Mount tuzluk coordinates. Mystical mountain brine. Objects located along straight lines
This mountain not only attracts attention, it stops the gaze of everyone who sees it, especially for the first time. Its forms (slopingly smoothed) are so ideal, especially in comparison with other hills located nearby. The thought involuntarily arises that not only natural forces are involved in the appearance of the mountain, but also some other - reasonable, or rather, it would be said, existing beyond our understanding, our knowledge. It is no coincidence that Tuzluk - and we are talking about him - gives rise to a great many assumptions, legends that are happening almost before our eyes, and of course incredible conjectures.
Moreover, the most fantastic - starting with the fact that the mountain is bulky, but hollow inside. And this cavity is a huge hall. The same that is in it is generally beyond the limits of human perception. According to another, more mundane version, in distant, distant times (we are talking about four or five thousand years), there was a sanctuary here: the so-called oracle, that is, the place where divinations are made. The most famous of the oracles is the god Apollo in ancient Greek Delphi. Pythia - priestesses (in our case - witches), who prophesied under the influence of stupefying fumes coming out of a crack in the ground, came into a semi-conscious state and began to broadcast about what should happen. Incredible? But even these assumptions have the right to life until proven otherwise. Moreover, evaporation from Mount Tuzluk is present.
However, first things first. If you get to the Djily-su area, which is in the Northern Elbrus region, through the Narzan Valley, then the aforementioned hill is a little more than forty kilometers. Tuzluk is impossible not to notice, as the view of the mountain opens from afar, and the road itself passes right under it. Its height is relatively small - 2585.3 meters, but from the level of the road for as much as one hundred meters Tuzluk goes up almost sheer. Naturally, this ascent does not present any particular difficulties, however, most of those heading to the mineral springs of Djily-su do not stop at the mountain. But in vain, because going up, you find that at the top there is a fairly flat platform, the length of which is about twice the width. At the very beginning, four stone pillars bulge out of the ground, or rather, four stone pillars grow, representing something like a cross. In any case, this is the feeling that arises when you look at the stones from above, from a helicopter height. And the internal expediency, the geometric proportion of the stone giants with the general appearance of the top of the Tuzluk, is literally striking. As if they were used for some purpose (isn't this the reason for the assumption that the boulders were artificially installed?). For what? Temple complex? Ancient observatory?
It was to such conclusions that the Muscovite Aleksey Alekseev, who later founded the permanent expedition “Caucasian Arkaim”, came to such conclusions in the summer of 2001: that the sun on the solstices should rise near conspicuous landmarks. And this is one of the most important features of all known near-horizon observatories.
The following year, 2002, thanks to the help of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, we had professional calculations of the azimuths of sunrise and sunset on the solstices and a number of other important astronomical events.
... On the morning of June 23, on the second day of the solstice, we managed to climb to the top of Tuzluk and install a theodolite. That morning the fate of the expedition and, probably, of all the ideas we had expressed was decided. If the sun rises over a noticeable landmark, the hypothesis of the temple of the Sun on Mount Tuzluk on the northern slopes of Elbrus will have the right to exist...
The night was drawing to a close, a narrow streak of light flickered over the horizon beyond the Kinzhal massif. The red stripe gradually grows, violet, blue, and then golden radiance joins it. It expands, occupies half the sky. Beyond Elbrus, the purple strip is shifting - the shadow from the Earth - the border of day and night. The sun has already risen above the horizon, but it is hidden from us by the Dagger array. Turned pink, and then turned golden Elbrus. The rays of the low sun broke through the valleys through the mountain passes, gilding the surrounding peaks.
And now, in a deep saddle, near the southern edge of the Dagger, a dazzling point appears. Here it is already in the crosshairs of the reticle. There is a countdown! The sun is rising from the earth before our eyes.
