Mountains Tuzluk Singh and others. Caucasian pyramid - Mount Tuzluk

The height of Mount Tuzluk is 2585 m. It is located at the branching point of the Malka Ingushli rivers, half a kilometer from the Kayashik pass on the northern side. It is a pyramid in the form of a cone of regular shape.

There are many theories and assumptions explaining the meaning and meaning of this name. Translated from Turkic, “ace” is “salt,” that is, a kind of “salt shaker”; others translate it as “Treasury of the Sun.” There is also the following theory, the very name “ Brine" is broken into two - these are "ace" and "bow". The ace is the main deck in cards, and the bow is in the understanding of weapons. And indeed, if you observe the mountain as it approaches from the north, it resembles the shape of a bow, at first not stretched, but as you get closer, it is already quite stretched.

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In ancient times, Tuzluk was a symbol of a sentry and greeted pilgrims going to the holy places of the Elbrus region. Today it is difficult not to pay attention to this mystical, fascinating miracle of nature. Surprisingly, Mount Tuzluk is several thousand years older than the pyramids that are still in Egypt today. According to many evidences, this mountain was the center of the sanctuary.

They say that in Mount Tuzluk there are cells that the priests used to retire for the purpose of self-knowledge. There is also a belief that previously there was a passage underground (hidden today), as well as a passage through the entire mountain from south to north.

There really is a lot of mysticism here. If you look closely, the mountain is quite well oriented in space for various rituals. In the south, a semi-circle is formed, something like a notch in the mountain itself - probably a place for altars. In the west, at the foot of this mountain, you can see a two-meter megalith - a stone in the shape of an animal, with a bowl on top. Perhaps this is also a participant in some ritual. In the east, between Tuzluk and the cliff to the river, there are large stones that have grown into the ground and seem to have been placed here specifically in their own order.

Many more examples can be cited to prove the presence of mystification in the Caucasus Mountains region, namely in the Elbrus region. And they all say that it was here that the main secret rituals with otherworldly forces took place. These facts fascinate adventure lovers and magnetically attract numerous tourists here.

This mountain not only attracts attention, it stops the gaze of everyone who sees it, especially for the first time. Its shape (sloping and smoothed) is so ideal, especially in comparison with other hills located nearby. The thought involuntarily arises that not only natural forces were involved in the appearance of the mountain, but also some other forces - reasonable, or rather, it would be more accurate to say, existing beyond our understanding, our knowledge. It is no coincidence that Tuzluk - and talking about him - gives rise to a great many assumptions, legends that are happening almost before our eyes, and, of course, incredible conjectures.

And the most fantastic ones - starting with the fact that the mountain is bulk-filled and hollow inside. And this cavity is a huge hall. What is in it is generally beyond the limits of human perception. According to another, more down-to-earth version, in distant, distant times (we are talking about four to five thousand years) there was a sanctuary here: the so-called oracle, that is, the place where divinations were made. The most famous of the oracles is that of the god Apollo in ancient Greek Delphi. Pythia - priestesses (in our case - witches), who prophesied under the influence of stupefying fumes coming out of a crack in the ground, came into a semi-conscious state and began to broadcast about what was about to happen. Incredible? But these assumptions also have the right to exist until the contrary is proven. Moreover, evaporation from Mount Tuzluk is present.

