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YARLu Valley Legends

This conversation is dedicated to the Master Stone in the Yarlu Valley, whose fate over the past twelve years has become inextricably linked with the fate of many thousands of people.

In 2000, having gathered the Aiin who accompanied Him from the Stone, the Master said: “Remember my words: it will not take a few years before the Valley will become a place of mass pilgrimage, the second Mecca, where full-flowing streams of people from all over the world will rush.” Everything happened exactly as the Teacher had prophesied.

The Jarlu Valley has become a Place of Power, a source of spiritual and physical healing for thousands of people. Gradually, with the growth of its popularity, the name of Rikl, the creator of the currently existing energy complex - Magnet, began to be artificially replaced by the money-grubber from the spirit with more convenient names that had long taken root in the minds of people. For some reason, the adventurers thought that they could easily rewrite the history of the birth of the Master Stone in their own way. Poisonous rivulets of inventions of envious people, spiteful critics and simply ignorant people, poisoning the minds of poor little people - spiritually dying out inhabitants of the Planet, flowed along the mortal earth, ahead of each other.

People who visited the Valley, not subject to bazaar rhetoric, describe their impression of what they saw and heard from the lips of esoterically abnormal broadcasters:

“As I already wrote, the center of everyone's attention in the Jarlu Valley is a large monolithic stone. According to various sources, it is called the Roerich stone, and the master stone, and many other options. To be honest, during all my visits and communication with the "old-timers" of the stone city, I have never heard the same story. Each person who came across to me there gave his own description of this stone, its origin and purpose. It is for this reason that I will not write and insist on any particular truth. I would just like to describe my personal impressions of being in this place. " (http://publicpost.ru/elections/blog/id/19135/, blog by Valery Stepanyuk).

Oral folk art, mixed with peroxide esoteric leaven, finds its life in legends, tales and even scientific hypotheses regarding the origin of the mysterious Stone, which are passed from mouth to mouth to travelers who come to the Valley, wandering around the Earth in search of spiritual bread, and simply to tourists, for the sake of curiosity or by coincidence visiting the Valley. Through the worldview of both, this explosive mixture, flavored with selfish thoughts, spreads over the endless expanses of the World Wide Web, from where millions of people get information and pass it through their slagged consciousness.

Everyone seeks to do their bit and take part in the creation of the story of the birth of the Miracle Stone in the Valley of the Jarlu. Most often it is associated with the name of N.K. Roerich and his Central Asian expedition, during which famous artist visited Altai.

The pseudo-creators pursue their own selfish goals: travel agencies, for the sake of profit, attract tourists in the name of Roerich, without even bothering to study the route that his expedition took. After all, if they had done this, they would have seen that Roerich had never been to the Yarlu Valley and his path ran far beyond the neighboring ridges.

Leaders from the spirit and esotericism of various sorts, like ninety percent of all those who visit the Valley, present themselves in front of the Master Stone with pious mines, which instantly change their content when the camera lenses are closed, come to openly acquire energy in all possible forms of its manifestation.

We observed all this through the lens of our employee's video camera, who filmed the material "Yarlu-2012". Not paying attention to the inconspicuous person with a camera, the visitors to the Valley, without embarrassment, changed clothes of "piety" for colorful outfits of rudeness, ignorance and outright rudeness. Among them were both "followers" of Rikl and "admirers" of Roerich, who cannot find unity in matters of the spiritual heritage of their Masters, but are so close in manifestations of their selfhood and ambition. At the moments when their skulls are not touched by the streams of holy grace emanating from the Stone, they completely forget that they are in a space sanctified by the spirit of the Great Names, to the list of which from year to year more and more giants from the spirit are added by their own concerns - rulers of world history.

On one of the sites on the Internet, we read an amazing story that completely overturned the theory about the belonging of the Master Stone to the work of N.K. Roerich and its creators themselves.

“The stone of Genghis Khan. Jarlu gorge

A fantastic place is the Yarlu gorge in the Edelweiss valley, here a whole city of stones is built. This area is called the Blue Mountains, because the cliffs in the valley are almost entirely made of blue clay, due to which in the daytime the slopes of the valley are painted in blue, purple-lilac tones.

There is a mysterious place in the southern part of the valley. According to legend, in the Yarlu valley, another name for the Edelweiss Valley, the Valley of the Mother of the World, is one of the entrances to the cherished Shambhala. At the entrance to the valley lies a huge boulder - the stone of Genghis Khan, an energy stone, which came from nowhere and how it came to be.

There are many legends about this stone for many centuries. The stone is really huge, amazing, it goes 70 meters deep into the ground, and around, basically, there are stones of a different shape and structure. It is believed that the stone protects the entrance to the valley.

A person with a low level of vibrations (and vibration is the essence of a person), with a negative way of thinking, will not enter the valley, believe it or not, but the valley does not accept.

Such people begin to have sharp bouts of pain or there is another urgent matter or just a desire to leave, fear and dizziness are not uncommon. Old pains are aggravated. The lower centers vibrate, some blockages are removed there.

The warriors of Genghis Khan, his legendary fighters recharged at this energy stone. The energy activity of the stone does not weaken, only it constantly changes.

During his Altai expedition, Roerich visited the Yarlu valley and marked this stone with his sign and a blue cross, as a place of power. The "energy" stone is supposed to climb barefoot and sit on it in silence and meditate. If your own energy is powerful, you can hug a stone with your arms outstretched. "

The Internet is full of all kinds of tales about the Jarlu Valley. We even really liked one of them. It says that the Master Stone has been called the Shaman's Stone or the World Stone since ancient times. According to legend, once on the site of Lake Ak-Kem there was a city in front of Belukha, and the Mirovoy Kamen was the place where the ancient princes decided peace issues.

During the days we were told another story, heard by the guys on the Akkem trail. “Knowledgeable” people said that Alexander the Great himself visited Altai and lived for several weeks in the Yarlu Valley, drawing strength and wisdom from the Master Stone. We also heard about aliens who brought this Stone from another planet.

I wonder who will be next? Whose name will overshadow these promised lands and the Stone, which only half a century ago opened the earthly firmament with its mighty body, but already so strongly entangled by people with threads of distant and unknown times?

Are you putting too heavy a load on it? After all, behind each name there are stones that have repeatedly changed the river beds of world history, their own pain and joy, the suffering of some and the triumph of others.

Why do you put on him the seals of the past, pulling him down with age-old weights, while he is striving upwards with all his might? The past, which the Master-Stone simply does not exist, for half a century ago it was the flesh of the earth, and not its form.

It is no coincidence that people who visited the Valley this year began to say that the Stone began to go underground. Perhaps it seemed to them, and perhaps he really decided to leave the earthly world, having fed up with the negativity of its inhabitants.

A random Traveler will come to the valley, tired, lie down on the ground, resting his head on a stone bed barely protruding from the depths of the earth, and peacefully fall asleep. He will be unaware that he is lying on the Great Stone, which until recently was worshiped by thousands of people, and in his relaxed sleep the Traveler will be much closer to him than all those who today beat their foreheads against his stronghold, create their portals in his space, zealously kisses the engraved symbols and, selflessly demonstrating his advancement, surrounded by hundreds of people, tries to comprehend the heights of meditation.

Another scenario is also possible.

We also bring to your attention that in July 2012, another stream of stone lava descended on Jarlu, not as strong as the previous one, but bringing visible transformations of its forms.

How the Valley began to look after that, ask eyewitnesses, but those who remember it since 2002 will note colossal changes in the terrain not towards improving the approaches to the Stone City and the Master Stone.

Pay attention to this trend. Have you ever thought about the fact that when the Jarlu absorbs a certain critical mass of human negativity that everyone who comes leaves on her Altar, she decides to again fence herself off from the two-legged barbarians with impassable corum ramparts and swampy swamps. Then people, as in the time of Sapozhnikov, the brilliant explorer of Altai (1861-1924), will bypass it by neighboring ridges and, directing their gaze to the surviving stone island, will tell each other legends that once there was a Stone City inside which the Master Stone rested.

What truth are you trying to find in the disputes about who discovered this Stone, who engraved symbols on it and, having connected it with the Cosmos, gave the Earth a Magnet, a source of creative energy?

