Everyone treats the mysteries of the Russian north differently. The opinions of religiously minded people are especially different: for some believers it is a place of connection with the energy of the cosmos, for others it is the source of Russian spirituality, and for others it is a gathering of witches and devils.
One thing is for sure: there are a lot of anomalous places in Karelia and they are all full of semi-historical and semi-mythical facts. I asked the director of the Karelian National Museum, Mikhail Leonidovich Goldenberg, to choose the most interesting, who has devoted several decades to the study of the history of the region.
# 1. Mount Votovaara - stone magic
The highest point in Karelia (417 meters), on which, probably, all the mysticism of the region is concentrated.
Place Mysteries:
Why neither animals nor birds love the mountain, and the trees have such twisted trunks, as if someone, in a burst of shamanic dances, uprooted them and stuck them in the ground with their reverse side?
How did the giant stone slabs of geometrically regular shapes appear, as if they were laser cut?
Why do we need a stone staircase with 13 steps ending in the sky? Moreover, with such mystical coordinates: 63 04.999 32 38.666.
How were seids formed - huge boulders standing on smaller stones?
Perhaps the final riddle is the key to all the other oddities of the mountain. Some historians believe that the seids are the work of the Sami (or their spirits) - an ancient tribe with Noid shamans. It is still believed that they are able to subjugate groups of people to their field. All in all seriousness - both the NKVD and the Ahnenerbe were hunting for the Noids.
Seydy on Votovaar
But there are also pragmatists who assure that all the stone formations were created by the glacier: it was he who "piled" large stones onto small ones, then the ice melted, the tiny stones washed away, and remained stuck. And clear stone cuts are the consequences of earthquakes. But when you see all this live, it is difficult to maintain a pragmatic view of things. Esotericists call Votoovaara an energy accumulator and an "acupuncture" point of the planet, where information from the cosmos can be received.
Absolutely even cut stones
How to get to Votavaara?
By train: from St. Petersburg or Petrozavodsk to st. Gimols is the nearest village to the mountain. Further on foot or by transport, by agreement with the locals - 15-18 km.
By car: from St. Petersburg there are 2 ways - to the left of Ladoga (closer and more picturesque) and to the right (the road is a little better). In any case, get ready to leave the car, because after 5 km from Gimola, when the main road goes to the left and you have to go straight to the mountain, an unbearable dirt road will begin.
# 2. Kizhi Island - Christianity or Paganism?
Who does not remember from school the legend of a wooden church without a single nail? Kizhi has become a visiting card of the Russian North, is protected by UNESCO, and receives several hundred thousand pilgrims a year. But the history of the island is not limited to Christianity; according to some archaeological finds, it is obvious that the place was sacred for the ancient pagans.
View of the Kizhi Pogost
Place Mysteries:
- Church of the Transfiguration, erected in 1714 by an unknown craftsman with nails. The mystics claim that this place used to be the oldest pagan temple.
- Kizhi churchyard is famous again for unconfirmed, but persistent rumors about UFOs and space-time distortions at the site of the Old Believer cemetery.
- Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus - according to legend, it was built by the Monk Lazar of Murom at the beginning of the XIV century. People believed that the church was "miraculous"; before the revolution, a number of pilgrims were drawn here. But during the time of the Bolsheviks, the building was ravaged and abandoned, restoration began only in 1954. Now the church is part of the Russian Zaonezhie exposition.
Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus
In a word, esotericists of all stripes consider the island to be a place of intense geoactive radiation, in simple terms - a place of the mighty power, where the upper worlds of spirits, people and the world of demons intertwine.
Seagulls attacked me on Kizhi, when I was hunting for a beautiful shot, in the center of which there was a nest.
But the birds probably thought the nest was on my head.
How to get to Kizhi island:
- If you have time to spare, but you don’t have money, then you can take a bus from Petrozavodsk to the village of Velkaya Guba (about 250 km along the highway), from there there is only 1 km to the island, we find locals and agree on a boat.
- The fastest and most comfortable way: a water transfer from Petrozovodsk, the company "Russian North" carries there in two ways:
More expensive, but very royalon the ship "Meridian", whole mini-cruise for 3.30 minutes one way
# 3 Labyrinths - a spiral into another world
Another mystery is the spiral-shaped stone symbols, labyrinths with a diameter of up to 30 meters.
There is only one question: for what purpose did the ancient people fold cobblestones into such bizarre shapes?
Labyrinth on Oleshin Island (Kuzov archipelago, White Sea).
There are two popular versions:
Fishing magic. All labyrinths are located in fishing areas and are connected to the coast and islands. Maybe that's how the fishing spots were marked? Or is it a global maritime navigation diagram?
The cult of the dead. Perhaps the labyrinths symbolize the difficult and winding passage from life to death? Or is it a receptacle for the souls of the dead? A tangled path so that the spirits cannot return to the world of the living. But not all labyrinths are accompanied by burials ...
Some researchers believe that the image of the spiral is a code for knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation, from people to people, regardless of cultural and religious differences.
How to get to the labyrinths of Karelia?
Two labyrinths are located on the Kuzov archipelago, Oleshin Island, the White Sea. You can get to them by water transport from Kem - 30 km. By the way, besides labyrinths, the archipelago has a lot of mysterious objects.
The Kuzov archipelago
There is no regular communication with the islands of the archipelago, they are uninhabited, so you can get to Kuzov either with an excursion or a savage, having agreed with carriers from the village of Rabocheozersk. Please note that Kuzova is a specially protected natural area and you can only camp on three islands: German Kuzov, Russian Kuzov and Chernetsky.
The third labyrinth is located near the Krasnaya Luda Peninsula in the northern part of the Chupinsky Bay. But according to these coordinates, Google does not give out anything, it is necessary to plot the route to the working village of Keret, the labyrinth - 20 km to the north.
# 4. Onega petroglyphs - northern Kama-sutra
Petroglyphs (ancient cave paintings) are found in many places: from chilly Norway to scorching Ethiopia. In most cases, there is no mysticism in them; ancient people conveyed information with drawings: how to hunt, build, collect herbs. But with the Karelian petroglyphs, everything is not so simple, most of the drawings have not yet been solved. Especially interesting are the erotic motifs in the Onega petroglyphs, created about 6 and a half thousand years ago.
