Back in 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of the Sekirnaya Mountain - the one located on the Solovetsky Archipelago. Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is every reason to believe that from above it is really supplemented by embankments of artificial origin, that is, all this is the work of human hands.
About the hills and mounds
It's no secret that on the numerous islands and islets of the Solovetsky archipelago there are hills and mountains of absolutely different heights. So, the Sekirnaya Mountain is perhaps the highest mountain on the whole Big Solovetsky Island. This mountain also has another, more harmonious name - Miracle Mountain.
Still, back to the more established name - Sekirnaya. So, she was named in memory of the angels. The essence of the myth is that once the angels, descending from heaven, carved the wife of a fisherman, the wife of Pomors. According to legend, the Monks Savvaty and German lived and lived near this apparently still nameless mountain.
In the summer, fishermen and their wives sailed to the foot. Husbands, as expected, caught fish, but wives mowed the grass, and they kept the house. For which the Pomors of the Monks Savvaty and Herman disliked, history is silent. But the conflict broke out between them and the fishermen. I repeat that it was a long time ago and, as is often the case in the myths of any nation, the forces of heaven intervened in the situation - in our case, the angels in the image of blond youths.
The latter took and carved one of the wives of the fishermen with rods, and ordered them to reel fishing rods for good and good health. And that, they say, this island with the mountain, in addition, belongs to the monks for prayers ... It was not possible to argue with the angels, so the fishermen left this island and henceforth began to respect the reverends.
Ancient people tried
This is where questions arise related to the name of this mountain. Judging by legend, the name “Sekirnaya” allegedly does not come from the word “chop”, but from the “ax” - the name of a medieval battle ax. It turns out that the angels were supposed to pinpoint the death of the wife of Pomor not with knitwear, but with battle axes. It’s somehow tough, especially for angels.
It is known that the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, as if ironed with a glacier. The high mountains look strange to them, as if they were artificial formations. On the Big Solovetsky Island, Sekirnaya Mountain (or Sekirka) is the highest, its height is almost one hundred meters. Where does she come from this kind of plateau?
Note that the huge sand-stone mounds of the Solovetsky Mountains were first described by local historians in the 30s of the last century. But scientists then could not explain where such a high mountain could appear on the flat islands. It was suggested that the Sekirka was partially created by a glacier and partly a pyramid of boulders that was built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.
In 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of the Sekirnaya Mountain. Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is reason to believe that from above it is really supplemented by embankments of artificial origin.
Nightingales do not sing on Solovki
Of course, the question arises: if the ancient Solovetsky mountain is a pyramid, where does its original Russian name come from? And why did the monks need such a strange legend about angels? In fact, there is doubt that the name of the mountain was originally Slavic. Indeed, the word “Solovki”, although consonant with “nightingales”, has nothing to do with them - nightingales have never been found beyond the Arctic Circle.
Well, the monks used the legend of the angels as evidence that the Solovetsky island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous people. In addition, archaeologists have confirmed that the Solovetsky archipelago thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea. Novgorodians called these White Sea tribes “miracle”, and the ingrained local Nenets - “sykirtya”.
Moss Skird
The mention of the people of the scythera is found in The Tale of Bygone Years. Translated from the ancient language, “schrt” or “skrd” is an artificial embankment of an elongated shape. The word "rick" has the same root. Skirda is an artificial haystack of elongated hay. But the stack can be not only from hay, so the version has arisen that “schrt” is a form of a primitive bulk prehistoric dwelling, like a giant stack of grass, moss and branches in which our ancient ancestors lived.
The same ancient root basis of "scrt" and in the word "hide". After all, the main function of the home is to hide from the cold and wild animals. People who lived in such primitive dwellings were called wanderers, and in the North they were called sikirta.
The first chronicles of Novgorodians about the Donenets cave population of the north (the Nenets came to the territory of the Pechora tundra because of the Ural ridge only in the 13-14 centuries) confirm that the tribes living there did not know iron and lived in caves.
Cave people
But the question naturally arises that in the flat Pechora tundra there are practically no mountains in which today you can find such caves, and even so cavemen can live in them. Perhaps such "mountains" of the ancient cave people could only be artificial embankments-dwellings - huge sird houses made of peat and moss.
Only then it becomes clear why, after a thousand years, practically nothing remained of them - they turned into ordinary small hills among the flat landscape of the tundra. By the way, archaeologists periodically find traces of the Donets civilization in the tundra - bronze and stone tools, jewelry.
