Hyperborea historical facts. Hyperborean civilization
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"Hyperborea. Historical roots of the Russian people" Hyperborea (aka Arctida) is the foremother of all world culture, a country known to us from the most ancient manuscripts. Location: northern Eurasia. There is no doubt that ancient Hyperborea is directly related to the ancient history of Russia, and the Russian people and their language are directly connected with the disappeared legendary country of the Hyperboreans. It is not for nothing that Nostradamus in his “Centuries” called the Russians nothing more than “the Hyperborean people.”
According to esoteric teachings, Hyperborea has long been the most secret place on the planet, and the wise Hyperboreans possessed a huge amount of knowledge, even more advanced than modern civilization has.
Scientific evidence
Russian oceanographers and paleontologists have found that in the period from the 30th to the 15th millennium BC. e. The Arctic climate was quite mild, and the Arctic Ocean was warm, despite the presence of glaciers on the continent. Academician A. Treshnikov believes that 10,000 years ago the Lomonosov and Mendeleev ridges rose above the surface of the Arctic Ocean. There was no ice, and the sea was warm. American and Canadian scientists came to the same conclusions, believing that in the center of the Arctic Ocean there was a temperate climate zone favorable for life.
Migratory Bird Migration
Convincing confirmation of the indisputable fact of a favorable climate that existed in the past is the annual migration of migratory birds to the North - a genetically programmed memory of a warm ancestral home: time after time they return to the homeland of their ancestors. On the map of the current state of the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, the outlines of a huge plateau with a coastline indented by river valleys are clearly visible, as if it were a continent that had recently risen above the waters of the ocean. The outlines of this underwater plateau, when superimposed on the map of Hyperborea by Gerardus Mercator, have many amazing coincidences that cannot be explained simply by chance...
Stone structures
Evidence of the existence of an ancient highly developed civilization in the northern latitudes is the powerful stone structures and monuments found everywhere here: the famous Stonehenge in England, the Alley of Menhirs in French Brittany, the stone labyrinths of Scandinavia, the monuments of the Kola Peninsula and the Solovetsky Islands. In the summer of 1997, an ornithological expedition discovered a similar labyrinth on the coast of Novaya Zemlya. The diameter of the stone spiral is about 10 meters, and it is laid out from slate slabs weighing 10-15 kg. This is an exceptionally important find: until now, labyrinths at such a geographical latitude have never been described by anyone. Traces of human life are found everywhere - in the Leningrad region, and in Yakutia, and on Novaya Zemlya.
Evidence from ancient historians
Evidence of the legendary country, glorified by poets for centuries, can be found in ancient historians. However, where it was located and at what time it existed is not known for certain. Most researchers believe that the civilization of the Hyperboreans is 15-20 thousand years old. Despite such a hoary antiquity, scientists believe that this amazing people had aircraft in their arsenal, with the help of which, using aerial photography, they created, for example, a map of Antarctica.
Map of Hyperborea
But are there any reliable facts confirming the very fact of the existence of an amazing country? One possible piece of evidence is images in old engravings. The most reliable of them is the map of the English navigator Gerard Mercator, published in 1595. This map depicts the legendary mainland Arctida in the center, around the coast of the Northern Ocean with quite recognizable islands and rivers. It is these detailed descriptions of the northern coast of Eurasia and America that provide the basis for arguments in favor of the authenticity of this map. On the map of Mercator, based on some ancient knowledge, Hyperborea is depicted in sufficient detail as an archipelago of four huge islands separated from each other by full-flowing rivers. In the center there is a high mountain. According to some sources, the universal mountain of the ancestors of the Indo-European peoples - Meru - was located at the North Pole and was the center of attraction for the entire heavenly and under-heavenly world. It is curious that, according to previously closed data leaked to the press, there really is a seamount in the Russian waters of the Arctic Ocean, which practically reaches the ice shell (there is every reason to believe that it, like the ridges mentioned above, plunged into the deep sea relatively recently).
The map also shows the strait between Asia and America, discovered only in 1648 by the Russian Cossack Semyon Dezhnev, and in 1728 the strait was again crossed by a Russian expedition led by Vigus Bering, and subsequently named after the famous commander. By the way, it is known that, heading for the North, Bering intended to discover, among other things, Hyperborea, known to him from classical primary sources.
But where did the Bering Strait come from on Mercator's map? Perhaps from the same source from which Columbus obtained his knowledge, who set off on his immortal voyage not by inspiration, but by having information obtained from secret archives.
Mercator map
The Mysteries of Gerardus Mercator
Where did this map come from from the great Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator, who lived in the 16th century, on which the outlines of the northern part of the Asian continent are depicted in such detail? At that time, this territory was still completely unknown to any of the Europeans and had not been explored at all by any of the peoples living at that time. Maps of Asia fell into the hands of Mercator, just as earlier maps of America fell into the hands of Columbus from the Ottoman Empire, which conquered Byzantium, and they had been kept there since the times of Ancient Greece. On the map, which belonged to the Turkish admiral Piri Reis and dated 1513, there is both South America and Antarctica, discovered by Europeans much later. The Turkish admiral stated in writing that this was an ancient map from the time of Alexander the Great. Apparently, these cards came into the hands of the ancient Greeks from the Hyperboreans and Atlanteans themselves, who left their homelands after some catastrophe that destroyed them. In the calendars of the Egyptians, Assyrians and Mayans, the catastrophe that destroyed Hyperborea dates back to 11542 BC. e.
