Relatives of the Loch ness monster

Today on Nessie written hundreds of articles and dozens of books, shot a lot of documentaries and feature films. At the same time, behind the scenes unfairly left her with many European "relatives", including Russian.Ladoga lizardOne of the most well-known aquatic reptiles that live on the territory of Russia — the so-called Ladoga Nessie. This phenomenon was repeatedly mentioned by the famous writer and ethnographer Karelia Alexey Popov. In his books he describes the monster in the 70-ies of the last century have seen the resident of the village of Mantsinsaari the pitkäranta district of Karelia A. S. Konovalov: "in the Summer of 1973, as usual, we hunted on lake Ladoga fish. Remember was a bright Sunny day. The wind almost was not. Looking at the smooth surface of the lake, we saw in the distance some object that was on the surface of water and brightly gleaming in the sun. That's why we saw him there. At first I thought that a boat turned over, and even decided to approach him to check, but, looking closely, saw that an object-something alive! He slowly swam along the shore, but it was clear that he approaches us. To be honest, we panicked, started the engine and directly to the shore, fortunately, he was close... that in the lake "monster" is, to me at the time my father told me, and people say, that somewhere allegedly saw him... I don't really believe, and then suddenly remembered it all... Climbing on the coastal terrace, we continued to observe and make sure that it is some huge animal. It was close, and it was possible to consider those parts that protrude from the water. Its body length was approximately about ten metres; it was massive, dark gray. A large head rested on a long neck. We noticed even the expression of the eyes of the monster; they were widely spaced, and they felt the ferocity and anger. Before reaching the shore a few tens of meters, the animal stopped, then vigorously beat in the water, kicking up a cascade of spray, and dived. More it did not appear, although at this point, we were still long, afraid to enter the lake."Such descriptions in the archive Popova accumulated quite a lot. Some of them are the false testimony of emotionally sensitive people who sincerely believe that they personally saw the legendary creature, but in fact the host body for the "monster" shape of snags or bizarre play of light in the waters of the lake. The remaining evidence — the stories of local residents, the objectivity which is no doubt because the reasons for deliberate falsehood of these people simply do not have, the more that their ancestors inherited and passed on "unbelievable" stories about Ladoga lizard.In confirmation of the reality of the Ladoga monster could also allow the local legends and traditions associated with the Valaam monastery. In the ancient texts often referred to an unknown animal of enormous size, repeatedly ravaged network of monks, but never gets in them.Lake mythsInterestingly, if you examine mythological texts of the peoples living on the shores of the Northern seas, you will find that each of them has its own story of a terrible monster living in a lake or coastal waters. In Iceland still, there are legends about mysterious lake animal nicknamed Scrims. In Canada, telling about the existing from the times of Indians in the Okanagan lake Ogopogo huge. In Ireland since 1945 in four lakes observed a large animal unknown to modern science. The Swedish press has repeatedly reported about the mysterious inhabitants of the six reservoirs of the country...In Kizhi worshipped the dragons?Some historians of the North of Russia has put forward a rather controversial hypothesis. They drew attention to the fact that the domes of the churches in Kizhi resemble the dragon's skin, and the unusual architecture of these temple buildings does not fit into any of the common sects of Christianity. Rather, the style of these ceremonial structures should be attributed to the so-called Celtic Christianity. In Norway and Sweden there are whole areas where all the churches are wooden. But the Catholics never built wooden churches. This Gnostic structures built in honor of the dragon or serpent in the garden of Eden. Their architecture differed significantly from the Catholic Church. Their roofs were covered with material resembling the skin of a dragon, but the cross belonged to a Celtic culture. Often, instead of crosses Norwegian wooden churches were decorated with snake heads. Dragons in the decorations of ancient Norwegian churches In Norway, dozens of churches built in X-XI centuries. The oldest extant buildings is the wooden Church, built in 1130 in Urnes in Norway. The walls were decorated not only with traditional Christian motives, but also... images of creatures like a snake or a dragon.A few kilometers from the Church in Urnes is even more amazing object — frame wooden Church in Borgund. It was built in 1180 and never restored. But the main feature of this building is that its roof is crowned with a head of most of these dragons! Once such churches in Norway there were up to 1.5 thousand, but today there were only 28.By the way, according to the researchers, the tradition of worshipping lizards also spread to England and Russia.Norwegian snakes,the Smoke without fire does not happen... it is Unlikely that our ancestors would have created myths, legends and buildings devoted to dragons, if they were not able to see these creatures firsthand. Perhaps such a conclusion was reached and members of the international team of mittelloge that to no avail trying to "detect" the Norwegian Nessie, a huge sea serpent, according to legend, live in the lake 160 kilometres from Oslo. However, local residents claim of scientists that the meetings with the monster occur regularly since the mid-eighteenth century.Also, biologists do know that the sea and the cliffs of Norway is inhabited by a huge snake. It is believed that they lived in the woods, and then, reaching impressive sizes, moved into the bays and the sea. Today, almost every large lake in Norway has its own legend about a huge snake. However, nowadays these monsters if you see only in fjords, where they rise from the bottom of the sea in calm.However, in the early middle Ages saw them more often. So, according to legend, lived in Ballarat sea serpent thick with calf. There is also known a case when a giant snake crawled on the stone cliff. As evidenced by ancient tales, and her eyes were the size of the bottom of a small barrel, and on the neck hung a long mane. Calculating the forces, the reptile got stuck between rocks. After seeing this show, one of the servants of the local Bishop began to shoot arrows into the eyes of a snake. After a few arrows hit the target, the snake died, and the ground around it soaked with blood green. The reptile corpse stank so that the locals burned it, although the skeleton still lay there on the beach... Even Walter Scott's novel "the Pirate" described a sea serpent that rises from the depths of ocean, stretches to the skies his enormous neck, covered with a mane, like the horse, and, reaching the height of the mast, carefully rolls his huge shining eyes around him in search of prey or victim.However, describes marine "dragons" that live near the Norwegian coast, Eric Inhibition in the "Natural history of Norway". In his opinion, such snakes live deep in the depths of the sea, and only in the quiet summer weather, rise to the surface, so soon to leave again on the bottom... the book contains the testimony of commander de Ferris, the data in 1746 before the court. Here is what they reported: the sea serpent, which de Ferris was seen in the vicinity Molda, had a head resembling a horse, and kept her, raising approximately elbow from the water. Color grayish, with a black snout, very large black eyes and long white mane hanging from the neck in the sea. Was also see seven or eight coils of its body, very thick.Maybe somewhere in the depths of the Arctic ocean and indeed inhabited by a civilization of lizards, periodically appearing on people's eyes? It only remains to wait until at least one of them will not be able to remove the camera in this perspective, to be able to clearly say: dragons do exist!

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