East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans - страница 11

Northern Lights

Perhaps the image of the «radiant Hvarno» of the Avestan mythological tradition, hidden in the depths of the waters («Yasht.» XIX. 51—64) and which is a symbol of royal choice and power, is also associated with the Northern Lights.

This is evidenced by the following lines of the hymn dedicated to the sacred river Ardvisure-Anahita:

«Give me such luck

Kind, powerful Ardvisura Anahita,

So that I reach the royal Hvarno,

Which shines among Vorukash

Which is involved in the Aryan countries, current and future…»

The conclusion that «Hvarno» is the aurora is due to the fact that the Vorukash Sea and the «Milk Sea» of the Mahabharata are one and the same. In addition, it makes sense to recall that B. L. Smirnov notes: «The road to the North is accessible only to Narayana (the Leader of the people)», and it is he, i.e. the leader-king, endowed with «royal Hvarno», shining in the middle of the sea of Vorukash, in the ancient Iranian tradition.

Northern Lights

N. K. Roerich. Moses is the leader

Thus, it can be assumed that in Aryan antiquity the «Leader of the people» could only become one who had the strength and courage to get to a certain «White Island», located in the north-west of the coast of the «Milk Sea» in high northern latitudes and, having received grace in the form of the light of the Northern Lights, return back.

But not only for the continuous night and the auroras illuminating it, but for the continuous day there are indications in the Vedas.

«The duration of daylight hours in winter in the Subpolar Urals is 4—6 hours… To the north of the Arctic Circle in the second half of December is a polar night. Sometimes the aurora plays out, the sky is covered with ribbons shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, and the mountains and tundra are illuminated by a greenish phosphoric light. All June and July in the Ural North white nights. In their watches the birds singing, nature plunges into a dream; the sky and clouds turn pink and fawn, an extraordinary silence sets in, «this is how modern authors describe the Subpolar Urals, and in the same way, the singers of Mahabharata described their sacred mountains.

Polar night in summer. New Earth

Near the pole, it is observed as the sun, rising to a certain height above the horizon, stops, stands still and then goes back. The Vedas say: «The sun god stopped his chariot in the midst of heaven» or: