Mount Tuzluk, like a permanent sentry, has always met and attracted pilgrims going to the Holy places of the Northern Elbrus region. And now it is impossible not to pay attention to this miracle of nature. And maybe not only nature.

For a long time I tried to understand the meaning of the name of this mountain. It was very meaningless to connect the name of the mountain with a saline solution - brine. But one day a completely different combination arose: ace - az - ace and a bow as a weapon. (Ace is first, main map in the deck, an important person; Az is the first letter in the alphabet, the pronoun is Az I know God, the self-name of the peoples of Azov, Asov).

And indeed, when approaching it from the north, the mountain first looks like a bow with a loose string, and then, when approaching it, it takes on the appearance of a bow drawn tightly. So, maybe Tuzluk - Azluk - Asluk, - the bow of Azov, Asov, or my lukk.

The first time I saw her was twenty years ago. Even then she seemed very curious to me. But as always, on a sports trip there is no time for extraneous research. You need to stick to the hike schedule and arrive before dark at a place convenient for bivouac.

And only in 2005, as part of the ELBRUS - RUSKOLAN expedition, we planned several hours to explore the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthis mountain.

We left the base camp on Djilysu in the afternoon and, having crossed the Kayaeshik pass, arrived at Tuzluk in the evening. Having asked for shelter from the spirit owners of the mountain, they settled down to spend the night next to a spring at its eastern foot.

The next morning, unexpectedly, a GAZ-66 drove up to us from the direction of Kislovodsk with a group of climbers heading to Elbrus. He was supposed to return at 16:00 and promised to take our group of 15 people to the Narzan Valley.

So it was given to us, I think, by the same perfume, for the whole day, and not for several hours, as planned, and we did not lose it in vain. Everyone dispersed in small groups, wherever their curiosity led them.

In the evening, around the fire in the Narzan Valley, everyone talked about what they had seen. And we managed to see a lot of interesting and even mysterious things.

Pavel Otkidychev discovered in the canyon of the Malka River fragments of rocks with imprints of tree trunks, some small objects that have not yet been explained, cave drawings in the shape of a cross along with a triangle or pyramid and coal seams. And these are not all the mysteries that he and other members of the expedition saw.

Cross and triangle. Similar drawingexists on the northern slope of Mount Sirkh.

Stairs and coal seams.

From the Malki canyon on the plateau, to the mountain, in the place closest to it, a stone staircase rises. Judging by the photographs, it seemed to me to be a natural formation, but two to five thousand years ago this staircase could have been hewn, equipped with railings or rope, and then it would not have been difficult to climb up this staircase.

The photograph next to the stairs shows layers of coal that could have been used in ancient metal smelting furnaces previously discovered by the expedition of A.A. Alekseev and A.G. Evtushenko, very nearby, on the Tashlysyrt ridge.

And with Zhanna Demina, the geologist of the expedition, something magical happened. She left with her daughter Olga, a great connoisseur of flora, now a student at the Timiryazev Academy. They climbed to the top of the mountain, examined the summit rock (I will describe it later), went down, walked around the mountain and, softened by the sun, settled down to rest on the beautiful alpine meadow. And suddenly Jeanne saw a procession of people dressed in long dark chitons with their heads covered with hoods. People slowly passed by and went inside the mountain. The last of them turned to Jeanne and silently beckoned her along. She became scared and it took a very great effort of will not to succumb to this call. She doesn’t know, then or now, whether it was all real or whether it was some kind of obsession. She is sure of one thing, that she was not sleeping at that moment.

Mount Tuzluk itself (2585m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass and 500 m from the menhir, on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers. It emerged as a lonely peak to the North from the root peak of the Tashlysyrt ridge of Mount Sirkh. Its silhouette of a regular shape in the form of a giant pyramid cone amazes the imagination.

According to the results of a preliminary geological survey by Vyacheslav Tokarev, the mountain itself is a natural mountain range from layered hard quartzite tuff sandstones, in the steep upper part, and from weakly cemented to loose - sandy-clayey tuff undulating sequences in the gentle lower slope of the base.

The feeling of man-made modification of the slopes and top of the mountain - some refining into a geometrically correct shape - does not leave you. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky outcrop, lined with stone or concrete blocks to give the structure the correct shape. Only Egyptian pyramids a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk. This mountain, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary.