Hyperborea - history of Rus'
The question is: what does all this have to do with the history of Rus' and the Russian worldview? Here's what: the vast majority of historical events mentioned in ancient sources took place in the northern latitudes of Eurasia, that is, mainly in the territories of modern Russia, called in ancient times Hyperborea. Russian folklore preserves the memory of a wonderful mill - a symbol of eternal abundance and happiness. This is a well-known story about magic millstones; the hero of the fairy tale mines them in the sky, climbing there along the trunk and branches of a huge oak tree (the World Tree). There is every reason to believe that most episodes of fairy tales associated with a happy life and prosperity (especially at the end) are nothing more than an archetype of the Golden Age, preserved (regardless of anyone’s will and desires) in the collective memory of the people about a happy past and passed on, like a relay race, from generation to generation.
Golden Kingdom of the Slavs
The classic Slavic mythologem of prosperity is the famous self-assembled tablecloth, as well as the image of the Golden or Flower Kingdom, the story of which is preceded by a saying about a place where milk rivers flow with jelly banks. Russian tales about the Sunflower Kingdom, which is located far away, also represent memories of ancient times when our ancestors came into contact with the Hyperboreans and were Hyperboreans themselves. The legendary Sunflower Kingdom also has a modern exact geographical address. One of the oldest common Indo-European names for the Sun is Kolo (hence “ring”, “wheel” and “bell”). In ancient times, it corresponded to the pagan solar deity Kolo-Kolyada, in whose honor a caroling holiday was celebrated (the day of the winter solar solstice) and ancient Slavic songs - hymns - carols were sung, bearing the imprint of the Hyperborean worldview.
Kola Peninsula Kolyada Solntsebog
It was from the name of the ancient Sun God Kolo-Kolyada that the name of the Kola River and the entire Kola Peninsula arose. Mostly on the seashore, more than 10 stone labyrinths (up to 10 m in diameter) were found there, similar to those scattered throughout the Russian and European North with migration to the famous labyrinth with the Minotaur. Next to them are hills (pyramids) of stones, which are found all over the world and, along with classical Egyptian and Indian pyramids, as well as mounds, are symbolic reminders of the polar Ancestral Home and the universal Mount Meru, located at the North Pole. It is surprising that stone spiral labyrinths and pyramids have been preserved in the Russian North. Until recently, few people were interested in them, and the key to unraveling the secret meaning contained in them was lost.
Monuments of Hyperborea
Hyperborea is as famous as its geographical sister, Atlantis. Both are links in the same chain, the fate of both is the same: they died as a result of a powerful natural disaster. But no matter what cataclysms shake the Earth, indestructible traces always remain. Firstly, the miraculously preserved evidence from ancient sources is scattered, contradictory, but has not lost any of its value. Secondly, material monuments (more precisely, what is left of them after millennia), preserved along the periphery and on the hills of the continent that sank to the bottom - Arctida-Hyperborea. The most promising in this regard are the Kola Peninsula, the land of the ancient solar deity - Kolo, Karelia, the Polar Urals, Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen (Russian Grumant) and other northern territories. Thirdly, the ideological Hyperborean heritage, which has survived to this day in the form of the mythology of the Golden Age.
Memories of the Golden Age
A fairly concentrated memory of the Golden Age in the north of Eurasia also developed in ancient Indian mythology. The details about the magical Land of Happiness never ceased to amaze listeners of oral traditions, where “there was no illness, no deception, no envy, no crying, no pride, no cruelty, no quarrels and negligence, enmity, resentment, fear, suffering, anger and jealousy." The land of abundance and happiness is clearly connected in the imagination of the ancestors of Indians and other Indo-Europeans with the Polar Mountain Meru - the abode of the first creator Brahma and the original place of residence of other Indian gods. This is how the blessed polar ancestral home and the Golden Age reigning there are described in the 3rd book of the Mahabharata:
“The golden mountain Meru, the queen of mountains, (spreads over thirty-three thousand yojanas). Here (located) are the gardens of the Gods - Nandana and other blessed resting places for the righteous. There is no hunger, no thirst, no fatigue, no fear of cold or heat, there is nothing unwholesome or disgusting, there are no diseases. Delicate aromas waft everywhere there, every touch is pleasant. Sounds flow from everywhere there, enchanting the soul and ear. There is no sadness, no old age, no worries, no suffering.” Pliny the Elder, one of the most impartial scientists, presented only indisputable facts, refraining from any comments. This is what he reported verbatim in Natural History: “Behind these [Rhipaean] mountains, on the other side of Aquilon [North wind - synonymous with Boreas], a happy people, who are called Hyperboreans, reach very advanced years and are glorified by wonderful legends. The sun shines there for six months, and this is only one day; the luminaries rise there only once a year. The homes for these residents are groves and forests; the cult of the Gods is carried out by individuals and the whole society; Discord and all sorts of diseases are unknown there. Death comes there only from satiety with life. After eating food and the light pleasures of old age, they throw themselves from some rock into the sea. This is the happiest type of burial... One cannot doubt the existence of this people.”
