East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans - страница 10

Another description made by the authors of the article «Aurora Borealis» in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which emphasizes that only at the latitude of Novaya Zemlya and the coasts of the White and Barents Seas can one observe the most vivid and impressive form of aurora in the form of iridescent ribbons and curtains. «With a general yellowish coloration of the phenomenon in bright and rapidly changing kind of auroras, rays sometimes appear painted in other colors – mainly in red and green, less often in blue and violet».

If M. V. Lomonosov perceived the Northern Lights as a manifestation of God, even if such a sober prose writer like Fridtjof Nansen wrote words full of delight about him:

«What an endless game… Here, in the North, the future of the earth, here is beauty and death. But why? Why is this whole heavenly sphere created? Oh, read the answer in its blue starry space!,» then how does a person perceive his moment in ancient times – 6—8 thousand years ago. Probably, just as the incomprehensible, miraculous manifestation of the Supreme Deity to the people who worship him, the inhabitants of the polar regions of Eastern Europe, where we can, we repeat, on the coast of the White and Barents Seas see such a bright and multicolored spectacle, since closer to the pole the northern lights are more monotonous, and is just a yellowish glow, and to the south the phenomenon is generally extremely rare.

Northern Lights

Both the description of Mahabharata and the description of S. V. Maximov, separated by many millennia, emphasize such characteristic details as pain in the eyes from the brightest radiance, a state of dazzle and a piercing sound emitted by «flashes»: the sages «lost their frenzy from the radiance, lost their vision and other senses, didn’t see anything and only the sound spreading clearly perceived,» and «You can’t understand anything, you can’t figure anything out for one whole impression – everything gets in the way and gets confused. It hurts in my eyes… On Matka… flashes bursting». Such a detailed, detailed description can hardly be done without being an eyewitness to this phenomenon.

B. L. Smirnov writes that the apsars described in the «Mahabharat» living in the North, «rainbow waterdrops,» are difficult to interpret otherwise than the northern lights».