The ruins of the giant stone complex Akyrtas lie in the south of Kazakhstan. Researchers believe it is a powerful natural energy generator
In the south of Kazakhstan, near the city of Taraz, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, there are the ruins of a mysterious structure called Akyrtas. It has been studied for a long time - almost one and a half hundred years. And all this time, the most contradictory hypotheses about the purpose of the object and its creators were put forward. Who, according to various versions, only did not build it - the Persians, the Greeks, the Arabs, and the Romans. In the history of ancient architecture, Akyrtas really has no analogues.
In the fall of last year, inscriptions were discovered at his excavations, which are currently being carefully studied. Itogi got the opportunity to be the first to learn about the preliminary results of research on historical documents that shed light on the purpose of the unique ancient object.
View of the foothills of the Kyrgyz Altau from Akyrtas.
In the fall of last year, inscriptions were discovered at his excavations, which are currently being carefully studied. Itogi got the opportunity to be the first to learn about the preliminary results of research on historical documents that shed light on the purpose of the unique ancient object.
The city of aks and ases
Akyrtas, as archaeologists were able to establish, was a whole complex with residential buildings, warehouses and water supply. The five-meter thickness of the outer stone walls, their presumable height of 12-15 meters and the four-meter foundation indicate that it could also perform defensive functions.
The first researchers of Akyrtas suggested that they were dealing with a Buddhist temple or a Nestorian church. Modern researchers believe that their predecessors were not far from the truth. Perhaps this place was really revered in ancient times as sacred.
The construction time of Akyrtas dates back to the 8th century. This was the period of the rule of the Turgesh Kaganate, the headquarters of which was located on the territory of modern Taraz. At that time, two powers were gazing at the Alatau valleys: the empire of the Chinese Tang dynasty and the Arab Caliphate. The Chinese twice invaded the Alatau valleys, and the Arabs approached from the west. To counter the impending threat, the inhabitants of Alatau had to unite. These were the peoples who most likely professed Buddhism and Nestorian Christianity. What were they called? Local historian and researcher Akyrtas Baltabek Umiryaev has his own point of view on this matter. He suggests paying attention to the names of geographic objects located near - Akzhar, Akbulym, Aktogan, Aksholak. The researcher believes that "ak" is ethnicity:“Aki are descendants of migrants from Mesopotamia, Tigrahauds. Over the centuries they have been assimilated and adopted Nestorianism."
Other toponyms allegedly speak about the name of one local people - Aspara, Balasagun, Talas, Tekturmas. “It should be taken into account,” continues Baltabek Umiryaev, “that“as”is a collective name for peoples to which not only Turks, but also Persian-speaking peoples belong. Apparently, they came from Asia Minor who also migrated to the Alatau valleys. The ancient historian Strabo refers to these people as Asiani. “Heavenly Ases” - this is how the adherents of the Heavenly Father's religion Tengri Khan were called in translation from the proto-Turkic language. Under the influence of Tibet, they adopted Buddhism.
Archaeological expeditions work here on a regular basis.
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According to Baltabek Umiryaev, Buddhism, together with Christianity, penetrated the Alatau valleys along the Great Silk Road and became widespread here.
The local historian believes that the builders of Akyrtas were educated people. And that's why. “The plan of Akyrtas is almost a regular rectangle - its dimensions are 138 by 162 meters,” says the head of the Akyrtas archaeological team Dmitry Voyakin. - In terms of area, it surpasses the ancient Roman Colosseum, and in terms of the volume of stone work, it is equal to the Egyptian pyramid of average size. It is clear that the plan of such a huge structure was not drawn up at random, this required knowledge of the exact sciences, as well as certain theophilosophical views. The longitudinal axis of the structure has a deviation from the earth's meridian by 18 degrees. This figure is taken from astronomy."
The vectors of Akyrtas, which are extensions of the diagonals, pass exactly through … Mecca and Kailash. Is this an accident? Hardly. The creators of the city probably had knowledge of astronomy and engineering geometry.
But why was the construction of Akyrtas not completed? According to the Kazakh ethnographer, in the 8th century the Alatau valleys were captured by the Chinese. In 751, the united troops of the Turks and Arabs defeated the aggressor near the Talas River. But after his expulsion, construction did not continue. By that time, the Great Silk Road was already in decline. The region's economy was not able to sustain the construction of a grandiose facility. Nevertheless, Akyrtas, even being unfinished, fulfilled its main purpose: the authors of the project immortalized themselves and their peoples in the city plan, which is a scientific encryption, a letter - a message to generations of the coming millennia. And thirteen centuries later it reached its addressee.
