What is common between a pyramid, stella, lingam, betyl, omphalus, seyd, tour, combustible stone, menhir, stone woman, dagoba, dolmen, except that they are stone? They are all related to water.
WATER is the main value on Earth, the source of life and the basis of all living things. Mankind is familiar with the lack of water almost from the moment of its inception. Was there a shortage of drinking water at the time of stone buildings?
Surely, if the ancestors, in an effort to provide not only themselves with water, but also their descendants, moved mountains.
After global catastrophes on Earth, the climate has changed dramatically; now these devices are inactive, and therefore mysterious and difficult to understand. Most of them are considered by scientists to be objects of religious worship and burials.
They served people where there were no natural sources of drinking water. Different latitudes have their own devices.
Lingam (South and Southeast Asia)
Humidity, sun and starry nights are all that is needed for the lingam to work offline.
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Moisture from the air condensed on the surface of the stone, flowed down to the pallet and then, along the chute, into the water collector. The system worked during the day, especially in the morning hours, when the humidity was equal to 100%.
Lingams are older than Buddhism and temples. According to Indian historians, the Nishkakanaka Mahadev temple was built by the Pandavas during the war with the Kauravas described in the Mahabharata, but the five "white" and "black" lingams "appeared by themselves."
India. Temple of Nishkakanaka Mahadev.
Betil (Middle East, Central Asia)
According to legend, in the Kaaba before Islam, there were 360 stone betil. At present, a giant Protected Mosque has been erected around the Kaaba. The Kaaba was the main pagan sanctuary of the Hejaz; in the center of the Kaaba was the idol of Hubal - the lord of the heavens, the lord of thunder and rain.
On solemn days, they were smeared with wine, blood and oil, wrapped in wool, walked around, touching with their hands.
In fact, everything is simpler, probably, betila - stones for collecting condensation, were used as sources of drinking water, were analogs of Indian lingams.
Unlike lingams fixed in place, betyls could be carried. There is information that, setting off on campaigns, they were taken with them and carried on a special camel under a canopy.
The plot on the Sumerian clay tablets seems to illustrate an eternal process - the water cycle in nature.
The starry night, the Sun and the Moon, the descending dew and the Serpent are the oldest symbols of primordial water.
A stand for betit on the relief and an unknown stone device (Urartu), even the transverse stripes are the same.
Omphale (Mediterranean)
Nature prompted the inhabitants of the Mediterranean to use the embossed cone pattern to increase the surface area of the condenser stone.
In India, there are also lingams with a relief surface.
Pyramidion and Stele (Egypt)
The pyramidions are stable and did not require a stand.
The stone was placed on top of a 30-meter column, dug deep into the ground, a stele was obtained, which was cooled by groundwater and wind, and such an installation condensed more water.
Contrary to popular belief, forgotten ancient technologies were not high-tech. For example, in our century, a smarter "stele" WateSeer has been created. The unit is cooled by ventilation and groundwater, condensate flows down inside and is pumped out from below by a pump. It works even in dry desert climates.
"Drinking Stone" and the Temple of the Sun (India, Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq (Sakkara), Nubia, Sudan.)
The recently excavated artifact is called the "drinking stone" by the Hindus, because the tradition of drinking drinks at this place has been preserved. There is a small pool and a drain channel around.
Still from the video * Buried temple or the secret * of a drunken rock *.
Solar temples in Egypt are similar structures, with the same purpose - an installation for condensing water from the air. It is believed that the construction of "solar temples" began with the reign of Pharaoh Userkaf. Almost every king of the V dynasty considered it his duty to build such a "temple".
“Temples” similar to the Egyptian ones can be found in Guatemala, Iraq (Sakkara), Mexico, Nubia, Sudan.
Pyramid (Egypt)
The pyramid is the same "drinking stone" with pools and water conduits, only artificial and gigantic in size.
The ancient builders provided the population with clean water, having no other building material, except stone, and other knowledge besides mathematics and classical mechanics.
Pyramid of Cheops, reconstruction.
The "artificial mountain" was supposed to condense water from the atmospheric air. A suitable limestone hill was chosen for the foundation of the first pyramid. The missing volume was increased by fragments of limestone. The surface was reinforced with blocks. The facing was made of polished limestone harder than the base (the facing was preserved only at the bottom of the pyramid).
The calculations used the rule of the "golden section". In addition, they gave a concavity to the central part of the walls - we got a gutter for flowing water, and the surface area increased slightly without material consumption.
The cooling system was inside the pyramid, cold air rose up from the groundwater under the pyramid. Thanks to ventilation, evaporation, and pressure combinations inside the channels, the temperature in the pyramid was kept low.
Currently known passages, chambers and shafts of the main pyramid, air flow pressure regulator and air ducts:
Some ventilation shafts did not have access to the outside, but only supplied cooled air to the facing of the pyramid. Such a design of ventilation shafts is perplexing to scientists.
The pyramid should have a hole at the top. The cold air stream coming from the bottom should displace the warm one. So, with a hole in the dome, an ancient "refrigerator" was built.
The mysterious disk could be a part of the cooling fan. Sarcophagus - a reservoir for clean cold water.
The entrance to the pyramid was hermetically sealed by a massive rotating shutter.
The condensate flowing down from the pyramid got through the drainage system, drains into well tanks, basins and canals. There was even a shipping channel under the pyramid. Two boats were found disassembled near the pyramid.
Water also flowed into the labyrinths. In ancient manuscripts, information has been preserved that they were inhabited by 30-meter "sacred" crocodiles.
