On the waterway from Kem to Solovki lies the Kuzova archipelago, which includes 16 islands, the largest of which are Russian and German Kuzova.
The archipelago surprises with its nature, but most importantly, it is famous for its ancient sites, labyrinths, religious complexes, as well as the abundance of sacred stones - seids. About 800 different stone structures were discovered here, occupying 2% of the entire territory of the archipelago. For example, the unique religious complex on the top of Oleshin Island has no analogues in Northern Europe in its design features. Religious objects were created by the ancient Sami population, who appeared in the White Sea region more than 2.5 thousand years ago.
However, the main mystery of the archipelago lies elsewhere. But first, a little history.
According to ancient Aryan and pre-Aryan ideas, the invariable affiliation of the ancestral home of the Aryans, Hyperborea (which includes the current territory of Karelia), was a rock that was considered the central point of the world. It had a base of seven heavens, where the celestial beings lived and the golden age reigned. In ancient Russian apocryphal texts, the universal mountain was called “a pillar in Okiyan to the skies,” or a white-flammable stone, or an Alatyr-stone, which was located on the island of Buyan. In the 14th century apocrypha “On All Creation” you can read: “In Okiyan there is a pillar called adamantine (adamant is a diamond. Ultimately, it is a correlate of ice). His head goes to heaven.”
It is in this “paradise” time and place that the legend of the Stone Book originates.It talks about Mount Mera, which was located at the ancient North Pole and was a plateau with steep cliffs more than a kilometer high, and about Buyan Island, where the author of the Stone Book, Fab, hid a source of colossal magical power under the Alatyr Stone. The German Body, located in the White Sea not far from the current Karelian city of Kem, is named Buyan Island in the Stone Book. On this island, if you trust the texts of the Stone Book, there is an underground palace complex and the graves of Phab's children (Phab's daughter was called Ia, or Io).
In Russian mythology, Fab echoes, first of all, the ancient Slavic deity Veles. Russian historian Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev considered him the deity of clouds, clouds, and heavenly herds.In “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” Boyan is called Veles’ grandson,which seems to indicate the comparability of Veles with the Greek Apollo (Phoebus); in addition, it is this god of the Slavic pantheon that ancient sources associate with the Dove Book.
The spiritual heritage captured in the Stone Book was preserved in the form of persistent mythological views, which, according to the Russian historian I. Zabelin, played the role of primitive knowledge of nature and even primitive science. In this crucible, the original folk cosmism was born and formed.
The “Stone Book” contained the original teaching or knowledge about the world and became the primary source for myths and legends of almost all peoples of the world. There were legends about the Stone Book. Few had a chance to see her. And those who saw it did not want to show the way to it. But many tried to comprehend the secret of this legendary monument.
At the beginning of his creative career, N.K. Roerich created the painting “The Dove Book”, where in a generalized symbolic form he tried to recreate the image of a universal book that fell from heaven and included all the wisdom of the world.
The stone book was seen by the poet Nikolai Gumilev, who was traveling around the Russian North in 1904.Emperor Nicholas II, who received the poet with a report on the unique discovery, not only took the find extremely seriously, but also allocated funds from the treasury for further research. Based on information taken from the Stone Book, Nikolai Gumilyov organizes an expedition to the islands of the Kuzovsky archipelago in the White Sea, where he finds ancient burials and a golden comb, unique in the purity of the metal. This comb was called “Hyperborean” and was lost along with other treasures that belonged to the famous ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. And the emperor himself gave her this comb.
This is how Gumilyov himself described this find:“For excavations, we chose a stone pyramid on the island, which is called Russian Body, unfortunately, the pyramid turned out to be empty, and we were about to finish the work on the island when I asked the workers, without particularly counting on anything, to dismantle the small pyramid that was located about ten meters from the first one. There, to my incredible joy, there were stones tightly fitted to each other. The very next day we managed to open this burial. The Vikings did not bury their dead or build stone tombs, so I concluded that this burial belongs to an older civilization. The grave contained the skeleton of a woman, no objects except one. Near the woman’s skull there was a golden comb of amazing workmanship, on top of which a girl in a tight-fitting tunic sat on the backs of two dolphins carrying her.”.
