While some wait for an invitation to board, others frantically leaf through the calendar. August has long been considered a fatal month, for some reason it is at this time that something explodes or falls somewhere, territories are redrawn and the authorities change
Passengers of a burning plane at the Munich airport manage to jump out of the car and flee. Fortunately, no one was hurt in this plane crash. But after the forced landing of the Boeing 737 in Limoges, France, 26 passengers turned to doctors. Diagnosis - barotrauma. At an altitude of 8000 meters, the cockpit was depressurized. This was the third major accident in the world today. Earlier, a plane disappeared from radar screens in the sky over the Philippines.
August is increasingly called the "black" month for aviation. On August 24, in Bishkek, an airplane flying to Tehran collapsed and crashed to the ground. 68 people died. On the same day, a plane crash in Guatemala claimed the lives of 10 people, and a pilot was killed in a civilian helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
The August plane crashes are not called anything other than mysticism. There are, indeed, many tragic coincidences. On August 22 this year, a McDonnell Douglas plane crashed in Madrid. 153 people became victims. In addition, two light aircraft crashed in the United States. These incidents reminded of the Tu-154M tragedy near Donetsk on August 22, 2006.
Experts talk about the human factor - pilot errors, technical failures, failures of units and engines. In August, those who service aircraft are especially attentive and careful. But planes continue to crash with tragic regularity.
Even among the most inveterate Russian atheists, even among the most cynical, most pragmatic and down-to-earth fellow citizens, the month of August causes nervous chuckles and carefully concealed concern in the eyes. You can not believe in supernatural powers, you can get a black cat and make it run across the road every day, you can scornfully squint at a woman walking towards you with empty buckets, you can spit on a dried bat wing in front of the threshold - but you don't want to dismiss the gloomy Russian August. perhaps no one.
On August 1, 2003 in Mozdok (North Ossetia) a KamAZ loaded with explosives exploded on the territory of a military hospital. 50 people were killed, 82 were wounded
On August 5, 1994, an An-12 aircraft of the Russian Air Force crashed near Chita. 47 people were killed
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On August 5, 2004, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Noyabrsky District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 16 people were killed
For us, it all began in the not so distant 1991, when the events of August 19-21 led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and, in fact, laid the foundation for the current Russian Federation. For one hundred and fifty million people, this was a colossal blow. The country in which they were born, the ideology with which they lived, and the whole world known to them hitherto collapsed right before their eyes. And the new Russian system that replaced it showed itself at the first stage no better …
Thrown to the sidelines, suddenly superfluous, these millions of people, shivering from the cold, were selling rubbish torn from their hearts in the passages, and a little later they pasted over the doors in cozy home toilets with so hard earned, but with such a speed depreciating money. Tens of millions of people have tried to survive in a changed world. Millions have failed. And countless curses poured down on that black August 1991 …
Who said that the law of conservation of energy applies only to mechanical bodies? Laugh in his face. By the first anniversary of the coup, the accumulated emotional negativity was enough for the first plane to crash …
On August 8, 2000, an explosion occurred in an underground passage near the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow. 13 people were killed, about 100 were injured
On August 8, 2002, the strongest storm cyclone hit Novorossiysk. 46 people were killed in and around the city
On August 12, 2000, during an exercise in the Barents Sea, the nuclear submarine missile carrier "Kursk" sank. The entire crew of the nuclear submarine was killed - 118 people
No, don't think that this is the only thing. That it was the events of 1991 that doomed us to languish for a whole month every year in anxious anticipation of the next blows of fate. August from ancient times, even when the first lunar calendar was invented, was considered a difficult and unhappy month …
Mesopotamia. 3rd millennium BC Priests in solemn vestments climb the ziggurats and, seeing in the west a narrow crescent of a new moon, with the help of trumpets, they notify the people of the beginning of a new month. The lunar calendar differed from the one adopted now, and in August two months intersected - the thirty-day abu and the twenty -day ululu. Abu means hostile, firstly because of the scorching sun, and secondly because at this time there were rather dark celebrations of Marduk's victory over Tiamat. The month "ululu" was a time of collecting tithes and repaying debts.
Ancient Egypt. 2 thousand years BC Heavy and sultry mesori, the last month of the year. The period when the sacred star Sopdet (Sirius) disappears from the sky, the Nile grows shallow and narrows, the waters barely cover the bottom of canals and reservoirs, the walls of houses, palaces and temples, made of stone or brick, are heated so that you cannot put your hand to them.