Megalith - a monument of phallic culture and Mount Tuzluk.

The mountain is well oriented in space. On it are located: from the south - a semi-ring of an incision-cut in the mountain itself, a probable place of altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat platform in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top. Perhaps mass rituals were held here. In the west, at the foot of the mountain, there is a megalith stone up to two meters high, in the form of a large animal. At the top of it there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this cup-stone (we called it bull) served to commemorate the souls of the dead leaving to the west following the rays of the “dying” (departing) sun.

To the east of the mountain, on a flat sloping plateau between the mountain and the cliff towards Malka, there are large stones sunk deep into the ground. Some of them are overgrown and hidden by grass and soil. It looks like they were laid out here in an orderly manner.

The southern part of the mountain top is a rock of quartzite tuff sandstone. Its top is flat and is a continuation of the top of the mountain. The rock appears to have been artificially cut down to the base into four rock blocks oriented to the cardinal directions. A. Asov believes that these blocks served as the foundation of the temple construction of the ancients.

The top of Mount Tuzluk and Mount Sirkh.

There is information of Vedic origin that in Tuzluk there are cells - cells used by priests for solitude and self-knowledge. The mountain had a through passage from north to south. We found indirect confirmation of this during the 2007 expedition. Having discovered a previously unnoticed gap or crack at the base of the summit rock blocks, we brought a flame to it, and it was torn off into the mountain.

Among the local people, the news has been preserved that from the Malki gorge to Tuzluk there is underground passage, now hidden.

I would like to check all this using methods familiar to modern science.

It is also interesting that the top of Mount Tuzluk and the top of another sacred mountain– Kalitsky Peak is located on the north-south axis, on the same meridian, which could not but be used by the ancient priests for a near-horizontal observatory. The other one, necessary for such an observatory, the west-east latitudinal axis, is located nearby. This axis is the top of Mount Shaukam - the menhir “anvil of Perun” on the Irahitsyrt plateau - the top of Mount Buruntashbashi, but perhaps the ancients chose another axis associated with Mount Sirkh.

Mount Sirkh blocks the sky from the south side of Tuzluk. On the pre-summit part in the rocky eastern ridge there once existed two dwellings, most likely of ancient priest-astronomers (stargazers), because The rather deep holes remaining from those dwellings are located exactly on the above-mentioned meridional axis Tuzluk - Kalitsky Peak.

Sirkh mountain is a mystery. It was the center, a kind of Olympus, in ancient rituals, to which people from all over the Caucasus and its foothills flocked here, to Djilysu, for sacred festivities. Even now, after many thousands of years, anywhere in the Northern Elbrus region, the dowsing frame points to Sirkh as the most powerful energy and prayer place. Unfortunately, we still know almost nothing about Sirkh. We don’t even know what the name of the mountain means. We have not found such a word in any local current language. In distant centuries, the powerful King Surkh ruled in the Caucasus. But this information requires confirmation by specialist historians.

So, the day passed quickly while exploring Mount Tuzluk and the surrounding area. At 15 o’clock the Heavens started “watering the grass” - a daily short warm rain, very typical only for the Dzhilysu region in July-August. The tents were already packed into backpacks and, while waiting for the car, we all huddled under one piece of polyethylene. Less than half an hour had passed when the car appeared, and then the rain suddenly stopped. When we plunged into it, the rain “turned on” again, but we were already under the awning of the car. About four kilometers later, the car left the rain zone and entered a very dusty road area. In two hours we covered the distance that we should have covered in two days.

We thank the guys from the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the selfless gift.

They decided to spend the donated days in the Narzan Valley. In the gorge of the Khasaut River we found a fabulously beautiful corner and set up camp. Sunny days were spent in raspberry fields and warm river baths. In the evenings around the fire they exchanged observations and impressions from the expedition. The people were blissful!

