Each of us (God forbid) sooner or later have to deal with such an event as the departure of relatives, loved ones or friends to another world. As the saying goes, there are no people who, sooner or later, will not go there, just as there are actually no people who would come back. Some biblical stories, of course, refute this, but we live, alas, not according to the Bible. But let's not talk about it, but let's pay attention to how this process of leaving looked like yesterday by historical standards, and what mysteries we see today.
Actually, this topic has been asking for a long time, along with other topics of historical falsifications. Naturally, this side of life was not spared falsification. As we were taught at school, in Russian history before Lenin came to it, everything looked something like this.
And oddly enough, with the arrival of Lenin, they demolished all the cemeteries in order to build a new world on them. The world was built, so what? Actually, what kind of world they built is another question, but the connection with the old world was practically forgotten thanks to such popular pictures. Of course, not everyone had enough money for a luxurious funeral. In fact, things were no better in the rest of the world.
This is the exception rather than the rule, and it was carried out only for powerful and wealthy citizens. For mere mortals, everything happened in a modest way, and even in history there is practically no photographic evidence of this process. Cemeteries were divided into rich and poor, and Russia was no exception. Although everyone is equal before God and no one took their wealth with them there, nevertheless, this rule was always and everywhere observed. What monuments stood in rich cemeteries in Russia, there are many historical photographic materials. Each monument was unique and was a mini-piece of art. How could such masterpieces be made, for example, from granite, is a very interesting question. But apparently it was very easy.
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But we will return to these structures later. Very much many readers in the great network are confused by one interesting fact, namely the complete disappearance of monuments older than the beginning of the 19th century in almost all Russian cemeteries. This fact cannot be attributed even to the result of the activities of the Bolsheviks. The feeling that before that time there were no people at all, although, according to some historical information, there were many more of them than now within the modern borders of the Russian Federation. In Europe, in general, the same picture (I could be wrong, but I have not seen another). There are family crypts or royal burials, dated earlier, and that's all. It can be assumed that this is the result of a mudflow that filled up all the first floors of buildings in the northern hemisphere, and at the same time all burials. Maybe this is really so, and we need to look for them deeper. But is it?
This is Napoleon's hearse, but we don't know which one. However, there are many opinions of non-systemic researchers that Napoleon was the only one in history, like Catherine 1-2 and Alexander 1-2 here. Pay attention to the hearse. All around are Masonic symbols. And where is the coffin? And if you look at historical materials, then you will not find coffins in any sources before the 19th century. Not in oriental engravings, not in Egyptian, not in any, if this is not a remake. How is that? Like, no body, no business. Let's take a look.
Probably, many people know about the custom of hanging mirrors in the house where the deceased is. The explanation is simple - the soul of the deceased cannot be reflected in the mirror (this is how they answered a stupid question to me in childhood). Actually, why then hang the lamps if they do not reflect anything? By the way, the fact is not an isolated one, in many photos of the late 19th century it is not gas lamps that are covered in this way. Naturally, gas is not covered like this for a good reason. What can these lamps and mirrors have in common? Well, probably only that both there and there used amalgam in the manufacture. And she could somehow convert subtle matters into the optical range in such a way that a person could see this soul. It sounds scary, but psychics can see it anyway, without amalgam. Indeed, after the death of a person, the soul lives in the body for some time, and it does not leave it at once. The customs of three, nine and forty days are clearly based on the ground and they were not taken from the ceiling. And for the first three days, the soul only leaves the body, and then the body can be buried. Is it the earth? We look at the photo of the collection of Prokudin-Gorsky.
Somehow it does not fit at all with the custom of burial in the ground. The wooden floor in the temple clearly indicates this. Why did these people bother so much that they were not buried in the ground? And sorry, how tall were they? In these burials there is most likely ashes. Ashes-gunpowder-powder. A common cremation product. How could they have been cremated at that time? In the same collection there are many other photos of church utensils, among which the following stand out.
