Meru Mountains. Hyperborea and Aryan ancestral homeland

Among the amazing phenomena of the land of the Aryans described in the Vedas and Avesta, there is one extremely important one – the sacred mountains of the ancestral home of the Aryans: Meru – in Indian traditions, Hara – in Iranian.

These mountains were also described by the Greeks, they called them Hyperborean, all the largest rivers of Europe flowed from them, and the Scythian ocean lay behind them. In order to reach the world of the gods, it was necessary to overcome the great and endless mountains that stretched from West to East… seven stars of the Big Dipper and the still-located star of Dhruva sparkle over them in the darkness. All the great rivers began from these mountains, only some flow south to the warm sea, while others flow north to the “white ocean”.

What do we see? The constellation Ursa Major and the Pole Star “in the center of the universe” sparkles above the ancient mountains of Arya, and based on the text of the Avesta, “the fast-moving sun” always circulates over the mountains of the great Hara. In the hymns of the Rigveda and Avesta, it is said that in the homeland of the Aryans “six days a day and six months a night”.

Given some evidence, forgetting about the others, it was believed that the Vedas and Avesta describe the Ural Mountains, but the Urals are oriented from south to north, and all sources claimed that these mountains stretch from west to east. Meanwhile, the circumpolar Urals has a northeastern orientation. Here, from the so-called “Three Stones”, the Timan Ridge departs, which combines with the Northern Uvals, which are the main watersheds of the northern and southern seas.

It is here that one should look for the sacred ancestral home of the Aryans, it is here that the earthly waters are divided into streams flowing into the “white sea” of the north and flowing south.

There is a hymn in the Avesta, glorifying the ancient river of the Aryans of Ardvi-Suru, which flows into the North Sea. Some historians believed that this was the Amu Darya, but this river is always muddy, while the ancient Aryan river is said to be transparent, pure and healing. Others believe that this is the Volga.

There is a reason for this: latitude, vast delta and beginning in the high mountains.

I managed to prove that we are talking about the Northern Dvina. Firstly, its upper part is formed from two rivers of the South and Sukhona: hence the names Dvina, that is, “double”. The name “Ardvi” is also translated. The Volga has many tributaries, but the merger of two streams into one does not create this river.

Secondly, in box 5 in the Avesta, a strange phenomenon is mentioned: along with a description of the frost, snow and hail that feed the waters of Ardvi-Sura, one channel is mentioned: “it flows seven Karshavars, flowing evenly in summer and winter.” The Volga does not have a channel that would not freeze in the winter, but the Northern Dvina has it – it is the Yemtsa River, from its bottom all year round sources that are called “kipuns” beat. This is one of the major tributaries of the Dvina. Yes, this is a discovery, and quite serious in our science, since now we do not suppose, but know where the sacred ancestral home of the Aryans was located.

– Svetlana Vasilievna, who, then, was our ancestors!

– The initial population of the Russian North was not Finno-Ugric, but Indo-European, speaking the Indo-European language, preserving the culture and rites of this people, preserving precisely this anthropological type. The most ancient books of the Vedas were written, transmitted orally in these northern, circumpolar territories. On this territory, say, conditionally, not Slavs lived; people lived here, speaking some kind of archaic form of Indo-Iranian languages.

Compare at least the Russian language and Sanskrit:

Russian – Sanskrit

matheri (mother) – matheri

syn (son) – suna

snuha (daughter-in-law) – snusha

nas (us) – nas

wam (you) – wam

dwa, dwe (two) – dwa, dwi

padati (fall) – pad

deva (virgin) – devi

The list goes on and on.

– Svetlana Vasilievna, historical science is replete with errors and examples of wrong paths. Do you know what you are saying, or do you believe in it?

– It is difficult to even capture the amount and variety of evidence that we apply. This is anthropology, and climatology, and linguistics, cultural studies… rituals. Indeed, if only in the North and in India it is customary for a dying man to end his life on straw, if both here and there the child is sheared a year old and his hair is surely rolled up in manure – this already says something.

