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
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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
