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Aluta
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|  Posted 06-11-2007 at 00:17
I've just run across some information about Lake Seidozero (or Seidiavr) and Mount Ninchurt in far northwestern Russia, the area of the Saami people, who have always interested me because of the similarities between their stone work and some here in the eastern US. It seems there are many petroglyphs around the lake, which is somewhat anomalous with plants growing there that belong farther south because of a climate pocket there. And on the top of the mountain there is something referred to as an "ancient observatory," hence Russia's Stonehenge.
Does anyone know anything further about this?
Here's a bit about the area. Note the last paragraph.
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Aluta
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| Posted 06-11-2007 at 00:19
Also, there's more at Lake Onega.
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| Posted 06-11-2007 at 00:33
Is this a different site to the last Russian Stonehenge?
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146412245
The laugh about that last one is that it was made of wood!
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Aluta
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| Posted 06-11-2007 at 01:04
Quite different. But there are probably more than two. And then there's the Ukrainian Stonehenge, which turned out to be a pyramid, so they got two for the price of one.
But seriously, this looks like a pretty amazing area. I'll keep an eye out for more info so as to make a site page.
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| Posted 06-11-2007 at 08:14
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On 2007-11-06 00:17, Aluta wrote:
I've just run across some information about Lake Seidozero (or Seidiavr) and Mount Ninchurt in far northwestern Russia, the area of the Saami people, who have always interested me because of the similarities between their stone work and some here in the eastern US. It seems there are many petroglyphs around the lake, which is somewhat anomalous with plants growing there that belong farther south because of a climate pocket there. And on the top of the mountain there is something referred to as an "ancient observatory," hence Russia's Stonehenge.
Does anyone know anything further about this?
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Interesting link about the Saami in Finland, the worship of sacred stones, this was in the pre-christian era, its called Siejdde, natural places as sacred sites., Richard Bradley writes quite a bit about it....
http://koti.welho.com/alahelm2/animism.pdf
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Aluta
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| Posted 06-11-2007 at 11:03
Thank you, mishkin. Very interesting. Here's a page I rather like.
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