We did not happen to meet the dawn on Mount Tuzluk, but we have repeatedly observed the appearance of a luminary some ten kilometers from this place - from a clearing where Emmanuel's expedition camp was in 1829. The spectacle is not just amazing - stunning, stunning, truly fantastic. As if you are present at a great event - the birth of not another day, but life itself. Probably, these feelings to a large extent contributed to the fantastic assumptions of the scientist from St. began to use as early as 4500 BC. Then its top was a flat solid slab, abruptly breaking off towards Mount Sirch. This site was used as a ritual site. Later, in 3200 BC, the slab was cut lengthwise and across. The sections are oriented to the cardinal points. In the body of the mountain, under a layer of dense quartz sandstone, an underground temple of Mother Earth with four chambers was built.
Rituals of initiation and purification of the soul took place in them. Since then, on the western slope of the mountain, there has been a stone block resembling a bull (a female cult) - a stone-cup with a depression in the upper part. And around Tuzluk, stone pillars-menhirs are installed as a belt of its energy-information protection. One of the phallic-shaped menhirs with the face of a knight stands over the canyon of the Malka River, between Tuzluk and Sirkh. Shepherds say that there are at least six more similar stones in the area. Thus, the “feminine” principle on the bosom of the mountain was, as it were, taken under protection by the energies of the “masculine” principle.
On the summit platform of the mountain 900-800 years BC, a stone temple presumably existed. It was abandoned in 450-600 AD, apparently with the end of the golden age of the Trojan Ages. Time has scattered his stones. Only a few slabs remain."
It is clear that such a specific dating of events taking place over millennia in these places is not supported (and cannot be) by any evidence; it is entirely based on the assumptions, assumptions, conclusions of its authors. And therefore, it is not just controversial, but ahistorical: not a topic for serious discussions, but more a reason for sarcastic remarks.
But, really, I don’t want to scoff or seriously appeal to known historical facts (however, what do we, by and large, know about those times, especially about what happened in our places? Absolutely nothing). I also don’t want to for the reason that here, in the Northern Elbrus region, among the majestic giants, measuring what they have seen for thousands of years, the most incredible assumptions do not cause such rejection as they would cause somewhere below, on the plain. With surprise, you catch yourself thinking that you are not looking for counterarguments, but you are trying to imagine whether this could have happened or not. Especially when you talk to Vyacheslav Tokarev - not just an enthusiast, but a true ascetic and patriot, sincere in his desire to lift the veil over the distant past. Moreover, all this is based on deep comprehensive knowledge, a clearly built argumentation.
And therefore, even the assumption that a sanctuary was located on the mountain, that the witches, inhaling the vapors coming from the earth, saw the future from the Tuzluk oracle, you involuntarily look for confirmation. Seek and find! Indeed, between the stone layered pillars there is a narrow crack, going somewhere deep enough. The depth cannot be checked by throwing something into it - it is very narrow, but by the thrust with which the lighter flame brought to the hole rushes down, you understand that there is some kind of cavity inside.
What it is like, how far it goes - you won’t know without special devices, only if ... Not too lazy, one of us runs down and again, now with two full one and a half liter bottles of narzan in his hands, climbs up with considerable difficulty on a steep mountain, leans over the gap and begins to pour water. It leaves instantly - it does not slide along the stone walls, but it pours, as if into the void. The “mouth” of the mountain absorbs water, now it is already ending, but nothing happens. And what, by the way, should happen? ..
Under the scorching July sun, I silently sit by the huge boulders on the top of the Tuzluk, and my lips whisper unpretentious lines by themselves:
Yarilo scarlet luminary,
The water was willing to pour
And everything that happened here
Let it repeat
Let it repeat...
And suddenly the mountain seems to let out a sigh - a long, long, painful sigh. I clearly hear it: I lean over the gap and feel how the air acquires density, elasticity, flowing around my face.
I don’t feel anything anymore, but I don’t leave, still peering and listening intently. Uphill? In yourself? To the outside world?
After five to seven minutes, it tingles in the head, it is filled with heaviness, after some time voiced hammer-points begin to knock. Their periodicity increases with every moment, and now I am bouncing off the gap, unable to withstand this crazy rhythm. You catch yourself thinking that the moment of insight never came. And you console yourself: but after all, the role of the Pythia was not available to every woman, but only to the chosen of the chosen. However (we speak in all seriousness), even the vapors coming from the earthly womb could change over the past millennia, lose their strength. And the idea that there is an underground temple in the mountain no longer seems as absurd as before.
