Glorious sea, sacred Baikal (14 photo + letter) Bashny.Net

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This great lake is a crescent moon in the east of Siberia. About him we can say that it is "the cleanest", "most ancient", "deepest" in the world. It is equal to the square and Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands combined ... No one lake in the world can compare with it in its beauty. "The Dalai Nor" - the Great Lakes - the Mongols called it, "enablers" - North Sea - known as the Chinese. I have not had a chance to go there. But fate gave me a meeting with wonderful people who were born and raised on its shores.





Myths and Legends of Lake Baikal

1.Trista daughters was the old man of Lake Baikal, but one, unruly beauty Angara, he loved the most. And to save, imprisoned her in a high tower, but did not help the wall element broke free and ran to her lover, the Yenisei. However, they were not destined to meet: an angry father threw behind runaway piece of rock, forever cursing his ungrateful darling. A place where she was, became known as the Shaman stone ...
2. In ancient times to the point where now Baykal, was a dense forest full of birds and animals. Among the birds, one stood out. Wings she had huge, strong, if a tree touches it rooted to the ground falls, touches the rock shatters the rock. People were afraid of the bird and kill her could not. But here's one born among people malchik.kotory he grew by leaps and bounds. And he grew up heroes and no force was not afraid. And he made a hero out of 100 trees a bow, two hundred Lesin arrow hewed and went hunting. He hit the best shot that dreadful bird, but a fire started so that the sky was hot. And through the flames columns of water make their way. So the sea in the place was. A bird called the Baikal Lake Baikal is now so called.
3. Tomb Lama Dashi Etigilova. He died in 1927, went into meditation. And before it left open the grave indication of thirty years, but did so much later and found the body Lama has not changed. And now he is in the Ivolga Datsan in a special sarcophagus. To get to the lame, you need a special permit, and women can not be seen. Buddhists are Etigilovu Lama as a living person who is in a particular state.



Baikal omul

The shores of Lake Baikal omul smelled, because the fish catches in Lake Baikal just lazy. The famous Baikal omul - the pride and wealth of Lake Baikal. Nothing can match the quality of their taste with Baikal omul, pinkish-white, soft, fat ... Omul good and salted and roasted and smoked. Recipes of cooking Baikal residents know more than Ostap Bender - methods for making moonshine. Fishermen respectfully called Lake Sea. "Out in the sea." "Sea of ​​Flowers". "Sea Storm". "More gentle».
If a cool breeze blowing over the lake, then the water runs through a light swell. And then it casts a silvery lake like fish scales. To smell cisco mixed resinous smell of the taiga ... And the sky above him unusually blue.



Residents of Lake Baikal

On the southern and western shores of the lake are living descendants of the Cossacks. The first explorers of Lake Baikal called Kurbat Ivanova - a Cossack Pentecostal and explorer. It is in 1643 with a group of Cossacks and industrial people reached the western shores of Lake Baikal, visiting the island Olkhon. Because scientists first visited the Baikal naturalist DG Messerschmidt, who drew a map of Lake Baikal and gave a description of the lake.
On the eastern Buryats beregah.zhivut that relate to the lake as a living being and honor Baikal: he is the breadwinner and protector. However, with awe, they are not only the lake, but revere the spirits of earth, air, and nature in general ...



Lick Yanzhima

Where the river flows into the lake is Barguzin Buryat village Yarikto. And next to the image of the goddess Yanzhima. Trees along the path to it hung with colorful ribbons and handkerchiefs ritual. It seems that the wood there - a colorful tent on the abundance of blue, red, yellow, green and white scarves. The stone with the image of the goddess is partially closed glass fence, behind which can be seen the face of the goddess. But not everyone, and not the first time possible to distinguish Yanzhima on heavily pigmented stone. Every day, dozens of pilgrims come to the goddess, on weekends and public holidays, hundreds of them. Altar and boxes to collect donations are always full, and on the rocks around the goddess silvery hundreds of coins. For drilled Yanzhima - one of the most revered goddess who patronizes the arts, sciences, crafts and fertility ...



Circum-Baikal railway

There cliffs descend directly into the lake, and the road had to cut right through the rock: tunnels, viaducts, solid walls that protect the road from the talus. We built this section of the road Italian masters, who were among the best stone masons. Therefore, strengthen the walls erected and called "Italian" they really are like alpine roads and bridges. The path passes by the Circum-Baikal Slyudyanka station. Previously, mica mined near her, and why did the name. Now she suddenly reborn - thanks to tourists who became interested in engineering marvel, lost in the middle of Eurasia. It is possible to think that the walls of the tunnel appeared with rocks and cliffs, and over the centuries have grown together with nature. And the way something just recently turned 100 years old. But it seems that it is from the creation of the world ...



"Baikal Stonehenge" - a Cape Ryty and its mysterious stone structures

Nature on the cape did their best. For flat valley stretches Cape cleft between two majestic mountains, the forests which were dressed in a variety of colors. And everywhere there are heaps of stones stacked in the form of a half-meter pyramids. Near them a desire to sleep. After sleep feels reborn. Pyramids are scattered in a certain sequence. All of them make up a system and constitute a clear line, oriented to the East. But at the same time distinguished by its focus. There is also a wall and drevneya. The wall height of about one and a half meters long and about four meters neatly built of stones. Along it are also of stones laid out something like a road. But the wall a different strangeness. On the fortress wall it does not seem as too short and low. Chances are there all together - an ancient pogorizontnaya Observatory. But it is very different from their famous counterparts. As you know, all the "Stonehenge" built about the same. This circular buildings, "gates" that are focused on the East-West axis. And the "main entrance" is clearly aimed at the point of the summer solstice ...



Mirages Baikal

Fishermen tell how often over Baikal see ancient castles, ancient ships, trains, UFOs. Scientists call such phenomena mirages. On Baikal ideal conditions for the emergence of mirages as the flow of warm air over the chilled water in the summer, transparent atmosphere and extreme cold to real winter air. The layers of air with different densities of the light rays are refracted, distorted and become irregular, fantastic shapes. Where to meet optical wonders?
Mirages are regularly recorded at the north-eastern part of Olkhon Island, near Cape Sun and the island of Great Ushkany and Cape Ryty. In the year usually 2-6 days mirages, and in some years their number may reach 16. Baikal fishermen call this phenomenon golomenitsey when distant subjects as if approaching and are clearly distinguishable, although under normal circumstances it is simply impossible to see them. Daytime mirages are often observed in quiet summer weather with complete calm on the lake. Most often mirages are expressed in soaring distant headlands above the water ...



Afterword

They say that eternity at Lake Baikal are particularly strong at night. Smooth lunar path, the rays of the lighthouse, and a myriad of stars over his head. The feeling is that all the planets are here to see the reflection in the largest freshwater lake of the Earth. I believe that in life there is always a miracle, and I think that the meeting with Baikal I still happen ...



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