And the names of our northern rivers! This is all the same ancient Indian, Sanskrit names! So, for example, in our region there are several Ganges Rivers. In the Ust-Sysolsk uyezd, the Gar river is “sprayed” in Sanskrit, and the Giridaya river is “given mountains” in the same place. Indoga River – in Sanskrit “Indu” – a drop of moisture. In the Velsk County, the Kala River is from the same language “dark, quiet”. In the Solvychegodsk district, the Lala river, according to Sanskrit, “Lal” – to play. In the Kirillov district there is Lake Swar, which means “sparkle”. There are hundreds of examples.

– And the last. The whole complex of your theory, all the fullness of evidence would not fit in several issues of the Russian North. Where can I find out more about your discovery!

– From time to time I give lectures at the Institute for Advanced Studies, in addition, the book “Antiquity: Aryans. Slavs”, there is my article there.

Where did the Drevlyans and Krivichi disappear, or why does the Vologda dialect in Sanskrit not need translation

A professor from India, who arrived in Vologda and did not know the Russian language, a week later refused a translator. “I myself understand enough Vologda,” he said, “because they speak spoiled Sanskrit.”

The Vologda ethnographer Svetlana Zharnikova was not at all surprised: “The present Indians and Slavs had one ancestral home and one proto-language – Sanskrit,” says Svetlana Vasilievna. – Our distant ancestors lived in Eastern Europe on the territory from about modern Vologda to the coast of the Arctic Ocean.

Svetlana Zharnikova wrote a monograph on the historical roots of North Russian folk culture. The book was thick.

Researcher of the ancient Indian epos Tilak in 1903 published his book “The Arctic Homeland in the Vedas” in Bombay. According to Tilak, the Vedas, created more than three thousand years ago, tell about the life of his distant ancestors near the Arctic Ocean. They describe endless summer days and winter nights, the North Star and the northern lights.

The ancient Indian texts tell that in the ancestral home, where there are many forests and lakes, there are sacred mountains that divide the land to the north and south, and the rivers to the current to the north and the current to the south. The river flowing into the southern sea is called Rga (or Ra, this is the Volga). And the one that flows into the Milky or White Sea is Dvina (which means “double” in Sanskrit). The Northern Dvina does not really have its source – it arises from the confluence of two rivers: the South and Sukhona. And the sacred mountains from the ancient Indian epic are very similar in description to the main watershed of Eastern Europe – the Northern Uvals, this giant arc from the hills, which ran from Valdai to the north-east to the polar Urals.

Judging by the studies of paleoclimatologists, in those days, which are described by the Vedas, the average winter temperature on the coast of the Arctic Ocean was 12 degrees higher than now. And it lived in the sense of climate no worse than it is now in the Atlantic areas of Western Europe.

“The vast majority of the names of our rivers can be simply translated from Sanskrit without distorting the language,” says Svetlana Zharnikova.

– Sukhona means “easily overcomeable”, Kubena means “meandering”, Suda means “stream”, Darida means “giving water”, Padma means “lotus, water lily”, Kusha means “sedge”, Syamzhena means “uniting people”. In the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions, many rivers, lakes and streams are called the Ganges, Shiva, Indiga, Indosat, Sindoshka, Indomanka. In my book, thirty pages are occupied by these Sanskrit names. And such names can be preserved only in the case – and this is already the law – if the people who gave these names are preserved. And if it disappears, then the names change.

The year before last, Svetlana Zharnikova accompanied the Indian folk ensemble on a trip to Sukhon. The head of this ensemble, Ms. Mihra, was shocked by the ornaments on Vologda national costumes. “These, she exclaimed enthusiastically, are found here in Rajasthan, and such in Aris, and these ornaments are just like in Bengal.” It turned out that even the technology of embroidery of ornaments is called the same in the Vologda region and in India. Our craftswomen speak of the embossed smooth surface “chekan”, and Indian – “chikan”.

The cooling caused a significant part of the Indo-European tribes to seek new, more favorable living areas in the west and south. The “Deichi” tribes left for Central Europe from the Pechora River (Daitia), the “Suehan” from the Sukhona River, and the “Vagan” from Vagi. All these are the ancestors of the Germans.