Why did we decide to support the debate that has developed so strongly in recent months? Not because some of us were with Rikla, when in 1999 he led the first Aiin expedition to the Yarlu Valley, where the same Stone stood alone, surrounded only by silent blue mountains, not yet a Master, but already a Miracle Creation of nature ... The stone, whose body you are trampling with your feet today, sometimes without even deigning to take off your shoes, hurrying to comfortably nest your back on it in order to more effectively capture yourself against the background of a great creation ... And then proudly tell that before you this Stone was honored with their presence giants of history like Macedonian, Genghis Khan, Roerich ... and some other Rikl, who appropriated all their merits.

We give this analysis not because among us there are those who, according to Rikl's plan, drew symbols on the Stone and laid the first boulders in the foundation of the Stone City. For ten years now they have been silently, with a barely noticeable smile, listening to the stories of “those in the know” about how Roerich “marked the Stone with his Sign” or how his followers in the nineties found and placed symbols on some maps, as indicated on Roerich's drawings.

The names of the Aiins, who stuck the symbolism, will never be inscribed in history, adding to the list of the Great Ones, and the spirit merchants will not lure thousands of simpletons to them. But does it really matter? The main thing is that they will forever remain and find, let earthly, but still eternity, in the Heart of the Stone Giant. Under the sound of their hammers, a Master was born in His gigantic body, washed with hot sweat of inspired labor and quiet tears of participation in the Teacher's Creativity.

Read how it actually happened:

« July 16, 2000

Amedeya corrects her yesterday's vision about the Signs of Fire.

- I saw not the Jarlinsky, but the next stone. I understood this immediately, as soon as I began to look through the thin plan again.

Here the Father is no longer silent:

- Of course, the Cross on the Stone will be from the east, the Banner of Peace - in the west. So the Fire of the Revival of the Life of the Spirit on Earth, which is the Equal-sized Cross of existence and evolution, will meet the Fire of the Sun on the steep side of the Stone, and then it will pour from the flat side into the world with a Banner, sprouts from its three fiery points will sprout as Rays of Life on Earth.

The energy to the Creativity of the engraving of symbols was laid by Rikla himself, seeing in the arrangement of the Signs the eternal Path of Fire. The sun in the east (Aries) - as a birth, an irrepressible striving for the birth, growth of all living things, then at the zenith (Fire of Leo) - this is already the Flame of prosperity, Creativity, stability and the first practical results. The Third Fire (Sagittarius) is the energy of an archer, a wise old man, aiming at the unknown. According to this fiery seeding, signs will be placed ...

July 20, 2000

Diliitius and Allizarch began to mark the Symbols at the Place of Power Stone. Diliitius saw the Banner of Peace and the Cross in the convex lines of the engraving. A year ago he chose this stone for his meditation, explaining then to everyone: "It is warm, it burns from the inside!"

Now there is work to be done in energies, even the Father has no right to interfere with this Creation. It is also undesirable to be near someone ...

From his morning heights Rikla surveyed the situation at the Stone, now he announces:

- What comes out from under the chisels of our stonecutters is indescribable! This is Creativity that will take your breath away. I repeat once again: it is not the gods who create energy on Earth, but people in their beauty create it! ..

In the evening, at supper, Diliitius puts the last piece of bread into his mouth.

- It is immediately evident that he finished the work, - the Teacher states the fact, - at lunch he had no time for food, he was all in the Stone, in the Creativity of its form.

The engraving of the signs of Fire is really ready, only the paint has not been applied. Finally, it is allowed for all the rest to come into contact with the strong Creativity.

The stone sounds, it is alive! The Equal-sized Cross, which carries the energy of the birth of the Fire of Life, appears before us as a gigantic breath, the Banner of Peace - as the exhalation of a stone giant. It soars high, raised in the Spirit, which means that it will not be lowered in the heart!

On the Stone there is a comfortable hollow for meditation, we, lying and sitting on warm stone sides, merged with it in the fiery Emptiness. Peace, pacification emanates from this manifested eternity, and so I do not want to leave my stone fellow-long-lived ...

July 21, 2000

The cross on the Stone under the hand of Allizarch blooms with a sapphire. The color of wisdom is inherent in this symbol of nascent life from the very beginning. It was not for nothing that Lord Moria wore this magnificent stone in his turban for a long time.

(photo of the Equal-Great Cross, color insert after p. 112, vol. 6, "The Fire of the Unified Cosmos")

Diliitius colors the Banner of Peace with a ruby ​​proclaiming:
"Let life be victorious like the Banner of Peace!"
(photo of the Banner of Peace, color insert after p.48, v.6, "The Fire of the Unified Cosmos")

The Stone has silence, only occasionally cut through by flashes of color and the chirping of birds. The wind rustles in the sparse grass, like an old janitor with a broom controls. Everything is waiting for the coming of the life-giving Fire of the Unified Cosmos. In the evening, Alexander, who had gone to meditate on the Stone, took out a dusty crumb from Him for a long time and carefully with his handfuls, dressed him up for tomorrow's holiday ...

July 22, 2000

With the first rays of the sun, the sacrament of the Consecration of the Stone is appointed. At fifteen minutes past seven, we all walk towards him along the waking gully following the Teacher in the cool of the morning. The mountains are painted with all possible shades of the rainbow spectrum; Our stone is just at the border of silvery-steel rocks with purple jasper. YARLu has another name - the Valley of the Drozdov. Here are their seven respectable birds have already sat down on the slopes as spectators of the upcoming Creation.

Very soon the place will have a new name. From the new century, people will call it the Valley of Fire, when Rikla awakens the Stone to Creativity. Then the Stone-Master will shine with a constant source of pure energy, a luminous standard, singing true human treasures, will help the Earth and its civilization rise ...

Timid rays of the sun touch the tops of the grass on the slopes, the Creativity of Fire begins, the mystery of awakening and initiation. Rikl's arms are extended upward. He invokes the energies of the Beyond Cosmos. As a bell wakes up in their sounding Stone, the aura of a mountain window above Kara-Turek is drawn, the sky brightens. Everything froze in solemnity. It is as if we are in the Temple with burning candles in our hands, listening to the Word of Fire, there is a divine service on the Altar of Peace!

The position of the Teacher's hands changes: the left hand is raised up, invokes the forces of Light, the earthly and heavenly Sun, the right one is lowered, restrains the onslaught of the forces of darkness and darkness. Now the transcendental energies of the distant Cosmos will flow through them.

Rikla dedicates the Stone with all five Signs of Fire. To shed on him now here the skill to people who have come here with a bow, from the affairs of the world to know the affairs of heaven, until the earth opens up. But even then, having changed the forms of his existence, he will preserve fiery awareness; and already another Teacher will illuminate his inner shining meaning.

At dawn, only the first part of Creativity was completed, the Equal Cross was revived. The Banner of Peace is a stream of energy, flowing through it, Rikla will open later ... "

(photo from the color insert after p. 48, volume 6, "The Fire of the Unified Cosmos")

Now take a close look at the photograph taken on August 10, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, where Rikl in meditation invokes the energies of Shambhala of the Earth for joint creativity. The picture was taken from the east side, the Master sits on the Stone with his arms outstretched; and now the Stone itself is EMPTY. As early as one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, there was no symbolism on the Stone, the outline of which is attributed to N.K. Roerich, who allegedly visited the Yarlu Valley in 1926.

(photo from the color insert after p. 80, volume 5, "The Fire of the Unified Cosmos")

Once Rikla told his students how the Stone rose from the bowels of the earth, the conversation was recorded and published.

“One day in August 1970, I was descending from the upper reaches of the Tekelu, where Sapozhnikov once stopped with his caravan and several companions. Coming out to the middle ridge of the Yarlu valley, I decided to traverse it from the left side along the damp sypushnik. It is easier to run along it in zigzags, dropping the height of the pass. Dry crushed stone becomes hard, as if cemented, and in the event of a fall, little remains of the clothes, except that rags hanging along the body, like separate fragments of the once-existed linen. Dexterously wielding my favorite instrument of the path - the kayak, I literally "rolled" down in fifteen to twenty minutes. Shaking out small rubble from rubber short boots, he quickly rushed along Yarlinka to the village, where Nikolai Sagalovich or a week's supply of food left by him by prior arrangement was to wait for me. Having run out onto a fairly flat plateau, in front of the entrance to the forest zone about three hundred meters away, I Saw a rather smooth surface of the stone protruding from the ground by thirty to forty centimeters. It felt like it was a monolith sitting deep in the ground ...