Portrait of the Hyperboreans
The analysis of ancient Russian, ancient Indian, ancient Persian and ancient Greek literary sources that have survived to this day, as well as the most ancient myths of the northern peoples of the world (Celts, Scandinavians, Karelians, Finns, Slavs and Russians) allowed modern scientists to draw up a generalized portrait of the people, which historians of Hellas called Hyperboreans and who, according to ancient historians, actually lived in the North-East of Europe during the Golden Age. Life in happy Arctida, along with reverent prayers, was accompanied by songs, dances, feasts and general endless fun.
In Arctida, even death occurred only from fatigue and satiety with life, or more precisely, from suicide: having experienced all types of pleasure and tired of life, the old Hyperboreans usually threw themselves into the sea. The wise Hyperboreans possessed a huge amount of knowledge, the most advanced at that time. Many sources and experts believe that the Hyperboreans had power over the elements, which explains the absence of bad weather and natural disasters in the territory of their residence.
Morals of the Hyperboreans
Borrowing phrases from ancient sources of different peoples of the world, this wonderful people and their customs can be described as follows: They were a happy people. The diseases and weaknesses of age were unknown there. They lived without pain. People reached very advanced years. Death came to them only from satiety with life. They died as if overcome by sleep. They looked amazing. Slender. Fragrant. Endowed with great physical strength. They were full of vitality. They were endowed with great spiritual power.
The Hyperborean priests had the gift of foresight, knew how to do without food, stopped destructive epidemics (in other countries) and traveled through the air in special aircraft. Among them there did not live a cruel, insensitive and lawless person. These were bright, shining people, beautiful as moonlight. They were kept away from all evil. They lived without the burden of karma. They treated the inevitable vicissitudes of fate and each other with reasonable patience.
There was no place for malice and intrigue among them. There was unknown discord among them. They lived without battles. They maintained a true and in everything great system of thoughts. They despised everything except virtue. They did not value wealth at all, believing that its growth was due to general consent in combination with virtue, but when wealth becomes an object of concern and is honored, then it itself goes to dust and virtue perishes along with it. Their homes were groves, forests and caves. They ate tree fruits without eating meat. They lived without hard work, with a carefree heart. Their life was accompanied by songs, dances, music and feasts. There were round dances everywhere, sounds flowing that enchanted the soul and ear. Crowned with a golden laurel, they indulged in the joy of the holidays.
They spent time in Games (sacrifices) in the open air. The best memory of the Olympic Games was brought to Olympia from the Hyperboreans - the servants of Apollo. They revered the firmament. They lovingly served the God who spread out the Universe. They performed the taming of the flesh. Reverent prayers were characteristic of this people. The cult of the Gods was celebrated there by individuals and the entire society. There people constantly sang the glory of the Almighty.
These were experts in Law and Righteousness, but they constantly improved in Justice. They lived in harmony with the Divine Principle akin to them and the Divine Nature retained its action in them.
Many believe that the highly developed civilization of Hyperborea, which perished as a result of a climate cataclysm, left behind descendants in the form of the Aryans. The search for Hyperborea is akin to the search for the lost Atlantis, with the only difference that from the sunken Hyperborea, it is believed that a part of the land still remains - this is the north of present-day Russia.
The mysterious country of Hyperborea is known to us from ancient Greek myths, according to which this state was located in the north. Like Atlantis, the existence of this highly developed state is not confirmed by reliable historical or archaeological sources. Individual and rather modest archaeological finds in the northern regions are known, but their connection with the mysterious ancient country is controversial and therefore not recognized by official science. Hyperborea was depicted on some ancient European maps until the Middle Ages, but rather due to tradition.
Ancient and medieval European maps are generally incredibly abundantly “populated” with the most bizarre peoples and incredible states located outside the world explored by European travelers. The country where Hyperborea was located in ancient times is not precisely known. Various researchers have expressed versions about the Arctic, Greenland, the Kola Peninsula and the Taimyr Peninsula, and the Ural Mountains. There is also a hypothesis that Hyperborea was located on some island or small continent, which subsequently sank as a result of a geological cataclysm. Due to the presence of several versions pointing to the territory of our country, some domestic esotericists suggest that in a symbolic sense, modern Russia is the heir of Hyperborea.
At first glance, the extreme conditions of the far north do not seem very suitable for the formation of a highly developed civilization. The achievements of the Eskimos, Chukchi and other northern peoples living in such conditions are, to put it mildly, quite modest. But, firstly, we do not know where exactly ancient Hyperborea was located, and how cold it was there in that historical era. Perhaps the cold on its territory was serious, but not critical for development. The history of Hyperborea, if you try to reconstruct it, may look like this. A highly developed people, for some reason (war?), migrates to the cold northern lands, or faces a cooling climate on their land. But moderately extreme conditions do not become death for him, but an incentive for the further development of technology and culture. But later this civilization dies due to the fact that the climate becomes colder and colder, putting its people beyond the brink of survival. People begin to migrate en masse to warmer lands. Abandoned dwellings have been covered with snow for centuries and covered with an icy shell. It is very possible that Hyperborea is precisely the mythical ancestral home from which the Aryans left. By the way, the Slavs and Hindus are considered the descendants of the Aryans.
