I’ll clarify right away: this temple, which is called the seven-gate, does not have domes shining under the sun, and a bell tower that scatters ringing around.
And the temple, as such - in our usual understanding, in the temple of the Seven Gates is also not available. Nevertheless, this temple still exists!
Thousands years.
And it is located in the village of Nikolskoye-na-Dnepr, the turn to which on the Dnipropetrovsk highway is indicated by a sign with a note: "The place of death of Prince Svyatoslav."
How so, another Zaporozhets will be surprised: Prince Svyatoslav is exclusively our man, he died here, on Khortytsya. And where does Nikolskoe-on-Dnepr? What was Svyatoslav to do there?
And he visited the temple of the Seven Gates there.
A cast-iron slab on a granite boulder on the banks of the Dnieper in Nikolskoye - at the site of the alleged death of Prince Svyatoslav, was installed … already in 1872.
But we follow on. We need the "Temple of the Seven Gates", "the temple of Perun" or "Nikolsky cromlech", as the remains of a pagan sanctuary, preserved on the outskirts of the village, not far from the Dnieper, where once - before the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station - bubbled did not freeze even in the most severe winter Unsatisfactory threshold. "Dissatisfied, Grandfather-threshold, Roaring - the biggest and most terrible of all the Dnieper rapids", - Dmitry Yavornitsky emphasized in his travel notes.
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And here is how he described Nikolsky cromlech [in Ukrainian this word sounds more understandable: "Kam'yan kolo"]:
“This is a megalithic monument of extreme rarity; in the middle of it, 24 large flat stones are set vertically in a circle - one after another, as tall as a tall man.
It is believed that the open-air temple near the noisiest Dnieper threshold was built by the Proto-Indo-European people. According to one version, he is 12 thousand [!] Years old, according to another - four thousand.
If we take the first figure as a starting point, then it will be necessary to admit that Nikolsky cromlech is almost widowed older than its world-famous counterpart - stone Stonehenge.
According to legend, the priest Merlin took part in the construction of Stonehenge. It was he who, having made some devices, installed the giant stones of the complex easily and quickly, and said to the surprised rotozees: if you saw what miracles the builders are doing in my homeland, you would be even more surprised.
By the way, Merlin was one of the Scythians who lived, according to the same legend, near … the Dnieper rapids.
If we continue to draw parallels with Stonehenge, we can assume that a stone spike on the banks of the Dnieper in ancient times, like Stonehenge, served as … an observatory from which our ancestors watched the movement of the sun. And directly communicated with the Cosmos and God - such is the energy, such is the power of such places.
Did Prince Svyatoslav know about this place - about an open-air church near the Nenasytetsky threshold? I couldn't help but know. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that it was here that he came - to ask the Almighty for help and protection, having heard about the impending ambush on him.
And the ambush was just arranged near the temple.
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The diameter of the unusual temple is 25 steps. Moreover, I walked from the most noticeable [but not the most important!] Stone - the one on which … the imprint of a person's foot is clearly visible. This stone is known to everyone who has been to the temple of the Seven Gates. It is called the Calcaneal.
The stone installed opposite the Heel has no name, although it is perhaps the most important in the temple - like an altar. So I understood when I saw what is depicted on this stone: the swastika, the ancient symbol of the sun, the ancient symbol of happiness, if you like. And the temple, therefore, should be called not seven-fold, but solar - the temple of the Sun and happiness.
A swastika on a stone - by the way, it is left-handed [as opposed to a fascist one] can be seen only in contrasting lighting - well, it was applied on a stone a long time ago: 12 thousand years ago era].
And the technique of applying the sun sign is simply amazing. Imagine: on a gray stone there are reddish blotches, which are … a swastika. Moreover, taken in a circle of the same reddish blotches.
How this could have been done, I cannot imagine.
It seems that without the intervention of the priest Merlin, who took part in the construction of Stonehenge, the matter did not work out.
Vladimir SHAK