Reading the stone
In the fall of last year, archaeologists found a small stone in Akyrtas with mysterious inscriptions: three lines of twelve characters. The Turkologist Altai Amanzholov read the inscription as follows. First line: "Sizish, syuchish!" (“Melt (warming up), become sweet!”) Second line: “Ashar” (“Feed”). Third: "Arish" ("Pure"). The stone also contains designations of several intersecting lines at different angles. The translator suggested that the stone served as a magical sacrament for heating and melting drink or cattle fodder in the winter in nearby stone feeders. But Baltabek Umiryaev does not agree with this interpretation. The text of the letter, in his opinion, has a different meaning. And that's why.
Various researchers have repeatedly raised the issue of the need for geophysical and medical research at Akyrtas. This territory, according to many, is a real natural anomaly - a tectonic fault zone with huge multi-tiered voids in the earth's crust. The complex processes taking place in the bowels have an impact on people. Physical sensations here are purely individual. Some have sharpened vision and hearing, others fall into a state of trance, and still others experience a strong physical recovery. People who come here often feel nausea and dizziness, it seems to them that the earth is trembling under their feet. From contact with the stones of Akyrtas, many begin to feel heat in their hands and feet. “During my many years of visits to Akyrtas, I constantly had to experience this on myself,- says Baltabek Umiryaev. “According to my observations, every second visitor has the same sensations.”
"The strong electromagnetic field of the bowels of the earth helps to awaken the body's reserve cells, including them in the orbit of vital activity, and activates physiological processes," Baltabek Umiryaev believes. It is believed that the human body in its entire life uses only up to 20 percent of its capabilities. Akyrtas, apparently, was and is a natural generator that activates "dormant" cells of the human body.
Obviously, the ancient priests used these phenomena in ritual actions, putting the unusual stone found by archaeologists into the palms of the builders of Akyrtas. The resulting heat emanating from the ritual stone spread through the hands, causing a feeling of peace and spirituality. Of course, the sacral stone could not possess any magical properties, in another area no sensations arose from it. All these sensations are the result of the impact of the natural anomaly of Akyrtas on the human body.
Without belittling the significance of the work of the researcher Amanzholov, local historian Umiryaev believes that the first line of his translation - “melt (heating), become sweet” - correctly reflects Akyrtas anomaly. An expression that sounds something like "melt your soul" means the spiritual preparation of a person to meet with a shrine. The runes on the Akyrtas stone contain some of the main concepts when conducting the rite of consecration. It was impossible to put on a small ritual stone the full text of the rite of sacred rite, therefore it contained only separate words, the meaning of which was clear to the clergy. The short text was a kind of reminder for them.
While scientists are trying to get to the bottom of the truth, two or three cars with pilgrims come here every day. On weekends and holidays - much more. There are regular visitors who will gladly tell the stories of their friends' miraculous recovery. Working for the "health" tourism industry is apparently a new life for Akyrtas.
Stepan Krivosheev
OPINIONS The
magic of the place
Gennady Batalov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, archaeologist:
- I have been to Taraz and its surroundings many times. There are three amazing complexes there: Merke, Zhaisan and Akyrtas, the name of which translates as “sacred stone”. I believe that any monument carries an informational, historical and cultural load. And these structures were built in those places where, in the opinion of our distant ancestors, it was expedient from the point of view of space, time, landscape. Mosques and churches were built on approximately the same principle. I strongly disagree with those who speak about the special manifestations that many archaeological sites allegedly possess. Because first you need to assess the historical and cultural value of the object, and only then talk about its magical properties. Any place is sanctified by the person himself. By the way, not without the help of the media, the now famous Arkaim in the Chelyabinsk region was turned into an esoteric center.
Karl Baipakov, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, professor:
- In my opinion, Akyrtas is an unfinished headquarters of the Turkic tribe of Karluks, who owned the Semirechye in the 9th-10th centuries. and who invited Arab architects for the construction. In the literature, there are different versions about the time of the beginning of the construction of the complex, its purpose and identification with a specific settlement. But one thing is clear: at the beginning of the 13th century it had already become a monument, and its ruins were seen in 1223 by the Taoist monk Chang-Chun, who described his journey to Genghis Khan's headquarters. During the excavations, it was established that a mihrab could be located in the western wall of the complex - a south-facing niche in the wall where Muslims pray. If we assume that there was a mosque in Akyrtas, then this removes the assumptions about the Nestorian or Buddhist purpose of the entire complex. At the same time, analogues of the Akyrtas layout are taken away to the architecture of the Near and Middle East. She, in particular,is very similar to the layout of the palaces of Samarra - the summer residence of the Arab caliphs, the palaces of Syria and Jordan. All this makes one look at the construction of Akyrtas as a palace.