Recently, a girl asked me: “Sveta, did you see you, in Altai, near Belukha, magic stone in a magical town?

In general, I could not restrain myself then ... And so I decided to write openly ...

Yarlu Valley (translated from Altai - "with cliffs", "with a steep bank").

Part 1. Rainbow.
A fairy-tale valley with fantastic colored rocks and a milky-turquoise river, splitting into dozens of streams, like long White hair living very close to the snow-white Belukha. A small spur, 2 km long, divides the valley in half. And this spur brings bizarre colors from purple to red into the valley. I’m telling you exactly as an artist – the whole palette of the rainbow is present here ... The 600-meter cliffs-conglomerates towering above the valley are bluish-blue in color, since they almost completely consist of blue clay in combination with layers of other rocks, just as bright and saturated in color. color, such as lilac and purple, like potassium permanganate. Here, on the Yarlu River, a molybdenite deposit was once discovered. The geological reserve of this deposit is estimated at 10 thousand tons of metal! Probably, I like to collect fragments of this lead-gray mineral with a greasy metallic sheen along the river ... Pyrite, molybdenum pyrite, quartz-carbonate veins in the walls, multi-colored slate, all these rocks of ore-bearing strata and paint the rocks of the valley in multi-colored colors. That is why the rivers are unusual here. On one side of the colored spur is a milky river, on the other, a blood-red one. The eye rejoices, the soul sings... If you want, go around the spur on the left, if you want, on the right, if you want, climb it, or if you want, climb over the entire valley... patches of red ice. You can see a glossy thick-faced marmot jumping into the abyss of snowcock, running away tekeshku and, of course, the whole palette of alpine forbs ... Yarlu is one of the brightest valleys in natural park Beluga. I love her with all my heart...

Part 2. Sad…
Unfortunately, in Internet resources you will hardly find any intelligible information about the Yarlu Gorge, except for fictitious ones. You know my position - "Leave nature after your visit exactly the same as it was before you." I have very few principles, and I get rid of them, but this one is unshakable. It sounds like this: came to visit, lived, drank, ate, pooped, clean up after yourself. Dot. What am I talking about? Here's what: since 2002, in the Yarlu valley, the Roerichs and followers of Rikla's teachings have built whole city an ok of stones around a monolithic stone block located in the center of the gorge and ingrown into the ground, which they call the “Stone of Wisdom” (“Stone-Master”, “Roerich's Stone”, “Shaman's Stone”, for some reason it is also “Genghis Khan's Stone” and even the “Stone of Macedonian”). A symbol of the trinity, the so-called sign of Roerich, was painted on the stone, they surrounded the territory with a slate fence, placing hundreds of stone pyramids inside the “town” (I intentionally do not post these photos, there are enough of them on the Internet), sometimes you can even see a person with stacks of books on the topic of Living Ethics, sometimes a person who, like a grandmother in a church, broadcasts what can and cannot be done here, and more and more often the guides tell newly arrived tourists about the “Mother of the World” ridge with its “Mother’s Heart” and about the entrance to Shambhala literally somewhere here…

I also RESPECT the Places of Power in the Altai Mountains, and I, and my friends, mountain rescuers, doctors, climbers, geologists ... by imposing on others their opinions, beliefs, even in the best of intentions. Why not just respect the place? Just come, pray, recharge, live, visit and leave, leaving this place for others the same as it was before you? I repeat: I respect all religions and philosophies of the world. Among my friends there are representatives of all faiths and creeds. But I kindly ask everyone who goes to the mountains - please try to leave as few traces of your presence there as possible. While respecting the traditions of the region, region, republic, country.

Well, we have in Altai Obʹboo (Mong. ovoo, Bur. oboo, Khak. oba “heap, pile, embankment”) - heaps of stones, decorated with ribbons and flags, as is customary among the Turkic-Mongolian peoples Central Asia, well, put your stone on it out of respect (as on the same Kara-Turek pass) and that's enough ... Believe me, IN THE MOUNTAINS AND WITHOUT YOU, EVERYTHING IS HARMONIOUS. And tours are not built to communicate with space! And so that the traveler in the mountains does not get lost and does not lose the path! Do not lead people astray with your buildings!!!

Thank you for reading to the end. I will be glad if there are those among you who think like me, those who will support me.

PySy: and finally, about "thank you" and about pseudo-spirituality:

I once again come to the Yarlu valley, I pass by a stone, a woman is sitting on it in a meditation position, a book is on her knees. I always say hello in the mountains, say "Hello!" “Hello,” he replies. And in the voice of the hostess of the place of power he offers:

- Have you come to recharge? Come on. No, not like this, here. No, not here. And not there. Not from this side. Not in shoes. Not backwards. Don't go there! Like this.

And in response I hear the displeased tone of the teacher:

Maybe stop saying "thank you"? Maybe it's time to start "thank you"?!

“Excuse me,” I say, “what did you say?

- They got it all “God save”, but “God save”! And who will give the blessing?!?? It's time to start and give thanks!!!

I shrugged.

- Well, I don't mind, donate.

- Well, good. Give. I agree. Let's.

— What-oh-oh-oh?!?

- From the fact that you said Blessing to Give - you didn’t give a blessing. You were speechless.

... And for another 10 minutes I heard after “Look how smart!” ... Until the sound of the river blocked these sounds ...

The most mystical place in Altai - Yarlu valley. It is not difficult to believe this, even just by looking at the photographs of this corner of nature at the foot of Belukha.

For the first time and on a full scale, we will see the Yarlu valley when descending from the three-kilometer Kara-Turek pass. Extraordinarily a nice place, primarily due to the multi-colored rocks, the colors of which become especially bright after rain. They say that the upper part of the ridge that separates the valleys of the Yarlu and Tekel rivers looks like a lying woman and is called the Mother of the World. And the bright purple-red rock, which stands out as a bright spot against the backdrop of the ridge, is called Mother's Heart.

Mother of the World

Surrounded by the Blue Mountains gorge, the array got its name because of its unusual color. During the day it is bluish-blue, as it consists almost entirely of blue clay in combination with layers of other rocks, just as bright and saturated in color. And at sunset, the surrounding mountains take on soft pink-purple hues.