Ancient myths found their amazing confirmation in the sensational discoveries of the expedition undertaken in the summer of 5005 on the Kuzovskaya archipelago under the leadership of the St. Petersburg public figure Konstantin Sevenard, which can radically change the traditional view of the history of the world. Researchers managed to find traces of the Stone Book. Mentions of this artifact are contained in Russian fairy tales, folk poetry, even in monastery records and lives of saints.The Stone Book itself is hieroglyphs carved on the rocks along the shores of the White Sea by Fab. A section of rocks with hieroglyphs is up to 80 meters wide, but in 1962 this area was flooded.
As Sevenard reported, in the summer of 2005 he organized an expedition to the White Sea and discovered artificial mounds on the island of Nemetsky Kuzov. According to the expert opinion, two rows of artificial stonework, composed of natural granite blocks measuring 0.5-1.5 meters in size, have been preserved in this place.According to available archival data, it was here in 1904 that Nikolai Gumilev, on an expedition organized by Nicholas II, discovered a unique gold comb.Excavations of the mound may make it possible to prove the existence of an ancient civilization that possessed many of the secrets of humanity,including the secret of making gold of the purest purity, inaccessible to modern technologies. Proving the existence of an ancient civilization will also be helped by underwater archaeological work at the bottom of the reservoir of the White Sea Hydroelectric Power Station, where, according to some sources, there are rock inscriptions created more than 18 thousand years ago, which were called the Pigeon, or Stone, Book. It was flooded during the construction of a hydroelectric power station.
In July 2006, a search expedition from Petrozavodsk set off to the Kuzova archipelago to check all available information. The expedition was successful, but comprehensive research is just beginning. There is no final point in historical research. And the main discoveries, as always, are ahead!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 HYPER-technological phenomenon of the 3rd millennium. It seems that the Spirit of Hyperborea is trying not to be late for some well-known deadline and wants to do something very important for people
The poet and traveler of the Silver Age Nikolai Gumilyov, traveling in 1904 through the Russian North, saw hieroglyphs carved on a rock slope near the city of Belomorsk in one of the deep ravines at the mouth of the Indel River. He was sure that this was the legendary Stone Book, which contained the original knowledge about the world and became the primary source for myths and legends of almost all peoples of the world. Another name of the book is Pigeon, which comes from the “pigeon” hieroglyphs with which the book is written. To make it easier to read, the author of the book, Phoebus, left for his descendants a stone dictionary of symbols, in which hieroglyphs that denoted, for example, stars, the sun, a person, a seagull or a dragon, corresponded to an “explanatory” image. It was this dictionary that helped the young Gumilyov decipher the writings of the Dove Book, references to which are contained in Russian fairy tales, folk poetry, even in monastery records and lives of saints.
In the rock Pigeon book, Gumilyov read some revelations about
the structure of the world, the physical and spiritual interaction of all life on the planet,
which more than 100 thousand years ago was inhabited by representatives of a completely different
a civilization destroyed by a grueling civil war. Conflict
flared up between the Wiki who knew the secret of the philosopher's stone and possessed
the right to eternal life, and the Aryans deprived of this privilege. After graduation
war and the death of the queen Mob the rebel leader Phoebus led away the survivors
Aryans to the south.
With a report on the northern expedition and the discovered Stone Book of the 18-year-old
Nikolai Gumilyov was hosted by Emperor Nicholas II, who treated
find with extreme seriousness, therefore further research by Gumilyov,
as well as his studies at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum were financed from the royal treasury.
From the texts of the Stone Book translated by Gumilev it follows that “Feb buried
on the island, which according to the description coincides with the island of the German body, under two
huge mounds of their son and daughter, and opposite, on an island similar to
Russian body, his wife – the queen of the Vikov empire – Mob.”
Following the texts of the Stone Book, Gumilyov organizes an expedition to Kuzovskaya
archipelago, where he opens an ancient tomb, in which he finds a unique comb
made of 1000-carat gold (such purity of gold has not yet been achieved).
