Name megaliths. Natural megaliths or the remains of ancient civilizations? Megaliths and folk tales

The study of megalithic structures will reveal the technologies of the past. How many civilizations existed in antiquity, and can we find traces of them that will complement our understanding of the history of our world?

Who built the huge megalithic structures, the age of which scientists cannot always accurately determine? What technologies were used in their construction and what secrets of stone processing have we lost? What are modern scientists hiding by deliberately destroying many ancient artifacts? Alexander Koltypin, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, is sure that a new approach to the study of ancient monuments can provide answers to these questions.

Alexander Koltypin: Unified underground-ground megalithic complex, as the foundation, the foundation of some previous world destroyed by the catastrophe. I’m not even sure that this is one world, because if we compare the geological and folklore legends of catastrophes that destroy the previous worlds, then there were at least 4 of them, because, for example, according to the Aztec legends, according to the Mayan legends, there were 5 or 6 Indian legends , but according to Jain almost 7 religious texts, and they were destroyed by global catastrophes.

Therefore, this complex, which consists of underground structures, underground cities, ruins and some kind of megalithic buildings, smoothly passing through underground structures, and sometimes you can’t even see any joints, fasteners between them, as it were, here are megalithic blocks, as it were, were cut out of the rocky base themselves and continued it further. Perhaps this is one last world destroyed, the previous preceding ours, perhaps in different places there are different worlds, that is, not only the penultimate world, but also the worlds preceding this penultimate one. It is difficult to say, because these complexes are dumb, they do not contain any minerals, and to determine its absolute age, I see only one possibility so far, this is to scrape off monomineral fractions from the crusts of the secondarily altered rocks of underground cities and isolate there, for example, potassium minerals, To carry out an analysis using the potassium-argon method, we will determine not the age of the construction of these structures, but only the time when this crust of secondary altered rocks was formed.

At least, to determine its age by the coals of rocks found in them, as they do now, by scraps of clothing, there, the remains of some baskets, skeletal remains that could get there, say, after 50, after 10 million years, here , that's completely wrong. It turns out that these megalithic structures, although they constitute, in my opinion, one complex around the world, which is globally distributed throughout the world, covers the entire globe, it is also developed at the bottom of the oceans. It is represented in the master plan by 3 different formations. These are underground structures, and, moreover, some underground structures, they simply amaze with the clarity of execution, obviously neither chisels nor any handicraft tools worked here, absolutely perfectly carved domed caves, with completely even walls, that these are clearly some kind of machines, machine processing . In the Gavrin region of Israel, in the bell caves, 30 meters high and about a hundred meters in diameter, traces of drilling are visible, and, from above, there was some kind of drill, expanding in diameter, they are clearly visible. What civilization did all this? On many structures, for example, the same structures of Maresha and still in Israel, pyramidal or trapezoidal holes are cut out that run along the perimeter. For what purpose? For what? The acoustics in these rooms are usually stunning, and operas are held there. Or, for example, as we saw this year in Bulgaria, on the outside of such structures, on the contrary, trapezoidal holes are often visible, which are also located according to a certain system, but there is no acoustics at all, there is simply no echo, they are called “deaf stones” , concerning.

That is, this is also, probably, not some kind of coincidence, in one case there is such an echo that it is simply difficult to withstand it, in the other there is no echo at all, that is, ancient civilizations built these structures, taking into account the obvious use of their the acoustic properties. This second complex is simply megalithic, the ruins of some kind of megalithic buildings, castles, structures, most often they are often composed of basalts, indesites, limestones, completely different stones, moreover, different blocks are also square in shape, there are also complexly carved completely, here as, for example, in Hattushash, and some in the form of stairs, there, ledges are cut out. There are sometimes rectangular blocks, there, 500, 600, 1000 even tons, as in Levan there is such a colossus that leaned against. And the third type is on the tops of the mountains that we saw, I call them Perpheus fortresses, along the periphery there are megalithic blocks, sometimes they are several tons, sometimes there are tens of tons, and many tens of tons. As a rule, there are round wells on the site, some kind of arches that go down, which, in our opinion, were filled up by someone quite deliberately by someone so that they would not be studied.

As a rule, excursions are not taken there; in reference materials, for example, in tourist guides, nothing is said about them at all. For example, when I started talking about Hattushash, I forgot to say that when describing Hattushash, that there are megalithic structures there, not a word was said in any tourist guide, not in any description on the Internet, not in any archaeological material about this , which I read, also not a word is said. We just went there, assuming that we could meet such blocks, because there was Sklyarov’s expedition before us, who described that there is megalithic masonry there, moreover, in a nearby place in Alaki-Khaya, and we saw such an abundance. Either they are hushing up, or they don’t know, or really the archaeologists who work, they understand that this complex does not fit into this dating, which they are conducting, and they are simply trying to hush up its presence. This also applies to stone statues, for example, in the museums of Ankara, in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, there are both stone sphinxes and stone lions, they are also on the site, which also dates from the Hittite era. When we compare these ruined sphinxes with torn off ears, heads, eaten away by erosion, a powerful crust of secondary changes, when we compare with a perfectly preserved ceramic vase, well, that they are of the same age, there is a very big, to put it mildly, doubt. These structures were built by completely different people or creatures, that is, these are the structures that are stacked in blocks that weigh under a hundred, tens and hundreds of tons, loaded onto a mountain, or somewhere we see in such, well, not quite on a mountain, in mountainous areas, but which used to occupy a large territory. It seems that they were really built by some giants, and there are many legends about giants who, with the help of their psychic energy, with the help of levitation, moved these stones, not even expending effort on it themselves, but possessing some kind of superhuman abilities .

Secondly, this is undoubtedly in Turkey, in the Phrygian Valley, we saw this when we traveled to a number of objects, many structures were built by people or creatures close to a human physique, and underground structures. Because, for example, the rooms that have been preserved, the windows have been preserved, the doors to these rooms have been preserved, you can walk through them normally, you feel completely comfortable in them, they are all carved in stone. Here, that is, they built creatures, but the fact that they pulled these blocks up the mountain, and these are not only blocks, these are rooms in which it is comfortable, in which we sit, about this size, carved entirely of stone. Here is a stone, there was such a block, and a hole was cut out, then windows were cut out, and so on, all this was dragged up the mountain. That is, these are, again, beings that possessed some unthinkable superhuman ability. Also, many underground structures are for sure, because, for example, in Taklarin, I saw a toilet preserved underground, which was clearly for beings of an ordinary, normal human physique, approximately, was built according to a similar principle. And at the same time, some structures, such as in Cappadocia, apparently were built by some kind of dwarfs. I can’t give a better comparison than this Chud, which is in the Urals, and, by the way, that there were people there Chud, we were told about this even in the first year of the institute so unofficially that all copper deposits were found in the footsteps of this mysterious dwarf people, Chud. In fairy tales, this is called gnomes, that is, some kind of gnome shelter, because many underground structures have to literally crawl almost on all fours. This is especially evident in Cappadakia, in Israel in underground cities, that their construction often took place in several stages.

That is, at first some machines worked, mechanisms made halls, magnificent vaulted arches, columns carved in stone, sculptures, apparently, were standing. I even found in one such hall some kind of superfluous writing, and I showed the specialists the embossed writing clearly of the time when it was built. Their interpretation was different, one specialist from Serbia said that this is approximately the Old Slavic date, which approximately corresponds to the third millennium BC. Here, and given the fact that this building, since there are many bas-relief crosses carved there, officially dates from the Byzantine era. Well, you know, it's our Christian era. Other experts generally said that this is not a date, but written, like, I don’t remember verbatim now, “a legacy from past to future civilizations.” Here, that is, as it were, we will die here, or we will perish, but this one will survive the centuries and remain forever, that is, such a translation is of this structure, but this is quite interesting. And, apparently, there were some statues, and, for example, in the Valley of Love in Cappadocia, I saw a place where the bas-reliefs of these statues were preserved. They are eaten away by strong erosion, smoothed out, in the Great Yazilikaya plateau in Turkey in the Phrygian valley, this is between Afinyonkarahisara city and Shekhir, about 200 kilometers west of Ankara. On the Bolshoi Yazilikaya plateau, there is also smoothed erosion, stone monuments of lions, elephants, birds of some and other mythical animals have been preserved and are quite well visible in the photographs, their contours are hardly recognizable, but they are recognizable from different angles, because, apparently millions of years have passed since they were made. Stone thrones, wells and so on have been preserved there, that is, all this is the legacy of ancient civilizations.

Civilizations, as I said, most likely were different, that is, giants, civilization, some of these were built, some were built by creatures close to us in physique, at least those cities that I call elven. Perhaps these are mythical elves who possessed superpowers. Dwarfs, just come further ordinary people that… Each civilization that took place made changes to the underground cities, completed them. For example, if at first the machines worked, then they started working with the help of some ordinary stone chisels, and this is often misleading. In addition, here, for example, in Turkey, again in the Cavusin region, we observed how some modern forces drive and with the help of chisels spoil this stone, ideally carved these structures. Apparently, in order to also create an illusion among tourists, perhaps among specialists, that this is not a long-standing building of some primitive savages, but some kind of high civilization.

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1) Menhirs (from the Celtic word menhir) - one of the types of megalithic monuments in the form of separate vertically placed stones, sometimes forming parallel rows several kilometers long; found in Brittany (France), England and Scandinavia; on the territory of the USSR - in the Caucasus and Siberia.

2) Dolmens (from the Breton words tol - table, and men - stone) - structures of the Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Age * in the form of huge stones placed on edge and covered from above with a massive slab; found in Europe, in India and other countries; in the USSR - in the Caucasus and Crimea; they had not only funerary, but also religious and magical significance.

*) Neolithic era - the last era of the Stone Age: 6-5 millennium BC. - 2 millennium BC It is characterized by settled population, the appearance of cattle breeding and agriculture, the invention of ceramics; stone tools are well polished; various products made of bone and wood; spinning and weaving appears. Ancient bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, deposits of these metals are rare in nature, therefore bronze was valued dearly and was available to a few - along with bronze products, people continued to use stone tools until the 7th century BC, when iron began to be mined from marsh and other ores widely distributed in nature. Iron turned out to be an inexpensive and widely available metal High Quality, soon replaced bronze products and firmly entered the life of the peoples of the Old World. The Iron Age has begun.

3) Cromlechs (from the Breton words crom circle and lech - stone) are structures of the Neolithic and mainly of the Bronze Age in the form of round fences made of huge stone blocks and pillars (up to 6-7 meters in height); found in Europe, Asia and America; most of them in Western France (Brittany) and England; they certainly had a religious and magical significance.