However, first things first. If you get to the area of ​​​​Djily-su, which is in the Northern Elbrus region, through the Narzan Valley, then the said hill is a little more than forty kilometers away. Tuzluk is impossible not to notice, since the view of the mountain opens from afar, and the road itself passes right under it. Its height is relatively small - 2585.3 meters, but Tuzluk goes up almost vertically for a full hundred meters from the road level. Naturally, this ascent does not present any particular difficulties, however, the majority of those heading to mineral springs Jily-su does not stop at the mountain. But in vain, because when you go up, you find that at the top there is a fairly flat platform, the length of which is approximately twice the width. At the very beginning, four stone pillars stick out from the ground, or rather, it would be more accurate to say, they grow, representing something like a cross. In any case, this is exactly the feeling that occurs when you look at the stones from above, from a helicopter height. And what’s also literally amazing is the internal expediency, the geometric proportionality of the stone giants with general view the tops of Tuzluk. As if they were used for some purpose (is this where the assumption is that the boulders were installed artificially?). For which? Temple complex? An ancient observatory?
It was precisely these conclusions that were reached in the summer of 2001 by Muscovite Alexey Alekseev, who subsequently founded the permanent expedition “Caucasian Arkaim”: “Taking azimuths from the top of Tuzluk to all objects noticeable in the vicinity and comparing them with the calculated ones, we came to the conclusion that that the sun on solstices should rise near noticeable landmarks. And this is one of the most important features of all known near-horizon observatories.
The next year, 2002, thanks to the help of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, we had professional calculations of the azimuths of sunrise and sunset on the days of the solstices and a number of other important astronomical events.
…On the morning of June 23, the second day of the solstice, we managed to climb to the top of Tuzluk and install the theodolite. That morning the fate of the expedition and, probably, all the ideas we expressed were decided. If the sun rises over a prominent landmark, the hypothesis of the Sun Temple on Mount Tuzluk on northern slopes Elbrus will receive the right to exist...
The night was ending, and a narrow strip of light lit up above the horizon behind the Dagger massif. The red stripe gradually grows, and is joined by a violet, blue, and then a golden glow. It expands, taking up half the sky. Behind Elbrus a purple stripe moves - the shadow of the Earth - the border of day and night. The sun has already risen above the horizon, but it is hidden from us by the Dagger array. Elbrus turned pink and then turned golden. The rays of the low sun burst through the valleys through the mountain passes, gilding the surrounding peaks.
And here in the deep saddle, close southern region A dazzling point appears from the dagger. Now she is already in the crosshairs of the sight. There's a countdown! The sun rises from the earth before our eyes.”
We did not have the opportunity to see the dawn on Mount Tuzluk, but we more than once observed the appearance of the luminary some ten kilometers from this place - from the clearing where Emmanuel’s ex-pedition camp stood in 1829. The spectacle is not just amazing - stunning, stunning, truly fantastic. It’s as if you are present at a great event - the birth not of just another day, but of life itself. Probably, these feelings contributed to a large extent to the fantastic assumptions of the scientist from St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Tokarev and Pyatigorsk resident Vladimir Stasenko, participants in another expedition - “Elbrus - 5500 years into the depths of time”, that “for ritual purposes Mount Tuzluk began to be used as early as 4500 BC. Then its top was a flat, solid slab, plunging steeply towards Mount Sirkh. This site was used as a ritual site. Later, in 3200 BC, the slab was cut lengthwise and crosswise. The cuts are oriented to the cardinal points. In the body of the mountain, under a layer of dense quartz sandstones, an underground temple of Mother Earth with four chambers was built.
Rituals of initiation and purification of the soul took place there. Since then, on the western slope of the mountain there has been a block of stone resembling a bull (female cult) - a cup-stone with a depression in the upper part. And around Tuzluk there are stone pillars-menhirs installed as a belt of his energy-informational protection. One of the phallic-shaped menhirs with the face of a knight stands above the canyon of the Malki River, between Tuzluk and Sirkh. Shepherds say there are at least six more similar stones in the area. Thus, the “feminine” principle in the bosom of the mountain was, as it were, taken under protection by the energies of the “masculine” principle.
A stone temple supposedly existed on the top platform of the mountain 900-800 BC. It was abandoned in 450-600 AD, apparently with the end of the golden age of the Trojan Ages. Time has scattered its stones. There are only a few slabs left."
It is clear that such a specific dating of events taking place over thousands of years in these places is not supported (and cannot be) by any evidence; it is entirely based on the assumptions, assumptions, and conclusions of its authors. And therefore it is not just controversial, but ahistorical: not a topic for serious discussion, but more a reason for sarcastic remarks.
But, really, I don’t want to be funny or, in all seriousness, appeal to famous historical facts(However, what do we, by and large, know about those times, especially about what happened in our area? Absolutely nothing). I also don’t want to for the reason that here, in the Northern Elbrus region, among the majestic giants, measuring out what has been seen for thousands of years, the most incredible assumptions do not cause such rejection as they would cause somewhere below, on the plain. With surprise, you catch yourself thinking that you are not busy looking for counterarguments, but trying to imagine whether this could have happened or not. Especially when you talk with Vyacheslav Tokarev - not just an enthusiast, but a true ascetic and patriot, sincere in his desire to lift the veil over the distant past. Moreover, all this is based on deep, comprehensive knowledge and clearly structured argumentation.
And therefore, even the assumption that there was a sanctuary on the mountain, that the witches, having inhaled the vapors coming from the earth, saw the future from the Tuzluk oracle, you involuntarily look for confirmation. You search and you find! Indeed, between the layered stone pillars there is a narrow crack that goes somewhere quite deep. The depth cannot be checked by throwing something into it - it is very narrow, but by the thrust with which the flame of a lighter brought to the hole rushes down, you understand that there is some kind of cavity inside.
What it is, how far it goes - it’s impossible to find out without special instruments, only if... Without being lazy, one of us runs down and again, now with two full one and a half liter bottles of Narzan in his hands, climbs up with considerable difficulty up a steep mountain, leans over the gap and begins to pour water. It leaves instantly - it does not slide along the stone walls, but rather pours as if into emptiness. The “mouth” of the mountain absorbs water, and now it’s running out, but nothing happens. But what should happen?..
Under the scorching July sun, I silently sit by the huge boulders at the top of Tuzluk, and my lips spontaneously whisper simple lines:

