For the second century now, adventurers, scientists and adventurers have been searching for the traces of the legendary Golden Woman. Stories about her make hearts beat faster and beckon to unknown lands. They are looking for the Golden Woman in the far North and in Siberia, in the Urals and in Altai. What pushes people to search for it? Is it only that she is golden? Or maybe people respond to the image of the golden goddess, the Mother of God, which everyone wears in their hearts?
Where did the Golden Woman come from?
From the depths of the ancestral memory, the image of the Golden Mother, the mistress and mistress of the sacred ancestral home, the lost paradise, from where our distant ancestors left … No one knows where she came from and where she went. There are only countless assumptions about the fate of the golden statue, which was worshiped by the Siberian and Ural peoples.
Some say that the statue of the Golden Goddess was brought from China, others from Iran or India, and still others from Ancient Rome during the fall of the Roman Empire. Some people consider it a work of local Siberian masters. She was last seen in the 30s of the 20th century in the secret sanctuary of the Kazym Khanty in the Ob basin.
And the earliest mention of the statue we find already in the Novgorod Chronicle for 1398. It was recorded after the missionary activity of Stephen of Perm. Stephen walked on the Perm land, in the sanctuaries of the Perm people argued with the priests. The archers followed Stephen and these sanctuaries were destroyed, and churches were erected in their place.
The chronicle says: "This teach the Perm land to the faith of Christ, and before that they bowed to the beast and tree, water, fire and the Golden Baba." Many foreign scientists who studied Russia wrote about the Golden Baba: the Italian Julius Pomponius Leta in 1480, the Polish scientist Matvey Mekhovsky in 1517. It was placed on the maps of Muscovy by travelers A. Jenkinson, A. Vid (1542), S. Gerberstein (1549) Kosarev M. Golden Baba - a legend or a reality? Science and religion. - 1992. No. 11). The famous Flemish cartographer Herald Mercator on the map of 1595, published after his death, at the mouth of the Ob, wrote: "Zolotaia baba".
The Italians believed that the statue of the Golden Woman was brought to the North from Rome by the Ugrians, who, in alliance with the Goths of Alaric, destroyed the Roman Empire. That is, it is a statue of Juno.
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There is also an opinion that the statue of the Golden Woman is a statue of the goddess of mercy Avalokiteshatvara, which in Chinese Buddhism merges with the image of the goddess Guanyin (Alekseev A. Siberia in the news of foreign travelers and writers. Irkutsk, 1941).
Some even believed that it was a statue of the Madonna and Child, stolen by the Khanty during a raid on one of the Christian churches, but this opinion did not convince anyone, since in Russian Orthodox churches, unlike Catholic churches, there are no such images. They also compared her with the Yakut goddess Dyes Emiget, the Copper Statue, with the Mansi goddess Sorni-Ekva "the golden woman". The modern historian G. Gritskov suggested that the statue of the Golden Goddess was brought from Egypt by the Cimmerians and that this is Isis.
However, in the scientific world, the opinion expressed in the last century by the famous Russian ethnographer Prince N. S. Trubetskoy. He believed that the Golden Baba is Kaltas, the wife of the supreme Khanty-Mansi god Numi-Torum, the mother of all living things, the patroness of newborns, the goddess of fertility and fate.
They revered the Golden Woman and the Slavic goddess. This opinion was shared by the historians of the early 19th century A. S. Kaisarov and GA Glinka (see: Myths of ancient Slavs. Saratov, 1993). I believe that this opinion does not contradict the statement of N. S. Trubetskoy that both the Slavic and the ancient Finno-Ugric faiths have the same Vedic source. And who is Kaltas if not the Golden Maya (Zlatogorka) - the mother of Kolyada, but Numi-Torum - Tarkh Dazh-God, the husband of Golden Maya.
Surprisingly, the belief that the statue of the Golden Goddess was brought to the Urals is not common in all these considerations. And the cautious assumptions about the local production of the statue of the Golden Goddess cannot be compared with these works.