Until recently, cromlechs survived in the southern Russian steppes, encircling many barrows of the Yamskaya culture of the 3rd millennium BC. This is a belt of large stone blocks or slabs placed on edge, up to 20 meters in diameter. According to Academician A.A. Formozov, slabs of such a cromlech near the village of Verbovka in the Dnieper region, dragged 60 kilometers from Chigirin, were covered with various geometric patterns. Once upon a time, a wooden tent rested on this stone ornamental frieze, and the earthen and turf base of the whole structure was hidden in the depths.

Cromlechs - buildings of great antiquity, various countries and peoples. H. P. Blavatsky in her "Secret Doctrine" mentions "a mysterious people who built circles of stones in Galilee and upholstered Neolithic flints in the Jordan Valley."

Both Western European and Russian researchers thoroughly worked on the study of megaliths, all of them have long been registered and described in detail in the scientific literature; even a map of dolmens around the world was compiled. But little is known about the occult significance of megaliths, and moreover, this information is often contradictory. It is impossible to use all existing literature for a short article, therefore we must give preference to only a few serious fundamental works that deserve the greatest confidence. Such a work for us, esotericists, in the first place is the "Secret Doctrine" of H. P. Blavatsky, in the second volume of which a thorough description of the most prominent megalithic structures in many countries of the ancient world is given and their occult significance is explained. Therefore, we will use the material collected by H. P. Blavatsky and supplement it with information from other reliable and trustworthy sources. Here is what H.P. Blavatsky writes about megalithic structures:

"The modern archaeologist, although he will talk endlessly about dolmens and their builders, really knows nothing about them or their origin. Nevertheless, these strange and often colossal monuments of unhewn stones, usually consisting of four or seven giant blocks placed side by side, scattered in groups or rows throughout Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Stones of enormous size are placed horizontally and variously on two, three or four blocks, and in Poitou on six or seven. The people call them "thrones devil", druidic stones and tombs of giants. The Carnac stones in Morbigan, Brittany (France), stretching almost a mile and numbering up to 11,000 stones distributed in rows, are twin brothers of the stones in Stonehenge (England). The conical menhir at Loch Mariaker at Morbigan it measures 20 yards in length and about two yards across.The menhir at Champ Dolin (near St. Malo) rises thirty feet above the ground and goes fifteen feet underground. Similar dolmens and prehistoric monuments are found at almost every latitude. They are found in the Mediterranean reservoir; in Denmark among local mounds from twenty to thirty-five feet high; in Scotland, in Sweden, where they are called Ganggriten (or graves with corridors); in Germany, where they are known as giant graves (Günen-greben); in Spain, where the Antigera dolmen is located near Malaga; in Africa; in Palestine and Algeria; in Sardinia, together with the Nuraghi and the Sepoltura dei Giganta or Giants' tombs; in Malabar, in India, where they are called the tombs of the Daityas and Rakshasas, demonic people from Lanka... in Peru and Bolivia, where they are called Chul-pa or burial places, and so on. There is no country in which they would be absent."

In this passage from the Secret Doctrine, let us note that the people call the megaliths devil's thrones and druidic stones. Of course, megaliths never had and have nothing to do with unclean, dark power, and if the people call them "the thrones of the devil", then this only indicates that in ancient times they were associated with religious and magical actions and ceremonies, because under under the influence of the Christian Church, all pre-Christian beliefs and rituals began to be considered pagan, diabolical. As for the "druidic stones", of course, not all megaliths are called such, but only those erected on the territory of ancient Gaul, spiritually nourished by the Druids. All the megalithic structures that have survived to this day in France were once erected by the hands of the ancient Gauls, and in England by the hands of the ancient Britons, at the direction and under the guidance of the Druids.

It has been established that most of the surviving dolmen-type megalithic structures both in Europe and on other continents are related to the funeral cult: during excavations in the dolmens themselves or near them, human bones or urns with ashes are found. But even H.P. Blavatsky drew attention to the fact that not all megalithic (or, in her terminology, cyclopean) structures were intended for tombs. According to her, "It is certain that the two famous mounds, one in the Mississippi Valley and the other in Ohio, respectively known as the 'Alligator's Mound' and the other as the 'Great Serpent's Mound', were never intended for graves. Here is the following description from one scientific work: "The first of these animals (the alligator) is drawn with considerable skill, and it has no less than 260 feet in length ... The inside is a pile of stones, over which a form of thin hard clay was sculpted. The Great Serpent is depicted with its mouth open as it swallows an egg which is 100 feet in diameter at its widest part, the body of the animal is curved in grandiose coils and the tail is curled into a spiral. The entire length of the animal is 1100 feet. It is a masterful creation, one of a kind... and there is nothing on the Old Continent that represents any analogy to this", however, with the exception of his symbol of the Serpent (Time Cycle) swallowing an egg (Cosmos).

H.P. Blavatsky is certainly right: in ancient times, megalithic structures were erected not only as tombs of ancestors, but also had a higher purpose, for example, religious and religious-magic, as occult centers, a kind of "radio station" (for international communications initiates, to perform cosmic mysteries, etc.). We must not forget that in ancient times, not only in the Paleolithic, but also in the Neolithic era, man was closer to nature than now, was in a living, indissoluble connection with it, then the mineral kingdom was closer to the human world, between man and stones. there was contact and even a kind of mutual understanding.

H. P. Blavatsky, in the second volume of her "Secret Doctrine" refers to the extensive work of De Mirville: "Memoires adressees aux Academies", in which historical evidence is collected that in antiquity, in the days of miracles, both pagan and biblical stones they moved, spoke, uttered prophecies and even sang... In "Achaika" we see how Pausanias admits that at the beginning of his work he considered the Greeks very stupid for their "veneration of stones". But when he reached Arcadia, he adds: "I have changed my mind." Therefore, without any worship of stones or stone idols and statues, which is one and the same thing - a crime in which the Catholics of the Roman Church unreasonably reproach the pagans - one can be allowed to believe in what so many great philosophers and saints believed, without deserving the nickname "idiot" from modern Pavzani.

The reader is invited to apply to the Academie des Inscriptions if he wishes to study the various properties of flints and stones, from the point of view of magical and psychic powers. In the poem about the Stones attributed to Orpheus, these stones are subdivided into ophites and siderites, into "Serpent Stone" and "Star Stone".

"Ophite is rough, hard, heavy, black and has the gift of words: when it is thrown, it makes a sound like the cry of a child. It was through this stone that Helenius predicted the death of Troy, his homeland."

Sanchuniathon and Philo of Byblos, speaking of these "betyles", call them "animate stones." Photius repeats what Damascius, Asclepiades, Isidore, and the physician Eusebius had asserted before him. In particular, Eusebius never parted with his ophite, which he wore on his chest and received from him prophecies, transmitted to him "in a low voice, reminiscent of a light whistle." Of course, this is the same as the "quiet voice" heard by Ilya after the earthquake at the entrance to the cave.

Arnobius, a holy man who "from a pagan became one of the lights of the Church," as Christians tell their readers, admits that when he met one of these stones, he could never resist asking him a question, "to which he sometimes received answer in a clear and distinct voice." Where, then, is the difference between a Christian and a pagan Ophite, we ask?

The famous stone at Westminster was called Liafail, "the talking stone," and he raised his voice only to name the king who was to be chosen. Cambry, in his Celtic Monuments, says that he saw it while it was still inscribed:

Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocumque locatum Invenient lapidem, regnasse tenentur ibidem. Swinging stones or "logan" have various names: such as clacha-brath among the Celts, "stone of fate or judgment"; a prophesying stone or "testing stone", and a stone oracle; the moving or animated stone of the Phoenicians; grumbling stone of the Irish. The Bretons have their "rocking stones" in Huelgoat "e. They are found in the Old and New Worlds; in the British Isles, in France, Italy, Russia, Germany, etc., as well as in North America. (See " Letters from North America" ​​by Hodson, vol. II, p. 440). Pliny mentions several of these in Asia. ("Natural History," vol. I, p. 96). "stones placed on the top of the Mound, and they are so sensitive that thought can set them in motion" (Ackerman, "Art. Index", p. 34), no doubt referring to the ancient priests who moved such stones by will on distance.

Finally, Svid speaks of a certain Herescus, who at one glance could distinguish motionless stones from those that were endowed with movement. And Pliny mentions stones that "flee away when a hand touches them" (See Abbe Bertrand's "Dictionary of Religions").

H. P. Blavatsky draws attention to the ruins of Stonehenge, where, according to her, there are real forests of rocks - huge monoliths, some of them weigh about 500,000 kilograms. There is an assumption that these "hanging" stones in the Salisbury Valley represent the remains of a Druidic temple. They are distributed in such a symmetrical order that they represent a planisphere. They are set on such a remarkable point of balance that they seem to barely touch the ground, and although they can be set in motion by the slightest touch of a finger, yet they will not yield to the efforts of twenty men should they try to move them.

H.P. Blavatsky considers most of these monoliths to be relics of the last Atlanteans and disputes the opinion of geologists who claim their natural origin: as if the rocks were weathered, i.e. under atmospheric influences they lose layer after layer of their substance and take this form; such are " mountain peaks" in West England. All scientists believe that all these "swinging stones owe their origin to natural causes, wind, rain, etc., causing the destruction of rocky layers" and emphatically reject H. P. Blavatsky's assertion, especially for the reason that according to their observation, “this process of changing the rocks is going on around us to this day.” Therefore, this question must be thoroughly studied.

Geologists recognize that often these gigantic boulders are completely alien to the places where they are now located and belong to rocks that are found only far beyond the seas and are completely unknown in their current location.

"William Tooke, speaking of the great blocks of granite scattered in southern Russia and Siberia, says that where they are now there are no rocks or mountains, and that they must have been brought "from afar with the help of fabulous efforts" Charton speaks of a sample of such a rock from Ireland, which was subjected to analysis by a famous English geologist, who determined its alien origin, perhaps even African.

This is a strange coincidence, for Irish tradition attributes the origin of its round stones one sorcerer who brought them from Africa. De Mirville sees in this sorcerer "the accursed Hamit". We see in him only an Atlantean, or perhaps even one of the early Lemurians who survived before the birth of the British Isles.

"Dr. John Watson, speaking of moving rocks or "swinging stones" placed on the slope of Golkar ("Wizard"), says: "The amazing movement of these blocks, set in balance, made the Celts equate them with the gods." In scientific Flinders Petrie's work "Stonehenge" states that: "Stonhenge is built of stone located in the district of red sandstone or sarsen stone, locally called" gray rams ". But some of the stones, especially those said to be of astronomical significance, were brought from afar, probably from Northern Ireland."

