In his life, a person sometimes comes across some kind of mythology that helps to find answers to questions that sometimes arise. For example, the history of Lake Arey, the water of which is very clean, is characterized by low mineralization and high oxygen content. The lake has long been considered curative, and sometimes it seems that the water here has a specific taste of iodine.
During the existence of Lake Arey, at the bottom of it have accumulated strata of healing mud, which is biologically active, contains compounds of iron, zinc, copper, has healing properties, helping with various skin diseases. This property of the Arean water to cure many diseases, gave rise to many legends and tales explaining what science cannot explain.
The scientific assumption of the origin of the lake is that it is a natural formation, which for tens of thousands of years was created from bottom sandy sediments blown away by ice and blowing in one direction. But there is another story based on legends that tell about the ancient origin of this huge funnel-shaped bowl of mineral water.
And in this case, the version of scientists about the "self-creation" of Lake Arey is not convincing and in many respects loses to the legend according to which the lake of artificial origin was dumped by the soldiers of Genghis Khan. Firstly, "Genghis Khanov shaft" (it is called that) and, from an engineering point of view, is located in the most convenient for filling a dam, a point in the local landscape.
For many centuries, the sandy rampart has been overgrown with pines and cedars, but it still looks like an artificial structure. In the direction of a flatter lowland, the ridge is not so wide, but in a steeper lowland it is quite powerful, more than ten meters high. The geography of the relief of the bottom of the lake and the composition of the bottom sandy deposits of different content and those present on the cofferdam speak for the second version.
Lovers of the unknown note that the freezing water of the lake looks like a concave lens, which should facilitate communication with extraterrestrial civilizations at certain times of the year. It was noted that mud springs in two opposite corners of the lake are polarized, intersecting perpendicularly, with spherical outlets, which also grow in two opposite corners of the Areus.
They say that there is a local Buryat legend telling that there is a rock at the bottom of the lake, from which a waterfall flows, to which an old shaman comes. And in the middle of the lake, according to the stories of various eyewitnesses, a whirlpool periodically appears that can tighten the boat. Although there is no confirmation of these rumors.
This is probably one of the legends of the northwestern Buryats, the ancestor of whom is considered the khubilgan (werewolf) prince, poroz (bull) Bukha-Noin, who is cohabitating with the shaman Asukhan, who gave birth to sons - Buryadai and Horidei. According to different versions of the legendary epic, they are the ancestors of different Buryat clans.
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But Arei is a lake of "pre-Buryat" origin, which began to move to Transbaikalia by the Decree of Peter I of 1703. Therefore, one could suggest another surviving Manchu poem "Nishan Shaman", the plot is as follows: during the Ming dynasty, the son of wealthy parents, goes hunting in the mountains and dies due to an accident. The shaman Nishan decides to return him …
But in all likelihood the local legend is connected with the work of the Tungus shamans and many researchers believe that the term "shaman" itself is Tungus. The Tunguses, to a greater extent than their neighbors, are inclined to recognize the influence of spirits, and not only of the lower, but also of this world - potential sources of all kinds of disorder. Going to the land of "shadows" the shaman beats the tambourine, carrying the sacrifices to the ancestors and the dead to the lower world. Seeks and returns the souls of the sick.
The legend of the shaman woman is important in the history of Arey, because it correlates well with the legend of how the warriors of Genghis Khan saw the miraculous forces of nature, which were used by a shaman (shaman) who lived nearby. In mythology, various aspects of time are embodied, determining that time is cyclical, and space is multilayered and isomorphic.
In myth, one must think symbolically, it is not scientific and does not need to be proved. Whereas there is historical information that Uyghurs once lived along the borders of the present-day Zaboikalye, who were destroyed by the Kyrgyz with their subordinate taiga peoples in the 9th century. In 840, their state extended its power to Tuva and Mongolia. Pursuing the remnants of the Uighurs, the Kyrgyz reached the Irtysh and Amur, invaded the oases of Eastern Turkestan.
And then already the hordes of Genghis Khan went in the opposite direction, filling on the way in the dense forest a dam called "Genghis Khan's Val", where there was a rock from which a waterfall flows, to which, according to legend, an old shaman comes. I haven’t heard the legend itself, nor have I been able to find evidence of divers who examined the bottom of the lake, about some kind of rock formations. And then time passed quickly.
