The mysteries of Aryan civilization. A. G. Vinogradov

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      The mysteries of Aryan civilization

      A. G. Vinogradov

      S. V. Zharnikova

      Editor Алексей Германович Виноградов

      Illustrator Алексей Германович Виноградов

      Translator Алексей Германович Виноградов

      © A. G. Vinogradov, 2025

      © S. V. Zharnikova, 2025

      © Алексей Германович Виноградов, illustrations, 2025

      © Алексей Германович Виноградов, translation, 2025

      ISBN 978-5-0065-5005-6

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      The book of outstanding researchers A. G. Vinogradov and S. V. Zharnikova is devoted to the study of the ancestral home of the Indo-European peoples: Indian, Iranian, Slavic, Baltic, German, Celtic, Romance, Albanian, Armenian and Greek language groups. Part six of this huge work is devoted to the mysteries of the land of the ancient Aryans. The book was written in 1989—90 but could not be published in Russia. Over the past time, additional materials have appeared that confirm the opinion of the authors.

      Перевод осуществлен Виноградовым А.Г.

      Иллюстрации взяты из издания книги «Загадки арийской цивилизации» на русском языке.

      Translation by A.G. Vinogradov

      The illustrations are taken from the Russian edition of the book «Загадки арийской цивилизации».

      Introduction

      In the modern world, the urgency of the problems of the ethnic history of the peoples of various regions of our planet is obvious. The growth of ethnic self-awareness, which has been observed everywhere in recent decades, is accompanied by an increase in interest in the historical past of peoples, in the transformations that each of them experienced in the course of its millennia-old formation. It became a spiritual need for a representative of a modern urbanized society to find the roots of his ethnic existence, to understand the diverse processes that led to the formation of that ethnocultural environment through which he perceives the world around him.

      Since the origin and historical existence of the overwhelming majority of the peoples of our planet was associated with numerous migrations, movements to new habitats, causing changes in a number of cultural factors both among the alien people and the indigenous population, today, studying the ethnic history and culture of their people, we, of course, study them in the process of historical transformations and mutual influences of many tribes and peoples, which to one degree or another took part in their formation. Regional ethno-historical research in our time is becoming especially acute, since it is knowledge of the history of one’s own people that helps a modern person to free himself from the narrowness of the nationalist view of the world, to understand the role and significance of the contribution to the common treasury of human culture of all peoples, to realize that humanity is one.

      Of course, it is impossible to solve the most difficult issues of ethnic history today without involving data from the most diverse fields of science. It is necessary to combine the efforts of ethnographers, historians, archeologists, linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, art historians, as well as paleobotanists, paleozoologists, paleoclimatologists and geomorphologists, since the development and formation of peoples took place in certain climatic zones, in certain landscapes, with a certain flora and fauna, and this must be taken into account.

      Only if the questions posed by ethnic history will be given mutually supportive answers by all of the above branches of science, we can, with a certain amount of confidence, believe that we are close to a true understanding of a particular stage of the historical process. Therefore, at present, the search for an answer to any of the questions of the ethnic history of peoples cannot be considered legitimate without involving data from related sciences.

      Viktor von Hen responded very interestingly in 1890 about Russian culture: «Russia is a country of eternal change and completely non-conservative, and a country of ultra-conservative customs, where historical times live, and does not part with rituals and representations, no matter how related. The modern culture here is an external gloss, it develops in a wave-like fashion, generates disgusting phenomena; what the Ancient Tradition has preserved with regard to goods, customs, tools, etc., has been invented solidly, rationally, wisely and skillfully used… They are not a young people, but an old one – like the Chinese. All their mistakes are not youthful flaws, but arise from asthenic exhaustion. They are very old, ancient, conservatively preserved all the oldest and do not refuse it. By their language, their superstition, their disposition, etc. you can study the most ancient times. " («Victor Hen, biography.» 1894.)

      The Sanskrit texts that have come down to us contain many amazing puzzles related, first of all, to the ancestral home of the Aryans. Here I would like to recall again some of the characteristic features of this ancestral home, preserved by Mahabharata.

      Chapter 1 Catastrophes of the stone age

      1

      Over Canada, Over Canada

      The sun sets low.

      I should have fallen asleep long ago

      Why can’t I sleep?

      The sky over Canada is blue

      Between birches – slanting rains.

      Although it looks like Russia,

      Only still not Russia.

      These words from the famous song of Alexander Gorodnitsky emphasize the fact of the amazing similarity of flora and fauna, separated by the oceans of eastern North America and Europe. Based on this fact, Alfred Wegener wrote in the book «The Origin of the Continents and Oceans»: «North America used to be close to Europe. Starting from Newfoundland, located close to Ireland, and further north, it was a single block with it and with Greenland».

      This was emphasized by the fact that: «The consequences of the rupture of a single faunistic region should have been especially pronounced in North America and Europe, because the rupture occurred relatively late, and paleontological data are correspondingly numerous. In addition, these areas are especially well studied.

      Birch trees. Canada

      Birch trees. Russia

      Moreover, the existing ones Due to the short time of isolation, the forms have probably not yet developed very divergingly. Indeed, we find such a correspondence that there is nothing better to wish for. So, in the Eocene we find almost everything suborders mammals in North America and also in Europe.

      Similar distribution features are characteristic of other classes of animals.

      The boundaries of the spread of continental ice in the Quaternary period. For the time before the complete separation of North America from Europe. According to A. Wegener.

      A young family of earthworms (Lumbricidae) is distributed from Japan to Spain, and on the other side of the ocean – only in the eastern United States. Barley is found on the edges of the former contact of the continents in Ireland and Newfoundland and in areas adjacent to these islands on both sides. The percidae family and other freshwater fish are found in Europe and Asia, and in North America only in the eastern part.