... Eighteen years later, in 1989, being almost five thousand kilometers from the Stone, I heard his Call and, abandoning all worldly worries, rushed to Altai - to Yarlu ...

… Another ten years passed, when it was no longer Valentine, but Rikl led his first disciples to the Stone, which clearly changed its forms. Now I knew why Karma had thrown me back in 1967 to Altai, and since 1970 - to the very Heart of the Altai Mountains.

I knew what to do!

I knew how to do it!

I knew - why do I need to do! ..

... The YARLu Valley of 2004 was remembered by all the sharply increased number of visitors to the Place of Power Stone-Master. Guides lead planning groups, tell myths about the Stone, around which legends and parables about its mysterious appearance are composed. Since 2005, the Master Stone and the Fortress City, built according to the plan of Rikl, have entered into a single ensemble of the National Reserve. The first stone of the Fortress, according to Rikla's drawings, was laid in 2002 by Kami-Dominay with a group of Aiin, according to the Master's plan ... "

("Milestones of the Fiery Accomplishment", volume 2, second edition)

Even from these lines, everything becomes extremely clear to a reasonable person: the Stone, which has grown in front of Valentine for thirty years, slept deep in the bowels of the earth, when Macedonian, Genghis Khan, and even Roerich walked on it, and under no circumstances could it be a witness their ways.

The Master Born in the Stone is the Creativity of the Earth and the Sky, united by the Master Rikla in the Beam of Initiation in the year 2000, the first year of the third millennium.

The symbolism engraved on the Stone is the work of the stonecutters Allizarch, Diliitia and Kami-Dominay, who in 2000 and 2001 embodied Rikl's plan on the form of a megalith.

The Stone City, founded by the Aiins in 2002, is a collective co-creation of hundreds of people who come to the Valley every summer, and now all year round, to meet with the Master Stone.

None of the Altai followers of the Roerichs ten years ago had even heard of the Stone in the Yarlu Valley, which only a few years later was inscribed by them in the thread of the route of the Central Asian expedition, and, incidentally, in the avenues of tourist routes under the loud name “Roerich’s Stone” or “Valley Roerich ".

The person who is now writing these lines, in the now distant 2002, personally, under the dictation of the Master, typed an e-mail to one of the leaders of the Roerich movement in Gorny Altai, where the Teacher spoke about the Stone-Master and the Yarlu Valley.

Then a natural question arose: "Master, why are we doing this?"

Answer: “Let them go, let them lead them to the Valley of People. Several years will pass, and you will see that not dozens, but hundreds and thousands of seekers will aspire to the Master Stone. And it doesn't matter whose followers they will be, for they will come to the Valley for a breath of pure energy, which they will draw not from the names of their Gurus, but from the Stone-Master, united by Rikla with the United Cosmic Magnet. It doesn't matter to me whose name will sound in connection with the truly Cosmic Creativity in the Yarlu Valley, the main thing is that the Magnet will work for the good. And time will put everything in its place ”.

Today, these same followers, coming to the Valley, which they are struggling to make a platform for their personal progress up the hierarchical ladder of leaders from the spirit, with bloodshot bull eyes, without hesitation in expressions, like chain dogs, rush to those who are peacefully sitting around the Master Stone people demanding to remove Rikl's Books, allegedly desecrating the purity of Roerich's space.

So, the Stone for you is a Shrine, and the Master who gave birth to Him is an outcast? Now Rickle is preventing you from receiving dividends on His own Creation.

Linking the Stone in the Jarlu Valley with the name of N.K. Roerich, you either deliberately distort the known facts of his stay in Altai, or expose your ignorant ignorance of N.K. Roerich, with whom his expedition took place.

Obviously, the time has come, about which the Teacher spoke ten years ago, - to put everything in its place.

Comparison of geographical coordinates, names of old places with new ones and other calculations that can be done based on the information given in the diaries of the expedition participants and the facts told by the locals of that period who accompanied travelers on radial exits may take some time, but for an inquisitive seeker it will not be difficult to restore justice.

It is precisely established that Roerich saw Belukha from the side of the southern slopes, from where the Katun originates. He also climbed the Terekta ridge, which borders the Uimon steppe from the north (see map). Guides took him along the squirrels of the Katunsky ridge, which lie parallel to the Kucherla and Ak-Kem rivers, but at a considerable distance from them.

Researchers draw basic information about the Roerichs' places of residence from the article "Roerich in Altai" by the Barnaul artist Leopold Tsesyulevich, who came to Upper Uimon when the peasants who remembered the famous travelers were still alive. The article contains the following lines:

“Roerich visited many surrounding mountains. An artist with a guide, Vakhramey Semyonovich, on horseback climbed the squirrels Studenny, Pogorelka, Bolshoi Batun, Maly Batun. We climbed the Terekta ridge to paint the top of Belukha from there. We went to the foot of Belukha along the Kucherela river. Roerich was also on the southern slopes of the Katunsky ridge, from where the view of Belukha opens most fully. This trip is evidenced by his famous painting "Belukha", which is now in Paris, in the Louvre. In this picture, painted in a sonorous, light tonal relationship, both peaks of Belukha are clearly visible, the Gebler glacier is drawn in the foreground, and behind it is the snow-covered Ridge Ridge crossing the Katunsky and Berelsky glaciers ”.

A person who has been in these parts or studied the map knows that if you go along Kucherla, you will not get to the foot of Belukha, you also need to take the Karatyurek pass.

Some followers of the Roerichs suggest that he could quickly ride horses along Kucherla and climb the Karatyurek pass to admire Belukha from there. They admit that, being a good rider, it is possible to make such a trip with an ascent to a pass at a height of 3060 meters and return back in one day. Obviously, those who put forward such hypotheses do it from a soft home chair, running their sleek fingers over the map and not imagining the real hardships of such a journey for a person from the thirties of the last century. Even with the modern development of the tourism industry, which greatly facilitates the testing of man in the mountains, this task will be quite difficult to accomplish.

Researchers of the Roerichs' heritage, although they do not have an accurate description of the routes of their travels in Altai, are unanimous in the fact that they made all trips on horseback from the Uimon Valley, and the farthest was to the confluence of Ak-Kem and Katun (by the way, at present it is The Western Summit of the Mother Magnet, laid down by Rikla in 2004).

A trip along Kucherla is a rather serious journey, but even if you accept its opportunity, there is simply no time left to get to Yarlu, let alone engravings. Those who assert Roerich's involvement in the creation of the Place of Power in the Yarlu Valley do not imagine the laboriousness of deep engraving on a stone, which, depending on the breed, takes several days of labor with incisors with victorious tips.

But these are all words, let's turn to the facts and conduct a brief analysis of Roerich's stay and his expedition directly in Gorny Altai.

First of all, it is necessary to clarify the terms of this stay, after which many delusions imposed on you regarding the range of works carried out by Roerich will disappear by themselves.

Leopold Tsesyulevich's article "Roerich in Altai" gives the following starting dates for the movement of the expedition:

“We arrived in Biysk on July 30. Here they hired a charioteer, horses, loaded the luggage into four carts. The next day we went deep into Altai.<...>

On the seventh day after leaving Biysk, having crossed the Katun by ferry, the expedition arrived in Verkhniy Uimon. Here we stopped at Vakhramey Semenovich Atamanov. "

The Roerichs' departure from Upper Uimon took place on the nineteenth of August, on the twenty-fourth of August they arrived in Biysk, from where on the twenty-sixth they departed on a motor ship to the capital of Siberia, the city of Novosibirsk.

Thus, the duration of the stay of the Roerichs expedition in Gorny Altai was limited to only twelve days.

If you carefully study the materials of the Central Asian expedition based on the diaries of its participants, you can independently come to the conclusion that Roerich was physically unable to visit the Yarlu Valley and engrave double symbols on the Stone.

Having stayed in Gorny Altai for only 12 days, he was largely limited in time to undertake such a journey and perform the indicated work. Despite the paucity of information about the actual routes of the expedition, it is known that its members made short radial exits in different directions, having previously sent guides for reconnaissance. Usually in the first half of the day they went on horseback, in the second they worked and talked in Verkhniy Uimon.

The daughter of Vakhramey Semyonovich, Zinaida Zubakina, recalls the Roerichs this way: “... The old man was sitting at his place more and more, and Yura ran or went to the mountains. And sometimes we went together. And we went there and there. We went in all directions ”.

Regarding the last proposal, according to the records of the expedition, there are four main directions:

1. Terektinsky ridge.

2.Katunskiye squirrels.

