Karelia: a guide to places of power. Stone Islands - northern places of power

The Russian North is a special place, glorified by both poets and artists, perfectly familiar to the Knowers of all times. And, if you want to see a fairy tale with your own eyes, to visit those places of power where the Gods descended to Earth, you are welcome to come to us in the Northern Land. Those amazing stories about Gods and people, which can be read in the books of our publishing house, happened exactly there, in our North. And people have long noticed these, celebrated them and revered them.

Where are they, places of power?

Quite a few places of power are marked on the map of the North, and how many are still hidden from prying eyes in impenetrable taiga forests? deep caves, V deep lakes! They say that they mark those points at which time and space change. And, as it were, to this day, in places of power, People meet with Gods.

They say that it all began in ancient times, that fabulous time that northern fairy tales tell about. That, as if, at the North Pole, where all the rivers still flow, there was a country of the Gods - the Greeks called it in the written works that have reached us. A lot has been said about this country, I won’t repeat it. I’ll just tell you what’s in book « Games the Gods Play» a fairy tale is told about how the Hyperborean Gods descended to the Earth created by the Family, fleeing the troubles of their home world, and how they later settled from the North, carrying their amazing knowledge. In addition, here, according to legend, there is an island in the White Sea, and in the middle of the island is the Bel-Flammable Alatyr stone, and on it is the World Tree, connecting the Worlds created by the Family. This island is the center of the Universe, and the World Tree is its axis. Under its branches, the Gods love to relax and observe everything that people do in the Obvious World. This is discussed in the fairy tale “The World Tree” from the new book by the publishing house “Northern Fairy Tale” (“ What do People know? "). In addition to these fundamental places of power, the whole world is full of their reflections - incarnations.

Stone Islands - northern places of power

According to legends ancient civilization The Hyperboreans left, leaving many traces of their presence. Some believe that the Hyperboreans left their northern homeland, giving rise to the European peoples, the Brahmins of India, the pharaohs of Egypt and the Greek Olympian gods. What did they leave on their northern homeland? First of all, the old sorcerers of their people, the keepers of high wisdom, who called themselves shuddha (happy).

And the sorcerers - shuddhis - waited here for many millennia in order to preserve and pass on their knowledge to those who would come to these lands, to those who could see and hear them... It is believed that ancient civilizations were so developed that their wizards, priests, shamans , were able to overcome the constraining connection between body and spirit. And the stones, into the crystal lattice of which the spirit of the old Shuddhas entered, involuntarily took the shape of their faces. Inhuman wise stones - shuddhi, the shadow left by ancient civilization, are waiting... waiting... waiting... and answering today to those who, through a subtle perception of the world and a state of internal harmony, are able to ask questions and listen to answers. This is a stone fragment of Hyperborea.

Kiy Island is located in the Onega Bay of the White Sea. The length of the island is about 1.5 km, the width does not exceed 800 m. The area is about 0.5 km². Kiy Island is rightfully considered one of most beautiful places on the North of Russia. Actually, it becomes a single island only at low tide, which reaches 3-4 meters here. At high tide it is an archipelago of one and a half dozen islands and individual rocks.

The White Sea Islands have long been recognized as places of power. No wonder the famous Solovetsky Islands were last stronghold Old Believers fleeing from adherents of the new faith. The Solovetsky Islands, covered with stunning labyrinths, now attract a huge number of tourists. It’s just a pity that among those simply interested, there are very few who come here to gain access to the magical knowledge of bygone times. Mysterious megaliths - from three to twenty-five meters in diameter, dating back to the 4th - 2nd millennia BC.

Stone spirals and mounds scattered across the islands of the White Sea continue to amaze those who get close enough to them to inhale the aroma of ancient mystery.

They say that anyone who walks through the spirals of the Hyperborean stone labyrinth, holding in his head the obvious intention of seeing the future, while moving can feel a hidden but powerful force coming from the ancient stones.

The walker seems to be walking through mirages, at first rather blurry, but leaving a noticeable vibration throughout the body, an inaudible powerful roar in the ears, a flicker of light in the eyes, and unprecedented concentration in the thoughts.

Measured steps, circles, soft turns, merging in consciousness into some new path according to all conceivable sensations, lead the questioner to the center. A forced stop - and divine illumination, penetration through time and space, will sparkle with a bright flash before the traveler’s mind’s eye.

This is what happened with the heroes of the northern fairy tale from the book of the publishing house “Northern Fairy Tale” “ The Magic of Slavic Res Rod “- for the sake of the great goal of saving the Motherland from the invasion of darkness, people, descendants of the Hyperboreans, found a way out to other Worlds and did everything so that the threat hanging over the Motherland would dissipate.

How not to remember the Bolshoy Klimetsk Island in Lake Onega. Once upon a time there was a place of power where the Native Gods were revered. Still observed unexplained phenomena. And also Anzer Island, part of the Solovetsky archipelago! Near this they found a “sea pyramid”, which probably served ritual purposes in ancient times.