... Looking at the members of the expedition (many of them had a chance to get acquainted in the summer of 2008), who came to the Caucasus from the most remote places in Russia, people of various professions (in their list - astrophysicist, pharmacist, geologist, doctor, university teacher ), a high educational level (many candidates and doctors of sciences), you understand that they were brought together by faith. Belief in a miracle, in the ability to live touch the past, which did not leave without a trace, simply cannot leave, you just need to find and see the marks and traces left by it. It is this desire that drives these people, who spend sleepless nights on Mount Tuzluk, meeting a fiery dawn on its top, which has become for them, as well as for ancient people, a temple. The temple is not so much the Sun as a meeting place - with oneself.
And therefore, if we do not share, then at least we will listen more carefully to the conclusions of their associates - participants in another annual expedition "Caucasian Arkaim": "In ancient times there was an ancient astronomical observatory - the Temple of the Sun - on the banks of the Malka River in the region of Mount Tuzluk. The expedition recorded sunrise during the summer solstice over the only noticeable landmark on the horizon in this sector. In the same period, the azimuths of the rising and setting of the full moon were noted. The calculations performed showed that some other solar and lunar events occur near significant landmarks. Thus, the results of instrumental observations confirmed that Mount Tuzluk could serve as a near-horizon astronomical observatory.
Near it is a phallic-shaped stone menhir, as well as processed stones called "altars" and, probably, served cult purposes. The line between the "altars" is close to the west-east direction (+5056´). The direction between the “eastern altar” and menhir No. 1 (+5058´) is perpendicular to this line. Data corrected by JPS satellite navigator. This deviation is close to the value of the magnetic declination (+5019´). Fixing the sides of the horizon on the ground is the most important feature of a near-horizon astronomical observatory.
To the southeast of Mount Tuzluk, a rocky ridge with many cup-shaped depressions, probably of cult significance, was found, conventionally called the ridge of "cup stones". The line between Menhir No. 1 and the western edge of the "cup stones" exactly coincides with the modern north-south direction.
Thus, the alleged temple complex in the area of Mount Tuzluk could well serve both for cult purposes and for tracking calendar dates.
In total, we noted 14 significant objects in the vicinity of Mount Tuzluk. Of these, four are of natural origin: Mount Tuzluk, a hill that we called "Northern", a lava bridge across the Kyzylsu River, which we called "Kalinov Bridge" and a locolith rising among the ice fields of Elbrus - Kalitsky Peak. To semi-artificial, modified objects, we conditionally include "cup stones" and "altars". Four menhirs and four tours are objects of artificial origin.
Some of these objects are located along straight lines. Straight line No. 1: Northern hill - Mount Tuzluk - Kalinov bridge - Kalitsky peak. Most likely, it coincides with a tectonic fault and, of course, of natural origin. Straight line No. 2: Mount Tuzluk - menhir No. 1 - the eastern edge of the "cup stones". Straight line No. 3: eastern "altar" - tour under the road - Kalinov bridge. Straight line No. 4: Mount Tuzluk - eastern "altar" - menhir No. 2. The direction of straight line No. 1 is deviated by 2o50´ to the west from the northern direction, and straight line No. 3 from the same direction, but to the east - by 2o57´. Together, these angles are 5o47´, and as noted above, the line between the "altars" is +5056´ from the west-east direction. The direction between the “eastern altar” and the Kalinov bridge (+5058´) is perpendicular to it. The above results indicate that the objects around Tuzluk are in a strictly defined order.
With the kind permission of the leaders of the expeditions, we publish lines from their reports posted on Internet sites.
On the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria there is an unusual mountain, examining which a person experiences a double feeling. He gets the feeling that this is not a creation of nature, but something man-made. Mount Tuzluk is both a place of pilgrimage and an interesting landmark of the region. Legends are still being told about this hill.
