In the general religious understanding of the ancient Hellenes, there was a variety of cult representations. All this is confirmed by numerous archeological excavations and artifacts. It is proved in what area these or those gods were extolled. For example, Apollo - in Delphi and Delos, the capital of Greece is named after Athena, the god of healing Asclepius (son of Apollo) - in Epidaurus, Poseidon was respected by the Ionians in the Peloponnese, and so on.
Greek shrines were opened in honor of this: Delphic, Dodonian and Delian. Almost all of them are covered with some kind of mystery, it is deciphered in myths and legends. Most interesting myths Ancient Greece(short) we will describe below.
Cult of Apollo in Greece and Rome
He was called "four-armed" and "four-eared". Apollo had about a hundred sons. He himself was either five or seven. There are countless monuments in honor of the saint, huge temples of his name too - located in Greece, Italy, Turkey. And it's all about HIM: about Apollo, the mythical hero and god of Hellas.
The ancient gods did not have surnames, but Apollo had several of them: Delphic, Rhodes, Belvedere, Pythian. This happened in the territories where his cult grew the most.
Two millennia have passed since the birth of the cult, and the fairy tale about this handsome man is still believed today. How did he enter the "naive mythology" and why is he invented in the souls and hearts of the Greeks and inhabitants of other countries?
The veneration of the son of Zeus originated in Asia Minor two thousand years before our era. Initially, the myths depicted Apollo not as a man, but as a zoomorphic creature (the influence of pre-religious totemism) - a ram. A Dorian version of origin is also possible. But, as before, an important center of the cult is the Sanctuary at Delphi. In it, the soothsayer uttered all kinds of predictions, according to her instructions, twelve mythical labors of Apollo's brother Hercules took place. From the Hellenic colonies in Italy, the cult of the Greek god gained a foothold in Rome.
Myths about Apollo
God is not alone. Archaeological sources provide information about the various sources of its origin. Who were the Apollos: the son of the guardian of Athens, Corybant, Zeus the third and several other fathers. Mythology attributes to Apollo thirty heroes killed by him (Achilles), dragons (including Python), and a cyclops. They said about him that he could destroy, but he could also help and predict the future.
Mythology spread about Apollo even before his birth, when the supreme goddess Hera learned that Leto (Laton) should give birth to a boy (Apollo) from her husband Zeus. With the help of a dragon, she drove the expectant mother to a deserted island. Both Apollo and his sister Artemis were born there. They grew up on this island (Delos), where he swore to destroy the dragon for persecuting his mother.
As described with ancient myth, Apollo, who quickly matured, picked up a bow and arrows and flew away to where Python lived. The beast crawled out of the terrible gorge and attacked the young man.
It looked like an octopus with a large scaly body. Even the rocks were moving away from him. The disturbed monster attacked the young man. But the arrows did their job.
Python died, Apollo buried it, and the real Temple of Apollo was built here. In his room was a real priestess-soothsayer from peasant women. She uttered prophecies allegedly through the mouth of Apollo. Questions were written on tablets and passed to the temple. They were not fictional, but from real earthly people. different centuries existence of this temple. They were found by archaeologists. As the priestess commented on the questions, no one knows.
Narcissus - a mythical hero and a real flower
To paraphrase ancient sage, we can say: if you have extra money, then do not buy bread in excess of what you can eat; buy a narcissus flower - bread for the body, and he - for the soul.
So the mythical short story about the narcissistic youth Narcissus from Ancient Hellas grew into the name of a beautiful spring flower.
The Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, took cruel revenge on those who rejected her gifts, who did not submit to her power. Mythology knows several such victims of it. Among them is the young man Narcissus. Proud, he could not love anyone, only himself.
Wrath found on the goddess. Once in the spring, while hunting, Narcissus came up to the stream - he simply fascinated him with the purity of the water, its specularity. But the stream was really special, perhaps also enchanted by Aphrodite. The goddess did not forgive anyone if they did not pay attention to her.
No one drank from the stream of water, not even a branch or flower petals could fall into it. Here Narcissus looked at himself. Leaning down to kiss his reflection. But there is only cold water.
He forgot about the hunt, and the desire to drink water. Everyone admires, forgot about food, sleep. And suddenly he woke up: “I really fell in love with myself so much, but we can’t be together?” He began to suffer so much that his strength left him. He feels that he will go into the realm of darkness. But already the young man believes that death will end his pangs of love. He is crying.
