"Mu Lu Ala Shan Wa! I am the ancient ancestor descended from the god mountains! I am your loving mother, and the mother of the entire Mountain Tribe! ..."
"Mu Lu Ala Shan Wa! My children, children who carry my blood! I gazed north from the god mountain, yet my heart filled with fury: I saw the land of the Mountain Tribe's Ancestral Spirits, the land passed down from ancient times, actually occupied by those evil Deer Tribe!! ..."
"Mu Lu Ala Shan Wa! The god mountain and I bear witness: this is the wedding where the Mountain Tribes gather, and there must be a blood-red offering to announce the sacrifice to the god mountain and to me! ... You must take back the land occupied by the Deer Tribe, kill those invading Deer Tribe people, and take the head of the Chief of Deer Moss River!! ..."
December's icy wind blew from the far north, crossing twelve hundred li of snowy plains and frozen sea. In the distant south of the peninsula, beneath the towering god mountain, within the camp of the Hot Spring Mountain Tribe, a heavy solemnity and silence now hung over everything.
A faint reek of deer blood drifted through the camp, along with the green pine-resin smoke of ancestor worship. Hundreds of Mountain Tribe warriors, bows and spears on their backs and stone axes at their waists, knelt in awe beside the Shaman's altar. They formed a prostrate circle, foreheads pressed to the snow, listening to the old grandmother's divine decree as the spirit descended!
At the center of the gathered crowd, the old grandmother Mu Lu Mountain Mother wore a forked Deer Skull Cap and a long, colorful Shaman's robe. She held high a deer-bone Shaman staff and stood beside the blood-red altar where