Information about the giants who lived hundreds of years ago on the territory of Russia. Giants in Karelia Hungry and sleepy demon Kumbhakarna

Of course, in fairy tales, folk tales and legends. Even in some old manuscripts and even in sacred books you can read about them. For example, in the myths of ancient Greece, in the Iliad and the Odyssey, in the Bible and in the Koran. There are many descriptions of giants, cyclops, various evil spirits, heroes, in a word, huge characters, not like us. One of the most famous historical characters is the giant Goliath, who was more than three meters tall. Subsequently, King David fought with him and won.

There is a legend in our area that giant people not only lived on the banks of mighty rivers and in the mountains, but they still continue to grow underground even after death. Allegedly, in ancient cemeteries, near dilapidated mazars, huge skeletons are found, the bones of the legs of which are extended four meters from the skull.

It was believed that all this is a fantasy, fiction. No intelligent historian will recognize a fact as scientific, relying only on ancient traditions. Give them, historians, evidence - bones from mounds, shards, jewelry, ruins of gigantic buildings. Well, at least a huge tooth or jaw of a giant, which are found from time to time in different parts of the world.

Archaeological finds of different years confirm that giant people lived on Earth in ancient times. There is evidence of the finds of the remains of giants in almost all parts of the world: in Mexico, Peru, Tunisia, Pennsylvania, Texas, the Philippines, Syria, Morocco, Australia, Spain, Georgia, in Southeast Asia, on the islands of Oceania - everywhere there are such artifacts and there are legends like ours. You can either believe in them or not.

Fairy tales? But here in Kazakhstan, archaeologists have recently made a sensational discovery. They found the skeletons of two-meter people in the Aktobe region. These, of course, are not four-meter monsters, but still not our average height from 160 to 170 cm.

Kazakh scientists immediately came to the conclusion that in ancient times giants actually lived on the territory of our republic. In their opinion, the age of the archaeological site "Kumsai", where excavations are being carried out and skeletons of giants were found, is more than 4 thousand years. This is the time of transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Scientists have counted more than 160 burial mounds there. So many in Eurasia have never been found anywhere. If there is a giant in each mound, it will be possible to assume that in ancient times there really was a country of giants between the Caspian and the Aral. And if so far only two have been found, then what a rarity here! There, in the Guinness Book of Records, two-meter giants constantly compete, which of them has more centimeters in height. Every country has its giant. Now in the Book there are a dozen heroes with a height of more than 2 meters.

A couple of years ago, in the mountains of the Borjomi Gorge in the Caucasus, Georgian archaeologists also discovered the remains of mysterious creatures about which local residents have been legends for centuries. The bones of fossil Caucasians belong to giant people who lived 25 thousand years ago. Georgian archaeologists claim that the growth of their giant ancestor could be from 2.5 to 3 meters.

From all the legends about giants, you can make a big picture. First, the giants, according to the legends, possessed incredible strength. It is thanks to them that the world received many giant monuments, such as the Tibetan City of the Gods, Stonehenge, Teotiukan, the Egyptian Sphinx, etc. So, for example, in Lebanon, at the base of the Baalbek terrace, there are three huge blocks, each 800 tons. They were fitted to each other with amazing accuracy - up to a millimeter. And this is an impossible task even for the most modern construction equipment. Just to move one such block would require the effort of more than 40,000 people. Who could manually build such a gigantic structure, if not the giants?!

Secondly, also according to legend, the giants possessed such knowledge, to the level of which modern science has not yet reached. For example, Atlas, who revealed to people the mysteries of astronomy, which is why he was immortalized in the form of a strong man who supports the globe. True, now these same qualities are usually attributed to aliens who supposedly once visited the earth, built gigantic structures and shared knowledge with earthlings. Our ancestors themselves, apparently, were well stupid! They couldn't think of anything!

A height of two meters and a few more centimeters is a lot. But it's not that rare either. For example, Peter the Great and his associate Lefort were just like that - over 2 meters tall. They write about Peter in different ways: either he was 204 cm, or 240. Obviously, no one with his yardstick approached the king. But in the museum "Peter's House" there is his bed - very large!