Mysterious Mount Tuzluk
There is an opinion that the mountain is a secret room hidden in its bowels, the content of which is far from human understanding. The Caucasian pyramid, according to some assumptions, was the site of the oracle's activity 5 thousand years ago and everyone could get their prediction on it. It was brought to people by the Pythians, who broadcast under the influence of fumes emanating from the crevices. Mount Tuzluk still emits some gases from its depths.
Getting to this hill is not difficult, right under it there is a road leading to mineral springs. Despite the fact that the mountain is almost steep from the side of the entrance, climbing it is not very difficult. At the very top there is a flat area on which there are 4 pillars of stone.
Like many, this building raises many questions. From a bird's eye view, the pillars resemble a cross, and one gets the feeling that they were specially installed for incomprehensible purposes. It can be assumed that this place was a sanctuary or an observatory. Scientists conducted experiments and came to the conclusion that more than 4,000 thousand years ago, rituals of sacrifice and purification of the soul were performed at this place.
Pyramids of Elbrus
On the western side of the mountain there is a stone that vaguely resembles a bull. It symbolizes the feminine. Nearby is a stone with a concave top, for performing rituals. This place is surrounded by phallic-shaped stone pyramids depicting knights. They represent the woman's protection.
Scientists suggest that there was once a temple of the Sun on the top of the mountain, since the rising of the star, on the days of equinox and opposition, corresponds to the established altars. Others believe that the sanctuary is located in the mountain. Those who lingered on the top for a long time say that the stone massif breathes, releasing incomprehensible air from a deep crack.
The northern Elbrus region keeps many secrets, which brave explorers and desperate romantics, fascinated by the transcendent beauty of impregnable Elbrus, have always strived to discover. It is on its slopes that the mysterious Caucasian pyramid, Mount Tuzluk, is located. Its sloping-smoothed forms are just perfect, especially in comparison with the nearby hills. The thought involuntarily arises that not only nature is involved in the emergence of this mountain, but some intelligent forces that are beyond our understanding.
“The first time I saw her was twenty years ago. Even then she seemed very curious to me. But as always in a sports trip there is no time for extraneous research. It is necessary to meet the schedule of the campaign and arrive before dark at a place convenient for a bivouac, - says Vladimir Stasenko, a full member of the Russian Geographical Society, chairman of the Pyatigorsk branch. - And only in 2005, as part of the Elbrus-Ruskolan expedition, it was planned to survey the area of \u200b\u200bthis mountain. We did not regret the time spent, as we managed to discover a lot of interesting and even mysterious things.
One of the members of the expedition, Pavel Otkidychev, found fragments of rocks with imprints of tree trunks, some small objects that have not yet been explained, rock paintings in the shape of a cross along with a triangle or pyramid, and coal seams in the canyon of the Malka River. In the same place, in the place closest to Mount Tuzluk, a stone staircase rises, at first glance it looks like a natural formation, but two to five thousand years ago this staircase could have been hewn, equipped with a railing or a rope, and then it was impossible to climb up this staircase would not be difficult.
- Mount Tuzluk itself (2585 m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers, - continues Vladimir Dmitrievich. - As a lonely peak, it advanced to the North from the root peak of the Tashlysyrt ridge of Mount Sirkh. Its silhouette of the correct form in the form of a giant cone-pyramid is amazing. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky remnant, lined with stone or concrete blocks, giving the structure the correct shape. Only the Egyptian pyramids are a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk, which, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary.
Resembling an ancient mound in shape, the mountain gives rise to a great many assumptions. Sometimes even the most fantastic, for example, that it is hollow inside and bulky outside. In the cavity, perhaps, there is a huge hall, and what is in it is hard to even imagine. According to one version, 4-5 thousand years ago there was a sanctuary, the so-called oracle, a place where divinations are made.