The scarlet light shone,
The water was willing to flow
And everything that happened here
Let it happen again
Let it happen again...

And suddenly the mountain seems to let out a sigh - drawn-out, long, painful. I hear it clearly: I lean over the gap and feel how the air acquires density and elasticity, flowing around my face.
I don’t feel anything anymore, but I don’t leave, still peering and listening intently. Uphill? Into yourself? To the outside world?
After five to seven minutes, your head begins to tingle, it fills with heaviness, and after some time, ringing hammer dots begin to knock. Their frequency increases with every moment, and now I’m bouncing away from the crack, unable to withstand this crazy rhythm. You catch yourself thinking that the moment of insight never came. And you console yourself: but the role of the Pythia was not available to every woman, but only to the chosen few. However (we speak in all seriousness), the vapors coming from the earth’s womb could have changed over the past millennia and lost their strength. And the idea that there is an underground temple in the mountain no longer seems as absurd as before.
...Looking at the members of the expedition (many of them I had the chance to meet in the summer of 2008), who came to the Caucasus from the most remote places of Russia, people of various professions (on their list - an astrophysicist, a pharmacist, a geologist, a doctor, a university teacher ), a high educational level (many candidates and doctors of science), you understand that they were brought together by faith. Belief in a miracle, in the opportunity to touch live the past, which has not gone away without a trace, simply cannot go away, you just need to find and see the marks and traces it left behind. It is this desire that drives these people, spending sleepless nights on Mount Tuzluk, meeting the fiery dawn at its peak, which has become for them, as for ancient people, a temple. A temple not so much of the Sun as a meeting place - with oneself.
And therefore, if we don’t share, then at least listen more carefully to the conclusions of their associates - participants in another annual expedition “Caucasian Arkaim”: “On the banks of the Malka River in the area of ​​Mount Tuzluk in ancient times there was an ancient astronomical observatory - the Temple of the Sun. The expedition recorded the sunrise during the summer solstice over the only noticeable landmark on the horizon in this sector. During the same period, the azimuths of the rising and setting of the full moon were noted. The calculations showed that some other solar and lunar events occur near noticeable landmarks. Thus, the results of instrumental observations confirmed that Mount Tuzluk could serve as a near-horizon astronomical observatory.
Near it there is a phallic-shaped stone menhir, as well as processed stones called “altars” and probably served cult purposes. The line between the “altars” is close to the west-east direction (+5056´). The direction between the “eastern altar” and menhir No. 1 (+5058´) is perpendicular to this line. Data updated by JPS satellite navigator. This deviation is close to the magnetic declination value (+5019´). Fixing the sides of the horizon on the ground is the most important feature of a near-horizon astronomical observatory.
To the southeast of Mount Tuzluk, a rock ridge with many cup-shaped depressions, probably of cult significance, conventionally called the ridge of “cup stones”, was discovered. The line between men-gir No. 1 and the western edge of the “cup stones” exactly coincides with the modern north-south direction.
Thus, the supposed temple complex in the area of ​​Mount Tuzluk could well have served both for cult purposes and for tracking calendar dates.
In total, we noted 14 significant objects in the vicinity of Mount Tuzluk. Of these, four are of natural origin: Mount Tuzluk, a hill we called “Northern”, a lava bridge across the Kyzylsu River, which we called “Kalinov Bridge” and a locolite rising among the ice fields of Elbrus - Kalitsky Peak. We conditionally classify “cup stones” and “altars” as semi-artificial, modified objects. Four menhirs and four tours are objects of artificial origin.
Some of these objects are located along straight lines. Straight line No. 1: Northern hill - Mount Tuzluk - Kalinov bridge - Kalitsky peak. Most likely, it coincides with a tectonic fault and, of course, is of natural origin. Straight line No. 2: Mount Tuzluk - menhir No. 1 - eastern edge of the “cup stones”. Direct line No. 3: eastern “altar” - tour under the road - Kalinov Bridge. Straight line No. 4: Mount Tuzluk - eastern “altar” - menhir No. 2. The direction of straight line No. 1 is deviated by 2o50´ to the west from the northern direction, and straight line No. 3 is deviated from the same direction, but to the east - by 2o57´. Together, these angles are 5°47´, and as noted above, the line between the “altars” is +5056´ from the west-east direction. The direction between the “eastern altar” and Kalinov Bridge (+5058´) is perpendicular to it. The above results indicate that the objects around Tuzluk are in a strictly defined order.”
With the kind permission of the expedition leaders, we publish lines from their reports posted on Internet sites.