Petroglyph at Cape Besov Nos.
Place Mysteries:
What is the purpose of the drawings? There is no information load as such, maybe a hint for the best poses or the first illustrations to kindle your imagination?
Why were individual men portrayed with a huge phallus, a huge leg and a huge hand? An expression of superiority?
Why in different places all women are depicted the same: with raised arms and wheel-like legs. The process of knocking out on the basalt lasted a thousand years, did they agree? -Erotic scenes are depicted in 7 places, why exactly there? A kind of sign "place for .." because of the special energy?
Whatever the versions, we must come to terms with the idea that we will never be able to solve some of the petroglyphs. Though it is very entertaining to speculate on this topic.
Therefore, I will tell you about what I know for sure and that many herd hordes of foreign tourists and pensioners have not yet managed to trample, from whom there is no end, which, unfortunately, cannot be said about our old people. In light of the latest pension reforms, there are likely to be even fewer. But this is a topic that has agitated Russia for the last month, veiled by the World Cup, for a completely different article.
And we will just walk through virtual Karelia and reveal some age-old secrets of ancient temples and "magic stones", mysterious labyrinths and one of the most beautiful islands on Ladoga! Let's touch the mysteries and beauties of Karelia.
And so - on the way!
"... Each time this land amazed and amazed me with its beauty, mystery and inexpressible tranquility. The ancient and majestic land wins the heart forever.
Looking at untouched forests, crystal clear lakes, mountain ranges and turbulent rivers, one involuntarily recalls that Karelia is considered one of the possible places of existence of the mythical .
Idle tourists do not even know what is hidden behind this virgin beauty, what secrets these stones keep. But I will take you to a parallel world in mysterious places shrouded in many legends and tales.
Legends, national epics, fairy tales and myths create an aura of mystery and fabulousness around the country of "a thousand lakes".
And I, too, succumbed to this mysterious call. In my opinion, I have visited the most outstanding places in terms of esotericism, mysticism and Orthodox culture.
The beauty and wonders of Lake Onega
Lake Onega - in the north-west of the European part of the Russian Federation, the second largest freshwater body of water in Europe after Lake Ladoga.
Located on the territory of the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad and Vologda regions. Belongs to the Atlantic Ocean Baltic Sea basin.
About 80% of the lake's area is located in the Republic of Karelia, 20% - in the Leningrad and Vologda regions.
The total number of islands in Lake Onega reaches 1650, and their area is 224 km². One of the most famous islands on the lake is the island of Kizhi, on which the eponymous museum-reserve is located with wooden churches built in the 18th century: the Transfiguration of the Savior and the Pokrovsky.
The largest island is Bolshoi Klimenetsky (147 km²). There are several settlements on it, there is a school. Other islands: Bolshoy Lelikovsky, Suisari.
"Devils Nose"
A ledge on the banks of Onega. A place with a scary name "Devils Nose", dotted with drawings of ancient people. Petroglyphs are rock paintings that we inherited from our ancestors.
They are located under the feet of visitors, and not on a vertical rock. The deep meaning of these messages of ancient people both on the eastern coast of Lake Onega and in the Belomorsk region cannot be fully interpreted by scientists to this day.
There are more than 500 petroglyphs on the Besov Nose, among them the central figure is the Onega Bes, vaguely similar to a person, only with a square head, a barrel like body, with five fingers on his hands. The figure of the demon is divided exactly in the middle by a gap, which, according to scientists, indicates a connection with the other world. Both locals and visitors regularly disappear here. At the place where people disappear, only their things remain. Who is behind these mysterious and traceless disappearances? According to one version, considered by scientists for more than half a century, the Bes depicted on the cape is a real creature representing the Bigfoot. Due to the fact that the object is difficult to reach, it is visited only by fishermen and hunters, who appease the owner by throwing coins into the slot so that he deigns him in the hunt.
What is in the direction in which all the drawings on the cape are looking? It turns out that there is a kind, small Mars - a quarry of crimson quartzite. The stone of power was widely used in the construction of the Mausoleum and St. Isaac's Cathedral; the most famous tombs around the world were made from it, including the Sarcophagus of Napoleon. It is mined only in Karelia, 60 kilometers from its capital, on the western bank of Onega, in the old village of Shoksha. Strange but true: rain always bypasses the quarry.
Quartzite is not the only alien from another reality. Thanks to shungite, the Russians won a victory over the Swedes near Poltava: because of the intense heat, the water in the rivers bloomed. And our soldiers drank it, first dipping shungite into it. The Swedes suffered from dysentery.
There is one more property of this mysterious stone, which surprises scientists: shungite is the only mineral on earth that conducts an electric current. In the production, shungite is processed manually, this process is quite traumatic. Surprisingly, cut wounds do not fester when it is treated and heal very quickly.
The Zalavrugas complex with 29 groups of rock carvings, making up 1.5 thousand petroglyphs, has become more accessible, in comparison with the Besov Nos, for tourists. Among this variety of birds and animals, there is the most outstanding image that attracts the attention of tourists and scientists - "The Dancing Shaman".
According to legend, one has only to rub it, the spirit will come out and will certainly fulfill the cherished desire.
Mount Sampo
Translated from Finnish "Sampo" means a magical object, a source of happiness and well-being. Having overcome the path to the top of the mountain along the stairs, trees dazzling with different colors appear before your eyes. The ribbons tied on them are a sign of made wishes.
An ancient legend says that it is this mountain that has an extraordinary energy that can work miracles.
One has only to approach the tree of desires (an age-old pine tree), tie a ribbon or a piece of fabric on its branches, say out loud your cherished desire and it will certainly come true.
In addition, the cliffs of this hill attract extreme lovers. Both beginners and experienced climbers can practice rock climbing here. At the same time, do not forget about the opportunity to admire the virgin nature of Karelia.
