Lukomorye

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

Another lost mythical land is Lukomorye. This name acquired the widest popularity after it was mentioned in the poem by Alexander Pushkin "Ruslan and Lyudmila":

By the side of the sea, a green oak;

Golden chain on tom oak:

And day and night the cat is a scientist

Everything goes round and round in chains;

Goes to the right - the song starts

To the left - he says a fairy tale.

There are miracles: there the devil wanders, The mermaid sits on the branches;

There on unknown paths

Traces of unseen beasts;

The hut is there on chicken legs

Stands without windows, without doors;

There the forest and the valley are full of visions;

There the waves will rush about the dawn

On a sandy and empty shore, And thirty beautiful knights

In succession, clear waters come out, And their uncle is with them the sea;

There the prince in passing

Captivates the formidable king;

There in the clouds in front of the people

Through forests, across seas

The sorcerer carries the hero;

In the dungeon there the princess grieves, And the brown wolf serves her faithfully;

There is a stupa with Baba Yaga

It walks, wanders by itself;

There, Tsar Kashchei languishes over gold;

There is a Russian spirit … there is a smell of Russia!

And there I was, and I drank honey;

By the sea I saw a green oak;

He sat under him, and the cat is a scientist

He told me his tales.

I remember one: this fairy tale

Now I will tell the light …

Let's try to reassemble and analyze the already known facts about Lukomorye in order to accurately determine the geographical position of this object.

The first fact requiring analysis is the designation of Lukomorye on old maps. In early Western European maps (G. Mercator, 1546; I. Gondius, 1606; I. Massa, 1633; J. Cantelli, 1683; Witzen, 1714, etc.), "Lukomoria" denotes the territory on the right bank of the Ob. From the north and east, this land is adjacent to the lands of "Yugoria", "Samoyed", "Obdora", "Tumen", and from the west and south of the land "Kozan", "Nogai", "Kalmuki". Moreover, this land appears for the first time on the maps of the 15th century, and completely disappears from the maps with the development of the Urals and Siberia at the beginning of the 18th century. A contradiction is revealed. On the one hand, Lukomorye is placed on the right bank of the Ob, and, on the other hand, judging by the surrounding lands and peoples, it is projected onto the lands of the Southern Urals. As we will soon see, there is really no contradiction here.

Second fact. On the most ancient maps depicting the land "Lukomorye", the Ob river flows out of the lake or its sources are placed next to the lake. This mythical “Kitai-Lake”, called “Teletskoye” lake on later maps, was later transferred to Altai, finally, in the 18th century, disappearing completely from the maps, somewhat earlier than the disappearance of Lukomorye itself. "China Lake" is a fortress lake, and "Teletskoye Lake" is a bull's lake. Apparently, Lukomorye is the coast of this very sea-lake, because in the old days, lakes were called seas. This means that at the source of the Ob in those days there was some kind of lake of a bull with a fortress. On the most ancient maps, this lake is depicted as huge; in the future, its size on the maps decreased. This means that the importance of the lake in antiquity was great, but later it decreased, and by the 18th century it was completely lost.

Third fact. Lukomorye in the ancient Russian chronicles is mentioned as one of the habitats of the Polovtsians, called "Lukomorians". And the Polovtsians are nomads of the steppe, whose lands - the Polovtsian field - stretched Altai to the Dnieper. In the Southern Urals, the headquarters of their tribal union was located, but on the right bank of the Ob, and even more so in the Tyumen tundra near the Ob Bay, they never roamed. In the "Word about Igor's regiment" about Lukomorye it is said: "And the filthy Kobyak from the onion of the sea From the iron great Polovtsian swimmers Yako whirlwind: And Kobyak fell in the city of Kiev, In Svyatoslavl's gridnitsa." steppes, headed by the khans of Itogdy, Akush, Kuntuvdey, "even earlier in the deep sea I would be with them tightly …". Read "as before in Lukomorye they fought hard with them …". The Kiev princes constantly waged wars with the Lukomorsk Polovtsi. So, in 1193 the grand dukes Svyatopolk and Rurik made an attempt to conclude peace with them. Prince Rurik sent his ambassadors to them in Lukomorye. As you can see, Lukomorye was located on the lands of the Polovtsians, and was well known to the Slavs, the descendants of the Sarmatians, who previously lived in the same Lukomorye as the Polovtsians, i.e. on the lands of the Southern Urals.