A huge number of legends and myths are associated with these places. Esotericists and mediums claim that the most powerful places of power are located here. Roerich's followers consider him a saint. In 2002, a whole town of stones was built in the Yarlu valley. It is located in the center of the gorge around a monolithic white stone block that has grown into the ground, which they call the "Stone of Wisdom" ("Stone-Master")". The Roerichs believe that it has powerful energy, and according to legend, it guards the entrance to Shambhala at the foot of Belukha Mountains You can see them with your own eyes, feel their strength on a tour of Gorny Altai.

The Yarlu valley has another name - "Valley of Edelweiss", as here Red Book flowers are found in large numbers. Riddle: in the neighboring gorges of the Altai Mountains, they no longer grow. Edelweiss is often mentioned in ancient legends as symbols of love and wisdom. Russian name The flower comes from a transliteration from German, meaning "noble" and "white". The main condition for visiting this unique place- do not pick these rarest flowers. You can see the beauty of the Yarlu valley in the Gorny Altai section.

How to get to Yarlu Valley?

cross by boat (pick up at the weather station on the lake);

go to the right bank of the river. Akkem over the bridge above the lake;

make a crossing over the river. Akkem in any convenient place.

Not far from the valley are tourist base"Vysotnik", guest house "Belukha Chendek", hotel "Uymonskaya Dolina".

On the opposite side of the Ak-Kem meteorological station, at an altitude of 2000 meters, there is the Yarlu gorge (translated from Altai means "with cliffs" or "yars"), named after the river of the same name flowing through it, flowing into Akkem.

In the Yarlu gorge from the Akkem lake there are three ways.

The first (1-1.5 hours one way) - for a small amount (about 100 rubles per person) to cross the lake by boat from the weather station. At the same time, one must be careful, the shores of Lake Akkem in the area of ​​​​the crossing are very warm.

The second way is free, but long (depending on the speed of movement, it will take 2-3 hours one way).

You will have to go up to the suspension bridge across the Akkem River, where the Yarlu flows into Akkem (it is several hundred meters above the last inhabited sites of Akkem Lake, much higher than the base of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Barrels).

When you cross to the other side, go up to the Yarl River, which flows into Akkem, and go upstream. On the right, you will see a path leading up to the deciduous forest. Get up with her.

The third way to the Yarlu valley is also free and long (the same 2-3 hours one way), but you have to go not up, but down the Akkem, much lower than the Akkem meteorological station.

See the map below (the first and third paths are marked).

Since 2002, the Roerichs and followers of Rikla's teachings have built a whole town of stones around a monolithic stone block located in the center of the gorge that has grown into the ground, which they call the "Stone of Wisdom" ("Stone-Master").

The stone depicts the oldest cosmic symbol of the trinity, the so-called sign of Roerich - "past, present and future in the circle of eternity."

Around the stone city there is usually a deathly silence, rarely when it is bustling there.

In the upper part of the Yarlu valley there is a mountain range that separates the valleys of the Yarlu and Tekelyu rivers, and was called the "Mother of the World" ("face of the Mother of the World") for its resemblance to the profile of the body of a lying woman.

Interestingly, the name of this ridge from the local dialect is translated as "Reclining Woman".

Directly from the Yarlu valley, only the contour of the head is clearly distinguishable.

From one side of the valley one can see as if blood is flowing from the region of the woman's heart (bright purple-red rock in the Yarlu gorge called the "Mother's Heart"), from the other part of the valley the impression of widely spread wings emanating from the body (the neighboring mountain range) is created.

If you stand on the dividing ridge facing this image, then on the left hand there will be a log overgrown with larches. Tourists usually stop in this wooded slop, coming especially to the Yarlu Gorge for summer pastime, saturating themselves with beauty and practicing maximum unity with nature.

Yarlu Gorge has another name - "Valley of Edelweiss", because. in its valley there is a huge number of these mysterious flowers, listed in the Red Book and not found anywhere else in the neighboring gorges.

Very often they appear in ancient legends about love and wisdom.

Edelweiss is a flower of the genus of dicotyledonous herbaceous plants of the Aster family, or Compositae, growing in the highlands of Europe and Asia.

The scientific name of the flower, Leontopodium, comes from a fusion of the Greek words for "lion" and "paw" for the appearance of the inflorescence resembling a lion's paw.

The Russian name of the flower comes from the transliteration of the name of the flower from German, meaning "noble" and "white".

A request to all tourists visiting the Yarlu Valley - take care of nature, do not pick edelweiss.

surrounding gorge mountain range, which has a light blue color in the daytime, was called the "Blue Mountains". This is explained by the fact that the 600-meter cliffs-conglomerates towering above the valley are really bluish-blue, since they almost completely consist of blue clay in combination with layers of other rocks that are just as bright and saturated in color. That is why most of the streams here have a milky turquoise or milky greenish hue.

In general, the surroundings of Yarlu are famous not only for their unusual landscape, but also for their original combination and variety of colors. In the daytime, the slopes of the valley are painted in light blue colors, in the evening, at sunset, the surrounding mountains acquire soft pink-purple hues, and in autumn, the combination of yellow-orange vegetation with the rich colors of the mountains creates simply stunning landscapes. At the same time, after the rain, all the colors become especially bright.

From the peaks surrounding the sources of the Yarlu, a picturesque view of the peaks of the Yarlu, Kara-Oyuk, Ak-Oyuk and the Crown of Altai opens.

The valley is very clearly visible when descending or ascending the Kara-Turek pass.

The Internet is filled with all sorts of legends, myths and fairy tales that attract and lure esoteric tourists to the Jarlu Valley. Let's get acquainted with some of them.

So, the famous philosopher and artist N.K. Roerich seriously believed that somewhere here, on one of the slopes of Belukha, there is an entrance to Shambhala. During his journey through Gorny Altai he sought to get into this valley and it was in it that he established his camp. Until now, the followers of the great artist and philosopher rush to the foot of Belukha and to the nearby Yarlu valley, for which the locals jokingly call them "reriched".

Many argue that he is 70 cm "rooted" into the ground. Or, on the contrary, that this stone "grows" from the earth, rising 4-6 centimeters above its surface every year.