The head of Narcissus drooped completely to the ground. He died. The nymphs wept in the forest. They dug up a grave, went for the body, but he was gone. On the grass where the young man's head fell, a flower grew. They named him Narcissus.
And the nymph Echo remained forever to suffer in that forest. And she never spoke to anyone else.
Poseidon - lord of the seas
Zeus sits in all divine majesty on Mount Olympus, and his brother Poseidon went into the depths of the sea and from there the water boiled, inviting misfortune on sailors. If he wants to do this, he takes his main weapon in his hand - a club with a trident.
He has a better palace than his brother on land. And he reigns there with his charming wife Amphitrite, the daughter of the sea god. Together with Poseidon, she rushes through the waters on a chariot with horses harnessed to it or zoomorphic creatures - tritons.
Poseidon looked after his wife from the waters on the coast of the island of Naxos. But she ran away from him to the handsome Atlas. Poseidon could not find the fugitive himself. He was helped by dolphins, who delivered her to the palace at the bottom of the sea. For this, the sea lord gave the dolphins a constellation in the sky.
Perseus: almost like a good person
Perseus is perhaps one of the few sons of Zeus who did not have negative traits character. Like the drunken Hercules with his bouts of inexplicable anger or Achilles, who did not consider the interests of others and admired only his own "I".
Perseus was handsome, like a god, bold and dexterous. Always tried to be successful. The mythology of Perseus is as follows. His grandfather, one of the earthly kings, dreamed that his grandson would bring death. Therefore, he hid his daughter in a dungeon behind stones, bronze and castles, away from men. But all the obstacles for Zeus, who liked Danae, were nothing. He penetrated to her through the roof in the form of rain. And a son was born, named Perseus. But the malicious grandfather nailed the mother and child into a box and sent them to swim in the box on the sea.
The captives nevertheless managed to escape on one of the islands, where the waves washed the box ashore, the fishermen arrived in time to rescue the mother and son. But a man reigned on the island, nothing better than father Danai. He began to approach the woman. And so years passed, now Perseus could stand up for his mother.
The king decided to get rid of the young man, but in such a way as not to incur the wrath of the god Zeus. He cheated by accusing Perseus of a non-divine origin. For this it was necessary to heroic deed, for example, to kill the malicious jellyfish Gorgon and drag her head to the king's palace.
It really was not only a sea, but also a flying monster that turned those who looked at it into stone. The gods were indispensable here. Helped the son of Zeus. He was given magic sword and a shield-mirror. In search of the monster, Perseus went through many countries and through many obstacles set up by opponents. The nymphs also gave him useful things on the road.
Finally, he reached an abandoned country where the sisters of that same Gorgon lived. Only they could lead the young man to her. The sisters had one eye and one tooth in three. While the younger gorgon with the eye was leading, the rest could not do anything. Further across the sky, he flew to the monster. And immediately came across a sleeping jellyfish. Before she woke up, the young man cut off her head and put it in a bag. And took a course through the sky to his island. So he proved his destiny to the king and, taking his mother, returned to Argos.
Hercules marries
Many accomplished feats, slave labor from Queen Omphala took away the strength of Hercules. He wanted a quiet life hearth. “Building a house is not difficult, but you need loving wife. Here it is necessary to find it, ”the hero made plans.
Somehow I remembered hunting for a boar near Calydon with a local prince and meeting with his sister Dejanira. And he went to South Aetolia to get married. At this time, Dejanira was already given in marriage, and many suitors gathered.
There was also a river god - a monster that the world had not seen. Dejanira's father said that he would give his daughter to the one who defeated the god. Only Hercules remained from the suitors, since the others, having seen a rival, changed their minds about marrying.
Hercules grabbed his opponent with his hands, but he stood like a rock. And so several times. The result for Hercules was almost ready, as the god turned into a snake. The son of Zeus, still in the cradle, strangled two snakes, and managed here. But the old man became a bull. The hero broke one horn, and he surrendered. The bride became the wife of Hercules.
These are the myths of Ancient Greece.
Tags: ,According to statistics from the British Royal Society of Ghosts, on average each square meter The inhabited surface of the Earth is inhabited by at least 3 ghosts. We managed to photograph some of them, and even talked to some of them. Introducing the most famous myths and legends.
10th place: Argonauts. The myth of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece is very old. The very first recorded version of this myth is already its processing, very far from the original story. Argonauts (lit. "sailing on the Argo") - participants in the voyage on the ship "Argo" for the Golden Fleece to the country of Colchis. The journey of the Argonauts is described in most detail in the poem of Apollonius of Rhodes "Argonautica".
