Megaliths of the Urals. Part 2

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The most interesting thing is that there is another "Devil's Settlement", thousands of kilometers from the Urals, on the territory of the European part of Russia, in the Kaluga region. It is located 6 km from the village of Sosensky on the territory of the Ugra National Park. It is known for the fact that it is also a weak anomalous zone - phones, cameras and GPRS cease to work normally. It seems that UFOs fly there periodically. And the legend about its appearance is also associated with the construction activities of the "evil" forces. Here is how one Christian legend tells about the appearance of an unfinished megalithic structure in a deep forest.

We do not apply here to notice that the Orthodox Christian Church, which appropriated the Vedic concept of "Orthodox", refers to the activity of "evil spirits." This is understandable. Those who baptized Russia into the Greek religion, which is now called Christianity, considered the pagan gods to be the offspring of the devil and, accordingly, they also called their temples unclean. However, like everything that was associated with our Vedic heritage and that they could not appropriate for themselves, as they appropriated the Vedic temples, turning them into Christian churches, thereby changing their purpose to the exact opposite. Where people were enlightened by knowledge, they began to make mindless "sheep of the Lord."

They did the same with our language. The original, light meaning was replaced by the opposite. So "sedition" from an appeal to the sun, light, knowledge (k-Ra-mola) was turned into confusion, rebellion, treason (see "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" by V. Dahl). Blasphemy (the correct spelling of blasphemy) from the telling of ancient sacred legends was turned into its opposite - blasphemy. Let us turn again to the dictionary of V. Dahl: “TO SPICK or blaspheme, mock sacred objects, speak of them with contempt, abusive, vulgar; to scold, defile, defile, curse, talk about …”Faith - enlightenment by knowledge; turned into a religion. The Witch - the Knowing Mother, that is, a woman who successfully raised sixteen children in the ancestral tradition, was turned into a malicious sorceress. Etc.

But back to the Settlement in the Kaluga region. The place is truly mysterious. It is not known for certain who, when and why built it, as well as how. How can you build a wall of huge stones, each of which could not even be lifted by a thousand people? The same stones are scattered around the wall itself. How and why did they drill "devil's fingers" (stones with many holes) and "devil's well"? The latter is a six-sided depression in which water, which is considered to be healing, accumulates. To the question: "why?" A possible answer is given by A. Platov in his book “Megaliths of the Russian Plain”: “Dew or rain water is endowed with healing properties practically throughout Europe, which collects in the hollows of revered stones. However, many of these stones are generally considered to bring healing or fertility to women.

Such is, for example, the well-known Virgin Stone in Kolomenskoye (now on the territory of Moscow), to which women still come to our time who want to be healed from a serious illness or get pregnant: it is believed that for this you need to sit on a stone, and when leaving, leave it on it candy, coin, flower, or some other small sacrifice. Such is the Kindyakovsky stone in the north of the Moscow region, which heals children from incurable diseases, for which it is necessary to wash and give them water "downloaded" from the stone (the Kindyakovsky stone will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter). The famous Blue Stone on the shore of Lake Pleshcheevo in the Yaroslavl Region has healing and, most importantly, fertile properties. In Lithuania, near the village of Nerusheliu, there was once a stone resembling a female torso, which helped childless women become pregnant. In the same Lithuania, there are several stones with the name Mokas, which are considered the incarnations of the ancestors who have departed to the Other World; Lithuanian women believed that the one who wants to give birth to a child-hero (lit. Vytis) should leave a shirt on such a stone”.

And how was the system of caves in the rocks of the Devil's Settlement cut down? There is evidence that in the early 1930s, the caves that went into the thickness of the sandstone were blown up, the entrances to the dungeons were blocked. It is unclear where the relict, pre-glacial forms of vegetation came from - centipede ferns and luminous mosses, whose habitat is located thousands of kilometers from Kaluga - in Karelia. Modern scholars consider it a large sanctuary of the Vyatichi, the chronicle Dedoslavl, the sanctuary of the god Sventovit. That is, at the earliest, they date this place to the 1st century AD.

Here is an informative article by Andrey Alexandrovich Perepelitsyn, journalist, member of the Russian Society of Speleology and Speleonautics, International Ufological Association, organizer of the Public Group for the Study of the Secrets and Mysteries of the Earth "Labyrinth", "Russian Stonehenge?"