There are beliefs that the Master Stone has been called the Shaman's Stone or the World Stone since ancient times. According to legend, once upon a time there was a city on the site of Lake Akkem in front of Belukha, and the World Stone was the place where the ancient princes resolved peace issues.

"Knowing" people said that Alexander the Great himself visited Altai and lived for several weeks in the Yarlu Valley, drawing strength and wisdom from the Stone-Master. Or that the legendary fighters of Genghis Khan recharged at this energy stone and that is why they call it the "Stone of Genghis Khan."

Some talk about aliens who brought this Stone from another planet. Others write that Roerich, during his Altai expedition, visited the Yarlu valley and marked this stone with his sign and a blue cross as a place of power.

The followers of the teachings of Rikla they write that the symbolism engraved on the stone is the work of the stone-cutters Allizarkh, Diliitiy and Kami-Dominey, who in 2000 and 2001 embodied Rikl's plan on the form of a megalith .

The Roerichs believe that this stone has powerful energy, and according to legend, it guards the entrance to Shambhala, at the foot of Belukha.

There is a belief that when people with negative energy and bad intentions come close to the stone, the stone, as it were, repels them, preventing them from continuing on their way, and people feel sharply and noticeably worse. The rest consider it a great grace to meditate on it or near the stone, or simply touch it, nourished by its powerful energy.

Followers of Rikla's teachings believe that one should climb barefoot on the "energy" stone, sit on it in silence and meditate.

On earth there is Amazing places in which nature tries to hide its secrets from our curious gaze. That is exactly what the Yarlu Valley is. Firstly, this is an unrealistically beautiful place, which is difficult to describe in words, and here, by the way, the saying “It is better to see once than hear a hundred times” comes to mind. Secondly, just a huge number of legends, myths and stories are connected with this place. But let's try to describe this place.

The valley of the Yarlu River (translated from Altai as “gorge with cliffs” or “with ravines”) is located to the left of Akkemskoye Lake, on the opposite side of the weather station, at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level.

From all sides the valley is surrounded by the most beautiful rocks of gray-blue, yellow-orange and ashy color. And every time nature gives them new shades depending on the weather and time of day. In the daytime, the slopes of the valley are painted in light blue tones, which is why they are called the "Blue Mountains". This is explained by the fact that the 600-meter cliffs-conglomerates towering above the valley are really bluish-blue, since they almost completely consist of blue clay in combination with layers of other rocks that are just as bright and saturated in color. That is why most of the streams here have a milky turquoise or milky greenish hue. By evening, at sunset, the surrounding mountains take on soft pink-purple hues, and in autumn, the combination of yellow-orange vegetation with the rich colors of the mountains creates simply stunning landscapes. At the same time, after the rain, all the colors become especially bright. In general, the surroundings of Yarlu are famous not only for their unusual landscape, but also for their original combination and variety of colors. From the peaks surrounding the sources of the Yarlu, a picturesque view of the peaks of the Yarlu, Kara-Oyuk, Ak-Oyuk and the Crown of Altai opens. In the northern part of the Yarlu valley there is a mountain range that separates the valleys of the Yarlu and Tekelyu rivers, and was called "Mother of the World" ("face of the Mother of the World") for its resemblance to the profile of the body of a lying woman. This similarity is especially noticeable from the Kara-Turek pass. Directly from the Yarlu valley, only the contour of the head is clearly distinguishable.

This valley has long been considered the Place of Power. Every year a large number of people flock here to meditate and recharge their batteries. In the center of the gorge there is a monolithic block of stone (unusually smooth for these places) - "Stone of wisdom" or "Stone-master", "Shaman's Stone", "World Stone". Many believe that it "grows" from the ground and rises 4-6 centimeters above its surface every year. The stone depicts the oldest cosmic symbol of the trinity, the so-called sign of Roerich - "past, present and future in the circle of eternity." Around the Stone of Wisdom, the followers of Roerich's teachings built a stone town - the collective co-creation of hundreds of people, every summer, and even all year round coming to the Valley to meet with the Master Stone. Usually there is an unearthly silence here, rarely when it is vain there. It is believed that this stone has powerful energy, and according to legend, it guards the entrance to Shambhala, at the foot of Belukha. The Jarlu Valley is also called the "Valley of Edelweiss", because. it is here that a huge number of these, listed in the Red Book and not found anywhere else in neighboring gorges, grows. Very often they appear in ancient legends about love and wisdom. A request to all tourists visiting the Yarlu Valley - take care of nature, do not pick edelweiss.

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Legends of the YARLU Valley

This discourse is dedicated to the Master Stone in the Jarl Valley, whose fate over the past twelve years has become inextricably linked with the fate of many thousands of people.

In the year 2000, having gathered the Aiins who accompanied Him at the Stone, the Master said: “Remember my words: within a few years, the Valley will become a place of mass pilgrimage, a second Mecca, where full-flowing streams of people from all over the world will rush.” Everything happened exactly as the Master had prophesied.

The Yarlu Valley has become a Place of Power, a source of spiritual and physical healing for thousands of people. Gradually, with the growth of its popularity, the name of Rikla, the creator of the current energy complex - Magnit, began to be artificially replaced by money-grubbers from the spirit with more convenient names that have long taken root in the minds of people. For some reason, the adventurers thought that they could easily rewrite the history of the birth of the Master Stone in their own way. Flowed through the mortal earth, ahead of each other, poisonous streams of fabrications of envious people, spiteful critics and simply ignoramuses, poisoning the consciousness of wretched little men - the spiritually dying inhabitants of the Planet.

People who visited the Valley, not subject to bazaar rhetoric, describe their impression of what they saw and heard from the lips of esoterically abnormal broadcasters in the following way:

“As I wrote, the center of attention in the Yarlu Valley is a large monolithic stone. According to various sources, it is called the Roerich stone, and the master stone, and many other options. To be honest, in all my visits and communication with the "old-timers" of the stone city, I have never heard the same story. Every person I met there gave his own description of this stone, its origin and purpose. It is for this reason that I will not write and insist on any particular truth. I would just like to describe my personal experience of staying in this place.” (http://publicpost.ru/elections/blog/id/19135/ , Valery Stepanyuk's blog).

