The mysteries of Aryan civilization. A. G. Vinogradov

living, witching serpent,

      Overlapping the water and the sky

      You killed, O hero …»(RV. II, 11.5).

      Chanting Indra, the hymns say that he «With force split the mountain, throwing vajra,» they constantly compare Vritra with the serpent «resting on the mountain», emphasize that he is «legless, armless, faceless.» These descriptions are not very suitable for spring snow or ice on rivers, but to a large extent correspond to the Barents Sea ice sheet.

      Ice shield

      So the size of Vritra – mountains of 300 yojanas in a circle (4800 km.) corresponds to 1528 km. in length and width, which is equal to the established size of the Barents Sea ice sheet. The Barents Sea glacier occupied the entire shelf of the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Bolshezemelskaya and Malozemelskaya tundra, adjoined the Scandinavian and Kara shields and had an area of 2.1 million km, an ice thickness of up to 3.5 km (an average of 1.870 km.) And an ice volume of 4 million cubic km.

      An altitude of 500 yojanas (8,000 km.) May mean that something happened at that altitude. In this regard, a fragment of Indra’s anthem (PB. IV, 17), which speaks of his birth, is very interesting:

      «The sky shook from the flash at your birth,

      The earth shook with fear of your fury.

      Strong mountains swayed

      Deserts parted, water flows…

      When you are born, you are first of all

      He terrified all these peoples, O Indra.

      Snake damming stock

      You cut the vajra, oh generous.»

      The same hymn says that Indra «set in motion the wheel of the sun», he stopped the sage Etasha, who ran through the sky, and threw him, furious, «to the bottom of the hide, dark space, into his bosom», i.e. into the depths of the earth.

      The further description of the battle is extremely interesting. After a meeting at an altitude of 500 yojan: «from the skies of Vtyra, a hail of stones fell upon the lord of the gods with lightning speed, and the angry crowds of the gods began to shoot arrows, stone rain everywhere, beating off, brought down by Vritra in battle.»

      When the battle of the gods and the Danavs, the defenders of Vritra began to boil, then «it was visible… how the heads fell from the heavens, like fruits ripped from cuttings… Armed with clubs, with iron spikes of kalea, gold armor, they were approaching the gods, as if covered the flames of a mountain forest fire. «But Vritra did not help «neither lightning, nor thunder, nor the fog that he spread, nor hail» – the gods moved south to the Sarasvati River, and then returned, armed with a heavenly thundering mace – the vajra, and:

      «When Indra and the Serpent Fought

      For (all) future times, generous defeated.»

      Already as Indra returned and the host of gods with a blazing vajra to continue the battle with Vritra, the last «fever» penetrated and completely enveloped him. «He was terribly pale, his mouth was inflamed, a strong trembling gripped his body, his breathing became very frequent, his body hair rose, he breathed quickly and hard… A blazing flame burst from his sides in a fire…»

      Valdai Glaciation

      «Vritra erupted in terrible screams. The sides of the world, the firmament, the heavens, the earth and mountains trembled from his roar» and when «the inhuman cry of that great asura sounded: he opened his throat, (he shouted), gripped by a heavy fever… into his open mouth perun pierced the Chakra; the brilliance of that perun was very bright, it’s dying like a flame. Instantly, the huge body of Vritra’s smoke fell. "So, Indra’s celestial mace «forcefully chopped off the head of Vritra, who oppressed both worlds», as a result of which Vritra sank to the «bottom of space», and «the earth increased tenfold» and «the peoples could spread on it».

      Thus, the great battle of Indra and Vritra, which was simultaneously taking place both in heaven and on earth, ended with the fact that «this mountain, the great, wide, with a club of thunder (Indra) … broke into pieces» and «released the bound water for running», he» drilled water (channels) … cut through the bowels of the mountains… how moo cows, rushing straight to the sea, run off the waters … (he) released seven streams for running… Through lifeless lying like crumbled reed (Vritra), flowing, billowing water Manu.»

      Vritra himself, «faceless from the breach… crushed, lay scattered in different places.» It is characteristic that the nature of the relief has also changed.

      «The land was stretched exactly, even the mountain, trying to escape, stopped. The mountain settled down, not dodging.»

      It is interesting that it was 12 thousand years ago (i.e., at the turn of 11—10 thousand BC) that the Earth’s geomagnetic field changed.

      We can assume that the myth of the battle of Indra and Vritra describes the interaction of a glacier with a space body. Moving at an altitude of 500 yojanas (8000 km.), It for some reason sharply braked and approached the Earth. At this time, probably, the breakaway parts fell and as a result of the impact of a sharp tidal wave and the rise of the earth’s crust, an earthquake occurred, volcanic activity began. Deviating to the southwest, the space object pushed a small cosmic body from its orbit over the Central Russian Upland (or a piece broke off from it).

      The following lines of the Mahabharata also testify to the rotation of such a body in Earth orbit: «By that unbreakable, irresistible perun, arising from the Brahmin bones, penetrated by Vishnu, Indra killed Vishvaruna and cut off his head.

      Rivers on a glacier

      Immediately after this son of Tvashtar, who arose from the fragmented body of Vishvaruna, Indra killed the enemy. «But this «directly» judging by the fact that Vritra existed for at least 16 thousand years, lasted quite a long time, and all this time the «Vajra» rotated in low Earth orbit. As the space object returned to its orbit and the Vajra approached the glacier, tectonic vibrations, volcanism, and glacier bombardment by meteorites intensified. Because of them, cracks went through the massif, intensive melting began, fog from the vapors rose above the glacier, and fire fell on its foot. At the same time, the roar of volcanoes was blocked by a whistle from the falling «Vajra» («noisy club of thunder»). With thunder and thunder, returning, it crashed from the southwest into the body of the glacier, finally breaking a single mass of ice. The fragments from it, bounced off the surface, scattered in different directions, subjecting the glacier to additional bombardment, because «Vajra» «scattered into hundreds of pieces on the head of Vritra.» As a result of tectonic changes, part of the surface in the Barents Sea was lowered and the existing mountain ranges were destroyed.

      Glacier

      Paleogeographers note a number of features of this region. «A characteristic feature of the history of this (Barents Sea) cover was the very rapid rate of decay, which began, however, relatively late,» and had the appearance of destruction and fragmentation of the glacier. As noted above, detailed studies have shown that «the degradation of the last ice sheet of the Pechora lowland, as well as the entire North-East of the European territory of the USSR, occurred in an unusual way, fundamentally different from the degradation of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Its destruction was accompanied, and possibly caused by the process, seismic in nature, i.e. earthquakes». But the power of these earthquakes had to reach at least 12 points in the vast area from Pechora to Spitsbergen; otherwise they simply would not have been able to destroy a glacier with an area of 2 million square kilometers with 4 million cubic kilometers