Muhammad
Swallowed Star: Gender-Swapped and Cheating Across the Multiverse
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Muhammad (穆罕默德) |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Young Heritage Vanguard Team, also called the Pioneer Team 1 11 |
| Occupation/Role | Leader of the team's cultural-heritage journeys; organizer of collaborations with local communities and preservation associations 1 27 34 |
| Status | Alive; continuing heritage work with Hu Fei in Suzhou 50 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1, “Rebirth” 1 |
Background / History
International heritage journeys
Muhammad first appears returning from Great Zimbabwe with the Pioneer Team. Mbali entrusts him with a soapstone token combining Shona Bird Patterns, Rock-Firm Fist trajectories, and Angkor Lotus Patterns. In Hangzhou, Muhammad places it beside the Silk Road Heritage Stele at Chen Jialuo’s grave, alongside keepsakes from earlier cultural exchanges 1.
He subsequently leads the young team members to heritage sites whose patterns are becoming difficult for younger generations to interpret. Their projects connect those patterns with practical activities, martial arts, crafts, and digital learning 1 4 8.
| Journey | Chapters | Muhammad and the team's work |
|---|---|---|
| Florence | 1 3 | Accepts Uffizi researcher Laura’s invitation to revitalize Renaissance patterns. The team helps stage the Patterns Across Time and Space Dialogue Exhibition, combining Florentine designs with contributions from other civilizations. |
| Cusco and Machu Picchu | 3 4 | Leads the youths into an Inca pattern project linking terrace agriculture, weaving, movement exercises, and an AR guide. |
| Ancient Rome | 5 6 | Accompanies the team in studying Roman architectural patterns and supporting the Ancient Rome and World Pattern Festival. |
| Congo Basin | 7 8 | Responds to a Pygmy community’s request to preserve rainforest weaving knowledge. The project produces survival tapestries, the Rainforest AR Manual, and a pattern festival. |
| Chichén Itzá | 9 11 | Returns at the Maya Ruins Protection Agency’s invitation. The team develops activities connecting Venus observations, calendar patterns, breathing exercises, and movement. |
| Maasai Mara | 11 13 | Leads the team to Elder Oliya’s village, where grassland totems and migration patterns become hands-on survival lessons. |
| Tyrolean Alps | 13 14 | Brings the youths back to Elder Heinz’s community for a project teaching mountain safety, seasonal migration knowledge, and traditional crafts. |
| Inca Sun Terraces | 15 | Leads a return visit focused on irrigation patterns, water management, and practical farming lessons. |
| Roman and Maya follow-up projects | 16 19 | Commemorates work on Roman aqueduct patterns before returning to Chichén Itzá for a project connecting ritual calendars with architectural symmetry. |
| Maasai Mara and Alpine astronomy | 20 24 | The team develops lessons from nomadic star maps and Alpine constellation traditions, supported by movement exercises and digital handbooks. |
| Inca Moon Terraces | 25 27 | Leads a third invited visit to explore Pleiades-based frost warnings and terrace protection. |
| Congo rainforest frost protection | 27 29 | Leads another expedition to Elder Moka’s winter camp, linking Sirius observations and vine patterns with seedling protection. |
Partnership with Hu Fei
Di Yun invites Hu Fei to the rainforest project after hearing about his snowy-mountain martial arts. Hu Fei contributes adaptations of the Hu Family Saber Technique, and Muhammad agrees to work with him again on future heritage journeys 30 31.