The king clearly had health problems. Usually, tall men have a large foot, and the two-meter Peter's leg was only 39 sizes, which is why Peter, although he was Great, was unstable - he walked around, with a cane (with which he often beat bribe-takers), stumbled and even fell. Now shoes like his are worn by most of our contemporaries. It turns out that this is the most common women's shoe size in the world - the 39th.

The famous boxer Nikolai Valuev has a height almost like that of Peter the Great - 213 cm, but the size of the shoes is proportional - the 52nd (paradoxically, the mythical Yeti Bigfoot, judging by the footprints, has a smaller foot size).

The boxer also refutes the assertion that the heroes are not distinguished by intelligence. Nikolay is a deputy of the State Duma, a cheerful and witty TV presenter from the United Russia party.

Information that all tall people are strong men is doubtful. On the contrary, doctors say that modern giants usually grow up as a result of a brain disease, and their bones, and especially their joints, cannot withstand enormous weight and also suffer. Many heroes walk on crutches, and in old age they suffer from various diseases and rarely one of them lives long.

However, not all tall people are necessarily sick. Human growth, among other things, is influenced by environmental factors, sometimes inherited diseases from parents. Growth can be influenced by belonging to a particular race and nation. For example, the average height of Chinese urban residents is 165 cm (for men) and 155 cm (for women), while the average height of the Dutch is 178.7 cm and 168.7 cm, respectively. Living conditions, in particular, food, are of great importance. For example, prosperous South Koreans are on average 7 cm taller than North Koreans living in poverty.

In films, knights-bogatyrs are often shown. Meanwhile, their armor preserved in castles and museums is very small. Our contemporary, even of average height, cannot wear them. Such a "hero" mounted a horse with the help of servants.

Like all people, nothing human is alien to giants. Almost all of them dream of a soul mate, which, with their enormous growth, is difficult to find and charm. For example, a resident of Mongolia Bao Khishun (height 2.36 m) only at the age of 56 met a life partner with whom he married. The giant's wife was a 29-year-old Chinese woman, who, with a height of 1.68 meters, she barely reaches the elbow of her chosen one. Bao Khishun became famous for saving the lives of two dolphins from the Chinese Dolphinarium. With his long arms, he pulled plastic bags stuck in the throats of marine mammals.

In everyday life, big people experience many inconveniences. Plus size clothes are made, but usually only in the USA, where there are a lot of tall and fat people. Their feet are up to size 60, but where can I get such shoes? In the luggage department?

Armchairs on airplanes, compartments on trains, furniture in hotels, doorways, bathrooms and showers - all this is designed for middle-aged people. You can only get into a giant's car by crouching down.

How do you straighten up on the bus? In addition, most giants have serious health problems. Both ordinary people and historians, especially doctors, have always been interested in this mystery of nature - gigantism. But not all reasons for it are disclosed.

Lovers of all sorts of ratings, the Americans recently found out that they are no longer the highest in the world: they are ahead of the Europeans, or rather the inhabitants of Northern Europe - the Dutch, Norwegians, Danes and Germans. The growth of Americans is falling for the first time in 300 years, while the growth of Europeans is clearly increasing. Today, the palm belongs to the Netherlands, where men are on average 4.7 cm taller than Americans, and women are 5.7 cm taller than American women. Following the Dutch, whose average height is 184.3 cm, are Norwegians, Danes and Germans. Americans with a height of 179 cm fell to 4th place in the ranking, but they are the most well-fed. The Italians take an even lower position with 174.5 cm. They are ahead of the French.

Among Kazakhstanis, two heroes were especially famous: the famous Kazakh wrestler and circus artist Khadzhimukan Munaitpasov (1871-1948), and in the 50s of the last century, basketball player Uvais Akhtaev amazed fans with his height - 236 cm. He was the best center in the USSR, and maybe in the world, given that at that time there were no players even two meters tall in the country.

Khadzhimukan Munaitpasov, although he stood out among his not very tall fellow countrymen, was still “only” 195 cm tall, weighed 139 kg, and had a shoe size of 54. But he was beautifully built and strong, and was famous not for his high growth. Khadzhimukan is the first Kazakh who won the title of world champion in French wrestling, repeatedly won the world, Russian, regional, and then all-Union championships in classic wrestling among heavyweights.

