The picture that flipped the planet in 1839 - part 1

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

What's wrong in the picture?

Benevolent rural landscape. A few words about engraving:

Kostroma province: Village churches on the road from Kostroma to Yaroslavl (September 26, 1839). Gouvernement de Kostroma: Eglise du village de Kara-Nova entre Kostroma et Yaroslaw (26 Septembre 1839). Posted by [Andre Duran] Andre Duarand. - Paris: Gihaut freres, 1847.-- 1 p. 38, 8x51, 8 cm.

Sheet No. 81 from the publication [Demidov, AN] Demidoff, A. Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Hâvre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Petersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Novgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839. Picturesque and an archaeological journey across Russia through Le Havre, Hamburg, Lubeck, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Yaroslavl, carried out in 1839.] - Paris: Gihaut frères, [1840-1848]. Lithography.

French artist, lithographer and traveler Andre Durand (1807-1867) in 1839 at the invitation of Prince A. N. Demidov made a trip to Russia and sketched from nature the views of many Russian cities (Kronstadt, Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir, Kazan, etc.). Several editions were prepared on the basis of these travel sketches.

Sorry to bore you with reference information, but a very important detail is buried here - " Scenic and archaeological journey"In this connection, we immediately put an end to the reasoning on the topic:" These artists, such inventors … "," You can draw anything in the picture, even Photoshop is not needed … " could study!

Now you can study the picture itself in more detail.

Before us is a rural idyll. In a pond with knee-deep water, instead of a rusty tractor, you can fish or crayfish. Not just catch, but rake out with nets. Although, judging by the bridge, it may be a river, but residents clearly do not bother looking for a place "where it bites." In addition, the shape of the boat, without the keel and bow, suggests that this river is "quieter than water below the grass" …

Enough about food, let's move on to the kingdom of shadows. Shadows from people, from the bridge and from the tree, are clearly directed to the right. The shadows are short, for the latitude of Yaroslavl, which means it is the middle of the day. This is reasonable, you cannot sketch such a large sketch in 5 minutes, and the light is good and powerful in the middle of the day, 4 hours more precisely, say, from 10 to 14 astronomical time. That is, according to our shift from 12 to 16 approximately. Or so. Now, anyone who studied nature studies in elementary school can easily draw a wind rose. Let's take it for granted that we live and have lived in the northern hemisphere.

In principle, many have already had their hair on end and the brain is on the verge of exploding. It is already clear to many that this could not have happened in life and that this has not happened in history. But this is 1839. - recently.

Trying to figure it out. There are 2 temples in the picture. By all appearances, both are Orthodox. And for all the "tolerance" of our ancestors, the temples of different concessions were not so close. It is absolutely ridiculous to suppose that the inhabitants of one village, all relatives, divided according to the religious principle into "dull-pointed and pointed-tips" from the adventures of Gulliver.

The question is - why build 2 churches, and not expand one? Houses are easily built from wood even now and have always been built. If it were old, it would be easily expanded. From what stone church we do not know, but we know that we could not expand it? Or didn't you want to? In general, the stone church looks very squat and rickety, that is, older. She has clearly gone into the so-called "cultural layer". It looks more like a hut. But the wooden one, aspires upward, as it should be.

Let me remind you that in the history of stone housing construction, everything is much more complicated than with wooden housing. Mankind either skillfully baked bricks, or simply sculpted them from clay and straw. And then again skillfully and again unlearned. Concrete is generally a muddy thing, the ancient Romans knew how, the Egyptians didn't, we just learned recently. And certainly megaliths were made on all continents, up to almost our time in St. Petersburg, but we can only cast copies of them out of concrete. So they could temporarily forget how to expand the stone church, be it brick or megalithic at the base. But we can easily cut down a large wooden Temple. And it’s silly to put a small stone one instead of a large wooden one.

In general, people go to the new temple. They know that the savior will come from the east, so there is a blank wall on the east side, behind which the holy of holies, the altar. Separated from the faithful by the royal gates, which are opened only at the service. This is how all Orthodox churches were built, long before the baptism of Rus. Because, at all times, light, east and God have been synonymous. For example, the word to orient is translated as to direct to the east. Actually the word orient is translated from most European languages - east. In Latin it looks like oriens; ortus; Eos (indecl.); Eous. From there, from the east, comes the sun (yarilo) and with it, the light of the world and saved our souls - ortus, Or, Yar, Horus (RaGorakhti - King of the Peas), Horus, Khors, (Kryshen - Krishna), Christ, Ares, Mars, Ra, Kol, Thor (there are also names, but the main name is Light - he is Holy). So this matter lasts from the creation of the world and we - Skolots (teachers - Slavs) are familiar with God from the beginning of time not by hearsay. So the sanctuaries to God - Yar, Christ or Horus - Horus, were built and called Harems - Horoms - Temples.

Sorry for the slight departure from the topic, but you need to stop talking about the fact that temples do not always face the east with the altar. ALWAYS! Either east or almost east. Also, the foot of the cross is considered canonical. Slanting crossbar on the cross.

Now we have enough information to see that the entrance to the stone temple is from the east. Those who are familiar with Orthodoxy know that a man is allowed into the altar zone once in a lifetime, during the rite of baptism, and women more than once! That is, the door to the altar from the street is like entering the bunker from the side of the machine gun.

The position of the foot of the cross also tells us…. TELLS US … As for 1839, minus the time for the construction of a wooden church, minus the time for the event itself … The sun in Russia rose over Europe (Euro - almost east in Latin), in the then east (in German West), and set in the Pacific Ocean … Sounds crazy? To be continued, and there it will be wild for real!

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The picture that flipped the planet in 1839 - part 2