Bedtime story

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

We now say - "a flying saucer", but then there were no plates in everyday life (it is inconvenient to wash dishes in the absence of running water and Fairy). We ate from a common cauldron, spoons, the whole family in turn. Therefore, something convex and rounded most of all resembled a stupa. But note - for some reason, both we and our ancestors have the same associations - kitchen:)

A stupa is this:

(By the way, the round plate-like shape for the aircraft is not very convenient in terms of layout and aerodynamics. In my opinion, there is only one explanation - the propeller or anti-gravitator is something large and rotating, which determines the shape of the ship).

The footprint from the stupa is this:

About "sweeping with a broomstick." Have you noticed that at first the trail is thin and clear, and then it is scattered like dust with a broom? And then the trail disappears altogether! Where does he disappear, if at first he is so obvious? For an uneducated aboriginal, it is Baba Yaga who covers her trail with a broomstick, so that she will not be found on the trail …

A silver dish on which cities, forests, seas and mountains are visible

Silver dish:

Seas, forests and mountains are visible:

And what is a liquid apple? Which rides on a platter?

To find the desired point on google-earth, you first have to rotate the planet, turning it to the desired side. Here's your apple rolling (spinning)

It is unnecessary, I suppose, to explain that for an aborigine the image of the planet Earth did not mean absolutely anything familiar and understandable. What will he see if the planet's "ball" is twisted on a small screen in front of him? He will see the apple, liquid (the sides are yellow in places), and this apple rolls around on the dish (turns his fingers on the touchscreen).

Do you know how to activate the "silver saucer"? For this it is necessary to "sentence the cherished words." Oh how! Voice control. In general, the idea of voice commands in fairy tales (all these "Sim-sim, open up" is such a techno-track that is simply impossible not to notice. No archaic technique can do this - you cannot command a cart or a mill with your voice. Why is archaic there - another ten years ago, the technique was not controlled by voice …

(Do you know what happened when the "platter" was turned on? If the words are cherished to say?

" Suddenly there was a silver ringing. The whole upper room was flooded with light. What do you think about this? A standard melody when you turn on the gadget, and then the bright screen turns on - everything is as usual !!

Magic ball

What does Baba Yaga give Ivan Tsarevich so that he finds the desired distant object (for example, the place where Kashchei lives?)

She gives him a ball. Then the prince goes for the ball. Weird? Does it look like nothing? Only at first glance.

In fact, we are talking about the track on the navigator screen. What does the track look like on screen? Like a line. But a line is an abstraction, an uneducated person does not know abstract concepts. What will he call the curving colored line on the screen? He will call it a thread, a thread.

And where did the ball come from, I think it is now clear. Imagine the narrator tells:

And Baba Yaga gave Ivan Tsarevich such a thing, with a thread, and he walked along the thread …

What's with the thread? - interrupt his listeners? A ball or something?

And it’s true, she gave him the ball. Here, I suppose the ball rolled and the thread was unwound, and Ivan Tsarevich walked along the thread …

Something like this looked like a thread in a magic ball, with the help of which Ivan Tsarevich kept his way to the kingdom of Koschee:

What's more interesting:

- what a silver saucer, a ball, or an apple is, would have been incomprehensible ten to fifteen years ago. And the old tale describes even the details with amazing accuracy. "Silver ringing" when turned on, and the "room lit up" from the screen turned on … Ah!

- Do you know where the youngest daughter got the silver saucer? I asked my father to buy it at the market! So that's it. And the words are cherished - the old woman suggested to her, whom she fed by chance. Presumably, the old woman even advised to buy a saucer.

That is, we have a classic Fallaut, when in city bazaars, among plucked chickens, damask knives, morocco boots and oak barrels, antique remains of the former techno-luxury are also sold. Which no one already knows how to use. So, the gizmo is interesting - but it seems to be no use, so no one buys. But everything happened recently - that's why such aipads are still found on antique counters, and old women sometimes remember how to turn them on …

- How old is the fairy tale? I am sure that a long-term (one thousand or two years, for example) preservation of such tales is impossible. The tale describes, in essence, everyday life. By no means the epic deeds of Vladimir Krasn Solnyshko, for example, worthy of preservation for centuries. Moreover, everyday life, completely incomprehensible to the peasant - in contrast to the same deeds of Vladimir.

Each generation, new and new events take place, and events for the people are really important (not everyday life). These events become the plots of fairy tales (that is, an unwritten story, something that is told to each other by the fire, or sitting by the stove, to the younger generation).

These events will inevitably crowd out old incomprehensible stories that do not have any intelligible meaning. Such as this tale.

I tend to believe that this tale is not very old. It was probably several generations old when it was first recorded. But not in a couple of thousand years. And it was hardly recorded earlier than the 19th century.

- Pay attention, all ancient gadgets - with clearly comparable to the modern level of technology - for some reason did not have problems with the battery. This is the question of a perpetual motion machine and free ether energy, all that. In other words, if our technologies have matured to the iPad, it would be high time for us to close the issue with energy. But no - we can have an iPad today, but an eternal battery - no, no. Download oil.

- And the last thing. It looks like the last time everything was covered with a copper basin, approximately at our current level of technology;)