Fact four. Lukomorye is mentioned in Russian folk tales, in the beginnings of folk conspiracies and prayers. According to Slavic mythology, this is a reserved place on the outskirts of the universe, where there is a world tree - the axis of the world, through which you can get to other worlds, because its top rests on the heavens, and the roots reach the underworld. The gods descend and ascend along the world tree. B. A. Uspensky and V. V. Propp associate Lukomorye with the idea of the "Islands of the Blessed" described by Euphrosynus in the "Word of the Rahmanes and their righteous life." The Slavs call the original, paradise land - Iriy, where Lukomorye was located, "Belovodye" and place it in the east. Belovodye - from the name Belaya Vologa (in Old Slavonic "vologa" is moisture, water). Even on medieval Russian maps, two Volga were depicted - the Black, the one that is now called the Volga, and the White - the Kama-Belaya-Ai sleeve up to the world mountain. Now on the maps there is a section of this river - the Belaya river in Bashkiria (earlier it was she who was registered as Belaya Vologa). I remember when I was in school, at the geography lesson I was very puzzled when I heard from the teacher that - "Recently they found the sources of the Volga." I thought - strange, we have been living on this earth for so many years, and still could not find the sources of our greatest river. Now I understand that its origins were transferred from the Ural Mountains to the Central Russian Upland not so long ago. So in "Cosmography" of the 17th century. indicate: “In the same part of Asia, in Simov, lots are drawn for the islands on the eastern sea (Lake Turgoyak, author's note), the first Makaridzkia near the blissful paradise, because the verb is close because birds of paradise fly from there - gamayun and date (phoenix) - and wear out the fragrance wonderful. " That is, already in Asia, in the direction of a geographic object called "Sim" (the Sim river in the Chelyabinsk region), there is the Eastern Sea, otherwise Lukomorye (lakes were called seas, author's note) with the Makarii Islands (Makaros (Greek) - "blessed ") And all this is in Paradise! Knowing that the world tree and the islands of the blessed (proto-cities of the Pra-Arkim type) were in Paradise, near the world mountain, and Paradise is the South Ural during the Neolithic, we conclude: Lukomorye is the territory of the South Urals.

Fact five. Sigismund Herberstein in "Notes on Muscovy", on which the cartographers probably relied, writes that Lukomorye is located "in the mountains on this side of the Ob", and "the Kossin river flows out of the Lukomorsk mountains … Together with this river, another river Kassima begins, and flowed through Lukomoria, flows into the big river Takhnin. " We draw a conclusion. Lukomorye is located in the mountains, on the border of the Ob-Irtysh water basin, where other large rivers, in addition to the Ob, take their source.

Fact six. The very name "Lukomorye" says a lot. Sea bow - sea bay, bay, bend. This means that Lukomorye is a coast of a sea or a lake indented by bays, bays, tk. in the old days, lakes were called seas. Do we know another sacred sea-lake with a similar name? Yes, we know. In the Avesta, an ancient Iranian text written in a language close to the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda and Mahabharata, the magical Vorukash Sea with crystal clear water is often mentioned, located less than one day's journey from Mount Khara Berezaiti (world mountain, author's note) in the country Bavri, beavers unprecedented for Iranians and Indians. On the Vorukash Sea, on the island in underground shelters, prayers are offered to the gods, they worship God in the form of a bull. Vorukasha is translated into Russian as “the coast of the sea-lake, cut by bays and gulfs”. In other words, Vorukasha is translated into Russian as … Lukomorye !!! Lukomorye is a tracing paper, a literal translation of the name of the Vorukash sea from the Avesta into Russian.

Fact seven. Geographical descriptions of lands cannot be considered in isolation from the ideas of the time when they were made, from the standpoint of today. The evolution of geographic views was as follows. At first, in the minds of the Greek geographers, the Ob River was part of a single water area with the Volga River with its upper reaches and a drag on the world mountain in the Hyperborean Mountains (Ural). It was this branch that was called the Ocean River. And next to the upper reaches of this Ob, near the World Mountain, there was a sea-lake with Astera Island, the birthplace of Apollo-Coppola-Kupala. The Ocean River later began to be designated the Caspian Gulf of the Kronid Sea, the Sea of Kronos - the father of Zeus and Poseidon, the founder of Atlantis. Rivers in those days were roads, and the transfer of boats was not a significant obstacle on the way, therefore it could not be indicated on the maps. Subsequently, the upper reaches of the Ob and Volga were divided on the map, but their upper reaches were left in the Hyperborean mountains, in the Urals. All Arab authors placed the upper reaches of the Itil and Ak Idel rivers in the Ural Mountains. And on Russian maps, the Belaya Volozhga River (Vologa, Volga) began in the Urals. And on the other side of the Ural Mountains, the sources of the Ob were located, which included the waters of the Kialim-Miass-Iset-Tobol-Ob rivers. On the coast, at the headwaters of this Ob, there was Lukomorye - Vorukasha, a sacred lake. Later, with the development of the Urals and Siberia, they began to depict the Ob River in real scale, transferring the upper reaches to Altai, and the upper reaches of the Volga to the Central Russian Upland. By inertia, until the beginning of the 18th century, Lukomorye was still registered on the map on the right bank of the Ob.