This is how Gumilyov himself described this find: “For excavations, we chose a stone pyramid on the island, which is called Russian Body, unfortunately, the pyramid turned out to be empty, and we were about to finish the work on the island when I asked the workers, not for anything in particular hoping to dismantle a small pyramid, which was located about ten meters from the first. There, to my incredible joy, there were stones tightly fitted to each other. The very next day we managed to open this burial. The Vikings did not bury their dead or build stone tombs, so I concluded that this burial belongs to an older civilization. The grave contained the skeleton of a woman, no objects except one. Near the woman’s skull there was a golden comb of amazing workmanship, on top of which a girl in a tight-fitting tunic sat on the backs of two dolphins carrying her.”
According to legend, this comb, which was called “Hyperborean,” was presented by Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich to the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya at the request of Emperor Nicholas II. “There is every reason to believe, following family legends, that the comb still lies in the hiding place of Kshesinskaya’s mansion in St. Petersburg,” says St. Petersburg public figure and researcher Konstantin Sevenard, who considers himself a descendant of Kshesinskaya. Indirect evidence is the fact that after the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks, in search of a unique comb, were one of the first to seize this particular mansion, and the American Freemasons offered Kshesinskaya herself to sell the comb for 4.5 million gold rubles. Sevenard, having studied all the diaries and letters of the ballerina, claims that Kshesinskaya considered the “Hyperborean Crest” to be a kind of catalyst for the revolution.
The further fate of N. Gumilyov is also symbolic. After the first revolution, he led the largest expedition to Africa in the history of Russia in search of the legendary land of Mu, which he learned about from the texts of the Stone Book. The collection brought by him and his nephew N. L. Sverchkov from Africa, according to experts, is in second place after the Miklouho-Maclay collection. Konstantin Sevenard also associates the execution of Gumilyov in 1921 with the secret knowledge that the Stone Book endowed the poet with and to which, according to him, the Freemasons are very partial.
The traces of ancestors in our North have been known for a long time, a huge contribution to their research was made by my friend and comrade-in-arms, the first leader of the Russian Popular Front, Doctor of Philosophy, the untimely deceased Valery Nikitich Demin (1942-2006) in a series of books about Hyperborea, and the Kuzovsky archipelago in the White Sea no less more significant for our history than Solovki. Nowadays, everyone can visit these fabulous places in the summer, covered with many legends and ancient evidence. I was interested in a note by Timur Nazikulov from the newspaper “Moskovskaya Pravda” five years ago under the heading “Finds” (November 2, 2005, No. 241 /25252/, p. 2) - “The “Pigeon Book” of Nikolai Gumilyov: Russian researchers have discovered unknown pages of the biography of the great poet "):
“Last week, a press conference was held in Moscow by Konstantin Sevenard, a famous researcher of antiquity and public figure from St. Petersburg. The theme of the event was the sensational findings of the Sevenard expedition undertaken this summer on the Kuzovskaya archipelago in the White Sea. Researchers managed to discover traces of the “Stone Book” - a “divine” artifact of Ancient Rus'. According to the organizers of the expedition, references to the “Stone Book” are contained in the works of Lomonosov, Roerich, who tried to comprehend the secret of this legendary monument, and especially in the works of Nikolai Gumilyov, who was favored by the emperor after a trip to the Russian north in 1904, where the poet discovered flat rocks with mysterious hieroglyphs - pages of the “Stone Book”.
“I have been seriously interested in this time for a long time,” says Konstantin Sevenard. - I managed to gain access to materials currently stored in a special storage facility, in particular, to the diary entries of Matilda Feliksovna Kshesinskaya, my grandmother. From them I learned the story of a gold comb of a uniquely high standard, found by Gumilev in one of his northern expeditions, then given to Matilda by Nicholas II and disappeared along with a significant part of her treasures. I continued to search for information on this topic and came across Gumilyov’s diaries, as well as his report on the expedition, which, as it turned out, was financed from the royal treasury. In the report, he describes his findings - a stone book and an ancient tomb. One of the finds during the exploration of the tomb was the comb.”
All these facts, according to researchers, are confirmed, first of all, by the work of Symbolist and Acmeist poets, whose recognized ideologist is Nikolai Gumilyov. The theme of the “Stone Book” repeatedly appears in the poems of Niklay Zabolotsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Bely, Osip Mandelstam.
