The temple was broad and bright, the divine statue shining with golden light. Sacred patterns were carved across the four walls, and the god-banner flew high beneath the ceiling. The king sat cross-legged, high beneath the statue, while everyone bowed their heads and listened to the teachings of Divine Revelation.
"So-called breeding means selecting stable, superior Light and Dark Divinity (alleles) from generations of seeds. The expression of these superior divinities in maize is more kernels, shorter stalks, less lodging, fewer illnesses, and smaller yield losses when rainfall is insufficient."
"Divinities beneficial to planting must be accumulated in crops, generation after generation, without cease. From superior maize, choose good seeds, cultivate them in a small plot, harvest, select seeds, and repeat it again. This plot should preferably be in the lake, separated from other maize fields. Only in this way can the stable selection process of divine inheritance be ensured. Breeding needs to continue for a very long time—ten years, decades, even over a century. And when enough superior divinities have been gathered, one can then further crossbreed them and obtain special breakthroughs."
"In truth, in the Olmec age three thousand years ago, the maize they planted bore ears much smaller than those cultivated now by the Alliance and All Nations. The maize yields of that time were also lower than they are now. And at the beginning of the First Era, the earliest maize was slowly domesticated by the ancestors from grain-bearing grasses thousands, even tens of thousands of years ago!"
Hearing such words, everyone present looked at one another, their expressions shifting somewhat. One had to know that in the ancient myths, maize was a gift from the gods. If anyone else dared speak such words disrespectful to the gods, then their end...
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