"Stories with a Stone"

The sword in the stone at the castle near the village of Thornton, England

Megaliths can be seen on the territory of many countries and continents. This is the name of ancient structures made of huge stones, connected without the use of cement or lime mortar, or huge detached stones. They surprise and inspire respect, magical properties were attributed to them, legends were written about them and tales were told. Let's talk a little about them.

Menhirs, dolmens and cromlechs

Freestanding stones are commonly referred to as menhirs ("long stone"), such as the Ballard stone in County Armagh (Ireland):

And this is Champ Dolent, the tallest vertical menhir in Brittany (9,5 meters):

Anthropomorphic menhirs include the so-called "stone women", many of which have been found in southern Russia, Ukraine, Altai, Tuva, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. This can be seen in the Kamennaya Steppe reserve (Voronezh region):

And on the territory of Mongolia, northern China, Altai Territory, Tuva, Transbaikalia, "deer stones" are found. Most often, they are embossed or applied with ocher drawings of deer, less often - horses, solar signs, or other images. The photo below shows the famous Ivolginsky deer stone, found in the middle of the 22th century, about XNUMX km from the city of Verkhneudinsk:

Now it stands at the Irkutsk Museum of Local Lore.

Several stones, placed so that they become like a table, are called dolmens (literal translation - "table-stone"). In the photo below we see the largest dolmen in France - Roche aux fées, "fairy stone" or "fairy stone", it is located near the city of Essay:

And groups of stones arranged in a circle are cromlech ("rounded place"). In Britain they are also called "henge" (Henge - "fence"). An example is Stonehenge (literally - "stone fence").

And this is the Easter Aquhorthies stone circle, which can be seen in the northeast of Scotland:

Cromlechs, built on top of hills, are called cores ("heap of stones").

All these terms (menhir, dolmen, cromlech) are of Breton origin. But in Adygea dolmens are called "ispun" or "sirp-un" (houses of dwarfs), in Scandinavia - "rese", in Portugal - "anta".

As we have already said, sometimes natural stones became objects of worship, which attracted attention with an unusual shape or huge size, we will also talk about some of them in this article.

Megaliths of legends and fairy tales

Stones with inscriptions mentioned in Russian epics and fairy tales can also be safely considered megaliths. We see one of them in the famous painting by V. Vasnetsov:

Another type of megaliths - stones, under which the heroes found "swords-kladenets": unique blades that clearly belonged to the warriors of other nations. The "baby" is a sword taken from an ancient burial, that is, these stones are tombstones. "Treasure" in this case means a grave (and several graves - a cemetery). Only a real hero can lift or move such a huge tombstone. The heroes of the Scandinavian sagas were looking for such swords not under stones, but in ancient burial mounds, while they had to fight the spirit of the former owner. Such "black archeology" was not considered a shameful occupation either in Russia or in Scandinavia: if a hero or a Viking was not afraid of a meeting with otherworldly forces and turned out to be strong enough to get a sword from the grave, then he deserves it weapons... Folk legends call the owners of the sword-kladenets not only Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor, but also Prophetic Oleg.

Another famous "sword-kladenets" was pulled out of the stone by a young man who became King Arthur.

Sword in stone, modern illustration

This sword is often confused with "Excalibur" (probably from the Welsh Caledbwlch, where сaled - "battle", bwlch - "destruction"). It was this that Arthur received from the Lady of the Lake, Lady Vivien (after the first one broke during his duel with Pelenor).

Sword of the Lady of the Lake, illustration to Tennyson's poem "The Death of Arthur"

And this is what this scene looks like on a miniature from the manuscript "Death of Arthur" (1316, stored in the British National Library):

In the illustration below, the artist “combined” these two swords into one: a sword in a stone, but on a lake:

"Wrong Excalibur"

In fact, Thomas Malory says bluntly:

"In the middle of the lake, Arthur sees, a hand in a sleeve of rich white silk sticks out of the water, and she clutches a good sword in her hand."

Andrzej Sapkowski in his "saga" about The Witcher could not resist a parody, in which Ciri appeared in the role of the Virgin of the Lake, and Sir Galahed, the future guardian of the Grail, in the role of King Arthur. True, he did not receive a sword from this "wrong" Lady of the Lake.

“The sorceress ... either crouched down, hiding under the water up to her nose, and held out her outstretched hand with a sword over the water surface.

The knight ... came to his senses, dropped the reins and, kneeling down, sank onto the wet sand. Now he finally understood who fate had brought him to.

“Stay healthy,” he muttered, holding out his hands. - This is a great honor for me ... Great difference, O Lady of the Lake ... I am Galahad, son of Lancelot of the Lake and Elaine, daughter of King Pelles, master of Caer Benin ... believe me, I really deserve to receive a sword from your hands ...
- I did not get that.
- Sword. I am ready to accept it.
- This is my sword. I won't let anyone touch him.
- But ...
- What "but"?
- Lady of the Lake, when ... She always emerges from the waters and bestows a sword.

The girl was silent for a little, then said:

- Understand. As the saying goes, every country is a custom. I'm sorry, Galahad, or whatever you are, but you ran into the wrong Lady. I don’t give out anything. I don’t give anything. And I do not allow to take it away from me. "

But back to the first sword of King Arthur: according to an older and more substantiated version, this sword simply lay on a stone, crushed by a heavy anvil. That is, Arthur did not pull him out of the stone, but threw the anvil to the ground: it is quite rational and no mysticism. And, by the way, this is already a variant of the "serpentine stone" or "stone of fate." We will talk about such stones in one of the following articles.