However, Sevenard's research has now been suspended. To conduct archaeological surveys on the islands of Russian Body and German Body and full-scale underwater research of the bottom landscape in the place where the mouth of the Indel River was once located, and therefore the “Stone Book” is located, permission from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation is required.
This is not easy to achieve - for five years, Konstantin Sevenard, as a deputy of the State Duma, tried to obtain permission for research work in the mansion of his grandmother M. F. Kshesinskaya, but neither the well-developed project nor the willingness to fully finance the work of archaeological specialists could break through administrative obstacles "
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov. Poet, traveler, warrior.
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov. Poet, traveler, warrior.
The warrior of the ancient armies is backward,
I harbor enmity towards this life,
Crazy vaults of Valhalla,
I look forward to glorious battles and feasts*.
Who is Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov? He was among the best of the best during the Silver Age of Russian culture. He twice assembled expeditions to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), sought to civilize the wild tribes inhabiting the Danakil desert, and presented a box of vermouth to a man whom many began to consider the incarnation of God. He went through the First World War, which was then called the Second Patriotic War, fought bravely and was awarded two Crosses of St. George (and more).
The life of a poet is like an action film, full of unexpected stories and adventures. Let's find out more about her!
Nikolai Gumilyov was born into a noble family in 1886, grew up as a sickly child, and wrote his first poem at the age of 6. He studied in four gymnasiums, but the first and last of them was Tsarskoye Selo. The poet was not successful in his studies, but the director of the gymnasium, Innokenty Annensky, was also a poet, and therefore treated his ward with understanding. When Gumilyov published the first collection of poems, he found a teacher and patron - the famous poet Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov.
At the age of 20, Gumilyov went to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne University. He traveled a lot; distant lands have always attracted the poet. Even his first quatrain was dedicated to the Niagara River.
In addition to France, he visited Italy, then returned briefly to Russia and went on a trip to the countries of the Levant (modern Syria, Palestine and Lebanon), he talked about this in letters to his teacher Valery Bryusov. Then he published a successful collection of poems, received money from its sales and visited Turkey, Greece and Egypt. On his next trip, inspired by stories about the exploits of Russian officers in Africa, the poet went to Abyssinia, where he became friends with Emperor (Negus) Menelik II, and also collected a large collection of local curiosities for the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera. Here is an excerpt from a poem by a poet captivated by a distant and adventurous land:
Listen: far, far away, on Lake Chad
An exquisite giraffe wanders.
He is given graceful harmony and bliss,
And his skin is decorated with a magical pattern,
Only the moon dares to equal him,
Crushing and swaying on the moisture of wide lakes.**
These lines were dedicated to Anna Akhmatova.
Returning to Russia, Gumilev plunges into literary life, enters famous literary circles, founds a magazine, shoots over Elizaveta Dmitrieva, shoots with the poet Maximilian Voloshin; the opponents were not injured, Gumilyov demanded that the fight continue, but it all ended with two misfires (on the part of Voloshin) and a miss (on the part of Gumilyov). In the same year, another collection was published, to which the most famous literary figures responded.
Life was full of events. In 1910, the twenty-four-year-old poet married Anna Gorenko, whom we know as Akhmatova, near Kiev, became a master of the “Workshop of Poets,” announced the birth of a new literary movement, participated in the opening of a publishing house and magazine, and entered St. Petersburg University, where he studied Old French poetry. On October 1, 1912, Gumilyov became a father: the couple of poets had a son, Lev, the future famous scientist.
Gumilyov then went on a second expedition to Abyssinia to explore this land with the support of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He wanted to get acquainted with the unexplored tribes of the Danakil desert, but he had to abandon this. However, the poet still became fully acquainted with Africa. Together with the Turkish consul Mozar Bey, he continued his journey on the requested handcar when the train stopped in the middle of Africa. Then Gumilyov went in a caravan to Harar, a city in eastern Ethiopia, and met there the race Tefari, whom the Rastafarians later recognized as the incarnation of the god Jah. Subsequently, this man became emperor.
