Baikal, Blue stone and Valaam: where in Russia can one heal from disease and gain supernatural powers?
On the map of each country, you can find special "points", literally pulsating with energy and communication with the higher mind. They are called "places of power", because they are capable of bringing healing to a person or rewarding him with superpowers, as well as taking away his health or luck.
1. Lake Svetloyar
In the Voskresensky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region is Lake Svetloyar, which is considered the most popular for visiting the "place of power" in the country. It is called "Russian Atlantis": Svetloyar is the birthplace of pagan gods and a hiding place hiding the sunken city of Kitezh. Residents of Kitezh prayed to deities whose images were hidden under Orthodox icons and idols, which had stood in the oak grove there from ancient times. Among the local residents there are participants of prayer rituals, which were held in it even during the Second World War.
2. The blue stone
On the shore of Pleshcheeva Lake lies a boulder, about which magicians and other admirers of the occult sciences have known for more than 1000 years. A wonderful blue stone on top of the mountain was honored by Merian and Slavic pagans, who circumnavigated around him and singing ritual chants. When Orthodoxy reigned in Russia, it was ordered to forget about the "idolatrous pagan", but believers in his power still came to him: the stone healed from illnesses, helped to get rid of anxieties. For all history boulder from it tried to get rid twice - but nobody managed to make it. In the XVII century he was buried in a large pit, but after a few years he somehow again found himself on the surface of the earth. A hundred years later it was decided to drag it across the frozen lake to the other shore, but the ice cracked and the stone went under the water. It took him 60 years to return to his native place.
3. Belukha
Belukha is under the protection and close attention of Altai shamans. They know many examples of how the sacred mountain Sumeru helped the sick and needy, but took away the good of the curious guests who tried to make it fulfill their wishes. It is Belukha who is called the center of Eurasia and the "navel of the Earth", but this is not the most interesting feature of it. It is believed that its base is hidden entrance to Shambhala, and in the mountain itself is a mythical country. Only those who sincerely believe in the special spiritual power of the mountain's surroundings will be able to enter it.
4. The Great Zayatsky Island
On Solovki in the Arkhangelsk region you can find the mysterious labyrinths built in the I II centuries BC. e. They are no less valuable than Stonehenge: spiral paths are lined with natural stone, processed by an unknown modern scientist tool. Nobody knows for what purpose these labyrinths were built, but shamans still use them to communicate with spirits and to appease the gods. True, they have to do this at night - during the day, the staff of the reserve does not allow anyone to go to a strange sight.
5. Arkaim
The Arkaim hillfort in Chelyabinsk region was once the cradle of ancient Aryans, today only ruins of several houses and two necropolises remained from it. In the III-II millennium BC. e. Arkaim burned down under terrible circumstances: something scared the locals so much that they left babies and animals in the houses and set the city on fire with them. An ancient settlement is considered a place of accumulation of cosmic energy, and it is easy to prove - from the Fiery Hill in the dark time of the day you can see the white pillar of energy that goes into the sky.
6. Devil's fortification
This is the name of the restored stone tower on the high bank of the Kama River. Previously, in its place was a temple of ancient pagans, in which there lived an oracle-serpent, predicting the future for local residents for a fee in the form of a human sacrifice. The information confirming this was discovered during the expedition by the Russian traveler Nikolai Rychkov in 1770. After the death of the serpent, his priests disappeared without a trace. Many centuries later the daughter of the priest Elabuga liked the line, and he wanted to marry her. The priest set the condition for him: he would give his daughter's hand to the devil, if he laid the temple on the Kama for a night. The line did not manage to finish the work before the first cocks were singing, so he got angry and left only one wall from the building, the whole area around which is strewn with stones.
7. Healing sources
Sources acquired their healing power thanks to the blessing of the Monk Makarii. In 1615, he saw a Polish warrior dying from thirst under a young oak tree - and struck the ground with his staff to get a cold spring. The water collected in it does not stagnate and does not get an unpleasant smell even after years. It is believed that the believer, plunged into the sources of Jabynets, get rid of all the painful illnesses.
8. Shmaren caves
Shmarenskaya cave in the Belgorod region is under a place on which even before the Tatar invasion stood the monastery of the Solovki miracle workers. Later, the dungeon became the last refuge of the chosen monks, which gradually reduced the dose of food and water, so that after the death of their bodies they remained imperishable. In 1850, wishing that as many people as possible learned about their actions, peasant Vladimir Kostelev decorated the underground church with icons and conducted Christian services there.
9. Valaam
The Valaam archipelago is famous for its Orthodox monastery, which pilgrims from all over the country seek to see. It seems that there is a line between the old pagan beliefs and the Christian religion, because the Orthodox buildings coexist with the Veles hive, runic stones and Celtic crosses depicted on the rocks.
10. Olkhon
Psychics around the world are called Baikal the Great Collector, because it draws energy from space to earth with incredible power. Olkhon is considered to be the "pulsing heart" of the lake, where you can see several ritual objects at once. Sanctuary in Kladovo, Shaman-cliff, slab with Bargut inscriptions ... Each of these places is considered sacred and so frightening that they are still forbidden to visit children and women - it is believed that their psyche is too sensitive, so evil spirits can get into their body . Go to the Shaman-rock and only the strongest sorcerers of the planet, who gather once a year for ritual spell reading, can do at all.