It is worth saying that the traces of the dwellings of the people of Sykitr also remained. Back in the 19th century, academician Lepekhin wrote: “All Samoyed land in the present Mezen district is filled with desolate dwellings of some people. They are found in many places, with lakes on the tundra and in forests with rivers, made in the mountains and hills like caves with holes like a beast. They find furnaces in these caves and find fragments of iron, copper and clay household items. ”
As for the stone bulk mountains, like the Sekirnaya, these are no longer peat and moss houses for living people, but houses of the dead — pyramids made of stones. Thus, the stone mountains on Solovki are nothing but monuments of an ancient civilization. Our researchers have a lot of work to study the history hidden in the earth.
Today, a lot is known about the Solovetsky archipelago, it would seem that scientists described it far and wide. But still the ancient history of these islands is mostly full of mysteries. One of them is the Solovetsky mountains. Until now, researchers believed that they were all created by a glacier, but today there is another, essentially sensational version of the origin of some Solovetsky mountains. According to researchers, the highest mountain of the Solovetsky archipelago, Sekirnaya, is partially created by a glacier, and partly is a pyramid of boulders, built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.
It is no secret that the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, they are as if ironed by a glacier, so the high mountains look like artificial formations on them. The highest point on the Big Solovetsky Island is Mount Sekirnaya (or Sikirnaya, Sikirka), almost 100 meters high. The huge sand-stone embankments of the Solovetsky mountains were first described by the Solovetsky Society of Local History experts only in the 30s of the twentieth century. But scientists then could not convincingly explain where such a high mountain could appear from on flat islands, among plains, swamps and small hills.
In August 2002, geological and geomorphological studies of Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of Sikirka. Although the elevation (the base of the pyramid) itself is formed by glacial deposits, there is reason to say that from above this natural base was indeed supplemented by embankments of artificial origin, which gave it the shape of an absolutely regular pyramid thousands of years ago. In 2002, in the outlines of the Sikirka relief, the researchers identified geometrically correct forms, moreover, strictly oriented to the cardinal points.
Ancient masters of Solovki
The name of the Sekirnaya mountain is associated with the legend spread by the monks that a miracle happened at its peak - two angels carved with their faces the wife of a local Pomor, who fished and mowed hay on the islands. From the word "secla" supposedly its name comes. However, according to the rules of word formation in Russian, the name of Mount Sekirnaya should have come from another word - “ax” (medieval battle ax). In addition, there is great doubt that the name of the mountain was originally Slavic in general and that it must be written through the letter “e”, and not “and” - Sikirnaya. Indeed, the toponym Solovki himself, despite the consonance of this name with the Russian word “nightingales”, has nothing to do with these birds, which here, beyond the Arctic Circle, have never been found.
It is no secret that the legend of the angels who expelled local fishermen from Solovki has been used by monks for centuries as indisputable “evidence” that the Solovetsky island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous people. However, archaeological evidence convincingly suggests that the Solovetsky archipelago, thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks, belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea and served as a sanctuary for ancient religious rites. It is enough to recall the Solovetsky stone labyrinths, the “Babylon,” which scientists date back to the 2nd – 3rd millennia BC. It is curious that in 1994, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, these famous and very ancient labyrinths (no more ancient archaeological sites on Solovki were found) were deprived of the status of specially protected monuments of history and culture (!). Apparently, someone is eager to erase the historical memory of the ancient White Sea cults that existed on the Solovetsky archipelago thousands of years ago.
The presence of ancient sanctuaries on Solovki is also indicated by stone man-made pyramids of stones. By the way, similar stone pyramids and labyrinths are found not only on Solovki, but also on the shores of the Kola Peninsula, and on Novaya Zemlya, and in Norway, and in England - throughout the European North, where ancient tribes engaged in marine industries lived. All this suggests that thousands of years ago there was a very developed northern civilization of protopomor - sea hunters and fishermen. Perhaps in ancient times there was a common civilization of seafarers, because the sea connects cultures?
Sanctuary of the people of Sykirt
According to researchers, Sikirka was a sanctuary that belonged to the ancient ethnic community of the White Sea for millennia. The peoples that made up this community changed over time, their language and self-names changed, the genes of new ethnic groups poured into it, but the proto-Pomor community, its main genotype and cultural code remained. The thousand-year-old experience of ancient sailors, fishermen and St. John's wort by the beginning of the XI century became the basis for the emergence of a new indigenous ethnic community of the White Sea - Pomors.
