Following the Great Goddess: Arkady Zakharov

The legendary Ugra is the north of Western Siberia, the Earth, the country that extends to the east of the cold mountains of the polar Urals … In book legends about Alexander Macedon, it was said that the great commander of the ancient world seemed to have reached these mountains during his mysterious, truly mystical journey to the country of darkness – polar night. And the merchants from Veliky Novgorod and from the Volga Bulgaria almost a millennium ago, overcoming all the difficulties, already traded with the Ugra and the Northern Urals, and the information about the distant magical country was reflected in the early annals, in the legends of the “lands of the unexpected ones.” It also became known that the inhabitants of this region prayed to the beautiful, carefully stored sculpture of the Golden Bogin Women “, as they said then. And we also know that in Rus’ we called Yugra Lukomorye. Of course, in the Russian language, sometimes any bay, sea bend is called that. But very persistent associations connect this word with the Pushkin Lukomorye for us. What did the great poet mean? Lighting owl …

Author
Zakharov Arkady Petrovich
Editor
Smirnov N.M.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history