It is generally accepted that heroes are kind and sympathetic people. Strongman Hadzhimukan was just that. He founded the first professional theater in the history of Kazakhstan, from which many eminent artists of that time came out. And for the elderly, during the Great Patriotic War, participating in various championships, he raised money and presented the front with an airplane named after Amangeldy Imanov.

Of the Soviet female giants, the famous basketball player Uliana Semenova, who was born in Latvia in 1952 and has a height of 2 meters 13 centimeters, is considered the most famous. Russian woman Ekaterina Gamova, who twice won Olympic silver medals as part of the volleyball team, is 7 cm lower than Semenova - her height is 2 meters 6 centimeters. Katya is the daughter-in-law of actress and director Svetlana Druzhinina and cameraman Anatoly Mukasey.

Among the Kazakh women, "heroes" were not found. Although we have tall girls, the wits call the champion in height the tallest “lady” in Kazakhstan ... the chimney of the Ekibastuz GRES-2, which has a height of 419.7 m. This “lady” was built in 1987 and is still Pore ​​is the tallest chimney in the world.

Interesting Facts:

* The ancient historian Herodotus wrote that the soldiers of Sparta carried the skeleton of the giant Orestes on a staff during military campaigns. The skeleton reached 3.5 meters.

* In the books of Pausanias, it is said that in Syria a human skeleton was raised from the bottom of the Sront River, which reached 5.5 meters.

* There is information about the four-meter skeleton in a medieval book called "History and Greed". This skeleton was found in military attire, and a huge sword and ax were found nearby.

* In 1912, red-haired three-meter mummies were found in the state of Nevada in the USA.

* In Turkey in the 1950s, road builders accidentally stumbled upon skeletons whose thigh bones alone were 120 cm long.

* In Southern Mongolia in 1999, a fossilized skeleton of a giant was found by British paleontologists. The length of the bones of his legs reached 7 meters, and the total growth of the giant was 15 meters.

* Archaeologist Ralph von Koeningswald in Hong Kong in 1935 discovered human teeth, the dimensions of which were 5 times the size of the teeth of an ordinary person.

*On the island of Ponape in the 1970s, an American expedition of archaeologists raised the skeletons of people who were twice the size of a modern person from underground.

* Not all of these amazing finds have been preserved and are available to researchers. Some have disappeared, others are in the storerooms of museums. However, most scientists do not take the legends of giants seriously.

About human growth

* During the day, a person's height changes by an average of 0.5-1 cm. The greatest growth occurs immediately after sleep: during the day, the intervertebral discs settle, and during the night they restore their original height.

* In cosmonauts, during a long stay in weightlessness, the height increases by 5-8 centimeters. However, this is quite dangerous, as the spine loses its strength. After returning to Earth, growth gradually returns to its previous value.

* On average, men grow up to 18-25 years, and women - up to 16-19 years.

* In general, humanity is gradually “growing”. If 50 years ago the average height was 165 cm, now it is 2.5 cm more. Approximately one kilogram increased on average and its weight. In adolescents, the changes are even more noticeable. The average height of a modern teenager is 3-5 centimeters more than that of his peers of the 30s.

*An epochal change in human growth is called acceleration. For example, Neanderthals almost did not differ in height from modern humans (160-165 cm). In the Middle Ages, human growth began to decline. But over the past 100 years, the length of the human body has increased dramatically.

* In itself, high growth is not yet a sign of gigantism - a serious illness caused by excessive production of somatotropic hormone. Healthy people with gigantic stature (200 cm or more) differ from people of average height only in their height. And people with gigantism also differ in proportions.

Tall means smart?

At various times, researchers have tried to establish a connection between the height and talents of different people. But it was not possible to deduce regularities. It turned out that there are many “babies” among geniuses, which is explained by their excessive demands on themselves, ambitions and the desire to prove to others that they are no worse than “long ones”. As Napoleon said to his adjutant, “you are not taller, but longer, and I can easily match you in height, shortening you by a head.”