3. Exploration of the Uimon steppe.

4. Merger of Ak-Kem and Katun.

As for the first three points, everything is clear enough here. For each of the exits N.K. Roerich spent at least one day. But the trip to the confluence of Ak-Kem and Katun took at least four days.

It is almost seventy kilometers from Tungur to Uimon. If we assume that the Roerichs stayed overnight in Tungur and from there they visited the confluence of Ak-Kem with the Katunya, the Kucherla valley and carried out their research there, which Zinaida Grigorievna Fosdik constantly mentions in her travel notes, then such a mini-expedition can take at least four to five days, if you move almost without stopping.

Thus, to all radial exits N.K. Roerich could take from seven to eight days, and this despite the fact that we deliberately underestimate the time interval, not taking into account the everyday circumstances of organizing the expedition in the 30s and bad weather, which almost half of the time accompanied their movement.

“That summer, the summer of 1926, the Altai was flooded with rains. The roads were washed out, sticky, black mud turned them into treacherous swamps. The muddy water filled the road bumps to the brim.<...>In mid-August, clear days came, and snow had already fallen on the mountains. The air became transparent, and the distance was clearly visible ”. (L. V. Shaposhnikova, "Altai: along the path of Roerich").

So, out of twelve days, at best four are left, in which Roerich had to visit the Jarlu, as well as devote time to his personal inner work, which, according to eyewitnesses, he did: “Close and cordial relations were formed between Roerich and Vakhramey Semyonovich. When the artist was working in his room, Vakhramey was the only one who could visit him without an invitation. "

Let's now consider the possibility of Roerich's trip to the Jarlu Valley.

There are opinions that during his stay in Gorny Altai, Roerich visited the Yarlu Valley, where he “marked the Stone with his sign”. He had only four days for this journey. For this, Roerich had to reach the Jarlu in one day. Is this possible for travelers in the 30s? A contemporary will answer: “Of course, yes,” but he is guided by what this route represents today. However, in your haste and incompetence, you did not take into account the fact that even when Roerich traveled across Altai through the Katun and Kucherla rivers there were no bridges yet and the crossing took much longer than today.

For comparison, read the description of the Yarlu Valley by V.V. Sapozhnikov in 1897. His scientific expedition with a visit to N.K. Roerich Altai is separated by only twenty-nine years of silence, peace and untouched pristine nature of these places.

“Tekelu gorge and pass to Argut system. Having finished our work in Ak-Keme, on June 16 we moved to neighboring Tekela, and it cost us a lot of trouble. Crossing Ak-Kem ford below the lake, we headed in a swampy meadow to the narrow side valley of the Yarlu river, flowing on the northern side of the mountain of the same name. However, we did not go through its valley, since it is surrounded by terrible steeps with talus, as evidenced by the very name of Yarlu, that is, "with cliffs" or with "yars". It was necessary to climb steeply "to the valley", or to the plateau, along the right bank of the Yarlu and walk parallel to the valley to the east, much higher than the forest border. Above, a narrow notch of the valley with light blue talus is especially well drawn.

The dale, or plateau, is a desolate undulating plain with no signs of trees, covered with stunted Alpines. In some places there are exposed corum placers or low rocky ridges protrude. After 3 hours of travel, we were opposite the top of the Yarlu river, on a high pass to Tekela (up to 2,860 m), where, in a strong wind, we were covered with snow pellets. The watershed between Tekel and Jarlu is interesting in the sense that it runs with a narrow mane parallel to the first and perpendicular to the second, and the mane, with an absolute height of 2,530 m, a sloping meadow of only 170 m descends to the east to Tekel and a terribly steep blue rush of meters to four hundred breaks off to the river. Jarl. The mane is constantly crumbling towards the Jarl, over time this small obstacle can be completely destroyed, and then Tekel will dig a new path for itself here ”(VV Sapozhnikov“ Travels in Altai ”).

Mostly all travelers and explorers of the twentieth century approached Belukha from the south, through the Rakhmanov springs from Kazakhstan. There were also those who, like Sapozhnikov, mastered the approaches to Belukha from the northern side, but there were significantly fewer of them and, according to reports that do not contain evidence of their visit to the Yarlu, we can conclude that the guides of that time bypassed the Valley “surrounded by terrible steeps »Side.

For example, the famous Altai artist Choros-Gurkin, whom he took to Altai, including to Belukha, Vakhramey Atamanov, who later was N.K. Roerich, there is not a single picture and not a single mention in oral work either about the Miracle Stone in the Yarlu Valley, or about the Valley itself. This route was clearly not popular in those years.

It makes no sense even to consider the fact that knowing about the antiquity of the origin and the role of the Master Stone in the history of not only Altai, but the whole world, as the legends of our time tell us about this, such an inquisitive researcher as Choros-Gurkin, being in Ak-Kemsky glacier at the foot of Belukha, did not visit these promised lands and did not reflect the impressions received in his work.

Over the twenty-nine years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries between the expeditions of Sapozhnikov and Roerich, little has changed in the appearance of the Valley in comparison with the global transformation that it has undergone over the past twenty-five years. Back in the seventies, in Jarlu, it was necessary to wade through deep swamps and blockages of corums, so the Valley was bypassed by neighboring ridges.

Just imagine that a hundred years ago the Ak-Kemsky glacier protruded two kilometers forward, filling the entire space along which tourists today walk to its foot.

In July two thousand and one, the Jarlu Valley changed its face so much overnight that all the transformations that have taken place with it over the past hundred years seem insignificant.

“It was the end of July 2000. We split into two groups; the first, which was to follow the usual route through the Jarlu Valley to the agreed meeting point at the Place of Power Civilization, was led by Allizarch. The master had to go with his group through the Orokta, along the ridges, go down to Tekel, bypassing the Yarlu Valley, as they used to go in the old days. There was no such trail on Ak-Kem before, there was a barely noticeable trail, Vitya Nolfin, Valentin's guide, drove, and occasionally groups of tourists made their way through the stone rubble. What paths are there, these are roads now.

Taking into account the situation in which the group of Allizarch got, warned by the Master back in Barnaul about the alleged force majeure circumstances of his path, Rikl changed his original route and on the second day for lunch he set up his camp in Jarlu.

The natural situation was getting more complicated every hour, the whole area of ​​the Valley was saturated with vibrations of the approaching catastrophe. In the evening of the same day, I went up to the Chalice of the Altar of Peace and sat down in meditation. I turned to the Lords of the elements: "Give me a corridor, six o'clock tomorrow morning, I must get people out, otherwise they will die." I communicated with Them as I am talking to you now. I explained to them the tasks assigned to me, and that I have no other people who would be ready to fulfill them with me.

When I went down to the Valley, something incredible was already happening. Gusts of wind knocked him down, black clouds rushing at a frantic speed plunged the Jarlu into darkness.

You all know the Master's parking lot well. Our tent with Kami stood closer to the hillock, next to the crooked larch, and the tent of Diliitiy and Aiiya was on the edge, closer to the river.

The valley at that time had a completely different landscape. A clear river flowed right near the camp, it was three or four meters wide. The water was ankle-deep and higher, in places reaching up to the knee. Diliity and Aya's tent stood about three meters from the river cliff. There was a small cliff, about fifty or sixty centimeters, from our side flowed a river with clear water, and on the other side, along the middle ridge, a black river roaring a muddy stream of mudflow. They were separated by a lintel, five meters wide and two meters high. All the streams running from the grassy slope formed a clear river, the bottom of which was strewn with white and pink quartz. A little below the camp, a muddy river on the other side of the middle ridge connected with a clear one, and together they were rushing in a swift stream to Ak-Kem.

When I saw what was happening in nature, I asked the guys to secure the tents with additional guy wires and, just in case, have a knife in the tent so that they could cut through the canvas and jump out of it if necessary.

At about ten in the evening a terrible downpour started with wild gusts of wind, which literally swept away everything in their path, well, and we were "swept" into tents. Between eleven and twelve at night, something unimaginable began, beyond any comprehension. Nothing was heard, except for a continuous hum, which pressed on the head with terrible force. The earth vibrated, space shook in the fierce rage of the howling wind, and then I realized that something was happening beyond the scope of perception - a cataclysm. With difficulty I shouted to the guys and asked Seryozha to go out and look at the river bed, if he would wash their tent. The answer was shocking: "Nothing will happen." Then it dawned on me ... It's a crash! Once again I was left alone with the elements. I see that Kami is not going to go out, it's useless to dress, as I was in only shorts, I jumped out. Something unimaginable was going on there ... I will not describe it. The beast awakened in me literally threw Ayu and Diliitia out of the tent, forced to rearrange it next to ours. We were all soaked to our long bones and were terribly cold. Nothing was visible, stones, dry branches, trees uprooted and everything that the elements managed to lift from the ground were flying in the air.