Secrets of Hyperborea you can try to reconstruct it from ancient Greek myths. They contain a plot in which Hyperborean girls, sent with gifts to the god Apollo to the ancient Greek city of Delos, ultimately did not return home. They may have remained in Delos, preferring the benefits of a warmer climate. After this, the Hyperboreans began to send gifts to Apollo through the inhabitants of the countries located between them and ancient Greece. If we remove the cover of the myth, we can assume that initially the Hyperboreans conducted direct trade with the cities of ancient Greece, supplying there some valuable resource in exchange for resources they lacked, such as grain. Maybe amber, which the Greeks considered a sun stone and could well have sacrificed to the sun god Apollo, decorating his temples with it? But then the Hyperboreans, for some reason, switched to trading through intermediaries. Perhaps the emigration of their citizens to sunny Ancient Greece or their return home (from trade expeditions) with stories about a distant sunny country were perceived by the Hyperborean nobility as a threat to the existence of the state and direct contacts were stopped.
How old is humanity? Modern scientists, as a rule, give the figure 40 thousand years - from the moment the Cro-Magnon man appeared on Earth. This is the standard time interval allocated to human history in educational, scientific and reference literature. However, there are other figures that do not fit into the official framework at all. 400 thousand years - this date was calculated by ancient historians - Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek - and projected onto Russia by Lomonosov.
(Actually, in the scale of events of world history there is another, clearly fixed date that the imagination of modern people cannot accommodate: according to the scrupulous calculations of astronomers and priests of the ancient Mayans, human history began in 5,041,738 BC!)
Literally, the ethnonym Hyperboreans means “those who live beyond Boreas (North Wind)”, or simply “those who live in the North”. They were reported by many ancient authors. One of the most authoritative scientists of the Ancient World, Pliny the Elder, wrote about the Hyperboreans as a real ancient people who lived near the Arctic Circle and were genetically related to the Hellenes through the cult of Apollo the Hyperborean. This is what is said verbatim in Natural History (IV, 26):
Behind these [Rhipaean] mountains, on the other side of Aquilon, a happy people (if you can believe this), which are called Hyperboreans, reach very advanced years and are glorified by wonderful legends. They believe that there are loops of the world and the extreme limits of the circulation of the luminaries. The sun shines there for six months, and this is only one day when the sun does not hide (as the ignorant would think) from the spring equinox to the autumn one, the luminaries there rise only once a year at the summer solstice, and set only at the winter solstice.This country is entirely sunny, has a favorable climate and is devoid of any harmful wind. The homes for these residents are groves and forests; the cult of the Gods is carried out by individuals and the whole society; Discord and all sorts of diseases are unknown there. Death comes there only from satiety with life. There is no doubt about the existence of this people."
Even from this small passage from Natural History it is not difficult to get a clear idea of Hyperborea. First - and this is the most important thing - it was located where the Sun may not set for several months. In other words, we can only talk about the circumpolar regions, those that in Russian folklore were called the Sunflower Kingdom.
Another important circumstance: the climate in the North of Eurasia in those days was completely different. This is confirmed by the latest comprehensive studies conducted recently in the north of Scotland under an international program: they showed that 4 thousand years ago the climate at this latitude was comparable to the Mediterranean, and a large number of heat-loving animals lived here.
However, even earlier, Russian oceanographers and paleontologists established that in the 30-15th millennium BC. The Arctic climate was quite mild, and the Arctic Ocean was warm, despite the presence of glaciers on the continent. American and Canadian scientists came to approximately the same conclusions and chronological framework. In their opinion, during the Wisconsin glaciation, in the center of the Arctic Ocean there was a zone of temperate climate, favorable for flora and fauna that could not exist in the circumpolar and polar territories of North America.
The main confirmation of the indisputable fact of a favorable climatic situation is the annual migration of migratory birds to the North - a genetically programmed memory of the warm Ancestral Home. Indirect evidence in favor of the existence of an ancient highly developed civilization in the northern latitudes can be provided by powerful stone structures and other megalithic monuments located everywhere here (the famous cromlech of Stonehenge in England, the alley of menhirs in French Brittany, the stone labyrinths of Solovki and the Kola Peninsula).
A map of G. Mercator, the most famous cartographer of all times, who relied on some ancient knowledge, has been preserved, where Hyperborea is depicted as a huge Arctic continent with a high mountain (Meru) in the middle.
Despite the meager information of historians, the ancient world had extensive ideas and important details about the life and morals of the Hyperboreans. And all because the roots of long-standing and close ties with them go back to the ancient community of Proto-Indo-European civilization, naturally connected with both the Arctic Circle and the “end of the earth” - the northern coastline of Eurasia and ancient continental and island culture.
It was here, as Aeschylus writes: “at the edge of the earth”, “in the deserted desert of the wild Scythians” - by order of Zeus, the rebellious Prometheus was chained to a rock: contrary to the prohibition of the Gods, he gave people fire, discovered the secret of the movement of stars and luminaries, taught the art of addition letters, agriculture and sailing. But the region where Prometheus languished, tormented by the dragon-like kite, until Hercules freed him (who received the epithet Hyperborean for this) was not always so deserted and homeless.