In general, the entire campaign took place under some kind of protection, as if God was in his bosom. One of the patrons revealed himself to us. It started with the fact that he did not allow me to lead the group past him along the “Malkin Trail”, which was very familiar to me. Trying to lead the group to the confluence of the Khasaut and Malka rivers, I suddenly ran into a steep slope where the climb was supposed to begin and could not find the continuation of the trail. (Oblaz is a place where the river is pressed against a rock and you have to climb over the top). For me it was like not finding the front door at home. But, to my amazement, I could not find the path and decided to return a little to the clearing I had just passed. The next morning, when everyone was still sleeping, I came to the hole - the path was in its place and perfectly visible. I walked along it and at the very bend again, as if I had bumped into something. He didn’t tempt fate, turned around and began to descend. And suddenly he fell on a stable path. Only experience and an ice ax helped me not fly off the cliff. I understood why the trail was closed to me the day before. Apparently, someone with less experience could have flown away. All that remains is to thank the Gods!

But that was only the beginning. By the end of the second day, we had trodden out a wide path in the tall grass on the steep descent from the tents to the river. As I walked up it from the river, I noticed a hewn log in the grass near the path.

Turning it out of the ground, I saw the face of an old man with a beard, with folded palms and a runic inscription at chest level. None of us, to our shame, knew Rune.

It was assumed that this is an image of some ancient Russian God because In these places, until 1943, teams of Old Believers mined gold. We decided to take it to Pyatigorsk and offer it to the local history museum.

God Veles.

On Monday, they brought me to Pyatigorsk, and on Tuesday I was invited to take part in the Perun festival at Velesova Polyana at the foot of Mount Beshtau. The holiday was held by the Kavminvodsk Vedic community on Wednesday. I decided to show the community members our find. Everyone present gathered around. Another woman came up and suddenly cried out in excitement - Rodoslav, come, look at your work. It turned out that two years ago they were on a hike in the Narzanov Valley and he cut this image of Veles out of a log. The whole tourist group solemnly installed it over the river. But we didn’t dug deep into the roofing felts, or he interfered with someone, but we found him down to dust and already pretty eaten by rot and insects.

At the first moment I felt disappointment because this idol turned out to be not of historical value, but a remake, but then amazement came. It turned out that we saved God Veles from death and delivered him to Veles Glade, and even on a holiday, and to the master who created him. But we, or someone else, could have burned him in a fire, thrown him into the river, or even taken him somewhere else, but no, Veles himself came to his clearing to his creator on a holiday.

There are too many coincidences, from delivering us from Tuzluk to the Narzan Valley, to gently but persistently holding us at the clearing where he lay prostrate in the dust.

After all this, analyzing the cases that have happened to me over many years in the mountains and not only in the mountains, I come to the conclusion that we are always under the protection of our Gods. You just need to learn to listen to them, praise and thank them for this, without asking anything from them.

Glory to our Gods and Ancestors!

Full member of the Russian Geographical Society V.D. Stasenko

On the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria is located unusual mountain, examining which a person experiences a double feeling. He gets the feeling that this is not a creation of nature, but something man-made. Mount Tuzluk serves as both a place of pilgrimage and an interesting landmark of the region. Legends are still made about this hill.

Mysterious Mount Tuzluk

There is an opinion that the mountain is a secret chamber hidden in its depths, the contents of which are far from human understanding. The Caucasian pyramid, according to some assumptions, 5 thousand years ago was the place of activity of the oracle and everyone could receive their prediction from it. It was conveyed to people by the Pythia, who spoke under the influence of fumes emanating from the crevices. Mount Tuzluk still emits some gases from its depths.

Getting to this hill is not difficult; right underneath there is a road leading to mineral springs. Despite the fact that the mountain is almost vertical from the entrance, climbing it is not very difficult. At the very top there is a flat platform on which there are 4 stone pillars.

Like many, this building raises many questions. From a bird's eye view, the pillars resemble a cross, and one gets the feeling that they were specially installed for unknown purposes. It can be assumed that this place was a sanctuary or observatory. Scientists carried out experiments and came to the conclusion that more than 4,000 thousand years ago, rituals of sacrifice and purification of the soul were performed at this place.

Pyramids of the Elbrus region

On the western side of the mountain there is a stone that vaguely resembles a bull. It symbolizes the feminine principle. Nearby there is a stone with a concave top for performing rituals. This place is surrounded by stone pyramids that have a phallic shape and depict knights. They represent the protection of a woman.

Scientists suggest that there was once a temple of the Sun on the top of the mountain, since the rising of the luminary, on the days of the equinox and opposition, corresponds to the established altars. Others believe that the sanctuary is located in the mountain. Those who lingered at the top for a long time say that the rock mass breathes, releasing strange air from a deep crack.

