This may be true, but similar to a fairy tale, the story began a thousand years and still has not ended.
At the end of her reign, Catherine the Great deprived her noble son Alexei Kruglov of property rights by her royal decree, and he himself was assigned to the Yellow House for "fairy tales that are hot and deceitful to God." Prior to this, Kruglov, who had fallen out of favor, was repeatedly questioned, his testimony was recorded, the empress got acquainted with them, and her verdict was: "The rougher the lie, the faster it finds a way to the heart."
In order to prove his innocence in practice, Krugloye delivered a casket with a man-made skull to the royal throne, which was the only reason for all his misadventures. This curiosity caused a real sensation at the court.
Here is how an eyewitness told about it: “The lid of the box was thrown off. From within, the boxwood was smoldering like coals. The fever began. The skull soared over the chest. The transparency has become extraordinary. We contemplated the pictures of hell, where people are similar to us, but not like us. Excessively big-headed, half-legs, and everything they have, like creeping creatures and insignificant insects. And the cities are good, they shone with stones, they floated in the air. Each big-eyed hole in the skull showed us its own world. A wonderful world. The skull, having calmed down, cooled down. We sealed it in a casket so as not to remember more."
Catherine 11 returned her favors to Kruglov and, naturally, asked where, when and under what circumstances he got this artifact.
Terrible find and legend
According to the oath testimony of Alexei Kruglov, he found the "demonic skull" in an old abandoned rural house, where he was driven by bad weather. The dilapidated house, where Krugloye took refuge from the raging elements, stood on the edge of a dark forest and has long enjoyed a bad reputation among local residents. There, among the dust and mustiness, Alexei discovered several skulls, three of them were so dilapidated that they crumbled to dust as soon as he took them in his hands, and the fourth, the same one, he took with a subwoofer to St. Petersburg, where he used it as a press. papier, then it was fashionable. One evening, he noticed that some strange notions periodically appeared in this skull.
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Many years later, the writer Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky, nephew of the Decembrist Alexander
Odoevsky, wrote the mystical novel "Kosarama" on the basis of A. Kruglov's adventures. This novel was filmed shortly before the collapse of the USSR under the title "Initiate".
In Russian folklore, there is a fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful", in which the skull incinerates the rascals. I would venture to suggest that Krugloye found the very skull that is discussed in this tale. And here, in brief, is its plot.
Russian Cinderella - Vasilisa the Beautiful
One merchant had an only child, Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight, her mother died. Dying, the mother called her daughter to her, took out a doll from under the blanket and said: “Listen, Vasilisa! Remember and fulfill my last words. I am dying and together with my parental blessing I leave this doll; always carry it with you and never show it to anyone; and when what grief happens, give her something to eat and ask her for advice. She will eat and tell you how to help the misfortune."
Then the mother kissed her daughter and died
After the merchant married a widow with two daughters, Vasilisa's one-year-olds. The stepmother and her daughters disliked the stepdaughter and began to force her to do all the housework. It would be hard for Vasilisa, but she was helped by the doll, which not only did almost all the work for her, but also supported her morally. But it happened that Vasilisa herself would not finish eating, and left the most tasty morsel to the doll.
Although Vasilisa's stepmother and her daughters did nothing around the house, but sat with folded arms, they lost weight and looked sick with anger: women often have metabolic disorders due to nerves. Once a merchant left home for a long time on business. The stepmother then moved to another house, near a dense forest, in which Baba Yaga lived in a hut and ate people like chickens.
One autumn evening, the stepmother put the girls in for needlework. She extinguished the fire throughout the house, leaving the only candle where the girls worked, went to bed herself. One of the stepmother's daughters, by order of the mother, as if by accident, extinguished the candle. Well, the stepmother's daughters escorted Vasilisa to Baba Yaga for fire. She, of course, in tears, went to her closet, put the prepared dinner in front of the doll and told her that they were sending her to Baba Yaga for fire, to certain death. The doll ate, her eyes sparkled like candles. “Don't be afraid, Vasilisa! - she said. - Nothing will happen to you with me at Baba Yaga!”. Vasilisa put the doll in her pocket and went into the dense forest.
She walked for a long time: all night, morning, day. There were strange encounters along the way. And only in the twilight did Va-silisa go out into the clearing where Baba Yaga's hut stood: a fence around the hut made of human bones, human skulls stick out on the fence, human legs instead of doors at the gate, hands instead of locks, and a mouth with sharp teeth instead of a lock. Vasilisa was stunned with horror and stood rooted to the spot. Night has come. But the darkness did not last long; the eyes of all the skulls on the fence lit up, and the whole clearing became as light as day. Having met Baba Yaga, Vasilisa explained to her politely that her stepmother's daughters had sent her to fetch the fire.
“Well,” said Baba Yaga, “I know them; live notes in advance and work for me, then I will give you fire, but if, no, then I will eat you!"
In short, for several days Baba Yaga entrusted Vasilisa with a deliberately impossible job, for example, whose poppy, Baba Yaga had full bins, was to clear a grain of the earth from a grain. All this work in the absence of Baba Yaga, who left her hut on chicken legs in the morning, and returned only late in the evening, was performed by Vasilisa's doll, her mistress could only cook the food and serve them.
On the third day, during dinner, Baba Yaga struck up a conversation with her guest worker.