Other tribes settled on the Mediterranean coast of Europe, reached the Atlantic Ocean. They went to the Caucasus and further south. Among those who came to the Hindustan peninsula were the Krivi and Drava tribes – remember the Slavic Krivichi and Drevlyans.

According to Svetlana Zharnikova, at the turn of the 4th-3rd millennia BC, the original Indo-European community of tribes began to break up into ten language groups, which became the ancestors of all modern Russians, Slavs, all Roman and German peoples of Western Europe, Albanians, Greeks, Ossetians, Armenians, Tajiks, Iranians, Indians, Latvians and Lithuanians. “We are going through a ridiculous time,” says Svetlana Vasilievna, “when ignorant politicians try to make nations alien to each other.” A wild idea. No one is better or older than the other, because everything is from one root.

Unfortunately, the book of the ethnographer Zharnikova exists in a single copy. Handwritten. There is no money in the Russian Federation for its publication. And Russia comes from “Rus”, which in Sanskrit means “holy, bright.”

Was there a sensation?

The newspaper “Rush Hour” (December 2, 1997) reported that the Moscow State University expedition, led by Ph. D. Valery Demin, discovered on the Kola Peninsula the “ancestral home of all terrestrial civilization” – the legendary Hyperborea, or rather, the remains of “ancient cult and scientific complexes, plates the correct form with traces of technogenic influence “and the ruins of an ancient observatory. It was also noted that the expedition members came to the sensational conclusion: “Hyperborea not only actually existed, but also was located on the territory of the Russian North.”

I would like to dwell on this last report, since we are talking about as much and as much about a very serious scientific discovery, the authorship of which allegedly belongs to the expedition members. Archaeological finds, of course, are bright and interesting, one cannot argue with this. But as for the sensational conclusion about the whereabouts of the “Legendary Hyperborea in the Russian North”, there is something to be surprised about. We must pay tribute to the staff of the editorial office of “Hour PIC”, the newspaper simply reprinted information from a selection of international agencies. And it’s not her fault that the employees of international agencies of our Russian magazines do not read, and apparently they don’t get involved in scientific periodicals either. Otherwise, they would have known that as early as 1903 a book by the outstanding Indian scientist and political figure B. G. Tilak “The Arctic Homeland in the Vedas” (translated to all European languages except Russian) was published. And even then, at the very beginning of the 20th century, Tilak declared – the legendary ancestral home of the Aryans (the distant ancestors of the Indians and Iranians) or the land that the ancient Greeks called Hyperborea, was in northern Europe, somewhere near the Arctic Circle, in the Arctic. He believed that it was here that the most ancient texts of the Rigveda and Avesta, the sacred books of the Indo-Europeans, were created. Following Tilak, the same idea was expressed by the Russian scientist E. Jelachich, who published in 1910 in St. Petersburg his book “The Far North as the Homeland of Humanity”. So the conclusion about Hyperborea in the Far North of Europe was made long ago. It is worth recalling that it was on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, which they called Kronius, that the ancient Greeks placed it.

The only thing that Tilak, Jelacich, and many other researchers did not – no one could specifically indicate where, the borders of this Hyperborean land passed. Everyone stopped before one paradoxical fact. Both the ancient Indian texts, and the ancient Iranian Avesta, and ancient Greek authors noted that the southern border of the legendary country was mountains, stretching in an arc from west to east and dividing rivers into currents flowing north into the Milky Sea, or the Arctic Ocean, and flowing south into the warm sea. These mountains were searched everywhere in Europe, and the most desperate traveled to Asia.

And one after another, assumptions were born. “Maybe these are the ridges of the Urals?” – said one. “Not! – answered others. – The Urals stretches from south to north and not from west to east. It does not start all the largest rivers (except the Danube), flowing through Eastern Europe. And then the Urals does not divide them into current north and south.” “But maybe this is the Tien-Shan? After all, it is located north of India, stretching from west to east. Is the Syr-Darya originating here and is the watershed of the rivers of Central Asia here? “Others asked. And they heard in response from their opponents: “No! Although the Syr-Darya begins here and flows into the Aral Sea, it cannot be called the Arctic Ocean. No one here has ever seen the northern lights, and the Polar Star and Ursa Major at its zenith also did not have to be observed. But these are the distinctive features of the latitudes, on which were the Hyperborean, Riphean Mountains (or Meru and Hara among the ancient Aryans). In addition, all the other rivers of Central Asia, flowing both north and south, do not carry their waters to any seas.”

