East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans - страница 16

Sukhona

Dvina

As a characteristic feature of Meru forests and meadows, the Mahabharata singers also note an abundance of bees, «intoxicated with honey» and flowers, «golden, blood-red, or like the flame of a forest fire.»

Meadows of the North

Northern Dawn

Of exceptional interest is that part of the text of Mahabharata, which tells that the hero Arjuna went to the «Northern Mountains», where he saw the Supreme deity – Trekoy Haru. And at that time «all sides of the sky lit up with colors.»

According to B.L. Smirnov: «The picture described here is very similar to the picture of a total solar eclipse or a picture of the twilight of the far north.

In addition, he notes that the sage Narada, describing the region where the sacred northern mountains of the Aryans are located, i.e. Patalu and «Colorful World (Suvarna)» says that here the Sun rises in half a year and illuminates this world. Such a remark can only apply to a polar country; it can only be made by someone who knows these countries. In the course of the description, it is mentioned that in the world of Suvarn the flowing waters take «beautiful forms».

The very name of Suvarn brings to mind the richest multicolored northern dawns.

To say that water, falling, takes beautiful forms, it is possible only about frozen water».

And, finally, it is on the spurs of Meru, located near the Milk Sea, that the epic places the monastery of the righteous and divine sages – Rishis, creators of the Veda hymns, the location of the great gods: Kubera (Couver) – the god of wealth, Ganges – whose source is on these mountains, and Rudra-Hara himself, called «wearing light braids», «flax-haired» and «reed-haired», «fair-bearded» and «light-bearded of all creatures the Ancestor», «the blue-haired Great Man, the first-born», «lotus-blue-yed Lord».

Pomor

The sacred mountains that separate the north and the White Sea from all other lands, called Meru ridges in the ancient Indian tradition, in the Avesta are the Khara Mountains with their main peak – Mount Hukayrya. And just as in the Indian descriptions over Meru, over High Hara sparkle seven stars of the Big Dipper and the Polar Star, placed in the center of the universe. From here, from the golden peaks of the High Hara, all earthly rivers begin, and the greatest of them – the clean river Ardvi, flowing into the sea of Vourukash or Vorukash, which means «having convenient bays.» On the top of the world’s mountain, Azest is the abode of the gods of Haronman, and here begins the «eternal unlimited land of light.»