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In general, "Colossus" is not just "big" or "giant". This is a specific hero who was assigned a special role related to harvest, well-being, prosperity and prosperity. And let the skeptics laugh, but everything in this "foreign European antiquity" is simply permeated with the common roots of a single proto-language, to which the Slavic languages are closest to all others.
Hubert Robert.
What happens to the monuments when the government changes? Aha … This is exactly what happened with the statues, which were displeasing to the "enlightened victors". Any item that was somehow connected with a single history uniting Europeans with "Asians" was destroyed in the bud. Nothing changes today … There were at least five statues of Lenin, sorry Colossus (Athenian, Rhodes, Thebes, and two in Rome, one of which was the main one, stood next to the Colosseum), where is there at least one?
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Logically, next to the pedestal on which the Colossus stood, there was more than one such lighthouse (far to the left). There must have been four, or at least two. The scale is colossal indeed. This can be created either by a technomagic culture or by a powerful centralized state.
The first version is closer to me, because a powerful centralized state cannot but leave in its memory a lot of trash, garbage, waste, and remnants of infrastructure. After all, hundreds of thousands of builders in our time would require whole cities for housing, and supply with everything necessary. Workshops, shops, shops, farms, fields, and all this entails the need to have a developed network of roads.
Therefore, it seems that the builders, who could well have been our creators, possessed knowledge that seems to us magic, mysticism, but in fact, these are quite rational technologies.
Here's a simple example. When in the "Taiga deadlock" in the eighties of the last century they discovered a family of hermits - Old Believers who had no connection with the outside world for more than fifty years without interruption, some things, simple for us, seemed to them witchcraft. An ordinary plastic bag caused a real sensation. Glass, but wrinkles!
So it is in this case. We have not the slightest reason to consider everything incomprehensible as mysticism. Technomagic is a simple process, just like taking a fish out of the refrigerator to feed your beloved cat. After all, the cat does not know that you are storing fish in the refrigerator, and do not materialize it through magical manipulations. And how to explain to him where the fish comes from and, moreover, what a refrigerator is!
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In general, the builders of these structures can be conditionally considered Gods, because the level of their development was so much higher than the level of pastoralists, the level of a modern person, who was born in Germany or France, and the level of an inhabitant, the wilds of the Amazon, were so different. For him, even a can of lemonade seems like magic, not to mention a smartphone, a laser show, an airplane or a submarine.
If we disappear, the Amazonian Indian will use the inherited objects for a while. He, of course, will use a knife in the same way as we do, but the microwave oven, at best, will be adapted for storing dishes or other useful household items. When all this is gone, the Indian will most likely start tying sharp pieces of obsidian to a stick again out of habit.
Hubert Robert.
But it may be the other way around, this advanced knowledge, in the form of objects that its people did not create, will give an impetus to development, and two hundred years later, hovercraft will start to rush in the jungle of the Amazon.
Most likely, the second scenario happened to us.
We inherited from the Gods accurate knowledge of the planets, stars, and the calendar. In addition, we got a solid baggage of tools that allows us to develop our own production. True, part of the knowledge was lost irretrievably. We don't seem to have even figured out how to use the bronze cannons. They began to charge them with gunpowder, cannonballs, set fire to the fuse to fire a shot, but how these "copper pipes" were used before us, no one knows.
We got fragmentary memories of some kind of technological processes, the essence of which was not clear to us, but the external side of which we copied thoughtlessly, although reliably. These are religious rites.
Hubert Robert.
Prayer in front of the icon is very similar to Skype communication, right? And many people suspect to me that they understand the nature of this phenomenon. When I start sharpening a knife in the kitchen, all the animals, both cats and dogs, come running. They are sure that if "God rustles with a magic wand on a magic crystal", then soon scraps of meat, chicken, or even sausage materialize from the air! And maybe, when the animals become even more intelligent, they will try to repeat the "rite with a rod and a crystal." They will start rubbing against each other, in the hope that if it is sacred to believe, then food will appear in the same way as it appeared from “God” - the owner.
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So our "masters" have gone somewhere, left us, and we are all looking into the sky with hope, muttering all sorts of nonsense in churches, and believe that it is about to happen … But don't believe, you need to know. Faith should be a personal category, let the wife believe her husband that he was on a fishing trip … We need to discard everything that does not correspond to our knowledge and feelings, and change the criteria of scientific character. Let's not forget that quite recently it was unscientific to assert that you can build a ship out of iron, an aircraft heavier than air, an automatic firing machine underwater, and much more.
What was considered anti-scientific yesterday is in the pocket of every person today. Actually, the pockets themselves are also anti-scientific. What would you be told two hundred years ago if you began to assert in a decent society that clothes would be made from liquid (oil)?
Hubert Robert.
In general, everything is relative, and if the “Matryoshka law” is learned from childhood, then there is nothing complicated here. For example, for my then-future wife, I seemed like a god when I was in the seat of the flight mechanic of the Mi-8 helicopter. She was horrified by what she saw in the cockpit during the flight. And to me, in turn, it seems to me that, to this day, my commander Nikolai Bezvesilny, who flew even better than God. I cannot understand how you can land a heavy car blindly, in dense fog, on a site where there are only two to three meters from the tips of the blades to trees and wires on concrete poles. But he did it, and not only that, and more than once.
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And now we can speculate about the state of the ruins. We do not see any traces of the bombing, this is a fact. The destruction that exists is more like natural destruction that has occurred due to natural causes. The main thing is age. This happens if the housing department ceases to function, everything quickly falls into decay, in the absence of proper repairs, and taking measures to extend the life of the operation.
Something was damaged by the earthquakes. One is stronger, the other is smaller, but the operating fountains and pools are adjacent to structures with traces of colossal erosion, which testifies to the advanced age of the buildings. How old is it? This is one of the main questions.
Hubert Robert.
Here, our historians are strikingly divided when it is necessary to confirm the official chronology. They shout together about “one hundred thousand milion years BC”, and when it is necessary to justify what the grant of one or another Fund, or the Government, which lends itself to easy sawing, howl all over the world about the need to urgently save the heritage of the world heritage under protection of UNESCO. Humanly understandable, their salaries are small. But you must have a conscience! How so, 12 centuries stood, did not fall, but here, if you do not allocate 6,122 rubles 79 kopecks, then by the spring the world will lose its precious heritage!
In fact, the truth is in the middle. Thank God, it is possible to track the changes that have occurred over a hundred years with the same natural objects. The emergence of photography made it possible. And it turned out that the level of wear from natural impact on rocks is tenfold understated. What is dated between five and seven centuries turns out to be 80-100 years old. It only seems that cities made of granite and basalt can stand brand new for a thousand years, being exposed to rain, wind and temperature extremes. In fact, what was recorded by painters in the late 17th - early 19th centuries could only be 300-500 years old.
- Part 3 -
Author: kadykchanskiy