Oral folk art, mixed with sour esoteric leaven, finds its life in legends, tales and even scientific hypotheses regarding the origin of the mysterious Stone, which are passed from mouth to mouth to travelers who come to the Valley, wandering the Earth in search of spiritual bread, and simply to tourists who, for the sake of curiosity or by coincidence, visited the Valley. Through the worldview of both, this explosive mixture, flavored with selfish thoughts, spreads across the vast expanses of the World Wide Web, from where millions of people draw information and pass it through their slagged consciousness.

Everyone strives to contribute and participate in creating the story of the birth of the Miracle Stone in the Jarlu Valley. Most often, he is associated with the name of N. K. Roerich and his Central Asian expedition, during which the famous artist visited Altai.

Pseudo-creators pursue their own selfish goals: for the sake of profit, travel agencies attract tourists in the name of Roerich, without even bothering to study the route that his expedition took. After all, if they had done this, they would have seen that Roerich had never been in the Yarlu Valley and his path lay far beyond the neighboring ridges.

Leaders from the spirit and esoteric of various kinds, like ninety percent of all those who visit the Valley, having appeared before the Master Stone with pious mines that instantly change their content when the camera lenses are closed, come frankly to acquire energy in all possible forms of its manifestation.

We observed all this through the lens of the video camera of our employee, who filmed the material of Yarlu-2012. Paying no attention to the inconspicuous person with the camera, visitors to the Valley, without embarrassment, changed the clothes of "piety" for colorful outfits of rudeness, ignorance and outright rudeness. Among them were Rikl's "followers" and Roerich's "admirers", who cannot find unity in matters of the spiritual heritage of their Masters, but are so close in manifestations of their selfhood and ambition. At the moments when their skulls are not touched by the streams of holy grace emanating from the Stone, they completely forget that they are in a space sanctified by the spirit of the Great Names, to the list of which from year to year more and more giants from the spirit are added by their own cares - arbiters of world history.

On one of the sites on the Internet, we read an amazing story that completely overturned the theory about the belonging of the Stone-Master to the work of N.K. Roerich and its creators themselves.

Stone of Genghis Khan. Yarlu Gorge

This fantastic place is the Yarlu Gorge in the Edelweiss Valley, a whole city of stones is built here. This area is called the Blue Mountains, because the cliffs in the valley are almost entirely made of blue clay, due to which the slopes of the valley are painted in blue, purple-lilac tones during the daytime.

There is a mysterious place in the southern part of the valley. According to legend, in the Yarlu Valley, another name for the Edelweiss Valley, the Valley of the Mother of the World, is one of the entrances to the cherished Shambhala. At the entrance to the valley lies a huge boulder - the stone of Genghis Khan, an energy stone, which is not clear where it came from and how it ended up here.

There are many legends about this stone for many centuries. The stone is really huge, amazing, 70 meters deep into the ground, and around, mostly stones of a different shape and structure. It is believed that the stone protects the entrance to the valley.

Man with low level vibrations (and vibrations are the essence of a person) with a negative way of thinking will not pass into the valley, believe it or not, but the valley does not accept.

In such people, sharp bouts of pain begin or there is an urgent other matter or just a desire to leave, fear and dizziness are not uncommon. Old pains are exacerbated. The lower centers vibrate, some blockages are removed there.

The warriors of Genghis Khan, his legendary fighters were recharged at this energy stone. The energy activity of the stone does not weaken, only it constantly changes.

Roerich, during his Altai expedition, visited the Yarlu valley and marked this stone with his sign and a blue cross, as a place of power. It is supposed to climb barefoot on the "energy" stone and sit on it in silence and meditate. If one’s own energy is powerful, then one can hug a stone with arms outstretched.”

The Internet is filled with all sorts of tales about the Jarlu Valley. We even really liked one of them. It says that the Master Stone has been called the Shaman Stone or the World Stone since ancient times. According to legend, once upon a time there was a city on the site of Lake Ak-Kem in front of Belukha, and the World Stone was the place where the ancient princes resolved peace issues.

For days, we were told another story heard by the guys on the Akkem trail. "Knowing" people said that Alexander the Great himself visited Altai and lived for several weeks in the Yarlu Valley, drawing strength and wisdom from the Stone-Master. We also heard about aliens who brought this Stone from another planet.

I wonder who will be next? Whose name will overshadow these promised lands and the Stone, which only half a century ago opened up the earthly firmament with its mighty body, but was already so strongly entangled by people with the threads of distant and unknown times?

Isn't it too heavy a load you've put on him? After all, each name has its own stones that have repeatedly changed the course of the rivers of world history, their own pain and joy, the suffering of some and the triumph of others.

Why, then, do you put the seals of the past on it, pulling it down with age-old weights, while it strives upward with all its might? The past, which the Stone-Master simply does not exist, because half a century ago it was the flesh of the earth, and not its form.

It is no coincidence that people who visited the Valley this year began to say that the Stone began to go underground. Perhaps it seemed to them, or perhaps he really decided to leave the earthly world, having had enough of the negativity of its inhabitants.

A random Traveler will come to the valley, tired, he will lie down on the ground, laying his head on a stone bed barely protruding from the bowels of the earth, and peacefully fall asleep. He will be unaware that he is lying on the Great Stone, which until recently was worshiped by thousands of people, and in his relaxed dream the Traveler will be much closer to him than all those who today beat their foreheads against his stronghold, create their portals in its space, zealously kisses the engraved symbols and, selflessly demonstrating his advancement surrounded by hundreds of people, tries to comprehend the heights of meditation.

Another scenario is also possible.

We also bring to your attention that in July 2012, another stone lava flow descended on Jarla, not as strong as the previous one, but bringing visible transformations of its forms.

How the Valley began to look after that, ask eyewitnesses, but those who remember it since 2002 will note tremendous changes in the terrain not in the direction of improving the approaches to Stone Town and Master Stone.