Finding yourself on a magical hill, you feel a special atmosphere among the mighty pine trees and rocky rocks. It is worth climbing to the top during sunset and there will be no limit to surprise when you see the treetops in the golden rays of the sun.
Here you can find real peace of mind from harmony with nature, recharge with healing air with the smell of wild pine trees. To catch fish and prepare a fragrant fish soup, brew tea from medicinal herbs over a fire, because to break camping with friends near the Sampo mountain - no problem.
What is Sampo? In accordance with the Karelian-Finnish mythology, this is the name for an object with magic, which gives its owner happiness, strength and prosperity. In the folk epic "Kalevala" it is presented in the form of a mill, which provides its owner with flour, salt and gold.
Island Russian Body, Lysaya Gora.
At its top there was a large sanctuary with a deity in the center "Stone Baba", to whom sacrifices were made, and next to which the elders of the Sami tribe were buried.
But the central temple of the ancient Sami with a large concentration of idols and seids is located at the highest point of the German Kuzov, here shamans performed their main cult rites. According to legend, in the 17th century a detachment of Swedes took refuge here from a storm, in order to attack the Solovetsky Monastery later, which angered the Gods, whose forces protected the holy monastery from the enemy, turning it into stones.
You should look for a gate to a parallel world on Vottovaara Mountain - the most terrible and legendary place in Karelia. Dead trees and the kingdom of ritual stones that emit the sound of emptiness.
The range of mountain hills stretches for 7 kilometers in length. The road here is already filled with many obstacles, and sometimes it even seems that they are simply insurmountable. Having reached the goal, you can notice such smooth surfaces that it seems that someone has polished them.
Many are convinced that the mountain has a powerful energy, because rituals and worship of the gods were performed here. This is evidenced by the silent one and a half thousand seids located in a mysterious order.
The question immediately arises: how did the huge boulders, among which there are many tons, standing on smaller ones, end up on the top of a mountain 417 meters high? Who put them here?
It is believed that the souls of deceased shamans are imprisoned in stones, people with psychic abilities come here to communicate with them, as well as ask the stones for part of their power and move to parallel worlds.
It also remains a mystery who carved the thirteen steps of the Heavenly Staircase and the "Bathroom" in the form of a depression filled with water in the rock?
Vottovaara is shrouded in many mysterious phenomena: animals do not live here, lakes are dead, devices fail, equipment fails, and trees are especially striking like in a fairy tale about Baba Yaga, twisted and even tied in a knot, which only enhances an already eerie feeling from staying in this place. Here you can also fall into a deep sleep if you lie down on a boulder.
One of the unsolved mysteries of Karelia is labyrinths - coded knowledge in the form of spiral-shaped stone symbols, reaching up to 30 meters in diameter and testifying to the connection between man and cosmic forces.
A spiral is a kind of code that has been passed down from generation to generation. In many legends, labyrinths indicate the entrances and exits of a parallel world, the doors of which are opened to those who know the key to them.
Until now, no scientist "blinkered" by dogmas and authorities has deciphered its meaning.
Riddles of Klimetsky
40 km north of Petrozavodsk is one of the largest islands of Lake Onega - Klimetsky, 30 km long.
In the next journey of a Novgorod merchant in this place in the 15th century, a storm was so strong that his ship was thrown ashore. The merchant liked the picturesque surroundings. Then he decided to found a monastery.
In the 19th century, these places were glorified by local storytellers of epics about heroes... To the present day, the island's fame has not stopped due to such phenomena as: ghosts wandering between trees, garlands of running lights in forest glades, UFOs. Cases of disappearances are not complete.
At first, some wander through the forest for a long time, although in reality they find themselves near their tent. Others do not remember at all how they ended up in this or that place. One way or another, there is no scientific explanation for these phenomena.
The small and rocky island of Radkolye is spread among Onega, not far from the island of Kizhi. Here gathered those who worshiped the gods living in the trees.
The island has its own master - an idol in the form of a rock, with features similar to a human face and possessing such a stone look that it inspires fear, apathy and submission. Those who anger him, he "bestows" misfortunes and illnesses.
Island Marvelous
(250 km from the capital) is part of the Valaam archipelago
Judging by the name, something inexplicable is really happening on the island: the sudden appearance of UFOs and "wondrous" people: elders, dwarfs.
At the same time, some argue that they suddenly have an unreasonable fear, turning into horror and a desire to run somewhere. Others, on the contrary, experience a surge of strength.
But still, the guests try not to linger on Divnoye for a long time. The main attraction of the island - cromlech, laid out thousands of years ago, is a series of small stones.
In the 15th century Valaam monks erected a cross here. It was believed that our ancestors surrounded some very important place with these buildings.
Louhsky district (600 km. From Petrozavodsk), Paanajarvi National Park,
mount Kivakka
On its top, they repeatedly tried to install an Orthodox cross, but because of the wind or some other mysterious forces, these attempts were in vain. Local residents are confident in the superiority of mystical forces. And the frequent glow from the mountain only strengthens such conjectures.
Here, on the territory of Paanajärvi, there is the highest point, the roof of Karelia - Mount Nuorunen, 577 meters high. At the very top of the mountain, in spite of universal gravity, a multi-ton seid is balancing on three small boulders.
At the tip of Sapen-Gora (165 km from Petrozavodsk) in the Medvezhyegorsk region, lightning strikes are more often than all other heights, as evidenced by trees with burnt tops. According to legend, an iron rain fell on it so that people learned how to mine and process iron. Maybe that's why there are many iron ore deposits here.
In the same area in the village of Pegrema, in the north of Lake Onega, there is a complex of the same name with an area of \u200b\u200b20 thousand square meters. In its northern part there is an object of worship "Duck", symbolizing the feminine principle, in the southern part - "Frog". Thanks to her, the entire object was discovered.
The dense vegetation hiding the ancient idols was destroyed by a forest fire. As if someone had deliberately opened this place for everyone to see. Our ancestors considered the frog to be a symbol of evil. That is why rituals were held around her in order to appease her and the noble representatives of the tribe were buried. Esotericists come here for various rituals.