- The mountain is well oriented in space: from the south - a semi-circle of cut-cut in the very hill, a likely place for altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat area in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top, - the researcher explains. “Perhaps this is where the mass rituals took place. From the west, at the foot of the mountain, there is a stone-megalith up to two meters high, in the form of a large animal. On top of it there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this stone-cup (we called it a bull) served to commemorate the souls of the dead, leaving to the west following the rays of the “dying” (leaving) sun. To the east of the mountain, on a flat sloping plateau between the mountain and the cliff to Malka, there are large stones that are deeply sunk into the ground. Some of them are overgrown and hidden by grass and soil. It looks like they were placed here in an orderly manner. The southern part of the mountain top is a rock made of quartzite tuff sandstone. Its top is flat and is a continuation of the top of the mountain. The rock seems to have been artificially cut to the base into four blocks, oriented to the cardinal points, which served as the foundation of the temple structure of the ancients.
Perhaps Mount Tuzluk eats
Anna Kobzar.
Mount Tuzluk, as a permanent sentry, has always met and attracted pilgrims going to the Holy places of the Northern Elbrus region. And now it is impossible not to pay attention to this miracle of nature. And maybe not only nature.
For a long time I tried to understand the meaning of the name of this mountain. It was very meaningless to link the name of the mountain with saline solution - brine. But one day a completely different bunch arose: ace - az - ace and a bow, like a weapon. (Ace is the first, main card in the deck, an important person; Az is the first letter in the alphabet, the pronoun is Az I know God, the self-name of the peoples of Azov, Ases).
And indeed, the mountain, when approaching it from the north, first looks like a bow with a loose string, and then, when approaching it, it takes on the appearance of a sharply drawn bow. So, maybe Tuzluk - Azluk - Asluk, - the bow of Azov, Asov, or my lukk.
The first time I saw her was twenty years ago. Even then she seemed very curious to me. But as always in a sports trip there is no time for extraneous research. It is necessary to meet the schedule of the campaign and arrive before dark at a place convenient for a bivouac.
And only in 2005, as part of the ELBRUS-RUSKOLAN expedition, we planned several hours to explore the area of \u200b\u200bthis mountain.
We left the base camp on Dzhilysu in the afternoon and, having overcome the Kayaeshik pass, by the evening we were at Tuzluk. Having asked for shelter from the master spirits of the mountain, they settled down to spend the night next to the spring at its eastern foot.
On the morning of the next day, unexpectedly, a GAZ-66 drove up to us from the side of Kislovodsk with a group of climbers heading for Elbrus. At 4 pm he was supposed to return and promised to take our group of 15 people to the Narzanov Valley.
So we were given, I think, by the same spirits, the whole day, and not several hours, as planned, and we did not lose it in vain. In small groups, everyone dispersed, where curiosity pulled someone.
In the evening, by the fire in the Narzanov Valley, everyone told about what they had seen. And I managed to see a lot of interesting and even mysterious.
Pavel Otkidychev discovered fragments of rocks with imprints of tree trunks in the canyon of the Malka River, some small objects that have not yet been explained, rock paintings in the shape of a cross along with a triangle or pyramid, and coal seams. And this is not all the riddles that he and other members of the expedition saw.
Cross and triangle. Similar drawingavailable on the northern slope of Mount Sirch.
Staircase and coal seams.
From the canyon of Malki on the plateau, to the mountain, in the closest place to it, a stone staircase rises. Judging by the photographs, it seemed to me a natural formation, but two to five thousand years ago this staircase could have been hewn, equipped with a railing or a rope, and then it would not be difficult to climb this staircase.
The photograph next to the stairs shows layers of coal, which could be used in the previously discovered by the expedition of A.A. Alekseev and A.G. Yevtushenko, very close, on the Tashlysyrt ridge, ancient metal-smelting furnaces.
