Scientists who are studying the possibility of the existence of parallel life forms on our planet have come to paradoxical conclusions. According to them, the most ordinary-looking cobblestones and boulders can be old and young, inhale and exhale, lasting for several weeks, and even move independently.
It is possible that in the coming years, scientists will be able to declare that stones have their own consciousness. After all, stories about "walking stones" have long filled the pages of popular science publications around the world.
A truly amazing discovery during a scientific expedition was made by the researchers of Karelia, they found not just a "walking" or "wish-fulfilling" boulder, but … a "singing" one. The head of the expedition, vice-president of the KRO "Raseya" Aleksey Popov, kindly shared the materials of his discovery with the "National Geographic Society".
Karelia - land of wonders
In the mass consciousness of an ordinary Russian, the Republic of Karelia is gradually becoming what Lapland was for the inhabitants of Europe at one time - a distant, half-fabulous country on whose territory any miracles are possible. Therefore, for the inhabitants of Russia, this region is full of truly mystical charm. First of all, this is due to the uniqueness of the historical development of Karelia, associated with its “Hyperborean past”.
As a legacy, the inhabitants of the republic received ancient Knowledge, encoded in numerous megalithic monuments, which literally fill the Karelian land. It should also be noted that there have been very few serious, in-depth studies of Karelia. The peculiarity of Karelia lies in the fact that, unlike most Russian regions, the sights of which are now well studied, described, numbered and cataloged, this region can still give researchers new discoveries and findings. And the most unexpected ones!
So in the people's memory, scraps of ancient legends and legends about certain "stones-idols", set up by no one in such remote places, where even the locals could hardly find their bearings, are still preserved. A large collection of these legends was collected at one time by the famous journalist of the Karelian Radio Nikolai Isaev, but, unfortunately, he is no longer among us. Among the legends he collected, one thing stood out - “somewhere in the Karelian wilderness there is a large boulder, as ancient as the earth itself.
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And that boulder stands on a rock in the middle of the swamps. And our ancestors put that boulder in such a way that day and night he "sings" only melodies he understands, but a man with good thoughts and a bright heart will come to him, and the stone will help him and tell him how to be, and will relieve pain and fatigue, and will give him protection from the beast of the forest and fears of the night."
A egenda or a true story?
One of the old residents of the small village of Ushkovo, which stood on the bank of the Karelian Okhta River, told this legend to Nikolai Isaev. At first, Aleksey Popov decided that this was just a beautiful fairy tale, especially since looking for a lonely block in the middle of endless swamps is, frankly, not grateful. But, in the end, the researcher decided to try his luck and after a long search, the members of the expedition came to a small rocky hill, climbing which, at its very top, they saw a seid stone, installed on a kind of flat stone support.
Although it would be more accurate to say not “they saw”, but “heard” - the stone really “sang”! True, it was, of course, not a human voice. A strong wind blew through a narrow gap between the flat top of the rock and the lower part of the stone thanks to the very stone support that the travelers saw as soon as they got closer. The feeling was unforgettable.
The sounds were very melodic; sometimes they resembled the marching polyphony of an orchestra, and sometimes - the soulful melody of a flute, drawn by a lone traveler somewhere high in the mountains. Everything depended on the strength of the wind and, what is most incredible, on the position of the stone, which sometimes changed its position, swinging back and forth, right and left.
In other words, a flat stone support was necessary not only to make a special "gap" between the top of the rock and the stone, due to which, in fact, the sounds arose, but also acted as a kind of "hinge". The stone seemed to be balancing on this stand, which was observed even with the naked eye. This also happened in moments of complete absence of wind, although Aleksey Popov was well aware that no wind could shake a monolith of this size.
Author to the stage
When examining the stone, the researchers got a very definite impression of the "man-made" of this "composition". Trees and shrubs towered around the stone, and only in one direction a natural passage opened up, not overgrown with trees, which allowed the wind to move freely.
The stone was oriented in this direction. The members of the expedition saw a perfectly trampled site around the stone, although they did not find any fresh traces. Apparently, someone came to this stone from ancient times. But why? What ritual and magical rites were performed here - one could only guess about it.
Moreover, despite the fact that each ritual boulder is unique, the “singing boulder” of Karelia has “relatives”. Back in 1972, the expedition of the Karelian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, led by archaeologist A. P. Zhuravlev, on Kolgostrov in Lake Onega, a boulder-stone was found, which also had the original property of emitting a melodic sound, but not from the wind, but when a small cobblestone hit its upper part.
This boulder, by the way, is still known in the local tradition as the "Ringing" stone. When scientists examined this stone, which is a natural boulder measuring 1.5 × 0.75 × 0.67 meters, they found that its upper part has pronounced traces of numerous impacts. And such an unusual acoustic effect is given to the stone by a crack on the upper part, which forms a resonating cavity. Later, even specialists from the Petrozavodsk Conservatory became interested in the stone.
Having studied the melodic properties of the “Ringing” stone, the musicians hypothesized that it could be used as a self-sounding lithophone instrument. Moreover, the "ringing" stone in the local tradition still retains its cult purpose. It is believed that the sound made by a stone relieves pain in a person, balances his mental and spiritual forces. Fragments of asbestos ceramics found in the cleft of the "Ringing" stone suggest its use as a cult object as early as the late Eneolithic - late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC. the ancient Sami population who lived in these parts.
Trying to understand the origin of the worship of cult, including singing stones among the local population, Aleksey Popov found out that due to their crystal structure, boulders have the properties of a battery. If you heat a stone, heat accumulates in it: it stores it and then slowly releases it. But it can accumulate not only heat, but also natural magnetism and vibrations.
The northern peoples, including the ancient Sami and Korels, had a strong belief that stones absorb energy from the environment and return it to those who worship them. In Sami beliefs, echoes of ancient knowledge about the vitality of stones are still preserved. This tradition of venerating stones, regardless of the change in religious forms, is still alive today, especially in the Karelian outback.
Dmitry Sokolov