(2585m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass and 500 m from the menhir, on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers. It emerged as a lonely peak to the North from the root peak of the Tashlyt-Syrt ridge. Its silhouette of a regular shape in the form of a giant pyramid cone amazes the imagination. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky outcrop, lined with stone or concrete blocks to give the structure the correct shape. Only Egyptian pyramids a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk. This mountain, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary. The mountain is well oriented in space. On it are located: from the south - a semi-ring of an incision-cut in the mountain itself, a probable place of altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat platform in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top.

Researchers suggest that Tuzluk is a large underground dolmen.

There is information of Vedic origin that in Tuzluk there are cells, used by priests for solitude and self-knowledge. The mountain had a through passage from north to south. Among the local people, the news has been preserved that there is an underground passage from the Malki gorge to Tuzluk, now hidden.

Near the foot of Mount Karakaya, there is a lonely menhir. The face of a knight is carved on a stone pillar, looking straight to the east. And behind the menhir you can see a bell-shaped hill. This is Tuzluk (“Treasury of the Sun”). Another translation is “salt shaker” (from the word “ace” meaning “salt” in Turkic). And on the top of Tuzluk are the ruins of the ancient sanctuary of the Sun. The very structure of the sanctuary and the method of processing the stones point to Cimmerian times. At the top of the hill there is, firstly, a tour marking the summit. At the top there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this cup-stone served to commemorate the souls of the dead who were passing away.d following the rays"dying" (outgoing) sun.Then three large rocks that have been processed. Once upon a time, a slit was cut in them, directed from north to south. Also on the top there are stones laid out like sectors in the zodiac calendar. Each sector is exactly 30 degrees.

And how can one not recall Masudi’s description of the Sun Temple: “In the Slavic regions there were buildings revered by them. Between the others they had a building on a mountain, about which philosophers wrote that it was one of high mountains in the world. There is a story about this building, about the quality of its construction, about the arrangement of its different stones and their different colors, about the holes made in the upper part of it, about what was built in these holes for observing the sunrise, about the precious stones placed there stones and signs marked in it, which indicate future events and warn against incidents before their implementation, about the sounds heard in the upper part of it and about what befalls them when listening to these sounds".
Perhaps this is the same temple at the Great Mountain.

It is also interesting that the top of Mount Tuzluk and the top of another sacred mountain - Kalitsky Peak are located on the north-south axis, on the same meridian, which could not but be used by the ancient priests for a near-horizontal observatory. The other one, necessary for such an observatory, the west-east latitudinal axis, is located nearby. This axis is the top of Mount Shaukam - the menhir "Perun's anvil" on the Irahitsyrt plateau - the top of Mount Buruntashbashi, but perhaps the ancients also chose another axis connected with Mount Sirkh.