9th place: Beowulf. The only existing manuscript of Beowulf dates from around 1000. But the epic itself belongs, according to most experts, to the end of the 7th or the first third of the 8th century. Beowulf, a young knight from the people of the Gauts, having learned about the attack of the monster Grendel on the king of the Danes Hygelak, goes to the aid of the king.
8th place: The legend of the fern flower. According to ancient folk legend who found a fern flower on the night of Ivan Kupala will find happiness. By the way, this myth exists not only in Russia. The legend of the fern flower was also believed in Lithuania and Estonia.
7th place: Legend of King Arthur. Italian explorer Mario Moiraghi claims that the legendary sword of King Arthur really exists and is located in a rock in the Abbey of San Galgano in Italy. By the way, in his book, Moiragi states that the legend of King Arthur is Italian, although it was traditionally assumed that King Arthur and the Holy Grail were invented in northern Europe or in France.
6th place: Poltergeist. Some argue that the poltergeist ("noisy spirit" in German) terrorized our ancestors for thousands of years. During a poltergeist, objects can appear and disappear from nowhere, for example, a fire can pour or start fire directly “out of thin air”, pipes burst, corks burn out, dishes break, etc. Events of this kind usually last about 2-3 months, and only sometimes for several years.
5th place: Loch Ness monster. The first mention of Nessie begins in 565. A monster is described that looks like a giant toad, "only it was not a toad." In the Latin chronicles of Nessie of the seventh century, the appearance of the dragon "cum agenti fremitu", which means "strongly shaking", was noted.
4th place: Bigfoot, too, so far no one has really seen, but the Nepalese hill tribes still believe in the existence of the terrible Mi-Go or "Abominable Bigfoot" lurking in the midst of ice and mountain spiers.
3rd place: Flying Dutchmen. Legend has it that the Dutch captain Van der Decken once lived. He was a drunkard and a blasphemer. And then one day near the cape Good Hope his ship was caught in a violent storm. The navigator advised him to take refuge in one of the bays, but instead of heeding the advice, Van der Decken shot the navigator. This act angered God, and since then Van der Decken's ship has been wandering the seas. With a rotten hull, it nevertheless holds up well on the waves. The damned captain recruits his team from the drowned, and the more vile and vile their deeds in life were, the better.
2nd place: Bermuda Triangle. In the literature on the Bermuda Triangle, 50 cases of disappearances of ships and aircraft are described in detail. In almost all cases, ships and planes disappeared without a trace, along with their crews. By the way, about 140 thousand people were still saved in the crash of ships in the area bermuda triangle US security service.
1 place: Aliens. On this moment V different organizations recorded about 1-0 thousand evidence of UFO sightings and communication with aliens. The myth of aliens is especially widespread throughout the world: aliens from outer space who visited the earth a long time ago. To aliens, some include the ancient Egyptians and Maya Indians. By the way, the image of a green man with big eyes and in silver clothes was recognized as the most common representation of aliens on Earth. The drawing of the "green man" was soldered into one of the "time capsules", which should be opened in three thousand years.
Every nation has beautiful and amazing legends. They are diverse in subject matter: legends about the exploits of heroes, stories about the origin of the names of geographical objects, horror stories O supernatural beings and romance stories about lovers.
Definition of the term
A legend is an unreliable account of an event. It is very similar to myth and can be considered its approximate counterpart. But legend and myth still cannot be called completely identical concepts. If we are talking about a myth, then there are fictional characters that have nothing to do with reality. The legend admits at its core real events, later supplemented or embellished. Since many fictitious facts are added to them, for reliable scientists legends do not accept.
If we take as a basis classical meaning words, then a legend is a tradition set forth in art form. Such legends exist in almost all nations.
The best legends of the world - they will be discussed in the article.
Types of legends
1. Oral legends are the most ancient view. They spread through wandering storytellers.
2. Written traditions - recorded oral stories.
3. Religious legends- narratives about events and persons from church history.
4. Social legends - all other legends that are not related to religion.
5. Toponymic - explaining the origin of the names of geographical objects (rivers, lakes, cities).
6. Urban legends - newest look, which is widespread today.
In addition, there are many more varieties of legends, depending on what plot underlies them - zootropomorphic, cosmogonic, etiological, eschatonic and heroic. There are very short legends and long narratives. The latter are usually associated with a story about the heroic deeds of a person. For example, the legend about or hero Ilya Muromets.
