Chapter 2 < Entering the Native Society >
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He quickly grasped the situation.
It was a very clear situation from their point of view.
Suddenly, a creature that looked like them fell from the sky with a huge wing-like thing (they wouldnt know what a parachute was) spread out.
The Native Aricans of North Arica believed in animistic beliefs, such as spirits.
Maybe they saw him as a great being with the power of spirits?
Then, from Kim Ki-woos perspective, it was a great opportunity.
Kim Ki-woo quickly decided how to behave in front of them.
And he slowly spun around to land exactly in front of them.
After a while.
Thud!
Kim Ki-woo landed on the ground.
There was a considerable shock, but he got up without caring and disconnected himself from the parachute.
Oooh!
Wow!
Wakan Tanka! Wakan Tanka!
The primitive-looking n cheered. Kim Ki-woo smiled and spread his arms wide towards them.
As soon as he touched the ground, he felt a strong relief that he had survived.
Im alive! I survived! Hahaha!
They couldnt understand what Kim Ki-woo was babbling. But by shouting out loud, their cheers grew louder.
He felt like he had beco a cult leader.
No, he might as well beco a real leader.
If he could save this blue planet as a result.
As long as he could keep humanity alive, what did it matter how he did it?
No one could bla him for that.
Kim Ki-woo quickly rationalized himself.
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Wait!
The man with the best eyesight in the group, the one with far-seeing eyes, raised his hand sharply.
It was a stop signal.
In such a large-scale hunt, his opinion was absolute.
Therefore, all the n who participated in the hunt stopped and held their breaths.
What is that?
What? What do you see?
A solid rock behind him expressed his doubt, but the one with far-seeing eyes did not answer him.
He just narrowed his eyebrows and focused on the object he saw.
As he kept staring at one side of the sky, the others also looked in that direction.
But they didnt have the eyesight of the one with far-seeing eyes, so they just tilted their heads.
Then.
Tha-that is!
The one with far-seeing eyes widened his eyes.
Thats a person!
A person?
Only then did the rest of the n see the vague shape. But the solid rock representing them denied it.
Thats impossible. How can that be a person? People cant fly in the sky.
Right. Thats a bird. Look at those big wings!
Quiet! Are you ignoring my na?
The one with far-seeing eyes pounded his chest and snapped angrily.
His wide and deep vision was his pride and identity.
Not really, but
Thats definitely a person.
The one with far-seeing eyes asserted with confidence.
Then there was a brief silence in the group. But that silence didnt last long.
The thing flying in the sky turned its direction towards the group and ca closer.
Huh!
Oh my God!
Is it real?
See? I was right! My eyes didnt deceive !
As Kim Ki-woo, the flying person, confird the appearance of the natives, they also recognized Kim Ki-woos appearance.
And they realized that he looked like them.
Its a Sacred Spirit!
Then, the only son of Chief Je-sik, Straight Tree, shouted out loud.
He had no choice.
He had never seen such clothes, a huge wing on his back, and a being that flew in the sky because of it.
He naturally thought of a Sacred Spirit.
In an instant, agitation spread throughout the group.
No one could refute that the strange being was not a Sacred Spirit.
According to their common sense, only a Sacred Spirit could perform such a miracle.
Wow!
Sacred Spirit!
Oh, Sacred Spirit
The n in the group bowed down to him without any hesitation. It was the most polite greeting they could do.
And that commotion reached its climax when Kim Ki-woo landed on the ground and spread his arms wide, shouting in Korean.
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What is Wakan Tanka? Wakanda forever, sothing like that?
Why did he think of a black hero from a hero movie?
Unless he was soone who studied Native Arican history deeply, he couldnt use their language.
Kim Ki-woo was no exception. He had very limited knowledge of past Arica.
So he didnt understand what language they were shouting at him, and what the word Wakan Tanka that he heard occasionally ant.
But if he had to guess, it was probably so animistic object.
I need to learn their language quickly.
Kim Ki-woo could only use Korean and English proficiently. He didnt feel the need to learn any other languages.
But to survive and achieve his goal of coming to the past, he felt an urgent need to learn the natives language quickly.
[Sacred Spirit, this is where we live.]
Straight Tree gestured to their house and smiled broadly. It was like a pure smile of a child who wanted to be praised.
Kim Ki-woo nodded his head. Body language was universal. His intention was clearly conveyed to Kim Ki-woo.
This is where they live?
Kim Ki-woo was slightly surprised.
It was bigger than he thought.
Of course, it was still at the level of a city-state.
But still, that was sothing. It wasnt as bad as he had imagined.
[Well call a tribal eting then. Straight Tree, Sharp Stone, Big Rock. You three show our village to the Sacred Spirit.]
[Okay.]
They whispered to each other and then the rest of the n disappeared into the village.
Kim Ki-woo was able to see various places with the guidance of three n, including the man who led him, Straight Tree.
Most of the houses were crude, made of mud, stone, and branches. But the fact that there was a residential area ant that they were settled.