“The Devil's City (CG) is a high hill with sandstone blocks randomly piled on its top and slopes. The western slope of the hill is a steep cliff that exposes the rocky base of the mountain. Here you can see several shallow caves, more precisely, grottoes. The largest of them can accommodate several people. There are several rare plant species in the tract, two of which are unique - the centipede fern and schistoteg moss. Any visitor to the "ChG" who wanders here in the warm season, covering the bare stones and hanging from the sheer walls, the tracery Vai centipedes will certainly impress, and if he is lucky, our excursionist will arrive at the right time and see glowing moss in the this will remain forever! The shistotega itself does not emit light, but its seedlings “work” in the same way as a cat's eye: it collects weak light.

They say that the legends about the elusive treasures of the gnomes are caused precisely by the luminous moss: the prospector will enter the cave, pick up a pile of sparkling gems, and in daylight they will "wrap up" in a handful of cobblestones covered with microscopic moss seedlings. For scientists, it remains a mystery, where did these plants come from on "CHG"? Shistostega is rarely found in Europe, the nearest place where the centipede grows is Karelia. How did she end up on Devil's, thousands of kilometers from the main area? It is believed that the glacier bypassed the high hill "ChG", and these plants have survived from pre-glacial times.

Historians and archaeologists have their own interest - the Devil's City is a settlement in the literal sense - excavations have shown that at the beginning of our era there was a fortified settlement here. You can still see a rampart and a moat at the top of the hill, the gateway and ancient driveways are guessed. Even folklorists were helped by "ChG" - even in the last century in the surrounding settlements, versions of a legend related to this place, about a girl who deceived the Devil, were recorded. Tradition says that the girl, tired of the Devil's harassment, agreed to marry him on the condition that the "betrothed" builds a wedding castle overnight. The Devil collected all the surrounding evil spirits and set to work, but only the bride deceived him - she woke up the rooster long before dawn, and he crowed. The unclean decided that the time limit had expired, and the palace remained unfinished. In a word, the place is unique, and "by merit" it has long been declared a natural monument of all-Russian importance, and recently it was included in the boundaries of the Ugra National Park.

Descriptions of "ChG" of the last century are strikingly different from modern ones. People of the 19th century saw there not just a chaotic pile of stones, but an artificial structure located on the top of a mountain. In the book "History of the Church within the Kaluga Province" we read:. Unfortunately, a detailed description with the schemes and dimensions of this "building" has not yet been found. Nevertheless, two sources from the end of the last century equally describe the "semblance of a house" standing on the top of the hill. Its walls were lined with giant stones, trees grew inside and around them, and to one side was attached something like a porch, also made of large stones. Directly under the building there was a deep cave with long passages, which, according to legend, stretched right up to the Good Monastery near the town of Likhvin.

There is no information about the purpose and time of construction of this structure, either in written or oral sources (except for the legend of the Devil's matchmaking). I, at least, could not find them. Local historians of the 19th century hoped that their descendants would explore the mysterious building, but this was not done. Moreover, she herself disappeared! Already at the beginning of our century, mentions of it disappear. I many times quoted the descriptions of "ChG" to scientists of various profiles, and almost everyone was unanimous: before, people were dark, they took a natural pile of stones for human creations. Apparently, this is the easiest way to count, however, none of my interlocutors was able to fulfill the request: to indicate in the "ChG" area a place, at least remotely suitable for the one described in the past, or simply similar to an artificial one. He's not there! Really everyone who visited the "settlement" in the past were idiots, including the author of "Kaluga Provincial Gazette", who wrote in 1891:.

Since the official science is silent, amateurs - “anomalous” - got down to business. A few years ago we published old descriptions of the "Devil's Castle", conducted a number of expeditions to the "scene of action", talked with local residents. The work is far from over, however, many questions have cleared up.