Pay attention to this trend. Have you ever thought that when Jarlu absorbs a certain critical mass of human negativity that every visitor leaves on her Altar, she will decide to fence herself off from the two-legged barbarians again with impenetrable shafts of corums and swampy swamps. Then people, as in the days of Sapozhnikov, the brilliant explorer of Altai (1861-1924), will bypass its neighboring ridges and, fixing their eyes on the surviving stone island, will tell each other legends that Stone Town once stood here, inside which the Master Stone rested.

What truth are you trying to find in the debate about who discovered this Stone, who engraved symbols on it and, having connected it with the Cosmos, gave the Earth a Magnet, a source of creative energy?

Why did we decide to support the discussion that has developed so strongly in recent months? Not because some of us were with Rikla, when in 1999 he led the first expedition of the Aiins to the Jarlu Valley, where alone, surrounded by only silent blue mountains, stood that same Stone, not yet a Master, but already a Miracle Creation of nature. . The stone whose body you trample under your feet today, sometimes not even deigning to take off your shoes, hurrying to place your ass comfortably on it in order to more effectively capture yourself against the backdrop of a great creation ... And then proudly tell that before you this Stone was honored with their presence by such giants of history, like Macedonian, Genghis Khan, Roerich ... and some other Rikl, who appropriated all their merits.

We give this analysis not because there are those among us who, according to Rikla's plan, embroidered symbols on the Stone and laid the first boulders in the foundation of the Stone City. For ten years now, they have been silently, with a barely noticeable smile, listening to the stories of the “knowing” about how Roerich “marked the Stone with his Sign” or how his followers in the nineties found and placed symbols on some maps, as indicated on Roerich’s drawings.

The names of the Aiins who embroidered the symbols will never be written down in history, adding to the list of the Great ones, and the merchants of the spirit will not lure thousands of dupes to them. But does it matter? The main thing is that they will remain forever and will find even earthly, but still eternity, in the Heart of the Stone Giant. Under the sound of their hammers in His gigantic body, washed with hot sweat of inspired labor and quiet tears of involvement in the Creativity of the Teacher, a Master was born.

Read how it happened in reality:

« 07/16/2000

Amedea corrects her vision of yesterday about the Signs of Fire.

- I saw not Yarlinsky, but the next stone. I understood this immediately, as soon as I began to look at the subtle plane again.

Here the Father is not silent:

- Of course, the Cross on the Stone will be from the east, the Banner of Peace - in the west. So the Fire of the Revival of the Life of the Spirit on Earth, which is the Equal-Greased Cross of being and evolution, on the steep side of the Stone will meet with the Fire of the Sun, and then it will spill from the sloping side into the world as a Banner, the sprouts from its three fiery points will sprout with the Rays of Life on Earth.

Rikla himself laid the energy for the Creativity of the engraving of symbols, seeing in the arrangement of the Signs the eternal Path of Fire. The sun in the east (Aries) - as a birth, an irresistible desire for the birth, growth of all living things, then at its zenith (Leo's Fire) - this is already the Flame of prosperity, Creativity, stability and the first practical results. The Third Fire (Sagittarius) is the energy of an archer, a wise old man aiming at the unknown. According to this fiery sowing, signs will be placed ...

07/20/2000

Dilithius and Allizarch started marking the Symbols on the Place of Power Stone. Dilithius saw the Banner of Peace and the Cross in the raised lines of the engraving. A year ago, he chose this stone for his meditation, then explaining to everyone: “It is warm, it burns from the inside!”

Now we have to work in energies, even the Father has no right to interfere in this Creativity. It is also undesirable for someone to be near ...

From his morning heights, Rikla surveyed the situation at the Stone, now announces:

- What comes out from under the chisels of our stonecutters is indescribable! This is creativity that will take your breath away. I repeat once again: not the gods Create energy on Earth, but people in their beauty create it!..

In the evening, at dinner, Dilithy puts the last piece of bread in his mouth.

- It is immediately clear that he finished the work, - the Teacher states the fact, - at lunchtime he had no time for food, he was all in the Stone, in the Creativity of its form.

The engraving of the signs of Fire is indeed already ready, only paint has not been applied. Finally, everyone else is allowed to come into contact with strong Creativity.

The stone sounds, it is alive! Equal-sized Cross, which carries the energy of the birth of the Fire of Life, appears before us as a giant breath, the Banner of Peace - as an exhalation of a stone giant. It flies high, raised in the Spirit, which means that it will not be lowered in the heart!

On the Stone there is a convenient hollow for meditation, we, lying and sitting on the warm stone sides, merged with it in the fiery Void. Peace, peace emanates from this manifested eternity, and so you don’t want to leave your stone fellow-long-liver ...

July 21, 2000

The Cross on the Stone under the hand of Allizarch blooms with sapphire. The color of wisdom is inherent in this symbol of nascent life from the very beginning. It was not for nothing that Lord Morya wore this magnificent stone in his turban for a long time.

(photo of the Equal Cross, color insert after p. 112, v. 6, “Fire of the Cosmos of the One”)

Dilithius colors the Banner of Peace with a ruby ​​proclaiming:
“May life be victorious, like the Banner of Peace!”
(photograph of the Banner of Peace, colored insert after p.48, v.6, “Fire of the Cosmos of the One”)

At the Stone - silence, only occasionally cut through by flashes of color and the chirping of birds. The wind rustles in the sparse grass, like an old janitor with a broom is controlled. Everything is waiting for the coming of the life-giving Fire of the Cosmos of the One. In the evening, Alexander, who had gone to meditate on the Stone, took a long time and carefully handfuls of dusty crumbs from Him, dressed him up for tomorrow's holiday ...

07/22/2000

With the first rays of the sun, the sacrament of the Initiation of the Stone is appointed. Fifteen minutes past seven, we all go to him along the awakening ravine following the Teacher in the morning coolness. The mountains are painted in every possible hue of the rainbow spectrum; Our stone is just on the border of silver-steel rocks with purple jasper. YARLU has another name - Drozdov Valley. Here their seven respectable birds have already perched on the slopes as spectators of the forthcoming Creativity.

Very soon the place will have a new name. The Valley of Fire will be called by its people from the new age, when Rikla awakens the Stone to Creativity. Then the Master Stone will shine as a constant source of pure energy, a luminous standard, singing the true human treasures, will help the Earth and its civilization to rise ...