Here is more or less reliable information about the growth of famous people.

Tamerlane - 145 cm Genghis Khan - 145 cm Alexander the Great - 150 cm Charlemagne -150 cm Nestor Makhno - 151 cm Dmitry Medvedev - 162 cm Joseph Stalin - 163 cm Vladimir Lenin -164 cm Nikita Khrushchev - 166 see Alexander Pushkin - 166 (or 161?) see Winston Churchill - 166 cm Nicholas II -168 cm Napoleon I - 169 cm Vladimir Putin - 170 cm Konstantin Tszyu - 170 cm Adolf Hitler - 175 cm Leonid Brezhnev - 176 cm Ivan the Terrible - 178 cm Alexander I - 178 cm Alexander III - 179 cm Alexander II - 185 cm Boris Yeltsin - 187 cm Arnold Schwarzenegger - 187 cm Jacques Chirac - 189 cm Bill Clinton - 189 cm. Alexander Marshal - 193 cm. Charles de Gaulle - 196 cm. Philip Kirkorov -198 cm. Vitali Klitschko 201 cm.

Famous women, too, were not all of basketball height: Queen Victoria - 152 cm. Catherine II - 157 cm. Elizaveta Petrovna - 180 cm. Tennis player Maria Sharapova - 188 cm.

Folk tradition throughout Finland and some corners of Karelia ascribes that the remaining grave stone piles and mounds belong to the Nefin people, who in ancient times inhabited all of Finland, the northern part of Scandinavia and even Karelia in the current territories of the Kem and Olonets provinces. The Finnish name for this ancient people is Hiisi. It was under the name of the Hiisi that this ancient people in the legends of the Finns was known as giants with gigantic strength.

With the beginning of systematic travels and geographical discoveries, the whole land up to the White Sea and further became known, it became necessary to create ethnographic maps, indicating the peoples living in these territories, the "country of giants" was always associated with ideas about the north.


"White Sea" is a Russian name, travelers who came in the Middle Ages to the mouth of the Northern Dvina, which flows into the White Sea, already found this name, this is indicated by the designation of the sea on the map of the most famous cartographer of the 16th century, Mercator. By the end of the 17th century, the Russian name of the White Sea was finally fixed, although in ancient times it was called Gandvik (among the Scandinavians it meant "The Bay of Monsters").
An excerpt from one saga about the discovery of Norway begins like this: "Forniot (meaning" the giant of former times ") was called the king: he ruled over Jotland, as Finland was then called, and Kvenlandt. This king was Nora's great-grandfather, but we do not know other details about him" .
As the northern territories settled, the giants moved farther north. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus (1140-1206) mentions that "the giants have now retired to those deserts which lie on the other side of Gandvik, to the north of Norway". Many nationalities (Finns, Swedes, Saami, Karelians) have preserved the memory of the resettlement of "giant people" in ancient times.
The Arab historian Ibn-Fadlan, having learned at the beginning of the 10th century that "there is some extraordinary giant in the Volga Bulgar", turned with a request to the Bulgar king himself. The king answered that there really was such a giant in his country, but he died; and he was not one of his people and “not a real person.” “But he was twelve cubits tall (about six meters), his head was the size of a large cauldron, a huge nose, eyes and fingers were enormous. He was from the peoples of the Vesi. I saw his bones - they are of immense size," wrote Ibn Fadlan.
The Arab traveler, scientist and theologian of the early 11th century Abu Hamid Andalusi also visited the capital of the Volga Bulgaria and met there the same giant from the Adogites tribe, but only alive. “He took the horse under his arm, like a man takes a little lamb. And his strength was such that he calmly broke the horse’s shin with his hand and tore the meat and veins, like others tear greens,” Andalusi pointed out.
All - the ancestors of the current Vepsians - began to occupy the territory of Karelia by the end of the 1st - beginning of the 2nd millennium AD. e. The first information about Ves in Russian written sources dates back to 859.

