If someone from the residents of Omsk wants to tell you "how he spent this summer", do not hesitate, he will begin with the words: "Here, I remember, we gave up on the lakes …".
And you will hear absolutely not a beach story about the mysterious five lakes, which, by the will of fate, poured their healing waters near the village of Okunevo, Muromtsevsky district, 250 kilometers from Omsk. And also about the local spiritual seekers of all stripes: psychics, Babajists, Vedrusians, Old Believers, Orthodox Christians and even elephant worshipers. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Aqua vita
To begin with, about the lakes themselves: Danilovo, Linevo, Urmannoye, Shaitan (Devi) and Potayanoye are famous for their purest biologically active water, rich in carbonate-sodium-calcium components. If, for example, watering seeds with water from Danilov or Linev, sprouts appear several times faster, but Shaitan Lake, on the contrary, will slow down their development. Do you feel where the legs of the famous living and dead water from the "Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov (who, by the way, was an expert on local legends) grow from? The four lakes are located approximately at the same distance from each other. They stretch in a chain at first in a straight line, and then abruptly, like a knight's move, go to the Novosibirsk region. The fifth lake is hidden in the depths of the huge Kitlinsky swamp.
The banks of Danilov are not crowded during the season. They say that, having bathed in it, people feel like reborn. The lake has a triple bottom: thick layers of algae are located in the water in “floors”, each in a “suspended state”. Algae roots take everything they need for life directly from the water. There is a legend that Danilovo, Linevo and Shaitan are connected by an underground river, which saturates them with silver ions and a unique composition of trace elements. Therefore, the water in them supposedly has medicinal properties. Poured into bottles, it does not deteriorate for years, eczema and psoriasis are treated with it, and according to rumors, even infertility, cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. And what can I say about the local mud …
According to local legends, the darkest is Shaitan Lake, which is avoided by animals and birds.
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Its water, strewn with lilies, is the most transparent, and the bottom is cunning: although it is visible, in fact it is not. The soil near Shaitan Lake is swampy and unstable. They say about this: “the ground is leaving from under our feet,” and even an inexplicable fear grips. You can only get to the shore by the gati, which sags under your feet, and you just have to think about what abyss is now under you - it becomes really scary.
The natives assure that any ailment can be completely overcome only if treated with the waters of all five lakes, and in the correct sequence. Only then will the waters of the five lakes, different in the way they act, reinforce each other's action. You can experiment here all year round. By the way, water from five lakes is part of a well-known alcoholic product.
Heaven and other subtle worlds
Another place of power in Okunevo is the Tara River.
The famous Tarski Uval has been attracting flying saucers of all stripes for many years, which greatly worries the Orthodox Church, whose ministers even put a cross here to scare off UFOs.
In the forests on the banks of Tara, local residents constantly notice all sorts of oddities, which, however, are also enough near the lakes themselves. Let's see what eyewitnesses have seen over the past 70 years:
- behind the village outskirts in the middle of the meadow there was a column of light, and next to it - the figures of girls in bright sundresses. Then two huge translucent figures of women in mournful poses appeared over the girls;
- a huge dog, having swum to the other side of Tara, turned into a huge human being, dressed in white clothes;
- not far from Shaitan Lake, from the sky, one could hear the ringing of bells under an arc, a troika of horses with golden manes rushed over the lake.
Paranormal researcher Mikhail Rechkin, author of four books on the Okunev phenomenon, keeps photographs of UFOs over Tara and the lakes. Local residents comment on them like this: “Plates? They fly, but how! How often? Well, it depends on the amount you drink."
Geologists interpret anomalies in their own way. Due to tectonic faults, a very strong electromagnetic field has formed in these places, in the center of which are the Tarsky Uval and the Tara River - places of the greatest energy. Devices in the Okunevo region more than once recorded an electrical frequency of 127 Hz (it is at this frequency that Indian yogis fall into ecstasy during rituals). By the way, according to Rechkin, such a field is capable of activating the vital forces of a person, which leads to a quick recovery, exacerbation of abilities and the appearance of hallucinations.
Local magnetic radiation is of two types: a low "darkness" and an increased "luminary". There is almost no vegetation in the "vaults", and people are seized by either causeless fear or oppressive state. There is even a cursed house in Okunevo, where the radiation level is nowhere lower, so no one can live there. In the forest near this house, some of the trees have knocked down or split tops, while others, as they grow, make some unthinkable turns and loops, then straighten, twist again, and straighten again.