Then there was a journey through little-explored lands, the poet obtained food by hunting, near the city of Sheikh Hussein he crawled into a cave where, according to legend, a sinful person was supposed to get stuck and die of hunger and thirst. Through Ginir, the expedition came to the Dera Valley, where Gumilev was treating a woman for malaria, who later named her son after him. After this, the expedition set off on its way back through Harar.
Gumilyov’s lyrical hero is a man of action, decisive and fearless.
“I am a conquistador in an iron shell,
I'm happily chasing a star
I walk through abysses and abysses
And I rest in a joyful garden***,” he wrote in 1905, at the age of 19, and, like a slogan, he followed these lines all his life. Less than a year after returning from Africa, the poet volunteered for the First World War, paying a bribe to be allowed to serve in the army. He went through the most difficult battles, took part in the race when he was sick, and received the St. George Cross in the very first battle, for night reconnaissance. He received the second George during the heavy battles in Volyn for single-handedly carrying and saving a machine gun during the retreat of Russian troops. And the machine guns of those times weighed more than seventy kilograms!
Having fallen ill with pneumonia at the front, the poet was treated for a long time in Yalta, but returned back to the trenches. In 1917 and later, the decomposition of the Russian army began, and he transferred to the expeditionary force in France and did not participate in any more battles.
In Soviet Russia, Gumilyov presented books of poetry, plays, and an African magic poem to the public. In 1920, he was elected president of the Union of Poets, published his best collection, “The Pillar of Fire,” ran a literary studio, mentoring young poets, and did not hide his views, including monarchist ones.
It seems that Nikolai Gumilyov, like Lermontov and Pushkin, like the poets of the later era Pasternak and Mandelstam, prophesied his own death:
And I won't die on a bed,
With a notary and a doctor,
And in some wild crevice,
Drowned in thick ivy.****
At the age of 35 (in 1921), the poet was shot on charges of anti-Soviet conspiracy. He died smoking a cigarette taken from the security officers and remaining calm, and was completely rehabilitated in 1992. It is unknown whether he participated in the conspiracy, whether he knew about it, just as the exact place where he is buried is unknown.
* from a poem by N.S. Gumileva "Olga"
** from Gumilyov’s poem “Giraffe”
*** from Gumilyov’s poem “I am a conquistador in an iron shell...”
**** from Gumilyov’s poem “You and I”
Shustova Daria
Islands have always played a major role in the White Sea region. The capital of the White Sea region is Solovki, and on the way there from the Kemskaya Bay there are 16 uninhabited granite islands of the Kuzov archipelago. Among them, only three have names - Olyoshin, Russian and German Body. I visited both archipelagos at the end of August.
Solovki remains a territory intended for transition - initiations and transformations, death, physical or symbolic. This is a land of many legends, almost each of which requires verification, with the exception of the legends about the miracles of the founders of this place - the Monks Zosima, Savvaty and Herman.
Thus, records have been preserved that until 1429 there were wolves on the Solovetsky Islands. However, then Saint Zosima imposed an eternal fast on the Solovetsky land - all forest creatures should not eat slaughter, and he showed the wolves, who cannot live without hot blood, the way from the island:
And you, wolves, are creatures of God, born in sin, living in sin. Go there, to the sinful mother earth, live there. And here the place is holy! Leave him!
The wolves obeyed, landed on floating ice floes in the spring and sailed to the Pomeranian coast, towards the Kem River. For them, one word from the saint was enough. And for 600 years now, wolves have avoided Solovki, and when they happen to find themselves on the islands against their will, they flee. They say that once on the island of Anzer they tried to settle a she-wolf to limit the herd of deer that had taken root here since the time of St. Philip (Kolychev). During the winter she left and was found on another island, cut up by ice floes. The she-wolf left the island, including by swimming. The island has an abundance of mushrooms, northern berries (cloudberries, lingonberries, crowberries, blueberries, blueberries), fishing grounds, curious seals and hares. But the abundance of food did not stop the beast from escaping - she could not contradict the word of Saint Zosima.
In our time, an American satellite indirectly confirmed the legend of the crossing of wolves from the Solovetsky Islands. Pomors say that the sea towards Kem does not freeze. However, it is not. There are, for example, satellite photographs dating back to March 30, 2002, in which there are continuous fields of ice from Solovki to Kem.