Half a year after the rainforest constellation festival, Muhammad accepts Hu Fei’s invitation to Changbai Mountain. Their collaboration then expands into a continuing series of regional preservation projects 32 33.
| Location | Chapters | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Changbai Mountain | 32 33 | Muhammad gathers the team to help the Evenki preserve ice-safety and reindeer-migration patterns. Hu Fei contributes saber instruction and frost engravings used as route markers. |
| Zhouzhuang | 34 35 | Muhammad invites Hu Fei to help revive water-network and oar patterns. The resulting lessons connect snowy-mountain balance techniques with boating. |
| Dunhuang | 36 38 | Accepts the Dunhuang Research Academy’s invitation to revitalize Flying Apsaras and Silk Road Trade Route Patterns through movement, crafts, and AR interpretation. |
| Yunnan Tea Horse Road | 38 40 | Brings Hu Fei into a project preserving caravan route symbols and tea-basket knowledge. |
| Quanzhou | 40 42 | Responds to an ancient-house preservation association’s request to revive swallowtail ridge and red-brick mosaic patterns. |
| Guangzhou Xiguan | 43 45 | Travels with Hu Fei to study Lingnan arcade pillars and Manchurian windows, connecting their designs with commercial history and cultural exchange. |
| Yongding Hakka tulou | 45 | Accepts an invitation to Chengqi Lou, where the project interprets concentric ring patterns and carved doors as records of clan organization and defense. |
| Qiang village | 47 | Returns from the village’s pattern festival with embroidered keepsakes; later watches Aga teaching embroidery to children. |
| Northern Shaanxi | 49 | Participates in a cave-dwelling project interpreting window lattices and earthen-kang brick patterns as warmth-preserving knowledge. |
| Suzhou | 50 | Accepts an invitation from the Humble Administrator’s Garden and brings Hu Fei to explore ornamental-window and winding-water patterns. |
Returns to Hangzhou
Muhammad repeatedly returns to Chen Jialuo’s grave, often at the winter solstice, to place community gifts beside the Silk Road Heritage Stele. The collection grows from stone fragments and medals to textiles, carved wood, architectural keepsakes, and household objects 1 6 24 40 49.
These visits also allow him, Di Yun, Granny Hua, and Wan Yunxi to follow the projects’ continuing results through the Global Pattern Digital Platform. Uploaded footage shows young participants applying their knowledge, teaching children, guiding visitors, and preserving local practices after the team’s departure 8 11 45 47.
Personality
Muhammad regards cultural preservation as the transmission of practical knowledge and shared responsibilities, rather than the collection of decorative symbols. His reflections emphasize protection, coexistence, respect for nature, and connections between civilizations 1 6 27.
He places particular trust in younger generations as the people who will continue that work. His repeated tributes at Chen Jialuo’s grave, including remarks addressed to “Senior Lin” and “Senior Chen,” also show his respect for predecessors 3 11 19.
Abilities & Skills
Leadership and Coordination
Muhammad leads international expeditions and brings collaborators into projects requested by local heritage organizations.
- Assembles and accompanies multicultural groups of young participants 1 25 27.
- Recruits Hu Fei for successive projects involving boating, murals, trade routes, and architecture 34 36 38 45.
- Connects community elders and preservation researchers with the team’s practical teaching activities 14 15 32.
Heritage Documentation
Muhammad carries project records and community gifts back to Hangzhou, preserving evidence of the exchanges.
- Returns with AR manuals, instructional videos, and images of local patterns 8 27 31 33.
- Uses the Global Pattern Digital Platform to follow participants’ later work 40 45 47 49.
- Places keepsakes from different communities together beside the Silk Road Heritage Stele 3 19 49.
Items and Keepsakes
Muhammad receives the following objects during his journeys; many are subsequently placed at Chen Jialuo’s grave.
- Dual-Civilization Soapstone Token — Mbali’s gift from Great Zimbabwe, combining the Bird Pattern and Rock-Firm Fist trajectories with Angkor Lotus carvings 1.
- Florentine Bronze Badge — Laura’s gift, engraved with the Vitruvian Man’s geometry and Golden Ratio Palm Technique trajectories; its reverse bears Angkor and Great Zimbabwe patterns 3.
- Roman Bronze Medal — Luca’s gift, depicting the Colosseum’s victory pattern and Arch Defense Fist movements, with international patterns on the reverse 6.