Another sword in stone can still be seen in the Cistercian abbey of San Galgano (about 30 km from Siena). The future saint Galgano Guiotti (1148-1181) led a dissolute life in his youth, but one day he heard a voice calling him to repentance. With a sneer, he replied that it would be as easy for him to do as to thrust a sword into a stone, and struck a piece of rock next to him with his blade. To his surprise, the sword easily entered the stone and remained in it forever. At this place, Galgano spent the rest of his life.

Galgano Sword

A chapel was built here, around which an abbey grew over time. In the 1786th century it fell into decay, and in 1924 the bell tower and the roof collapsed. The abbey was never restored, but the chapel was renovated in XNUMX, now it houses a museum. Historians believe that the monks stuck the sword into an "artificial" stone, the manufacturing technology of which was known to medieval architects: crumbs of granite, dolomite or sandstone were added to the solution. It turned out very similar to real stones.

And this sword can be seen in the rock above the entrance to the Abbey of the Virgin Mary in the French town of Rocamadour (135 km north of Toulouse):

Sword in Rocamadour

Rocamadour on the map

How and when he appeared there is unknown, but the ancient legend calls him Roland's sword - Durandal. But the Ronseval Gorge is located on the border of Spain and France - far from Rocamadour, and in the "Song of Roland" nothing about the fate of this sword is reported. It is only said that before his death, the hero tried to smash his sword on stones, but could not do it.

And this is a modern monument "The Sword of the Bloods", which can be seen on the "Trail of Miracles" in the gorge in the Kardavagan canyon (North Ossetia):

According to popular legend, a certain hunter was saved by his blood enemy, after which they, as a sign of reconciliation, stuck a sword into a stone.

Megaliths of Broceliande

A special place in Breton folk mythology is occupied by the famous Broceliande Forest, about which V. Hugo wrote in the novel "93":

“The seven so-called“ black forests ”of Brittany were as follows: the Fougeres forest, which blocked the space between Dol and Avranches. Pronseski, eight miles in circumference. Pemponsky, cut by ravines and streams, almost inaccessible from the side of Benyon, but had a convenient connection with the royalist town of Concornet. Rennes, in which the sounds of the alarm bells of the republican parishes, which were quite numerous in the vicinity of the cities, were heard; in this forest Puise's detachment destroyed Fokard's detachment. The Mashkul forest, in which Sharret was hiding like a wild animal. Garnache, belonging to the La Tremoil, Gauvin and Rogan families. And finally Broselian, owned by the fairies. "

This is not an illustration for a fantasy novel, but a modern photograph of Broceliande. In the background there is a "golden tree" (gilded chestnut), which is surrounded by five black skeletons of burnt trees - a memory of the last fire

Currently, Broceliande is believed to be part of the Pempon Forest. It is in Broceliande that you can see two lakes, one of which is called the "Mirror of the Fairies" (le Miroir aux Fees), and in the second (Comper), according to legends, there was an underwater castle of the fairy Vivienne, a student of Merlin and teacher of Lancelot.

Comper castle on the shore of the lake of the same name

According to one version, it was Vivien (Nimue, Ninev, Lady and Lady of the Lake) who imprisoned the famous magician Merlin, who was in vain for her, in a rock. This was discussed in the article "Arthur, Merlin and the fairies of the Breton cycle".

Gustave Dore. "Rest of Vivienne and Merlin"

In the pictures below by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Merlin is not represented as a deep old man, but as a young man in full bloom:

Edward Burne-Jones. "Merlin and the Mistress of the Lake"

Edward Coley Burne-Jones. "Enchanted Merlin"

But such a young dandy appears to be in love with Vivienne Merlin in the illustration of Albert Herter:

But, as they say, "you cannot order your heart." In the painting by Gaston Bussieres, we see the only thing that this magician managed to achieve from the Lady of the Lake:

In Broceliande, the spring of Baranton (la Fontaine de Barenton) is still shown, the water of which supposedly heals madness. It was also called the fountain of youth: it was believed that washing with water from it smoothes wrinkles. It is said that a golden ladle once hung on a branch of a tree nearby: if water was taken into it from a spring and poured onto the surrounding stones, it was as if it was starting to rain.

Source Baranton

Baranton was guarded by the Well Knight.

You can see in Broceliande and the "Valley of No Return", the way out of which, at the behest of the fairy Morgana, could not find the knights unfaithful to their ladies.

"Valley of No Return"

And there are megaliths here, some of which are shown in these photos:

"Fairy Vivienne's House"

"Merlin's Grave"

But these megaliths, called de Monteneuf, were found in the south of the Broselian forest only in 1989:

In the next article we will talk about some of the mysteries of the megaliths.

Comments

[Bolt cutter]

In Britain they are also called "henge" (Henge - "fence")

English hedge. Henge is a rarely used term, the name of structures (round or semicircular earthen embankment and stones (optional) around the perimeter), similar to the famous Stonehenge.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/henge

Ring of Brodgar, Orkneys

[VLR]

In the next article, we'll talk a little about this "Ring" and its "magical" properties.

[Alien From]

Thank you, an interesting article.

[kalibr]

Valery, you are great!