And something magical happened to Zhanna Demina, the geologist of the expedition. She left with her daughter Olga, a great connoisseur of flora, now a student at the Timiryazev Academy. They climbed to the top of the mountain, examined the summit rock (I will describe it later), descended, walked around the mountain and, softened by the sun, settled down to rest on a beautiful alpine meadow. And suddenly Jeanne saw a procession of people dressed in dark long chitons with their heads covered with hoods. People slowly passed by and went inside the mountain. The last of them turned to Jeanne and silently beckoned her along. She became frightened and it cost her a great effort of will not to succumb to this call. She neither then nor now does not know whether it was all real or it was some kind of obsession. She is sure of one thing, that she was not sleeping at that moment.
Mount Tuzluk itself (2585m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass and 500m from the menhir, on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers. As a lonely peak, it advanced to the North from the root peak of the Tashlysyrt ridge of Mount Sirkh. Its silhouette of the correct form in the form of a giant cone-pyramid is amazing.
According to the results of a preliminary geological survey by Vyacheslav Tokarev, the mountain itself is a natural mountain range of layered hard quartzite tuff sandstones in the steep upper part, and weakly cemented to loose - sandy-argillaceous tuff undulating strata in the gentle lower slope of the foot.
The feeling of man-made refinement of the slopes and the top of the mountain does not leave - some refinement into a geometrically correct form. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky remnant lined with stone or concrete blocks with giving the structure the correct shape. Only the Egyptian pyramids are a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk. This mountain, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary.
Megalith - a monument of phallic culture and Mount Tuzluk.
The mountain is well oriented in space. On it are located: from the south - a semi-circle of cut-cut in the mountain itself, a likely place for altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat area in front of it, facing the top like an amphitheater. It is possible that mass rituals were held here. From the west, at the foot of the mountain, there is a stone-megalith up to two meters high, in the form of a large animal. On top of it there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this stone-cup (we called it a bull) served to commemorate the souls of the dead, leaving to the west following the rays of the “dying” (leaving) sun.
To the east of the mountain, on a flat sloping plateau between the mountain and the cliff to Malka, there are large stones that are deeply sunk into the ground. Some of them are overgrown and hidden by grass and soil. It looks like they were placed here in an orderly manner.
The southern part of the mountain top is a rock made of quartzite tuff sandstone. Its top is flat and is a continuation of the top of the mountain. The rock, it seems, is artificially cut to the base into four rock blocks oriented to the cardinal points. A. Asov believes that these blocks served as the foundation of the temple construction of the ancients.
Top of Mount Tuzluk and Mount Sirch.
There is information of Vedic origin that in Tuzluk there are chambers - cells used by priests for solitude and self-knowledge. The mountain had a through passage from north to south. We found indirect confirmation of this in the 2007 expedition. Having discovered a previously unnoticed gap or crack in the base of the summit blocks-rocks, we brought a flame to it, and it was torn off inside the mountain.
Among the local people, the news has been preserved that there is an underground passage from the Malki Gorge to Tuzluk, now hidden.
I would like to check all this with the usual methods of modern science.
It is also interesting that the top of Mount Tuzluk and the top of another sacred mountain - Kalitsky Peak are located on the north-south axis, on the same meridian, which could not but be used by the ancient priests for a near-horizontal observatory. Another, necessary for such an observatory, the latitudinal axis west - east, is nearby. This axis is the top of Mount Shaukam - the menhir "anvil of Perun" on the Irahitsyrt plateau - the top of Mount Buruntashbashi, but, perhaps, another axis associated with Mount Sirkh was chosen by the ancients.
Mount Sirkh blocks the sky on the south side of Tuzluk. On its pre-top part in the rocky eastern ridge, there once existed two dwellings, most likely of the ancient priests-astronomers (stargazers), because rather deep pits left from those dwellings are located just on the above-mentioned meridional axis Tuzluk - Kalitsky Peak.
Sirkh mountain is a mystery. It was the center, a kind of Olympus, in ancient rituals, to which people from all over the Caucasus and its foothills flocked here, to Djilysu, for sacred festivities. Even now, after many thousands of years, anywhere in the Northern Elbrus region, the dowsing frame points to Sirkh as the most powerful energy and prayerful place. Unfortunately, we still know almost nothing about Sirche. We do not even know what the name of the mountain means. We have not found such a word in any local current language. In ancient times, the powerful king Surkh ruled in the Caucasus. But this information requires confirmation by historians.