Fact eight. If we agree with the theory of monogenesis of languages, then we should agree with the theory of monogenesis of the most ancient myths. Lukomorye is known as a magic lake (sea) in the original land in the myths of many peoples of Eurasia under other names. Their descriptions add a lot of geographical, geological, biological, zoological, technical-historical and other details. In Indian epics, near Mount Meru, in one day's journey, there is Lake Manas (Thought). This means that there should be places of worship on this lake. Lake Manas in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata bears the epithet Anavatapta (Unheated). That is, the water of all other surrounding lakes heats up in summer, and in Lake Manas (in Lukomorye) it remains very cold even in summer. In Jewish mythology (Psalms of David), Mount Zion is located in the land of the shadow of death (The Greeks have Gloom in Hyperborea. A place where daylight hours are very short in winter), where a person can hardly withstand frosts. Fir-trees and mountain pines grow on Mount Zion. The sun rises over Mount Zion on a swift-hoofed chariot (See the archaeological history of chariots. Where in Old Testament times could they know about chariots?). Near Mount Zion, the sea (Lake) is a ring surrounded by mountains and other mountain lakes. Let's pay attention to this geographic detail. Only one lake is surrounded by mountains, and the other surrounding lakes are not. Hence, we should look for a mountain lake of meteoric origin. By the way, in the Urals there is only one mountain lake of meteoric origin, two-thirds filled with spring water, and therefore unheated. For the Greeks, this is the Sea of Darkness in Hyperborea. The origin of this lake is described in the myth of Perseus. Perseus showed the head of Medusa the Gorgon to the giant Atlanta. He fell dead and turned into a mountain (the World Dividing Mountain on the Ocean River. Auth.), And his head - into a round top, and his beard into bushes at its foot. A tear rolled out of the dying Atlant's eyes and filled a huge granite bowl. So next to the World Mountain there appeared a sacred sea - a lake, the Sea - an Ocean, i.e. a lake connected by a channel with the Ocean River, called by the Greeks - the Sea of Darkness (based on the book "The Legend of the Titans", E. Ya. Golosovkera). The Chuvashes have Lake Settle-kul (Milk Lake) near the world mountain Ama-Tu (Mother Mountain). In Muslim legends, this is the reservoir of Magomed Al-Haud, next to Mount Kaf (Extreme, On the edge), from which righteous Muslims drink water before climbing to Paradise. Since the beginning of the 18th century, Lukomorye has not been depicted on maps. The question arises, with what historical events is the loss of memory of Lukomorye, the ancestral home of the Sarmatians-Slavs connected? During the split of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666 and subsequent years, books and maps from all over Russia were transported by carts to Moscow, ostensibly for correction, where they were all destroyed. The memory of the primordial land, of pagan shrines, of the magical Lake Bull, of the Lukomorye, where the world tree grew (in Russia, any trees were called oaks), connecting heaven and earth, was destroyed with the library of Ivan the Terrible and other books about the strongholds of the old faith.

Let's move on to the conclusions:

1. "Lukomorye" was called the land on the right bank of the Ob, but the river Ob at that time was called the water branch Kialim-Miass-Iset-Tobol-Ob.

2. The very name "Lukomorye" is the Slavic analogue of the name of the mythical sea Vorukash from the Avesta. These are Kitay-Lake and Lake Teletskoye, and now Lake Turgoyak in the Chelyabinsk Region. Tur is a bull, a calf, and China is a fortress that was located on the island of Vera and on the shores of the lake. The remains of these structures are being studied by archaeologists. Of the six rivers and streams flowing into the lake, two have beaver names - the Bobrovka River and the Bobrovy Creek, as it should be, according to the testimony of the Avesta. The geographic features of Lake Turgoyak in the smallest detail coincide with the descriptions of the magic lake in the myths of different peoples.

3. Lukomorye was the original land, Paradise, Iriy of the Sarmatians, Slavs, as well as other peoples who emerged from the Borean community, and therefore left a big mark in fairy tales, legends, conspiracies and myths.

4. Lukomorye, Lake Turgoyak, a cult lake in Belovodye with pagan shrines on the island of Vera and on the shores. This is the same Sea-Ocean with Buyan Island (Vera Island on Lake Turgoyak).

5. Lake Turgoyak - the Pearl of the South Urals, is one of the ten cleanest lakes on the planet Earth, which is reflected in myths. The water of this lake competes in purity with the water of Lake Baikal, and possibly surpasses it.