Suddenly I heard the impending rumble of a formidable element, rushing with increasing speed from somewhere above. Not having had time to fully realize all the perniciousness of the moment, I fell somewhere and already, as if from afar, could hear an eerie rumble going along the ground, feeling its vibrations right under the bottom of the tent, under the sleeping bag. The earth did not shake, as during an earthquake, it vibrated, as if some huge mass, tens of thousands of tons, was walking along it.

In the morning I woke up - woke up, so it would be more accurate. Silence, absolute silence. The birds are singing and the sun is shining. I climbed out of the tent, as I glanced - I was horrified: the Valley was not there. There was no five-meter bridge between the rivers, there was nothing at all. Where the guys' tent stood, from which they did not want to get out at night, a cliff formed, and if I had not pulled them out by force, they would have simply been washed away and crushed by mudflows. The whole Valley was knee-deep in mud and above. The cofferdam separating the two rivers was pierced by a lava flow, like the ninth wave with water and rain, rolling down from the tops. I have never experienced this again in my life, although I saw a lot and endured a lot, but there was only one such night.

I have known Jarl for over forty years, she absolutely changed her appearance, absolutely. The terrain before the Stone City was changed beyond recognition. Lava passed through the Valley and went to Ak-Kem. Soon everything hardened and became the surface layer of what you have now trampled your roads on.

Since that night, the Jarlu Valley has acquired the form that you all know. Imagine that if the height of the canyon dividing the rivers reached two meters in height and about five in width, i.e. we calmly walked along this bridge to the Stone, then how strong was the mudflow, which swept it off the face of the earth like a blade of grass. The terrain has leveled off, the bright river is gone, as it was not at all. Now, eleven years later, only a few streams are trying to find the bed of the future river again.

It was such power, the mudflow overnight washed away the forest, changed the river beds, swept away everything that stood in its way from the face of the earth. Scary night, my companions, who were then with me, did not realize in the epicenter of what natural cataclysm they found themselves. "

Studying the discussions between serious researchers of the Roerich heritage, who, by the way, nowhere even mention the Yarlu Valley and do not consider it as possible place stay of the expedition, and more often they argue about from what point the artist saw Belukha, we find the following assumptions.

Culturologist I.A. Zhernosenko writes that: “N.K. Roerich could not go to the northern foot of Belukha through Kucherla, because from the side of Kucherla, you can get to Belukha only after passing one of the passes: Kara-Turek or Riga-Tourist. The first talus, height 3060 m, category 1A; the second is a talus, a height of 2850 m. Both passes are impassable for horses and have a category of difficulty accepted in mountain tourism. "

Our contemporaries refute his statement, stating that the Karatyurek pass is not talus and an excellent horse trail lies through it. Of course, they are right, but they do not take into account the fact that twenty numerous tourists have made it good over the past years, and more than eighty years ago only hunters and rare groups of researchers roamed these places.

At the same time, in accordance with the terms in which Roerich's expedition was supposed to meet, we are considering only the option of its exit from Tungur, excluding Upper Uimon.

You must understand that the goals and objectives set before Roerich by his modern admirers, who assert the artist's involvement with the Master Stone in the Yarlu Valley, require special preparation and time.

This is not just a horseback ride along the surrounding ridges, but a full-fledged micro-expedition, in which Roerich was supposed to go along with a group of trained people, provisions, tents and other butor necessary in everyday life.

Also, this group should have included people who had special equipment and skills in stone work.

Were there such people in the Roerich expedition? And if so, why are their names not announced anywhere? This is not at all characteristic of either the Roerichs themselves or the companions accompanying them.

In the diaries of the expedition participants, we find detailed information about the role assigned to each member of the group, from the Leaders themselves and their closest assistants to the last servant (shepherd).

N.K. Roerich paid a lot of attention and spared neither time nor ink to show the involvement of each person in the common cause.

Therefore, we meet so detailed descriptions the most ordinary daily affairs, along with stories about the activities carried out by the expedition in the field of research activities, the laying of suburhans and meetings with high-ranking people.

There is not even the slightest mention of who was responsible for the section of the engraving of symbols and when they were carried out. Not a single word anywhere.

Let's go back to the timing. Three days on the road to Jarlu and back, with the execution of work on the application of two symbols on the Stone, which, by the way, was still underground at that time.

Take yourself to the 30s of the last century, imagine the weight and volume of expeditionary equipment, as well as the area of ​​interest to us on the approaches to Belukha, which at that time rather resembled impenetrable jungle than a developed tourist area with well-trodden paths, tourist centers and other civilized services, which it is today.

Could Roerich have undertaken such an expedition within the specified time frame? Draw your own conclusions.

It is necessary to say about two more important factors related to the personality of Nikolai Konstantinovich himself.

It is absolutely not in Roerich's style to create some more or less important thing and keep silent about it. This reads well not only in the diaries of his associates, but also in how he conducted his affairs in the social sphere and how carefully he watched so that his name did not get lost in the annals of history.

For example, being in Altai, Roerich personally made a memorial plaque for the grave of the executed partisans. During their travels across Mongolia and Tibet, the Roerichs repeatedly erected Buddhist shrines - stupas and suburgans. Each such building was accompanied by rituals according to the customs of the host country and was vividly highlighted in the diaries of the expedition participants.

Many Roerichs have repeatedly tried to initiate trials over Rikla, who allegedly appropriated their trademark, which is in fact the oldest Cosmic Symbol of the Trinity on Earth.

How can a person in their right mind perceive that the most ancient symbol on the Banner of Peace is the property of Roerich? And now, when the International Center of the Roerichs has patented the sacred Symbol as its trademark, thereby vulgarizing the idea of ​​the Roerich movement, it has once again convinced us that there are no boundaries of human ignorance.

To patent the symbol of the Trinity, which existed in Space long before the origin of life on Earth and as a life principle used by the inhabitants of various planets, is tantamount to appropriating a piece of the sky, a star or a particle of interplanetary space as personal property.

N.K. himself Roerich very carefully monitored the preservation of his name for each product of his intellectual work, by obtaining various kinds of documentary evidence.

However, look what he said about the Banner of Peace:

"This symbol is of great antiquity and is found throughout the world, therefore it cannot be limited by any sect, organization, religion or tradition, as well as personal or group interests, for it represents the evolution of consciousness in all its phases."

The antiquity of the Trinity Symbol is beyond doubt. No wonder Nicholas Roerich depicted on one of the paintings rocks in the Himalayas engraved with the Symbol of the Trinity, with the only difference: there is no circle. Stones with the same symbolism, but already in a circle, are found in large numbers on the territory of Altai and Siberia. Two such stones are well known to everyone: one lies in Katun, not far from Ak-Koba (between Multa and Katanda), the other in the village of Kuyus, but there are many others that local residents find in various places in the Altai mountains, in the taiga and mountain shores. Time has not erased the creations of the ancient stone-makers, and three circles in one appear on the faces of the stones, sometimes clearly, sometimes hardly guessed.

“Many argue that the Symbols were engraved during the expedition of the Roerichs to Altai. However, this is fundamentally wrong. Rock engraving is many centuries older than the Trinity Symbol legalized by Nicholas Roerich on the Banner of Peace. The Roerichs saw Stones with threefold flames in Altai and perceived them as the Teacher's Message. It was indeed the Message left by the hand of an unnamed Brother who had been carrying out his task in Altai for some time. Approving! The symbolism was once engraved by the hands of ancient Masters at the time of the search for ways to the mythical Belovodye. Even in the pre-Mongol period, loners, as a rule, monks, less often messengers of aspiring princes, extended their gaze towards an unknown country, closely connected by spiritual ties with India and Tibet. Sinegorye, Belovodye excited the minds of restless seekers of a happy life with legends and legends about their mystery. The signs were left by the messengers of the White Brotherhood, as guiding stars to the Abode of the Light Gods. "

(Conversation "Hidden Landmarks of the Paths of the White Brotherhood", "Landmarks of the Fiery Accomplishment", volume 4)

The expedition's diaries also lack any mention of the Ak-Kemsky lake, which Roerich would have seen if he crossed the Katunsky ridge or the Karatyurek pass, as some prospectors assume. The beauty that he could see, having visited the Ak-Kemsky lake, would certainly be reflected in his work, both in prose and in painting. One can only regret that this did not happen, because he could be the first artist, who painted the Ak-Kemskoye lake and the beautiful face of Belukha, reflected in its waters, Boris and Bronislav, eternal guards, frozen on the approaches to the majestic snow. Such canvases appeared much later, because every self-respecting artist who has visited the Altai mountains considers it a matter of honor to capture this incomparable landscape. In Roerich's paintings, Belukha shows us only its snow-white peaks, hiding from the artist's brush behind the picturesque ridges of the surrounding mountains.