The gripping tales of the wanderings of the statue of the Golden Goddess have a very shaky foundation. The main thing, in my opinion, that makes serious scientists engage in writing stories is the influence (through ancestral memory) of a forgotten myth, because the Golden Mother, Zlatogorka, according to the Vedas, is the daughter of Holy Mountain, and he was the king of Atlantis. That is, to be consistent, we should talk about bringing the cult of the Golden Goddess from Atlantis, but what self-respecting scientist would risk such a statement? The kinship of the cults of the Great Mother on all continents of the Earth really exists.
Who is she - the Golden Woman?
To understand who the Golden Baba really is, you need to turn to the legends of the local Ural and Altai peoples, who not so long ago worshiped her.
It is not difficult to recognize in the Golden Baba both the Mansiysk Sorni-Ekva “the golden Woman”, and the Yakut Copper statue (copper is always a substitute for gold), and, for example, the golden goddess of the Altaians named Altyn-Aryg (“altyn” means “golden”).
In the tales of the Urals, she became, firstly, the heroic Azovka, and secondly, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Tales separate these two images, but they are certainly one. Both Azovka and Mistress live in the depths of the same mountain (or nearby mountains at the sources of the Chusovaya and Iset), both of them store gold and copper. Only the Mistress is an underground goddess, and Azovka is at first an ordinary, albeit with mysterious power, woman who then hides in the depths of the Azov Mountain with her dying husband. There, among the piles
gold, she always weeps over the body of her husband. She, by the spell, has to wait for many centuries to be released from a certain person who knows the "dear name".
I and the historian G. V. Gritskov noted the kinship of the legends about the Golden Woman, the Ural tales about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain (and also, in my opinion, the legends about Azovka) with the myths about the Egyptian goddess Isis. Indeed, the image of the sobbing Azovka is similar to the image of the Egyptian goddess Isis, mourning the body of Osiris. And the very name of Azovka can be a kind of the name of Isis. I will also note that the Iset River flows down from the Azov Mountain. Exactly so - Iset - the Egyptians themselves called Isis (she became Isis in Greece).
In the Vedas and the Chronicle of John Malala, she is also referred to as Sida, the wife of Veles. She is, obviously, Sita, the wife of Rama in the Vedas of India, Sidur in the epic of the Sumerians. Her other names (and incarnations): Astarte, Asteropa, Astrea. In the "Russian Vedas" she is Asya Zvezdinka, Asya Svyatogorovna, Talnitsa, Domna, Wise Vila, etc.
And thus, we can say that the image of the Golden Goddess has not only Egyptian, but also (via Atlanta-Svyatogor) Atlantean roots.
The Golden Goddess bears so many names because She is the face of the Golden Mother of the World. She incarnated many times in this world, showed different faces, which were both Herself and at the same time Her daughters. To understand all the faces of the Mother, one must study the Vedas.
What did the goddess statue look like? Ermak's companion Bogdan Bryazgin, who visited the Ostyak prayer site in Belogorye, wrote about the Golden Baba: "Naga sitting on a chair with her son, accepting gifts from her own." The Italian Gvagnini said that the idol of the Golden Woman, carved out of stone, was a woman with two children. One child was in her arms, the other stood by her side and was called a grandson. I will note that, according to Slavic myths, the Golden Maya-Zlatogorka gave birth to Kolyada, and Kolyada gave birth to Radogost. Didn't Gvagnini describe them?
The Slavic-Ural origins of the legend of the Golden Mother are also confirmed by her name among the Russians: Golden Baba. It was the Golden Baba in all Slavic lands that was called the mother goddess. For example, in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, the last sheaf tied on the field is still called the Golden Baba in memory of the ancient Goddess.
In the "Russian Vedas" the images of the Golden Maya and the Golden Baba are different. Golden Maya, the daughter of Rod, who appeared at the Creation of the World, comes one more time in the form of Maya Zlatogorka, the daughter of Svyatogor, and then leaves for Nav. At the beginning of the times, Maya and Vyshny give birth to Roof, in another era, Maya and Dazhbog give birth to Kolyada.