[Richard]

An interesting informative cycle of articles turns out. I just read with pleasure

[riwas]

Ancient civilizations were "stone". Structures of stones, several hundred tons each, have come down to us. Moreover, the stones are fitted to each other so that it is impossible to stick a razor blade between them. Riddle.

Another mystery is the same old weapon - vajdra. Maybe she was used not only as a weapon, but also as a tool for processing such stones.

More:
http://www.sinor.ru/~bukren23/ogn_king.doc

[Korsar4]

The most amazing thing is that never
I did not associate the “stone at three roads” with dolmens.

You never know what the glacier is able to drag.

I don't know why, but Arthur and Lancelot did not become close.
Ciri, of course, is an interesting character: but Sapkowski did not deeply touch him either.

So there is something to think about a little.

What tribe was the Head from which Ruslan took the sword?

[VLR]

Sapkowski's cycle "about the Witcher" is very "black", sometimes even "dirty", depressing,
sad and sad. I don't like him either. The best novel of this writer is, perhaps, "The Tower of Jesters" (its sequels are much worse).

[Korsar4]

Thank. I will remember.
The dwarf surgeon from The Witcher is most memorable.

[3x3zsave]

I don't like him either.
On the contrary, I really liked it. Unlike similar "Wolfhound" and "A Song of Ice and Fire"
Thank you, Valery!

[Reptiloid]

I remembered the movie "The Librarian", where the hero also pulls out a sword from a stone and then sticks it back in. But the second episode is worse. And the third is not that or that at all ... Although initially the idea was good.

[novel66]

how !! "The Witcher" is one of the greatest creations ... what a quote is from there

... The latter finally made out Milva, who strongly scolded Zoltan when he poured into the still warm ash of the fire in the morning, not at all embarrassed by the audience and not paying attention to the rising stench. Having received a reprimand from Milva, Zoltan was not at all embarrassed and said that only two-faced, insidious and prone to denunciations can hide such actions, by which actions they are usually recognized.

[Richard]

I don't know why, but Arthur and Lancelot did not become close.
Ciri, of course, is an interesting character: but Sapkowski did not deeply touch him either.

[Korsar4]

An obvious explanation.

[Van 16]

Beauty, no words!

[Van 16]

"Definitely all beautiful knightly legends and stories have Russian roots ...
Yes! The British took out the sword from the stone, but only our man could drive the piece of iron into the stone! "
(I remember, somewhere in KVN was not))

[3x3zsave]

That's right, Ivan!

[Lynx2000]

There are quite a few classifications (types and subtypes) of deer stones. The main thing is that "tourists" do not add new "petroglyphs", as it happened in Gorny Altai.

[Reptiloid]

Artists depicted stones in paintings, which speaks of their importance.
Gladly looked at the photo in the article and in the comments.

[Operator]

European megaliths were erected before the 5th millennium AD. - the moment of the invasion of Western Europe by the Erbins - carriers of the haplogroup R1b (the so-called era of stone axes).
The megalith builders are European carriers of haplogroup G, who settled in a narrow strip in the highlands from the Pamirs through the Iranian and Anatolian highlands, the Balkans, the Alps and the Pyrenees to the British Isles in the Neolithic.
In Europe, the G carriers were exterminated by the Erbines. In Asia, the highest concentration of G is observed in the Western Caucasus among Ossetians and Abkhaz (up to 100%), Armenians and Georgians (up to 50%), as well as in the Pamirs.

[Undecim]

erbines - carriers of haplogroup R1b

Klesovshchina breathed. Further, according to this cryptosemantics, the carriers of R1a are erans, E3a are eans, J are jones, K are cans, N3 are enes, E3b - here I’m even afraid to write, let everyone figure it out for himself.
In short, obscurantism is sweeping the planet.

[Trilobite Master]

The operator is a well-known Klesovets ... It is strange that he did not participate in Saturday obscurantism about the video of his idol ... Apparently, like me, he does not look at "Video" ...

[Undecim]

You can say - a fanatic. He left in the minus, but did not change the principles. Giordano Bruno!

[depressant]

Let’s let me blow

Prophetic stones were bulletin boards.
Creditors wrote on them: "If you go to the left, you will be rich." Marriage agencies in the form of a community of matchmakers reported their own: "If you go to the right, you will be married." Well, the direction to the PMC office could be judged by the inscription: "If you go straight, you will be killed."
The people were simple, there were few desires, everything was clear and were sorted out in directions, so that, on the one hand, there was no competition with a scuffle for the client, and on the other hand, the will of the knight and the freedom of his choice were respected. However, all three choices were almost equal)))

[novel66]

there was another option - "you will lose your horse", is it the road to the gypsies?

[depressant]

Perhaps, to any dashing people, to whom one can easily attribute both the Nightingale the Robber with his whistle that stops the heart, and gypsies. But were there gypsies then, in epic times?

[Undecim]

Gypsies appeared on the territory of the Russian Empire not earlier than the XNUMXth century.

[VLR]

It seems that the first mention of the Gypsies in an official document is 1733, the decree of Anna Ioannovna, who was concerned that the Gypsies did not pay taxes:
“In addition to the maintenance of these regiments, determine the fees from the Roma, both in Little Russia they are collected from them, and in the Slobod regiments and in the Great Russian cities and districts assigned to the Slobod regiments, and for this collection to determine a special person, since the Roma are not included in the census written ".
I wonder if they managed to collect taxes from the gypsies then?