West of the Ladoga skerries. Quilpola
On the opposite shore of the northern part of the island, there is an abandoned village, shrouded in stories telling about mysterious events that began here in the 19th century:
Sharp objects suddenly became dull at once, a thick fog suddenly descending or dissipating, burdocks grew twice as tall as a human being, a sharp, causeless feeling of anxiety in local residents, absence of night, mirages in the form of cities and palaces, red flying balls.
The locals also avoided the thicket of the forest: an unknown force forced them to wander there for several days, after which no one saw the missing again. People also hid from meeting with strange creatures, because otherwise anyone who was touched by someone would be struck by an unknown illness and he would die in agony.
From time to time, three vats of nine meters in diameter appeared and disappeared near the water, remaining warm even in winter. But it is worth noting that there were also positive developments. For example, when a person was recovering from a disease.
The inhabitants left the "marvelous" place to one, moving from here as far as possible.
Places of power in Karelia
The secrets in Karelia do not end there. Not only islands and mountains keep them in themselves. For example, the Pitkyaranta region, Lake Yanisyarvi, has a beneficial effect on human energy. At the same time, fireballs also appear here, a glow appears in the depths of the lake, accompanied by a rumble and vibration.
Long abandoned kochkomozero village with several rickety and blackened houses, the doors of which are opened and closed by some unknown force. Many esotericists testify to it. Visitors to these places will not be left with the feeling that someone is watching them.
Segezha district, Segozero - a cursed place. According to old-timers, at the beginning of the 20th century, all the water suddenly left the lake's Bald Guba, and after a very short time it suddenly gushed back, but already warm. Such terrible waves on the reservoir are very frequent. And such anomalies began when an unidentified object sank into it in the 17th century, which remains in the local waters to this day.
Urozero (Light) - filled with underground water of a transparent bluish color through which you can see the bottom. The water taken from this source can be stored for quite a long time, presumably due to the fact that the springs that feed it pass through the silver mines.
It is famous for strange phenomena and Vedlozero in Pryazhinsky district... This place is simply teeming with flying saucers and glowing balls, a watery one of short stature, with a large head and thin limbs, lives here, and precipitation often falls in the form of a jelly that heals any wounds.
Olonets district, Yeroila village... Two crosses sailed here from Novgorod in the 12th century along the Olonka River. One stopped at the entrance to the village, the other at its exit. A sign from above? Later, chapels were founded here, which were destroyed at the beginning of the 20th century, and the shrines disappeared. Almost a century has passed since then, and one of the local residents found one of those disappeared crosses in his yard after rain in the bushes. It is difficult not to call this phenomenon a miracle, since the loss was found by the 780th anniversary of the baptism of Karelia.
Keeps a riddle and Lake Ladoga. Between the islands of Konevets and Valaam from under its waters sounds like the roar of a jet plane emanate and they last about one and a half minutes.
Not only local residents talk about barrantids, but in their writings the monks of the Valaam Monastery, as well as Alexander Dumas, testified about this phenomenon.
On the shores of Impilahti Bay there is a village of the same name. Once upon a time, two lovers lived in it. The girl's parents were against her chosen one and tried in every possible way to separate them. And so it happened: they locked their daughter in the house, and the young man disappeared without a trace. The girl could not bear such torment and ran away from home, threw herself off a cliff. Transformed into the mermaid Impi, she went ashore every night and made heartbreaking sounds that echoed throughout the area. This is where the name of the bay comes from.
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One has only to cross the border of Karelia, and you will find yourself in a completely different dimension, in an enchanted land, where mysterious traces of the past await at every step. In our time, many parts of Karelia, where no one was previously allowed, have become accessible to tourists who find here a lot of interesting, and sometimes mysterious.
The biggest
The nature here seems to be the backdrop for the shooting of a historical or fantastic film - huge boulders, granite rocks, fast rivers, transparent lakes, virgin forests.
On the vast territory of Karelia there are many completely unexplored places, where no man's foot seemed to have gone. Armed with GPS and a detailed map of the area, you can get to places that are not described in the literature. And find there amazing traces of ancient inhabitants - ruins, pits lined with millennial boulders, elevations with chains of stones.
And what is this, there is no one to ask - there is not a single village around for many kilometers, only swamps and forests. Indeed, in Karelia there is such a low population density per square kilometer that you can not see anyone for a whole day.
Meanwhile, in this quiet and deserted land there is all the most-the-most: the largest lake in Europe - Ladoga, the highest flat waterfall in Europe - Kivach, the largest in Europe national park - "Vodlozersky" and the largest and oldest in Europe accumulation of rock paintings, petroglyphs.
Devils drawings
Petroglyphs (from the Greek petros - stone and glyphe - carving) are ancient images of animals, birds, fish, boats, people, and sometimes completely mysterious and fantastic signs and creatures, carved on stone.
Archaeologists claim that some Karelian petroglyphs were made back in the 4th millennium BC! That is, on the territory of our country there was a certain ancient civilization - long before the Sumerian and Egyptian ...
Various traces of this civilization remained in many places in Karelia, but some of them, the same petroglyphs, were found quite recently - in contrast to the long-studied and described rock paintings in other countries.
In Karelia, petroglyphs were found in two places: on the shore of Lake Onega and in the lower reaches of the Vyg River. The "official" history of the Karelian petroglyphs began only in the last century - in the 20-30s. But wars and various social cataclysms prevented a more thorough research - and the petroglyphs of Karelia are still almost unexplored.
Meanwhile, they are a truly unique historical monument. The territory on the shores of Lake Onega, where you can see petroglyphs, takes about 20 kilometers! Most of the drawings are applied to rocks located on coastal islands and headlands.
A distinctive feature of all Karelian petroglyphs is the abundance of completely incomprehensible images and plots. Of course, the bulk of it is occupied by quite realistic pictures - scenes of hunting, fishing, battles; animals, birds, people. But over some of the paintings, researchers puzzle over - unknown signs, people with two balls instead of a head, human beasts. What these strange images mean, scientists cannot explain ...
Archaeologist Nadezhda Lobanova claims that the places where the petroglyphs are located were of particular importance. “Here, in the areas of active hunting and fishing, on the developed waterways, people could gather at a certain frequency both for collective fishing and for joint festivities.
