Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge "the place of power". The Mysteries of Stone Grave.
What is Stone Grave? How is this object determined by scientists, but as connoisseurs of "places of power"? What is the age of rock paintings left in the grotto by ancient people? Why are people from all over the world going to touch the stones of The Stone Tomb? On the day of the summer solstice, Radio Svoboda questioned Irina Lobanova, the chief custodian of the funds of the Museum of the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve "Stone Grave".
- Stone Tomb, or The Stone Tomb - a unique monument of geology and archeology of world significance, located in the Zaporozhye region near Melitopol. You go to the Ukrainian steppe and suddenly you see a hill that looks like a grave overlaid with giant stones. The stones are chimerical, they lie on a "pillow" of yellow sand sparkled with gold under the sun's rays.
In front of you - like the palm of the steppe - a tall sandstone hill, behind which the tops of the trees barely visible. In its grottoes and caves there are thousands of petroglyphs - rock paintings of ancient people who lived and wandered in the Azov steppes many millennia ago.
This is the only place in the world where pictures on a small area are dated from such a wide historical range: from the late Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages (20-16 millennium BC - 11-13 centuries AD).
Nailing patterns of ancient people on the stones of the Stone Grave.
The people who lived here called the hill Stone Moiga.
Why the grave? For obviously for the ancient hunters, pastoralists and farmers, the high mounds in the steppe are the tombs of the ancestors. However, in Ukraine, "graves", remember Shevchenko, also called all the great hills, in which even nobody has ever been buried.
Scientists consider the Stone Tomb as a natural formation. They say that when the Sarmat Sea, which occupied the territory of modern Black, Azov and Caspian seas, was here 14-12 million years ago, there was a sandstone. The sea went, the desert reigned. There were red-brown clays containing iron and manganese. Subsequently, the gutters of the Pril-Molochnaya River formed, the water of which passed deep into the earth, and the oxides of iron and manganese appeared on the surface, forming a rocky rock.
So gradually there appeared on this site sandstone monolith. During the melting of the Dnipro glacier in the north, "great water", flowing south, formed valley rivers. Due to the natural deepening of the river bed Milk huge island was on the surface of the valley. Under the influence of water and wind, the primary shield of sandstone split, and its fragments slipped along the sand - a kind of rocky hill appeared.
Stones of Stone Grave on golden sand, Zaporozhye region. June 18, 2018.
Over time, under the influence of wind and water, the plates acquired amazing shapes and outlines. Today, many of them can see the mollusks of the Sarmatian Sea. However, this is not a chaotic accumulation of plates, but a stone armor, in which grottoes and caves were formed, which proved to be very convenient for the ancient people and for the rites of their ancient cults.
- In addition to the scientific, there are other points of view on the Stone Tomb. Today is the day of the summer solstice, a day special for the Gentiles and representatives of many religious and philosophical currents. How do scientists "forces places" determine The Stone Tomb?
- Yes, in fact, many people consider the Stone Tomb "a place of power" and feel its powerful energy. Here come to receive healing, to make a wish, to be charged with positive emotions. Representatives of various energy practices, pagans, ufologists, bioenergy - all consider this a place "their", such as "giving strength".
Stone Tomb, grotto.
What is Stone Grave? How is this object determined by scientists, but as connoisseurs of "places of power"? What is the age of rock paintings left in the grotto by ancient people? Why are people from all over the world going to touch the stones of The Stone Tomb? On the day of the summer solstice, Radio Svoboda questioned Irina Lobanova, the chief custodian of the funds of the Museum of the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve "Stone Grave".
- Stone Tomb, or The Stone Tomb - a unique monument of geology and archeology of world significance, located in the Zaporozhye region near Melitopol. You go to the Ukrainian steppe and suddenly you see a hill that looks like a grave overlaid with giant stones. The stones are chimerical, they lie on a "pillow" of yellow sand sparkled with gold under the sun's rays.
In front of you - like the palm of the steppe - a tall sandstone hill, behind which the tops of the trees barely visible. In its grottoes and caves there are thousands of petroglyphs - rock paintings of ancient people who lived and wandered in the Azov steppes many millennia ago.
This is the only place in the world where pictures on a small area are dated from such a wide historical range: from the late Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages (20-16 millennium BC - 11-13 centuries AD).
Nailing patterns of ancient people on the stones of the Stone Grave.
The people who lived here called the hill Stone Moiga.
Why the grave? For obviously for the ancient hunters, pastoralists and farmers, the high mounds in the steppe are the tombs of the ancestors. However, in Ukraine, "graves", remember Shevchenko, also called all the great hills, in which even nobody has ever been buried.
Scientists consider the Stone Tomb as a natural formation. They say that when the Sarmat Sea, which occupied the territory of modern Black, Azov and Caspian seas, was here 14-12 million years ago, there was a sandstone. The sea went, the desert reigned. There were red-brown clays containing iron and manganese. Subsequently, the gutters of the Pril-Molochnaya River formed, the water of which passed deep into the earth, and the oxides of iron and manganese appeared on the surface, forming a rocky rock.
So gradually there appeared on this site sandstone monolith. During the melting of the Dnipro glacier in the north, "great water", flowing south, formed valley rivers. Due to the natural deepening of the river bed Milk huge island was on the surface of the valley. Under the influence of water and wind, the primary shield of sandstone split, and its fragments slipped along the sand - a kind of rocky hill appeared.
Stones of Stone Grave on golden sand, Zaporozhye region. June 18, 2018.
Over time, under the influence of wind and water, the plates acquired amazing shapes and outlines. Today, many of them can see the mollusks of the Sarmatian Sea. However, this is not a chaotic accumulation of plates, but a stone armor, in which grottoes and caves were formed, which proved to be very convenient for the ancient people and for the rites of their ancient cults.
- In addition to the scientific, there are other points of view on the Stone Tomb. Today is the day of the summer solstice, a day special for the Gentiles and representatives of many religious and philosophical currents. How do scientists "forces places" determine The Stone Tomb?
- Yes, in fact, many people consider the Stone Tomb "a place of power" and feel its powerful energy. Here come to receive healing, to make a wish, to be charged with positive emotions. Representatives of various energy practices, pagans, ufologists, bioenergy - all consider this a place "their", such as "giving strength".
Stone Tomb, grotto.