In the photo: the mummy of the Altai "princess Ukok"
The mummies of sorcerers disturbed by scientists brought the world a financial crisis and natural disasters
The mummies of ancient sorcerers found on the glaciers of Altai and the Alps caused a series of deaths and disasters. Separated by thousands of kilometers and years, the incorrupt bodies are adorned with similar tattoos, which testify to their belonging to the highest clan of shamans. The archaeologists have disturbed their souls and caused many troubles, the latest of which was the global financial crisis.
“The mummies of sorcerers take revenge for the disturbed peace,” says the famous Altai shaman Klara Kypchakova.
The "Ice Man" Otzi from the Alps and the Altai princess Kadyn turned out to be connected with each other not only mystically. Each of them was wrapped in the skin of a Chinese mountain goat. And this kind is found only in Tibet. Are both famous shamans from the same place?
Otzi
In 1991, on a glacier in the Alps, German archaeologist Helmut Simon and his wife Erika accidentally discovered the corpse of a man who had died 5300 years ago. The mummy, named Otzi by archaeologists, is remarkably well preserved. Growth during life was 158 centimeters, weight - 50 kilograms. The clothes consisted of a wide loincloth and a loose shirt, sewn from thin multi-colored leather straps. Otzi wore a grass-woven hat on her head, and a straw cape over her shoulders. The leather shoes were packed tightly with straw and moss, which helped keep the feet warm. This moss suggests that the man came from somewhere in the south. In his back basket were a bone awl, flint, a flint scraper, and a razor-sharp blade. A deer antler plate was attached to the ice man's belt. Quiver and arrows found next to the bodyThey plunged the researchers into amazement: the notches of Otzi's arrows were gradually shortened, and the arrow clamped in the bowstring was always ready to hit the target. The entire body of the “ice man” was decorated with numerous tattoos and injection marks. Perhaps these are traces of acupuncture treatment.
In addition, Otzi had something like a first-aid kit with him: a chaga birch mushroom, known for its antiseptic properties, mulberry mold, and two more mushrooms with the properties of modern antibiotics. Scientist Tom Loy determined that Otzi's clothes, his ax, dagger and arrows were stained with blood that belonged to eight different people. An ancient warrior fought with someone. X-rays showed that he was killed by an arrow - the enemy hit him in the back. A Neolithic man at the time of his death was 42 years old, which is much more than the average life expectancy of his contemporaries. As for the origin of Otzi, after examining his DNA, scientists have found that on the maternal line he comes from a woman who lived about 50 thousand years ago in the western part of Asia!
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57 complex tattoos on Otzi's arms and back allowed scientists to assume that the deceased was a shaman.
“This Otzi could have been a sorcerer,” says archaeologist Alessandro Morandi. - The first analysis of his things showed that they are from different time periods. The arrows are 7000 years old, the ax was worked 2000 years ago, at the time of the crucifixion of Christ, and the skin in which the man was wrapped was ripped off from a goat that lived 5000 years ago … in China. It can be assumed that Otzi was an ancient priest of some unknown cult and possessed supernatural powers, including the ability to travel in time! Perhaps, even during his lifetime, a special spell was imposed on him. Such rituals existed among the ancient druids: a person underwent the "death rite" - a special mystical procedure that promised terrible punishment to anyone who disturbed the peace of his body in the future.
Victims
The spirit of Otzi still punishes those who disturbed his peace. Since the moment when the world learned about the ancient shaman, seven people have already died, in close contact with his remains.
Another "discoverer" Otzi Helmut Simon was the first to leave. Having won the court in 2004, according to which he had to be paid $ 150,000 for a unique find, Helmut went to the very place where the "ice man" lay in absolutely clear weather, unexpectedly got into a snow storm and froze to death. When rescuers dug him up, Helmut was lying in the same position as the "ice man". Simon did not manage to sign any documents, and his wife had to sue the Italian authorities for 4 years for a fee. Only in the fall of 2008 71-year-old Erica "legalized" the right to receive money for Otzi.
The head of the rescuers, Dieter Warnecke, who found the frozen Simon, died of a heart attack just an hour after the scientist's funeral.
Dr. Rainer Henn, who conducted the examination of Otzi, became the third victim of the curse. He died in a car crash on his way to the ice man science conference.
Then the curse overtook professional climber Kurt Fritz. Fritz organized the delivery of the remains of the ancient shaman by helicopter to Innsbruck and soon died under an avalanche in an area he knew well. At the same time, other climbers who were with him survived.
Two years later, Austrian journalist Rainer Helzl, who shot a documentary about the "ice man", died of a brain tumor.
The sixth case - from the sudden and rapidly developing multiple sclerosis in 2005, died Konrad Spindler, who led a group of scientists at the University of Innsbruck who investigated Otzi. Spindler was 66 years old, he knew about the curse of the mummy, but laughed at the rumors.
The next victim was Dr. Tom Loy, who was researching Otzi's DNA. He died suddenly in Australia at the age of 63.
A frightening "warning" was received from fate by Walter Leiter, a professor who examined the organs of the "ice man". He took his American colleagues to show the place where Otzi was found, froze and miraculously survived.