[Undecim]

Judging by the fact that the names of Gypsy, Gypsy, Gyganchuk, Gypsychik were found in the Registers of the Zaporizhzhya Army already in the XNUMXth century, they appeared on the territory of present-day Ukraine a hundred years earlier.

[depressant]

And the Gypsies still don’t pay taxes, they steal electricity, marry very early - at the age of 14, in order to give birth to offspring and get a reprieve from the army. And in order not to get into it at all, they breed continuously, receive subsidies from the state for this business and declare that they are pacifists. The Tula province suffered severely from them until recent years, until the local people fell into despair at all, became angry, and the gypsies seemed to have left Tula.

[Catfish]

Good afternoon, Lyudmila.

... until the local people completely fell into despair, got mad,

In relation to the gypsies, it was necessary to immediately learn from the former enemy, not everything they had with a minus, by no means everything.

We, too, in the early nineties, almost started having problems with the camp that came, but the men immediately took up arms, and the district police officer explained to the gypsies how it would end. They took it right away and went away to hell.

[depressant]

Good afternoon, Kostya!
Even in our small village, until recently, there were gypsies, and when I saw them, I anxiously grabbed my wallet. And not only me - everyone was tense. Quick-eyed, nimble, with some kind of special fire in the body, not wasted on monotonously exhausting daily activities in production or in the same office, they wasted this fire on inventing schemes, like deceiving me and, naturally, all gullible others ...
Now they are gone. Settled somewhere in the far distance, protecting themselves from the crown, the country is large.

And here is spring in the country)))
The tree can be seen in my western window, tiny green leaves crawling out of the buds. Whisper! Whenever it is so boring: I'm waiting for the 21st, what the oracle will tell us.
Interestingly, oracles have always guessed the course of history? Did you fall into the canvas of realities or, for the most part, your finger in the sky?

[Catfish]

Yes, spring, the snow has disappeared as if it never existed. In front of our house, a huge willow has already released leaves, you look and your soul is warming. Although it has been raining for the second day, and tomorrow I will again storm mountains of mud and lakes of puddles, and then wash my trusty conic.
From the 21st, in my opinion, there is nothing to expect, I do not expect anything, except for traffic jams in Moscow. And as for the oracles, it is still half the trouble, if they "hit the sky with their fingers", it could be worse.

[Phil77]

Greetings, dear Lyudmila Yakovlevna!
Are you waiting for the 21st, and what happens on the 21st? And what can we expect on the 21st?
But spring ... Spring, this is truly glorious and wonderful! Exactly what should be expected!

[depressant]

Well, spring is inevitable, unless, of course, the earth's axis changes direction, and the prediction of the future, at least by maps, by a pendulum, but by anything, but in any case - from a mobile phone or TV screen - it's like charging water with a Chumak (remember Alan Chumak?), but not in a glass or in a can displayed in front of the screen, but right in a person. After all, we are 70 - 80% water, and on the 21st we will be charged.
Imagine that you are a glass

[Phil77]

Okay, I'm a glass. Hence the question: with what?!? Well, if in our opinion, in a philosophical way.

[depressant]

Well Seryozha! ...))))
If the problem is considered in your interpretation, then the psychic from the screen is unlikely to affect you - you are filled with an inappropriate liquid, and the psychic, apparently, will be guided by the discillate)))

[Phil77]

ABOUT! Absolutely correct!
So in those unforgettable years, I basically did not look at these * magicians * and * sorcerers. * Although ... although, I confess, I did look once. I looked at the serious face of Kashpirovsky, listened to his wondrous speeches, and ... Homeric, loud, sincere laughter, no! - laughter, into my whole tinned throat! It was.
And water? No, it's better not to offer water. Even now, in my * non-drinking * period, tea, coffee is better / although coffee in a glass is not comme il faut, right? /, Kvass and so on, so on.

[3x3zsave]

in those unforgettable years
... you carried a "fly swatter" in your pocket, and only believed in it. However, like me, a few years later.

[Phil77]

Hi Hi!
Well, how can you not believe such a * wallpaper * ???? !!!!

[3x3zsave]

I didn't care. Where is Kashpirovsky, and where is the first long-term sexual intercourse ?!

[Phil77]

So I write, looked, listened and ... whinnied!

[depressant]

I drink coffee from a large glass mug! I brew a mixture of granules with ground with boiling water, and it's fine. Soaked through. The screen doesn't work on me either! )))

[Phil77]

I drink coffee at home only on weekends.

From this marvelous / truly Japanese cup /. And so, based on work.
Before work, tea. From another large, but also marvelous mug.

[depressant]

Yes, this mug is a work of art. However, like everything with the Japanese. They process any household item from all sides, from those where you can't look in life. And not like ours: he sharpened it from above, sanded it, and from below you will take your hand - a chip under the nail, I had that.

[Korsar4]

But our children are beautiful. The Japanese themselves recognized.

[depressant]

Yes, there are still children in Russia.

[Korsar4]

Nature takes its toll.

[depressant]

If only the circumstances did not interfere with her. And then on their creation, I mean irresistible circumstances, and not children, we spend too much energy. And here I am not referring to the creators of children.

[Korsar4]

And the Church was critical of those who drink coffee.

And somewhere you can understand. The first properties of coffee were noted by shepherds, whose goats, like the leaves, begin to behave excitedly.

[depressant]

I suppose they molested the shepherds?

[Korsar4]

Later.
There is a considerable distance from the shepherds to the plantation in the city of Moha.