The size was quite large. As he walked around, he saw many male and female natives looking at him.
Of course, as soon as the man in front shouted sothing, they all bowed down to him.
I get it.
There was no iron.
The strongest thing he saw was a stone spear made of obsidian.
The clothing was not entirely without cotton, but it was crude and mostly leather.
They mainly secured food by gathering and hunting, and they also fard crudely, but their farming skills didnt seem very developed.
Mostly won did farming. n seed to do hunting and gathering.
Huh. There are so ornants made of copper, gold, or silver.
But there were only a few of them, and from looking around the village, there was no sign of talworking here.
Maybe they brought them from sowhere else?
It would be absurd to say that they had a civilization beyond the Bronze Age with just a few ornants.
The only writing they had was crude pictographs.
There was sothing like paper, but it also seed to be brought from outside and the quality was not very good.
Anyway, it was clear that they traded with outsiders.
Kim Ki-woo ca to a conclusion.
At least this village was a Neolithic civilization that developed along the river.
Phew I have a lot of work to do.
To lead from a Neolithic civilization to an industrial revolution without external help?
It was impossible for an ordinary person to do even if he died and ca back to life.
The only consolation for Kim Ki-woo was that he had a long life left.
His body had undergone anti-aging treatnt.
Of course, if he didnt get any more anti-aging treatnts, he would eventually grow old and die, but he estimated that it would be around 400-500 years later.
That seed possible enough.
The problem was
The Europeans?
It would be nice if he knew exactly what year it was.
They would massacre the natives with oppressive force when they ca to Arica, and spread more terrible germs than that.
Then countless natives would die. According to so reports, more than 90 percent of the natives died in a short period of ti.
Of course, Kim Ki-woo had been vaccinated against various diseases, including smallpox, before getting on the ti machine.
He wouldnt die from any known infectious diseases at least.
Fortunately, I dont see any signs of European infectious diseases yet.
After Columbus reached Arica, infectious diseases such as smallpox spread from South Arica to North Arica in no ti.
The fact that the disease hadnt spread yet ant that it was likely before the 16th century.
That is, he had at least a hundred years or more until the British began to colonize North Arica in earnest.
As he was thinking about this and that, night ca. And Kim Ki-woo confird an important fact.
North Arica, huh.
He had trained enough to see the constellations. He could guess his approximate location through them.
It was definitely North Arica.
Is this good or bad?
North and Central Arica each had their pros and cons.
Before the European infectious diseases spread, the population of Central Arica was much larger than that of North Arica.
In other words, Central Arica was much better in terms of population.
But North Arica was a continent with more potential than Central Arica.
And it had the advantage of not having a large class divide.
Well, he had already landed in North Arica. He had to adapt to it. Kim Ki-woo put his thoughts aside and started planning again.
A hundred years is a very long ti.
It had been more than ten thousand years since the Mongoloid Asians crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to the Arican continent.
In a way, except for so parts of Central Arica, there was no visible civilization developnt.
Even the Central Arican region didnt enter the full Bronze Age.
But that was only because the Arican continent had many geographical and ecological factors that made it difficult to develop civilization.
If only they had enough food and livestock, civilization would have developed much more.
There was no food to farm and eat except for corn and potatoes, and there were hardly any animals to use as livestock.
Even those were mostly in Central Arica.
They had to farm with human power only, because they didnt have any livestock like cows to pull plows.
But it would be different from now on.
Because
There are amazing things sleeping in my bag. Hehe.
The weight that pressed down on his shoulders felt sohow refreshing now.
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Wow I cant believe it.
We all saw it. The great sight of the Sacred Spirit who spread his wings and ca down from the sky!
Yes!
too.
The War chief didnt believe them easily even though they said so. But it was even more unbelievable that these brave and young warriors all saw sothing wrong.
What do you think, Tribal Chief ?
It must an that he is a Sacred Spirit who perford such a miracle. Then its certain that he ca down to pity us after seeing our sun dance last ti.
Hmm
The Tribal Chief smiled with a grimace and pointed to his wound on his arm that hadnt healed yet.
It was a glorious wound that proved that he had cut himself with a sharp obsidian blade and spilled his blood on the sacred earth.
The tribal eting continued after that.
The eting was close to direct democracy, where brave young n and respected elders shared their opinions.
All decisions in the tribe were made by majority vote at this tribal eting.
And their treatnt of Kim Ki-woo, whom they called a Sacred Spirit, was also decided at this eting.
Then we will welco the Sacred Spirit into our tribe and appoint him as the Chief Spirit.
No one opposed the Tribal Chiefs words. It was a Sacred Spirit. It was impossible to accept him as an ordinary tribesman.
Of course, the Chief Spirit they were talking about was a completely different concept from the rank of nobility or king.
For them, a chief was more like a civil servant.
Everything by eting. That was the absolute principle of the tribe.
At least until now, when Kim Ki-woo had just arrived in the tribe.
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