In the VI century AD. The Gothic historian Jornand wrote about the lands located to the east of the Scandinavian Peninsula that "inside this land there is a very vast lake, from which, like from a womb, the river Vah emerges and rolls swiftly towards the Ocean."
In this territory, according to Yornand, "various nationalities live, including the Chud, and even further to the east - the Adogites."
We are talking about Ladoga, about which the Russian historian I. Zabelin later wrote that "in the east of Scandinavia, the largest lake Ladoga is located, from which, indeed, like from a womb, it rolls its waters into the Ocean, that is, into the Gulf of Finland, the river Neva In addition, Lake Ladoga is connected to Onega by the Svir River, and the Vyg River flows not far from Lake Onega, flowing into the large Lake Vyg and out of it, as well as from the womb, flowing into the White Sea and into the Ocean.
According to the legends of the Lapland elders, "there was once in Korel and in the whole Korel land a giant named Valit. And that Valit was planted on Korel's possession from the Novgorod posadniks. He himself was burly, a military man and an extraordinary hunter to the army." Once, "for his glory, having brought from the shore, he laid a stone with his own hands, there is now more than a slanting sazhen aloft from the earth. That stone is still known as" Valit's stone ".

Legends about giants can still be heard in the remote corners of Karelia. The most interesting of them are the legends about the Paivie clan, which originated "from Korela rich in songs". Of the three sons of Paivie, Olof was the most famous. As proof of Olof’s strength, the following story is passed down from generation to generation: “Once Olof was returning from fishing and was overtaken by bad weather. Fearing to row against the waves that threatened to sink his boat loaded with nets and fish, he decided to land on the shore. boat on his shoulders and carried it on himself.
Another story about Olof: “Once Olof walked through the forest, he sees It became trying to lift a stone. And the stone was of such an unheard-of size that it became impossible to lift it, why he began to turn it quietly. his ambush, laughed at Stalo's impotence and moved the stone to the place where it should have been.
The "became" in these stories among the ancient Karelians is the yatte (giant) of the Swedes and the Hiisi of the Finns. They were usually depicted as a wild tribe, during pagan times they lived in the present territories of Lapland and northern Karelia, but after the introduction of Christianity and the arrival of the Novgorodians, they retired to the untouched taiga.

The book of the outstanding Russian ethnographer and archaeologist Theodor Schvindt "Folk legends of the northwestern Ladoga region, collected in the summer of 1879" provides unique information about the "giants of the ancient land of Korelskaya". “On the Ladoga coast,” T. Schwindt writes, “there is a legend that once upon a time huge people lived in these places, the so-called metelilainens, or munkkilainens, who were gradually forced out of here by the Laplanders and Finns.” Metelylaymens were distinguished by their enormous growth and the incredible noise that they made when moving through the forest, from which, in fact, their name comes from (from the word "meteli" - noise).
“Legends about the metelilainens,” T. Schwindt points out further, “are preserved almost everywhere, but there are especially many of them in the Kurkijoki volost (now the village of Kurkijoki, Lahdenpokh district). Probably because in some places there is a lot of real evidence of the activity of giant people: this and fields cleared of forests, and from time to time huge human bones that came across in the ground, and plows abandoned by snowstorms, as well as huge ramparts in the mountains and on islands "...

TASK #45

Solve the crossword.

Horizontally: 1. The greatest hero of the tales of the Trojan War ( Achilles). 4. One-eyed giants, according to myths, who lived on a deserted island ( cyclops). 8. One of the oldest cities in Greece, whose king, according to legend, was Aegeus ( Athens). 9. Homeland of Odysseus ( Ithaca). 10. Famous master, labyrinth builder ( Daedalus). 12. Wife of Hector ( Andromache). 15. A poem that tells about the wanderings on the seas of the participants in the Trojan War ( Odyssey). 17. Something without which Theseus could not get out of the labyrinth ( a thread). 18. The goddess, who was depicted as a young maiden in a helmet, with a spear and a shield ( Athena). 19. Tsarevich, through whose fault the Trojan War began ( Paris). 21. Military leader of the Trojans ( Hector). 23. The young man who killed the Minotaur ( Theseus). 26. The Greek city where the wife of Tsar Menelaus Elena lived before fleeing to Troy ( Sparta). 27. Blind storyteller from the poem "Odyssey", in the image of which Homer may have portrayed himself ( Demodoc). 29. Sea monster with a huge mouth, past which Odysseus sailed ( Charybdis). 30. God of thunder and lightning ( Zeus). 32. The weapon that killed Hector ( a spear). 34. Goddesses with the appearance of girls who inhabited forests, rivers and mountains ( nymphs). 36. God of the sea ( Poseidon). 39. Goddess, mother of Achilles ( Thetis). 40. Another name for the city of Troy ( Ilion ).