Places of power of Great Veles

One of these places is lost World on the summer shore of the White Sea. Summer Zolotitsa. It’s so far away that there aren’t even human roads built there. Yes, and there is no need for roads there, there is too much fuss from them and great danger disturb the White Sea, white moss, porcini mushrooms and old-growth forest, which no one has ever cut down.

The pristine silence is broken only by the whisper of the surf, gently retelling sandy beach legends about ancient times. Let's listen to the whispers of another time, hear old northern tales about how the Great Veles, the God of Wisdom and Witchcraft, once grew up in these places of the Navolok forest in a house at the crossroads of three worlds, three roads, three waters and then became the Patron of the North. These northern tales are in the book " The tragedy of God Veles ».

Here are more northern wonders

The Kuzova Archipelago on the North Sea. Here you can find many different stone structures, the age of which, according to scientists, is no less than 2.5 thousand years! There you will find the remains of an observatory for space and astronomical observations, a sacrificial stone ancient god and a huge throne carved from granite.

“Glade of Idols” near the village of Pegrema on the northwestern coast of Lake Onega. In this area you will find hundreds of ancient boulders. The stones resemble in shape various iconic animals and birds from the legends of the northern country and are clearly man-made. Especially famous are stones in the shape of a duck, a frog and a turtle.

Mount Vottawarra, the most high point Western Karelia. Located in the Muezersky district, 20 km from the village of Sukkozero. Near this mountain, unusual phenomena have been repeatedly observed, and the power of energy near it is so great that for centuries magicians and sorcerers have flocked here to draw strength from it. This is truly a place of power, because it is located on a break in the stone slabs. At the top of this you can see “seids” - sacred stones.

And what wonderful places of power the Northern country is still full of!

Pinega caves, into which, according to legend, the white-eyed people went - a people of sorcerers and miraculous healers. Local residents say that the elders are hiding in those caves, the entrance to which is carefully closed by the authorities. White-bearded sages come to the surface from time to time and impart their knowledge of the unknown to those who are willing to listen. Perhaps these were the northern wise men, servants of the ancient Gods, who hid there from prying eyes. For example, Mount Ninchurt on the Kola Peninsula is famous. Near its foot, an entrance to a mysterious dungeon was found. Those who try to follow this entrance inside notice the action of an ancient and irresistible force.

A Mount Karasova near the village of Nyandoma! They say that at this place of power the battle of the Gods with the forces of evil took place, and the Skipper-beast, who was defeated by the Great Perun - the God of Thunder and Justice, was imprisoned inside Mount Karasova, which seems not to be a natural formation, but a man-made pyramid! This legend is in a fairy tale from the book “ Gods and Men ».

Since then it's famous place among people who explore northern.

Already in our days, the so-called “snow people” have been seen coming out to people - this is written evidence that is known about.

Kurtyaevo tract near Severodvinsk. In that place of power Eighty springs of healing waters originate. They say that it is there that the Living and Dead Water of Slavic legends is stored. We have long known the healing properties of this water, and sailors before long voyage They strive to take with them exactly this living Kurtyaev water.

Yes and all triangle between Kurtyaev, Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land has fame greater than the famous Bermuda Triangle. It’s just that military units are stationed there and unnecessary ones don’t go there - only polar bears and white killer whales can observe the strange appearances of unknown creatures and the manifestation of transcendental forces.

Northern villages still amaze with miracles. But not by places of power, but by people who grew up on this magical land. Until now, in every village there is a person who “knows”. People go to him when doctors don’t help, when they need to fix something in life, to protect themselves from something, to get something. In the village of Kimzha, for example, there still remains, although small in number, a well-known family of so-called “black tropics” - people endowed with the special powers of magicians. IN Pinega region live ""- those who can send hiccups with one glance (“hiccups” is the local name for the disease that modern medicine calls “split personality”) and, at the same time, can heal almost with one glance. Well, how can we not remember the storytellers and singers who preserved the ancient “antiques”! For centuries, people have traveled to those who would like to remember something that cannot be found anywhere in written sources.

What other places of power?

Lakes, waterfalls, amazing groves with ancient trees! All this is ours - after all, places of power are always recognized as having a special piercing beauty that excites the Soul. Maybe this is the memory of the past and longing for what has not come true?

Seydozero on the Kola Peninsula is a revered place of power among the Sami. The nature around it is extremely beautiful. On the island in the middle of the lake you can see the sacred Old Woman stone. Voitsky Padun Waterfall near the abandoned village of Kochkomozero in Karelia. A place of power powerful in its beauty and energy. White Bridges Waterfall in Karelia, 30 km from the city of Pitkäranta, near the village of Leppäsilta. Sacred groves in Kenozerskoye national park. There are especially beautiful and ancient trees that are still revered by people.