Mount Sirkh blocks Tuzluk's sky from the south. On the pre-summit part in the rocky eastern ridge there once existed two dwellings, most likely of ancient priest-astronomers (stargazers), because The rather deep holes remaining from those dwellings are located exactly on the above-mentioned meridional axis Tuzluk - Kalitsky Peak.

This place is the site of numerous encounters with UFOs, as well as the object of close study by the top of the Third Reich and the Ananerbe organization.

Materials were used from the book “Ruskolan: Ancient Rus'” (History and traditions of the Russian Cossacks). M., Veche, 2003

On the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria there is an unusual mountain, viewing which a person experiences a double feeling. He gets the feeling that this is not a creation of nature, but something man-made. Mount Tuzluk serves as both a place of pilgrimage and an interesting landmark of the region. Legends are still made about this hill.

Mysterious Mount Tuzluk

There is an opinion that the mountain is a secret chamber hidden in its depths, the contents of which are far from human understanding. The Caucasian pyramid, according to some assumptions, 5 thousand years ago was the place of activity of the oracle and everyone could receive their prediction from it. It was conveyed to people by the Pythia, who spoke under the influence of fumes emanating from the crevices. Mount Tuzluk still emits some gases from its depths.

Getting to this hill is not difficult; a road leading to mineral springs passes right under it. Despite the fact that the mountain is almost vertical from the entrance, climbing it is not very difficult. At the very top there is a flat platform on which there are 4 stone pillars.

Like many, this building raises many questions. From a bird's eye view, the pillars resemble a cross, and one gets the feeling that they were specially installed for unknown purposes. It can be assumed that this place was a sanctuary or observatory. Scientists carried out experiments and came to the conclusion that more than 4,000 thousand years ago, rituals of sacrifice and purification of the soul were performed at this place.

Pyramids of the Elbrus region

On the western side of the mountain there is a stone that vaguely resembles a bull. It symbolizes the feminine principle. Nearby there is a stone with a concave top for performing rituals. This place is surrounded by stone pyramids that have a phallic shape and depict knights. They represent the protection of a woman.

Scientists suggest that there was once a temple of the Sun on the top of the mountain, since the rising of the luminary, on the days of the equinox and opposition, corresponds to the established altars. Others believe that the sanctuary is located in the mountain. Those who lingered at the top for a long time say that the rock mass breathes, releasing strange air from a deep crack.

Mount Tuzluk, like a permanent sentry, has always met and attracted pilgrims going to the Holy places of the Northern Elbrus region. And now it is impossible not to pay attention to this miracle of nature. And maybe not only nature.

For a long time I tried to understand the meaning of the name of this mountain. It was very meaningless to connect the name of the mountain with a saline solution - brine. But one day a completely different combination arose: ace - az - ace and a bow as a weapon. (Ace is the first, main card in the deck, an important person; Az is the first letter in the alphabet, the pronoun is Az I know God, the self-name of the peoples of Azov, Asov).

And indeed, when approaching it from the north, the mountain first looks like a bow with a loose string, and then, when approaching it, it takes on the appearance of a bow drawn tightly. So, Tuzluk - Azluk - Asluk, i.e. bow Azov, or Asov.

The first time I saw her was twenty years ago. Even then she seemed very curious to me. But as always, on a sports trip there is no time for extraneous research. You need to stick to the hike schedule and arrive before dark at a place convenient for bivouac.

And only in 2005, as part of the ELBRUS - RUSKOLAN expedition, we planned several hours to explore the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthis mountain.

We left the base camp on Djilysu in the afternoon and, having crossed the Kayaeshik pass, arrived at Tuzluk in the evening. Having asked for shelter from the spirits of the mountain, they settled down to spend the night next to a spring at its eastern foot. The night was surprisingly calm.

The next morning, unexpectedly, a GAZ-66 drove up to us from the direction of Kislovodsk with a group of climbers heading to Elbrus. He was supposed to return at 16:00 and promised to take our group of 15 people to the Narzan Valley.

So it was given to us, I think, by the same perfume, for the whole day, and not for several hours, as planned, and we did not lose it in vain. Everyone dispersed in small groups, wherever their curiosity led them.

In the evening, around the fire in the Narzan Valley, everyone talked about what they had seen. And we managed to see a lot of interesting and even mysterious things.