Everything looked different when, a little earlier, the famous hero of antiquity, Perseus, came here, to the edge of the Oikumene, to the Hyperboreans to fight the Gorgon Medusa and receive here magical winged sandals, for which he was also nicknamed the Hyperborean.
Apparently, it is not without reason that many ancient authors, including major ancient historians, persistently talk about the flying abilities of the Hyperboreans, that is, about their mastery of flight techniques. This is, however, how Lucian described them, not without irony. Could it be that the ancient inhabitants of the Arctic mastered aeronautics? Why not? After all, numerous images of possible aircraft - such as hot air balloons - have been preserved among the rock paintings of Lake Onega.
Archaeologists never cease to be amazed by the abundance of so-called “winged objects” that are constantly found in Eskimo burial grounds and date back to the most distant times in the history of the Arctic.
Here it is another symbol of Hyperborea! Made from walrus tusk (hence their amazing preservation), these outstretched wings, which do not fit into any catalogs, naturally suggest ancient flying devices. Subsequently, these symbols, passed on from generation to generation, spread throughout the world and became entrenched in almost all ancient cultures: Egyptian, Assyrian, Hittite, Persian, Aztec, Mayan, and so on - to Polynesia.
There is no doubt that ancient Hyperborea is directly related to the ancient history of Russia, and the Russian people and their language are directly connected with the legendary country of the Hyperboreans that disappeared or dissolved in the depths of the ocean and land. It is not without reason that Nostradamus in his “Centuries” referred to the Russians as “the Hyperborean people.”
The refrain of Russian fairy tales about the Sunflower Kingdom, which is located far away, also represents memories of ancient times when our ancestors came into contact with the Hyperboreans and were themselves Hyperboreans. There are also more detailed descriptions of the Sunflower Kingdom. So, in the epic fairy tale from the collection of P.N. Rybnikov, it is told how the hero on a flying wooden eagle (a hint of the same flying Hyperboreans) flew to the Sunflower Kingdom:
He flew to the kingdom under the sun,
Gets off the eagle plane
And he began to walk around the kingdom,
Walk around Podsolnechny.
In this kingdom of the Sunflower
The tower has melted - gold tops,
The circle of this mansion was a white courtyard
About those twelve gates,
About those strict watchmen...
But the legendary Sunflower Kingdom also has a modern exact geographical address. One of the oldest pan-Indo-European names for the Sun is Kolo (hence “ring”, “wheel” and “bell”). In ancient times, it corresponded to the pagan solar deity Kolo-Kolyada, in whose honor a caroling holiday was celebrated (the day of the winter solar solstice) and archaic ritual songs were sung - carols, bearing the imprint of the ancient cosmist worldview:
... There are three golden-domed towers;
In the first chamber the month is young,
In the second mansion there is a red sun,
In the third chamber there are frequent asterisks.
When the month is young, it is our master.
The red sun is the hostess,
Asterisks are frequent - children are small.
It was from the name of the ancient Sun God Kolo-Kolyada that the name of the Kola River and the entire Kola Peninsula arose.
The cultural antiquity of the Soloveyskaya (Kola) land is evidenced by the stone labyrinths present here (up to 5 m in diameter), similar to those scattered throughout the Russian and European North with migration to the Cretan-Mycenaean (the famous labyrinth with the Minotaur), ancient Greek and other world cultures.
Many explanations have been proposed regarding the purpose of the Solovetsky stone spirals: burial grounds, altars, models of fishing traps. Latest in time: labyrinths - models of antennas for communication with extraterrestrial or parallel civilizations.
The closest explanation to the truth of the meaning and purpose of Russian northern labyrinths was given by the formerly famous Russian science historian D.O. Svyatsky. In his opinion, the passages of the labyrinth, forcing the traveler to search for a way out for a long time and in vain and, finally, leading him out, are nothing more than a symbolization of the wandering of the Sun during the polar semi-annual night and semi-annual day in circles or, rather, in a large spiral , projected onto the vault of heaven.
Processions were probably organized in cult labyrinths to symbolically represent the wandering of the Sun. Russian northern labyrinths not only served for walking inside them, but also acted as a reminder diagram for conducting magical round dances.
Northern labyrinths are also characterized by the fact that next to them there are piles (pyramids) of stones. There are especially many of them in Russian Lapland, where their culture intersects with traditional Sami sanctuaries - seids. Like the Lovozero Tundra, they are found all over the world and, along with the classical Egyptian and Indian pyramids, as well as mounds, are symbolic reminders of the polar Ancestral Home and the universal Mount Meru, located at the North Pole. It is surprising that stone spiral labyrinths and pyramids have been preserved in the Russian North. Until recently, few people were interested in them, and the key to unraveling the secret meaning contained in them was lost.
More than 10 stone labyrinths have been found so far on the Kola Peninsula, mainly on the seashore. Most of those who have written about Russian labyrinths reject the very possibility of their rapprochement with the Cretan megaliths: the Cretans, they say, could not visit the Kola Peninsula, since it would have taken them several years to reach the Barents Sea along the Atlantic Ocean, bypassing Scandinavia, although Odysseus, as is known, reached to Ithaca at least 10 years.