Vertically: 1. The main leader of the Greeks who besieged Troy ( Agamemnon). 2. A poem dedicated to the last year of the Trojan War ( Iliad). 3. Sea monster, a huge snake with six dog heads ( Scylla). 5. The object with which Odysseus blinded Polyphemus ( count). 6. The aged king, father of Hector and Paris ( Priam). 7. The weapon with which Achilles was killed ( onion). 11. City in Asia Minor, destroyed and burned by the Greeks ( Troy). 13. The king who equipped the ship that delivered Odysseus to his homeland ( Alkina). 14. Princess, whose gifts helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur ( Ariadne). 16. A young man who fled through the air from the royal wrath and fell into the sea ( Icarus). 18. God of bloody war ( Ares). 20. Forest gods, who had the appearance of a man with a horse's tail and goat's hooves ( satires). 21. The eldest of the goddesses, the wife of Zeus ( Hera). 22. An island in the Aegean Sea, where archaeologists have unearthed a palace resembling a labyrinth ( Crete). 24. Beauty, because of which a war broke out between two peoples ( Elena). 25. Wife of Odysseus ( Penelope). 26. Evil sorceresses who lured sailors with sweet-sounding singing ( sirens). 28. The animal whose image helped the Greeks to penetrate Troy ( horse). 31. The substance with which Daedalus fastened wings for flight ( wax). 33. The gift of Prometheus to people, stolen by him in the forge of Hephaestus ( the fire). 35. A story about gods and heroes ( myth). 37. Mountain, on top of which, according to the beliefs of the Greeks, the main gods lived ( Olympus). 38. God is the lord of the kingdom of the dead ( Hades ).

Kuyva means "old man" in Sami.

Kuyva is the most famous attraction of Lake Seydozero. The figure has the shape of a man and is 74 meters high. Its bas-relief protrudes from the wall by 3-4 meters in some places, and this is very clearly visible, especially in winter.

The fact that Kuyva has a natural origin has long been known. In 1923, academician A.E. Fersman examined the image of Kuyva, and in his book "Remembrance of the Stone" he wrote about this: "As we were convinced during our expedition, the dark figure is formed by a combination of lichens, mosses and wet streaks on the rocks."

The Saami, being close to these places, try to be quiet and not think badly about Kuiva.

There are several legends dedicated to this rock figure. Some are older, while others are relatively recent.

According to one of the legends, Kuyva is the figure of a Chud commander frozen in stone.

Researcher of Hyperborea Gusev I.V. compares these two legends of different peoples:

The Saami of the Kola Peninsula have a legend about how, in ancient times, the giant hunter Kuyva came to the Saami lands. For a long time he inspired fear and horror in the local population. And people got tired, and prayed to the gods, asking for help. The gods heard the prayers of the people and incinerated the giant Kuiva with lightning from the waters of the sacred Seydozero. And since then, the trace of the incinerated Kuyva has remained on a sheer cliff on the shore of Seydozero.

In ancient Greek mythology, the legend of the giant hunter Orion is mentioned, how Orion went to Hyperborea for brides. And for having offended the Hyperborean maiden, he was incinerated by the lightning arrows of the goddess Artemis. Isn't it true that the legend about the giant hunter Kuiva is very similar to the ancient Greek legend about the giant hunter Orion? And the ancient drawing of the constellation Orion by the Muslim astronomer Al-Zufi is almost identical to the image of Kuyva. If the same giant hunter is mentioned in two legends, then it turns out that Seidozero in ancient times was the habitat of the goddess Artemis.

