The mountainous areas of Myanmar have been worshiping snake gods since ancient times.
Most of the local natives have witnessed the supernatural phenomenon of "the appearance of a long snake", which is vivid and miraculous when they talk about it.
It is said that every time before a major disaster strikes, a black snake tens of meters long will appear on the cliff.
The snake's body is like smoke and mist, hazy.
The strangest thing is that the black snake is nailed to the straight cliff and motionless, as if it is an ancient and mysterious rock painting.
It is completely invisible at ordinary times.
This is the long snake showing its supernatural power and telling people that they should run away quickly.
Disaster.
The black snake shape that appeared on the cliff was neither a mural depicting a strange python totem nor an inanimate dead thing.
If one did not know the reason, it would be difficult for anyone to imagine that the "long snake appearing" preserved in the ancient legends of Myanmar would actually be a mysterious image of life, which is so bizarre that it is unbelievable.
In fact, the snake-shaped black shadow on the rock wall is not a long snake at all, but "red ants" migrating in groups in the jungle.
The terrain of northern Myanmar is surrounded by rolling mountains, mostly the product of the "Himalayan Orogeny" in the ancient period.
The climate is constant all year round, and ordinary tropical storms are difficult to affect this place unless there is a large-scale tropical wind group from the Indian Ocean.
When bad weather comes, the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar will also be hit by violent storms.
Heavy rains will turn calm and low-lying rivers into rapid torrents.
Due to the abnormally hot climate, the creatures in the deep mountains and old forests will be aware of it in advance.
Therefore, tens of millions of red ants have moved their nests to higher places to avoid the disaster of annihilation of the ant nests.
The number of red ants in the primitive jungle is astonishing.
Although they are called red ants, they are black all over, with only a little vermilion on their tails.
The largest ones are close to a human finger, and the smallest ones are as small as rice grains.
They gather in dense formations to climb the wall. superior.
"Red ants" living in deep mountains and dense forests, also known as "letter ants", can leave "pheromone" in areas where they forage or march.
Each long-distance migration has a fixed route.
When the weather improves, they will have to return to their original location.
The road returns to the bottom of the cliff and the nest that was destroyed by the heavy rain is rebuilt.
When people see it from a distance, they will naturally regard it as a "long snake".
Perhaps as early as thousands of years ago, someone had witnessed this mysterious natural phenomenon, so these elusive and bizarre legends were left behind.
In nature, not only small ants, but also many creatures have far sharper perceptions than humans and even scientific instruments.
For example, domestic dogs often bark at night before earthquakes, or schools of fish turn over in pits, which are all examples of this phenomenon
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