[Korsar4]

“We are the source of fun,
And the mine of sorrow "(c).

[3x3zsave]

Nightingale the Robber
O. Divov expressed an interesting hypothesis that this character could be a relict Neanderthal.

[Richard]

Anton
Also an interesting hypothesis was expressed by a member of the military-historical society, the head of the Main Directorate of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, Police Major General Mikhail Yuryevich Chernikov. He very reasonably points to the departmental affiliation of this character

[3x3zsave]

Dmitry!
I am very skeptical about the statements of persons built into the power structures with a rank higher than colonel. For further, there is a conjuncture.

[Korsar4]

How exactly did the Nightingale the Robber prototype whistle?

[depressant]

I had the misfortune to run into - not a prototype, but a follower. It was in the 90s. A man across the street whistled to someone. This whistle with a monstrous pain pierced my heart, almost lost consciousness, and came to my senses for a long time. Since then, I believe that in ancient times there was such a scoundrel who could kill with a whistle and therefore became legendary.
But the phenomenon is very simple. Every human organ has a natural frequency (this does not mean that the organ vibrates, it means that it can be forced to vibrate). And if an external sound wave of high power coincides in its frequency with the frequency of natural oscillations of an organ, say, of the heart, then resonance is obtained, the heart twitches and can burst. Here I almost fell under this one.

[Korsar4]

I could not help but be remembered.
String theory in practice.

[3x3zsave]

On the verge of infrasound.

[Korsar4]

And how did the alleged Vyatich manage it?

[3x3zsave]

Why Vyatichu? I'm talking about the ability of Neanderthals to emit sound waves below 15 kHz. This is definitely unpleasant for the Cro-Magnon.

[Korsar4]

I think either Vyatich was a prototype, or from a goliad.
The Neanderthal of the times of Ilya Muromets does not match in my vision.

[3x3zsave]

As a relic, why not? Where then all these legends about the previous people come from?

[Korsar4]

So how many mentions of the Yeti and nowadays - and nothing serious.

[3x3zsave]

"Today", and a thousand years ago ...
You yourself know how many species disappear and discover every year.

[Korsar4]

I know.
But this does not mean that Ilya Muromets was a contemporary of mammoths and woolly rhinos.

Although quite in the spirit of Martin's wildlings.

[3x3zsave]

But this does not mean that Ilya Muromets was a contemporary of mammoths and woolly rhinos.
Does not mean. Nor does it mean that those Pardusians who ran across the Black Sea steppes, of which he was a contemporary, are genetically identical to African cheetahs.

[Trilobite Master]

I remembered.
Knight at the crossroads, stone on stone inscription:

If you go to the right, you will scuffle.
If you go to the left, you will scuffle.
If you go straight, you will get rid of it

The knight was thinking, scratching his head under the helmet ...
Voice from behind the bushes:
- Man, come on, think faster, otherwise you’ll get it right here right now!

[Catfish]

Hi Michael
Something like this?

[depressant]

Well, guys, have some fun! I burst out laughing! I haven't laughed like that for a long time)))
From the bushes sounded the voice of the then traffic cop. And now it’s interesting, was it just us on the prophetic stones that the recommended directions of movement were indicated, or was it everywhere?

[Catfish]

They also had problems with that.

[depressant]

Kostya, thank you very much! An hour of fun ... And then I'm deeply immersed in mathematics, the accuracy of definitions and justifications is required, cartoons inspire))))

[Catfish]

... And then I'm here deeply mired in mathematics ...

We will help you as much as we can.

[depressant]

Very effective! However, I was already a little exhausted, the brain sickness attacked - it happens when you have to continuously generate logical constructions. Now that's it, I'll have fun with the help of my dear friends ))))

[Phil77]

Lyudmila Yakovlevna! Yes, with great pleasure! You personally! For a cheerful mood / with a mathematical bias! /.

[depressant]

About Pythagoras: Pythagorean pants are equal on three sides. The child's clothing is one of over a hundred proofs of the Pythagorean theorem.
In the middle picture, the cleaning lady erases the proof of Vieta's theorem. On the second - above the schedule, one must think that one is in danger of bringing oneself into the state characterized by the first figure.
Great, Seryozha! ))))
Bull's-eye!

[Catfish]

The old man Pythagoras was a famous zhuir and yernik.

[Catfish]

"Mass fun in high latitudes", so called one chapter in his book, Admiral Friedrich Ruge. He was referring to the actions of German submarines in 1940, and a year later many of the "merry fellows" found their eternal rest in the same latitudes.

[Phil77]

Hello friends! Will you accept a cartoon company? I beg!

[depressant]

Seryozha, masterpiece! ))))
Life has become better, life has become happier! (from)

[Phil77]

Passed, accepted, inventory-protocolOl.More.

[Korsar4]

So which is better - not knowing how to read?

[depressant]

There is a suspicion that the lack of writing skills dramatically improves mental health.

[Catfish]

And it helps on the thorny path of life.

[Catfish]

The main thing is to have imagination, the rest will follow.

[Korsar4]

Is that Papa Carlo?

[Catfish]

This is the chronicler of Moses.

[Korsar4]

And the truth is - there are only 4 limbs. But the mustache is like a talking cricket.

[Catfish]

Is he a cricket? Funny ...

[Korsar4]

"This is a mustache - who needs a mustache" (almost (c)).

"And who did you think about V, Lavrenty Pavlovich?" (from).