In Fersman's book "Memories of a Stone", the author cites the following story by the Sami of Annushka Kobeleva: "It was a long time ago, when I was not there yet, there was no Vasily Vasilyevich, who grazes deer on the Small Lake, there was no old man Arkhipov on Mopchegub , it was a long time ago. Strangers found our land, they said - seams, and we were like a lop - naked, without weapons, even without shotguns, and not everyone had knives. Yes, and we did not want to fight But the shvets began to select the bulls and the big ones, took our fish places, built corrals and lemmas - there was nowhere for the lopi to go. And so the old people gathered and began to think about how to expel the shvet, and he was so strong - big, with firearms. they argued and decided to go all together against him, take away our deer and again sit on Seiyavr and Umbozero. And they started a real war - some with a shotgun, some just with a knife, everyone went to the seams, and the seam was strong and was not afraid of the lopi. he lured our lop to Seiyavr by cunning and became its crumb there it. If it strikes to the right, there were no ten of ours, and all the mountains, tundras and khibiny were splashed with drops of blood; You know, you yourself showed me, such a red stone in the mountains - this is the same blood of the Lop, the blood of the old Sami. But our old people got angry, when they saw that the seam began to crumble them, they hid in the willow tree, gathered their strength and immediately overlaid everything from all sides of the seam, it hither and thither - there is no way for it to go anywhere: neither to go down to Seyyavr, nor to get out on the tundra, so he froze on a rock that hangs over the lake. You, when you are on Seiyavr, you will see the giant Kuyva yourself - this is the seam that our Sami spread on the stone, our old people, when they went to war against him. So he stayed there, damned Kuyva, and our old people again took possession of the bulls and important women, again sat on the fish places and began to hunt ... Only now the red drops of the Sami blood remained on the tundra, you can’t collect them all, our old people shed a lot of them, while Kuyva was mastered ... ""

“And here is a legend recorded by the Russian scientist V. Yu. Vize from the words of Kuzma Danilov, Semyon Galkin and Philip Sorvanov (presumably residents of the Lovozero churchyard): “The Chud chief Chude-Chueriv came to Lovozero with his squad, they were all unbaptized, and began to rob the Lapps. The Lapps fled from them to one island on Lovozero, where there is an "Old Woman", which they bring gifts when they go hunting. Chud noticed where the Lapps fled, sat on a karbasa and set off in pursuit of them. Then one Lapp became beat the "korvi-kart" (tambourine - approx. Aut.) and ask the "Old Woman" to make the weather. The "Old Woman" heard him and made a great weather, so that all the Chud, chasing the Lapps on karbas, drowned in lake. Only Chude-Chueriv and his cook remained alive. They managed to get to Motka-lip, where the cook began to cook dinner. And the cook was a sorcerer. He cooks, stirs with a spoon in the boiler and says: "I wish I could shake the Lop heads like that" At this time, the Lapps approached and, seeing the Chud chief, wounded him with a crossbow in the leg. He was wounded in the leg in order to take him alive. The cook, when he saw this, took the treasury and, so that the Lapps would not get it, threw it into the water, then he himself rushed into the lake and, like a pike, swam along Seidyavryok to Seydozero.

Many Eastern myths are told with incredible power, this unwittingly leads to some associations:

After the Americans dropped the atomic bomb in 1945. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surviving eyewitnesses of these terrible events in the history of mankind said that from some people after the explosion, only a black shadow remained on the ruins of houses.

So, some nuclear physicists believe that, theoretically, such a trace as the image of Kuiva on a rock near Seydozero could remain from one of them.

The shadow of a man on the stone steps, left by the strongest heat rays. On the left, on the ruins in the city. On the right, the same steps, in the museum.

In the photos you can see the steps of the main entrance to the Sumitomo Bank, which is located just 250 meters from the epicenter. Probably a man sitting on the steps facing the epicenter, perhaps waiting for the bank to open. A flash of light, a temperature of 1,000 or even 2,000 degrees, and the man was burned alive, leaving only a shadow. 10 years after the explosion, the shadow practically disappeared from the steps, but when it rained, it slowly showed through. When the bank was restored, the steps were moved to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Rock carving of Kuivu on Saydozero.