Incredibly, all interested persons and organizations in Kaluga do not know anything about the extraction of stone on Chertovoye, which was last carried out in the early 50s. There are no documents about this, no permission to work was given - therefore, there was no. This is the logic. Nevertheless, the old residents of the surrounding settlements, without saying a word, say that when a stone was needed for construction, the local construction administration decided to take it to the settlement. They laid the charges, blew them up, took out several tractor carts of stone, when suddenly an order came to stop the amateur performance: it turned out that the stone was not suitable for the production of crushed stone. We managed to find quite a few people who worked in the extraction of stone - all of them are lower-level workers: a bulldozer driver, a foreman, a forester, workers … Attempts to inquire with the local "bosses" were unsuccessful - we were again assured that there were no mining operations at the "ChG" It was. I do not presume to say for sure, but I have the opinion that it is not profitable for someone to divulge information about the destruction of a unique place. In any case, I tend to trust ordinary people.

What was, according to them, on the "Devil" before its final destruction?

More than 40 years have passed, all our informants are already "aged", and their memory fails. Nevertheless, they described to us huge stones, the size of a house, standing on a hill and surrounded by a ring ditch, they told us about a stone ring of upright stones at its foot, about a stone alley leading from the hill. Almost all the interlocutors remember the vast underground corridors - forming a complex labyrinth, they led deep into the mountains and, it seems, were cut artificially. Their height was two meters, and no one was able to go through the dungeons to the end - the reason for this was not only fear, but also the poisonous gas that filled the depths. But still, eyewitnesses remember stone tables and benches, steps leading down.

Let us emphasize that the old dungeons had nothing to do with the existing small grotto - the entrance to them was below, the explosive who destroyed it was going to show us the blockage many times - however, this was prevented by the illness of the informant, or by the lack of transport. In November last year, the events came to a logical end - the last person, possibly remembering the exact location of the entrance to the ground, died …

There were also real rock paintings on "ChG", apparently having nothing to do with modern autographs like "Vasya was here." They say that not long ago on some stones one could see the image of palms and feet. In short, a lot was destroyed, but nobody remembers the "Devil's Castle". What's the matter? Recently we found old-timers who claimed that the explosions of forty years ago were nothing compared to the works of the thirties, when for six months a stone was transported from the tract for the construction of a railway. There are indications that they took sandstone from "ChG" even earlier - at the beginning of the century. What we have, we do not store …

Let's go back to "ChG". One amazing stone has been preserved here. It lies on the top of the hill and is a slab dotted with depressions. The "cups" in this case are of natural origin - traces of petrified stones, however, both the location of the stone and the data of excavations - an ancient fireplace and shards discovered near it allowed the Kaluga archaeologist O. L. Proshkin to make an assumption about the cult nature of the stone - religious rites were performed here, and the presence of such a cult place indirectly confirms the possibility of the existence of an ancient megalithic complex here.

It is high time for the authorities, as well as the management of the national park, to put the tract under protection - whoever does not hang out on it: from bards to (according to the stories of Kozelsk policemen) Satanists. And all leave "traces of civilization" - fireplaces and cans, not to mention the inscriptions on the stones. We hope for the help of sponsors and scientific institutions - first of all, we need transport, geophysical equipment, gas analyzers.

But the most important thing is that we are waiting for a response from everyone who was in the Devil's City before the seventies, we are waiting for information from those who took part in mining operations. You can't return what you've done, but let's at least establish exactly what happened on the "ChG" before. Respond, workers and engineers who mined the stone there, their descendants and just acquaintances will respond - time is ticking, and we must not allow the memory of amazing structures to disappear along with the old-timers”.

However, let's return to Siberia, to the Urals.

Megaliths of the Urals. Petrogrom

Another ancient megalith is located 30 kilometers from Yekaterinburg and 250 kilometers from Chelyabinsk, 3 kilometers north-west of the Iset station. It is called the Rocks of Peter Gronsky or Petrogrom. They represent a stone ridge, up to 15 meters high, which stretches from west to east, the northern slope is steep, the southern slope is more gentle.

Scientists explain the origin of the Petrogrom rocks, like the Yekaterinburg Devil's fortified settlement, by natural causes - weathering, erosion, etc., and argue that the resemblance to the laying of flat slabs is accidental. Is it coincidental? Can monolithic mountains crack so evenly?

Moreover, can this masonry give the impression that it was melted, as if it was exposed to ultra-high temperatures, either before they were petrified or after. Was it a consequence of some kind of war with the use of unprecedented thermal weapons, possibly nuclear, or the use of the so-called "plasticine technology of the Gods", like the one that the St. Petersburg researcher A. Sklyarov suggested in the construction of Peruvian and Bolivian megaliths? No one yet knows the answer to these questions for the simple reason that no one conducts any research on this topic. The last two photos are of the Kyrman Rocks, which are also located not far from Yekaterinburg. Will we ever find out what kind of Danila the master sculpted this Stone Flower?