In conclusion, it is worth mentioning the considerations on this issue of one scientist in an article published in 1850 in the Archaeological Review: “Each stone is a block, the weight of which would put the most powerful machines to the test. In a word, there are blocks the globe, boulders at the sight of which the imagination is confused and the designation of which by the word materials seems meaningless, they should be called by names corresponding to these masses.In addition, these huge, swaying stones, sometimes called Pouters, placed with one end of their on the point of such a perfect balance, that the slightest touch is enough to set them in motion... reveal the most positive knowledge of statics Mutual opposition, surface and plane, convex and concave in turn, all this connects them with cyclopean structures, which can be said with sufficient reason, echoing De la Vega's words that, "apparently the demons of pain They worked harder on them than people."

And further H. P. Blavatsky writes: "We do not intend to touch upon the various traditions associated with rocking stones. However, it may not be bad to remind the reader of Giraldus Cambrensis, who mentions the same stone on the island of Mona, which returned to its place, despite At the time of the conquest of Ireland by Henry II, Count Hugh Sestrenzis, wanting to see for himself the truth of this fact, tied the stone of Mona to a much larger stone and ordered them to be thrown into the sea. The next morning, the stone was found on his usual The scholar William Salisbury corroborates this fact by testifying to the presence of this stone in the stere of a church where he saw it in 1554. This reminds us of what Pliny says about the stone left by the Argonauts at Sizicum and which the inhabitants of Sizicum placed in the Priteneum , "from which he escaped several times, so that they had to weight him with lead. "But here we are dealing with huge stones, witnessed by all antiquity , as "living, moving, talking and self-moving". Also, apparently, they could put people to flight, for they were called "routers", from the word "rout" or "put to flight". De Musso points out that they were all prophetic stones and were sometimes called "mad stones".

The rocking stone is recognized by science. But why is he swinging? One would have to be blind not to see that the movement was another way for divination and that for this reason they were called "stones of truth". (De Mirville, ibid., p. 291).

Richardson and Barth are said to have been astounded to find in the Sahara Desert the same triliths and uplifted stones that they had encountered in Asia, the Caucasus, Circassia, Etruria, and throughout northern Europe. Rivett-Karnak of Allahabad, the famous archaeologist, expresses the same astonishment when he read the descriptions given by Sir J. Simpson of the bowl-shaped signs on the stones and rocks of England, Scotland, and others. Western countries, "showing an extraordinary resemblance to the signs on the boulders that surrounded. the burial mounds near Nagpur - the City of Serpents. An outstanding scientist saw in this "another and very unusual addition to the whole mass of evidence that a branch of nomadic tribes, which in an ancient era passed through Europe, also penetrated into India. "We say Lemuria, Atlantis and its Giants and the earliest races of the Fifth Root Race, all had a hand in the construction of these betils, litas and in general "magic stones". The bowl-shaped signs noted by Sir J. Simpson, and the "depressions carved into the surface" of rocks and monuments found by Rivette-Carnack, "of various sizes from six inches to an inch and a half in diameter and from one to an inch and a half deep, usually placed along perpendicular lines, revealing numerous changes in the number and size and distribution of bowls" - are simply recorded records of the most ancient races. Whoever carefully examines the drawings made from the same signs in the "Archaeological Notes on Ancient Inscriptions on the Rocks in Kumaon, India", etc., will find in them the most primitive style of marks or records. Something similar was adopted by the American inventors of the Morse telegraph code, which reminds us of the Ogham letter, a combination of long and short lines, as Rivette-Carnac describes it, "carved into sandstone." Sweden, Norway, and Scandinavia are full of such recorded records, for the Runic letters resemble signs, bowls, and long and short lines. In the Tome of Johann Magnus, one can see the image of a demigod, the giant Starkhaterus (Starkad, a student of Hrosaharsgrani, a magician), who holds under each hand a huge stone with runic inscriptions on it. This Starkad, according to Scandinavian legends, went to Ireland and performed miraculous feats in the North and South, East and West. (See "Azgard and the Gods", pp. 218-221).

This is history, for the past of prehistoric times testifies to the same fact in later ages. Dracontia, dedicated to the Moon and the Serpent, were the most ancient "rocks of fate" of the oldest peoples; and their movement or swing was a perfectly clear code for the initiated priests, who alone held the keys to this ancient method of reading. Wormius and Olaus Magnus show that it was by order of the oracle, whose voice spoke through "these huge blocks of stone, raised by the colossal power of the (ancient) giants", that the kings of Scandinavia were elected. So Pliny says:

"In India and Persia, it was from her (Persian Otizoe) that the magicians had to ask for advice when choosing their rulers." (Pliny. - "Natural History", 37, 54). And further Pliny describes a block of stone over Harpasa in Asia, and installed in such a way that "a touch with one finger can set it in motion, while it cannot be moved by the whole weight of the body." (Ibid., 2, 38). Why, then, could not the rocking stones of Ireland or Brimgam, Yorkshire, serve for the same methods of divination and prophetic messages? The largest among them are obviously the relics of the Atlanteans; smaller ones, like the rocks of Bringam, with revolving stones on their tops, are copies from older stones. If in the Middle Ages the bishops had not destroyed all the plans of Draconia, on which only they could lay their hand, science would know more about these stones. But nevertheless we know that they were in general use throughout many prehistoric ages, and they all served the same purpose, divination and magical purposes. E.Biot, a member of the Institute of France, published in "Antiquites de France" (volume IX) an article proving the identity in the location of Chatamperamba ("Field of Death" or ancient burial places in Malabar) with ancient graves in Karnak; that is, that they have "an elevation into the central grave."

Esotericists know that in ancient times, initiates of all peoples, including the Slavic Magi, traveled a lot and visited the occult-religious centers of other, often very distant countries. H. P. Blavatsky writes about such journeys of Egyptian priests - initiates; according to her, there are records that they "traveled in a northerly direction overland, in a way that later became the Strait of Gibraltar, then turned north and passed through the future settlements of the Phoenicians in southern Gaul; then still further north until they reached Karnak (Morbihan), and then they again turned to the West and arrived, continuing to go overland to the northwestern cape of the New Continent, "to that land" that is now the British Isles, which were then not yet separated from the main mainland. the inhabitants of Picardy could cross into Great Britain without crossing the canal. British Isles were connected with Gaul by means of an isthmus, which has since been covered with waters.

H. P. Blavatsky raises the question: what was the purpose of the long journey of the Egyptian priests? And how far back should the time of such visits be placed? According to her, "archaic records testify that the initiates of the second sub-race of the Aryan family moved from one country to another in order to oversee the structures of menhirs and dolmens, colossal Zodiacs made of stones, as well as places of tombs that were supposed to serve as a container for the ashes of future generations. When did this happen? The fact that they crossed from France to Great Britain by land may give an idea of ​​the time when such a journey could have been made by land."

This was when "the level of the Baltic and North Seas was 400 feet higher than at present. The valley of the Somna did not yet exist to the depth it has now reached; Sicily was connected to Africa, the Barbary possessions to Spain, Carthage, the pyramids of Egypt, the palaces of Uxamala and Palenque did not yet exist, and the brave navigators of Tire and Sidon, who in later times were destined to make their perilous journeys along the coast of Africa, were not yet born. We know for sure only that European man was a contemporary of the extinct species of the Quaternary epoch.

"The above-mentioned travels of the Egyptian initiates, precisely, had to do with the so-called Druidic remains, like Karnak in Brittany and Stonehenge in Great Britain. And all these giant monuments are symbolic records of world history. They are not druidic, but universal. It was also not the Druids who built them, for they were only the heirs of the legends of the Cyclopes, bequeathed to them by generations of powerful builders and "magicians, both good and bad."

So writes H. P. Blavatsky. It also recalls the striking similarity between the ancient colossal buildings in Peru (for example, in Cuenlap) with the architecture of archaic European peoples. In her opinion, the similarity between the ruins of the Inca civilization and the Cyclopean remains of the Pelasgians in Italy and Greece is not a mere accident - there is a certain connection between them, which is explained simply by the origin of the groups of peoples who erected these structures from one common center on the Atlantic continent.

The above information about the ancient megalithic structures from the "Secret Doctrine" of H. P. Blavatsky is very interesting and significant, but not complete. Therefore, we will supplement them with some data on the megaliths that have survived to this day in East and South Asia and on the territory of the USSR.

In eastern Indochina, in Upper Laos, on the Channin Plateau, megalithic structures are still preserved - concentric rows of monolithic stones. According to M. Kolani, the Puok people living on this plateau claim that these megaliths served as a meeting place for the Kha-Tuong, and the central stone was occupied by the supreme leader. About who the Kha-tuongs were, Kolani cites a legend common in Upper Laos:

"Kxia-tuongs were the ancestors of the kings of the country. Having been defeated by the Thai, descending from Tibet, they went south and ended up in the area between Bandon and Annam. Their descendants became the kings of water and fire. The first lives in Patao Ya, the second - in Patao -Lum.* All Kha consider these kings to be the descendants of the ancient Jarai kings and revere them.

This legend tells about the events of ancient times. It is significant that the myths about the kings of water and fire are supplemented by the peoples of eastern Indochina with a whole series of legends about migrations from the far North, during which the people were led by sorcerers armed with magic swords and bringing with them the foundations of a megalithic cult and ideas about power. Similar legends about the arrival from the far North have been preserved among other Indonesian peoples of eastern Indochina: the Rade, the Jarais and others. Unfortunately, the legends have not preserved exact indications of the route of these migrations; only the arrival from the north along the Mekong is mentioned.

*) The etymology of the Jaraian term "patao" is significant. According to the scientist S. Meyer, this word means not only "king", but also "stone". Therefore, the Jarai kings are, first of all, the guardians of the sacred stone in which the spirit of Yang Patao dwells. The word "Yang" actually means "spirit".

In his work on the megaliths of Laos, M. Kolani did not resolve the issue of the ethnicity of the builders of the megaliths, but this is not essential for us; the main thing is that she rightly considers the megaliths of Laos to be one of the stages of megalithic migration and, based on the finds of iron objects accompanying them, dates them to the first centuries of our era, i.e. a time somewhat predating the Indian influence in Indo-China.

Ancient megaliths, moreover, all the main types of these structures, known to modern scientists, have survived to this day in Tibet, a country that has still been relatively little explored and is fraught with many surprises. In 1928, the Central Asian expedition of Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich discovered typical menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs in the Trans-Himalayas. N.K. Roerich writes:

"You can imagine how wonderful it is to see these long rows of stones, these stone circles that bring you vividly to Carnac, to Brittany, to the ocean. After a long journey, the prehistoric druids remembered their distant homeland ... In any case, this discovery completed our quest for the movement of peoples."

Thus, according to the highly authoritative opinion of N.K. , under the leadership of their spiritual leaders the Druids, the same megalithic structures as in their distant Asian ancestral home.