Northern tales about places of power

And, if I risked holding your attention any longer, I would write about many more places of power and mysterious incidents in our North! Many of these places of power are in hard-to-reach places. The path of people to them is not trodden, but myths and legends about their power are still alive today

The publishing house “Northern Fairy Tale” is trying to reveal secrets that the “newcomer” will never see on his hasty journey abroad. short time vacation. And the local Old Believers will not reveal anything secret; for many years they have become accustomed to keeping their mouths shut. There are not and cannot be such guides who will lead you to the northern gray sorcerers.

There are also no tours in which they will drop you off at a place of power and promise that an unprecedented miracle will happen in the next hour or two.

But in this era of Svarog, much that was kept behind seven seals can be opened.

Anyone who looks will see a lot. Read the books of the publishing house "Northern Fairy Tale" - they contain myths that live to this day, where Gods descend to Earth, and People become Gods. And all this is one - Past, Present and Future.

As they say, if you’re bad, God won’t either.

We all need to remember who we are.

Good luck and health, Irina Ivanova, editor-in-chief of the Northern Fairy Tale publishing house.

On the Kola Peninsula, washed from the southeast by the waters of the White Sea, in Kandalaksha, there is a legend about a wonderful bell that sank in the taiga Niva River. On its banks, even in the distant pagan era, there were sanctuaries dating back, perhaps, to stone age. The ringing of the bell hidden here is not heard by sinners. But, as the legend says, someday they too will hear this ringing. Then the original heavenly state of these lands, fragments of the legendary Hyperborea, will return. The outlines of the disappeared northern land are reproduced on the map of Gerardus Mercator. The inscription on the map says that it is based on the testimony of the knights of King Arthur - seekers of hidden shrines, as well as on data from polar travelers. Mercator notes that they all reached the furthest reaches of the polar earth "through the art of magic."

If you look closely at the outlines of the “Scandinavian” part of Hyperborea on the Mercator map and superimpose it on the map of modern Scandinavia, you will find amazing correspondences: mountain range, running along Norway and the Kola Peninsula, coincides with the mountains of Hyperborea; and the Hyperborean river that flows from these mountains follows the contours of the Gulf of Bothnia in the northern part of the Baltic Sea. It turns out that, perhaps, the southern border of Hyperborea passed through Lakes Ladoga and Onega, through Valaam and turned north to the spurs of the middle ridge of the Kola Peninsula, that is, to where ancient mountains destroyed by time rise above the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea.

Thus, the shrines of the Russian North are located in Hyperborea - if the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea can really be considered its preserved part. The granite monolith of the Solovetsky Islands and the magical cliffs of Valaam were once islands in an ocean bay off the coast of Hyperborea. Apparently, it was not without reason that the mystical feeling of the northern monks found them different sacred names: New Jerusalem - for the harsh Solovetsky Islands and Northern Athos - for the hidden Valaam. It was the New Jerusalem, the city that was bequeathed to future centuries, that the monk Hypatius saw the Solovetsky Monastery in a prophetic vision back in 1667 - shortly before the beginning of the tragic “Solovetsky sitting”. The next act of the northern mystery is the appearance of the Old Believer Vygov desert (also on the ancient Hyperborean coast). Vygoretsia also perished, under whose “quick moss” the poet Nikolai Klyuev placed the underground “Cathedral of the Holy Fathers.” “Let our North seem poorer than other lands,” wrote N.K. Roerich, let his ancient face be hidden. Let people know little that is true about him. The tale of the North is deep and captivating. Northern winds cheerful and cheerful. Northern lakes thoughtful. Northern rivers are silvery. The darkened forests are wise. The green hills are seasoned. Gray stones in circles are full of miracles...” Gray stones in circles - labyrinths - and other ancient megalithic structures located on the shores of the White Sea and on the islands Solovetsky archipelago, are the greatest mystery of the North.

The White Sea is the sacred sea of ​​the North, keeping many secrets. It is possible that the original meaning of its name, known only to a few, is related to the celestial sphere, since in semantics “white” color is heavenly, divine. At first glance, it could get the name White from the color of the snow and ice that covers it in winter.

But this is equally true for any northern sea and therefore does not sound particularly convincing. According to Murmansk toponymist A.A. Minkin, during its history the White Sea has changed 15 names! Let's try to figure out why it is called White. The peoples of the East have long had a color symbolism of orientation, where the color black corresponded to the north. And the Slavic peoples designated the north as white and the south as blue. Therefore, long before the Tatar invasion, the Russians called the Caspian Sea the Blue Sea. It can be assumed that, according to color symbolism, the White Sea is the North Sea.

In the Novgorod charters of the 13th-15th centuries, the White Sea was simply called the Sea, and in the “Grant of Veliky Novgorod to the Solovetsky Monastery for the Solovetsky and Other Islands” of the 15th century it is indicated as the Okiyan Sea. The Pomors called the White Sea Icy “due to its natural properties,” and this name was most common both in chronicles and in folklore. It was first put on the map under the name of the White Sea (Mare Alburn) by Peter Plaitsius in 1592. In May 1553, on the ship Edward Bonaventure under the command of Barrow, the British entered the White Sea for the first time, dropping anchor at the mouth of the Northern Dvina. The team included a cartographer who, a year after the second voyage to the White Sea, compiled a handwritten map of the sea, without giving it any name. In 1617, the Treaty of Stolbovo was concluded between Sweden and Russia, in a special “clarification” to which the “conditions for fishing” in the Seversk Sea were stipulated by both countries. This is how the White Sea is called in this case.

