The flying ship of European fairy tales, the flights of Siberian shamans through the worlds of the mystical universe, the Icar with its wings, the carpet of Ivan Tsarevich … People are accustomed to believe that all this is from the field of artistic fiction and magical legends. Everything is in flight there: swan virgins fly, the lunar sickle is swimming around the heavenly ocean, Baba Yaga rushes over the night earth in her stupa. Stories about flights in the sky, of course, are related to science, but to the disciplines purely humanitarian – to folklorism, to the research of myths. But something really many such plots; They abound in technical details, and quite competent in the opinion of a modern specialist in science is accurate. So maybe behind fairy tales a forgotten reality is hidden? We poorly know the history of mankind in its ancient eras, and it is permissible to assume that there were developed civilizations on Earth that mastered the flight business. Moreover, it is quite possible that these civilizations are well familiar to us! As the author of this to …
Author
Nikitin Yuri Fedorovich
Editor
Lastovkina V.A.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
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