The northern Elbrus region keeps many secrets, which brave explorers and desperate romantics, enchanted by the transcendental beauty of the inaccessible Elbrus, have always strived to discover. It is on its slopes that the mysterious Caucasian pyramid is located - Mount Tuzluk. Its sloping, smoothed forms are simply ideal, especially in comparison with the nearby hills. The thought involuntarily arises that not only nature is involved in the emergence of this mountain, but some intelligent forces that are beyond our understanding.
“The first time I saw her was twenty years ago.” Even then she seemed very curious to me. But as always, on a sports trip there is no time for extraneous research. We need to stick to the schedule of the hike and arrive before dark at a place convenient for a bivouac,” says Vladimir Stasenko, a full member of the Russian Geographical Society, chairman of the Pyatigorsk branch. “And only in 2005, as part of the Elbrus-Ruskolan expedition, a survey of the area of ​​this mountain was planned. We did not regret the time spent, since we managed to discover a lot of interesting and even mysterious things.
One of the expedition members, Pavel Otkidychev, found in the Malka River canyon fragments of rocks with imprints of tree trunks, some small objects that have not yet been explained, rock paintings in the shape of a cross along with a triangle or pyramid, and coal seams. There, in the place closest to Mount Tuzluk, a stone staircase rises, at first glance similar to a natural formation, but two to five thousand years ago this staircase could have been hewn, equipped with railings or rope, and then it was possible to climb up this staircase it wouldn't be difficult.
“Mount Tuzluk itself (2585 m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers,” continues Vladimir Dmitrievich. “It emerged as a lonely peak to the North from the root peak of the Tashlysyrt ridge of Mount Sirkh. Its silhouette of a regular shape in the form of a giant pyramid cone amazes the imagination. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky outcrop, lined with stone or concrete blocks to give the structure the correct shape. Only the Egyptian pyramids are a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk, which, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary.
Resembling the shape of an ancient mound, the mountain gives rise to a great many assumptions. Sometimes even the most fantastic ones, for example, that it is hollow on the inside and bulk on the outside. In the cavity, perhaps, there is a huge hall, but what is in it is difficult to even imagine. According to one version, 4-5 thousand years ago there was a sanctuary here, the so-called oracle, a place where divinations were made.
“The mountain is well oriented in space: from the south there is a semi-ring of an incision-cut at the very top, a likely place for altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat area in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top,” explains the researcher. “Perhaps mass rituals were held here.” In the west, at the foot of the mountain, there is a megalith stone up to two meters high, in the form of a large animal. At the top of it there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this cup-stone (we called it bull) served to commemorate the souls of the dead leaving to the west following the rays of the “dying” (departing) sun. To the east of the mountain, on a flat sloping plateau between the mountain and the cliff towards Malka, there are large stones sunk deep into the ground. Some of them are overgrown and hidden by grass and soil. It looks like they were laid out here in an orderly manner. The southern part of the mountain top is a rock of quartzite tuff sandstone. Its top is flat and is a continuation of the top of the mountain. The rock appears to have been artificially cut down to the base into four blocks, oriented according to the cardinal directions, which served as the basis for the temple structure of the ancients.
Perhaps Mount Tuzluk eats

Anna Kobzar.

The height of Mount Tuzluk is 2585 m. It is located at the branching point of the Malka Ingushli rivers, half a kilometer from the Kayashik pass on the north side. It is a pyramid in the form of a cone of regular shape.

There are many theories and assumptions explaining the meaning and meaning of this name. Translated from Turkic, “ace” is “salt,” that is, a kind of “salt shaker”; others translate it as “Treasury of the Sun.” There is also the following theory, the very name “ Brine" is broken into two - these are "ace" and "bow". The ace is the main deck in cards, and the bow is in the understanding of weapons. And indeed, if you observe the mountain as it approaches from the north, it resembles the shape of a bow, at first not stretched, but as you get closer, it is already quite stretched.

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In ancient times, Tuzluk was a symbol of a sentry and greeted pilgrims going to the holy places of the Elbrus region. Today it is difficult not to pay attention to this mystical, fascinating miracle of nature. Surprisingly, Mount Tuzluk is several thousand years older than the pyramids that are still in Egypt today. According to many evidences, this mountain was the center of the sanctuary.