It is hard to imagine that before the arrival of Orthodox monks in Solovki, such a large topographic object as Sikirka did not have a local name. Most likely, the local pre-Slavic toponym was Russified later. So, for example, the originally miraculous name of the village of Kolmogory (that is, with the letter “k”, it is recorded in all ancient documents) in the XVIII century turned into Kholmogory. With the toponymy of Solovki, a similar history of the Russification of the non-Slavic name could happen.
It is no secret that in the regional local epos, the indigenous pre-Maritime ethnic community is associated with the name “chud”. And in the Nenets epos, this people is called sikirta (sikhirt, siirt). And why not assume that the name of Mount Sekirnaya is consonant not with the Slavic word “slice”, but with the name of the people of Sikirt? The name of Mount Sikirta could well turn into Sikirku, and then into the Sekirnaya.
It is curious that the second name of Sikirka - Miracle Mountain - was given to her allegedly in honor of the miracle of the above-mentioned flogging of the Pomeranian wife by angels. But is it not more logical to assume that the mountain was named Chudova in honor of the indigenous people of the miracle, to whom it served as a sanctuary? After all, both sikirta and chud are, according to scientists, the Nenets and Pomeranian names of the same indigenous ethnic community of the White Sea.
Toponymic Doubles
Scientists are well aware that in the Pomeranian North, place names, as a rule, preserve the archetypal substrate of pre-Slavic names. Moreover, often the same double names are repeated in different, sometimes distant from each other areas of Pomor. So, in the Arkhangelsk region, two Vaimugi rivers - in the Shenkur and Pinezh districts, two villages of Kholmogory (Kolmogory) - in the Kholmogorsky and Leshukonsky districts, two villages of Kuloy - in the Velsky and Pinezhsky districts, etc. If the name of Mount Sikirnaya (Sikirka, Chudova) is also of pre-Slavic origin, then on the map you need to look for a toponymic series of consonant names of mountains.
And indeed, at the mouth of the Pomor river Korotaikha we find Mount Sikhirtes (translated from Nenets - the mountain of the people of Sikirt). And on the west coast of Vaigach island we find Cape Siirtesale (in translation - the cape of the people of Sikirt). Moreover, on all these mountains archaeological evidence has been discovered that they served as ancient sanctuaries, which the Nenets attribute to the coastal people of Sykirt, and Pomors are miracles. Thus, the Solovetsky Mount Sikirka, apparently, from the same toponymic row is one of the sacred mountains of the ancient people of Sikirtya (Chud).
By the way, the mentioned sacred mountain at the mouth of the Korotaiha River, Sikhirtesa, as well as the Solovetsky Sekirnaya Mountain, has a second name - Miracle Mountain! It is unlikely that such a toponymic coincidence could be accidental.
Legends of ancient Pomerania
But who are these sihirta, or chud? The legends and myths of the Nenets of the Arkhangelsk region contain the most information about the ancient miraculous proto-Pomor seafarers named sikirtya (sikhirtya, siirtya). The Nenets legends tell about hunters and fishermen of Sykirt, who were not tall with white eyes. Recall that the Novgorodians called the indigenous protopomorsky population in the same way - "white-eyed chud."
On the island of Vaigach, which the Pomors and Nenets considered holy places, several years ago, archaeologists found bronze figures of winged people, which, according to scientists, belong to the ancient civilization of the Arctic. According to Nenets legends, the clothes of the sikirt were adorned with many small metal objects, which is why a noise was heard when they approached. This description is very similar to the bronze “noisy pendants” of the white-eyed miracle that archaeologists find throughout the Arkhangelsk region.
According to Nenets legends, in time immemorial, sikirta sailed in boats from across the sea. The Nenets themselves consider Sykirt as the indigenous people of the coastal tundra, who lived here long before them. Sikirtia were autochthonous northerners who mastered the Arctic marine fisheries: they settled on the sea islands, as well as on the mountains along the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
It is possible that the current northerners are carriers of autochthonous sykirt genes, and it is possible that it was from these Arctic fishermen and St. John's wort that Pomeranians adopted some basic economic traditions (methods of hunting sea animals and Arctic fishing). According to Nenets legends, sikirta harnessed dogs to their sleds in winter and rode on them, hunting sea animals and catching fish from under the ice. It is curious that, in the last century, the Mezen and Kaninsky Pomors on dogs harnessed to small kerichas (special sled drags) removed freshly caught navaga from hummocks.
Today, the people of Sihirta, or Chud, no longer exist, but the memory of him has been preserved in the legends and myths of the northern peoples, as well as in the stone sanctuaries of Pomerania - labyrinths and pyramids. The task of our generation is to preserve and explore these monuments of the ancient Protopomorian civilization, which we all know so far very, very little.
