Андрей Тихомиров
Is Meru the Ural Mountains?
Meru in Vedism-Brahmanism-Hinduism is considered a mountain in the center of the earth, around which the planets revolve. On this mountain stands Shiva, who supports and connects Earth and Heaven. Meru is home to the gods. In the Mahabharata, Meru is a mountainous country with peaks up to the sky, it describes the lands lying in the north beyond the Himalayas: the ridges of Tibet and the Pamirs, the deserts of Central Asia, impenetrable forests, the polar regions and such arctic phenomena as the fixed Pole Star, stars that do not rise or set, but rotate in a horizontal plane, completing each of their circles in 24 hours, the high constellation Ursa Major, the sun that rises only once a year, day and night lasting six months, aurora, area long darkness. And on the edge of this region rises Mount Meru, the northern slope of which is the coast of the Milk Sea.
From a scientific point of view, ancient myths could reflect real data related to the geography of the Earth. Mount Meru may well be the Ural Mountains that separate Europe from Asia. The Sea of Milk is the Arctic Ocean. During spawning, many fish have a mating outfit, some fish for spawning go from the sea to the rivers (salmon, sturgeon) or from the rivers to the seas (river eel). Kissel from the word "sour", that is, in this case, a mixed substance of milk and caviar, washed ashore. For example, huge shoals of herring come to the western coast of Norway for spawning every year. Each female herring lays up to 50,000 eggs. Males follow the females and throw milk. During spawning, the water off the coast of Norway turns almost white. Truly "milk sea …" Of course! After all, all the herring coming to the coast carries with it 32 million centners of milk and caviar. The incredible amount of Norwegian herring is hard to imagine. The movement of shoals of herring across the vastness of the Atlantic is the greatest migration of living creatures ever known on the globe. It is not for nothing that in Norway the movement of herring is called the “miracle of the sea”.
Scientific analysis of ancient myths and legends.
The word "Shiva" from Sanskrit literally means "benevolent, friendly." Shiva is one of the main gods in Hinduism, constituting, together with Brahma and Vishnu, the "sacred trinity" – Trimurti (from Sanskrit "three faces"). Brahma is the god of creation in Hinduism. According to one version, the word goes back to the ancient Indo-Aryan word, meaning "grow, increase, rise." Vishnu (from Sanskrit "penetrating into everything", "comprehensive"). In the image of Shiva, the ideas of the ancient Indo-Europeans about a number of ancient tribal deities merged, which personify both the destructive and creative forces of nature, this dualism can be traced both in various natural disasters – lightning, fires, earthquakes, and in the revival of nature, renewal and creation of favorable conditions for habitation of people and the whole living world. Therefore, Shiva was portrayed as many-faced, many-armed, with a third eye, with a look he could incinerate the world (this is lightning), with a neck blue from the poison that he drank to save the world. That is, Shiva is an anthropomorphic creature whose goal is to sacrifice himself, but to save the world and humanity. His image evokes many analogies with other saviors. The gods "living" in the mountains are people with different abilities. Hills, hills, mountains, mountain ranges (the most famous are Olympus, Ararat, Zion, Fujiyama) from ancient times were deified, all kinds of religious events were held on them – sacrifices were made, bonfires were kindled, it was believed that this would supposedly propitiate God, goes back to hunting habits – feed the game. People fled from floods on the mountain peaks, developed irrigation systems (after ice and snow melted, streams and rivers flowed from the tops of the mountains, that is, natural irrigation systems formed), subsequently the construction of the pyramids meant precisely the mountains, as a symbol of power, since on the tops of the mountains were created the first civilizations, it was better to observe the environment, possible enemies. The best high places on the mountains were reserved for the nobility and priests. God was understood as various rivers, lakes, seas, skies and other objects, natural phenomena – landslides, earthquakes, floods, fires, as well as animals, birds, insects, plants, trees. Syncretic forms were also created – the head of one animal, the body of another. Anthropogenic forms also appeared – in the form of a person. In the slave-owning era, under the guise of a non-existent god, hypnotist priests began to act, becoming the first slave owners (masters), who, through suggestion and hypnosis, established their theocratic power over fellow tribesmen, turning them into obedient slaves, which continues to this day. However, the priests themselves believed that they were allegedly led by God himself, because their knowledge and physical capabilities were very different from ordinary people. In particular, psychic priests sensitively felt changes in natural conditions and used this, they believed that this was from the command "from above", in fact it was a purely physiological feature of the body. It has been scientifically proven that some hypersensitive people are able to accurately anticipate changes in the weather and vibrations of the earth; this is due to the presence of abnormal hemoglobin with a sharply reduced solubility; with an increase in air humidity, the erythrocytes of these people are deformed, blood circulation becomes difficult and pain occurs, like a barometer predicting the approach of rains, cooling or warming, as well as tremors, which, in turn, is associated with the development of mountain sickness (polyglobulia or polycythemia, – increase in the number of red blood cells or erythrocytes per unit volume of blood), they lived in the mountains and became "celestial gods".