Low stone labyrinths (locally called “Babylons”) were found on all the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago. More than thirty of them have survived. On Bolshoy Solovetsky I went through a couple of restored labyrinths (remodeled according to the sketches of one Solovetsky archaeologist, Krasnov, it seems). And on Bolshoi Zayatsky Island I successfully completed three original (that is, made before our era) labyrinths.
Labyrinths are intricate paths made of stones the size of a head or smaller. Once in the center, you can’t immediately get out of there unless you cross borders.
On the boat that flew the St. Andrew's flag to Bolshoi Zayatsky Island - that is, to the place where the flag was invented by Tsar Peter, I met a woman who had fragmentary, but very vivid childhood memories associated with the labyrinths of Bolshoy Zayatsky Island.
She was kept in an orphanage in the Arkhangelsk region. Children were exploited there, forced to hold nets while fishing for salmon while up to their chests in cold water. The children rebelled, and some of the orphanage residents fled to the White Sea on a raft. Usually such voyages must end in death. But thanks to God's providence, the innocent children eventually landed on Bolshoy Zayatsky Island.
My friend with the sea name Marina sat in one of the labyrinths of this island for 16 hours, honestly trying to get back out without dying. In the process, I peed there and slept a little. And in the end she managed to find a way out. Then the police found them. And after sitting in the maze, Marina discovered her ability to draw.
Labyrinths were discovered on Bolshoye Solovetsky, in the area of Kislaya Bay, on Anzersky - at its eastern end, near Cape Kalguev, and on Bolshoi Zayatsky. And in Pomorie outside Solovki: at the mouths of the rivers Verzuga, Kemi, Ponoya, near the village. Umba and near the village of Keret. With all the variety of forms, ancient labyrinths are always located near the sea - on islands and peninsulas, at river mouths; and the entrance to them is always from the mainland. Such labyrinths can be found all over the world. Their purpose is multifunctional, but their meaning is not clear to most people.
In the middle of the labyrinth there is often a structure made of stones. Alexander Bryusov, an archaeologist and brother of the symbolist poet Valery Bryusov, told the truth in one of Bolshoi Zayatsky’s labyrinths. He dug up a stone structure in the center, didn’t find a damn thing inside, and threw the removed stones at the entrance to the labyrinth, where they still lie.
Scientists have put forward, as usual, a bunch of hypotheses explaining the purpose of labyrinths. Everyone is delusional, which can be felt even from the first phrases of the presentation. But unlike the Tunguska wonder, where their authors like false hypotheses so much that they do not want to part with them, in the case of the Pomor labyrinths the hypotheses look unreliable even in the eyes of their authors. Therefore, an unprecedented event in my memory happened - the scientists decided not to touch anything else until new ideas about the meaning of the labyrinths or new research methods appeared.
Do you know of another case where scientists refused to take apart, break, or dismantle something unknown in order to find out how it worked while it was intact?
And here it turned out exactly like this - all the labyrinths that survived the Solovki camp period are intact and densely overgrown with lingonberries.
But the fate of new theories will not be easy. After all, the only thing that is clear now is that the labyrinths were used for rituals. And it has usually never been possible to unravel the meaning of rituals within the framework of the scientific paradigm. After all, she doesn’t want to know anything about sacred spaces, techniques for diving into the lower worlds, working with individual time...
On Kuzovy, the main attractions are not the labyrinths, but other stone monuments. They were discovered (in the scientific sense of the word) and studied by an expedition of the Karelian Museum of History and Local Lore led by I.M. Mullo in the 60s. Since then, the archipelago has been famous for its ancient sites, religious complexes, as well as the abundance of sacred stones - seids. In total, about 800 different stone structures were discovered here. On the German Kuzov, which I visited, there are about 300 of them. And I managed to see less than two dozen - galloping across northern Europe.
A seid may be an ordinary stone, but placed in such a way that it marks the path. So it was extremely desirable for a person to see him in the tundra.
Flat stones are also popular; they are tempting to sit on.
The remaining types of seids can be divided into four groups.
The first is huge boulders placed by man, and sometimes by a passing glacier, on the so-called. “legs” are small stones. They look very impressive.