Pavel Otkidychev discovered in the canyon of the Malka River fragments of rocks with imprints of tree trunks, some small objects that have not yet been explained, rock paintings in the shape of a cross along with a triangle or a pyramid, and coal seams. And these are not all the mysteries that he and other members of the expedition saw.

From the Malki canyon on the plateau, to the mountain, in the place closest to it, a stone staircase rises. Judging by the photographs, it seemed to me to be a natural formation, but two to five thousand years ago this staircase could have been hewn, equipped with railings or rope, and then it would have been very easy to climb up this staircase.

The photograph next to the stairs shows layers of coal that could have been used in ancient metal smelting furnaces previously discovered by the expedition of A.A. Alekseev and A.G. Evtushenko, very nearby, on the Tashlysyrt ridge.

And something magical happened to Zhanna Demina, the geologist of the expedition. She left with her daughter Olga, a great connoisseur of flora, now a student at the Timiryazev Academy. They climbed to the top of the mountain, examined the summit rock (I will describe it later), went down, walked around the mountain and, softened by the sun, settled down to rest on a beautiful alpine meadow. And suddenly Jeanne saw a procession of people dressed in long dark chitons with their heads covered with hoods. People slowly passed by and went inside the mountain. The last of them turned to Zhanna and silently beckoned her to follow him. She became scared and it took a very great effort of will not to succumb to this call. She doesn’t know, then or now, whether it was all real or whether it was some kind of obsession. She is sure of one thing, that she was not sleeping at that moment.

Mount Tuzluk itself (2585m) is located a couple of kilometers north of the Kayaeshik pass and 500 m from the menhir, on the watershed of the Malka and Ingushli rivers. It emerged as a lonely peak to the North from the root peak of the Tashlysyrt ridge of Mount Sirkh. Its silhouette of a regular shape in the form of a giant pyramid cone amazes the imagination. According to the results of a preliminary geological survey by Vyacheslav Tokarev, the mountain itself is a natural mountain range from layered hard quartzite tuff sandstones, in the steep upper part, and from weakly cemented to loose sandy-clayey tuff undulating sequences in the gentle lower slope of the base.

The feeling of man-made modification of the slopes and top of the mountain - some refining into a geometrically correct shape - does not leave you. Some researchers of the Cheops pyramid claim that at its base there is a similar rocky outcrop, lined with stone or concrete blocks to give the structure the correct shape. Only the Egyptian pyramids are a couple of thousand years younger than Mount Tuzluk. This mountain, apparently, was the center of a large cult sanctuary.

It is strictly oriented in space. On it are located: from the south - a semi-ring of an incision-cut in the mountain itself, a probable place of altars and amulets-amulets with a large flat platform in front of it, an amphitheater facing the top. Perhaps mass rituals were held here. In the west, at the foot of the mountain, there is a megalith stone up to two meters high, in the form of a large animal. At the top of it there is a round bowl with a diameter of about 15 cm. Apparently, this cup-stone (we called it bull) served to commemorate the souls of the dead leaving to the west following the rays of the “dying” (departing) sun.

The southern part of the mountain top is a rock of quartzite tuff sandstone. Its top is flat and is a continuation of the top of the mountain. The rock appears to have been artificially cut down to the base in a north-south, west-east direction into four rock blocks. A. Asov believes that these blocks served as the foundation of the temple construction of the ancients.

It is also interesting that the top of Mount Tuzluk and the top of another sacred mountain - Kalitsky Peak are located with high accuracy on the north-south axis, on the same meridian, which could not but be used by the ancient priests for a near-horizontal observatory. Another, necessary for such an observatory, the latitudinal axis west - east, is located nearby, this axis is the top of Mount Shaukam - the menhir “anvil of Perun” on the Irahitsyrt plateau - the top of Mount Buruntashbashi, but maybe the ancients chose another axis associated with Mount Sirkh .

This mountain blocks Tuzluk's sky from the south. On the pre-summit part in the rocky eastern ridge there once existed two dwellings, most likely of ancient priest-astronomers (stargazers), because The rather deep holes remaining from those dwellings are located exactly on the above-mentioned meridional axis Tuzluk - Kalitsky Peak.