A princess
In 1993, two years after Helmut Simon discovered the "ice man" who killed him, a group of Novosibirsk scientists led by Natalia Polosmak and Vyacheslav Molodin found a 2500-year-old female mummy in the Altai mountains. The ancient priestess was named the Altai princess or the Ukok princess, after the plateau where she was found. The mummy lay on its right side, legs slightly bent. There are tattoos on the arms and body. Just like the Alpine "ice man"! The mummy's shoulder is adorned with a griffin.
“These tattoos, undoubtedly, meant that a woman belonged to a noble family,” says Galina Patrick, an employee of the Institute of Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences. - The ancient man always adorned himself with a "speaking" ornament, because when passing into the world, a different pattern on the body, like other attributes, was his calling card. Passport, if you like. In addition, denoting gender and social status, tattoos could also denote an occupation associated with beliefs. It is natural to assume that Princess Ukok was a shaman.
Dressed in white robes of the finest silk, hung with expensive gold and bronze jewelry and ritual weapons, the warrior was perfectly preserved in the permafrost. High growth, about 170 cm, thin facial features and a strange manner of dressing (except for a silk shirt, the Altai maiden was wearing a woolen skirt, felt socks, a goat's fur coat and a wig) indicate that the princess is not a Mongoloid. DNA analysis confirmed that the shaman's mummy belongs to the Caucasian race. The age of the find correlates it with the ancient legend of "Princess Kadyn", who is considered the progenitor of the human race. The essence of the legend is as follows: on the high-mountain plateau Ukok, in Altai, at the foot of the great mountains Tabyn-Bogdo-Ola, there is a mountain world - "the second layer of heaven", inhabited by the sons of heaven. It was here, according to the legend of the ancient Scythians who discovered this land,many millennia ago, there were creatures with supernatural powers. Somewhere among the mountain peaks of Tabyn-Bogdo-Ola, the mysterious Huandi lived with his "team": these creatures, who came down from the mountains, were not inhabitants of the Earth, but flew from distant stars. There is an opinion among local residents that guests from heaven did not fly away anywhere, but found eternal peace on our planet. An indirect confirmation of this version was the mummy of "Princess Kadyn", whose appearance, although it is quite earthly, is fundamentally different from the races and nationalities living now and in ancient times on the territory of Altai. It remains a mystery how the mummy, which has lain in the ground for 3 thousand years, has practically not changed. Scientists working with the mummy unanimously declare: when you look at the princess, you immediately feel her magical energy, and her body and face look like this,as if the burial had just happened yesterday.
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The archaeologists, along with the find, were taken to Novosibirsk by two helicopters. Between Barnaul and Novosibirsk, the helicopter, in which Natalya Polosmak was flying with the mummy, made an emergency landing - one of the engines stalled. We got to Novosibirsk by cars. This was the first signal that the Altai princess was also dangerous. As in the case of the "ice man", those who were involved in the find in Altai are in trouble. American archaeologist Jeanne Smoot, who participated in the excavations, complains of nightmares that torment her.
But the real trouble broke out 10 years after the discovery of Princess Ukok. The ancient shaman seemed to have paused before starting to inflict retribution. In September 2003, a powerful earthquake occurred in Gorny Altai. Its epicenter was right at the place of Ukok, where the princess was found. People did not die, but the whole Altai village of Beltir was almost destroyed to the ground, and it had to be rebuilt. Unlike the warrior-shaman, the mountain sorceress did not seem to want to destroy people. The earthquake was followed by a series of floods, then the number of unexplained suicides sharply increased in the Altai Republic.
Since then, local authorities have asked to return the mummy from Novosibirsk to the mountain crypt in order to calm the disturbed spirit of the Altai princess, who is popularly called Princess Kadyn.
“In 2006, the authorities of the Altai Republic declared the Ukok plateau a zone of peace, since then archaeological excavations have not been conducted on it,” says Vyacheslav Molodin, an archaeologist and historian, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of Novosibirsk State University. “The Republic expects us to hand over the mummy, and we are ready to give it up if proper conditions are created for its storage. In the meantime, there are none, the mummy is in our institute, and we continue to study it. Now we are preparing it for examination on a tomograph in order to analyze in detail what is “inside” the find.
It is noteworthy that in 2007 Novosibirsk scientists exhibited the princess of Ukok in Germany. This trip was planned in advance, back in 2006. And it was precisely since 2006 that Germany, like other European states, has been seized by a series of terrible floods …
Rest
The archaeological museum of the northern Italian city of Bolzano, where Otzi's mummy is kept, is visited by 240 thousand people from all over the world every year. Didn't they spread the curse of the sorcerer to their prosperous countries, overtaken by the financial crisis? The "Ice Man" is placed in a special, computer-controlled refrigeration chamber. The Altai princess is also kept in a freezer; it was built at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS in Novosibirsk, but open access to it is prohibited. After the scientists promised to return it to Gorno-Altaysk, the wave of earthquakes in the republic stopped.
But Otzi's spirit still longs for peace …