Analysis of the rock paintings gave us reason to believe that mysterious initiation rites, initiation of young people into adulthood, as well as ritual defloration could take place in these places. "
Locals have long disliked places where petroglyphs are located, and try to bypass them. It is no coincidence that their names carry a negative assessment: Besov Nose, Besov Sledki ...
There are numerous legends about the disappearance of people in these places, and there is even modern folklore associated with the scientific study of petroglyphs - how entire expeditions disappear, relatives of researchers perish ... And one conclusion suggests itself - ancient shrines do not reveal their secrets just like that.
Seid - a stone with legs
Another mystery of Karelia is of no less interest - a huge number of seids. Seid (or "seide", "seite", "saivo") is translated from the Sami as "sacred stone". Seids are huge boulders arranged in a certain order and in a certain configuration. Sometimes a seid is a huge heavy boulder, set on several small stones.
Sometimes there are seids in the form of a rough sculptural image of the upper part of a human body, on which are stones shaped like the heads of dogs, birds or people. The main part of the seids are boulders with small stones on top.
There are whole pantheons of seids, for example, in the Kemsky region, on the White Sea islands, the German and Russian body. There are also seid complexes on the Votovaara and Kivakka mountains.
Seids, as a rule, are installed on gentle slopes, from which the sea, straits, and the most fishy or animal-rich places are perfectly visible.
This gives reason to believe that seids were cult places of hunters and fishermen. The seids were worshiped, sacrifices were made to them for a rich catch, a successful hunt, and good weather. Hunters sacrificed the legs (wings) and head of their prey. Fishermen smeared seids with fish oil, and when it dried up in the sun, it was believed that the sacrifice was accepted.
But these are just versions, and the study of seids has practically reached a dead end - it is not known at what time they were installed - after all, there are no remnants of human habitation nearby. So it is not known for certain who, when and why installed these mysterious structures.
The most attractive object for travelers is the Kuzov archipelago, where the islands Russian and German Kuzov are located. It is interesting that the name of the archipelago has nothing to do with the Russian word "body". It comes from the Finnish word kuusi - spruce.
The islands of the archipelago are located between the mouth of the Kem River and the Solovetsky Islands. The cult complexes are located on the flat tops of the two largest islands - Russian and Nemetsky Kuzov, 82 and 118 m above sea level. 360 seids were found on the Russian Body, and 339 on the German.
An interesting legend is connected with the seids of German Kuzov. In ancient times, the "German people" - as the Pomors called the Swedes - decided to seize Solovki. On the way they were caught by a storm, and the "Germans" took refuge on Kuzovy. From the top of the mountain, they even saw the Solovetsky Monastery, but the continuous storms did not allow them to move on. And once, when they were sitting around the fire, the god punished the invaders, turning them into stones. And the "petrified Germans" have been sitting on the top of the mountain ever since. And the island began to be called the German Body.
It is curious that this legend has a historical basis: at the beginning of the 17th century, a Swedish detachment tried to attack the Solovetsky Monastery, but failed.
Labyrinth to another world
An even greater mystery is stone labyrinths Karelia. There are many places on our planet where such structures are found. They are located only in the north of Europe (Estonia, Sweden, England, Norway, Finland) and are complex spirals from 5 to 30 meters in diameter, made up of small natural stones.
Karelia also has its own labyrinths. Most scientists date their construction to the III-II millennium BC. It is still unknown who built them and why, and disputes about the purpose of the labyrinths have not subsided among archaeologists for over a hundred years.
In folklore, there are many legends about labyrinths. According to the legends of Ireland and England, fairies danced on spiral labyrinths in the moonlight; in Norway, stone ridges were laid out by ice giants - "jotuns"; in Sweden, labyrinths were the entrance to the underground palaces of dwarfs - dwarfs who owned precious stones. The dvergs made magic swords, shields and spears for the heroes of the sagas.
The Sami legends say that labyrinths were created in honor of deities, and they were built by some mythical personalities.
Scientists are skeptical about these legends and see the connection of labyrinths with trade magic and funeral rites. In their opinion, labyrinths symbolize the difficult and winding transition from life to death. It is interesting that some ethnographic rites support this version.
Some believe that the labyrinths are grave marks over burial places. But this version has a number of contradictions. Under some of the labyrinths, human bones are indeed found, but others are completely empty. Researchers of the Karelian labyrinths believe that they served to entangle the souls of the dead in order to prevent them from returning to earth. For this, sometimes, next to one labyrinth, another was built - if the soul of the deceased nevertheless gets out of one labyrinth, then it will immediately fall into the next.
This is only a small part of the Karelian miracles. The weather presents some difficulty for their study. Karelia has a very harsh and long winter, damp spring and rainy autumn. Only in the short northern summer you can try to penetrate, for example, Votovaara, but if the summer is rainy, then it is very difficult to do this. Creates an obstacle and difficult terrain. Some of the Karelian treasures can only be reached with a specially equipped one - equipped with winches and snorkel, or by boat or helicopter. But if you overcome all these difficulties, you will find yourself in places where untouched secrets of ancient civilizations lie untouched ...
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Not far in the north there is a land where sheer granite cliffs-giants grow out of lakes that are cold, transparent to the depths, where age-old trees, bizarrely curving, look like forest spirits, where rivers have violent burrows, and a fishy character, where wooden temples without a single nail side by side with the heritage of ancient civilizations, where stones heal from any ailments and, it seems, you can feel the very cosmic basis of the universe. There, at night, foxes hunt on the hills and scratch their sides against the rocks so that sparks fly to the sky, turning into the northern lights. The name of this world is Karelia, the land of a thousand legends, hundreds of lakes and many discoveries.