Very peculiar megalithic structures were discovered in Tibet by Yuri Nikolayevich Roerich (the eldest son of Nikolai Konstantinovich). Northeast of Lhasa, he discovered a whole group of megaliths, of which the outermost stone looks like an arrow and, in his opinion, should be considered a symbol of lightning, and in general, this entire site with megaliths is a reflection of the cult of nature and, as it were, represents a stage for cosmic rituals.

Other researchers adhere to a similar opinion: Z. Hummel, J. Tucci and A. Franke; they believe that the Tibetan megalithic structures are labyrinth sites for cosmic mysteries.

A similar interpretation is given by the English astronomer J. Hawkins to the well-known megalithic structure of Great Britain - Stonehenge. He compared his observations with the stories of the descendants of the Celtic priests (Druids) and then processed all the data obtained using a calculating machine. As a result, he came to the conclusion that the strange at first glance, the location of the stones of Stonehenge accurately reflects the position of the rising and setting sun on certain days of the year, and that with the help of this structure, eclipses can even be predicted.

Most of the megalithic structures scattered all over the face of the earth are a reflection of the idea that found its most vivid embodiment in ancient Gaul, in the Druidic megaliths. However, not all megaliths are related in spirit to druidic ones and are related to telluric and cosmic mysteries. For example, in eastern India, in the densely forested valley of the Dhansira River, amazing stone monoliths have survived to this day, which are 16 huge blocks of sandstone arranged in four rows. Images of peacocks, parrots, buffaloes, and various plants are carved on them. Judging by their form (these monoliths are in the form of male and female fertility symbols), they belong to a phallic cult. Fuhrer-Heimendorf calls this group of monoliths "a stone orgy of fertility symbols".

In the valley of the Dhansira River in the 16th century there was Dimapur, the ancient capital of the Kachari state, which in the 14th-17th centuries. extended its power to a significant part of modern Asam. But the possibility is not ruled out that the monoliths were created not by the Kachari, but by the civilization that preceded them, as some researchers tend to think (this issue has not yet been finally resolved).

Finally, it should be noted that in Southeast Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, there existed in ancient times its own special civilization, the development of which was stimulated by constant ties with India, China and the countries of the Arab East. One of the foundations of this peculiar civilization was "the ancient cult of stones, now hardly accessible to direct observation, but once the most important component of natural, in particular cosmological cults, as can be judged from Skeat's remark: "... some Malays that the firmament is a kind of stone or rock, which they call "batu hampar", i.e. a flat stone, and the appearance of stars is due (as they thought) to the fact that light penetrates through holes made in this stone.

Let us now consider the megaliths of the Caucasus, based on the work of Academician A.A. Formozov: "Monuments of primitive art on the territory of the USSR", Moscow, 1966, p. 128; the fourth chapter of this study (pp. 76-87) is devoted to Caucasian dolmens.

On the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, significant groups of dolmens have survived to this day near Gelendzhik, Dzhubga, Lazarevsky, Esheri and in some other places. These primitive tombs are strange stone houses built from five huge hewn slabs. The earliest of them were erected more than four thousand years ago, and the latest date back to the middle of the first millennium BC. It was then (about five hundred years before R. X.) that real dolmens ceased to be erected in the Caucasus, but crypts similar to them in shape, but made not of monoliths, but of small stones, were erected until the 11th-12th centuries. new era.)

Once, before the conquest of the Caucasus by Russia, there were thousands of dolmens there, standing untouched for 3-4 thousand years. But after the annexation of the Caucasus to Russia, their number began to decrease rapidly, because the newcomer Russian population did not spare these alien and "homeless" monuments of antiquity.*

The dolmens of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus are, indeed, cyclopean structures, although they were erected not by giants, but by the most ordinary people. For example, one of the dolmens on Asheri is made of slabs 3.7 meters long and up to half a meter thick. One roof weighs 22.5 tons. It is not easy to lift such a weight to the level of the walls, and this is by no means the only problem. Often stones were delivered for many kilometers. Far from the mountains in the steppe Kuban region, a dolmen was found, covered with a slab, which ten people threw down with difficulty. Undoubtedly, it would be necessary to try many options. burial structures to come to the classical design: four slabs placed on edge, bearing the fifth - a flat ceiling ... The whole complexity of this matter can only be comprehended from one's own experience.

*) The academician A.A. in rows, they resembled the streets in a small village. No wonder the Adyghe called the dolmens "syrpun" - the houses of dwarfs, and the Kuban Cossacks - "heroic huts". the foundations of dwellings, or even just like that, just for fun. Now only the teeth of split slabs stick out of the ground on Bogatyrskaya Polyana. Dolmens were destroyed before archaeologists had time to seriously deal with them. Even where roofs and walls were preserved, everything inside was dug up by treasure hunters, the bones of the buried and the clay vessels were broken and thrown out. Therefore, our information about the dolmens is very incomplete."

However, archaeologists did not find traces of such architectural experiments on the Caucasian coast; they immediately began to build dolmens of the classical type here. According to A.A. Formozov, dolmens, very similar to Caucasian ones, were built in the same era in Syria, Palestine in North Africa, in Spain, France and England, in Denmark and southern regions Scandinavia, Iran, India and Southeast Asia. At the same time, they were built by "different tribes and not always in the same era, but the idea of ​​​​such a construction should undoubtedly have a common origin ... Undoubtedly, the attraction of dolmens to coastal areas, indicating the role of maritime relations in the spread of these peculiar tombs."

Where did the idea of ​​building dolmens come from in the Caucasus? Archaeologists do not give an accurate and reasonable answer to this question, but on the basis of logical conclusions, we believe that this idea came to the Caucasus from ancient Gaul, from the Druids, with whom the builders of the Caucasian dolmens were in spiritual communication.

Caucasian dolmens were undoubtedly erected as burial structures. But it is also undoubted that during the construction of these tombs and funerals, special rites were performed, and then periodically repeated sacrifices were made. The researchers drew attention to the fact that usually in front of the dolmens, standing on the side of the mountain, there is a flat area. Near the village of Kamennomostskaya, large pillar-shaped stones - menhirs - were dug around the site. There are similar sites or "courtyards" in other countries - in Spain, England and France. * There is no doubt that some religious and religious-magic ceremonies were performed on these sites. It is also possible that, like the druidic megaliths, these Caucasian structures were placed at the places where the telluric currents crossed, where there was a particularly strong electromagnetic voltage. These structures, according to Paul Boucher, were used by the Druids as a kind of wireless telegraph station, thus maintaining regular communication with very distant countries. In this way, contact was established between initiates of various tribes and peoples. It is possible that the initiates of the Caucasus were also included in this chain.

*) A.A. Formozov notes that on the upper slab of the dolmens or on special stones in front of them, cup recesses for sacrifices and libations were carved in some places. The Adyghe tribe of the Shapsugs brought sacrificial food to the dolmens in the 19th century. This rite has been preserved since ancient times, when relatives of the buried came to the cemetery with food.

Similar sacrifices also existed among the steppes of the Eneolithic and Bronze Ages. So near Simferopol in the village. Bakhchi-Eli, a large rectangular slab was found, on its upper end side there are two rows of round depressions. The same recesses-bowls on stones were hollowed out in various eras for both cult and practical purposes. A stone with pits was found even at the Mousterian site of La Ferracy. In the 19th century, ethnographers unexpectedly discovered similar depressions on recent peasant tombstones in Brittany, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland and began to ask about their purpose. The Bretons poured water into these motionless vessels "to cool the souls of the dead." Often water was replaced with milk. In the Scandinavian countries, offerings were placed there "for children" and for "dwarfs", in other words - food for the little soul of the deceased. These rites were performed from century to century in old cemeteries, they were also transferred to fresh burials.

In Azerbaijan, where there are many ancient cup stones, in the villages to this day cups are beaten out on gravestones. Similar monuments existed in the Northern Black Sea region. There is information about a stone covered with pits, which stood among the barrows near the village of Rozmaritsina in the Kherson region.

Some archaeologists think that the dolmen reproduces the form of the Egyptian tomb - the mastaba. And according to A.A. Formozov, "solidity, indestructibility makes Caucasian tombs related Egyptian pyramids. The similarity is natural. Both of them were supposed to serve as eternal dwellings for people who considered this life only a temporary refuge and embodied faith in another life in monumental stone tombs.

What tribes built the Caucasian dolmens? According to A.A.Formozov, settlements of tribes that buried their dead in dolmens were discovered both on the Black Sea coast and in the Kuban region. Traces of dwellings revealed during excavations are absolutely not similar to burial houses. The dwellings have adobe floors, wattle walls coated with clay, and, in rare cases, a foundation made of small pieces of torn stone. The builders of dolmens - the giants of the Adyghe legends, who mowed quadrangular blocks on their shoulders, actually lived in miserable shacks. Furthermore. On the Belaya River and in the vicinity of Adler, in several caves, sites with the same pottery were studied as in the mounds near the station. Novosvobodnaya. People huddled there in caves, like Neanderthals.

In the II millennium BC. e. among the population of the Caucasus, very rich leaders have already come to the fore. The grave with a canopy and other treasures in the Maykop burial mound is even older than dolmens. Nevertheless, until the Iron Age, the foundations of the primitive community in the Caucasus were not shaken. Probably the whole family worked on each stone crypt. One and a half hundred people spent time and energy to adequately arrange the transition of their brother to another world, and none of them thought that it would be better to use this time and energy to cultivate the fields, improve tools or artistic creativity.

"The people who built the dolmens sculpted dishes by hand, although in the southern regions of Transcaucasia, from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, the potter's wheel spread. and stone tools of purely Neolithic forms and hunted with such primitive weapons as a sling (sling balls were found more than once during excavations of dolmens). and the potter's wheel, who mastered iron and saddled a horse. A most characteristic example of the one-sided development of society, a phenomenon that strikes us in history from antiquity to the present day. In the 20th century, it looks ridiculous. Devoting one's life to the creation of monumental tombs seems senseless to us, but you never know less strange ideas seized mankind for centuries, and even for millennia. these false premises were fruitless for culture, for art. So it is here - excessive, hypertrophied concern for the afterlife and the eternal homes of the ancestors led the primitive man to architecture.

The construction of dolmens was extremely difficult and complex, taking into account the primitive technology of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. This clearly proves such a case, given by A.A. Formozov. In 1960, it was decided to transport (I emphasize: not build a new dolmen, but only transport the old one a relatively short distance by truck along a good highway) to Sukhum, to the courtyard of the Abkhaz Museum, one dolmen from Esheri. They chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fixed the loops of the lifting steel cable on the cover plate, it did not move. A second crane was called. Two cranes removed a multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. Exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhum. In 1961, with the help of this mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. Before this was possible, a fair amount of time passed, the trees of the museum garden were peeled off, and one wall of the dolmen was broken. And yet, the reconstruction was carried out only partially. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but they could not turn it so that their edges fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof. In ancient times, the plates were fitted to each other so much that the blade of a knife could not crawl between them. Now there is a big gap.