So far, objects of this kind are of no interest to Russian science. And this is understandable, since historical science is not yet interested in a truthful presentation of our real past. But at times it can be offensive. Everyone in the world knows the names of foreign megalithic objects. Millions of people go, some to France to gaze at several menhirs, some to England to fall to Stonehenge, despite the fact that there are facts of its fake on the Web, some go to Peru, Bolivia, Egypt and admire the single megalithic buildings there and carefully study the legacy of ancient civilizations there. But on the territory of Russia, in Siberia, there are many times more such objects. It was here that there was a civilization, the oldest known in the world. Here there is material for tens and hundreds of archaeological discoveries on a planetary scale. The time will come when all this will be comprehensively and impartially studied, when the logic of the builders of such structures will be understood and accepted by us. In the meantime, the time has not come yet. So far, the irrefutable fact of the existence of man-made megalithic objects on the territory of Russia is attributed to the activity of nature.

But what can we say about the origin of these ancient objects, if there is no consensus even about the origin of the name of the rocks. The most widespread version is that the rocks are named after the revolutionary Pyotr Gronsky. It is believed that the workers there, led by Pyotr Gronsky, held meetings, learned to shoot, and hid weapons here. However, historians have no evidence to support this option. According to the second version, the name came about because the mountain was "chosen" by lightning, since it is from these rocks that thunderstorms most often come. Supporters of this version prefer to call the rocks Petrogrom or Thunder-Stone.

Another version: the rocks are named so in honor of Peter the Thunderer, who is considered the patron saint of metallurgists. And this version is not without foundation. The fact is that archaeologists discovered that people began to smelt metal on these megaliths as early as 3 thousand years BC. and exported their products far beyond the Urals. They built their stoves from ready-made ancient stone slabs, and the stoves themselves were built in the crevices of the rocks to obtain natural air draft. First they smelted copper, then they mastered the production of bronze. The so-called "Chud mines" are known among archaeologists, operating from the 7th to the 3rd century BC. At Petrogrom, archaeologists have found a whole mining and metallurgical complex, consisting of 18 smelting furnaces, where copper was smelted and products were made from it, and later from silver and non-ferrous metal alloys. Scientists believe that stone bowls carved into the stone are nothing more than copper-smelting forges. See a short story “Stone bowls - forges. Petrogrom"

In the essay "Battle for the Stone Belt" Lev Sonin (magazine "Ural", No. 2, 1991) describes the smelting production as follows: Further, the author of the essay talks about a very delicate engineering calculation. The fact is that the top of Mount Petrogrom is dotted with many deep and narrow crevices. The stoves were placed directly on top of them so that they could be used as blowers. Methods for regulating the directionality and accuracy of air supply were also thought out - through a system of nozzles. In calm weather, manual air supply was also used. For this, furs were made of leather and wood. In order to remove the lumps - a copper ingot - from the furnace, one wall of the furnace, assembled from smaller stones, had to be disassembled.

On the Petrogrom mountain, ancient metallurgists, in addition to copper, also received silver. At the same time, an original process for the separation of non-ferrous metals during smelting was developed. For this, the hearths of the furnaces were not built from clay, as was usually done in other places, but from a special "ash mass". It consisted of three-quarters of ash, washed before removing alkalis from it, and one-quarter of burnt small animal bones. Only one fortieth part was clay - for binding the mass. All this was mixed up on "half-water". Even before the very smelting, the then masters of the hearths of the furnaces sprinkled with finely crushed bone. The hearths of the furnaces prepared in this way absorbed silver oxides. After cooling down, this "ash mass" was separated from the copper remaining after pouring and used as an ore for silver. In this way, the Ural metallurgists separated silver from copper up to the 18th century.

For comparison, let us give such a fact, which testifies to where the civilization came from and in what direction. Archaeologists attribute the appearance in the European part of Russia of smelting iron ores in special ground-based blast furnaces with blowing hand bellows, around the 9th century. AD Let us recall that metallurgical business in the Urals appeared in the 3rd millennium BC.