Speaking about the White Sea, one cannot ignore the northernmost channel of Russia, which connects the White Sea and Baltic Sea. Back in the 16th century, two Englishmen decided to connect the channels of the Vyga and Povenchanka rivers with a canal. Everything, as usual, remains only on paper. In the 16th - 18th centuries, there was a path at this place, passing through Povenets and Sumsky Posad and leading to the shrines of the Solovetsky Monastery. Over the summer, up to 25,000 pilgrims traveled along this route to the monastery in light boats along lakes and rivers, and sometimes along portages. At the beginning of the 18th century, in this place, thousands of Russian men paved the famous “Osudarev Road”, along which Peter I dragged his ships, led his army and defeated the Swedes near the Noteburg fortress.

In the 19th century, the idea of ​​building a canal was approached three times under Paul I, then again in the 30s and 50s of the same century. It is interesting that in 1900, at the Paris Exhibition for the canal project, Professor V.E. Timanov received a gold medal. However, the brilliant project was shelved. But the First World War proved the need for a canal for the Russian fleet, which was locked in the Baltic Sea. February 18, 1931 Council of Labor and Defense USSR decided to begin construction of the canal. In October 1931, construction of the canal began along the entire route: from Povenets to Belomorsk. According to archival data, 679 thousand prisoners and exiled kulaks were sent to the construction of the White Sea Canal, the White Sea Baltlag became one of largest camps in the OGPU system. In 1933, the canal, 227 kilometers long, was included in the number of operating internal routes of the USSR. It was built in just 20 months. A very short period of time, especially considering that the 164-kilometer Suez Canal was built in 10 years, and half that (81 kilometers) Panama Canal It took 12 years to build.

In the White Sea region everything is mixed - antiquity and modernity. Many archaic layers of North Sea culture to this day remain inaccessible to researchers, including secret Pomeranian knowledge and legends passed down orally from father to son and from him to subsequent generations. Exactly the same tales and legends have existed in the Urals from time immemorial. At the end of the 30s of the 20th century, the famous Ural writer Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879-1950) managed to publish their literary treatment. The history of the creation of Bazhov’s tales is striking and instructive. This happened to a certain extent by accident. In 1939, Bazhov’s friends and relatives were hit by a wave of mass repression: several people from his family and journalistic circle were arrested. The logic of events dictated that he would be next. Then Bazhov, without hesitation, disappeared from the newspaper editorial office, where he then worked, and hid in a secluded hut with some relative and lived there as a recluse for several months. Having nothing else to do, in order to somehow occupy his time, he began to remember and write down on paper tales that later made up the classic collection “The Malachite Box.” Time passed, those who were hunting for Bazhov were themselves arrested, and the writer returned to everyday activities and decided to publish what he had written during the forced “downtime.” To his own surprise, the publication of Ural tales aroused enormous interest, and Bazhov overnight became incredibly popular and famous.

