods of mountains and rivers in the distance. It has nothing to do with the level of class, but mainly requires people. Besides Cheese hesitated for a moment.


    "Besides, there is a premise for all this. That is, the gods, or something higher than the gods, do control parts of the world, and only in this way can they be effective in helping people. But in fact, many times, divination does not need the help of these gods or goblins or other things. Divination has a more internal and primitive side. On this side, man is not a knight, and the world is not a kingdom. All things are closely linked in ways that we can''t understand. Divination is to obtain information that people don''t know through this connection. "


    "But this orientation also has the premise that the world needs to be a whole. No matter how big the external gap is, all things need to be interconnected internally. And this inner connection can also be seen as a more, um, pure God. It''s just that the gods don''t have their own ideas, they run like machines. Is it possible that the connection itself is an imagination? The inside of the world is not so simple. We are like the grass on the sea with the waves. We don''t know what the world under the sea is like. "


    Cheese''s voice became smaller and smaller, and his eyes became less firm with speculation. The fear of the unknown is an insurmountable emotion for ordinary people. For grey robes, this fear will only be stronger. Take the current situation as an example. If the mage''s last assumption is true, then what are those divination without objects seeking answers? Where will the answer from this divination take people? If the matter of ghosts and gods can be established without ghosts and gods, it is probably something more frightening than the existence of ghosts and gods themselves.


    The fire is out. The black ashes, the unburned residue and the jade were left behind. Ordinary jade, even if burned in a campfire for a long time, is only covered with black ash. But after the divination ceremony, when the ritual ugliness removed the black material on the surface of the jade, some small but obvious lines have emerged clearly. There are many similar divination rituals. Depending on the local products, some use tortoise shells and some use animal bones. However, regardless of the medium, divination from traces is a very common means in divination.


    The difficulty of this kind of means is not to make traces. A good diviner can make use of all the natural and unnatural traces to make divination. Whether these divination will become accurate fables, or merely the voice of expressing will by means of objects, or just the absurd words of deceiving people, depends on the diviner''s interpretation of traces. The same trace can be interpreted by different people. Those who have not experienced the corresponding training can only regard it as a trace. Those who know some magic can roughly infer that it is a divination tool. Only those who have been really trained and know this way can interpret the information behind the trace. Most of the interpretation methods are related to the absence of consciousness.Absence does not mean fainting or shock. It means to liberate the thinking ability bound by reason, temporarily forget all the knowledge about the world accepted by the day after tomorrow, let the intelligence return to the primitive natural state, and directly understand the non written words in front of you in an almost intuitive way. Witches often use sacrifice, drinking, Carnival dance and other ways to achieve this state. With these means, they can get rid of the secular world for a short time and let their spirit travel far.


    However, it is not necessary to be polite and ugly. He can directly interpret these cracks. If it is not for his affectation, it is that the inner part of the shaman can no longer be speculated by ordinary people. His travel is with the secular world. Such people, cheese has seen two, the first is the sleeper, in the sleep between half dream and half awake can achieve the blending of rationality and irrationality. The second is his teacher, the master of the grey tower, whose early gray robes have passed away. In the impression of cheese, that one can do it. Strangely, the owner of the grey tower should be the most rational person in the world.


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