How did the legends originate?
WITH Latin legenda translates as "what is to be read". The history of legends goes into the deep past and has the same roots as the myth. having no idea about the causes of many things happening around him natural phenomena, made myths. Through them, he tried to explain his vision of the world. Later, amazing and interesting legends about heroes, gods and supernatural phenomena began to appear on the basis of mythology. Many of them have been preserved in the traditions of the peoples of the world.
Atlantis - the legend of the lost paradise
The best legends that arose in antiquity have survived to this day. Many of them still captivate the imagination of adventurers with their beauty and realism. The story of Atlantis suggests that in ancient times there was an island whose inhabitants reached incredible heights in many sciences. But then it was destroyed strong earthquake and sank along with the Atlanteans - its inhabitants.
We must express gratitude to the great ancient Greek philosopher Plato and the equally revered historian Herodotus for the story of Atlantis. An interesting legend excited the minds during the lifetime of these outstanding scientists of ancient Greece. It has not lost its relevance even today. A wonderful island that sank thousands of years ago is still being searched for.
If the legend of Atlantis turns out to be true, this event will be among the greatest discoveries century. After all, there was at least interesting legend about the mythical Troy, in the existence of which Heinrich Schliemann sincerely believed. In the end, he managed to find this city and prove that there is some truth in ancient legends.
Founding of Rome
This interesting legend is one of the most famous in the world. The city of Rome arose in antiquity on the banks of the Tiber. The proximity of the sea made it possible to engage in trade, and at the same time, the city was well protected from a sudden attack by sea robbers. According to legend, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus, fed by a she-wolf. By order of the ruler, they were to be killed, but a negligent servant threw the basket with the children into the Tiber, hoping that it would drown. She was picked up by a shepherd and became a foster father for the twins. Having matured and learned about their origin, they rebelled against a relative and took power from him. The brothers decided to found their city, but during the construction they quarreled, and Romulus killed Remus.
He named the city he built after himself. The legend of the origin of Rome belongs to toponymic legends.
The Legend of the Golden Dragon - The Path to the Heavenly Temple
Among the legends, stories about dragons are very popular. Many peoples have them, but traditionally this is one of the favorite topics of Chinese folklore.
The legend of the golden dragon says that there is a bridge between heaven and earth that leads to the Heavenly Temple. It belongs to the Lord of the World. It can only be entered pure souls. Two golden dragons stand guard over the shrine. They sense an unworthy soul and can tear it apart when they try to enter the temple. Once one of the dragons angered the Lord, and he expelled him. The dragon descended to earth, met other creatures, and dragons of various stripes were born from him. The Lord was angry when he saw them, and destroyed them all, except for those who had not yet been born. When they were born, they hid for a long time. But the Lord of the World did not destroy the new dragons, but left them on earth as their deputies.
Hoards and treasures
The legends of gold take no last place in the list of popular legends. One of the most famous and beautiful myths of ancient Greece tells about the search for the Golden Fleece by the Argonauts. For a long time the legend of the treasure was simply considered a legend until Heinrich Schliemann found a treasure of pure gold at the excavation site of Mycenae, the capital of the legendary king.
Kolchak's gold is another famous legend. In the years civil war was in the hands most of Russia's gold reserves - about seven hundred tons of gold. It was transported in several trains. What happened to one echelon is known to historians. It was captured by the rebellious Czechoslovak Corps and given to the authorities (Bolsheviks). But the fate of the remaining two is unknown to this day. The precious cargo could have been dumped into a mine, hidden or buried in the ground in the vast territory between Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. All the excavations that have been carried out so far (starting with the Chekists) have not yielded any results.
Well to hell and the library of Ivan the Terrible
Russia also has its interesting legends. One of them, which appeared relatively recently, is one of the so-called urban legends. This is a story about a well to hell. This name was given to one of the deepest man-made wells in the world - Kola. Its drilling began in 1970. The length is 12,262 meters. The well was created solely for scientific purposes. Now it is mothballed, since there are no funds to maintain it in working order. The legend about appeared in 1989, when a story was heard on American television that sensors lowered to the very depths of the well recorded sounds similar to the groans and cries of people.
Another interesting legend, which may well turn out to be true, speaks of a library of books, scrolls and manuscripts. The last owner of the precious collection was Ivan IV. It is believed that she was part of the niece's dowry Byzantine emperor Constantine.