Karelia is good in any weather and season: in winter they move here on snowmobiles, conquering the space of snow-covered forests, flying over frozen lakes to stop at one of them for ice fishing, or, after driving along Onega, get to the island of Kizhi, where an old village and wooden temples appear to the traveler like a living picture from the pages of children's fairy tales; you can also take a kite with you and surrender to the wind on the perfectly flat ice of one of the many Karelian lakes, or experience the delight of speed while driving a dog sled. With the arrival of spring winds, when Ladoga and Onega are freed from ice, the water expanses of Karelia are conquered by yachtsmen - sailing along the lake skerries, sunsets of unprecedented beauty, spinning fishing, juicy berries on the hills and mushroom abundance at the first step into the forest invariably attract many travelers. For some, Karelia is rafting along rough rivers or long walks from one mesmerizing waterfall to another, no less mesmerizing, someone is sure that the White Sea gives unforgettable diving, while others are attracted healing power shungite Marcial waters. Orthodox pilgrims strive to monastic cloisters for a blessing, and esotericists get in direct contact with the astral in the Karelian places of power. Each of them is right in its own way, because each has its own Karelia.
Karelia can hardly be called a primordially Russian land, although the Slavic tribes lived here even in the time of the Sami, and even the Lappish gods do not know who was before the Sami. However, this did not prevent the same Slavs, for example, from time immemorial, to use the local asp-stone, which returned youth, healed wounds, and made invulnerable in a bloody battle. The miraculous waters, infused on this stone, the great-grandmother of Peter the Great from all ailments healed and allowed her to give birth to the founder of the Romanov dynasty, and Peter the First himself founded the Marcial Waters sanatorium, largely because the water infused on the asp-stone, healed wounds and "internal" diseases soldiers. Only in the last century scientists gave the stone the now well-known name “shungite”, and its medicinal properties still attract many suffering people to Karelia. Shungite is found only in this area, according to scientists, where a meteorite fell thousands of years ago. Mystics consider the stone to be a fragment of an ancient planet, and, without a doubt, this mineral is one of the many mysteries of the Karelian land.
In the west of central Karelia there is a small plateau, 400 meters high, the Vottovara Upland, or "witch's mountain" according to local belief. The last point of civilization near the mountain is a village on the shores of Porosozero. They say that recently a shaman still lived there, who performed some rituals in the sanctuary on the mountain, they also say that those who go up the mountain like a goblin lead, and people wander in 3 pines. Esotericists refer this area to the energy places, which are many in our north. On Vottovar there is one of the clusters of seids - this is how the Lapps, who inhabited these lands earlier, called the unusual stones that stand out from the general relief. These stones can stand individually or in groups, often a huge stone seems to lie on several small ones, or stands at the very edge of the abyss at such an angle that it should fall, and not fall. They can also have a shape similar to animals or people - the Lapps believed that the soul dwells in stones - the great hunters, sorcerers and gods. The stones were prayed for, worshiped and sacrificed. True, scientists believe that these stones were inherited by the Lapps - but from whom, opinions differ here. According to one version, seids are the work of a glacier, according to another, they are signs left by the powerful Arctic civilization that lived here long before the Sami.
The seids of central Karelia are nothing compared to the clusters found on the islands of the White Sea. Although the "spirits of stones" date back several thousand years BC, this does not prevent the locals from telling the legends of the times of the Swedes' journeys to Russia. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that our people in the legends confuse the Swedes and the Germans - and this is how the legend developed about the petrified Germans who decided to somehow attack the Solovetsky Monastery, and who never managed to get out of the island due to bad weather. There, the Germans were petrified, becoming seids, and the island was named Big German Body.
But if one can still agree with the glacial origin of the seids, then the famous labyrinths of the Solovetsky Islands are definitely man-made. Even people who are far from mysticism and astral practices, who find themselves in the labyrinths of Solovki at dawn or sunset, it is in these "slanting" sunbeams that it covers with magic, the interconnections of all things and attachment to the great - the White Sea, the sun at the horizon, a long bright wasteland with rings stone mysteries and unsolved mysteries of the past. Perhaps it was here that Hyperborea began - the homeland of the Aryans, described in the Vedas and other sacred books, where the forefathers of world civilizations came from. For many years, enthusiasts have been looking for confirmation of this theory in the north of Karelia and the Kola Peninsula, and Solovki are classified as world places of power, where the energy of everything is felt.
No less mysterious are the petroglyphs on Onega - images of people, birds and animals, hunting and fishing scenes, carved into the rocky shores of the Onega islands. The pilgrimage of tourists to petroglyphs began not very long ago, although the locals knew about these strange images from ancient times. Monks of one of the numerous monasteries on Onega considered the drawings to be a product of evil spirits, and tried to protect Christians from it. Therefore, some of them show crosses embossed over the old image. It is best to take a walk to the prehistoric drawings on a rented boat. He will drive you through the picturesque skerries of Onega covered with pine trees, where you can stop for fishing and catch the real excitement of catching salmon.
Those who have once visited this amazing land of transparent lakes, rocky cliffs, turbulent rivers and age-old pines strive back with all their hearts. The Karelians have an excellent saying: “the catch begins with the perch - the salmon ends”, so it doesn't matter where Karelia starts for you, the main thing is that it will forever remain in your heart, discovering more and more new treasures.
The most large island on the way to Kizhi there is Bolshoy Klimetsky Island. Its length is 30 km, and its width is up to 9 km. At the end of the 15th century, on the southern tip of the island, the Novgorod merchant Ioann Klimentov founded the Klimetsky monastery. According to legend, in 1520, during one of the many travels from Veliky Novgorod, he was caught by a terrible storm, and ships laden with salt were thrown onto a rocky shoal. The area turned out to be very picturesque and the merchant liked it so much that he later chose it for the construction of a monastery here.
At the end of the 19th century, the island gained wide popularity in Russia. It was in these places that the famous storytellers T.G. and I.T. Ryabinins, V.P. The goldfinch, according to which P.N. Rybnikov and A.F. Hilferding recorded a large number of Russian epics, tales and legends (including those about Ilya Muromets, Dobryna Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich) that have become famous all over the world. The storytellers performed with great success in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
However, the peculiar "fame" of the island is associated not only with its historical and cultural past, but also with the no less mysterious present. The fact that “strange” and mysterious stories happen to people on the island has been known since ancient times, possibly since the time when on the island (according to legends), hundreds of years ago, there was one of the largest pagan temples in Karelia. Old-timers of neighboring villages and casual eyewitnesses claim that at night one can observe a variety of amazing phenomena: from "witch's lights" running along forest glades like festive garlands to "luminous panels", various types of UFOs and ghostly humanoid silhouettes wandering between trees.