[Catfish]

About whom I need, about that and thought.

[Korsar4]

Did you know and did not say?

[Catfish]

A strict secret, a state secret. What is your political credo?

[depressant]

The Corsair, the slave of honor, is silent.
In vino veritas, gram 200!

[Korsar4]

“Note, I didn’t suggest it” (c).

[depressant]

I see a deep resentment. Are we not selling so cheaply? We won't pay out political platforms for less than a bottle?

[Korsar4]

There were people for whom I worked precisely on such conditions. They took it with personal charm.

[depressant]

Really ... It’s scary to say ... Really Lenin and Trotsky?!?

[Korsar4]

The same rogues. But the scale is smaller.

[Catfish]

I envy you had good employers.

[Korsar4]

Any female boss was quick to pick me up.

[Catfish]

You have to be careful, colleague.

[Korsar4]

"Pass us more than all sorrows" (c).

[Catfish]

"Stories with a Stone", or maybe "A Romance with a Stone" is better?
"I love ugliness!" - as Svirid Petrovich Golokhvastov frankly admitted.

[Korsar4]

I don't recognize Oleg Borisov in the photo.

[Catfish]

So he changed his suit.

[Korsar4]

And Pronya Prokopovna.

[Catfish]

"Pronya Prokopovna has a taste!" (C)

[Korsar4]

“And all the Kuznetsky most,
And the eternal French "(c).

[Catfish]

"At the crossroads of one hundred and fifteen seas
Okhotny Ryad, Okhotny Ryad "(c)

[Korsar4]

"Along the longest street in Moscow" (c).

[Catfish]

"And we do the doormen: Open the doors" (c)

[Korsar4]

“I don't know what she was doing there.
Apparently I came to receive my passport ”(c).

[Catfish]

"In a blue T-shirt, a Komsomol is walking" (c)

[Korsar4]

"And from fair-haired from braids, and from black curls" (c).

[Catfish]

"Yellow faces are circling over the city" (c)

[Korsar4]

"Snows are falling" (c).

[Catfish]

"On the banks of freezing rivers - snow, snow, snow ..." (c)

[Korsar4]

"Leather jackets thrown into a corner" (c).

[Catfish]

"I'll take an overcoat and a duffel bag, and a helmet
In protective painted paint "(c)

[Korsar4]

Goodbye boys.
Boys
Try to go back "(c).

[Catfish]

"And if something goes wrong, it's none of our business,
As they say, the Motherland ordered.
How nice to be innocent of anything
Quite a simple soldier, a soldier. "(C)

[3x3zsave]

"Don't drink wine, Gertrude!
Drunkenness does not paint the ladies! "(C)

[depressant]

This, excuse me, to whom? ))) Or have I not figured out Sergey's gender?

[3x3zsave]

This inspired your dialogue with Sergei.

[depressant]

The wave, you say, has gone? The main thing is that there is no earthquake from Sergey's angry stomping, my phone may react inadequately, because it behaves strangely. A few days ago, an inversion happened to him: the filling level of the battery, instead of white, began to be shown in black; touching the screen with your finger makes it blush for a split second.

[3x3zsave]

Apparently your phone has been tonsured.

[Catfish]

Or maybe he shaved his head?

This happens after an overdose. I've been telling myself how much, don't leave your phone on the table, it's useless - he regularly bathes in vodka.

[Undecim]

Apparently your phone has been tonsured.

More like getting ready for a better world.

[depressant]

No, it's unlikely - let him try! And I allow him to be embarrassed, so long as he does not make claims to me at the sight of some pictures and caricatures, does not whine. And to prevent this from happening, I will further cover the screen with my palm - in some cases.

[Catfish]

And in any case, do not keep it close at hand when you have a snack.

[Catfish]

Good evening, Lyudmila.
It is very, very problematic for me to imagine Sergei causing natural disasters in this way, especially given his balanced and restrained manner of conducting a dialogue.
You obviously confused him with someone.

[Korsar4]

"The general is not my enemy!" (from).

[Catfish]

"I will definitely be a general,
I will definitely become a general
If a corporal, if a corporal
I will survive "(c)

[Korsar4]

"Let's drink
For those who are in MUR ”(c).

[Catfish]

Well, over a glass!

[Korsar4]

"Gleb Zheglov and Volodya are not sleeping" (c).

[Catfish]

"Moscow sleeps and the month shines from behind a cloud" (c)

[Korsar4]

"Hello, Month Month!" (from).

[Catfish]

"Well, what day was it then?"
Oh yes, Wednesday ... "(c)

[Korsar4]

“From Wednesday to Thursday
Duck in the upper room is a servant "(c).

[Catfish]

"Savka and Grishka made a dudu" (c)

[Korsar4]

“The man lost his arc.
Fumbled, fumbled: did not find it "(s).

[Catfish]

"And the young ones don't seem to come in for a long time,
There were only ghouls left "(c)

[depressant]

Good evening, Kostya! I noted your discreet post at Samsonov, she herself noted there extremely intemperate, almost crossed the border)))
As for Sergei, it all depends on the weight category. Svyatogor slightly stirred, and the terrain was folds, rumbles from collapses)))

[Catfish]

And what did Samsonov have there? Honestly, I don’t remember.
Well, and Svyatogor is an epic personality, where only the people have not fantasized from a rich imagination and due to the lack of education.