How dolmens were built in ancient times with extremely limited technical means? Restoring mentally the successive stages of their construction, A.A. Formozov writes that “the material was dragged from the quarry on oxen. Obviously, the simplest rollers, levers, earth filling, temporary supports were used to support the slabs in a vertical position until they were pressed by the ceiling. But in the foreground was the muscular work of many, many dozens of people.According to the calculation of B.A. Kuftin, at least 150 people lifted the upper slab of the Escher dolmen.

Now about the size of the Caucasian dolmens. If we look at the table with these data, we will notice that the farther from the sea, the smaller and smaller their dimensions. In Asheri, the height of the front plate is about 2.5 meters, and the length of the side walls is 3-3.5 m. Equally massive stones were used in the ancient cemeteries of Gelendzhik, Dzhubga, Lazarevsky. The walls of the Pshadsky dolmen even reach a length of 4 m. The Kuban "heroic huts" of the Bagovskaya, Novosvobodnaya, Dakhovskaya villages are much smaller: their facade is not higher than a meter, and the total length is on average 1.8 m. In the more eastern regions there are no real dolmens , but here on Kafar and Teberda medieval crypts imitating them in form were found. They are rectangular in plan, with a round inlet, but they are already built from many small stones.

So A.A. Formozov comes to the conclusion that "from archaeological sites one can judge the very process of spreading the idea of ​​a dolmen from the coast to the more remote corners of the Caucasus. We see that another process was going on in parallel: people gradually made their task easier: first they reduced the size of the tombs , and then they began to build them from the same material as the huts, abandoning the stones of the monoliths.

By placing massive slabs with precise construction calculations, the creators of dolmens proved to be "skillful architects. Almost everywhere, the side slabs and the roof protrude somewhat above the front wall. It turns out a U-shaped portal. The back wall is usually lower than the front, and the roof lies obliquely. All this allows to single out structural elements in the building - bearing the arch of the support and express a sense of strength, inviolability of the dolmen. It was the desire for strength that required the construction of dolmens from five large slabs, and not from paving stones or torn stone. Solidity, invincibility makes Caucasian tombs related to Egyptian pyramids. " These are the Caucasian megaliths. We can only tell about their sad fate. Here is what A.A. Formozov writes:

"The Caucasian tribes of the Iron Age took care of the ancient cemeteries. A hundred years ago, the Russian Cossacks, who settled in the Kuban region, came across completely intact dolmens. perform these rituals.The Adyghe people were sure that damage to the dolmens would entail pestilence and misfortune.A sense of reverence for distant ancestors and fear of disturbing their peace for forty centuries was transmitted from grandfathers to fathers, from fathers to children, and even peoples alien in origin.

This phenomenon is observed wherever there are megalithic monuments. In Brittany, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, sick people were brought to them in the hope of healing, and girls who dreamed of getting married went to pray. French ethnographers described round dances around menhirs. Church messages of the Middle Ages are known, which forbade pilgrimage to these pagan structures. But in the fight against millennial beliefs, the church was powerless. Then began the "Christianization" of the megaliths. Crosses were installed on them, and churches were erected over some dolmens.

The same thing happened in Transcaucasia. Here, menhirs had sanctuaries, roosters and rams were sacrificed to them, stone pillars on their knees crawled a certain number of times. Christianity legalized these rites. And here we find chapels above the menhirs.

Protected by popular worship, the megaliths of Brittany and Transcaucasia have successfully survived to this day. Dolmens are not so lucky. In 1897, the founder of the Yekaterinodar Museum, E.D. Felitsyn, complained: “The highlanders, our predecessors in the Trans-Kuban Territory, generally treat ancient monuments with great respect, whatever they may be. Unfortunately, the Kuban Cossacks, having inherited their places, do not imitate this laudable feature of the highlanders." (E.D. Felitsyn. - Kuban antiquities. Ekaterinodar, 1879, p. 13). Even before the revolution, hundreds of dolmens were destroyed. Often they were smashed without a purpose, just to "test the strength." Even intelligent engineers contributed to the destruction of monuments, ordering to use their slabs for crushed stone for the Black Sea Highway. Sadly, our tractor drivers also like to try on the dolmens "who will take whom" - the tractor will break a stone house or break. And here are the results. In 1885, there were 360 ​​dolmens on Bogatyrskaya Polyana, and in 1928 - 20, and now there are none at all.

So, the dark illiterate Adyghe did not damage the dolmens in any way, and the people with a higher culture wiped them off the face of the earth. The key to the paradox is that for the Adyghes "syrpun" was something sacred, and for Russians it was alien, unusual and unnecessary.

Now the fate of the silent witnesses of the past worries not only archaeologists and art historians. Losses from the destruction of monuments became too obvious. Let's take a lesson from the history of dolmens. In our opinion, it is formulated as follows: those who love them, who cherish them, can save the monuments, but by no means those who are perplexed "why all this is necessary." In ancient times, religion protected them, now they are protected by culture. In a period when religion has lost its former role, and understanding of the value cultural heritage not yet, usually archaeological objects and works of ancient art perish. It was under such circumstances that the dolmens of the Kuban region perished.

Their fate is dramatic and surprising. Four thousand years ago, carried away by the doctrine of life and death borrowed from somewhere else, the tribes of the northwestern Caucasus began to build megalithic tombs designed to last for centuries. The oldest and largest dolmens appeared on the shores of the Black Sea. The creators of these tombs were not mythical giants. These were people who lived in caves or settlements of adobe-wattle, "turluch" houses, relatively recently acquainted with metal. Each tomb required hard, many days of work, and yet one generation after another gave up their daily activities for her sake.

Gradually, the idea of ​​dolmens spread from the coast to the mountains and crossed Caucasian Range... Century after century flashed by, the world was unrecognizably transformed, and the old Shapsugs still carried food for the spirits to the dolmens. Then a foreign people came and destroyed the "heroic huts". Such is the history of dolmens. Indeed, standing in front of the last of them, there is something to think about. "So writes Academician A.A. Formozov.

Dr. A.M. Aseev
Asuncion, November 1972

People puzzle over the pyramids ancient egypt and similar structures in Central and South America, and wonder how early people could lift and move such huge blocks of stone? Of course they couldn't. Early humans did not build these structures.

pyramids

Egyptian pyramids are the greatest architectural monuments Ancient Egypt. The largest is the pyramid of Cheops. Initially, its height was 146.6 m, its height has now decreased to 138.8 m. The length of the side of the pyramid is 230 m.

The pyramid is built from 2.5 million stone blocks; no cement or other binders were used. On average, the blocks weighed 2.5 tons, but in the "King's Chamber" there are granite blocks weighing up to 80 tons. The pyramid is almost a monolithic structure - with the exception of several chambers and corridors leading to them.

Curse of the Pharaoh

The curse of the pharaohs is a curse that allegedly befalls anyone who touches the graves of royal persons and the mummies of ancient Egypt. The curse is predominantly associated with deaths that took place over the next few years after the opening of Tutankhamen's grave, which took place in 1922.

The main facts stated in the "curse" are as follows:
1. Lord Carnarvon died 4 months after visiting the tomb.
2. Archaeologist Arthur Mays died a few days after Carnarvon;
3. Radiologist Archibald Douglas-Reid soon died;
4. A few months later, the American George Gould, who also visited the tomb, died;
5. in 1923, Carnarvon's half-brother, traveler and diplomat Colonel Aubrey Herbert, died of blood poisoning;
6. In the same year, a member of the Egyptian royal family, Prince Ali Kamel Fahmi Bey, who was present at the opening of the tomb, was shot dead by his wife;
7. in 1924, the governor-general of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, was shot dead in Cairo;
8. Carter's secretary Richard Barthel died unexpectedly in 1928;
9. In 1930, Barthel's father, Sir Richard, Baron Westbury, threw himself out of a window;
10. Carnarvon's half-brother committed suicide in 1930.
Reports of the death of Lady Almina Carnarvon from an unknown insect bite at the age of 61 are false, as she passed away at the age of 93 in 1969.

Did Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb contain information about the nature and timing of the past Pole Shift, and is it related to the Mummy's Curse? Did the establishment kill those who threatened to release or use the timing information to silence those people? It's no secret that the elite (including the Vatican) are aware of the coming cataclysms that will be caused by the next passage of Nibiru (or Planet X). It is clear that these were not accidents, but the result of efforts to destroy those who owned the information or made it clear that they would seek to use this knowledge.

The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest building in the city of Teotihuacan and one of the largest in Mesoamerica. Located between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Citadel in the shadow of the massive mountain Cerro Gordo, it is part of a large temple complex. The Pyramid of the Sun is the third largest pyramid in the world after the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico and the Pyramid of Cheops.

Ancient Chinese grave mounds. In popular publications and television films, especially in English, the burial mounds of Ancient China are called "pyramids". The first report of the existence of the giant so-called "White Pyramid" was delivered in 1945 by a US pilot. Later, the existence of pyramidal hills to the north of the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an was confirmed.

Pyramids found all over the world and buried under shifting sands or under randomly growing plants have a similarity in appearance, and this similarity is not accidental. for similar purposes. The pyramids were astronomical instruments that allowed the giant humanoids to detect when their planet, the 12th planet, was approaching and direct their shuttle spaceships to it. Since the 12th planet visits the solar system every 3600 years on average, those who built the pyramids also built them for their followers and wanted to make them permanent - like a written record that cannot be lost. The shape of the pyramids allows them to survive earthquakes and hurricanes and thus was the chosen shape. After the passage, when the pole shift changed the landscape of the earth's surface, the pyramids lost their value as astronomical instruments, but their durability protected them from disappearing from the earth's surface. Thus, they have become another part of the riddle that humanity grapples with in an attempt to solve it.

stonehenge

Stonehenge is a stone megalithic structure in Wiltshire (England). It is located about 130 km southwest of London, about 3.2 km west of Amesbury and 13 km north of Salisbury. One of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, Stonehenge consists of ring and horseshoe structures built from large megaliths. The first researchers associated the construction of Stonehenge with the Druids. Excavations, however, have pushed back the creation of Stonehenge to the New Stone and Bronze Ages. The material for dating the sarsen boulders, which is available in a very limited amount, indicates 2440-2100 BC. e.