Similar tales existed among the Pomors. Unfortunately, they were not written down - especially the sacred part of them. Separate hints are contained in the poetry and prose of Nikolai Klyuev (1884 - 1937) - a northerner by origin and spirit, who glorified the White Sea region in his poems and poems. Klyuev wrote about himself in his autobiographical materials: “...The coniferous lips of Pomerania spat me out into Moscow.<...>From the Norwegian shores to Ust-Tsylma, from Solovki to the Persian oases, the crane routes are familiar to me. Plavni Arctic Ocean, the Solovetsky wilds and forests of the White Sea region revealed to me the imperishable treasures of the people's spirit: words, songs and prayers. I learned that the invisible people's Jerusalem is not a fairy tale, but a close and dearest authenticity, I learned that in addition to the visible structure of the life of the Russian people as a state or human society in general, there is a secret hierarchy, hidden from the proud gaze, an invisible church - Holy Russia.. .” With him to the Mother See, Klyuev brought the most important thing, the most important thing - the northern fortress of faith and the Hyperborean spirit. (The fact that the poet was familiar with the Hyperborean theme is evidenced by his letter from Tomsk exile to the Moscow actress N.F. Khristoforova-Sadomova dated April 5, 1937 (six months later Klyuev was shot), in which he reports about who knows what fate came to him birch bark book with a mention of Hyperborea: "...I am now reading an amazing book. It is written on steamed birch bark [from the word “birch bark.” - V.D.] with Chinese ink. The book is called The Ring of Japheth. This is nothing more than Russia 12th century before the Mongols. The great idea of ​​Holy Russia as a reflection of the heavenly church on earth. After all, this is the very thing that Gogol foresaw in his purest dreams, and in particular he is the only one of the worldly people. It is curious that in the 12th century forty taught say and were kept in cages in towers, like today's parrots, that the current Cheremis were taken from the Hyperboreans, that is, from Iceland by King Olaf of Norway, son-in-law of Vladimir Monomakh. They were hot in the Kiev land, and they were released to Kolyvan - the present Vyatka region, and At first they were kept at the Kiev court as exotic animals. And many more beautiful and unexpected things are contained in this Ring. And how many such wonderful scrolls perished in hermitages and secret chapels in the vast Siberian taiga?!” Every sentence here is precious. Even if the lost manuscript of the 12th century was rewritten at a later date, what amazing details - both about the training of magpies, and about the bringing of northern foreigners to the court of Vladimir Monomakh (as the Spaniards later brought from New World Indians to show to their kings). But the main thing is the preserved memory of Hyperborea (it doesn’t matter what it was actually called and how it related to the aforementioned Iceland - the historical Arctida-Hyperborea also covered Iceland). The conjugation of Hyperborea with Japhet-Iapetus is also significant, which is also not at all accidental.) Part of this ancient sacred knowledge appears in the striking Klyuev essay “Fire Letter:
“I am the Fiery Mind, which was, is and will be forever.
The Russian people - the firstborn from the tribes of the earth, beloved and true - rejoice in wisdom and knowledge.
Here I take the winds from the four corners of the earth into the palm of my hand, four rays of life, four flaming mountains, four fiery eagles, and I blow into my palm, let the winds, rays, mountains and eagles rush into your heart, into your blood, and into your bones - oh, Russian people!
And you will know what you need to know.
For thousands of years I have taken care of you, grown you like a grapevine in My garden, nurtured you like a mother, feeding her child with the milk of strength and patience. And now is the day of your coming of age.
You are no longer a baby, but an old man.
Your legs are like wild stone, and the waves of oppression break on your chest.
Your face is like the sun, shining in its power, and untruth flees from your voice.
Your hands moved mountains, and the continents shook from the movement of your elbows.
Your beard is like a hurricane, like a flood, crushing prison walls and smashing the thrones of kings to dust.
“Who is like the Russian people” - distant countries marvel, and tribes weighed down with shackles stretch out their hands to you, as to their God and redeemer.
You are beautiful to everyone, sought after by everyone, glorified by everyone.
But I found one stumbling block in you:
You are blind in your right eye.
When I stand on your right hand, you turn to the left, and when on your left, you rush to the right.
You turn your back to the Sun of Reason and, stung by ignorance, you kick like an elk wounded in the sacrum, like a horse enraged by the teeth of a wolf. And from the blows of your heel the blood does not dry on the earth. I send to you Solar messengers, red prophets, young men with a fiery heart and daring men, whose mouth is a slaying sword. But when they fall into the circle of your dark eye, you, like burnt hemp, tear apart your truth, conscience and mercy.
Then seven demons build a nest for themselves from your heart and a stinking lair from your thoughts.<...>Russian people! Clear your ears and expand your heart for the words of the Fiery Letter!
The millstones are the laws of kings, nobles and gold holders, and what they grind is human flesh and bones.
Do you want, my son, to fall under the terrible, murderous millstone? Do you want your neck to be tormented by the tightly riveted iron collar of a slave, so that your right hand wraps chains around your left, and your left wraps them around your right? And that, in the power of evil visions, you would become so entangled in shackles that your whole body would be covered and compressed by them, so that the links of a convict chain would stick to your body like boiling lead and would no longer fall away?
If you believe in darkness, go into darkness!
All the enslavers, all the Cains and murderers that are on earth, have risen up against you. And they will erase your name, and you will be like dirt trampled underfoot in the square. And even a mangy dog ​​will have to bend his muzzle to see you.
And where Russia was - the native land, the lullaby, there will be hills of ashes, an empty, burnt place, watered with your blood.
Oh, Russian people! Oh my child!
Most beautiful of the sons of men!
I, the Fiery Mind, which was, is and will be forever, stretch out my hands, bearing in my palms many valuable gifts.
In my right hand is the plaster of knowledge - apply it to your dark eye, and in my left hand is the balm of enlightenment - anoint your thorn with it!
Never will the sky be so radiant, and the earth so green and fertile, as in the hour of the nation's epiphany. And a Woman clothed in the sun will descend to the Russian land, the name of science is inscribed on her forehead, and the covering of her garment is a burning book. And, seeing yourself in the light of the Great Book, you will say:
“I didn’t know myself or others, I didn’t know what a Man was!
Now I know".
And you will love yourself in all nations, and you will be happy to serve them. And the bear will graze with the heifer, and a swarm of bees will dwell in the beard of the old man. Honey will flow out of the stone, and the ear of grain will become a nourishing grove.
Let it be so! Let it be done!”