Selective studies using a dowsing frame show that there are many places on the island with a powerful energy potential. Who knows if he is not capable of reaching such values \u200b\u200bin certain parts of the island at a certain time that space simply “collapses”, giving rise to the effect of a “vicious circle”, which, perhaps, numerous witnesses face?
What secrets is kept by a small piece of land that has become the focus of mysterious and inexplicable events?
The island attracted close attention of the author of the material thanks to one incident.
In the summer of 1973, Aleksey Fedorovich Pulkin, the captain of the fleet of the Petrozavodsk fish processing plant, a deviator (who knows better about orientation on the terrain than many others), with a group of several people arrived on the island of Bolshoy Klimetsky for a weekend fishing:
We came from Petrozavodsk on a fishing boat. On the ship was the director of our enterprise and someone else from our department. It was Friday, there were two days off. There is a place on the island called the Old Monastery, we, fishermen, call it that. The two of us stayed in the Old Monastery, and the ship moved on. There is a fishing lodge there, it was built specially for fishermen, a brigade of our fishermen lived there. There are no other buildings there. Two days later we were to be picked up to. The next day my friend and I split up: he stayed to deal with the caught fish, and I went to the forest ... (the full transcript of the conversation, produced at the Union of Journalists of Karelia on March 10, 1985, is with the author of the material).
Alexey Fedorovich came back after ... 34 days! That is how much he was forced to spend on the island. They were looking for him in all possible ways during all this time - to no avail, until he himself - dirty, hungry, emaciated - came out to people. Alexey Fyodorovich was conscious almost all this time, but his story was so "strange" that he immediately fell into the field of view of the relevant organizations, and this whole story was hidden. They do not know about her to this day.
As it turned out later, this is far from an isolated story about the "oddities" of Bolshoi Klimetsky.
Here is a briefly recorded story of an eyewitness - an old fisherman Alexander Efimov, who lives in one of the villages - related to the island: “Last summer (2008 - A.P.), I sailed to Bolshoy Klimetsky Island in the evening. Leaving the boat on the shore, not far from the sand spit, I went to fetch wood to make a fire. I walked quite a bit from the lake and kept moving straight in the direction opposite to my camp. I know these places well, I have been here many times, so I always felt calm and confident.
Although he respected the stories about the "oddities" of the island, because people whom I know personally and who would never stoop to "invented nonsense" talked about it. Nothing like this has ever happened to me here, and therefore there were no fears. So, imagine what my surprise was when, having collected some firewood, I suddenly saw my bank and boat right in front of me. The impression was as if, after wandering through the forest, I made a circle and returned to my original place. But the point is that I did not make any "circle". This puzzled me. I "forgot" about the fire and - again into the thickets, but again I found myself on the shore. I did it five times, but with the same result. The most amazing thing is that the little compass embedded in the strap of my watch always showed the right direction. I made the last two attempts, specially checking with him. "
GEOPATHOGENIC SITES
So, what do we know about the geopathogenic zone? This concept, however, called in different places in different ways, was familiar to our distant ancestors. Somewhere such places were called “bad place” or “unhappy”. “Black spots” are often mentioned. This, as a rule, is a difficult place, not suitable for people, animals and even plants. In such places, phenomena that are not understandable and not familiar to a person often occur. Situations of an obviously anomalous nature occur. Something out of the ordinary.
In the forests, in such places, people simply disappear, or at best, wander through the seemingly passed three pines a hundred times. But not only in the forests. Sometimes in an open field, a person wanders around one place for hours and cannot see the village, which is some 500 meters away. Animals in such places do not behave adequately, strong excitement or aggression without any external stimuli, a clear sign of not good place... In cities, where negative or positive energy is concentrated, car accidents, suicides, frequent fires and other man-made problems are becoming commonplace. The strong influence of such zones on human behavior and even health is also noticeable. Frequent illnesses, especially those related to the psyche, constant fatigue even in inactivity, bad mood, depression. But if such a person just needs to change, at least temporarily, the place of residence and all the symptoms disappear. Even if in a different place, living and working conditions are much more difficult.
Deviations in the development of plants in such places are also characteristic. Trees grow crooked, with strongly intertwined branches, several trunks at a time. On such trees, growths (burls) and "witch's brooms" appear most often. Botanists have their own explanations on this score (viruses, climate, human intervention), but why in one place this phenomenon is common, but does not go beyond certain boundaries, and in another you cannot see this for ten kilometers, they cannot explain. Most often, in any case, in the latitudes of Karelia, the Murmansk region, these zones are associated with tectonic faults and shifts. Here they are clearly expressed and easily comparable with data on unusual and anomalous phenomena.
The explanations for geopathogenic zones are different. The most probable and scientifically explainable idea of \u200b\u200bgeopathogenic zones is the release of the magnetic fields of the earth itself. As in the experiment with an ordinary magnet, we see the most powerful streams-rays, and in the case of our planet. Somewhere the release of energy is stronger, somewhere weaker. Depending on the radiation power, geopathogenic zones are formed. This is where earth plates, rock strata and faults come into play. Probably, the voids formed in the process of sampling groundwater, minerals, and construction of tunnels also do not have the best effect on the concentration of magnetic fields. Namely, they facilitate the exit of the rays, which contributes to their greatest concentration.
Concerning the attachment of the maximum concentration of magnetic emissions in places of tectonic faults, it is worth mentioning radioactive radiation. Since the earth strata move along the fault line, the likelihood of uranium-bearing rocks being transported closer to the surface is much higher. This is exactly what is observed in the territory of Karelia. In expeditions along Zaonezhie, in the west-east directions, it was necessary to record a certain increase in radioactive radiation (not significant) precisely at the boundaries of tectonic shifts and faults. And radiation, even in small doses, with prolonged exposure can greatly undermine human health. Even if not in the first generation. In Petrozavodsk there are houses, with a background from block walls, up to 40 mdc. It was checked with modern military dosimetry equipment. Crushed stone for the construction of such blocks was taken from open pits, which were closed, at one time, by the Soviet authorities. Due to the increased radioactive background. Like this.