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The name of the highest mountain of the Solovetsky Sekirnaya archipelago (its second name is Chudova Gora) is usually associated with the legend of the miracle that happened here - two angels at its foot carved the local wife of Pomor, who fished and mowed hay on the Solovetsky Islands. From the word "secla" the name is supposedly derived.
The name of the Sekirnaya Mountain should not have come from the word "slash", but from - "ax" (medieval battle ax). It turns out that the angels were supposed to pinpoint the death of the wife of Pomor not in shits, but in battle axes. Obviously, the legend of the monks with vitsy does not stand up to criticism ...
Man-made mountain
You are one of the supporters of the version of the artificial origin of the Sekirnaya Mountain; how do you substantiate this?
It is no secret that the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, they are as if ironed by a glacier, so the high mountains look like artificial formations on them. The highest point on the Big Solovetsky Island is Mount Sekirnaya (or Sikirnaya, Sikirka) almost 100 meters high. The huge sand-stone mounds of the Solovetsky mountains were first described by the Solovetsky Society of Local History experts only in the 30s of the twentieth century. But scientists then could not convincingly explain where such a high mountain could appear on the flat islands among plains, swamps and small hills. Even then, scientists assumed that the highest mountain of the Solovetsky archipelago, Sekirnaya, was partly created by a glacier, and partly a pyramid of boulders, built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.
In August 2002, geological and geomorphological studies of Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of Sikirka. Although the elevation itself (the base of the pyramid) is formed by glacial deposits, there is reason to say that from above it was really supplemented by embankments of artificial origin.
See the root
Ivan Ivanovich, but where then comes the original Russian name from the ancient Solovetsky mountain, if it is an ancient pyramid? And why did the monks need such a strange legend about angels?
There are big doubts that the name of the mountain in general was originally Russian, Slavic. Indeed, the toponym Solovki itself, despite the consonance of this name with the Russian word "nightingales", has nothing to do with these birds, which here, beyond the Arctic Circle, have never been found. And the legend of the angels, who allegedly expelled local fishermen from Solovki, has been used by monks for centuries as undeniable "evidence" that the Solovetsky island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous people. However, archaeological evidence suggests that the Solovetsky archipelago thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea and served them as a sanctuary for the performance of ancient religious rites. These White Sea protopomor tribes were called New Townspeople a miracle, and local peoples, for example, the Nenets, were called the Sikirtya.
But how to prove that Mount Sekirnaya comes from a non-Slavic root and is connected with the people of Sykirt or a miracle?
If the name of Mount Si-kirnaya (Sikirka, Chudova) is of pre-Slavic origin, then on the map of Pomerania one must look for a toponymic series of consonant names of mountains. And we really find it: at the mouth of the Pomor river Korotaikhi we find Mount Sikhirtes (translated from Nenets - the mountain of the Sykirt people). And on the west coast of Vaigach island we find the high cape Sikirtesale (in translation - cape sikirtya). Moreover, on all these mountains archaeological evidence has been discovered that they served as ancient sanctuaries. Thus, the Solovetsky Mount Sikirka, apparently, from the same toponymic row is one of the sacred mountains of the ancient people of Sikirtya (Chud). By the way, the mentioned sacred mountain at the mouth of the Korotaiha River, Sikhirtesa, like the Solovetsky Sekirnaya Mountain, has a second historical name - Miracle Mountain! It is unlikely that such a toponymic coincidence could be accidental.
A civilization gone by
What does the name of the people of sekhirta mean? And what did this people have to do with the pyramid mounds?
The answer to this is given by the ancient Indo-European root foundations, consisting of consonant sounds of schrt (skrd, skrt), which, when compared with semantic analysis, reveal much in common. In fact, schrt or skrd in translation from the ancient proto-language means "an artificial embankment of an elongated shape." For example, this root is still found in such a famous word as a rick. So, hay stack - literally means an artificially created mountain of hay, having an elongated shape. But the stack can be not only from hay.
Based on linguistic analysis, the version arose that "schrt" is a form of a primitive bulk prehistoric dwelling, like a giant stack of grass, moss and branches in which our ancient ancestors lived. I would also like to draw attention to the fact that the same ancient root basis of "cct" is also contained in the word "hide", which corresponds to the purpose of the building, because the main function of the home is to hide from the cold or wild animals. The same ancient basis of "scrt" is in the Latin word "secret", which is equivalent to the word hide. To terms with the same root base, despite the reduced letter "p," one can obviously include the word denoting the primitive dwelling "skit." People who lived in such primitive dwellings were called wanderers, and in the north they were called sikirta (ирırтяta, Siirte).