Artist B. Smirnov-Rusetsky, student of N.K. Roerich, only in the seventies of the twentieth century reached Lake Ak-Kemsky and wrote Belukha in the traditions of his Master.

B.A. Smirnov-Rusetsky. Belukha. Fog

Some researchers hold the following opinion: “... if you look at the artist's paintings, you can clearly see that Belukha is depicted not from the sources of the Katun, but at a great distance, and from a certain height, which allows you to show the top well dominating over the area, its outlines are not hidden the slopes of the mountains to the right and to the left ”.

Based on this, it can be assumed that N. Roerich was not going to go to the sources of the Katun, it was enough for him to see Belukha from a point closer to Upper Uimon, especially since in the artist's diary entries we find: Belukha itself, about which the deserts whisper ”. (IL Mershina. Altai route of the Central Asian expedition: 80 years later).

N.K. Roerich. Belukha. Sketch

Needless to say, the Valley of the Edelweiss, if the artist had visited it, would also have been on his canvases or in his diary entries, although the Stone might not have attracted his attention, since it was significantly "drowned" in the ground and was hiding in dense grasses, now shamelessly trampled by numerous visitors ...

We will not remind you that there is another engraving on the narrow end of the Stone, which is not indicated in any article or in any tourist booklet - 2000. Those who read Rikl's books know the date of the Consecration of the Stone, which is celebrated as his birthday (July 22, 2000). This is so, by the way, because this circumstance only makes the attacks of certain adherents of the version of the Roerich Stone even more aggressive. They say that damned vandals have ruined the cultural monument. Have you ever thought that if it were not for these symbols, which some attribute to forms of vandalism, neither you nor thousands of other people would have ever learned about the Master Stone in the Yarlu Valley?

And finally, in order to confirm the truth, the keepers of the Roerichs' heritage can conduct an examination, which will confirm that the date of the application of the symbols is really 2000.

Today, many opinions and proposals are being expressed about how exactly to return the Master-Stone in the Yarlu Valley to the name of his true Parent and Initiator, Master Rikl, the person who opened this Place of Power in the Altai mountains for the whole world. Each one offers his own forms of a fair solution to this situation, in accordance with his inner content and state of mind.

Not everything that comes from the pages of your letters and from your oral statements can be accepted and supported by us, for, as Rikl said in one of his last conversations with his students: “The people of the Earth know nothing about justice, although this word sounds from mouth as often as their calls mobile phones penetrating space with deadly vibrations.

In modern times, the word "justice" has become a synonym for the fig leaf, with which, after falling into sin, humanity, which turned the holy principle of creation into lust, began to cover up its shamelessness. For the most part, earthlings adjust justice to their personal benefits and ambitions, which they portray in the form of high aspirations and benefactors. "

But, in spite of everything, no matter how you express your feelings and emotions, we are glad that everything that happens with the Master and around his name does not leave you indifferent. Protect the name of your Master, but if you do it through aggression, lies and hypocrisy, know that such protection makes His movement heavier in the worlds of Space and Earth.

At the end of our conversation, let us return to the question: why did we decide to take part in the discussion, which in recent years has grown into a fierce dispute between the followers of Master Rikl and N.K. Roerich, who is joined by an increasing number of both interested and independent people.

We decided to answer with the words from the book "Community", § 94, perhaps the words of the Masters you venerate will be able to reach your heart:

“You often talk about the imperfection of existing books. I will say more - mistakes in books are equal to a serious crime. Lies in books should be persecuted as a form of gross slander. The speaker's lies are persecuted according to the number of listeners. Lies of the writer - according to the number of prints in the book. It is a grave crime to take the place of popular book depositories with lies. You need to sense the true intention of the feeder in order to assess the quality of his mistakes. Ignorance will be the worst reason. Fear and meanness will take the next place. All these features are impermissible in society. Their elimination must be carried out in new construction. Prohibitive measures, as always, are not suitable. But the open bug must be removed from the book. The need to withdraw and reprint the book will reason the writer.

Every citizen has the right to prove a mistake. Of course, new views and construction cannot be hindered, but the wrong should not be misleading, because knowledge is the shell of the community and the protection of knowledge falls on all members ».

"Remember the favorite words of N.K., which he so often repeats:" We must rely on the truth, on true facts, all our words and actions must be pure, like a crystal, for we live in front of the whole world. " Therefore, keep a vigilant eye so that the enemies who have clothed the guise of friendship do not distort the facts, so that inaccuracy does not creep into even the smallest details, for small things add up to great values. An unseen pebble drops a giant. (Sowing on December 31 gave its harvest.) Do not obstruct the path! "

Finally, it remains to voice the request of the Master Rikl to the visitors of the Yarlu Valley - do not tear the edelweiss, do not trample the herbs.

“At the same time I ask you to defuse the energetic and physical situation around the Place of Power Stone-Master in YARLu. Do not settle near the City and the Stone closer than a kilometer, this is not my prohibition, but the Request of the Master. Do not put your toilets under the Chalice of the Altar, remove the tents below, to the first clean water, this is a kilometer and a half from my camp - everyone knows it. Visit the Master as if Holy Place, and do not distort the energy by your presence in His Aura, for you are all carriers of psychic energy, both positive and negative. Cleanse the place from your own impurities and retreat to the borders of Reverence. "

PS: As if just by the way, but those who listened to the live conversations of the Master on the new disc dedicated to Rikl's expeditions in 2005 and 2012, will understand the essence of this postscript.

There were many different names for Belukha, but one of them has a special meaning for us - Muss-Doo-Tau, this is how the Kirghiz of southern Altai called it since ancient times.

Recently one girl asked me: "Sveta, did you see a magic stone in a magical town with you, in Altai, near Belukha?"

In general, I could not restrain myself then ... And so I decided to write openly ...

Valley of Yarlu (translated from Altai - "with cliffs", "with a steep bank").

Part 1. Rainbow.
A fabulous valley with fantastic colored rocks and a milky-turquoise river splitting into dozens of streams, like long gray hair, living very close to the snow-white Belukha. A small spur, 2 km long, divides the valley in half. And it is this spur that brings bizarre colors from purple to red to the valley. I tell you exactly, as an artist - the whole palette of the rainbow is present here ... The 600-meter cliffs-conglomerates towering over the valley are of a bluish-blue color, as they are almost entirely composed of blue clay in combination with layers of other rocks, equally bright and saturated in colors, such as lilac and purple, like potassium permanganate. Here, on the Yarlu River, a molybdenite deposit was once discovered. The geological reserve of this deposit is estimated at 10 thousand tons of metal! Probably, fragments of this lead-gray mineral with a bold metallic luster I like to collect along the river ... Pyrite, molybdenum pyrite, quartz-carbonate veins in the walls, multi-colored slate, all these rocks of ore-bearing strata paint the rocks of the valley in multi-colored colors. That is why the rivers are unusual here. On one side of the colored spur is a milk river, on the other - blood-red. The eye rejoices, the soul sings ... If you want - go around the spur to the left, if you want - to the right, if you want - climb it, or if you want - rise over the entire valley ... splashes of red ice. You can see a shiny, fat-faced marmot, leaping into the abyss of an ular, running away tekeshku and, of course, the entire palette of alpine herbs ... Jarlu is one of the brightest valleys in Natural park Belukha. I love her with all my heart ...