We will not consider geopathogenic zones from the point of view of esotericism. Anyone interested can find such information on many sites. Where something inexplicable is presented as a science or religion, their goals. Sometimes they are not entirely decent. As regards Petrozavodsk, only one example can be given. Look at the map. A. Nevsky Cathedral. It stands in the least favorable place. Or rather in the worst. Now remember his story. And compare with the church on Zarek. It is located in the neutral zone. As they served in it, they serve. And not any cataclysms. And it was in this church that healers and, as the common people call them, witches, and probably do. Also pay attention to the place of the former OTZ. Soon he will be gone. This can be explained not by the ability or desire of the current city leadership to exercise mentally, but the fact remains. See the map and think logically.
But you should not immediately classify the place where the cat was crushed on the road 15 years ago into the category of geopathogenic zones. Maybe she just didn't know the rules of the road.
SHRINES OF THE VALAAM ARCHIPELAGO
Probably everyone has heard about the "wondrous" island of Valaam, located in the northern part of Lake Ladoga. Everyone knows that this is one of the oldest pillars of Orthodoxy in Russia. Valaam is often called “Northern Athos”. This is the place where Orthodox mysticism and spiritual deeds are concentrated. It is not known for certain where the very name Balaam came from. According to the main version, it comes from the Finnish word "Valamo" (Karelian Valamoi) and means "high" ie mountainous land.
According to another, the island is named after the biblical sorcerer and soothsayer Balaam (“בִּלְעָם” or Bil''am), from the city of Ptor, hired by King Balak of Moab to curse the Jews who were preparing to enter the Promised Land. As everyone knows, this insidious plan was destroyed by an angel who was sent to the soothsayer, the god Yahweh. As a result of the negotiations, Balaam not only renounced the curses of the Jews, but also blessed them three times, predicting a great victory for them.
There is another version, the most mystical. According to her, the island is named after the ancient pagan god Baaal or Baaal (Hebrew "” "). In general, the word "Baal" the Semitic tribes denoted any deity, but most often Baal is associated with the supreme deity in the Assyrian-Babylonian culture. He was revered in Phenicia, Canaan and Carthage as a god of thunder, a god of fertility, a god of war, sky, sun and much more. According to some reports, the concept of Baal, having migrated to the Western world, received new names: Zeus - from the Greeks, Jupiter - from the Romans, Veles - from the ancient Slavs ....
In short, the story is as follows: before the arrival of the first Christian monks here, there was a pagan sanctuary for the peoples who lived both on Valaam itself and on the banks of Ladoga. In general, most researchers call the place where the ancient temple was located, the summit of the Serpent Mountain (61 ° 20'54 "N; 30 ° 58'34" E). At the same time, the mountain was explored many times, and no real structures indicating this were found. To whom and how the services were performed is also not known exactly. There is an assumption that it was the cult of the god Veles. The monks who came to the islands gradually began to oust the pagans (it is believed that they were ousted peacefully) and became full-fledged masters of the islands. As an illustration of their activities, a Finnish legend has survived, according to which the newly arrived Christians first settled on the island of Saint. Then they turned to the owners to allocate land for their needs on the main island the size of a cow's skin. The pagan hosts made fun of them and agreed. But the monks took the skin and cut a rope out of it, with the help of which they fenced off the best lands around the perimeter. The pagans had no choice but to leave the island ...
Curiously, there is no exact date for the appearance of Christians on the island either. According to legend, the first to see the island was the Apostle Andrew and even erected a Christian cross on the shore. The next stage in the development of Valaam is considered the arrival of the Monks Sergius and Herman, who arrived "from the Eastern countries." According to church legend, they were Greek sacred monks. They came with a group of followers first to Veliky Novgorod, and then, having received a blessing, they landed on Valaam and founded the first monastery. However, historians do not have a clear and unambiguous answer when this happened. There are two main versions, according to the first - it happened in the X century. In any case, in the life of St. Abraham of Rostov, it is reported that in 960 a Christian monastery already existed on the island. Another ancient cathedral chronicler reports that the transfer of the relics of the Monks Sergius and Herman from Valaam to Novgorod was carried out in 1163. It turns out that the Valaam Monastery was founded even before the date of the official Baptism of Rus!
What is the reason for such a stormy flourishing spiritual life on the Valaam Islands? After visiting the island and feeling its atmosphere, I can share my own impressions. Of course, Balaam is a Place of Power, and a very powerful one. From the first minutes of landing on the island, thoughts acquire orderliness and unconditional determination. At once, attention is focused on the really important, and the fuss and mental husk are eliminated by themselves. The soul, as it were, “falls into place” and calms down. During my entire stay on the island, I have never remembered the problems and concerns that await me on the mainland. Are these not ideal conditions for spiritual growth and self-development of a person?
Address: Republic of Karelia. Valaam Island.
Coordinates: 61 ° 23'18 ″ N 30 ° 56'50 ″ E
Alexander Svirsky's cave on the Holy Island
Shrine of Orthodox Christianity
Place associated with the activities of an unusual person
An energetically active place
Saint Island (Finn. "Pyhäsaari") or as it is often called "Gloomy", is located a kilometer from the Black Cape - the northeastern tip of Valaam. Its area is just over 6 hectares, and at the moment there are only a few monks living on it, leading a very secluded lifestyle. Getting to this island is not easy. For this, at least, you need the blessing of the abbot of the monastery. And the point here is not only that the administration of the monastery avoids the arrival of an outside public on the Holy Island.
Address: Republic of Karelia. Valaam archipelago. Saint Island (Gloomy). 1 km to the East from the Black Nose Cape.
Coordinates: 61 ° 24'40 ″ N 31 ° 3'24 ″ E
Island Marvelous
Energetically active place Dangerous place
Place of appearance of unidentified flying objects