[depressant]

And the invasion of the Crimean Tatars to Russia took place there, and the capture with the subsequent sale of 800 thousand Russian people in the slave markets. Well, I got carried away. She left so as not to run into a ban.

[Catfish]

Well, yes, Samsonov still did not have enough to comment with all the Caudle that grazes on him. After all, I wrote the truth, so let the urya-patriots add up with all their dislike for me.

[Korsar4]

Everything is fine with the weight category: not yet brilliant, and not even very outstanding.

[depressant]

Pull up! Svyatogory in everyday life are welcome)))

[Korsar4]

"Lukomorya is no more!" (from).

[depressant]

He was too harsh,
He was too rude
He dumped in Lukomorye
Majestic oak!

[Korsar4]

"Scary! Already horror! " (from).

[depressant]

Because of your actions, Sergei, the sky has already shook, and we have snow in the Moscow region !!!

[Korsar4]

Yes. Was under the snow yesterday. Despite the fact that dogwood, anemone, fragrant violets and much more are in bloom.

[Korsar4]

"Everything will change, dear" (c).

[depressant]

Yes, I would have had enough for the snow to melt, otherwise the leaves would go green and freeze. Stop smashing oaks in Lukomorye immediately!

[Korsar4]

"Did I destroy the chapel too?" (c).

There will still be a lot of heat. Appreciate water.

[depressant]

Oh, about the assessment of water - it's not for me, it's for our housing and communal services. This is where the "connoisseurs" are hiding - the true ones! And there will be a lot of water - all ours. Due to global warming, a lot of ice melts, a lot will evaporate at the equator and precipitate here.

[Korsar4]

Precipitation began to fall unevenly.
I think that in the Moscow region, few people want a quick repetition of the year 2010.

[depressant]

Sergey, so in fact the forecasters maliciously promise! As I remember ... Last night at the entrance there was a smell of burnt paper, everyone poured out onto the staircase, except for the culprits, but each of them started talking about his own things, had not talked for a long time, huddled together. I ran through the floors, and from the concentration of the smoke it became clear that on the upper landing someone had smoked an ineptly made roll-up - an excess of paper. Sighing, she returned to the apartment. The smoke cleared away in a draft, the memories of the terrible year of conflagrations remained. Will I stand it again.

[Korsar4]

Lyudmila Yakovlevna, there is a reason to enjoy the April weather.
Now I will run into the street maliciously.

[depressant]

And I'll sit down to the TV, listen to the president's message.

[Korsar4]

I can't approve - it's better outside. Relaxation is better when it is joy, not stress.

[depressant]

I have to listen to the president. He's going to tell me something too. And I am a polite person. This, of course, if my politeness is enough to listen to the end. I get tired, you know, from platitudes, I can turn my back. And you, Sergey, are pleased to take a walk! Until the evening! )))

[Korsar4]

Thought.
You can have people on all channels who want to tell you something.
And some - to play musical instruments.

[depressant]

So there are those who are ready to dance for me so that I can watch them!
Advertising is the god of television, it needs adepts, but I persistently bypass any sects. By the way, I would not be at all surprised if the president's speech was interrupted by advertising

[Korsar4]

And do you cruelly cut advertising on your computer?

[depressant]

And not my computer - my phone. I do this: I go to where they sent it, and if there are advertisements, and they, advertisements, are often layered one on top of the other, then I just leave. Demonic advertising is not a spectacle. And if it's not there, I look at what I'm interested in, but as soon as the advertisement appeared, I immediately leave. Thus, I have no idea what products are in trend now, lagging behind life)))

[Korsar4]

And so I wanted to discuss what is being advertised now.

[depressant]

This is very simple. In fact, they advertise everything. More than a year ago, feeling the danger posed by a drug-addicted neighbor, and based on the realities of my frail door, I asked Yandex if it was possible to buy a combat knife with delivery and how much it would cost. For a month I was haunted by advertising! It turned out that in Russia there are many craftsmen who produce edged weapons, and an innumerable number of varieties of the object of interest to me, up to copies of any historical knives. I was even offered the Koran! Are you a terrorist? Sure, not a problem! We will serve you. It was a real wave of advertising, in which I, swearing, literally drowned. Therefore, it is impossible to say what exactly is advertised as a priority. The Internet adjusts exactly to your needs. He sees them, even if you are not specifically interested in anything, he has already passed into the stage of forming your needs on his own. For example, you accidentally went to some topic in Zen, where the law is discussed in the comments on the forum, say, on real estate - wait for the corresponding advertisement.

[Korsar4]

At least you familiarized yourself with craftsmen, knives, types of steel and laws.
I don't know how helpful the Quran was.

[depressant]

You're kidding! )))
I haven't even read the Bible, but you say - the Koran. I have my own idea of ​​the Creator, I am a fan of Jesus, I don’t go to church, and once here, in history, someone told me a long time ago that I was from the Albigensians, which became the reason for my unbridled fun.
As for the knives, then - yes, exactly what I got acquainted with. The cheapest is too expensive for me.

[Korsar4]

Colleagues have fun with different types of handles from different tree species.

[Phil77]

And I better work for 20 years! The same thing with small annual changes. We all get up from our knees, there are enemies all around, a galley slave, flies, cutlets, and also Polovtsy with Pechenegs!
Good afternoon, Lyudmila Yakovlevna!