Mysteries of Russian civilization. V.N. Demin, S.N. Zelentsov. Veche Publishing House, 2002.

Photographs by Igor Georgievsky.
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Karelia, like the Russian North as a whole, is a region full of unsolved mysteries And amazing riddles. To unravel them means to understand our past and present. The greatness and historical immortality of a people are determined by the spiritual culture that representatives of even the smallest ethnic groups managed to preserve and convey to their descendants. Is the spiritual culture of the ancient peoples, who have long lived on the vast territory of modern Karelia, less ancient than the culture of any of the Western European peoples? Is the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala" less poetic than the Scandinavian "Edda", the French "Song of Roland" or the German "Nibelungs"?

Earthly paradise

In 1916, Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an outstanding artist and thinker, arrived in the city of Serdobol, present-day Sortavala. This was not Roerich’s first trip to Finland and Karelia. Roerich's interest in the North was inseparable from his interest in Russia's past, in its history. He was keenly interested in the study of ancient magical Knowledge, the existence of which in ancient times was associated with northern territories. From time immemorial, the Russian people, dreaming of a better life, turned their gaze to the North. It was here that, in the opinion of many Russian scribes and preachers, was located that happy and blessed country, which can only be compared with earthly paradise, preserved in popular memory under the name Belovodye. Belovodye is not an objective, but a spiritual reality, which has accumulated in its image all the thousand-year wisdom of humanity. Roerich tried to find the origins of the doctrine of the mysterious country in the North.

He was engaged in a serious study of northern legends, conducted scientific research, and painted. The result of his research was the idea of ​​the existence of an ancient spiritual tradition in the form of a single and unbroken chain, the beginning of which was in the North and the end in the East, in Tibet and the Himalayas. And Nicholas Roerich went on an expedition to Altai and Tibet to continue his research there. “In distant countries, behind the great lakes, behind the high mountains, there is a sacred place where justice flourishes. There lives the Highest knowledge and the Highest wisdom for the salvation of the entire future of humanity. This place is called Belovodye,” wrote N. Roerich in his book - diary "Altai - Himalayas".

And in one of the legends, which was sacredly kept by the Old Believers of the Vygovsky Community, it directly says that Belovodye is located near Lake Lopon. This lake is not on geographical maps. But “lop” is the Old Russian name for the indigenous population of Karelia and the Kola Peninsula - the Sami. The already well-known Lapland gets its name from the word “burp”. So, maybe Belovodye itself is somewhere very close?

Mass hypnosis

In 1921, the first scientific expedition to the Kola Peninsula was organized. This expedition was carried out under the personal supervision of Dzerzhinsky, and was headed by Professor Alexander Vasilyevich Barchenko, who acted with the mandate of the Institute for Brain Research and with the personal blessing of Academician Bekhterev. A.V.Barchenko, who had psychic abilities, was recruited to work in the Soviet state security agencies, where he headed a top-secret occult laboratory. The purpose of the expedition was to search for the remains of ancient civilizations, which, according to the concept of A.V. Barchenko, possessed universal Knowledge, which included knowledge of other sources of energy and effective means of mental influence on people. A.V. Barchenko assumed that this knowledge did not disappear without a trace, but was preserved in coded form in megalithic monuments, legends, traditions and they can be found and deciphered. His studies of a number of places in Murmansk region, in which people fell into an unusual state, similar to mass psychosis, called “meryacheniya.” Usually it manifested itself during magical rituals (according to official sources, they were far from rare even at the end XIX century), but could also arise spontaneously. At such moments, people began to repeat each other’s movements, unconditionally carry out various commands, etc. Using modern terminology, it is quite possible to call this “zombieing.”

The “measuring” effect is, in essence, the effect of mass and targeted hypnotic influence, the source of which is completely unknown to science. Similar phenomena of “measuring” are observed to this day in a number of places in Karelia, on the territory of which the remains of ancient sanctuaries are still located. All this requires careful study not only for scientific, educational interests, but also from the point of view of the possible practical use of this type of magical energy, for example, for medicinal purposes.

Karelia (North of Russia as a whole) has deep and strong traditions associated with the preservation of esoteric (secret) magical Knowledge, originating from the ancient, powerful and mysterious Hyperborea. Since time immemorial (even from the point of view of the historical approach), the territory of Karelia has been included in the general planetary and geocosmic “program” for the preservation of esoteric Knowledge, which is fundamental in the general context of earthly evolution and fragmentarily recorded in various kinds of historical, ethnographic and cultural discoveries of our time. There are ancient maps that depict the disappeared polar continent - Hyperborea. The works of Gerhard Mercator, the most famous cartographer of the 16th century, have survived to this day in copies. One of his maps (1569) reproduces the outlines Northland most fully, without amendments to new ones geographical discoveries. If you superimpose Mercator's map on the map of modern Scandinavia, amazing correspondences are discovered: the southern border of Hyperborea passes through Lakes Ladoga and Onega, through Valaam and Vygorecia. “The magical cliffs of Valaam, so similar to man-made strongholds, were once an island in an ocean bay off the coast of Hyperborea - northern Ladoga has preserved the immensely ancient contours of this bay,” writes the famous Russian researcher of Hyperborea E. Lazarev. “A similar island, apparently, "There was also the granite monolith of Solovki: similar, but still different. It was not for nothing that the mystical feeling of the northern monks found for them different sacred names: northern Athos - for the hidden Valaam and New Jerusalem - for the harsh Solovetsky Islands."