Persia. 1 millennium BC The month of patheti is the time when the monsoon winds blowing from the southwest reach their peak. The month in which, according to the legends, the last battle of the gods and the end of the world will take place.
On August 17, 1998, a sharp "collapse" of the ruble exchange rate began, and the Russian government declared a technical default
On August 19, 2002, near the Khankala military base in Chechnya, militants shot down a military Mi-26 helicopter. There were 147 people on board. 127 soldiers were killed
On August 21, 2004, several hundred militants entered Grozny, attacked the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs, and fired at the checkpoint on Minutka Square. 78 people were killed, about a hundred were injured
In the 7th century BC, in the New Babylonian kingdom, the experience of observing the passage of the planets through the constellations was systematized, the sky was divided into 12 sectors, and for each a mythical character was chosen. This is how the constellation belt appeared, called the "animal circle", also known as the Zodiac. August got a share of the constellation Ur gu la, he Zhelev and Ab Blues, she is Virgo.
Ur gul la is associated with a demonstration of power, with disdain for a changing situation, with senseless aggression. In projection onto our earthly affairs, it manifests itself as a gigantic force, a kind of magical action, with sudden bursts of unbridled energy …
Ab sin is closely related to fortune, a changeable and capricious goddess of fate, who can either shower with favors or take everything away with the same ease. And also with witchcraft - according to ancient legends, Virgo opens her eyes to another world and makes it possible in this life to reap the fruits of the previous ones.
On August 24, 2004, suicide bombers blew up two planes - Tu-134 and Tu-154, which flew from Domodedovo airport to Volgograd and Sochi. 90 passengers and crew members were killed. On the same day, an explosion occurred at a bus stop in Moscow. Three people were injured
On August 27, 1992, a passenger Tu-134 crashed near Ivanovo. 76 passengers and 7 crew members were killed
On August 27, 2000, a fire broke out at the Ostankino tower in Moscow. Three people were killed
The celestial bodies associated with August: the Sun, Pluto and Mercury do not give any reason for optimism.
Everything is clear with the Sun - associated by most ancient peoples with a fiery chariot (or boat), it is a concentration of uncontrollable energy. The overwhelming majority of doomsday myths are naturally associated with the Sun. Pluto (aka Hades) in Greek mythology is the lord of the kingdom of the dead, and by definition does not bear anything positive. Mercury was initially associated with Set, the evil god of the desert, and only much later switched to the patronage of trade and science …
On August 29, 1996, while landing at the Norwegian airport "Longyear" on Svalbard, a Russian Tu-154 plane crashed. 141 people died
On August 30, 2003, the nuclear submarine K-159 sank in the waters of the Barents Sea while being towed to the disposal site. Nine people were killed
When the Slavs adopted the calendar from the Byzantines, they most likely had no idea about the historical (and mystical) load that he had already managed to gain by that time. The sixth month (the year in Rome began in March), named after the Roman emperor Augustus, is only one in a series of twelve … Who could have guessed that many years later it would become a landmark for Russia?
If anyone is interested, then the main military failures of Russia (of which there were not so many over a thousand-year history) occurred precisely in August. The Patriotic War of 1812, the First World War and the Great Patriotic War: - August is always defeats, these are retreats, these are the surrender of lands and cities.
And it was in this unfortunate month that the Russian Federation was "lucky" to begin its historical existence …
On August 31, 1999, a bomb exploded in the Moscow shopping center Okhotny Ryad. One person died, 34 were injured
On August 31, 2004, a suicide bomber blew herself up in Moscow near the Rizhskaya metro station. 10 people were killed, 51 injured
How strong is the eighth month curse? Is it limited by the time frame, is all the negative of the past and the present concentrated and fits into 31 days, or is it constantly enveloping the country with an invisible, viscous, black web, its soul in a tight cocoon of superphysical currents and preventing the egregor called “Russia” from living and developing? Isn't this the reason for the strange, fifteen-year timelessness in which we exist languidly and meaninglessly?
Most probably not. Now is not a dense Middle Ages, and blaming all the problems on supernatural forces is silly and naive. But you can't argue with statistics - and over the past 6 years, the number of those who believe in the damned month has grown from 31 to 84%. So, everything is really not so simple …