Meanwhile, nothing prevents us from imagining the process of spreading labyrinths in reverse order - not from South to North, but vice versa - from North to South. Indeed, the Cretans themselves, the creators of the Aegean civilization, are unlikely to have visited the Kola Peninsula, although this is not completely excluded, since it was part of the Hyperborea zone, which had constant contacts with the Mediterranean. But the ancestors of the Cretans and Aegeans probably lived in northern Europe, including the Kola Peninsula, where they left traces of labyrinths that have survived to this day, prototypes of all subsequent structures of this kind.
The path "from the Varangians to the Greeks" was not laid on the verge of the 1st and 2nd millennia AD, linking Scandinavia, Rus' and Byzantium for a short time. It existed from time immemorial, acting as a natural migration bridge between the North and the South.
And so the great-ancestors of modern peoples left one after another along this "bridge" - each in his own time, each in his own direction. And they were forced to do so by an unprecedented climatic catastrophe associated with a sharp cooling and caused by a shift in the earth's axis and, consequently, the poles.
Actually until the very end XX centuries, even for intellectual scientists, this word meant only a certain mysterious northern country from Hellenic mythology. No more. True, a century earlier, the success of Heinrich Schliemann, an enthusiast from archeology, forced almost all scientists, even those who were extremely skeptical about “different myths and fairy tales”, to treat everything that was reported by the ancient myths of Hellas with utmost respect. But! In relation to Hyperborea, this convincing archaeological and mythological success of Schliemann, unfortunately, meant little.
You ask - Why?
Because the territory in which, according to all mythological signs, Hyperborea should be sought and found, was reliably hidden from researchers by its remoteness, the severity of the climate, border, military and other restricted zones, which were arranged in abundance in these places in the former USSR. If we add to this the complete indifference on the part of the “secular” Russian leaders, the neglect and even outright reluctance shown by them to establish the historical truth regarding the Hyperborean myth, then is it any wonder that this wonderful country of the Golden Age of the former human civilization, the country of the ancient, so familiar to us from children's fairy tales, was listed only in esoteric, but not in academic realities.
Fortunately, this is now a thing of the past.
Thanks to Russian ascetic scientists, Hyperborea literally rose from historical oblivion in just a couple of decades - a mere trifle by historical standards. And now, with some incredibly fantastic speed, it is turning not only into a socio-cultural, but also a phenomenon III millennium.
Today, the “romantic period” in the study of Hyperborea is left behind. In history, such a period will be considered the 90s of the 20th century and the “zero” centuries of the 21st. Today, scientists studying Hyperborea no longer need to be convinced of the existence and high development of this ancient civilization of the Russian North, and Hyperborea itself is already endowing its researchers with not only historical, but also technical discoveries and officially recognized inventions.
Hyperborea - the Golden Age of humanity - the era of universal Happiness, Justice and Prosperity. The era of life of people who Know the Highest - Natural Order, and therefore live long, beautifully and happily, in peace and harmony, not knowing hunger, disease, or other hardships and deprivations.
Isn't this the best formula for the National Idea of any country?
Yes, the philosophy of the sages of Hyperborea, which once made it possible to build a Golden Age on earth, was already completely forgotten in science. But at the same time, it has been preserved - in the depths of the Soul of every person in the form of a bright hope for the possibility of such a future.
Hyperborea is the ancient name of the North. In ancient times, all the peoples living in the northern territories long before our era were called Hyperboreans, that is, “extreme northern”, “those who live beyond Boreas - the North Wind”. In Greek mythology Boreas (ancient Greek Βορέας, Βοῤῥᾶς - “northern”) was considered the god of the wild northern wind. Borey was the son Astraea (ancient Greek Ἀστραῖος - “star”) - god of the starry sky and goddess morning dawn Eos(ancient Greek Ἕως, Mycenaean a-wo-i-jo). North wind - Boreas is mentioned in the Iliad (V 524), Odyssey (V 296).
Svetlana Zharnikova determines the boundaries of the territory of Hyperborea, according to information from ancient authors. The border of Hyperborea passes according to the Hyperborean Mountains - these are the Ural Mountains, according to Timansky ridge, hills located in the northeast of the East European Plain, from the Barents Sea to the southeast to the sources of the Vychegda River, along the Northern Uvals, along the hills of the Vologda region, along the hills of the modern Leningrad region and in the mountains of Karelia, the Kola Peninsula
People living today on different continents of the Earth are related to each other in their deep roots and originated from the same ancestral home of humanity. Great ancestors of many , Middle East, South and East Asia lived in the North, where the climate was completely different then.
"Father of History" Herodotus and other ancient historians believed that human history began 400 thousand years ago,
These views of ancient historians were shared by Mikhail Lomonosov.
A shift in the tilt of the earth's axis and a change in the location of the poles led to climate change and a sharp cooling on the planet, and became the reason for the mass migration of our distant ancestors from the North to the South. The catastrophic events that caused the cold on earth are described in sufficient detail and emotionally in almost all the most ancient sacred books and texts.
The mysterious country beyond the Arctic Circle, where all the Indo-European peoples came from, is connected by hundreds of cultural and historical threads with all the ancient civilizations of the earth.