It is curious that the first chronicles of Novgorodians about the Donets cave population of the north (the Nenets came to the territory of the Pechora tundra because of the Ural ridge only in the 13-14 centuries) indicate that the tribes living there did not know iron and lived in caves. By the way, the Novgorodians themselves to this northern nation of fishermen and hunters of wild deer and sea animals (apparently - the ancestors of the present Mezen and Canine Pomors) were brought out by representatives of other Ugric and Samoyad tribes that have disappeared today. The name Pechora suggests that these were indeed cavemen.
My house is my pyramid
But in the flat Pechora tundra there are practically no mountains in which today you can find such caves, and even so cavemen can live in them ...
You are right: such "mountains" of the ancient cave people could only be artificial embankments-dwellings - huge house-stacks made of peat and moss. In this case, it is understandable why, after a thousand years, there was practically nothing left of such dwellings and “caves” dug in them - they turned into ordinary not very large hills among the flat landscape of the tundra. But surely there are archaeological artifacts preserved in the land of these hills. And periodically, archaeologists find traces of the Donets civilization in the tundra - bronze and stone tools, jewelry.
What is the Novgorod annals and what exactly does she write about the people of the Sykirt, who lived in such bulked stacked houses?
This description can be found in the "Tale of Bygone Years", in her Lavrentievsky list, where there is a story of Novgorod boyar Gyurat Rogovich, whose boy in the XI century went to Ugra and Samoyad. I will quote him almost verbatim: "The tribe of the Ugra told my youth about a miracle that she herself had heard only three years ago: there are huge mountains almost to the sky near the sea bays. In these mountains there are cries and voices," and they cut a mountain "And in that grief a small window is cut for negotiations. They don’t understand the language and explain with gestures that they need iron. And those who give them a knife or an ax, they pay with skins."
Is there really no trace of the dwellings of this cave people left?
Traces, of course, remained: back in the century before last, Academician I.I. Lepokhin wrote: “All Samoyed land in the present Mezen district is filled with desolate dwellings of a certain people. They are found in many places, by lakes on the tundra and in forests by rivers, made in mountains and hills like caves with openings like a beast. In these caves they find stoves and they find pieces of iron, copper, and clay of household goods. "
As for the stone bulk mountains, like the Sekirnaya (the big Solovetsky island), Sikirtesale (on the western coast of the Vaigach island), the Sikhirtesa mountains (at the mouth of the Korotaikha river) - these are not the same residential buildings made of peat and moss intended for living people, but the houses of the dead, pyramids made of stones.
Thus, these stone mountains, “ricks”, are monuments of the ancient civilization of the early pro-topomorians, who thousands of years ago mastered the vast expanses of the ancient Arctic long before the arrival of the current native inhabitants of the North. And our researchers still have a lot of work to study this hidden in the earth history.
In 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of the Sekirnaya Mountain. Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is reason to believe that from above it is really supplemented by embankments of artificial origin.
View of the Pole Mountain. At the top of it stands an Orthodox church. There are no other high mountains on Solovki
The highest mountain of the Solovetsky archipelago is Sekirnaya (its second name is Chudova Gora). The name “Sekirnaya” is associated with the legend of the miracle that happened here: two angels at the foot of the mountain carved with their faces the wife of a Pomor, who fished and hayed on the Solovetsky Islands, but did not allow the monks to do so. From the word "secla" the name is supposedly derived.
The name of the Sekirnaya Mountain should not have come from the word "slash", but from - "ax" (medieval battle ax). It turns out that the angels were supposed to pinpoint the death of the wife of Pomor not in shits, but in battle axes.
- You are a supporter of the version of the artificial origin of the Ax of Mount. Why?
The islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, as if ironed by a glacier. High mountains look like artificial formations on them. On the Big Solovetsky Island, Sekirnaya Mountain (or Sekirka) is the highest, its height is almost 100 meters. Huge sand-stone mounds of the Solovetsky Mountains were first described by local historians in the 30s of the twentieth century.
But scientists could not explain where such a high mountain could appear on the flat islands. It was suggested that the Sekirka was partially created by a glacier and partly a pyramid of boulders, which was built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.
In 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of the Sekirnaya Mountain. Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is reason to believe that from above it is really supplemented by embankments of artificial origin.