Stonehenge is ancient, much older than man believes. It was created so early that it is not imprinted in any cultures, and all the threads are broken. Stonehenge is neither a sundial, nor a device for astronomical measurements, nor a place of worship or sacrifice, nor a meeting place. All these interpretations are only an attempt by mankind to explain the purpose of Stonehenge, since the true explanation can lead to too much confusion.

So what exactly is Stonehenge? Stonehenge was built at the behest of a reptilian king who lived on Earth so long ago, when humans first appeared. However, the building was intended for emerging people who existed at that time. This is a subliminal message containing a sadistic appeal and influence on those who will be sacrificed. People should look at Stonehenge and imagine the desperate efforts of an innocent lying on a table under a knife. Why was there another table? So that they represent a bunch of villains surrounding the victim. Why is there a circle? Lest they imagine any force entering the inside of the circle to save the victim. Why else is this all out in the open? Stonehenge was built in order to fulfill the purpose that its creators laid in it - to penetrate into the subconscious of mankind.

If the value of pi in Babylon is 3.125, then the circumference of the Sarsen circle in Stonehenge is 3650 imperial inches, which is represented in great pyramid. This is a coded message representing the orbital period of Planet X.

Easter Island

Like most other oral traditions, the folklore of the inhabitants Rapa Nui passed down from time immemorial through many generations, and therefore it is not known whether these stories are based on historical facts. At the center of most statue stories is the mystical idea that massive megaliths were moved by the use of "mana" or divine energy. Those who possessed "mana" were able to direct the movement of "moai" (i.e. statues) to the place intended for it. Information about who actually possessed the "mana" varies considerably.

In 1919, the British archaeologist Katherine Routledge, who lived on Easter Island for a year, wrote in her journal: "There was a certain old woman who lived at the southern edge of the mountain and held the position of a cook for statue makers. She was the most important person among influential circles and moved the statues with the help of supernatural forces ("mana"), placing them everywhere at will." Earlier reports left by visitors to the island indicate that the statues were positioned by the mythical King Tuu Ku Ihu and the god Make-Make. It was known that there were even special priests who moved moai at the request of those who wanted to have them on their ancestral land or on ahu (base of wind-blown sand).

And this is a pedestal under the moai on about. Easter:

Giant humanoids have long faces, but the discovered skulls, usually described as alien, do not belong to these humanoids. The heads on Easter Island were designed to intimidate, as the appearance of these faces was, and indeed is, the structure of their faces.

Megaliths of South America

Sacsayhuaman is a large ceremonial complex in Cusco, according to legend, it was erected by the first Inca king, Manco Copac. According to scientists, the megalithic structures were built in the tenth - thirteenth century. The best-preserved area of ​​the complex is a large square with three massive terraces adjacent to it.

The stones used in their construction are among the largest among pre-Columbian structures. Giant boulders are so precisely fitted to each other that you can’t even slip a sheet of paper between them. It is believed that this technology, as well as the presence of rounded corners on the stones, allowed Sacsayhuaman to endure the numerous destructive earthquakes that occurred in Cusco.

Not far from Sacsayhuaman, sixty kilometers northwest of Cusco, there is another megalithic site - Ollantaytambo. In the nineteenth century, the ruins of the city attracted scientists from all over the world, who were extremely surprised at the way the buildings were built. During its heyday, Ollantaytambo was a fairly large settlement.

Its plan is typical of the Incas - four transverse streets crossed seven longitudinal ones, in the center there was a large square. The city consisted of residential buildings, temples, warehouses, as well as utilities - it even had some kind of water supply. Most of the structures were built from large stone blocks, closely fitted to each other.

Located high in the mountains near the Chilean town of San Clemente, the site of El Enladrillado is the subject of much debate among scientists, as well as the source of myths and legends. From Spanish, "El Enladrillado" literally translates as "stone floor". Actually, this phrase is the best way to describe this area.

El Enladrillado - stonework that covers the surface of the earth. It is made of large boulders, tightly joined to each other. At the same time, in its shape, the masonry resembles a triangle, pointing towards the Descabezado Grande volcano.

Tiwanaku or Taipikala - ancient settlement in Bolivia, 72 km from La Paz near the eastern shore of Lake Titicaca. According to the materials of excavations, this settlement dates back to 1500 BC. e.

High in the mountains of South America are traces of ancient civilizations with features similar to the ancient civilizations of Egypt. These are structures that were built from large blocks of stone and that were paved and fortified in the same way as the Great Pyramids. Spaceports on high mountain plateaus, which can be clearly seen from space, are still hardly recognizable from the surface of the Earth. In the humid jungle to the north lie the outlines of cities abandoned for no apparent reason. The land is fertile, the water supply is rich, and yet they are there unattended and uninhabited. Legends say that human sacrifices were made on pyramid-like platforms, that hearts were torn from the chest of living people, but no evidence of this practice exists among the local peoples. Who built it and where did they go?

All these traces of ancient civilization are only traces left by humanoid aliens from the 12th planet who left the earth. Human sacrifice - never a practice of the local population - was also discontinued, as this ferocious method of punishment was used by the dominant aliens to keep their wayward human slaves on a tight leash. After they left, the frightened people either left to wander or played politics, according to which they chose their new masters for one day. If people don't have the technology to make a city function, then cobbled streets and stone structures become an unnecessary burden. People were forced to walk much further to work the fields or to go hunting. Why did they have to take all these tedious steps? Soon the cities were deserted by all but the monkeys, lizards and vines that crawl through everything in the jungle.

Baalbek is the oldest and most majestic city on Earth, the ruins of which are located at the foot of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, 85 kilometers northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. The Sumerian chronicles mention that Baalbek was built at the same time as the pyramids of Giza. The structures of Baalbek are striking in their size. The grand temple of Jupiter once stood on the Baalbek terrace.

In the southeastern wall, the base consists of nine rows of stone blocks weighing more than 300 tons each. In the southwestern wall of the base lie three colossal megalithic blocks of absolutely incredible size, called Trilithon - the Miracle of the Three Stones. Each of them reaches a length of 21 meters, a height of 5 meters, a width of 4 meters. They weigh 800 tons each. Moreover, these monoliths lie at an eight-meter height. On the blocks, traces of machining of the planes are visible.

Contrary to the sometimes occurring statement, the so-called. The "Southern Stone" was not at all thrown by the builders along the road and was not lost during transportation - it remained lying in the quarry, and was not even completely separated from the rocky foundation. The slope of the block is given by the general slope of the surface that the rock mass had in this place.

Giant humanoids from the 12th planet, which have entered the legends of many terrestrial peoples, wandered the Earth and even in those places where there were no legends about their presence. These humanoids are recorded in the mythology of Europe as Greek gods or as Vandals-Visigoths, in Africa - in the memory of the Dogon tribe, in South and Central America - in the Mayan and Inca cities. However, they also visited Australia and the East, although the only traces of them there are artificially made objects. The gods of the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Babylonians, the Germanic Visigoths, the gods of the ancient Maya and Incas are, almost down to the individual, royalty from the 12th Planet stationed on Earth to oversee the development of mines.

Avebury

Avebury is a late Neolithic and early Bronze cult site, consisting of megalithic tombs and sanctuaries. It is located in Wiltshire, England and takes its name from a nearby village. According to archaeologists, the complex was created and intensively used in the period from 2100 BC to BC. e. to 1650 BC e.

Avebury structures are associated by scientists with the culture of bell-shaped goblets. It consists of a huge cromlech with an area of ​​​​11.5 hectares and a diameter of over 350 meters, surrounded by a moat and rampart, with approximately 100 stone pillars, each weighing up to 50 tons.

Avebury and Dark Star. People who settled in the past in the Avebury area and began to lay out stone circles here witnessed a most amazing astronomical phenomenon. In any case, it is interesting that the third circle, with an additional winding track extending from it, located near Avebury, means an object similar to Planet X.

It seems that Babylonian culture allows for such a double interpretation. At the top of this stele is an image of a trinity of bright astronomical objects - the Sun, the Moon and the third radiating planet. Please note that the Babylonian deity Marduk, a deity closely associated with the planet Nibiru, is depicted on the stele below. It is interesting to compare this image with the later alchemical image of the dragon symbolizing Azoth, with its two suns and moon. Planet X, represented as the Second Sun, and the winding, undulating path are depicted in crop circles in many places.

newgrange

Newgrange is a megalithic religious building in Ireland, a corridor tomb, which is part of the Bru-na-Boine complex. Newgrange dates back to 2500 BC. e. In the building with a diameter of 85 meters and a height of 13.5 meters, a 19-meter gallery was made, which points strictly to the southeast and leads to a cruciform hall. The most exciting time to visit Newgrange is December 21st and the days before and after. At dawn, during the winter equinox, the sun's rays rush straight into a small hole above the entrance to the gallery, reach the farthest stone and then fill the entire room with light. Some researchers believe that Newgrange is the oldest "astrological" building of its kind on earth.

If the Annunaki built the Great Pyramids as an astronomical device so that the Annunaki who remained on Earth could determine when their home planet, Nibiru, would enter the solar system, were other such observing devices built in the same time period? Man estimates that the Great Pyramids were built approximately 4,000 years ago, and the New Grange is estimated to be over 5,000 years old. If the Great Pyramids were built for the astronomers who exist among the Annunaki waiting for the next passage of Nibiru, then the New Grange was a type of structure built in case of disaster. What if a plague breaks out, because then astronomers will lose the ability to keep track of the calendar! Their knowledge, of course, was recorded in writing, but we are talking about tasks that have not been solved due to the uncertainty of the number of days, weeks or months that have passed. In such a case, a team would be sent to an observation site such as New Grange to mark the arrival of the Winter Solstice and quickly report back to the astronomical center.

The New Grange is famous for witnessing the arrival of the solstice, when around dawn on the day of the Winter Solstice, sunlight enters it. Since the former N Pole was located on Greenland, and the crustal shift during the last shift simply pulled Greenland to a more southerly latitude, only the nature of the observation before and after the moment of the solstice changed at the solstice. - Arcs of the trajectory of the Sun in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere in the direction from north to south, and therefore, ultimately, it looks into the hole in which the moment of the Winter Solstice is recorded. Further, at more northern latitudes, the Sun looked through the hole earlier. Does any sunlight enter through this hole before or after the solstice? Of course, why not? After all, a hole is not a point. But the approximate time of the Winter Solstice can be registered.

Megaliths in Siberia

Have you already seen it? March 10, 2014 In Gornaya Shoria, in southern Siberia, researchers found an exceptionally huge wall of granite stones.

Some of these giant granite stones are estimated to weigh over 3,000 tons, and as you will see below, many of them were carved "with flat surfaces, right angles and sharp edges". Nothing of this magnitude had ever been discovered before. The largest stone found at a megalithic ruin in Baalbek, Lebanon weighs less than 1,500 tons. So how is it that someone cut 3,000-ton granite stones with unprecedented precision, moved them up the side of a mountain, and stacked them 40 meters high?