Part 2. Sad ...
Unfortunately, in Internet resources you will hardly find any intelligible information about the Yarlu gorge, except for the fictional one. You know my position - "Leave nature after your visit exactly the same as it was before you." I have very few principles, and I get rid of them, but this one is unshakable. It sounds like this: came to visit, lived, drank, ate, pooped, clean up after yourself. Point. What am I talking about? Here's what: since 2002, in the Jarlu Valley, the Roerichs and followers of the Rikla teachings have built a whole town of stones around a monolithic stone block located in the center of the gorge and embedded in the ground, which they call the "Stone of Wisdom" ("Stone-Master", "Stone Roerich "," Shaman's Stone ", for some reason he is" Genghis Khan's Stone "and even" Macedonian Stone "). A symbol of the Trinity, the so-called Roerich's sign, was drawn on the stone, they surrounded the territory with a fence made of slate, placing hundreds of stone pyramids inside the "town" (I deliberately do not expose these photos, there are enough of them on the Internet), sometimes you can even see a person there with stacks of books on the topic of Living Ethics, sometimes a person who, like a grandmother in a church, broadcasts what can and cannot be done here, and more and more often guides tell newly arrived tourists about the ridge "Mother of the World" with her "Mother's Heart" and literally about entering Shambhala somewhere here…

I also RESPECT the Places of Power of Gorny Altai, and I and my friends, mountain rescuers, doctors, climbers, geologists ... most imposing their opinions, beliefs on others, even with the best intentions. Why can't you just respect the place? Just come, pray, recharge, live, be a guest and leave, leaving this place for others the same as it was before you? I repeat: I respect all religions and philosophies in the world. Among my friends there are representatives of all religions and faiths. But I very much ask everyone who goes to the mountains - please try to leave as few traces of your presence there as possible. While respecting the traditions of the region, region, republic, country.

Well, we have Obo in Altai (Mong. Ovoo, bur. Obo, khak. Oba "heap, heap, embankment") - heaps of stones, decorated with ribbons and flags, as is customary among the Turkic-Mongol peoples Central Asia, well, put your stone on it out of respect (as on the same Kara-Turek pass) and enough ... Believe me, IN THE MOUNTAINS AND WITHOUT YOU, EVERYTHING IS HARMONIOUS. And tours are not built to communicate with space! And so that the traveler in the mountains does not get lost and does not lose the path! Don't mislead people with your buildings !!!

Thanks for reading to the end. I will be glad if there are those among you who think like me, those who will support me.

PySy: and finally about "thank you" and about pseudo-spirituality:

Once again, I came to the Jarlu valley, walked past a stone, a woman was sitting on it in a meditative posture, a book on her knees. I always say hello in the mountains, I say "Hello!" "Hello" - answers. And in the voice of the mistress of the place of power offers:

- Have you come to recharge? Come on over. No, not like that, here. No, not here. And not there. Not on this side. Not in shoes. Not backwards. Yes, not there! Like this.

And in response I hear the teacher's displeased tone:

- Maybe it's enough to say "thank you" already ?? Maybe it's time to start "thanking" ?!

- Excuse me, - I say, - what did you say?

- Have put in all "God save", yes "God save"! And who will give the blessing?! ?? It's time to start and give the blessing !!!

I shrugged.

- Well, I don’t mind, give it.

- Well, good. Give. I agree. Let's.

- What-oh-oh-oh?!?

- From what you said I give the blessing - you did not give the blessing. You got rid of your words.

... And for another 10 minutes I heard afterwards "Look how smart you are!" ... Until the noise of the river overlapped these sounds ...

Altai is a stunning land with untouched rich nature. Coming here for the first time, you are amazed by the surrounding splendor - complete natural harmony. On a long journey, a balance of mind, soul and body is easily achieved here.
Having visited Altai at least once, you definitely want to come back here. Diversity of nature, beautiful mountain lakes, the view of the majestic peaks, cedars, the purest air of forests and taiga simply attracts people here again and again.

In Altai, people often see for the first time such a riot of vegetation, a variety of herbs and colors, try cedar cones and the legendary Golden Root. By the way, Golden Root is the strongest natural immunostimulant - it increases the strength of the body for a long time, especially male strength :)

Gorny Altai is a land of stunning mountain lakes and peaks. Their combination simply amazes with its imperturbable grandeur and pacifying beauty. On the shores of these lakes, you can sit for hours without thinking about anything, clearing yourself of negative thoughts and recharging yourself with the energy of pure nature.

Our journey follows the legendary route of the explorer, artist and writer Nicholas Roerich and combines in one trip the most interesting and energetically strong places of the flat part of the region and the Golden Mountains of Altai.

In addition to the most beautiful nature, ancient Places of Power (in English "Place of Power") are concentrated in Altai. We will visit 7 strongest positive Places of Power, and we will also communicate with real Altai shamans.

1. Circle Kamlak - The main place of the ritual of Siberian shamans

2. Lake Ak-Kem - Place of Power, giving HEALTH

3. Valley Yarlu - Energy center found by N. Roerich

4. Stone of Wisdom - Place of Power that gives WISDOM

5. Lake of Spirits - Sacred Place of Power

6. Mount Belukha - The Most Powerful Place of Power, the entrance to SHAMBALA

7. Kucherlinskoye Lake - Place of Power, CLEANSING THE MIND

• Communication with real Shamans

• The holy silver spring Arzhan - healing water of Siberians

• Denisova cave - body find that shocked scientists

Studies of the mystical side of Altai

We will follow the path of the Roerich expedition in search of Shambhala

Altai is the strongest energy center of the Earth. It is replete with ancient burial mounds, caves of primitive people, magical rock signs left by previous civilizations and stone sculptures like Stonehenge. unique Places of Power that have a special effect on human energy. Gorny Altai became a source of inspiration for N.K. Roerich, G.I. Gurkin.
Outstanding artists GN Potanin, VI Vereshchagin, A. Gumbolt, NM Yadrintsev, VV Sapozhnikov and many others, whose names do not sound so loud, were energized and worked here.

Many great minds turned their eyes to this "Russian Tibet".
Nikolay Roerich, after meetings with members of the Soviet government, visited Gorny Altai in 1926. The members of the expedition were convinced that Altai was a great spiritual center associated with the mystical land of Shambhala (here it is called Belovodye).
It is known that upon his return from the expedition, Nicholas Roerich took to Moscow letters addressed to the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs G.V. Chicherin and I.V. Stalin.

Hitler during 1930-1944 he sent expeditions in search of this legendary country.
After the fall of the Third Reich, the materials of these expeditions were distributed between Germany, Great Britain and the United States. Recently, the governments of these countries announced that they would open secret files no earlier than 2044.

In 2007, the president of the Russian Geographical Society and the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, initiated a project to search for the “northern gates of Shambhala”. It should be noted that the supervisory board of the society is headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Altai the sacred middle of the world

We will pass through the "migration corridor" of the Aryans

“Altai is not only the pearl of Siberia, but also the pearl of Asia. A great future is destined for this wonderful center. "N.K. Roerich Alexander Asov in the book "Slavic Gods and the Birth of Rus" writes about Altai the following words: “According to Russian legends, Altai is the golden mountains, the eastern border of the Great ancestral home of the Slavs - Semirechye. Altai is the Sacred Altar before the throne of the Most High. The majestic Holy Mount Belukha soars over the Altai Mountains. And this mountain is mysteriously connected with all the mountains of the World. Altai is truly the middle of the world. In Altai great peoples and races came into contact: Indo-Iranians, Turks, Slavs, Mongols, Chinese. Altai is located at the center of three great ancient cultures. Many peoples descended from Altai and dispersed across Eurasia ”. From a scientific point of view, Altai is not only a geographical center between four oceans, a region where landscapes of steppe, taiga and mountain tundra, alpine meadows and glaciers converge, Altai Mountains are also the cradle of peoples and civilizations. During the waves of "great migrations", the territory of Gorny Altai was a "corridor" along which the transmigration of carriers of the most ancient cultural traditions took place. Here ancient tribes, including the Aryans, moved from Central Asia to the plains of Siberia and further to Europe. Altai is located at the center of three ancient great cultures of Eurasia: Vedic, Buddhist, Taoist.