If the ancient Solovetsky mountain is a pyramid, where does its original Russian name come from? Why did the monks need such a strange legend about angels?
There is doubt that the name of the mountain was originally Slavic. Indeed, the word "Nightingales", although consonant with the "nightingales", has nothing to do with them: nightingales have never been found beyond the Arctic Circle. The monks used the legend of angels as “evidence” that the Solovetsky island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous people.
In fact, archaeologists have confirmed that the Solovetsky archipelago thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea. The Novgorodians called these White Sea tribes "miracle", and the local peoples, the Nenets, - "sikirtya".
- What does the name of the people “sikhirtya” mean, what did it have to do with the pyramid mounds?
The mention of the people of the sikitra is found in the "Tale of Bygone Years." Translated from the ancient language, "schrt" or "skrd" is an artificial embankment of an elongated shape. In the word "rick" is the same root. Skirda is an artificial mountain of elongated hay.
But the stack can be not only from hay, so the version arose that "schrt" is a form of a primitive bulk prehistoric dwelling, like a giant stack of grass, moss and branches in which our ancient ancestors lived. The same ancient root basis is "scrt" and in the word "hide". After all, the main function of the home is to hide from the cold and wild animals. People who lived in such primitive dwellings were called wanderers, and in the north - sikirtya.
The first chronicles of Novgorodians about the Donenets cave population of the north (the Nenets came to the Pechora tundra because of the Ural ridge only in the 13-14 centuries) confirm that the tribes living there did not know iron and lived in caves.
But in the flat Pechora tundra there are practically no mountains in which today you can find such caves, and even so cavemen can live in them ...
Such "mountains" of the ancient cave people could only be artificial embankments-dwellings - huge stacked houses made of peat and moss. Then it’s clear why, after a thousand years, practically nothing remained of them - they turned into ordinary small hills among the flat landscape of the tundra. Periodically, archaeologists find traces of the Donets' civilization in the tundra - bronze and stone tools, jewelry.
- And there are no traces of the dwelling of the people of Syktyr?
Remained: back in the 19th century, academician Lepekhin wrote: “the whole Samoyed land in the present Mezen district is filled with desolate dwellings of a certain people. They are found in many places, with lakes on the tundra and in forests with rivers, made in mountains and hills like caves with holes like the beast.
In these caves they find stoves and find debris made of iron, copper and clay household items. ”And as for the stone embankment mountains, like the Sekirnaya, these are no longer houses of peat and moss for living people, but houses of the dead, pyramids made of stones .
Thus, the stone mountains on Solovki are nothing but monuments of an ancient civilization. Our researchers have a lot of work to study the history hidden in the earth.
Anatoly RUKSHA
"Courier of the White Sea" 19 (166)
Mount Sekirnaya, being the highest point of the archipelago, is perfectly visible from the sea. In ancient times, this place was deserted, completely covered with dense dense forest. The legend says that it was here, at the foot of the Sekirnaya, that the Monks Herman and Savvaty entered the Solovki shore. And in 1429 they erected a cross and built a small cell and spent time in prayer.
Before the appearance of the Rev. Herman and Savvaty, there were no permanent residents on the island - only occasionally fishing boats came here. There is a legend that once on the top of a mountain two angels carved a fisherman’s wife they caught. It was a sign from above that the island belonged entirely to the monks, and no one bothered them in seclusion from the worldly bustle. It is with this case that the origin of the name of the mountain is associated.
The world's only lighthouse temple, the central temple of the Sekiro-Voznesensky monastery, was built on the top of the Sekirnaya Mountain. And day and night, he lit the way ships 40 miles.
In Soviet times, a punitive isolator for a special camp for delinquent prisoners was arranged here. But these gloomy pages of history have long been turned over, and the spiritual life on the island is reborn.
Mount Sekirnaya
Mount Sekirnaya is a high hill (73.5 m) on the Big Solovetsky Island. The mountain is the highest point on the archipelago. According to legend, on this mountain the angels carved a woman for wanting to settle on the island.
At the top of the mountain is the Ascension Monastery, built in 1860 by the architect Shakhlarev. The temple is completed by a bell tower, above which a lighthouse was located under the heading from the very beginning of its existence. The monastery has survived to our times.
In Soviet times, there was a punishment cell on the mountain, the 4th branch of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (ELEPHANT).
From the Sekirnaya Mountain a beautiful view of Savvatievo opens - the place where the founders of the Solovetsky Monastery of St. Savvaty and German originally settled in 1429. The mountain is 11 km from the monastery. At the foot of it are several worship crosses.