Sirkh mountain is a mystery. It was the center, a kind of Olympus, in ancient rituals, to which people from all over the Caucasus and its foothills flocked here, to Djilysu, for sacred festivities. Even now, after many thousands of years, in any place in the Northern Elbrus region, the dowsing frame points to Sirkh as the most powerful energy and prayer place. Unfortunately, we still know almost nothing about Sirkh. We don’t even know what the name of the mountain means. We have not found such a word in any local current language. In distant centuries, the powerful King Surkh ruled in the Caucasus. But this information requires confirmation by specialist historians.

So, the day passed quickly while exploring Mount Tuzluk and the surrounding area. At 15 o'clock the Heavens started “watering the grass” - a daily short warm rain, very typical only for the Dzhilysu region in July-August. The tents were already packed into backpacks and, while waiting for the car, we all huddled under one piece of polyethylene. Less than half an hour had passed when the car appeared, and then the rain suddenly stopped. When we plunged into it, the rain “turned on” again, but we were already under the awning of the car. About four kilometers later, the car left the rain zone and entered a very dusty road area. In two hours we covered the distance that we should have covered in two days. They decided to spend the donated days in the Narzan Valley. In the gorge of the Khasaut River we found a fabulously beautiful corner and set up camp. Sunny days were spent in raspberry fields and warm river baths. In the evenings around the fire they exchanged observations and impressions from the expedition. The people were blissful!

In general, the entire campaign took place under some kind of protection, as if God was in his bosom. One of the patrons revealed himself to us. It started with the fact that he did not allow me to lead the group past him along the “Malkin Trail”, which was very familiar to me. Trying to lead the group to the confluence of the Khasaut and Malka rivers, I suddenly ran into a steep slope where the climb was supposed to begin and could not find the continuation of the trail. (Oblaz is a place where the river is pressed against a rock and you have to climb over the top). For me, this is the same as not finding the front door at home. But, to my amazement, I could not find the path and decided to return a little to the clearing I had just passed. The next morning, when everyone was still sleeping, I came to the hole - the path was in its place and perfectly visible. I walked along it and at the very bend again, as if I had bumped into something. He didn’t tempt fate, turned around and began to descend. And suddenly he fell on a stable path. Only experience and an ice ax helped me not fly off the cliff. I understood why the trail was closed to me the day before. Apparently, someone with less experience could have flown away. All that remains is to thank the Gods!

But that was only the beginning. By the end of the second day, we had trodden out a wide path in the tall grass on the steep descent from the tents to the river. As I walked up it from the river, I noticed a hewn log in the grass near the path.

Having turned it out of the ground, I saw the face of an old man with a beard, with folded palms and a runic inscription at chest level. None of us, to our shame, knew Rune.

It was assumed that this is an image of some ancient Russian God because In these places, until 1943, teams of Old Believers mined gold. We decided to take it to Pyatigorsk and offer it to the local history museum.

On Monday they brought me to Pyatigorsk, and on Tuesday I was invited to take part in the Perun festival on Velesovaya Polyana at the foot of Mount Beshtau. The holiday was held by the Kavminvodsk Vedic community on Wednesday. I decided to show the community members our find. Everyone present gathered around. Another woman came up and suddenly screamed in excitement - Rodoslav, come and look at your work. It turned out that two years ago they were on a camping trip in the Narzan Valley and he cut out this image of Veles from a log. The whole tourist group solemnly installed it over the river. But we didn’t dig deep enough, or it disturbed someone, but we found it thrown into the dust and already pretty much eaten up by rot and insects.

At the first moment I felt disappointment because this idol turned out to be not of historical value, but a remake, but then amazement came. It turned out that we saved God Veles from death and delivered him to Veles Glade, and even on a holiday, and to the master who created him. But we, or someone else, could have burned him in a fire, thrown him into the river, or even taken him somewhere else, but no, Veles himself came to his clearing to his creator on a holiday.

There are too many coincidences, from delivering us from Tuzluk to the Narzan Valley, to gently but persistently holding us at the clearing where he lay prostrate in the dust.

After all this, analyzing the cases that have happened to me over many years in the mountains and not only in the mountains, I come to the conclusion that we are always under the protection of our Gods. You just need to learn to listen to them, praise and thank them for this, without asking anything from them.

Glory to our Gods and Ancestors!

Full member of the Russian Geographical Society V.D. Stasenko