The discussion ended with almost nothing, and in the early 80s it was decided to consider that the main geographical landmark of the land of Hyperborea is a myth, a retelling of the information received by the peoples living in the southern Russian steppes from the indigenous population of Siberia. And those, in turn, confused the direction of the cardinal points, and the Urals in them stretched not from north to south, but from west to east. They decided on that.

They were in no hurry to search for Hyperborea beyond the Ural Range, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean.

It would seem that you can calm down. But I, like many other researchers, have always been amazed by the fact that the sacred northern mountains were described too realistically in these myths too realistically. There are auroras, and convenient bays of the Milk Sea, and the sacred double river flowing into this sea, and the steep striped banks of the rivers, and the constellations of not only the Arctic, but also the Arctic, and much more, which is hardly necessary for the myth. I really wanted to find these mountains. And somehow, reflecting on the physical map of the European part of Russia, I paid attention to the light brown spots of the hills, stretching from west to east throughout the Russian North.

They really were similar in shape to a bow bent towards the south, and the ends of this bow were the mountains of the Kola Peninsula and the Subpolar Urals. A thought flashed: but it is precisely in the way that the bow bent to the south describes the sacred northern mountains, the Hyperborean mountains of the ancient Greeks in ancient texts. What was my amazement when it turned out that it was here that the main watershed of the rivers of the Russian Plain is located, i.e. indeed, these elevations divide the rivers into those flowing into the White Sea and flowing into the Caspian Sea.

The outstanding geomorphologist Yu. A. Meshcheryakov, in his book Relief of the USSR, wrote: “The position of the main watershed of the northern and southern seas on the Russian Plain belongs to the Northern Uvals”. It was they who caught my eye when considering the map on that memorable day of 1986.

And then facts began to gather, confirming that the mysterious Hyperborean mountains, the sacred mountains of the Arctic ancestral home of the Aryans, were indeed found. So, on the map of Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.), the Ripey (Hyperborean) mountains were in the ancient degree grid exactly where the Northern Uvals are located, at 60—63° N. It is from here that the Kama originates, which the ancients considered the source of the Volga – Ra. And the Valdai Upland, from where our great river really begins, also enters the southern part of this arc of hills. From here from the Northern Uvals, the greatest river of the Russian North Dvina (which means “double”) originates, which flows into the White (“Milk”) sea, which has convenient bays. The facts confirming that the conjecture was correct accumulated at the speed of a snowball.

There were no more doubts.

In 1986, that is, eleven years ago, all these conclusions were presented in the article “On the possible localization of the sacred mountains of Meru and Hara of Indo-Iranian (Aryan) mythology”, which was published in one of the scientific publications of UNESCO “Newsletter International Association for the Study of Cultures of Central Asia” (Issue 11). A map was attached to the article, on which the outlines of the Hyperborean mountains of ancient myths and, accordingly, the borders of the legendary Hyperborea were determined. In 1987, the magazine Around the World published a second article on the same topic, “Where are you, Mount Meru?”

At the end of a 1986 article, the author wrote: “I would like to note that the areas of the Northern Uvals, especially in their eastern and central parts, are hardly archaeologically explored today, and it is hoped that new interesting discoveries and discoveries are awaiting here in the near future “allowing to lift the veil over the past of many peoples inhabiting our continent.”

So it’s worth sincerely congratulating the expedition of Valery Demin on wonderful findings. But at the same time, note that the expedition went to the Kola Peninsula quite consciously and knew what it wanted to find. The path was indicated to her back in 1986, when the conclusion was first made: Hyperborea not only actually existed, but also was located in the Russian North. And do not be surprised at the fact that the expedition found grapevine vines beyond the Arctic Circle. Indeed, in 5—3 thousand BC the climate here was different, and average summer temperatures were higher than today by 3—5°C. That in the presence of constant summer sunlight really turned these lands into an earthly paradise.