The end of the 20th century was marked by serious archaeological discoveries on the territory of modern Karelia. In the early 90s, on the northwestern coast of Lake Onega, a Neolithic sanctuary was opened, called Pegrema, which included zoomorphic idols, sandstone disks, etc., which testified to the development of the religious-magical cult and deep skills in stone processing from our distant ancestors. In 1993, the now widely known, but still insufficiently studied, ancient pagan complex was discovered on Mount Vottovaara, in the Muezersky district. It consists of more than a thousand seids (structures made of stones that the ancient Sami - Lapps - endowed with enormous magical power), some of which reach truly enormous sizes, a “staircase” carved into the rock, etc. Structures of such a scale do not fit into the urgent needs of the ancient Sami or Karelian hunters and do not fit into the logical constructs of scientific theory. That is why the complex on Mount Vottovaara has already been dubbed the “Karelian Stonehenge”.

In 2001, an expedition of specialists from the Russian Geographical Society discovered a strange “sea pyramid” near the Anzer Island of the Solovetsky archipelago, rising to a height of about ten meters above the water level, which has also not received an intelligible explanation to date. In the summer of 2003, an expedition organized by the International Academy of Megascience conducted research in the Medvezhyegorsk region near the small village of Venge-gora, fifteen kilometers from the more famous village of Maslozero. In the people's memory, fragments of ancient traditions and legends have still been preserved, which testify that in ancient times, on the shore of one of the lakes located in this area, there was an ancient pagan temple, made of numerous stones and highly revered by the local residents. To date, the monument has been completely destroyed; the stones are scattered over a large area or simply destroyed. Many of them “went into the ground” or “in the sand”, and finding them is quite difficult.

Legends also say that this temple was built from “marked” stones, i.e. made of stones with “runic signs” carved on them, which, along with semantic and magical functions, also carried a protective function. It is interesting that the word “rune” itself does not mean “letter” or “sign”. It means "secret" or "secret". The word "rune" is an analogue of the Greek "mysterion" (mystery). Rune systems are not simply systems of “letters” in the ordinary sense. Rather, they are sacramental systems. That is why runic signs and symbols have always had a magical character and were understood by a select circle of people. The search for the “Karelian Hyperborea” is apparently just beginning. One thing is clear - there are still many unexpected, bright and interesting discoveries. The northern pilgrim elders predicted: in the triangle marked by the three temples of the Transfiguration - Valaam, Solovetsky and Kizhi - the cleansing of Russia would begin. This is a place where grace seems to thicken, becoming obvious to sensitive hearts. Here is the soul of the Russian North, the focus of its harmonies.

Russian North, Hyperborea, the White Sea with its labyrinths and powerful Place of Power – Solovetsky Islands– these are all very well-known, frequently discussed topics. The Kola Peninsula, also part of the White Sea area, cannot be called forgotten, but in terms of Places of Power it is quite poorly studied. An example of this is Kamenny Island on Kanozero, discovered as a Place of Power only in the late 90s of the twentieth century. small island with a rocky outcrop densely decorated with petroglyphs, caused a sensation in the scientific world. Petroglyphs date back to the 3rd – 2nd millennium BC. e. Later on neighboring islands similar rocks with petroglyphs were discovered. We can talk about a whole complex of Places of Power, which was worshiped by local residents in those days when the pyramids of Egypt were still being built. Among the Places of Power on the Kola Peninsula one can also name Mount Kuchintundra with a complex of stone seids, a very interesting and mysterious place, two stone labyrinths (there are seven similar structures in total on the Kola Peninsula) on the shores of the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea, the “Flying Stone” seid on Mount Seidpakhk (Ponoi River) and much, much more. And, of course, one of the most interesting places The strength on the Kola Peninsula is Seydozero. There are several mountain ranges on the Kola Peninsula. Because of their features - flat, treeless peaks - these mountain ranges are called tundras. The most attractive and famous among tourists are the Khibiny - Khibiny tundras. This is the biggest mountain range on the Kola Peninsula. Next to the Khibiny Mountains there is the second largest massif - the Lovozero tundra. Separating them, stretching from north to south, is Umbozero, the most deep lake on Kola. And right in the center of the Lovozero tundra, hidden like a priceless pearl, the goal of our journey is Seydozero. It is surrounded on all sides by mountains and only at the eastern end does it have its source in Lake Lovozero, which washes the Lovozero tundra from the east. Seydozero occupies almost the entire valley, leaving space for forest only along the banks, in the foothills. The length of the lake is 8 km, width up to 2.5 km. You can get to this lake on foot, the most shortcut through the Elmorajok mountain pass. The trail to the pass begins at the edge of the town of Revda, through the territory of an operating mining plant. Traveling through the pass can be dangerous bad weather or for an unprepared person. They talk about several deaths and tell horror stories about those who got lost in the fog and were unable to overcome this, in general, quite simple pass. You can easily and quickly get to the Seydozero valley by helicopter, but this is the route of official expeditions. Another long route can lead you to the Seydozero valley - take a boat along Lovozero to the river connecting these two lakes, and then follow a path along the river to reach the valley. This long and difficult route will take you to the eastern end of the lake. It was along this route that Barchenko’s expedition reached the Seydozero valley.