In the "luminaries", where the field level is an order of magnitude higher than in the surrounding area, radiation, as it were, feeds a person, improving his health and increasing efficiency. But the "forces of light" can be too much - there is such a place ten kilometers from Okunevo. One of the aborigines, who somehow got involved in the geophysicists conducting research at the end of the last century, chatted in the area for a couple of hours and suddenly suddenly began to dance. Then he assured that to the music, but no one except him heard this music.
Okunev antiquities
According to the local history museum of the Muromtsevsky region, there are about 250 archaeological monuments in the Okunev protected historical and cultural recreational zone. This area has never been empty, the lakes have always attracted the public: before the arrival of the Russians 400 years ago, various Turkic-speaking tribes lived here, so that the entire complex of Okunev monuments covers an area of more than one hundred hectares and goes back to antiquity. For almost thirty years, OmSU employees under the leadership of one of the leading archaeologists, the late Vladimir Matyushchenko, have been excavating the Tarsky Uval tract. According to scientists, these places could well be a transit point for a huge number of tribes and religions.
People not only lived here, but also built temples, buried the most revered contemporaries. Back in the mid-60s, local residents discovered two slabs near Okunevo, polished to a mirror finish. The slabs were 60x100x20 centimeters in size and were so strong that meticulous and practical villagers managed to split them only after heating with a forge. And 40 kilometers from the village, at the base of a rather high steep slope, the children found another slab, half hidden by water, protruding from the edge to the shore. The origin of these finds has not yet been established. Although the new settlers of Okunevo claim that these are the remains of the Hanuman temple.
After a little reconnaissance, we realized that Okunevo is not only reserved lakes, from the water of which they make famous vodka, but also a kind of embassy village, where every fifth hut is someone's community. The religious tolerance prevailing here has turned a tiny village in the Omsk region into Jerusalem, the “navel of the Earth”. But first things first.
Babajists
Nobody expected such a turn of events, which was caused by the appearance in Okunevo in the summer of 1992 of the Latvian Rasma Ramzite. Teacher Babaji (the earthly incarnation of Shiva) from distant India during meditation pointed her to Okunevo - a place where the temple of Hanuman, the shrine of the Aryans, is hidden at the bottom of Shaitan Lake. According to the guru, it is from here that the spiritual revival of Russia starts in due time, and the task of Rasma is to establish an ashram there in order to prepare future revivals. At the Tarsk uval, Rasma saw a glow in the sky and heard music coming from underground, at this point she arranged a dhuni - a place for performing Buddhist rituals and sacrificing fruits, grains and flowers. That the guru did not miss the place of power, Rasma was convinced by the local toponyms:
- Tara (star) - the name of the ancient Indian goddess, the patroness of cattle breeders who roamed in time immemorial following the herds across the expanses of the Great Steppe. In Buddhist mythology, Tara is the embodiment of female compassion. White Tara is a fully enlightened female essence that protects, rescues and helps all beings - the "Mother of All Buddhas".
- In the name of the city of Omsk there is a sacred syllable "Om". Among Tibetan Buddhists, "Om" is considered the divine word of creation, almost all mantra prayers begin with this word, for example, the white Tara mantra: "Om Tare Tutare Ture Sokha."
Today the ashram has about 30 members, but no one counted sympathizers. In the warm season, the tents of the "children of flowers and ears" are a solid wall, while in winter only the caretaker of a bright green house with the inscription "Om Namah Shivaya" remains in Okunevo, which looks a little wild in our snowdrifts. And Rasma, by the way, has long returned to Latvia.
Vedorus
“Let's meet in the cloud,” a young man told me at the stop of the groove that took us to Okunevo. Deep philosophy, I thought. But a little later it turned out that the Cloud is the house of the Vedorussians, it is blue and in clouds. Inside, smiling guys and girls (painfully similar to our Vissarionovites), with an expression of complete enlightenment on their faces, make funny ceramic masiki figures for sale. The name of the religion is explained as follows: “The Vedas are in charge, Veda is the knowledge of Ra. We are sun worshipers. The power of Russia must wake up, reach for the light …”The wake-up, apparently, should take place in Okunevo.