It is said that in Mount Tuzluk there are cells that the priests used to retire for the purpose of self-knowledge. There is also a belief that there previously existed a passage underground (hidden today), as well as a passage through the entire mountain from south to north.

There really is a lot of mysticism here. If you look closely, the mountain is quite well oriented in space for various rituals. In the south, a semicircle is formed, something like a recess in the mountain itself - probably a place for altars. In the west, at the foot of this mountain, you can see a two-meter megalith - a stone in the form of an animal, with a bowl on top. Perhaps this is also a participant in some ritual. In the east, between Tuzluk and the cliff to the river, there are large-sized stones, overgrown into the ground and as if they were placed here specially in their order.

Many more examples can be cited as evidence of the presence of mystification in the area. Caucasus Mountains, namely in the Elbrus region. And they all say that it was here that the main secret rites with otherworldly forces took place. These facts fascinate adventure lovers and attract many tourists here like a magnet.

(2585 m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass and 500 m from the menhir, on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers. It advanced as a lonely peak to the North from the root peak of the Tashlyt-syrt ridge. Its silhouette of a regular shape in the form of a giant pyramid cone amazes the imagination. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky outcrop, lined with stone or concrete blocks to give the structure the correct shape. Only the Egyptian pyramids are a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk. This mountain, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary. The mountain is well oriented in space. On it are located: from the south - a semi-ring of an incision-cut in the mountain itself, a probable place of altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat platform in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top.

Researchers suggest that Tuzluk is a large underground dolmen.

There is information of Vedic origin that in Tuzluk there are cells, used by priests for solitude and self-knowledge. The mountain had a through passage from north to south. Among the local people, the news has been preserved that there is an underground passage from the Malki gorge to Tuzluk, now hidden.

Near the foot of Mount Karakaya, there is a lonely menhir. The face of a knight is carved on a stone pillar, looking straight to the east. And behind the menhir you can see a bell-shaped hill. This is Tuzluk (“Treasury of the Sun”). Another translation is “salt shaker” (from the word “ace” meaning “salt” in Turkic). And on the top of Tuzluk there are ruins ancient sanctuary Sun. The very structure of the sanctuary and the method of processing the stones point to Cimmerian times. At the top of the hill there is, firstly, a tour marking the summit. At the top there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this cup-stone served to commemorate the souls of the dead who were passing away.d following the rays"dying" (outgoing) sun.Then three big rocks processed. Once upon a time, a slit was cut in them, directed from north to south. Also on the top there are stones laid out like sectors in the zodiac calendar. Each sector is exactly 30 degrees.

And how can one not recall Masudi’s description of the Sun Temple: “In the Slavic regions there were buildings revered by them. Between the others they had a building on a mountain, about which philosophers wrote that it was one of high mountains in the world. There is a story about this building, about the quality of its construction, about the arrangement of its different stones and their different colors, about the holes made in the upper part of it, about what was built in these holes for observing the sunrise, about the precious stones placed there stones and signs marked in it, which indicate future events and warn against incidents before their implementation, about the sounds heard in the upper part of it and about what befalls them when listening to these sounds".
Perhaps this is the same temple at the Great Mountain.

It is also interesting that the top of Mount Tuzluk and the top of another sacred mountain - Kalitsky Peak are located on the north-south axis, on the same meridian, which could not but be used by the ancient priests for a near-horizontal observatory. The other one, necessary for such an observatory, the west-east latitudinal axis, is located nearby. This axis is the top of Mount Shaukam - the menhir "Perun's anvil" on the Irahitsyrt plateau - the top of Mount Buruntashbashi, but perhaps the ancients also chose another axis connected with Mount Sirkh.

Mount Sirkh blocks the sky from the south side of Tuzluk. On the pre-summit part in the rocky eastern ridge there once existed two dwellings, most likely of ancient priest-astronomers (stargazers), because The rather deep holes remaining from those dwellings are located exactly on the above-mentioned meridional axis Tuzluk - Kalitsky Peak.

This place is the site of numerous encounters with UFOs, as well as the object of close study by the top of the Third Reich and the Ananerbe organization.

Materials were used from the book “Ruskolan: Ancient Rus'” (History and traditions of the Russian Cossacks). M., Veche, 2003