Lifting large stones from which they created their pyramids and walls, the Annunaki were helped by aliens who are able to control gravity in relation to their ships, themselves and objects, such as large stones. Their ships do not hover with the help of jet propulsion, but due to the creation of a separate gravitational field inside the ship. Contactees report floating in the air during visits. Thus, the discovery of massive megaliths should not come as a surprise. The Annunaki have been on Earth since before humanity was genetically engineered from apes. The land was sparsely populated, so their mining work did not interfere with the efforts of genetic engineers. Due to their long stay on Earth, they were or were buried under the shifting soil, puzzling modern man.

Dolmens

Dolmens are ancient burial and religious structures belonging to the category of megaliths (that is, structures made of large stones). The name comes from the appearance of structures common to Europe - a slab raised on stone supports, resembling a table. The main function for dolmens of all types is funerary.

Why would early man cremate his dead? Today there are cultures in New Guinea that eat their dead to gain the strength and wisdom of the deceased. This approach to the use of the dead is common throughout the world. The practice can be found in Africa and South America, and in the past was also in use in China. This is at the heart of cannibalism. So given that the Annunaki were viewed as powerful and dominant giants by early man, and given that early man in all likelihood would thus attempt to eat a dead Annunaki in order to gain these qualities, the Annunaki burned their dead on a regular basis. What is the reason why no mummies or Annunaki graves have been discovered? They were burned and their ashes scattered.

In the stone circle of the ancient cemetery, in the place of cult of the old, forgotten and eternal gods, pulsing with ancient magic and power, Wall Climber raised his hands and a bloody knife. And he screamed. jubilant. wildly. Inhuman.
Everything around was frozen in horror.
Andrzej Sapkowski "God's Warriors"

Among the windy wastelands, above the heather, under the low restless sky - hieroglyphs on gray stone. Erased by time, lost, alien to our world, thrown into it from another, unknown reality, separated by the abyss of centuries. Fragments of forgotten eras bearing the seal of eternity, survived more than one generation of legends, in which there is no longer a drop of truth. But still full of strange power and invincible greatness. awe inducing even now. Megaliths.

Megaliths ("large stones") are usually referred to as prehistoric structures of huge stone blocks connected without the use of mortar. But this definition is very imprecise. A significant part of the archaeological sites classified as megaliths, in the strict sense, are not structures at all, since they consist of a single monolith or several slabs that are not connected to each other.

In addition, the stones of megalithic structures are not always large. Finally, some buildings built already in historical time are often referred to as megaliths, but either with the use of cyclopean blocks (the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek), or without the use of mortar (Machu Picchu in Peru, 16th century).

What then unites megaliths? Perhaps monumentality and a halo of mystery. Megalith - the creation of a departed, often already nameless people. This is a message from an unimaginably distant "pre-legendary" past. Monument to an unknown builder.

ETERNAL STONES

Alien, surrealistic, contrary to all known principles of architecture, the appearance of megaliths feeds the vast “modern mythology”, full of Atlanteans, Hyperboreans and other representatives of highly developed civilizations that have sunk into oblivion. But there are at least two reasons not to take such speculation seriously. Firstly, they still do not give an intelligible explanation for the appearance of megaliths. Secondly, the real secrets of history are more interesting than the imaginary ones.

The simplest megaliths, thus, which cannot yet be considered structures, include the sacred stones of seida and menhirs - oblong, roughly processed blocks vertically stuck into the ground, chipped from the rock. A little later, they are replaced by orthostats, which are distinguished by a flat shape and the presence of at least one carefully smoothed edge, on which magical signs were drawn or carved.

Single menhirs and seids, as a rule, served as objects of worship. Near the largest in England, the Radston monolith, 7.6 meters high, decorated with petrified dinosaur footprints, sacrifices were made. On the plains, ice blocks have always attracted attention and, quite likely, could be considered the home of the spirit or the weapon of the first ancestor. Smaller menhirs usually served as headstones for leaders. In any case, it was for this purpose that the last of them was installed under the camera at the beginning of the last century in Indonesia. The largest cluster of 3,000 orthostats is the Karnak stones in Brittany, a prehistoric cemetery.

In some cases, menigirs were placed in a group, forming a circle of cromlech marking the boundaries of the cult place. Often, in the center of the decorative fence, a platform lined with stone was found, on which the bodies of the dead were burned or animals and captives were sacrificed. Ceremonies, meetings, festivities and other social events could also be held here. Cults have changed. Cromlechs are more durable than religions.

The use of megalithic structures as observatories is not excluded. To accurately determine the position of the Moon and the Sun (from the shadow), unshakable landmarks were required. Menhirs arranged in a circle served this role. It should be noted that observatories in the Middle Ages had a similar device.

Already in antiquity, people strove for diversity and were not afraid of experiments. An epochal step forward, a real breakthrough in stone architecture was tauls - structures made of a large stone hoisted onto a small one. Then triliths appeared - arches of three stones - the beauty and pride of Stonehenge. The stability and durability of these structures led primitive builders to the idea of ​​building dolmens - the first stone buildings in the history of mankind.

With dolmens, as, indeed, with the rest of the simplest megaliths, a lot of mysteries are connected. For example, they can never be associated with any particular archaeological culture - that is, with an ancient people whose migrations are tracked by scientists on characteristic ceramics, arrowheads and other finds. The stone does not give out the age of the building, it does not say anything about the creators. As a rule, it is possible to determine the date of the appearance of a dolmen only with an accuracy of several centuries. And for such a period of time the population of the country was replaced more than once. The artifacts found in the structure and around it do not say anything, since it is known that megaliths, passing from hand to hand, remained “in operation” for millennia.

The circumstance that similar, almost identical megaliths are scattered over a vast area, from the Caucasus to Portugal and from the Orkney Islands to Senegal, can also be rather puzzling. In this regard, even a version was put forward about a certain “dolmen culture”, whose representatives once inhabited all these territories. But the hypothesis was not confirmed. No traces of such a people have been found. Moreover, it was found that the age of two identical, adjacent dolmens can differ by a couple of thousand years.

In fact, the similarity of dolmens different countries is explained by the fact that the idea lying on the surface naturally occurred to many people. Any child could make a "house" by placing four flat stones on the edge and placing the fifth on them. Or cover the hole in the stone with a flat block (trough-shaped dolmen). Admiring his creation, the young architect grew up, became a leader and encouraged his fellow tribesmen to build a life-size structure.

One thing can be said with certainty: the appearance of the first megaliths is associated with the transition of the population to a settled way of life. Wandering hunters had no desire to turn over the blocks encountered during the migrations. And the groups of people were too small to carry out large-scale work. The first farmers had the opportunity to engage in capital construction. Only experience was missing. And for a long time nothing better than to dig two stones into the ground and put a third on them, they did not come to mind for a long time.

Apparently, the dolmens were crypts. In some of them, the remains of hundreds of people were found. Decayed bones formed layer after layer, and new graves were dug out right in the resulting mass. Other dolmens are completely empty. Probably, over the past millennia, someone has taken the trouble to clean them up.

But sooner or later, the construction of simple stone boxes ceased to bring satisfaction. The dolmen is effective enough to glorify an individual clan, but too small to become the pride and cult center of an entire tribal union. People already wanted more. At least in terms of size.

Separate dolmens began to line up in a long corridor, often with side branches. Sometimes two corridors connected by passages were built. Natural slabs were difficult to match in shape, and for the construction of "walls" masonry was used, as in composite dolmens, or solid polished blocks, as in tiled ones.

But even in this case, the structure did not seem majestic enough. Therefore, a colossal cairn, an artificial structure in the form of a pile of stones, was poured over the "multi-serial" dolmens. In order to prevent the pyramid from sinking, it was “supported” along the perimeter by a ring of orthostats. If the belt was not one, it turned out something like a ziggurat. The extent of Neolithic megalomania can already be judged from the fact that such structures, which have long taken the form of rolling hills, in modern times were operated as quarries for decades before workers discovered the inner chambers.

The most impressive of the Neolithic monuments are now called "corridor tombs" or "megalithic temples." But the same structure could combine functions or change them over time. In any case, mounds were ill-suited for performing rituals. It was too cramped inside. Therefore, cairns continued to coexist with cromlechs until people learned how to build real temples, under the arches of which not only priests, but also believers could fit.

The era of megaliths, which began in prehistoric times, has no clear boundaries. It did not end, but only, as construction technologies improved, it gradually faded away. Even in relatively later eras, when the methods of erecting an arch became known, and buildings were built from hewn stone and brick, the demand for giant blocks did not disappear. They continued to be used, but rather as a decorative element. And even knowing how to fasten stones with mortar, architects did not always find it necessary to do this. After all, polished stones, fitted to each other, equipped with protrusions and grooves, looked better. Finally, even an untreated block sometimes turned out to be in place. The boulder that serves as the basis for the equestrian statue of Peter I in St. Petersburg is a typical megalith.

SECRETS OF THE BIG STONE

The question remains "how". How did people deliver huge stones without heavy equipment, how did they lift them, how did they cut them? It is these riddles that inspire the authors of alternative hypotheses. Which, however, is based on a banal lack of imagination. It is difficult for an unprepared person to imagine how barbarians cut a giant block with stone tools and manually set it in place. To imagine how all this is unknown why, in an unknown way, the Atlanteans who have gone to nowhere are doing it, anyone can do it.

But the alternative reasoning contains a fundamental error. With cranes and diamond saws, we do not use huge stone monoliths. It's irrational. More convenient materials are now available. Megaliths were built by people who simply were not yet able to build otherwise.

The stone is really difficult to work with other stone or copper. Therefore, only in the age of iron did they begin to build from relatively compact hewn "bricks". After all, the smaller the block, the larger its relative surface. So the Egyptians did not at all seek to complicate their work by using one and a half and two-ton blocks for the construction of pyramids, which, of course, were not easy to transport and lift. On the contrary, they made it as easy as possible. Indeed, with a decrease in blocks, the cost of their manufacture would increase sharply, while transportation costs would decrease slightly.

The previous weight would have to be transported. The creators of megaliths reasoned the same way.

Estimating the complexity of a task "by eye" often leads to errors. It seems that the work of the builders of Stonehenge was enormous, but, obviously, the costs of building the smallest of the Egyptian and Mesoamerican pyramids were incomparably higher. In turn, all the pyramids of Egypt, taken together, took four times less work than just one channel - a 700-kilometer "understudy" of the Nile bed. This was truly a massive project! The Egyptians built pyramids in their free time. For the soul.