The second is seids-idols in the form of a rough sculpted bust of a person. These are boulders resembling the shape and size of the upper part of a human torso, on which sometimes head-shaped stones lie. It seems that I saw such a seid through binoculars on one of the nameless Kuzovsky islands.
The third is zoomorphic seids - “crocodiles, hippos...”. Moreover, crocodiles are presented in an assortment, and I saw one stone hippopotamus.
The fourth, most numerous group is medium-sized boulders on which several smaller stones are installed.
Seid on the island of German Body is about a meter high. The lower stone, judging by the mosses, was laid a couple of thousand years ago, the upper stones are a remake, a stylization of how it usually looked.
On Russian Kuzov, the sanctuary is located on the top of a granite mountain called Lysa. On its slopes there are more than 350 seids, approximately the same as on the Nemetsky Kuzov. The only difference between the sanctuary on Bald Mountain is the presence there of “stone women” - seid-idols, which got their name from their resemblance to the Polovtsian stone women of the Eurasian steppes.
In general, the discovery of Sami sanctuaries on the German and Russian Kuzovs was important: for the first time, cult monuments of the ancient Sami were discovered in areas where the Sami had not lived for a long time. This means that the discovered sanctuaries date back to ancient times and are not ethnographic objects.
View of the Russian Kuzov island from the German Kuzov.
The highest points of the archipelago: German Body - 134 m and Russian Body - 123 m. These are the highest points in the entire Karelian White Sea region. This is what the boat that brought us to Kuzova looked like from a height of 130 meters.
A unique cult complex was also discovered on the top of Oleshin Kuzov Island. There are 2 labyrinths and 8 dolmens here. One of the labyrinths has no analogues in Northern Europe in its design features.
According to the belief of the Sami, the ancient inhabitants of the White Sea region, seids help people in fishing and hunting. Therefore, they were placed on high banks and islands so that they were visible from afar.
And the very possibility of people appearing on the Kuzovs is ensured by the presence of springs and forests there. In particular, on Nemetsky Kuzov there are three weak springs and some forests in the crevices (“and trees grow on the stones”).
Stone monuments of supposed Hyperborea are found in Karelia, on the Kola, on Kuzovy...
In the case of the latter, researchers sail there all the time in motorized and rowing boats. The fact is that you can moor to the German Body by boat, which is what I did. And you can only moor to the Russian Body on a yacht or motor boat. No other way. And that’s why I couldn’t get there this year.
It’s a pity, of course: after all, it is on the Russian Body that there is an ancient stone throne, which is found in three films about the search for Hyperborea. And there is another film ("Mirages of Hyperborea") about how enthusiasts raised this multi-ton throne...
The stone throne on the Russian Body weighs about fifteen tons.
In general, in Kemi on the street. Frunze, house 1 there is a restaurant "Kuzova". It is decorated with photographs of the restaurant owner on this (presumably Hyperborean) throne. He sometimes takes his friends or guests on the Russian Body, but then he takes a small boat on a large boat in order to moor to the island.
And the German Body is leased. There is a caretaker there, and during the season there live commercial tent clients who pay 1,000 rubles a day for this pleasure.
In 2005, Konstantin Sevenard’s expedition to the White Sea also took place.
This is a public figure in St. Petersburg who says that since childhood he has had the memory of a past life, and the life of a very specific subject, his name is Fab or Fab. I respect people who remember past lives only if in that past life the person does not remember himself as Nefertiti. This already resembles a mental disorder, you will agree. And the boy Kostya shocked his parents by talking about some things that a child cannot know. So, in Tajikistan, he talked about the assault on a certain city, which was located next to the entrance to the underworld, where the souls of the dead go. They say that this entrance really exists, just as the image of the sphinx exists opposite the entrance to this tunnel. According to Sevenard's insights, before his death in that life, he managed to dictate and depict to his subordinate Aryans a dictionary of petroglyphs that Fab used when creating the Stone Book on the shores of the White Sea. All the events of Fab’s life after leaving the North are described in a rock text, which is located in the area of the town of Santuda in Tajikistan. It is proof of the existence of Fab, since the petroglyphs of the text allegedly coincide with the text of the Stone Book, which is located at the bottom of the reservoir of the Belomorskaya hydroelectric station. The Santudinskaya hydroelectric power station is being built, the reservoir of which will flood these inscriptions, but for now they are still accessible. And the entrance to the underworld and the sphinx in Tajikistan were flooded by the reservoir of the Nurek hydroelectric power station, whose dam is the highest in the world. Such a height of the dam leads to thoughts that are already useless... For example, about why the Aryan city of Arkaim in the Southern Urals almost ended up in the flood zone of reservoirs.