Afraid that the precious books in wooden Moscow could burn in a fire, she ordered the library to be placed in the cellars under the Kremlin. According to the seekers of the famous Liberia, it may contain 800 volumes of priceless works of ancient and medieval authors. Now there are about 60 versions of where the mysterious library can be stored.
Disputes between supporters of the theory of creationism and evolutionary theory do not subside to this day. However, unlike the theory of evolution, creationism includes not one, but hundreds of different theories (if not more).
The myth of Pan-gu
The Chinese have their own ideas about how the world came into being. The most popular myth can be called the myth of Pan-gu, a giant man. The plot is as follows: at the dawn of time, Heaven and Earth were so close to each other that they merged into a single black mass.
According to legend, this mass was an egg, and Pan-gu lived inside it, and he lived for a long time - many millions of years. But one day he got tired of such a life, and, waving a heavy ax, Pan-gu got out of his egg, splitting it into two parts. These parts later became Heaven and Earth. He was unimaginably tall - about fifty kilometers long, which, by the standards of the ancient Chinese, was the distance between Heaven and Earth.
Unfortunately for Pan-gu, and fortunately for us, the colossus was mortal and, like all mortals, died. And then Pan-gu decomposed. But not the way we do it. Pan-gu was decomposing really cool: his voice turned into thunder, his skin and bones became the firmament of the earth, and his head became Cosmos. So, his death gave life to our world.
Chernobog and Belobog
This is one of the most significant myths of the Slavs. He tells about the confrontation between Good and Evil - the White and Black gods. It all started like this: when there was only one solid sea around, Belobog decided to create land by sending his shadow - Chernobog - to do all the dirty work. Chernobog did everything as expected, however, having a selfish and proud nature, he did not want to share power over the firmament with Belobog, deciding to drown the latter.
Belobog got out of this situation, did not allow himself to be killed, and even blessed the land erected by Chernobog. However, with the advent of land, one small problem arose: its area grew exponentially, threatening to swallow everything around.
Then Belobog sent his delegation to Earth in order to find out from Chernobog how to stop this business. Well, Chernobog sat on a goat and went to negotiations. The delegates, seeing Chernobog galloping towards them on a goat, were imbued with the comedy of this spectacle and burst into wild laughter. Chernobog did not understand humor, was very offended and flatly refused to talk to them.
Meanwhile, Belobog, still wanting to save the Earth from dehydration, decided to spy on Chernobog, making a bee for this purpose. The insect coped with the task successfully and found out the secret, which was as follows: in order to stop the growth of land, you need to draw a cross on it and say cherished word- "enough". What Belobog did.
To say that Chernobog was not happy is to say nothing. Wanting to take revenge, he cursed Belobog, and cursed him in a very original way: for his meanness, Belobog was now supposed to eat bee feces all his life. However, Belobog did not lose his head and made bee stools sweet like sugar, and this is how honey appeared. For some reason, the Slavs did not think about how people appeared ... The main thing is that there is honey.
Armenian duality
Armenian myths are reminiscent of Slavic ones and also tell us about the existence of two opposite principles - this time male and female. Unfortunately, the myth does not answer the question of how our world was created, it only explains how everything around is arranged. But that doesn't make it any less interesting.
So, here summary: Heaven and Earth are husband and wife separated by the ocean; The sky is a city, and the Earth is a piece of rock, which is held on its huge horns by an equally huge bull - when he shakes his horns, the earth bursts at the seams from earthquakes. That, in fact, is all - this is how the Armenians imagined the Earth.
There is also an alternative myth where the Earth is in the middle of the sea, and Leviathan swims around it, trying to grab onto its own tail, and constant earthquakes were also explained by its flopping. When Leviathan finally bites his own tail, life on Earth will end and the apocalypse will come. Have a nice day.
Norse myth of the ice giant
It would seem that there is nothing in common between the Chinese and the Scandinavians - but no, the Vikings also had their own giant - the origin of everything, only his name was Ymir, and he was icy and with a club. Before his appearance, the world was divided into Muspelheim and Niflheim - the realms of fire and ice, respectively. And between them stretched Ginnungagap, symbolizing absolute chaos, and there, from the merger of two opposite elements, Ymir was born. And now closer to us, to the people. When Ymir began to sweat, a man and a woman emerged from his right armpit along with the sweat. It's strange, yes, we understand this - well, that's how they are, harsh Vikings, nothing can be done. But back to the point. The man's name was Buri, he had a son Bor, and Bor had three sons - Odin, Vili and Ve. The three brothers were gods and ruled Asgard. This seemed not enough to them, and they decided to kill Ymir's great-grandfather, making the world out of him.
