What is Lukomorye

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

It's hard to believe, but in the 15th century, according to Karamzin, Moscow inhabitants had a clear idea of where Lukomorye was located. It was believed that this is a place on the ocean coast in the North, where the polar day and night divide the year in half. There were various beliefs about the inhabitants of the Lukomorye themselves, up to the fact that during the polar night they die, and in the spring they return to life.

Since the Middle Ages, our Lukomorye has appeared on the geographical maps of Cantelli, Mercator, Gondius and other cartographers. The Austrian diplomat Baron Sigismund von Herberstein wrote in his book "Notes on Muscovy" (1549) that Lukomorye is located in the bend of the Ob River. This is how it was indicated on Asian maps.

It is worth telling a little about the inhabitants of the Lukomorye. There are mentions of the French traveler Mandeville about the peoples living just in the upper reaches of the Ob, about the cult of worshiping the image of the Sun and the red banner. According to the convictions of the famous thinker of the XX century Rene Guénon, at the mouth of the Ob was one of the seven towers of Satan (Europeans have always been inclined to excessive demonization of our country).

If we pay attention to the etymology of the word "curvature", then we can distinguish two parts of the "bow" - the bend, and "sea" - the coast. That is, it is a curved seashore, a bay. If we were talking about the bend of the Ob River, then why not call this area “onion”?

It is also noteworthy that in the mythology of the Slavs there is an image of the northern kingdom at the end of the world, where a huge tree, the Tree of the Center, grows - the axis of the world, the top of which stretches into the heavens, and the roots of the tree go deep into the ground (Nizhy Mir) “… green oak, a golden chain on that oak ….

It is curious that in Pushkin's drafts the cat does not walk left or right "… goes to the right - he starts a song, to the left - says a fairy tale …" and up and down, just like the gods.

Let's pay attention to the most ancient texts of the Rig Veda (1700-1100 BC) and Avesta (1200 BC), which tell about the ancestral home of the ancient Aryans, absorbed every six months at the polar night. But when the polar day comes and the Sun appears above the horizon, it no longer sets - it makes circles on the horizon for another six months. In practice, such a rotation of the Sun can be observed only at the North Pole.

Let's return to the map of Mercator (1569), on which an unknown continent was marked in the place of the North Pole, divided by rivers with a mountain in the very center.

Studies aimed at comparing the ancient map with the outlines of the shores of Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Scandinavia tell us that the continent at the North Pole is shown very accurately on the Mercator map. Was there really a time when the North Pole was not yet covered with ice?

It is impossible to ignore the fact that Ruslan went in search of his Lyudmila, kidnapped by the sorcerer Chernomor, from Kiev directly to the far north, and not south to the Black Sea, where the name of the sorcerer logically directs.

Further, according to legend, Ogier Danish, being the paladin of Charlemagne, came to Avallon, where the Center Tree grows. The already familiar oak near Lukomorye.

The opinions of researchers agree that all European peoples can have a common ancestral home, which hid under the ice of the Arctic. The Greeks called this homeland Hyperborea, the British - Avallon, the Germans - Thule, the Indians and Iranians - Arianna Veijo.

Matvey Mekhovsky in his "Treatise on the Two Sarmatians" (lat., 1517) confidently identified the Polovtsians with the Goths, which does not agree with the ideas established in science, but fully corresponds to the circumpolar version of the localization of Lukomorye. After all, the Polovtsians in various ancient chronicles were called "Lukomorians", which means that the famous legend about their polar ancestral home finds a chance for its explanation.

And we, in turn, will not forget that Lukomorye is "the Russian spirit, it smells of Russia …". Our ancestors, leaving their native territories, captured by the Arctic ice, named the shores of the Ob, the Azov, Black and Caspian seas in honor of the Lukomorye.