Power of the Rus in the legends of the peoples of the world

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

For a long time, mankind has dreamed of some mythical countries, where, according to legends, eternal youth reigns, gods and sorcerers enjoy bliss, countless treasures are hidden. And for more than one millennium, people have been struggling in vain to find ways there. Meanwhile, according to some scientists, it is far from necessary to look for them. You just need to take a closer look at Russia …

The search for this paradise, about which the ancient Indian epic of Mahabharata, tells. Some Indianists, for example, Colonel Wilford, were inclined to believe that Great Britain may well be the Shweta-dvipa. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a member of the secret order of theosophists, placed Shveta-dvipa in her own "Secret Doctrine" on the lands of the Gobi Desert. According to other researchers, the White Island is nothing more than Arctida, an ancient continent that once existed on the territory of the Arctic. According to the hypothesis of Eger, a zoographer from Germany, cataclysms that happened 18 to 100,000 years ago led to the disappearance of this continent, its complete flooding.

Alexander the Great was also fond of searching for the Radiant Land of Shveta-dvipa. The legendary commander kept manuscripts with secret knowledge about this country, obtained from the Chaldean priests, in a special cypress chest with a cunning lock.

The supporters of Arctida also support the version of Hyperborea, located, according to the narratives of ancient sources, in the far north. True, the north is big, but where exactly the magical land was is unknown. It is noteworthy that linguists note the similarity between the Uralic place names and names taken from the Indian language. Researchers A. G. Vinogradova and S. V. Zharnikova put forward their version of the location of the mysterious country. This is the territory of the Urals, the Volga-Oka lowland and the North-Dvina and Pechora basins.

Well-known stories are nomadic toponyms, in other words, the same geographical areas that are mentioned in completely different sources. Among such phenomena is the Kharu Berezaiti mountain range, mentioned in the Zoroastrian writings of the Avesta, with the archetypal mountain Hukairya. From behind this World Mountain, the divine Mithra ascends in the morning on a solar chariot. It is sanctified by the radiance of the Big Dipper and the bright Pole Star, placed in the center of the universe.

On these blessed peaks, all the rivers of the planet begin with the greatest of them - the purest Ardvi, directing its waters into the boiling foamy sea of Vurukash. Above the peaks of the High Khara, the Swift Sun glorifies God, and day and night last for six months. To overcome these mountains is given only by a brave and strong spirit in order to come to the coveted land of the blessed, which is caressed by the waves of the white-foam ocean.

Its similarity with the above-mentioned Mount Meru, located near Shveto-dvipa, on the lands of the Urals, is often noted.

Scientist from Italy Giraldo Gnoli claims that initially Hara Berezaiti was probably called the Pamirs and Hindu Kush, later these beliefs were transferred to "more serious mountains", namely, Elbrus. The Ocean, apparently in this series, means the Black Sea. Note that this does not contradict the concept of a mythological northern country in the ancient annals. Roman chroniclers trace a similarity in the description of the Black Sea region and the modern North Sea: severe cold, everything is frozen, the main clothing of people is thick animal skins.

A certain historical area - Biarmia (Bjarmaland) is described in the Scandinavian sagas. It lies within the northern border of Eastern Europe, where today the territory of modern Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions is located.

The first mention of the mysterious country found its place in the story of the brave Viking Ottar, who set out on a journey from Holugaland (870-890). The warrior calls Holugalang the northernmost region adjacent to Norway. The Viking went to find out what lands could be beyond Lapland. As a result, he discovered the Bjarm people.

Unlike the nomadic Laplanders, the Bjarmas led a sedentary life in abundance. And at the same time polls owned witchcraft. Could a word or other action affect people in such a way, then they completely lost their common sense, they did not control themselves, they performed inexplicable acts.

Although the sources contain a detailed description of the Scandinavian expeditions to the mysterious Biarmia, the dispute about the whereabouts of the country of wealthy sorcerers still does not subside. Many are inclined to believe that the sagas speak of the regions of the Northern Dvina. Others take as the basis of their statements the ethnonym "Bjarm", which the Scandinavian warriors called the local residents, and argue that the legendary people were "written off" from the Finno-Ugric tribes that lived on lands including Udmurtia and the Polar Urals. The very name "Bjarmia" is a derivative from the Slavic "Great Perm". The famous Scandinavist T. N. Jackson suggested that Biarmia existed near the White Sea, more precisely, on the Kola Peninsula.

Known from childhood, Pushkin's lines about the "sea-okiyan and the island of Buyan" appear not only in the poet's tale. Old Slavic conspiracies begin with this saying. In the legends of the Rus it is said that there is a world mountain on the magic island, an enchanted oak grows "not naked, not dressed", the Alatyn stone lies next to it. "Imprisoned under a stone block is a mighty, endless force." A maiden-master, a seamstress-craftswoman, lives on the island, owns a damask needle with a silk thread, ore-yellow, mends her bloody battle wounds.