Ymir was not happy, but no one asked him. In the process, he shed a lot of blood - enough to fill the seas and oceans with it; from the skull of the unfortunate brothers created the vault of heaven, they broke his bones, making mountains and cobblestones out of them, and they made clouds out of the torn brains of poor Ymir.
This new world Odin and the company immediately decided to settle: so they found two beautiful trees on the seashore - ash and alder, making a man out of ash and a woman out of alder, thereby giving rise to the human race.
Greek myth of balls
Like many other peoples, the ancient Greeks believed that before our world appeared, there was only continuous Chaos around. There was no sun, no moon - everything was dumped into one big heap, where things were inseparable from each other.
But then a certain god came, looked at the chaos reigning around, thought and decided that all this was not good, and set to work: he separated the cold from the heat, foggy morning from a clear day and all that sort of thing.
Then he set about the Earth, rolling it into a ball and dividing this ball into five parts: it was very hot at the equator, extremely cold at the poles, but between the poles and the equator - just right, you can’t imagine more comfortable. Further, from the seed of an unknown god, most likely Zeus, known to the Romans as Jupiter, the first man was created - two-faced and also in the shape of a ball.
And then they tore it in two, making a man and a woman out of it - the future of us.
The contents of the section are legends and sagas, epics and epics, canons and apocrypha of religions from all over the world.
Myth(Greek μῦθος - legend, legend) - a story, an archaic story about gods, spirits (later about heroes). Myth is historically the first form of culture, compensating for the inadequacy of the practical mastery of nature through semantic kinship with it.
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Why is this on a site that was originally designed for myths and various religious and anti-religious things? - There is simply no desire to replenish myths now. Did not hear? - Ukraine was attacked. And the devastation in the minds of Sikelyov is worse than religious. About myths later.
March 7, 2019
the Orthodox day of the holy martyr Eugenia
321- by decree of the Roman emperor Constantine, Sunday is declared a day off
1274- died Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian, saint
1530- Dad refused the English king Henry VIII in the right to divorce, which prompted the king to create the Anglican Church
1693 Pope Clement XIII (Carlo della Tore Rezzonico) was born
1724 Pope Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti) died
1768- under the agreement between Russia and Poland on the territory of the Commonwealth, Orthodox and Catholics are equalized in rights
1965- for the first time in Canada Catholic churches services were performed in English
1984- Polish students staged a sit-in at the Stanisław Staszek College in Metna, demanding the re-installation of crucifixes in classrooms
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Holy father? I have sex with my fiancée 15 times a day... Is it a sin?
- Yes, my son, lying is a great sin.
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Another discovery. Once I noticed that William McKinley looked very sick. This is the very first lion, and from the very beginning I became very attached to him. I examined the poor man, looking for the cause of his ailment, and found that he had an unchewed head of cabbage stuck in his throat. I couldn't get it out, so I took a broom stick and pushed it in...
... Love, peace, peace, endless quiet joy - this is how we knew life in garden of paradise. Living was a pleasure. The passing time left no traces - no suffering, no decrepitude; sickness, sorrow, worries had no place in Eden. They hid behind its fence, but they could not penetrate it ...
I'm almost a day old. I showed up yesterday. So, anyway, it seems to me. And, probably, this is exactly so, because, if it was the day before yesterday, I did not exist then, otherwise I would remember it. It is possible, however, that I simply did not notice when it was the day before yesterday, although it was ...
This new creature long hair I'm very bored. It sticks out in front of my eyes all the time and follows me on my heels. I don't like it at all: I'm not used to society. Go to other animals...
Dagestanis - a term for peoples who originally live in Dagestan. There are about 30 peoples in Dagestan and ethnographic groups. In addition to Russians, Azerbaijanis and Chechens, who make up a large proportion of the population of the republic, these are Avars, Dargins, Kumti, Lezgins, Laks, Tabasarans, Nogais, Rutuls, Aguls, Tats, and others.
Circassians (self-designation - Adyge) - people in Karachay-Cherkessia. In Turkey and other countries of Western Asia, Circassians are also called all immigrants from the North. Caucasus. Believers are Sunni Muslims. The Kabardino-Circassian language belongs to the Caucasian (Iberian-Caucasian) languages (Abkhazian-Adyghe group). Writing based on the Russian alphabet.