The timid rays of the sun touch the tops of the grass on the slopes, the Creativity of Fire begins, the mystery of awakening and initiation. Rikla's hands are outstretched. He calls upon the energies of the Outer Space. As the bell wakes up in their sound, the Stone, the aura of the mountain sky over Kara-Turek is drawn, the sky brightens. Everything was frozen in solemnity. It is as if we are in the Temple with flaming candles in our hands, listening to the Word of Fire, there is a divine service on the Altar of Peace!

The position of the Teacher's hands changes: the left hand is raised up, calls on the forces of Light, the Sun is earthly and heavenly, the right hand is lowered down, holding back the onslaught of the forces of darkness and darkness. Now the transcendental energies of the distant Cosmos will flow through them.

Rikla initiates the Stone with all five Fire Signs. Shed his skill here now to people who came here with a bow, from the affairs of the world to know the affairs of heaven, until the earth opens up. But even then, having changed the forms of his existence, he will retain his fiery awareness; and another Teacher will illuminate its inner radiant meaning.

With the dawn, only the first part of Creativity is completed, the Equal Cross is revived. The Banner of Peace is a stream of energy flowing through it, Rikla will open later ... "

(photo from a colored insert after p. 48, volume 6, “Fire of the Cosmos of the One”)

Now take a close look at the photograph taken on August 10, 1999, where Rikl, in meditation, invokes the energies of Earth's Shambhala for joint creativity. The picture was taken from the east side, the Master sits on the Stone, arms outstretched; and now the Stone itself is EMPTY. Back in 1999, there was no symbolism on the Stone, the inscription of which is attributed to N.K. Roerich, who allegedly visited the Yarl Valley in 1926.

(photo from a colored insert after p. 80, volume 5, “Fire of the Cosmos of the One”)

Once Rikla told his students how the Stone was raised from the bowels of the earth, the conversation was recorded and published.

“Sometime in August 1970, I was descending from the headwaters of the Tekel, where Sapozhnikov once stopped with his caravan and several companions. Coming out to the middle ridge of the Yarlu valley, I decided to traverse it on the left side along the damp sack. It is easier to run along it in zigzags, dropping the height of the pass. Dry rubble becomes hard, as if cemented, and in the event of a fall, little is left of the clothes, except for tatters hanging along the body, like separate fragments of linen that once existed. Deftly wielding my favorite instrument of the way - a kayk, I literally "rolled" down in fifteen or twenty minutes. Shaking out small rubble from rubber short boots, I quickly rushed along Yarlinka to the village, where Nikolai Sagalovich or a week's supply of food, left by him by prior arrangement, was to be waiting for me. Having run out on a fairly flat plateau, in front of the entrance to the forest zone about three hundred meters, I Saw a rather smooth surface of a stone protruding from the ground by thirty to forty centimeters. It felt like a monolith sitting deep in the ground...

… Eighteen years later, in 1989, being almost five thousand kilometers from the Stone, I heard his Call and, leaving all worldly worries, rushed to Altai - to Yarla…

... Another ten years passed, when it was no longer Valentine, but Rikl led his first students to the Stone, which clearly changed its forms. Now I knew why Karma threw me back in 1967 to the Altai, and since 1970? - to the very Heart of the Altai Mountains.

I knew what to do!

I knew how to do it!

I knew why I had to do it!..

…YARLu Valley in 2004 was remembered by all the sharply increased number of visitors to the Stone-Master Place of Power. Guides lead planned groups, tell myths about the Stone, around which legends and parables are composed about its mysterious appearance. Since 2005, the Stone-Master and the City-Fortress, built according to Rikla's plan, have been included in a single ensemble of the National Reserve. The first stone of the Fortress, according to the drawings of Rikla, was laid in 2002 by Kami-Dominei with a group of Aiins according to the plan of the Master ... "

(“Milestones of Fiery Accomplishment”, volume 2, second edition)

Even from these lines, everything becomes very clear to a reasonable person: the Stone, which grew up before the eyes of Valentine for thirty years, slept deep in the bowels of the earth, when Macedonian, and Genghis Khan, and even Roerich stepped on it, and under no circumstances could be a witness their ways.

The Stone-born Master is the Creativity of Earth and Heaven, united by Master Rikla in the Ray of Initiation in the year 2000, the first year of the third millennium.

The symbolism engraved on the Stone is the work of stone-cutters Allizarkh, Diliitiy and Kami-Dominey, who in 2000 and 2001 embodied Rikl's idea on the form of a megalith.

Stone City founded by the Aiins in 2002 is a collective co-creation of hundreds of people who come to the Valley every summer and now all year round to meet with the Master Stone.

None of the Altai followers of the Roerichs even ten years ago had heard of the Stone in the Yarlu Valley, which only a few years later was inscribed by them in the route of the Central Asian expedition, and incidentally in the prospectuses tourist routes under the loud name "Roerich's Stone" or "Roerich's Valley".

The person who is writing these lines now, in the now distant 2002, personally, under the dictation of the Master, typed an e-mail to one of the group leaders of the Roerich movement in the Altai Mountains, where the Master talked about the Master Stone and the Yarl Valley.

Then a natural question arose: "Master, why are we doing this?"

Answer: “Let them go, let them lead people to the Valley. Several years will pass, and you will see that not dozens, but hundreds and thousands of seekers will rush to the Master Stone. And it does not matter whose followers they will be, for they will come to the Valley for a sip of pure energy, which they will draw not from the names of their Gurus, but from the Stone-Master, connected Rikla with the Single Cosmic Magnet. It does not matter to me whose name will sound in connection with truly Cosmic Creativity in the Yarlu Valley, the main thing is that the Magnet will work for good. Time will put everything in its place."

Today, these same followers, coming to the Valley, which they are struggling to make a platform for their personal advancement in the hierarchical ladder of leaders from the spirit, with bloodshot bull's eyes, not embarrassed in expressions, like watchdogs they rush at people peacefully sitting around the Stone-Master with the demand to remove the Books of Rikla from it, allegedly defiling the purity of Roerich's space.

