Alatyr-stone - a mythical subject that is often found in the folklore.For example, the Slavic peoples revered boulders, considering them sacred, they have to treat the disease.About alatyr said that he was the father of all the stones, representing its greatest.It is located in the center of the world, in the middle of the sea, the ocean, on the magical island of Buyan.According to legend, it is a tree, and from beneath it rivers flow with the power of healing.According to legend, he fell from the sky engraved with the laws of God Svarog.In stories about heroes alatyr-stone is the starting point of their exploits.Remember describes how fellow comes to the stone, which lies at the intersection of all roads, and required him to make the right choice?
According to another narration, stone alatyr appeared in the beginning of time.And raised him from the bottom of the Ocean of Milk World Duck.He was so small that the bird wanted to hide it in his beak.However SVAROG said the magic words, and then the stone began to grow.Duck did not keep it, and dropped from the beak.At the spot where he fell, he formed Alatyrsky mountain.And from that moment it began the creation of the world.
According to another legend, the Almighty, with the descent to Earth, appealed to this wonderful boulder.Depending on the era, he was the Mountains, the source and, finally, in one of the periods appeared alatyr-stone.
Speaking about the sacred sense, it should be said that it is the beginning and the center of everything.It is because it takes the word "altar" (a symbol of divinity and the place where the sacred objects).It describes the laws of the universe and the wisdom of the gods.Because there are oberezhnye characters, all charms, including a part where there Artifical stone are its small manifestation.
Beside him nepotuhayuschy burning fire Svarog.Alatyr is the embodiment of power and immortality of art.The moment when the Creator strikes a hammer on a stone, it sparks are born from the gods, but if the fire got into the man, it ignited a great passion for tvorchestvu.On is indestructible and eternal foundation of everything that connects all the nations of the dead, and the unbornThe human race alive.Alatyr - the intermediary between gods and men.
This stone is associated with such concepts as "the cornerstone" of Christianity.When Jesus saw Simon, a fisherman standing on the lake, he did not wait for the boat swim to the shore and jumped into the water, that they might meet with Christ.However, he did not drown, but rose as the alatyr.Jesus gave Simon a new name - Peter, translated as "rock."Thus, he anticipated the ministry which the apostle was to show the world - firmness in their faith and knowledge.According to tradition, Jesus then put into the base alatyr Zion Church.
Whatever name or wore this boulder: the Holy Grail, the foundation, philosophical or alatyr-stone around the mass of legends and stories.Esoteric say that it consists of lonoplodnyh vital activity of matrix structures within and full of life.In it lies the image of the Universal Egg, which signed the law of development and the structure of the world, giving rise to the birth, rebirth and transformation.