So, Buyan arose from Slavic mythology, extraordinary, divine properties are attributed to the island. But where is he located? If you believe the conspiracies that have come down to us - "across the Khvalynsky (Caspian) sea, among the okiana-sea - the island of Buyan"; and also - "on the Yardan River", often - "in the middle of the White Sea."

As you can see, the real location should be sought from the biblical Jordan River through the Caspian and inclusive to the White Sea. There is a version put forward by the researcher-historian Merkulov, allegedly Buyan is the German island "Rügen" in the waters of the Baltic, where the ruins of the legendary Arkon (the sacred city of the Western Slavs) lie. In the Pomor legends, Buyan is called the land among the sea, rich in amber.

By the way, Buyan Island really exists. It can be seen on the map of the Russian Federation, namely in arch. Northern land in the Arctic Ocean. But how he relates to the legendary Buyan is unknown. In any case, no one found traces of ancient cultures and amber deposits there.

In Judaism and Buddhism, they talk about a certain mythical country of Shambhala. Those who are lucky enough to find themselves in this unprecedented land are prepared for fabulous conditions - the fulfillment of the dream of eternal youth and the discovery of all world knowledge. “He who has cognized the teachings of Shambhala sees the future,” N. Roerich said about the mysterious country. It is believed that the gate to Shambhala is located near the sacred Mount Kailash, this is the region of mountainous Tibet. Perhaps there are three of these gates, which is what Roerich's teachings say.

One of the portals allegedly exists in the vicinity of Mount Belukha, which is especially revered among the Altai peoples. There, according to local residents, the land of spirits is hiding. By the way, local residents, as Altai shaman A. Yudanov admitted, try to bypass the sacred mountain itself by the tenth road, being afraid to approach it even at a distance of several kilometers. Attempts to conquer Belukha, regularly undertaken by tourists, the shaman calls nothing but a real sacrilege. At the same time, as Yudanov notes, the mountain climbers themselves always receive punishment. It is not for nothing that Belukha was nicknamed by the people "the killer mountain", during the ascent of which dozens of deaths were recorded. "The sacred mountain destroys all who try to find out its secrets."

More recently, the word "Tartaria" was unknown to the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Russia. The only associations that arose with this word were the Greek mythological Tartarus, the well-known proverb “fall into tartarars”, modern Tataria and the notorious Mongol-Tatar yoke.

But even in the 19th century, both in Russia and in Europe, very many knew about this mysterious country. This is indirectly confirmed by the following fact. In the middle of the 19th century, European capitals were fascinated by the brilliant Russian aristocrat Varvara Dmitrievna Rimskaya-Korsakova, whose beauty and wit made the wife of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenia, turn green with envy. In Europe, Varvara Dmitrievna was called "Venus from Tartarus".

Tartaria was also mentioned in their works by many European art workers - writers and composers:

- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - Italian opera composer, opera Princess Turandot. The father of the main character - Kalafa - Timur - the deposed Tsar Tartarus.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), play "Macbeth". Witches add the lips of Tartarin to their potion.

- Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the novel "Frankenstein". Dr. Frankenstein is chasing a monster "among the wild expanses of Tartary and Russia …"

- Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Great Expectations. Estella Havisham is compared to Tartarus, because she is "firm and arrogant and capricious to the last degree …"

- Robert Browning (1812-1889), the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The piper mentions Tartary as a place of successful work: "Last June in Tartary, I saved Khan from a swarm of mosquitoes."

- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales. Esquire's Story tells about the royal court of Tartary.

In encyclopedias and scientific works of past centuries, the largest country in the world was mentioned until the end of the 18th century, after which it was erased by falsifiers from world history. The fact that the Europeans were very well aware of the existence of various Tartarii is also evidenced by numerous medieval geographical maps.

The most common argument of skeptics that "Tartaria is part of the world" pales against the background of a huge number of maps, articles in encyclopedias, and, for example, this document, published in France in 1719:

Would French researchers have begun to enumerate the genealogy of the rulers of a geographic part of the world in 1719?

Among European sources, there is one more piece of evidence - the linguistic map of Asia from 1730. In the center there is a letter from Tartary with the signature: Scytho-Tatar. And the area from the lower reaches of the Ob to the Lena was signed by Scythia-Hyperborea.

Another argument in favor of the statehood of Great Tartary is its flag and coat of arms, which are present in many reference books of the 18th-19th centuries.

See also video from the cycle: Great Tartary: only facts