- Congo Vine Tapestry — Moka’s gift, woven with the Vine Spiral Pattern and Rainforest Traversal Steps 8.
- Maya Jade Pendants — Carlos gives him a Venus-pattern pendant recording Starlit Breath-Regulating Steps, and later a Ritual Calendar pendant recording Calendar Ritual Steps 11 19.
- Maasai Calfskin — Oliya’s gift, bearing the Ox-Head Pattern and Grassland Migration Step paths 13.
- Constellation Blankets — An Alpine blanket from Heinz bears Orion and Snow Mountain Constellation Steps; Kino’s Inca blanket bears the Pleiades and Astral Field-Guarding Steps 24 27.
- Rainforest Hardwood and Snow Mountain Cold Iron — Tokens from Moka and Hu Fei, linking rainforest star patterns with snowy-mountain saber marks 29 31.
- Evenki Reindeer-Bone Token — Uli Ji’s gift, engraved with Ice Crack and Snow Vein Patterns and inlaid with Hu Fei’s cold iron 33.
- Peachwood Oar — Granny Wang’s gift from Zhouzhuang, engraved with water-network and oar patterns 35.
- Dunhuang Silk Handkerchief — A Silk Road keepsake incorporating snow-mountain cold iron and chips from a Jiangnan peachwood oar 38.
- Bamboo Tea Basket — Uncle Yan’s gift, bearing caravan-route and tea-basket patterns, with cold iron and Dunhuang silk incorporated into its rim 40.
- Architectural Keepsakes — A carved Southern Fujian red brick, a miniature Manchurian window, and stained-glass ornaments commemorate the ancient-house and arcade projects 42 45.
- Qiang Embroidery — A Qiang-cloth handkerchief and watchtower tapestry brought back from the village project 47.
- Yellow Clay Pendant — Grandpa Wang’s gift from Northern Shaanxi, engraved with window-lattice and kang-brick patterns and edged with cold iron and Hakka red earth 49.
Relationships
- Young Heritage Vanguard Team — His traveling team. He leads members including Soka, Karen, Marco, Nikos, and later participants through successive preservation projects 1 15 27.
- Hu Fei — Recurring collaborator and traveling companion. Their partnership begins in the Congo rainforest and continues through snowy-mountain, water-town, Silk Road, architectural, and garden projects 30 31 33 50.
- Di Yun — Fellow heritage-project supporter. Invites Hu Fei to the rainforest and regularly reviews the team’s work with Muhammad in Hangzhou 30 31 47.
- Granny Hua and Wan Yunxi — Companions at the Hangzhou commemorations who watch festival recordings and the youths’ uploaded discoveries 1 8 24.
- Chen Jialuo — Deceased predecessor whom Muhammad honors by bringing cultural keepsakes to his grave 1 19 49.
- Elder Moka — Congo community partner who repeatedly welcomes the team and gives Muhammad a vine tapestry and carved rainforest hardwood 8 27 29.
- Carlos — Maya scholar and project partner who explains astronomical patterns and entrusts Muhammad with commemorative jade pendants 9 11 19.
- Kino — Inca project partner who teaches terrace irrigation and frost-protection knowledge; gives Muhammad a Pleiades-pattern blanket 15 25 27.
- Oliya and Heinz — Maasai and Tyrolean elders who invite the team to develop practical lessons from their communities’ traditional patterns 11 14.
Notable Quotes
“From Angkor's sandstone to Zimbabwe's soapstone, from Eastern martial arts to African totems, what we pass down has never been isolated cultural symbols, but the ‘protection’ and ‘connection’ shared by human civilizations.” 1
“From the Inca astral terraced-field patterns to the Alpine Snow Mountain Astral Pattern, and then to the Maasai Grassland Astral Pattern, what we have passed down has never been symbols, but humanity's reverence for and protection of nature's order.” 27