Polar Homeland

Russia to Russia

How old is humanity? Modern scientists, as a rule, call the figure 40 thousand years – from the moment the Cro-Magnon appeared on Earth. This is the standard time interval allotted to human history in educational, scientific and reference books.

However, there are other figures that do not fit into the framework of officialdom. 400 thousand years – this date was calculated by ancient historians – Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek, and was projected onto Russia by Lomonosov.

(In fact, in the scale of events in world history there is another clearly fixed date that the imagination of modern people is not able to contain: according to the scrupulous calculations of astronomers and priests of the ancient Mayans, the history of mankind began in 5041738 BC.).

The Great Russian Lomonosov, a native of the Russian North, was always worried about why “in the northern parts of the ancient eyelids there were great heats where elephants could be born and multiply… it was possible.”

The answer was unequivocal: the cause of the catastrophic cooling that once covered the Russian North was the displacement of the earth’s axis and the change in the location of the poles. This happened about 400 thousand years ago, which is consistent with the calculations of the Babylonian astronomers and Egyptian priests.

The news of the “doomsday” was preserved in the legends of most ancient peoples – from China to America, and Plato directly wrote about the era when the Sun rose in the West and set in the East, but then everything became the other way around (which is possible only as a result of the revolution of the earth’s axis).

There are at least three possible options for the pole shift, which entails climatic cataclysms.

Option one: the earth’s surface moves after the shifting axis.

Option two: the earth’s axis changes its inclination, but the position of the globe in relation to the plane of the ecliptic remains the same.

The third option: the North and South magnetic poles interchange, which, as is known, do not coincide with the geographical ones (geomagnetic inversion).

There are even more possible reasons for the past universal cataclysm. The most commonly referred to is some kind of cosmic anomaly: a supernova burst or the appearance of an ordinary star in relative proximity to the solar system, the collision of the Earth with a comet or other celestial object, imbalance or rearrangement of planets in the family of the sun, approaching the moon, etc. All this inevitably entailed catastrophic consequences for earthly inhabitants.

The memory of world cataclysms has been preserved in the ancient legends of the majority of the peoples of the earth. The universal catastrophe is impressively portrayed, in particular, in the Saami epos.

According to the Saami cosmogonic legend, “when human anger intensified,” the center of the earth “trembled with horror, so that the upper layers of the earth failed, and many people fell into these caves to die there.” And Yumbel, the supreme heavenly God, came down to earth…

An angry God said: “I will turn this world upside down. I will make the rivers flow back; I will make the sea gather in a huge wall, like a tower, which I will bring down on your evil earthly children and in this way destroy them and all my life.”

Yumbel caused a blowing gale and enraged air spirits…

Foamed, fast, rising to the sky came the sea wall, crushing everything.

Yumbel with one strong blow made the earth roll over; then he leveled the world again.

In the Lapland epic, the world was destroyed by a hurricane and the sea, and almost all people died. After the sea wall collapsed onto the continent, giant waves continued to roll and dead bodies swiftly rushed along the surface of dark waters.

The initial Russian chronicle, if you look deeply, also counts down from such an event. The very first phrase of Nestorov’s annals (after the well-known beginning of “This story of time years…") answers the question “Where did the Russian land come from?” And begins with the words “after the flood” – “after the flood”, that is, after cataclysm, the reasons for which were pondered by Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus of Sicily, Lomonosov and others.

In this sense, the roots of the name of Russia and the ethnonym “Russian” can be found in the language of the ancient Aryans – the ancestors of all modern Indo-European peoples.

In Sanskrit, the word “Rusa” has the same meaning as in the Slavic and Old Russian languages, namely: light brown, light (shade). If we open the dictionary of Vladimir Dahl to the word “Rusi”, we find there a similar explanation: “Rusi”, according to Dahl, means, first of all, peace, white light, and the phrase “in Rusia” means in plain sight.

But the Aryans also had great ancestors that lived in the Far North before the onset of cooling. The history of all the peoples of the Earth goes back to a single prana people with a single parent language. The symbol of this polar ancestral home in many ancient cultures is the universal Mount Meru, located at the North Pole.