Faith and Shamanism

We will meet with a white shaman and look for others in remote villages of Gorny Altai

Altai is a meeting place for three great Teachings: Christ, Mohammed and Buddha. To the south of Gorny Altai is the Buddhist world, the Christian religion came from the north, adherents of Islam migrated here from the Kazakh steppes. Regardless of religion, the worldview of the Altai peoples is based on the understanding of the unity of the human and the natural, reverence for the Masters of mountains and water sources. The main idea of ​​the faith of the Altaians is the relationship of man with the higher forces and spirits of nature, which bring harm or benefit to people. To communicate with these forces, the Altaians turn to the “guides to the world of souls” - Shamans (Kamam). People endowed with magical abilities perform rituals (rituals) in the Places of Power, help people cross the border of everyday comprehension of reality, heal from diseases and share their secret powers. One of the main goals of the expedition is to communicate with shamans, but finding them will not be easy

Ancient civilizations

We will visit "Denisova Cave" - ​​the site of the recent discovery of a new species of man

. . On the diagram: Differences between DNA fragments of different people. The sensation shocked the world of researchers of ancient human history. In 2008, archaeologists discovered in the Denisova cave in Altai the remains of a human species previously unknown to science. As an authoritative international scientific journal writes Nature, German scientists came to the conclusion that these remains cannot belong to either the Neanderthals living in Altai, or Homo Sapiens. See for yourself: according to DNA research, the new find is about twice as far from us as the Neanderthal. This means that from 30 to 48 thousand years. ago on the territory of Altai at least 3 types of people coexisted at the same time! The disappeared civilization now reminds of itself by the abandoned monuments - huge oblong heaps of stones. And folk legends about "chud": "Chudi" lived here, the legend says, until the Russians came. Not wanting to walk under the "White Tsar" they dug holes, put pillars in the corners and erected a canopy of earth and stones on them, then, climbing into the pits, they cut down the pillars and thus buried themselves. "

If you look at political map of the world, or rather to the continent of Eurasia, in the center of the continent the X-shaped crossing of state borders is clearly visible. This is the border of four states: Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia, it is here that Ukok high plateau... The crown of the Ukok plateau is Tabyn-Bogdo-Ola(Mong. Tavan-Bogdo-Ula). This massif was named Genghis Khan, Tabyn-Bogdo-Ola, which means “Five sacred peaks”. Ukok occupies the extreme southern position in the modern territory of the Altai Republic. Ukok is a plateau with predominant absolute heights at 2200-2500 m, above which mountain ranges rise by 500-600 m. The maximum absolute mark of the mountain frame - the city of Nairamdal (Kiityn) reaches 4374 m and is the second highest peak of the Siberian mountains after Belukha.

Ukok plateau located in the southern part of the mountain Altai and is a place where countries and cultures meet. To some extent, Ukok is a crossroads of worlds. Tabyn-Bogdo-Ola The mountain peaks of this massif are considered sacred by the Altai, Mongolian and Chinese Buddhists.

By importance Ukok, perhaps, one of the most important " places of power" on Altai... Confirmation of this is the abundance sacred places... These are numerous barrow complexes of the Scythian time, numerous petroglyphs and a particularly reverent attitude of the peoples living in the mountains of the Southern Altai... Many historical legends, myths and legends are associated with Ukok.

The central object, of course, is the Ak-Alakha-3 mound complex in Bertek tract glorified Ukok to the whole world. It was in this place, during excavations, that the mummy of a noble woman was discovered, better known as “ Princess Ukok". It happened in 1993 thanks to the efforts of Novosibirsk archaeologists headed by Natalya Polosmak. This find became the largest event in the world of archeology at the end of the 20th century. Currently, the princess's mummy is in the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Local residents claim that the culprits of the devastating 2003 earthquake in Altai are archaeologists who have taken out a sacred body from the earth. The changed climate conserved the body of a woman who apparently belonged to the noble class in the group of Scythian tribes that once inhabited these unique territories on the border modern Russia and China.

Spirit Ukok plateau downright saturated with something unknown and sacred. Even place names sound somehow special here: Kara-Alakha, Chelok-Chad, Kalguty... Even without going into toponymy, it is clear that they carry meaning, and maybe even a charge of energy. Even in our time, when deep tourism is gaining momentum, Ukok remains almost out of reach for many travelers. The aura of the plateau well guards its borders from the uninitiated. The only road is the pass Warm key(about 3000 m above sea level), famous for its unpredictability. There were times when in the middle of summer the path of travelers was blocked by the strongest snowfall, which completely overshadowed the road. Travelers will find here a real adventure in the world of the unknown, in 4x4 format. Many secrets of Ukok still remain mysteries. Tour to Ukok- a real opportunity to go where no man's foot has stepped, to touch the secrets of the majestic territory, and maybe even find a source of strength and energy himself.

It is located on the right bank of the Akkem River, practically opposite the Akkem weather station, and is also clearly visible when descending from the Karatyurek pass. This place is a saint for the followers of Roerich, a stone town of tours around a stone especially revered by the Roerich people is built here.

It is interesting for its colored rocks, the colors of which become especially bright after rain. In the outline of the ridge separating the valleys of the Yarlu and Tekel rivers, you can, with a certain imagination, consider the profile of a woman, and the bright purple-red rock is called the Heart of the Mother.

For a tour of the valley on a hot day, it is better to take some water with you in advance in the lower reaches of the river, where it is abundant, because directly above the town, the stream often dries up, or the water is very muddy.

How to get to the valley of the Yarlu river

There are two ways to the Yarlu valley from Lake Akkem.

The first is to cross the lake by boat from the weather station for a small amount. In 2012 it cost 80 rubles per person. Be careful, the shores of Lake Akkem in the area of ​​the crossing are very hot, and you will probably wet your sneakers or sneakers, and you will get dirty - that's for sure.

The second way is free, but long. Go up to the suspension bridge over the river. Akkem (it is several hundred meters higher than the last inhabited campsites of Lake Akkem, much higher than the base of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Bochki), then along the right bank of the lake to the valley. closed.

Places that are not enough just to see, they must be felt and heard. The Jarlu Valley belongs to such corners. In addition to striking beauties mountains, forests and hollows, the gorge amazes with its sacred power. Here the power of nature is felt physically. You can describe a lot of the feelings of travelers to the valley, but to realize the power of this land is possible only after personal presence. The valley stretches to the left of Lake Akkem. Its height is 2000 m. The name of the valley means “a place with cliffs”. A stream runs along the bottom of the gorge, which is also called Yarlu and flows into the Akkem River.

People are attracted to the valley by magical power and curiosity. It was Jarlu who was noted by Roerich. His followers often visit the sites of the scientist's research. Here he stopped during his expedition in search of the fabulous Belovodye.

The greatest curiosity is aroused by the Roerich stone, marked with its sign. It is a large, smooth boulder that has grown into the ground. It does not look like the surrounding rocks. According to some statements, the stone “grows” by 5 cm per year. The lump is called the Master Stone or the Stone of Wisdom. A wreckage town is built around it rocks... This place is the center for the release of the most powerful energy, mediums and esotericists come here to restore the biofield, meditate and comprehend the meaning of life.

The upper part of the Jarlu Valley is surrounded by a mountain range. This is the watershed of two rivers - Tekelu and Yarlu. The ridge resembles a lying woman, her profile is especially clearly visible. It is more convenient to admire the ridge from the Kara-Turek pass. In the area of ​​the stone woman's chest, the mountains have a red tint. It seems as if blood is running from the heart. The rock is called the Heart of the Mother.

The colorful rocks are another feature of the gorge. Multi-colored rocks, clay deposits and minerals are densely compressed by time among sedimentary deposits, from which the Yarlu valley looks unusual. The bright colors of the mountains come to life even more after the rain. The valley changes its appearance depending on the season. The time of day and the intensity of the sun's rays also affect the color of the stones, so movement is always felt in Jarlu - thoughts, color, matter and energy. There are many legends about the valley. It is called a place of special power. There is a statement that the valley does not admit people with defective, distorted morality. Such people cannot enter the gorge, they start to feel pain, find panic, or important things to do.

It is not surprising that it is in such a magical place that a wonderful flower - edelweiss - grows. This plant symbolizes wisdom and mystery. Due to the color composition of the mountains, streams flowing along their slopes are also multi-colored. They take on a shade of blue clay or milky limestone. Sometimes the waters are light blue, sometimes slightly emerald.

The easiest way to descend into the gorge is through the lake by boats. They are sent from the Ak-Kem weather station. It will cost a small amount of money and take an hour and a half. You can get to the Jarlu Valley for free via a suspension bridge, this road will take about three hours. You can walk downstream, it will also take about three hours. Near the lower slope, tourist camps are most often set up, since the nearby deciduous forest provides an abundance of firewood for fires.