All the followers ended up in these places almost the same way: I went to see Siberia, I liked it, I stayed; thought to move to the south, traveled, and decided to stay here. Only the names of the native cities of the storytellers change: Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Sverdlovsk. Here is Albert, a former chef from Tallinn who is always ready to work as a guide, here is Stas, who changed the sewing machine for a piece of clay, here is the happy artist Simon from Yekaterinburg, who, when asked why she decided to settle here, after a short pause, answers: “Because so should be. The Vedorussians generally believe that some things cannot be explained - it’s just good here and all wishes come true.
The Vedorussians have their own workshop, pottery, their own magic tree, their headquarters and a logbook, where they talk about their life.
There is also a house for meditation - a Vedic temple. All the guys are young, very friendly and unobtrusive, they live in their own little world that smells of hemp, maybe that's why the local reality is filled with such a meaning for them. Especially on long winter evenings, when there are few interesting people who come, three times a day boiled potatoes and radio of Russia with the program "Silver Threads" before going to bed …
Other audience
By the beginning of the 21st century, everyone who believed that it was here that you could cleanse yourself and come closer to the gods reached the place of power. Each to his own, of course. Overnight, a remote village became a place of real pilgrimage for the strangest characters. Even a skilled woodcarver, who for some reason was known as an Old Believer, wound up here, built a fabulously beautiful carved estate on the edge of the village, and even using old technologies. It was not possible to communicate with him, he sold the farm last summer to a lady who is fond of esotericism, and moved to explore the untouched lands of Altai with her family, because he considered Okunevo trampled and desecrated by tourists. But, I think, even if he was in place, he would have met unkindly. “I’m telling you,” the guide Larissa explained to me, “he is angry and quarrelsome, no one here loved him, it’s good that he left.”Former workers also recall San Sanych with an unkind word: "He presented himself almost as a god and a savior, and he treated the people working for him not in a human way … and certainly not in a divine way."
Nervous Aborigines
“Special Okunevites” often receive “tips” from the natives - in the summer of 20/06, half of the community at once walked with broken arms, with which they covered their faces from blows, because their teachings preach non-resistance to evil by violence. As grandmothers explained to us at the general store: “We lived peacefully for ourselves, and then they suddenly said that we have a holy place that would save the whole world. And what if people run here in droves to be burned? " In general, some Aboriginal people cannot stand their nerves, and they periodically beat the troublemakers. Others, more educated, simply call them "shaken expanders of consciousness" and complain that the place is gaining notoriety because of these psychos: "It would be better if they sold water from the lakes like Baikal, or whatever lotions and ointments they made from it." … And still others are glad that there is an opportunity to earn a little extra money from tourists,which rolls down into the anomalous zone. And getting here is very difficult - the bus runs three times a week at a very unfortunate time, in summer - impassable mud guards the "navel of the Earth", in winter - an incessant wind, which has nowhere to sit, and there are no hotels.
Let's sum up
When the local pastoral landscapes began to actively populate incomprehensible sectarians, burn incense sticks and recite mantras, the Orthodox Church sounded the alarm and took action against the Gentiles. Their result can be seen on the Tarskoy Uval.
On one patch of land, the Babajists conduct a fire ritual, a few meters from it there is a sign of the Vedoruss solstice, and next to it is an Orthodox chapel. Colored patches hang on the trees. In general, we came to a consensus - there was enough room for everyone. “Because God is one, we just call him differently, and we refer to him differently,” a young man from the green house of the Babajists explained to me. And there was nothing to argue with him …
And finally
Babajists believe that it is in Okunevo that the hidden Temple of Hanuman is located. In the distant past, it served as an educational center for the whole world and was built by beings from the planet Satra. Its priests communicated the Earth with space using a living thinking crystal that stores information about the past, present and future. Today the Temple is buried like the city of Kitezh under one of the five lakes and feeds on its energy. When he, and with it the crystal - an artificial intelligence created outside the Earth, will be found, then we will be able to establish a connection with other inhabited worlds. And the energy concentrated in the crystal will cover the entire Western Siberia with a protective shield. Humanity is on the brink of destruction, and it is in the Temple and the crystal that the guarantee of its salvation. That's it.
Victoria REFAS
Photo: Elena Sapozhnikova, Svetlana Shchitalina, Yaroslav Syrchikov