Was it difficult to hew and grind a 20-ton slab? Yes. But every peasant or hunter in the Stone Age during his life between work, in the evenings making the necessary tools, brought about 40 square meters of stone almost to a mirror shine, if possible choosing the hardest of the rocks: only diamond does not lend itself to chipping and grinding on wet sand .

It seems difficult to deliver huge stones not only without equipment, but also without horses, even without a wheel. Meanwhile, under Peter the Great, frigates were transported in this way along the route of the future White Sea Canal. Peasants and soldiers pulled the ships along wooden rails, laying wooden skating rinks. Moreover, more than once the cargo had to be dragged onto multi-meter cliffs. In such cases, it was necessary to build a bast, and sometimes use counterweights in the form of cages with stones. But, when giving the order, the tsar probably did not think long, since it was a question of a completely ordinary operation. It also seemed to the Spaniards both faster and safer to drag galleons from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama than to ferry them around Cape Horn.

Valuable information was provided by the study of the Maltese megalithic temples, one of which was suddenly abandoned in the process of construction. Everything that the workers usually took with them - stone rollers and sleds - remained in place. Even drawings have been preserved that looked like a miniature model of the structure (this is how - according to the model, and not on paper - they built until the 18th century). In addition, in Malta, and later in other regions rich in megaliths, "stone rails" were discovered - parallel furrows left by repeated rolling of round stones under heavy sledges.

But still - wasn't the work too great? Did the obscure barbarians really need to complicate their already difficult life by delivering and lifting 50-ton blocks of Stonehenge? And not for profit, but for beauty, for fame. Realizing that the arches of the cult center can be made of wood.

The inhabitants of Neolithic England thought not too much. The Romans believed in the same way, using record, unthinkable 800-ton blocks in Baalbek, although they could easily get by with ordinary ones. The Incas agreed with them, carving whimsical puzzles from stone in order to assemble the walls of Machu Picchu from them. Megalithic buildings amaze the imagination even now. They hit him then too. Much more hit. With their work, the builders glorified the deity, and a little - themselves. And given that they achieved their goals - although their names are forgotten, fame, having survived the birth and end of many civilizations, thunders through the millennia - is it possible to say that the work was too great?

On the contrary, it was a very economical solution.

In addition to . All photos were taken on the territory of the former USSR

Megaliths, huge structures made of massive stone blocks, are also found in our country. There are a lot of similar structures in Russia, but they are not known like the famous Stonehenge in Great Britain or
Ollantaytambo in Peru. We will get acquainted with the ancient megalithic structures found on the territory of Russia further.

First
where to start the journey is Mount Vottovaara - the highest point
West Karelian Upland - 417.3 m above sea level. Square
mountains 6 sq. km.
The place is just full of strange artifacts after which
you begin to think about ancient highly developed technologies for
stoneworking, let's take a better look at the photo.

Mount Vottovaara.
Scattered blocks of megaliths.

The middle block was cut at an angle of 90 degrees or a game of nature?

how
as if they had conducted a laser :) geologists believe that cracks and faults,
formed as a result of a strong earthquake about 9 thousand years
back. The smooth planes of the stones are the result of the properties of the local rock -
quartzite, the structure of which sets such even planes at
split.

So is it nature or man-made? Let's take a closer look.

More
it looks like perfectly sawn blocks tightly fitted to each other.
It is difficult to imagine an ancient ancestor with a copper chisel that is somewhere on
mountain grinds such smooth blocks.

Good angle, perfectly flat wall.

Who lost the ball?

Here, obviously, high technologies for stone processing could not have been done, or is it still a game of nature? :)

Ural. Ridge Kvarkush

Mount Pidan.
At first glance, it looks like an unremarkable pile of stones of a cracked rock.

But coming closer, it becomes more like a megalithic masonry.

Looking
between blocks, where the stones were less affected by erosion from
wind and rain, one can see man-made and how smooth edges have been preserved.

In the place where the junction of the blocks parted, you can see an even saw cut and the technology of laying these blocks opens before us.

Some blocks reach tens of tons in weight.

Despite the colossal destruction, many of the fragments are well enough preserved to be classified as building materials.

And this is all nature has created, as scientists say.

This is most likely a product of the natural processes of stone formation and its uneven erosion. Inclusions of different density can manifest themselves as a result of greater wear resistance.
More like flowing stone wax)

Stone town in the Perm region.
By
version of scientists, Stone City is the mouth of the river that flowed into the Perm
sea ​​millions of years ago, this explains it beautifully and evenly, under
right angles, carved stones, their neat laying and
perpendicular to each other "ducts" "mouths".

Stone city.

See what smooth sides of the megaliths, as if cut down.

Again, the old method is to look between the blocks inside the masonry, look at the far block in the center, an even cut along the entire length of the block.

They say somewhere on the Kola Peninsula there is this pool carved right into the rock.

In the south of Western Siberia, in the mountainous Shoria in the Mezhdurechensk region, there is a small geological settlement called Kameshki.
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Several educated talented geologists live in this village. This is
Alexander Bespalov, Vyacheslav Pochetkin and others. These people all their lives
engaged in research of the mountain systems of Western Siberia. One day they
came across strange megalithic structures in the mountains, which, for
could not explain themselves. These were walls made of giant
stone blocks and strange buildings with vertically mounted
stone obelisks. On the Internet, they contacted Georgy Sidorov,
so the first expedition was assembled.

Mountain Shoria.
Some
the granite blocks below were made of red granite, crowned them
blocks of gray granite, and above lay a polygonal masonry of various
blocks, both red granite and gray.

Granite
in some places melted from exposure to enormous temperatures and
flow under the weight of the upper rows. Kungurov would say about this that it is
traces of melting from a thermonuclear explosion :)

The wall is composed of polygonal masonry of multi-colored blocks.

The size of the blocks is impressive, according to one version, the find is a man-made structure over 100 thousand years old.

On the
photo Georgy Sidorov, in his opinion, all this is a megalithic structure
may be the ruins of an ancient power plant or power plant,
which translated seismic energy into some other.

Again
looking inside the masonry where the blocks were less prone to erosion, one can see
smooth straight edges, see how the two blocks lie tightly, it's better here
visible handicraft.

Polygonal masonry.

Mountain Shoria. Huge blocks.
on the
Department of Radiophysics at Tomsk State University
showed pictures on the screen, talked about different types of
masonry, about stone castles that hold giant granite blocks together
and not a single learned physicist said that all this has a natural
origin. What surprised them most was how the ancients could raise
giant stone blocks to a height of more than 1000 meters and there
install them on a special platform.

Then
in the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society, photographs were studied by geologists and geographers. And
both came to the conclusion that the presented artifacts are
man-made.

Sklyarova
asked to comment on the find. And what did he say? What all
found artifacts are nothing but cracked at a right angle
rocks. That there is nothing man-made here. Just a game of nature, nothing more.
After these words, I am not surprised why LAI does not study Russian megaliths.

Between blocks.

For comparison, on the left is the megalith in Baalbek, on the right is the megalith in the mountain Shoria, it looks like the author is the same :)

Mount Shaman near the village. Nizhnetambovskoye, Khabarovsk Territory.

Ancient megalithic masonry.

Again, between the blocks, man-made and straight lines are better visible.

Big block megalith.

A large block of megaliths on small stones, this is done for better seismic resistance.

Megalithic masonry resembles Mountain Shoria.

Kabardino-Balkaria, a cave in the Baksan Gorge.
At first
you need to squeeze into a hole measuring 40 by 120 cm, then go down to
rope along a narrow vertical shaft. It is formed by two parallel
stone slabs. After 9 meters - the first "knee": the hole goes to the side and
immediately drops down again. Already here you will be covered by absolute silence -
no sound comes from outside. Another 23 meters deep - and new
"knee". To reach the bottom of the cave, you need to overcome more than 80 meters,
and it will take an hour. But, having passed the "bottleneck", you
you will find yourself in a huge room, which the researchers called the "flask".
Inside we will see processed walls made of tuff and granite, built of
different-sized, tightly fitted polished megaliths.

Descent into the cave.

The edges of the blocks and the seams between them are clearly visible.

The even masonry is striking and the seams are clearly adjusted to each other.

The trihedral blocks parted a little.

Barely visible block seams on the left crescent wall and on the wall behind it.

how do you like the seams?

Rotate the cave at an angle of 90 degrees. Two large megalithic blocks stand on top of each other.

Technology
stone processing is amazing, and even more amazing is the comment of the boss
section of the Kabardino-Balkarian geological exploration expedition Vera
Davidenko, but she is a realist and believes that nature is capable of doing everything
conclusion: “Tuff is an accumulation of ejection products of a volcano -
ash, lava fragments, volcanic glass and, to a small extent,
fragments of rocks that make up the walls of the crater. Ejection material at
accumulation was hot and therefore cracks formed during solidification
separately - that is, the entire tuff massif turned out to be, as it were, divided into
blocks. The depression discovered near the village of Zayukovo represents
is one of such gravitational separation cracks, for which
flat contact surfaces are characteristic, ”but this is the head
geological exploration expedition, she probably knows better.

Structure diagram.

A bit of fantasy for the finale) Arakul Shikhan, a strange structure in the middle of the forest. I have everything, kick :)

Fossilized litas with ripples along the banks of Rassokha.

Sayan megaliths. Kuturchinskoye Belogorye:

Does anyone need to explain that these are not remnants, but the REMAINS of structures of an ancient civilization unknown to us?

Hope you can see for yourself. No need to comment?

This is,. of course it's difficult. It is hard to imagine what this structure looked like before, but you can imagine how thousands, tens of thousands of years, day after day, skalfs were sharpened by wind, sand, water, temperature changes, changes in lighting, glaciers, earthquakes (the area is seismically active, there is even an extinct volcano). Sharp corners were ground down, straight edges were smoothed out, and now we see what we see.

The climate in these places is very harsh, in such a climate, Machu Picchu would have remained the same as in this photo, I have no doubt about it.

Complete this arch mentally, and imagine a vaulted ceiling above your head. Are the dimensions of the "corridor" impressive?

Built absolutely in accordance with the technology of seismic resistance, which is used in Mesoamerican megalithic structures, and in the "temple" in the Middle East: Small blocks at the base, larger ones are laid on them, and it doesn't matter on top. Small ones work like a shock absorber, and polygonal masonry is the best invention of masons of all time. It can be destroyed only by chipping off piece by piece, or by a powerful explosion, after which a kurumnik appears in place of the monolith - stone river from the wreckage.

These structures are also so poorly identified as "man-made" because they have been subjected to powerful influences from changes in the landscape itself. Mountains "breathe", constantly changing heights and deviations from the horizontal.

Pay attention to the sun... yes! The same "Megandavid", which is considered to be a symbol of Judaism!

Only the supporting pillars have been preserved.