Legends and myths of Seydozer

Seydozero is quite famous among a certain kind of people. People involved in esotericism and esotericism often go there for revelation. secret knowledge. Ufologists visit this place and are interested in anomalous zone and UFOs, which are often seen in the valley and by paleoarchaeologists searching for Hyperborea. According to some researchers, it was located here. Physicists who study strong geomagnetic anomalies arrive. One of the most mysterious stories about Seydozero there is a story about Barchenko’s expedition, but more on that below. Seydozero has a rich folklore and mythological history. This Holy Lake is the Place of Power of the Sami, a people who have lived in these places since ancient times. They revered and worshiped this lake. There are quite a few ancient legends and beliefs associated with this lake. In their beliefs, the lake, if treated with respect, acts as a bright and pure force. According to one version, Seyd is translated as a saint. Seydozero - Holy Lake. According to another, the lake is called so because of the large number of seids located around the lake on the surrounding peaks. Seids are pyramidal stacks of stones or individual boulders, which, according to the Sami, store the souls of shamans, locally known as noids, and are objects of veneration by local residents. There are really a huge number of seids in the surrounding mountains. Often these stone pyramids can be seen on the peaks surrounding the lake. But figuring out which of them were built originally and which were built by tourists is difficult, if not impossible. One of the most striking attractions of Seydozero is Kuivo (Kuyva) - a natural image huge size(more than 70 meters in height), resembling a person, on one of the rocks northern shore lakes. Despite its natural origin, Kuivo’s figure has not changed its shape for many years. One of the legends says that this is a trace from a giant hunter who was incinerated by the lightning of the gods, who oppressed the local Lapps. What else can be said about the Lovozero tundra region? It is believed that too many deaths occur there. This is mainly the death of individual tourists or entire groups. For inexplicable reasons, both hiking groups in the Lovozero tundra and watermen on Lovozero, famous for its unpredictable temperament, disappear and die. And, of course, Bigfoot. Some researchers believe that it is quite possible for Bigfoot to live in the Lovozero tundra region.

Expedition Barchenko

Barchenko's expedition is a kind of starting point in the formation of a huge layer of secrets surrounding Seydozero. We know for sure that there was a real person, a mystic, occultist and scientist, possibly a magician, Alexander Vasilyevich Barchenko. He traveled around the world, including to India, and was seriously interested in esotericism. After the revolution of 1917, he began working at the Institute of the Brain and Higher Nervous Activity. It is known for sure that Barchenko, as part of his work in a special department of the OGPU, prepared and led an expedition to the Kola Peninsula in 1922, in the area of ​​Lovozero and Seydozero. The official purpose of the expedition was to study the phenomenon of "merchanting" (Emeric, Arctic hysteria). There is no reliable data about what exactly Barchenko’s expedition discovered in the Seydozero area, only some rumors, scraps of information, vague evidence from satellites. I could not find documents on the expedition or any other reliable sources of information. Therefore, everything that is said about the results of Barchenko’s expedition can and should be questioned, however, the results themselves remain very mysterious and intriguing, and I really want it all to be true. So what did Barchenko discover? We know about this from the diary of an expedition member, astronomer Alexander Kondiaini.

• First of all, the expedition discovered a geoanomalous zone in the Seydozero area
• A paved road along the river connecting Seydozero and Lovozero. At the beginning and at the end

roads are cubic stones, faces oriented to the cardinal points (the presence of a road under-

confirmed by modern expeditions);

• A yellowish-white column like a giant candle
• A giant cave at an altitude of 200 fathoms and nearby something like a walled crypt
• Manhole under the lake (they were never able to discover it later)
• Pyramids artificial origin
• Near the pyramids and cave openings, members of the expedition experienced a feeling of causeless

animal horror.

There is an opinion that Barchenko discovered the remains of some kind of pre-civilization. I wonder what

An expedition sent in Barchenko's footsteps in 1923 did not confirm his findings. And here

Valery Demin's expedition in 1997 and other expeditions largely confirmed

and discovered many more mysterious and incomprehensible things. Barchenko's life ended tragically. He was shot in April 1938 for counter-revolutionary activities. The materials on the Kola expedition were classified or destroyed, it is not known for sure.