Ancient authors recorded many myths and stories about the ancient northern the country of Hyperborea, where the immortal Hyperboreans lived . Ancient Greek Sun god, and god-healer - Apollo of Hyperborean, was from far away . Name Apollo (ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων; Latin: Apollō) is consonant with the word Pole (Latin: Pole) or “from the pole”. Apollo, every year, flew to the North, to his Arctic homeland, in a chariot with swan wings or drawn by swans. As in the ancients texts of the Rig Veda, So, it is considered a talking bird that knows the way to the north, to Arctida. Ovid in Metamorphoses wrote about the Hyperboreans:
In the Hyperborean region, they say, there are people in Pallene, -
It’s as if their body is dressed in light feathers...
Ovid. Metamorphoses XV 356-358.
According to the ancient Greek historian Pausanias, Hyperborean priests once came to Delphi from the “northern paradise” of Hyperborea and built in 336-339 BC. in ancient Hellas the first temple in honor of the Sun God - Apollo Hyperborean at Delphi. The first priests, servants in the temple of Apollo were Hyperboreans, the name of the first prophet of the Delphic temple was purely Russian and totemic - Deer]. This name is recorded by Pausanias in the canonical verses “Description of Hellas”, where one of the Delphic Pythia, the soothsayers of the main sanctuary of ancient Hellas, says:
So the glorious sanctuary of God was founded here
Children of the Hyperboreans <…>
Also Deer: he was the first prophet of the prophetic Phoebus,
The first, songs that were composed from ancient tunes.
Pausanias. Description of Hellas. X. V,8.
Greek lyric poet Pindar (518 BC - 438 BC) dedicated an ode to the legendary hero Hyperborean, who went to the Hyperborean land behind the Cyrene hind with golden horns and copper legs . According to Pindar, the first information The hero Hercules brought information about the ancient sports Games-Agons to Hellas from Hyperborea.
Returning from Hyperborea to Hellas, Hercules established running sports in Olympia , at the foot of the mountain . Hercules measured the distance in his 600 feet, and then ran this distance himself, personally taking part and winning the very first Olympic race in Hellas. In the picturesque valley of the river Alpheus (now Rufia), Hercules planted what he had brought from hyperborean olive, Wreaths were woven from the branches of the Hyperborian olive and awarded to the winners of the Olympic Games.
Perseus (ancient Greek Περσεύς) Hyperborean took possession of the winged sandals and defeated the Gorgon Medusa.
Ancient Roman polymath writer Pliny the Elder, author "Natural 
history" (IV, 26) wrote about Hyperborea
: “Behind these [Ripaean] mountains, along thattowards Aquilon
[North wind is a synonym for Boreas.], a happy people (if you can believe it), who are called Hyperboreans, reach very advanced years and are glorified by wonderful legends. They believe that there are loops of the world and the extreme limits of the circulation of the luminaries. The sun shines there for half a year, and this is only one day when the sun doesn't hide(as the ignorant would think) from spring equinox to autumn, the luminaries there rise only once a year at the summer solstice, and set only at the winter solstice. This country is all in the sun, with a favorable climate and devoid of any harmful wind. The homes for these residents are groves and forests; the cult of the Gods is carried out by individuals and the whole society; Discord and all sorts of diseases are unknown there. Death comes there only from satiety with life. After eating food and the light pleasures of old age, they throw themselves from some rock into the sea. This is the happiest kind of burial... One cannot doubt the existence of this people.”
A description of the northern ancestral home of humanity was discovered by an outstanding Indian scientist and public figure Balgangadhar Tilak (1856 - ,1920) , when studying the ancient , With a work that has become a classic
According to the observations of many local historians in the Russian North, many toponyms and hydronyms, names of places, rivers and lakes have been preserved, in which there are roots from ancient Sanskrit - such as “indus”, “ganges”, “ram”. Toponymy researcher Svetlana Zharnikova indicates the names of a number of northern rivers with the root “indus”: Indoga, Indomanka, found twice in the north, the Indega River, - Indiga, Indigirka, and the same amount with the root “gang”: Gango, Ganges River, Ganga and Gangozero occur twice. Not far from the Sami water sanctuary of Seid Lake in Lapland, a river flows Indichjok is Ramozero.
All these toponyms and hydronyms of the Russian North, with word roots from Sanskrit, are eloquent witnesses of the former ethnolinguistic community of ancient peoples inhabited Arctida- Hyperboreans.
On the Kola Peninsula 94 years ago the first attempt was made to find traces of the ancient civilization of the Hyperboreans - the foremother of all world cultures.
He led the first expedition to hard-to-reach areas of Russian Lapland in 1922 Alexander Barchenko. He led a detachment of researchers to the shores of the sacred Sami water sanctuary - Seydozer. Alexander Barchenko relied on a coherent historical and philosophical concept, according to which, due to sudden climate change in the fifth millennium BC, the ancestors of the Indo-Aryans were forced to migrate, led by their leader Rama, from North to South, and reached Hindustan. The oral folk art of the Indo-Aryans, passed down in the form of poetry from generation to generation, was recorded by the ancient Hindus in the oldest part of the Indian Vedas - the Rig Veda. The verses of the Rig-Veda describe the northern nature and harsh climate of the Arctic. Nicholas Roerich went to Altai, Mongolia, India and Tibet in search of traces of the Hyperboreans.