So, the day flew by quickly while exploring Mount Tuzluk and its environs. At 15:00, Heaven turned on the "watering of the grass" - a daily short warm rain, very typical only for the Jilysu region in July-August. The tents were already packed in backpacks and we, waiting for the car, all huddled under one piece of polyethylene. Less than half an hour later, a car appeared, and immediately the rain stopped abruptly. When we plunged into it, the rain was “turned on” again, but we were already under the awning of the car. After about four kilometers, the car left the rain zone for a very dusty road. In two hours we covered the distance that should have been covered in two days.
We thank the guys from the Ministry of Emergency Situations for a selfless gift.
They decided to spend the donated days in the Narzanov Valley. In the gorge of the Khasaut River, they found a fabulously beautiful corner and camped. Sunny days were spent in raspberries and warm river baths. In the evenings, around the campfire, they exchanged observations and impressions taken from the expedition. The people were blessed!
In general, the whole campaign took place under some kind of patronage, as if God had it in his bosom. One of the patrons revealed himself to us. It began with the fact that he did not allow me to lead the group past him along the "Malkinskaya path" very well known to me. In an effort to lead the group to the confluence of the Khasaut and Malka rivers, I suddenly ran into a steep slope where the detour was supposed to begin and could not find the continuation of the trail. (Oblaz is a place where the river is pressed against the rock and it has to be climbed over the top). It was like not finding the front door for me at home. But, to my amazement, I could not find the path and decided to return a little to the clearing I had just passed. The next morning, when everyone was still sleeping, he came to the obluz - the path was in its place and was perfectly visible. I went along it and at the very bend again, as if I ran into something. He did not tempt fate, turned around and began to descend. And suddenly, on a stable path, he fell. Only experience and an ice ax helped me not to fly off the cliff. I understood why the path was closed to me the day before. Apparently, someone with less experience could fly away. It remains only to thank the Gods!
But that was only the beginning. By the end of the second day, we had trodden a wide path in tall grass on a steep descent from the tents to the river. Climbing along it from the river, I noticed a hewn log in the grass near the path.
Turning it out of the ground, I saw the face of an old man with a beard, with folded palms and a runic inscription at chest level. Rune none of us, to our shame, did not know.
It was suggested that this is an image of some ancient Russian God, because. in these places, until 1943, brigades of Old Believers mined gold. We decided to take him to Pyatigorsk and offer him to the museum of local lore.
God Veles.
On Monday, they brought me to Pyatigorsk, and on Tuesday I was invited to take part in the Perun festival at Velesova Polyana at the foot of Mount Beshtau. The holiday was held by the Kavminvod Vedic community on Wednesday. I decided to show the community members our find. Everyone present gathered around. Another woman came up and suddenly cried out in excitement - Rodoslav, come, look at your work. It turned out that two years ago they were on a hike in the Narzanov Valley and he cut this image of Veles out of a log. With the whole tourist group, they solemnly installed it over the river. But we didn’t dug deep into the roofing felts, or he interfered with someone, but we found him down to dust and already pretty eaten by rot and insects.
At first, I felt disappointed because this idol turned out to be not a historical value, but a remake, but then amazement came. It turned out that we saved from death and delivered God Veles to the Veles glade, and even on a holiday, and to the master who created it. But we, or anyone else, could burn it in a fire, throw it into the river, or even take it somewhere else, but no, Veles himself came to his clearing to his creator on a holiday.
There are too many coincidences, ranging from taking us from Tuzluk to the Narzanov Valley, to gently but persistently holding us at the clearing where he lay prostrate in the dust.
After all this, analyzing the cases that have happened to me over the years in the mountains and not only in the mountains, I come to the conclusion that we are always under the protection of our Gods. You just need to learn to listen to them, praise and thank them for this, without asking anything from them.
Glory to the Gods and our Ancestors!
Full member of the Russian Geographical Society V.D. Stasenko