[depressant]

Hello, Seryozha!))))
I heard something. A golden rain of investment will fall only on those companies that do not spend their profits on dividends, but make investments in Russian industry themselves. Well, the people will be thrown. All that was said was known to me for a long time, but I read analysts. The president looks bad, exhausted, and constantly cleared his throat. It seems unwell and generally old. Where else he should be elected, I do not understand.
Let's go for the armor. There, it seems, Kostya gave a cool drawing of a knight with a pot)))

[Phil77]

Time, excuse me, no! Like a * galley slave *! Overhaul is on the way, and now preparations are underway for it, if only in the evening.

[depressant]

Overhaul? In the apartment?!? Already growled in horror!

[Phil77]

God be with you, Lyudmila Yakovlevna!
At the enterprise. Annual, planned. In the apartment? Yes, I have plans, for July, for vacation time.

[Korsar4]

I have never looked. If anything is important, they will tell you.

[Phil77]

How many channels are on TV! And you were drawn to * horror *!

[depressant]

In a life scanty for events, horror is the most it! Why do you think I watch disaster movies? ))))

[Phil77]

I recommend turning on the TV box at 19.00 and ..... watch the football match. CSKA-Lokomotiv. Cup of our country. This is much more interesting than the annual debate of events and the bulk of our VVP plans. From year to year the same thing.

[depressant]

Seryozha !!! My nerves have become weak. They prepared me for the President's message far and long in advance, in portions in the form of articles with forecasts where he would send, and hockey is unpredictable, because a person does not just watch it - he is SICK! Feel this word. I'm not well anyway

[Undecim]

Still, if you write about megaliths, then not within the framework of an article about King Arthur, since this topic is much broader, and there are more than two dozen types of megaliths.
In addition, there are also exclusively regional types, for example - verracos, which are found only in the Iberian half-island.

[Trilobite Master]

I would also remember the Karelian seids. You can also talk about the so-called. "Borisov stones" - this is closer to our history.

[VLR]

The topic is immense, but the seids are mentioned in the next article - "Mysteries of the Megaliths".
And I spoke about the Borisov stones in the article "Fulfillment of desires".

[Undecim]

"Borisov stones" are, nevertheless, not megaliths. But in any case, you can write a lot.

[Korsar4]

The first association is “Bisovy footprints”. Not far from Girvas.

[3x3zsave]

All the same, "veracco, s" are Celtiberians. And they have nothing to do with the rest of the megalithic structures. Due to the age difference.

[mihaylov]

Drakospito (Dragon Houses) about. Euboea

[Richard]

In a halo of clouds at an altitude of 1300 m above sea level, behind waterfalls and lavender fields, one of the most amazing mysteries of the history of Ancient Greece is hidden.
Drakospito or "dragon houses" is a mystery that has excited the imagination of several generations of researchers. To date, 25 buildings of this group have been discovered. All of them are scattered along the old marble quarries, first discovered by the British geographer Hawkins in 1797. Echoing the locals, he called his discovery the "Dragon's Lair". True, the first serious expedition went to Draskopito only in 1959. It was headed by Nikos Mutsopoulos.
The design of the "dragon houses" is amazing. Despite the completely illogical location (the slope of the mountain is at a decent height), most of all they resemble the rooms of some ancient hostel. Or at home, just not for an ordinary person, but for a giant (this gives rise to the most daring hypotheses that cyclops are not at all a figment of the imagination of the authors of numerous myths and legends). A huge box made of monolithic multi-ton slabs of absolutely regular shape, a pronounced opening for an entrance with 10-meter columns, an empty space inside the "dwelling" -
a photo 10-meter entrance to Drakospito on Mount Okhi

What overwhelming secrets are hidden in the "dragon houses" of Euboea?
a photo Drakospito of Mount Okhi

[mihaylov]

Quote: Richard

Drakospito of Mount Okhi

Unfortunately, the most impressive building in this series, the Drakospito of Mount Okhi, is very difficult to reach: it is located quite high in the mountains in an inaccessible place, you need to rent a good SUV and it is better not to meddle without local guides. During the season, there are excursions by off-road vehicles, but not very regularly as the group gathers, but at that moment this did not happen. I had to be content with visiting a more accessible group of similar buildings.

[Richard]

I sincerely envy you that you saw and photographed it with your own eyes.

[Avior]

that we ignored the stone mushrooms

[depressant]

These are not herbalists, by any chance? There are especially many of them in Romania and they multiply! )))

[Avior]

No, these are remnants

[depressant]

I got interested. Remains are what remains after weathering.
"Occasions are an isolated mass of mountainous terrain, which remained after the destruction of an unstable part.
In the 16th century, Spanish researchers decided to go to a distinguished company - to find the legendary “Seven of Golden Cities”. But at the same time, they bumped into the most dangerous earth formations - the remnants. For local plaques, these insulated tall plaques were considered ancient monuments. In the 19th century, the term "rest" became common and quickly came into use by geologists. For thousands of people, people broke their heads over their nature, but now we can explain the process of their formation.
The rest is a typical insulated chill with a steep and often flat top. The word has French roots and is translated as "little holm" ... "

[Avior]

yes, they are big

[Grim Reaper]

Author, you are great. I am a little "turned" on the era of Arthur, etc. Thank you.

[c2020]

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And here about the Martian stone:

Posted today: Mars rover captured fossilized dinosaur head

https://newizv.ru/news/science/20-04-2021/marsohod-zasnyal-okamenevshuyu-golovu-dinozavra

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