So, for you, the Stone is a Shrine, and the Master who gave birth to Him is an outcast? Now Rickle is preventing you from receiving dividends on His own Creation.

Associating the Stone in the Jarlu Valley with the name of N.K. Roerich, you either consciously distort the known facts of his stay in Altai, or expose your ignorant ignorance of the route of N.K. Roerich, who passed his expedition.

Obviously, the time has come, about which the Teacher spoke ten years ago, - to put everything in its place.

Mapping geographical coordinates, names of old places with new ones and other calculations that can be made based on the information given in the diaries of the expedition members and the facts told by the local residents of that period who accompanied the travelers on the radial exits, it may take some time, but for an inquisitive seeker it will not be much labor to restore justice.

It is well established that Roerich saw Belukha from the southern slopes, from where the Katun originates. He also climbed the Terektinsky Range, which borders the Uimon steppe from the north (see map). The guides led him along the squirrels of the Katunsky ridge, which lie parallel to the Kucherla and Ak-Kem rivers, but at a considerable distance from them.

Researchers draw basic information about the Roerichs' places of residence from the article "The Roerichs in Altai" by the Barnaul artist Leopold Tsesyulevich, who came to Upper Uimon when the peasants who remembered the famous travelers were still alive. The article contains the following lines:

“Roerich visited many surrounding mountains. The artist with a guide, Vakhramey Semyonovich, on horseback climbed the squirrels Studeny, Pogorelka, Big Batun, Small Batun. We climbed the Terektinsky ridge to paint the top of Belukha from there. We went to the foot of Belukha along the Kucherela River. Roerich was also on the southern slopes of the Katunsky ridge, from where the view of Belukha opens most fully. This trip is evidenced by his famous painting "Belukha", which is now in Paris, in the Louvre. In this picture, painted in sonorous, light tonal terms, both peaks of Belukha are clearly visible, the Gebler glacier is drawn in the foreground, and behind it one can see the snow-covered Separate ridge crossing the Katunsky and Berelsky glaciers.

A person who has been to these parts or studied the map knows that if you go along Kucherla, you will not get to the foot of Belukha, you also need to take the Karatyurek pass.

Some followers of the Roerichs suggest that he could quickly ride horses along Kucherla and climb the Karatyurek pass in order to admire Belukha from there. They admit that, being a good rider, it is possible to make such a journey, climbing the 3060-meter pass and returning back in one day. Obviously, those who put forward such hypotheses do it from an easy home chair, running their well-groomed fingers over the map and not imagining the real hardships of such a journey for a person from the thirties of the last century. Even with the modern development of the tourism industry, which greatly facilitates the testing of a person in the mountains, this task will be quite difficult to accomplish.

Researchers of the Roerichs' heritage, although they do not have an exact description of the routes of their travels in Altai, are unanimous in the fact that they made all the trips on horseback from the Uimon valley, and the farthest was to the confluence of Ak-Kem and Katun (by the way, at present it is West Summit of the Mother Magnet, laid down by Rikla in 2004).

A trip along Kucherla is a rather serious journey, but even if we accept its opportunity, there is simply no time left to get to the Yarlu, not to mention the engravings. Those who claim Roerich's involvement in the creation of the Place of Power in the Yarlu Valley cannot imagine the laboriousness of deep engraving on a stone, which, depending on the breed, takes several days of labor with chisels with victorious tips.

But these are all words, let's turn to the facts and conduct a brief analysis of Roerich's stay and his expedition directly in the Altai Mountains.

First of all, it is necessary to clarify the terms of this stay, after which many misconceptions imposed on you regarding the range of work carried out by Roerich will disappear by themselves.

Leopold Tsesyulevich's article "Roerich in Altai" gives the following starting dates for the expedition's movement:

“We arrived in Biysk on July 30. Here they hired drivers, horses, loaded luggage onto four carts. The next day we went deep into Altai.<...>

On the seventh day after leaving Biysk, having crossed the Katun by ferry, the expedition arrived in Upper Uimon. Here we stopped at Vakhramey Semyonovich Atamanov.

The departure of the Roerichs from the Upper Uimon took place on the nineteenth of August, on the twenty-fourth of August they arrived in Biysk, from where on the twenty-sixth they set off by boat to the capital of Siberia, the city of Novosibirsk.

Thus, the stay of the Roerichs' expedition in Gorny Altai was limited to only twelve days.

If you carefully study the materials of the Central Asian expedition based on the diaries of its participants, you can independently come to the conclusion that Roerich physically could not visit the Yarlu Valley and engrave double symbols on the Stone.

Having stayed in the Altai Mountains for only 12 days, he was largely limited in time to undertake such a journey and carry out the designated work. Despite the paucity of information about the actual routes of the expedition, it is known that its participants made short radial exits in different directions, after sending guides for reconnaissance. Usually in the first half of the day they went out on horseback, in the second they worked and talked in the Upper Uimon.

The daughter of Vakhramey Semenovich, Zinaida Zubakina, recalls the Roerichs in this way: “... The old man was sitting at home more and more, and Yura ran or went to the mountains. And sometimes they went together. And they went there, and there. They went in all directions."

Regarding the last proposal, according to the records of the expedition, there are four main directions:

1. Terektinsky ridge.

2.Katun squirrels.

3. Research of the Uimon steppe.

4. Confluence of Ak-Kem and Katun.

As for the first three points, everything is quite clear here. For each of the exits N.K. Roerich spent at least one day. But the trip to the confluence of Ak-Kem and Katun required at least four days.

From Tungur to Uimon almost seventy kilometers. If we assume that the Roerichs stayed overnight in Tungur and from there visited the confluence of Ak-Kem with the Katun, the Kucherla valley and carried out their research there, which Zinaida Grigoryevna Fosdik all the time mentions in her travel notes, then such a mini-expedition can take at least four or five days, if you move almost non-stop.

Thus, N.K. Roerich could take from seven to eight days, and this despite the fact that we deliberately underestimate the time interval, not taking into account the everyday circumstances of organizing the expedition in the 30s and bad weather, which accompanied their movement for almost half of the period.