This item is called "cancer" and it still exists in many temples. They contain the relics of the saints. In the days of the Komsomol youth, agitators said that criminologists made an analysis of these relics, and found there the remains of animals or people who died within two hundred years from the moment of the study. Maybe it was the usual communist propaganda, but it still makes me think.
And this is somewhat reminiscent of an isothermal counter (excuse me for such blasphemy), in which ice cream was previously stored. It is believed that preserving relics is a custom only of the Orthodox Church, nowhere else is there such a thing. No matter how it is - in Catholic churches the same is present, only the names have been replaced with others.
These items are called the more familiar word “mausoleum”. Well, of course, what would have happened if the building on Red Square was called "cancer"? All the authors of this idea, even for thinking about it, would be exiled to the Kolyma at least. There is one more incomprehensible construction.
Such a construction is called "Fontella", which in general is not translatable by an electronic service, but it is obvious that at the root of this word is the Latin "Font" - melting (aka cast iron, aka font, and many other meanings). What is a smelting furnace for in a Catholic church? That's right, this is not a stove, but a crematorium, only without gas and firewood. And it could be either built into the wall or stand alone, like our "cancer". What is this "cancer"? A similar word "rocket" immediately comes to mind. We quote.
Brilliant. Probably no need to guess that the Italian spindle has nothing to do with flying machines. By the way, the electronic translation service does not accept the word rocchetta at all, and in any language. Another remarkable fact is that one of the first steam locomotives in 1829 was named Rocket. How could the Stephenson in England know about the existence of the Italian spindle? Rocket and cancer are again words of the same origin, like light and holy. In our cancer, a kind of first stage is also separated. But … we return to Russia, and again to the works of Prokudin-Gorsky.
This is a shrine with the relics of Anna Kashinskaya, located in a specially built temple in the city of Kashin (I don't know if this temple exists now). There is one small detail in the history of this saint:
Now let's see the place where the relics of Anna Kashinskaya were found.
It was the same cancer, just the relics were transferred from one place to another. And in the old cancer there was also ashes. Nobody threw the body of the saint, especially in the form in which the territory was cleared from battles during the Second World War. How, then, was it cremated in that Russia without firewood and gas?
It seems that there is nothing unusual in this building. Then let's go back to the dictionary. Do you think the name "chapel" comes from the clock that supposedly hangs on it? Of course not.
Сhâsse (fr.) - cancer, shrine. And this word came to Russia most likely either with Napoleon, or with the Holstein-Gottorp, and the real Russian name of this building is forgotten. And this is the very crematorium.
Such crematoria stood at every Russian cemetery, and their architecture has always differed from all churches and cathedrals that did not serve for cremation purposes. Apparently, in them the soul was separated from the body in the most painless and harmonious way and was cleansed, and after the separation of the soul from the body, the issue of its burial was not at all important. It could be turned to dust and scattered, could be turned into a mummy and put into a mausoleum. Technologically, in the latter case, it looked the same as marble was made. The equipment used the same principle of operation.
After the destruction of this technology, all this was replaced with props, and coffins were introduced into use as a one-time decoration of this very crayfish. The bodies were simply buried, and cemeteries appeared. What happened to the souls of those people whose souls were not cleansed as it should be, alas, until our moment X we will not know.
Many will probably ask the question, but what happened in other faiths, where completely different rituals and customs. It is possible that these peoples used a different purification technology. It is also possible that they did not use purification at all, since did not own the technologies of the ancients, as well as we do now. At the same time, the huge places of worship in Asia, America and Africa testify to the fact that all peoples on all continents had this technology.
Similar buildings in various variations can be found all over the world.
These are the graves of Indians in Alaska (photo from the archives of the PB New York, it is probably not difficult to understand which Indians we are talking about). As you can see, even where it was not possible to do the purification in the usual way, they did it as always with Russian ingenuity.
Well, and perhaps that's enough to think about the eternal.
Author: tech_dancer