Dagoba (South, East, Central, Southeast Asia)
Little is also known about the Dagobahs; the definition of "stupa for storing relics" suits scientists. In later times, dagobas were built of bricks, the earliest were carved from solid rock. Indian dagobas differ from others by extensions to each of the 4 sides (wahalcads) and fences.
Considering the design features, the polished surface, dagobas can be considered stone devices for condensing water from the air, just like the “drinking stone”, lingams, betila, steles, “temples of the sun” and pyramids.
Temples in Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal with devices very similar to dagoba.
Seid, tour, menhir, stone woman, combustible stone (North of Eurasia, Russia, America, Canada, New Zealand, Korea, Mongolia, Africa)
The seid, as a rule, stands at an angle of up to 45 degrees, the sharp top "hanging" down outside the supports. One seid is directed to another, located at a distance of several tens of meters.
This can be explained by the fact that condensation from one or more stones had to fall into a certain collection point.
They are adjoined by tours (gurias) made of stones, often surrounded by labyrinths for collecting condensation.
Seids and tours, like lingams, were placed on a cliff above the sea - the sea breeze accelerated the process.
It is likely that the stones were greased instead of laborious polishing, thereby reducing the porosity of the surface.
The climate has changed long ago, but the tradition of collecting and lubricating stones remains.
So, peasants in the mountainous parts of Norway not long ago collected round stones, washed them every Thursday evening, oiled them in front of the fire, so that they would send happiness and contentment. The Karelians have preserved the custom of coating stones with blood and fat of sacrificial animals.
Boulders, set on 3 small stones, and hills of stones of "unknown purpose" are in eastern Canada, USA.
"Stone Eagle" and "Stone Hawk" in Georgia. The height of the hill is 3 meters; non-local clay served as a substrate between the ground and stones.
Cult places of Obo in the culture of the Mongols, Buryats, Tuvans, Khakass and other Turkic-Mongolian peoples of Central Asia are located along the roads, on mountain passes, on tops, near lakes, along the banks of rivers.
In 1900, the engineer Friedrich Siebold suggested that on the Crimean peninsula, the ancient Greeks received water from the atmosphere on a scale sufficient to supply water to the city of Feodosia, and even built a condenser from stones on the top of Mount Tepe-Oba. The hill (6-8 meters high) was surrounded by a one-meter wall (20 meters wide).
The Siebold condenser worked and is said to have produced up to 360 liters of water every day. The experiment lasted 3 years until 1915 before leaks appeared.
Similar "ritual" stone platforms found by archaeologists can be considered the basis for stone condensers.
The easiest option was with one stone lying on the ground.
Blue-stone, white-combustible-stone, Alatyr-stone (Russia)
All of them became objects of worship of the Slavs in pre-Christian times. Chapels, temples and monasteries were erected on worship stones.
The words "combustible" and "stream" are consonant (burning tears - tears flowing in a stream). And, probably, it would be more correct to speak fiery (the Sanskrit-Russian dictionary translates the word ga as 1) walking and 2) finding somewhere.).
Russian legends are consonant with the Rig Veda. "Under the Alatyr-stone springs originate, bringing food and healing to the whole world, under it all the power of the Russian land is hidden, and that power has no end."
The water collected in the depressions of the stones, from the "God's footprints", has always been considered healing.
“On the Alatyr-stone sits the red maiden Zarya and awakens the world from a night's sleep” - isn't this a direct indication of the condensation process?
Dawn was also portrayed in the East. Relief on the wall of the Dagoba temple:
Dawn on the betilae of Mesopotamia,
on the menhirs of the Mediterranean.
Beliefs of different peoples attribute the ability to fly to stones.
Caspar David Friedrich.
According to ancient Russian pagan beliefs, the Alatyr-stone is “a stone for all stones, a father for all stones. He fell from the sky."
The most famous seid is considered to be the Flying Stone, which is revered by the Lapps above all others. It was believed that these stones are able to fly.
Betila were considered to have fallen from the sky, and the ability to move in the air was attributed to them.
Maybe, indeed, they fell from the sky, or maybe, having a volcanic nature, they suddenly grew out of the ground, as “they fell from the sky”.
Volcanic activity also explains the formation of water sources in the places of formation of stones. Perhaps the pillars - "stone women" pointed the traveler to the springs, it is not for nothing that they hold vessels in their hands.
The grass is still green around the "stone women".
Their Western European "brothers" menhirs, until they became iconic and tombstones, were also once "water".
Stones in the form of pyramids on the Kola Peninsula, in Japan,
in India.
Possible coasters for stones in Japan.
The Mizuko statues (translated as "water child").
Menhirs of Asia.
Megaliths of Australia and New Zealand (seids, dolmen, tour, menhir).
Dolmens are obviously the simplest hydraulic structures that hold back and direct the geyser fountain in the right direction.
Inside the dolmens are polished with water, on some there are wavy lines, the sign of water.
The exact timing of the use of the stone devices remains unclear.
Scientists date the seids to about 7 thousand years B. C. It is believed that 7000-3000 (3300) years. BC e. - this is the period of the Neolithic subpluvial - the latest of the "wet green Sahara" periods, during which the region was more humid and had a rich and diverse biota.
Was the end of the time of the hot tropical "paradise" on Earth the World Flood (according to the Bible) 2106 - 2105 BC, or everything changed after the great catastrophe 12 thousand years ago, or more recently, the stones are silent about this.