In the end, having learned that Vasilisa had time to carry out the work assigned to her with the help of her mother's blessing, Baba Yaga went into a wild rage, pulled the “blessed daughter” out of the room and pushed her out of the gate; Then she took off the skull with glowing eyes from the fence and stuck it on a stick: "Here's a fire for your stepmother's daughters, take it: they sent you for this!" Vasilisa rushed to run from this cursed place with all her might, illuminating her path with a skull, like a lantern. Well, she was in no hurry, but only the next evening she went out to her stepmother's house.
He walks and thinks: "Probably the fire is no longer needed, so much time has passed, I'll throw a skull …". At the same moment, a deaf voice came from the skull: "Don't leave me, bring me to your stepmother!" For the first time in all the time, the "relatives" greeted Vasilisa and explained that since the dream left, they had no fire in the house: they themselves could not carve, and which they brought from their neighbors, they went out as soon as they were brought into the upper room. '"Perhaps your fire will hold on!" - said the stepmother.
They brought the skull into the upper room, and the eyes from the skull just look at the stepmother and her daughters, and they burn it! Those were to hide, but wherever they rush - the eyes everywhere follow them; by morning they completely burned them into coal, only Vasilisa was not touched.
Amazingly, the Maya Indians in the pre-colonial period had a similar "ritual of the skull", about which the unknown narrator of the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful", of course, could not know.
Images of the above-described ritual have survived to this day; however, Yu. V. told about this rite with a certain skepticism. Knorozov, a Soviet scientist who was able to decipher the writing of the ancient Maya.
How it was
Pre-Columbian America, Yucatan Peninsula, Chichen Itza city-state. The red human sea waves near the stepped pyramid, on the last platform of which the high priest himself is performing the ceremony today. Today is a special day. Several Indian warriors, fed with human flesh, drive the Indian with his hands tied in the direction of the pyramid with spears, he rests, but the forces are not equal, and soon he is pushed to the top of the pyramid to the priest.
There is a deathly silence. Suddenly, the high priest shouts out something guttural and, as if from nowhere, with a practiced movement, pulls out a ritual skull from the folds of his priestly vestments. For a second he holds it in his outstretched arms. The skull begins to flicker, from the mouth, the eye sockets of the skull escapes a bright scorching ray, striking the tied Indian. He lets out a wild scream, his body convulses. A second and a body, broken by convulsions, falls from the pyramid to the feet of the crowd parted.
According to the scientist, the cause of death in this case is fear.
To perform this ritual, the Indians used life-size models of human skulls expertly made from rock crystal. Tradition says that there were thirteen of them. Four were found in the New World. Experiments show that the aforementioned four skulls glow in the dark if they are close to each other. At one time one of these skulls, the Jesuit, belonged to Ignatius Loyola, and the other, the Doom skull, belonged to the writer Frank Dorland.
Repository of an alien soul
F. Dorland discovered a system of prisms and channels inside the occipital part of the "Doom's skull": if a candle is installed behind the skull, the skull and its eye sockets will start to glow. In addition, the "Doom skull", if held at a certain angle to the sun, the beam will come out of the skull's mouth.
It is known that if a fire is kindled under the Jesuit, then two beams will hit from its eye sockets.
But still, the skull that Round found is the most mysterious. It is kept to this day in Moscow, in the forensic collection of one of the medical universities. Here is what the Honored Doctor of Russia, an employee of the Center for Forensic Medicine Professor Viktor Zvyagik said about him:
- The skull is small. It has a deep hole with a diameter of 20-25 mm. A skull is made from a translucent crystal unknown to science. This is not a human skull, nor is it the skull of a primate (humanoid ape). Probably, this artifact should depict the skull of an intelligent inhabitant of another world, possibly an alien.
In his book "Acts and Wisdom of the Ancients" F. Dorland wrote that while "Doom's skull" was with him, "he sometimes changed color or twitched with a soft haze, a strange tinkle emanated from him, images of mountains, temples appeared inside him, and once a strange glow surrounded him for several minutes. " Thanks to this feature, the "skull of Doom" shines out of the blue and was discovered by archaeologists.
All this is also true for the skull of Kruglov, who killed Paul I.
Ominous paintings
After the death of Catherine the Great, this "skull" was inherited by her half-mad son Paul I. In him he saw the horrors of a bloody war, and not some kind of alien, but earthly, contemporary to him. This sight horrified him so much that Paul I made an appeal to all European monarchs to resolve all conflicts not by war, but by duel, as in the old knightly times. This noble idea: to arrange a fight of monsters instead of a battle of nations, caused laughter from all of Europe.
And yet the "skull" showed Paul I, something bad about Freemasons, for which he unannouncedly banned Freemasonry in his country, although initially he was a Freemason and patronized them in every way. For this, enraged Masons wove a conspiracy and killed the emperor.
Not long before his death, Paul I, peering into the "skull", said: "It's strange I see myself without an eye." His killers, the Zubov brothers, knocked out his eye with a snuffbox.
Conclusion
And I would like to end this story with the following quote from another fairy tale: “Ivan Tsarevich walked long, neither eaten nor drunk, to the house of Baba Yaga. He sees that there is the house of Baba Yaga, around it there are nine poles, on each of the eight poles a human skull, only one ninth is unoccupied. Let me remind you that the Indians had thirteen crystal skulls, four were found, one was given by Baba Yaga to Vasilisa. And this is all a significant coincidence, as Carl Jung, the psychiatrist who introduced the concept of archetype, would say.
And who is the doll from the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful"? Cyborg? Who knows …
“Interesting newspaper. Magic and mysticism №3 2012