And the Golden Baba is the wife of Veles, who also comes into the world many times, and her story (repeated in different eras) is different from the story of Golden Maya. However, Vedic and Uralic legends claim that Belee and Dazhbog are one (Dazhbog is the grandson of Veles), these are the faces of the Almighty. And in the same way, the Golden Maya and the Golden Baba are one. The Mother of the World has two kinds of hypostases and lives two kinds of similar earthly lives. Her descent to people, fairy peoples and animals is many different. But for all She is the One Mother.
Where do the traces of the Golden Woman lead?
In ancient times, the cult of the Golden Mother could move to the Urals from the west: from Atlantis, Africa and Western Asia. The oldest connections between the Atlantic and Hyperborean civilizations are confirmed by the common cult of the Mother of the World.
The name of the country where the Golden Baba was revered - Permia, or, in an older pronunciation, Bjarmia - goes back to the name of the god Barma (Vedic Brahma), which speaks of the Vedic faith of the ancient Uralians. And the very name of one of the Ural-Siberian peoples - Khanty - goes back to the name "Anty" or "Hatty". And this name is not an ethnic name, it is a religion.
Such a name was borne by the peoples who spoke different languages, including the Antes-Slavs, who lived at the beginning of our era in Antiya (that is how Russia was then called). Antami called themselves those who took their faith from the ancient people - "golden people" - Atlanteans ("atl" - "gold", "ant" - "man" - hence the golden altyn, altar, alatyr, and also "ant-ropos " - "person"). And this again speaks of the Atlantic origin of the cult of the Golden Baba (Altynka).
But then, most likely, there was a reverse movement. In the historically foreseeable (post-Atlantic) period, the movement of peoples and cults took place precisely from the Urals. The North and then the Urals are the ancestral home of the Vedic faith. Therefore, all the noted coincidences speak of a single Ural source of the legends about the Golden Mother.
I think that they could have been brought to Europe and Egypt by the Slavs-Chimerians during the time of the patriarch
Bohumir. With the advent of Christianity, the ancient cult of the Mother was supplanted by the cult of the Mother of God. Even the celebrations of the Dormition of the Theotokos began to be celebrated and celebrated on the days of Mother's departure to Nav. Mysterically, in the annual cycle, these days of Small Kolo repeat the years of Big Kolo, when the death of Atlantis took place.
The Russians (Christians) who came to the Urals no longer recognized the Mother of God in the Golden Baba of the Ostyaks. The cult of the Golden Baba, together with the persecuted pagans, began to roll back from the Urals further and further to the east. The last known refuge of the Golden Goddess, according to the Cossack chronicles, were in the basins of the Ob and Irtysh rivers, in Belogorie. The name itself - Belogorye - speaks of the sacred White Mountains, they were also called the Irian Mountains. Several Belogorii are known.
One of them, for example, was located near the source of the Irtysh (Kalbinsky ridge in Altai), East of this Belogorie there is also the Katunsky ridge belonging to Altai, the highest mountain of which Belukha (4506 meters) was especially revered by Russian Old Believers. Many of the Old Believers who moved to these places believe that it is here that the sacred land - Belovodye - is located. The Katun River flows from Belukha along the Uimon Valley. Roerich attached particular importance to this valley, placing here a light
Zvenigrad.
Seven Rivers is located a little to the west of Belogorie - the land washed by seven rivers flowing into Lake Balkhash. It is this land in the "Book of Veles" called the ancestral home, the land of the ancestors of the Slavs Bohumir and Slavuni. All Slavic clans were born here in ancient years, which were brought from Semirechye to Europe by the progenitor Arius and his sons - Kiy, Schek and Horeb. The Slavs left this land long ago and returned to the ancient ancestral home after the campaigns of Ermak.
The Slavs also called the Caucasus White Mountains. Many times peoples moved across the face of the earth, and therefore it is difficult to say in which lands the Slavs appeared earlier - in Altai or the Caucasus. It’s not that important. For, according to the Russian Vedas, the White Mountains are in Navi, in the spiritual world. And there, in the sacred Belovodye, lives the Golden Maya - the Great Mother of the World. Only there it should be sought, and climbing these mountains is an ascent in spirit.