Stone footprints of the gods. Local historian Alexander Shestakov, the discoverer of the Elk geoglyph on the slope of the Zyuratkul ridge, believes that the mountains of the Southern Urals in the late Mesolithic era became the cradle of the megalithic culture, whose representatives then traveled throughout Eurasia.
The construction of the Elk geoglyph was undoubtedly long and laborious. Scientists suggest that it was conducted for more than one hundred years and, most likely, large settlements of the Mesolithic - Neolithic times should have been located somewhere on the shores of the lake. Geoglyph builders' settlements …
- Back in the late 1960s, archaeologist Matyushin was conducting research on the banks of the Zyuratkul. Then 11 sites were identified - the same age as the geoglyph. But two of them are of particular interest - the sites at Cape Kamenny and Dolgy Yelnik. In ancient times, the lake was about a patch of land, and both sites were a single mega-settlement, most of which is now hidden under water. Matyushin dated these sites to the 10th millennium BC. But Matyushin was engaged in microliths, not megaliths, so the stone platforms, the Pugachev wall and many other Zyuratkul "chips" simply did not interest him.
What platforms and what Pugachev wall are you talking about?
- Near the village of Monastyrka there is a wall made of large stones. Its length is two and a half kilometers, and its height is four meters. The people called it the Pugachev Wall or the Pugachev Wall. One is located at the birch bridge, the second is at the Monastyrka … And the stone platforms were discovered by speleoarchaeologist Yurin, with a tip from our Satka local historian Sergey Vladimirovich Yurovsky, at the foot of the Moskal ridge. By the way, this is the largest stone platform in the world, its height is about half a meter, its length is more than 50 meters. Yurin suggests that this is an ancient cemetery, but I believe that in this way the "population census" was carried out in the Stone Age. The initiation ceremony of young men was carried out: became a man - put a pebble …
Megaliths are found not only on Vera Island and not only on Zyuratkul …
- Using the example of the ancient stone structures of the island of Vera, archaeologists have proved that there are megaliths in the Urals. Undoubtedly, it was difficult to promote this idea, but now, after the island of Vera, about two hundred dolmens have been found in the vicinity of Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region), and they will find more and more. There is a direct relationship between the island of Vera and Zyuratkul, they are, one might say, two brothers … At the Thresholds, I found a quarry of the Neolithic era, exactly the same as on the island of Vera. In addition, a hundred-year-old photograph shows the workers of Porogov, and behind them there is a dolmen, as in the Caucasus. Now there is a platform, a pit and side walls there. We plan to restore this dolmen from a photograph … The Elk geoglyph is a drawing made as if in a 3D program: if you look at it from a mountain, everything falls into place and the legs and muzzle are of the appropriate size. Seven years ago, when they were building an excursion trail to the ridge, I found a place from where in ancient times they watched the construction of a geoglyph. There is a stone on three legs, like seids in Karelia. Personally, I believe that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.when they were building an excursion trail to the ridge, I found a place from where in ancient times they watched the construction of a geoglyph. There is a stone on three legs, like seids in Karelia. Personally, I believe that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.when they were building an excursion trail to the ridge, I found a place from where in ancient times they watched the construction of a geoglyph. There is a stone on three legs, like seids in Karelia. Personally, I believe that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.from where in ancient times they watched the construction of a geoglyph. There is a stone on three legs, like seids in Karelia. Personally, I believe that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.from where in ancient times they watched the construction of a geoglyph. There is a stone on three legs, like seids in Karelia. Personally, I believe that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.that seid is an ancient "device" for measuring seismic conditions. As long as the stones are standing, everything is fine, they started to fall - it's time to leave … The steps cut into the rock at the bottom of the Averkina pit are also surprising. Where did they come from? How could people go down there along a steep well to a depth of 20 meters?.. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany. In the old cemetery of the Sungul Old Believer Skete, I discovered a strange bottle-shaped well (widening downward). Where does he come from in the cemetery? Were not going to take water there? What is this object? The answer suggests itself: this is an ancient altar, similar to it opened in Germany.
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How, in your opinion, did the migration and development of the megalithic culture go?
- The generally accepted point of view is that the megalithic culture came from the Middle East. Of course, there are megaliths there, but there is no evidence that the megalithic culture originated from there! Yes and no settlements in the Middle East of the Mesolithic and Neolithic times. The settlement on Zyuratkul is the only settlement of this size in the world. There were favorable conditions for living here, but the tribes came not only from the Middle East - from different parts of the world. The aliens mixed with the indigenous population, a new ethnos was formed, which then began to settle with their knowledge of the construction of megaliths throughout Eurasia. After all, is it possible that the megalithic culture developed so well in the south of modern Great Britain, and then began to "decrease" around the world? No, it can only go “to increase”, that is, all English “stones” are already the end point of culture.
Everything that the tribes gathered along the migration route … In Eurasia there are only two places of the largest accumulation of megaliths - South Korea, where more than 30,000 of them were found, and Great Britain. The Irish Ugrange is the most perfect of the megalithic buildings, it contains everything that the megalithic culture has absorbed, including rock art.
Several years ago you started collecting a collection of stone millstones in the Zyuratkul Ecopark. Now, I heard that you put forward your own theory of their appearance on the Ural land. It seems that those millstones are not millstones at all, and they have remained here since the late Mesolithic. Tell us more about this
- In ancient Israel, stones like millstones closed the entrances to the caves. In Japan, there is a gazebo in the middle of a pond. To get into it, you need to go through the millstones. The gazebo was used to sign important documents (it was believed that if a person came with malicious intent, he would not go to the gazebo, finding any reason). On Solovki, round stones are in the monastery. A stone cross on the Chusovaya River stands on a round stone. In the Satka district, the millstones were buried at the gate, at the entrance to the house. There is a sign that an evil person will not go into the gate through the "millstone", he will ask to open the gate for him or climb over the fence … I went to the Baltic States, there are several thousand "millstones", they are sacred. The Lithuanians did not sell a single stone of theirs to be used as millstones … On some old icons, Seraphim of Sarov prays, kneeling on the stone,very similar to the "millstone" … What does this mean? There is an ancient tradition …
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How is it connected with the Urals?
- Please note: there have been no archaeological finds in the mountains of the South Urals since the Bronze Age. Even before our era, the people left the mountains. So they stood deserted until the end of the 17th century AD. The Turks lived in the steppe, the mountains were sacred for them, they did not go there … But everything changed when the Old Believers came to the Urals. They settled in the mountains, where no one was, and found these stones "footprints" … In the 18th century, merchants appeared who melted into the European part all the stones suitable as millstones. The merchant Lazarev bought up all the old quarries in the Satki district, and they began to cut stones for the millstones. At the same time, they began to make jellied millstones in iron "cases". A description of the Lazarev quarries has survived, where it is said that people sold stones to a merchant that looked like millstones, made by someone and left in the forest … Millstones in the old days were very expensive. But not all of our "round stones" were suitable for use in mills … Nowadays, many stones are found in the forests and on the slopes of the mountains in the Ai River valley, from the confluence of the Bolshaya Satka into it to the Mezhevoy village. It is about 350 square kilometers. Hundreds, and maybe thousands of "millstones", or rather, stone discs of different sizes. Many are without hole. Some are made from shell rock. We inadvertently tried to lift a couple of millstones and broke … I believe that these stones are associated with a certain ancient ritual. Some are made from shell rock. We inadvertently tried to lift a couple of millstones and broke … I believe that these stones are associated with a certain ancient ritual. Some are made from shell rock. We inadvertently tried to lift a couple of millstones and broke … I believe that these stones are associated with a certain ancient ritual.