And there are legends about the Stone Book. There is a legend, completely crazy in my opinion, that Lomonosov saw the book, which explains his career. And also that Nikolai Gumilev saw her, at the age of 18, in 1904, traveling through the Russian North. Here, perhaps, there is at least a half-truth, they say, he did not read it, but made inquiries about it. Because Gumilev was allegedly hosted by Emperor Nicholas II with a report on the Stone Book. Further research is funded by the Russian treasury. An expedition is organized to the Kuzovskaya archipelago, which opens a tomb there and finds a unique comb made of gold. Sevenard claims that during a trip in the summer of 2005, he discovered an open tomb (which he calls for some reason “the tomb of Queen Mob”) at the top of one of the hills of the Russian Body.
The comb, called “Hyperborean,” was found on Kuzov by an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences led by the explorer of the Russian North, Wiese, in 1898. This is how Wiese himself describes this find: “For excavations, we chose a stone pyramid on the island, which is called Russian Body, unfortunately, the pyramid turned out to be empty, and we were about to finish the work on the island when I asked the workers, not for anything in particular hoping to turn over a large stone slab not far from the pyramid. Under the slab, to my incredible joy, there were stones tightly fitted to each other. The very next day we managed to open this burial. The Vikings did not bury their dead or build stone tombs, so I concluded that this burial belongs to an older civilization. In the grave was the skeleton of a woman, no objects except one. Near the woman’s skull was a golden comb of amazing workmanship, on top of which a girl in a tight-fitting tunic sat on the backs of two dolphins carrying her.”
According to legend, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich presented this comb (at the request of Nicholas II) to Matilda Kshesinskaya. And there is reason to believe that the comb still lies in the hiding place of Kshesinskaya’s mansion in St. Petersburg.
In the fiction book “Fragile Eternity” (I understand that in terms of authenticity this is the same as referring to “The Da Vinci Code”) for this comb in 1904, the American Association of Masonic Lodges offered 6.5 million gold rubles, which corresponds to approximately $300 million in purchasing power in modern times.
In less than a week of my stay on the White Sea, I received only fragments of meanings, for example, while we were driving to the Kem, we passed the Indomanka - the left tributary of the Kema. In its name I immediately saw the typical Sanskrit root “indus”. There are many rivers with this root in the places where the Aryans supposedly settled: from Indigirka, Indoga, Indega, Indiga, Indichjok in the north to the famous Indus River in India.
And “North” is an exciting word that is close to the meaning preserved, perhaps, in Sanskrit: “to sparkle, shine, radiate, burn.” As meaning is lost, extra links appear, some kind of duplication. For example, when hearing the word “north,” many people see a picture of the northern lights appear. But according to the original meaning, “north” is already “radiance, sparkle,” and “northern lights” turns out to be “service”...
“Do you remember how the Aryans walked from North to South?” one woman from Kaluga suddenly asked me this year, for some reason intuitively deciding that I came from a northern civilization.
“I don’t remember, I was little,” I answered...
But if I don’t remember anything - unlike Konstantin Sevenard - why not use this for artistic purposes?
I conceived such a text last summer (see preface). But, alas, there are not enough words yet.
And Grebenshchikov has already used it a little for artistic purposes.
“On stone fires the wind kisses the grass of the seven winds,” he begins the album “Hyperborea.”
Indeed, bones could not have been preserved from Hyperborea, but stones remained...
Now a near-horizon observatory of the Hyperboreans has already been found, which is possibly similar to the near-horizon observatory of Ulugbek, the ruins of which I studied for an hour near Samarkand in August 1986.
