Who has not heard the legend about the Alatyr-stone, which lies "on the sea, on the Ocean, on the Buyan island" and works all kinds of miracles?
The Alatyr stone itself may be mythical, but on the territory of our country there are many of its "relatives" possessing real miraculous properties.
Blue stone
The 12-ton blue-stone is located near Lake Pleshcheyevo near Pereslavl-Zalessky. Its main function is the fulfillment of desires.
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For the Finno-Ugric and then Slavic tribes who lived in these regions in antiquity, the stone served as an object of worship. The ancient Slavs believed that he was associated with the god Yarila - one of their main deities.
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For several millennia, the Xin-stone lay on the mountain, which was first called Yarilina's bald head, and then Alexandrova's, but in the XII century, local Christians threw it down as a symbol of paganism. In the winter of 1788, the monks of the nearest monastery decided to lay it in the foundation of the Holy Spiritual Church. For this, they tried to transport the stone on a sleigh across the frozen Pleshcheyevo Lake. However, in the middle of the lake, the ice cracked, the sled overturned, and the boulder collapsed to the bottom … A year later, the stone "crawled" to the shore near Alexandrovaya Mountain, on the top of which it once lay.
Since then, the stone has been slowly "moving" towards the mountain. And this has been happening for many years. The fact that the boulder changes its place is confirmed by many eyewitnesses.
Tourists come here every day. The trees around them are hung with colorful patches, symbolizing wishes. An examination with the help of equipment showed that people who come into contact with the Xin-stone have improved vital signs.
Karelian seids
Mount Vottovaare is located in the western part of central Karelia, near the border with Finland, in the south of the Muezersky region. There is a lake at its foot. The flow of tourists here never stops. But they are attracted to these lands not so much by the picturesque Karelian landscapes as by mysterious stones - seids - laid by someone in time immemorial on the top of the mountain.
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There are more than one and a half thousand of them on Vottovaar. Huge boulders weighing several tons are stacked on smaller stones. The indigenous inhabitants - the Sami - ascribe cult significance to the seids, and some researchers believe that they were left here by the inhabitants of the ancient country of Hyperborea, according to legend, located on the Kola Peninsula. Here, on the mountain, there is also a "staircase to heaven" - steps ending in a deep cliff. The mountain has already been nicknamed "Russian Stonehenge".
In fact, "Vottovaare" is translated from Sami as "mountain of death." The ancient Sami believed that this place served as a gateway to another world. And our contemporaries, who have visited the summit, assure that there is a kind of geophysical anomaly that causes malfunctions in the operation of mechanisms and electronic equipment.
Boulders in the Voice Ravine
In the area of Moscow Kolomenskoye there is a place about which mysterious legends have been circulating from time immemorial. It is located on the territory of the former village of Dyakovo, which is now part of the capital, and is called the Voice Ravine.
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A stream flows along its bottom, formed by many springs, which, according to legend, beat out of the footprints of the horse of St. George the Victorious - as if he passed here after defeating the serpent.
The ravine is considered an abnormal place. People have disappeared here more than once. So, in the archives for the years 1825-1917, you can find many documents about the missing residents of nearby villages. For example, in "Moskovskiye vedomosti" dated July 9, 1832, an interesting story is given.
Somehow in 1810 peasants from the village Sadovniki Arkhip Kuzmin and Ivan Bochkarev, tipsy, were returning home through the ravine. They were not embarrassed by the strange greenish fog that spread along the bottom of the ravine.
Between two huge boulders, the travelers suddenly fell into a hole. They ended up in some other world where hairy creatures lived. The "owners" promised to bring them back, although they warned that it would not be easy. Somehow the men were transported to the ravine again, but when they got to the village, it turned out that… 21 years had passed! Although relatives remained in the village, who recognized them, no one believed the confused story of the poor fellows. The police were called. It was decided to conduct an investigative experiment in that very "bad" place in the ravine. But during the experiment, one of the men disappeared in front of everyone. And the second soon committed suicide …
Already in our days scientists came here. In the mid-90s. XX century researchers from the Institute of General Physics measured the electromagnetic field in the ravine - it was more than 12 times higher than the norm! And near the ill-fated boulders, the electromagnetic background was even higher. During the measurements, a mysterious and eerie incident occurred: an unknown force lifted one of the scientists up to a height of 2.5 m and abruptly lowered him to the slope of the ravine. The man almost died.
Interestingly, the Voice Ravine is located, as it were, along a magnetic arrow - from west to east, crossing the magnetic field vector. Typical pathogenic zone …
The boulders from the ravine were named Devi and Gus. It is said that the Devi-stone heals women from infertility. Ufologists claim that UFOs often hover over these stones.
According to modern shamans who conduct their rituals here, the stones are activated at dawn and dusk, and then portals to other realities open …