East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans - страница 12

«3. The blessed red mares of Surya

climbed to the back of the sky

4. In the midst of work, he collects stretched fabric

As soon as he harnessed from the place of the red horses The night right there stretches outfit for himself» (R.V. I. 115)

This image cannot be explained otherwise than by the fact that the movement of the sun in northern latitudes is observed. In another place of the Rigveda it is said: «God Varuna rocked the sun in the sky, as if on a swing.»

Where else can you see a similar picture, except in the circumpolar countries, where the sun in the summer does not hide behind the horizon, but only bends to it and again leaves, as if swinging.

Polar day and night. Kola Peninsula

N. R. Guseva emphasizes; that: «Since the arrival of the Aryans in the Arctic, the lunar calendar has played a decisive role in calculating the months… In the polar regions, the moon on the days of the full moon passes through the» north point» 13 times a year, which means it lasts 13 lunar months all year.. In the Rigveda and other monuments of ancient literature, the moon is devoted to so many hymns and so many prescriptions are connected with it that so far in the minds of the inhabitants of this country (India) the cult of the moon takes the first place in comparison with the cult of the sun – even thousands of years of farming could not shake it correlation… Like dawns on the horizon, the sun and stars in the sky make circular motions, and these paintings can only be seen in the circumpolar (and polar) regions. «Tilak notes that, judging by the monuments, Ursa Major, referred to as the constellation of the seven prophets in India It is always visible high in the sky when darkness sets in (R.V.I), while in the more southern regions – and especially in India – it appears only low below the northern horizon this is also an important observation, since from those ancient times these seven prophets have been revered in Hinduism as the authors of the Vedas hymns and the founders of all sacred knowledge. This constellation must have played an important role in orienting people according to the stars associated with economic activity, which did not cease, naturally, during the «sleep of the gods», polar night».

Polar day in winter

Undoubtedly, the text of the epic of Mahabharata also points to Arctic realities, which states that: «As the Arctic Circle moves continuously, three hundred and sixty divisions are found on it,» and those lines of Rigveda hymns, where the period of «flickering twilight», called the dawn, which happens twice a year and lasts about 50—60 days, including the appearance of the edge of the sun above the horizon (such «periods of dawn» are called in the literature of India by dawn and sunset of the day of the gods).»