I have already written about the finds in Siberia of the 17th century and about the destroyed cities of Dauria according to the descriptions of Nikolaas Witsen from his book "Northern and Eastern Tartary". But there is also such an album by GI Spassky: "Album of views, drawings of buildings and ancient inscriptions in Siberia", which presents the destruction of ancient structures found in Siberia. This album is an appendix to the author's work "On the ancient ruins of Siberia" in the journal "Siberian Bulletin", 1818, No. 3. This article contains a description of rock paintings and inscriptions found in Siberia:
Since the images were not attached to the text, I tried to fill in the missing information found on the Internet. So far, only about the inscriptions, so as not to overload the article with information. From Spassky's opening remarks:
Further, the author describes the drawings found in Siberia, amazed at the inaccessibility of the places in which they are located:
My opinion: hardly a primitive person could think about descendants, and about some kind of eternal memory left by him about himself. Either these signs were created by primitive people not for future generations, but were relevant to them personally, or they were created for future generations, but not by primitive people. Although, there may be a third option: the creators were not primitive, and they painted all this not for future generations. We just do not know now and cannot understand the motives of their actions. And we come up with something that is closer to us in understanding. So, modern historians divide all ancient structures mainly into three types: cult, defensive and burial. Not even suspecting that these structures could perform a completely utilitarian function to serve the needs of the then population.
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Petroglyphs of ancient Siberia
Perhaps this refers to the Tomsk writings:
Probably referring to the petroglyphs of the Minusinsk Basin. There are a lot of them. One of them
And also "Petroglyphs of the Minusinsk Basin". A large number of rock paintings have been found in the Kalbak Tash tract, mountainous Altai:
Petroglyphs Kalbak Tash, photo by Andrey Privalov.
Petroglyphs Kalbak Tash, photo by Andrey Privalov.
Pisanets near the town of Verkhoturye
Spassky shares an interesting observation that the rock paintings were made at a higher elevation than the rock inscriptions. If we assume that all the drawings and inscriptions were made from the surface of the water, then it turns out that its level in the rivers has dropped so much since the time when these drawings were made: petroglyphs were found at a height of 13 m from the surface of the water, and inscriptions at a height of 3 m. This height is given by Nikolaas Witsen in his book "Northern and Eastern Tartary":
Directly a detective story of some kind. The village is named after this scribble, but nothing was found at hand to depict it. And, perhaps, this is the only description of this scribble, because G. F. Miller cites it in his book "History of Siberia". He writes that he is translating this passage from Witsen because few people will be able to read his book. I thought correctly that the book was translated into Russian only at the beginning of the 21st century. Here is a picture of this scribble:
Siberian Krestovaya Mountain, also called Pisanets Rock, located near the town of Verkhoturye.
At the bottom of the illustration it is written: 1 - Pisanets village; a cliff 7 fathoms wide and 18 fathoms high, its surface is flat and looks polished; 1.5 fathoms over water. Explanation for this illustration:
And then a few more drawings from the same book:
Ancient symbols found in Siberia.
Ancient signs or symbols found in Siberia.
Explanation to them:
That's right, in the West, where else? They have not yet been published in our country. I mean the original drawings by Remezov. I will cite here the rock paintings of another place in Siberia, not mentioned in Spassky's book. These are drawings of the Sunduki tract, located in the floodplain of the Bely Iyusa River in Khakassia:
Mongolian scripts
Then, returning to Spassky, a description of the inscriptions found.
What could these inscriptions look like? The Mongolian language looks like this:
Letter from Argun, khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate, to Pope Nicholas IV, 1290.
Read from top to bottom. Therefore, it is also called vertical writing. It's more difficult with Tatar. It is believed that until 1927 the Tatars used the Arabic script:
Arabic script, i.e. they had no written language at all. But in theory, if there really were inscriptions in Mongolian and Tatar, why should they be destroyed? This does not contradict the official version of history. It would be more logical to preserve them so that no questions arise - look, Tatar-Mongols lived here. Here is their writing, centuries-old and even thousand-year-old, imprinted in stone. Let's turn again to an older source - Nikolaas Witsen (Northern and Eastern Tartary). So he depicts the writing of the inhabitants of Siberia, which in the 17th century was still part of Tartary:
The letter tartare from Niuhe (Far Eastern province of Tartary), read from top to bottom.
Kalmuk top-down script, also used by Western Mugals; Kalmuk letters in groups.
Who are the Mugals and Kalmaks
I wrote about Kalmaks in the article "Who are Kalmaks?" Mugali and Kalmaks - they are also tartars or Scythians, according to the former name:
Scythian writing
So what language did the Scythians speak and write, the inhabitants of the largest and most powerful state of antiquity? The first reasonable thought that comes to mind is Sanskrit. And here is the confirmation:
Devanagari or Sanskrit is considered the ancient literary language of India:
Well, yes, you have to write something to them. They cannot write that Sanskrit was the language of “wild nomads” who came to India from the north (from the deceased Hyperborea or Daarija), and remained there in the form of the highest caste of Brahmans, governing the created state. Also called the Great Moguls, Tartars or Scythians, descendants of the Aryans.
Khan Kublai, aka Kublai - the Tartar ruler of the time of Marco Polo. About this I have in a series of articles called "Unknown Tartary", starting from here This is how Sanskrit looks like:
Text of the Shaktiya text "Devi-mahatmya" on palm leaves, letter bhujimol, Nepal, XI century.
Of course, I was not the first to think about the connection between the Scythians and Sanskrit. People have already written a book on this topic. Here are some excerpts:
At some point, Sanskrit and Russian were separated, going along different paths.
Velesov book.
Deer stones
Such deer stones are found in large quantities in Mongolia:
Other sources indicate that such stones are found before the Caucasus and Germany. And such golden deer were found in the Scythian mounds:
Plaque * Deer * 6th century BC e. Scythian gold.
The image of a deer is one of the most widespread among the Scythian products.
Russian and Mongolian High Altai - petroglyphs from the Scythian Age from 800 to 700 BC.
Western researchers wonder why such a warlike people, instead of depicting warriors and pictures of battles, depict animals? After all, images of military battles have not been found in Siberia.
The defiant hand of ignorance
Further, Spassky on the unpreserved inscriptions of Siberia:
On the one hand, if the inscriptions were applied only with paint, it is not surprising that they have not survived. How strong does a paint have to be to last for several millennia? On the other hand, have Paleolithic drawings survived in other places? But the most basic question is why the hand of ignorance destroyed them only at the beginning of the 19th century. And before that there was no ignorance?
Author: i_mar_a