One of the members of the 1922 Barchenko expedition on the Kola Peninsula, Alexander Kondiain said that Barchenko had very important information about ancient universal knowledge and Russian pagan culture, which originated in the North. Academician Bekhterev became interested in Barchenko's scientific research, and received the personal support of Felix Dzerzhinsky. The USSR state security agencies took control of Barchenko's research. Almost all members of the Barchenko expedition of 1922 died during the years of mass repressions, Alexander Barchenko himself was shot in 1938. Unfortunately, all 30 folders of materials from the expedition of Alexander Barchenko are not available for study today, and are stored in the archives of the former KGB.
In August 1997 on the Kola Peninsula the research expedition "Hyperborea-97" worked under the leadership of Doctor of Philosophical Sciences Valery Nikitich Demin.
Since 2000, the Northern Search Expedition of the Scientific Tourism Commission of the Russian Geographical Society has been working on the Kola Peninsula.
Since 2005, a specialized scientific expedition of the International Club of Scientists has been working on the Kola Peninsula.
Why could the material monuments of the ancestral home of civilizations be preserved on the Kola Peninsula?
The Hyperboreans were sun-worshippers, and at all times flourished in the Russian North Sun worship.
On the Kola Peninsula, even today you can see preserved ancient petroglyphs with the image of the Sun; these are proto-hieroglyphs, representing a point inside one or two circles. Solar symbolism formed the basis of ancient Egyptian and ancient Chinese hieroglyphs. The dot in the circle is still used today to represent the Sun in modern astronomy, as it was many thousands of years ago.
It is in the North that it originates culture of building labyrinths, from here the labyrinths spread across all continents. Russian historian D.O. Svyatsky and other scientists have already proven that the northern labyrinths, in the form of a secret code, represent a projection of the wandering of the Sun across the polar sky.
The name of the Kola Peninsula is translated as “Sunny Land”, and comes from flowing on the peninsula The Kolo River is one of the ancient names of the Sun.
Name of ancient pagan Slavic God of the Sun - Kolo (Kolyada). Winter pagan festivals in honor of the Sun God Kolyada with the cheerful ritual of caroling and the singing of archaic ritual carols have survived to this day.
The spring return of the sun after a long winter night, the turn of the Sun from winter to summer is called “rotary”, that is, “solstice”. In a number of localities in memory of the ancient solar Deity in folk astronomy The North Star was called Kol, since in the archaic representation heavenly the carpet of stars slowly rotated around the motionless Kol.
The solar cults of the god Apollo and Kolyada originate from the single center of Hyperborea and point to the Hyperborean Ancestral Home.
An expedition sent to the very center of the Kola Peninsula, to the Lovozero tundra mountain range and sacred Sami Seydozer, discovered one of the cultural centers of Hyperborea.
At an altitude of about half a kilometer from the level of Seydozero, in a remote mountainous area, a powerful megalithic complex consisting of cyclopean structures was discovered. Geometrically correct slabs with mysterious signs and defensive masonry of the megalithic cult complex with traces of technogenic processing allow us to conclude that in the North of Russia there was a highly developed Hyperborean culture, genetically related to other known cultures of Antiquity.
In the area of the Lovozero tundra mountain range and the sacred Sami Seydozero, the remains of an observatory were discovered - a 15-meter trench with sights, laid in the rocks and directed into the sky. The trench resembles the sextant of the famous Ulugbek Observatory near Samarkand, buried in the ground.
I remember the temple of Apollo in Hyperborea described by Diodorus Siculus, having not only a cult, but also an astronomical purpose. According to the ancient historian: “ The moon is visible as if it were close to the Earth, and the eye discerns the same heights on it as on the Earth.”
Russian Lapland- the land of the most ancient culture, perhaps one of the most ancient on Earth - is directly related to the Arctida-Hyperborea region. This is evidenced by the recently discovered stone structures and the traditional Sami worship of seids.
A structure made up of stones stacked on top of each other is called "Lopar seid". Traditional Sami pyramids were also made from stones or deer antlers - previously such pyramids were found everywhere, but now they are preserved only in hard-to-reach places and on mountain tops.
The culture of building pyramids is not of southern, but of northern origin. In cult and ritual traditions, the architectural form of the pyramid aesthetically reproduces the ancient symbol of the Arctic Homeland - Polar Mount Meru. According to ancient mythological ideas, the sacred Mount Meru is located at the North Pole and is the axis of the world - the center of the Universe.
There is a mountain in the world steep hill Meru,
It is impossible to find any comparison or measure for it.
In supernatural beauty, in inaccessible space,
She sparkles in golden decoration<…>
The top is dressed with pearls.
Its top is hidden by clouds.
On this peak, in the pearl chamber,
One day the heavenly gods sat down...
Mahabharata. Book 1. (Translation by S. Lipkin). So the ancient northern legends from the most ancient part of the Vedas - "Rig-Vedas" received their continuation in the later Indian epic “Maharabhata”.
In those ancient times, when there was an ethno-linguistic community of peoples, the ancestors of modern peoples worshiped Mount Meru - the World Mountain. This Universal Mount Meru and became the prototype of numerous pyramids of the Old and New Worlds. In ancient Egyptian language the pyramid was called mr, which is completely consonant with the name of the sacred Mount Meru.
The Russian language also preserved the memory about Polar Mount Meru 2017-10-31