“That summer, the summer of 1926, Altai was flooded with rain. The roads were washed out, sticky, black mud turned them into treacherous swamps. Muddy water filled the road bumps to the brim.<...>In mid-August came clear days and snow has already fallen on the mountains. The air became transparent, and the distances were clearly visible. (L.V. Shaposhnikova, "Altai: on the way of Roerich").

So, out of twelve days, at best, four remain, on which Roerich was supposed to visit Jarla, as well as devote time to his personal inner work, which, according to eyewitnesses, he did: “A close and cordial relationship was formed between Roerich and Vakhramei Semenovich. When the artist was working in his room, Vahramei was the only one who could visit him without an invitation.”

Let's now consider the possibility of Roerich's trip to the Jarlu Valley.

There are opinions that Roerich, during his stay in the Altai Mountains, visited the Yarlu Valley, where he "marked the Stone with his sign." He had only four days left for this trip. To do this, Roerich had to get to Yarlu in one day. Is this possible for travelers in the 30s? A contemporary will answer: “Of course, yes,” but he is guided by what this route represents today. However, in your haste and incompetence, you did not take into account the fact that even when Roerich traveled through the Altai through the Katun and Kucherla rivers, there were no bridges yet and the crossing took much longer than today.

For comparison, read the description of the Yarlu Valley by V.V. Sapozhnikov in 1897. His scientific expedition with a visit to N.K. Roerich of Altai is separated by only twenty-nine years of silence, peace and untouchedness of the pristine nature of these places.

“Tekelyu gorge and the pass to the Argut system. Having finished work in Ak-kem, on June 16 we moved to neighboring Tekel, and this cost us a lot of trouble. Having crossed the Ak-kem ford below the lake, we went through a swampy meadow to a narrow side valley of the Yarlu river, which flows along the northern side of the mountain of the same name. However, we did not go through its valley, as it is surrounded by terrible steeps with screes, as the very name Yarlu says, that is, “with cliffs” or with “springs”. It was necessary to climb steeply "up to the valley", or on the plateau, along the right bank of the Yarlu and go parallel to the valley to the east, well above the border of the forest. From above, a narrow notch of a valley with light blue scree is especially well drawn.

Dol, or plateau, is a desert undulating plain without signs of trees, covered with undersized alpines. In some places there are exposed corum placers or low rocky ridges protrude. After 3 hours of travel, we were against the top of the Yarlu River, on a high pass to Tekelya (up to 2,860 m), where, with a strong wind, we were covered with snow pellets. The watershed between Tekel and Yarlu is interesting in the sense that it runs in a narrow crest parallel to the first and perpendicular to the second, and the mane, at an absolute height of 2,530 m, descends to the east by only 170 m in a sloping meadow to the Tekel and a terribly steep blue ravine of meters on four hundred breaks off to the river. Jarl. The mane is constantly crumbling towards the Jarl, over time this small barrier can be completely destroyed, and then Tekel will dig here for himself new way”(V.V. Sapozhnikov “Travels in Altai”).

Mostly all travelers and explorers of the 20th century approached Belukha from the south, through the Rakhmanovskie springs from Kazakhstan. There were also those who, like Sapozhnikov, mastered the approaches to Belukha from the north side, but there were much fewer of them and, according to reports that do not contain evidence of their visit to Yarlu, we can conclude that the guides of that time bypassed the Valley "furnished with terrible steeps » side.

For example, the famous Altai artist Choros-Gurkin, whom he took around Altai, including to Belukha, Vakhramei Atamanov, who later was N.K. Roerich, there is not a single painting and not a single mention in oral art either about the Wonder Stone in the Yarlu Valley, or about the Valley itself. This route was clearly not popular in those years.

It makes no sense even to consider the fact that, knowing about the ancient origin and role of the Master Stone in the history of not only Altai, but the whole world, as modern legends tell us about it, such an inquisitive researcher as Choros-Gurkin, being on Ak-Kemsky glacier at the foot of Belukha, did not visit these promised lands and did not reflect the impressions received in his work.

In the twenty-nine years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries between the expeditions of Sapozhnikov and Roerich, little has changed in the appearance of the Valley compared to the global transformation that it has undergone over the past twenty-five years. Back in the 1970s, Jarl had to wade through deep swamps and corum rubble, so the Valley was bypassed by neighboring ridges.

Just imagine that a hundred years ago, the Ak-Kem glacier protruded two kilometers ahead, filling the entire space along which tourists today walk to its foot.

In July 2001, the Yarlu Valley changed its face in one night so much that all the transformations that have happened to it over the past hundred years seem insignificant.

“It was the end of July 2000. We split into two groups; the first, which was to pass through regular route through the Jarlu Valley to the agreed meeting point at the Place of Power Civilization, Allizarch led. The master had to go with his group through the Oroktoy, along the ridges, down to the Tekel, bypassing the Jarl Valley, as they walked in the old days. There was no such path on Ak-Kem before, there was a barely noticeable path, Vitya Nolfin, Valentin's guide, rode, and occasionally groups of tourists made their way through the stone blockages of talus. What trails are there, these are roads now.

Taking into account the situation in which the group of Allizarch found himself, who was warned by the Master back in Barnaul about the alleged force majeure circumstances of his journey, Rikl changed his original route and already on the second day set up his camp in Yarla by lunchtime.

The natural situation became more complicated every hour, the entire space of the Valley was saturated with the vibrations of an approaching catastrophe. In the evening of the same day I went up to the Chalice of the Altar of Peace and sat down in meditation. I turned to the Masters of the Elements: "Give me a corridor, six o'clock tomorrow morning, I have to get people out, otherwise they will die." I talked to Them, as I am talking to you now. I explained to them the tasks assigned to me, and that I have no other people who would be ready to carry them out with me.

When I descended into the Valley, something incredible was already happening. Gusts of wind knocked down, rushing at a frantic speed black clouds plunged Jarla into darkness.

You all know the Master's campsite well. Our tent with Kami stood closer to the hillock, next to the crooked larch, and the tent of Dilithiy and Aiii - on the edge, closer to the river.

The valley in those days had a completely different landscape. A clean river flowed right next to the camp, it was three or four meters wide. The water was ankle-deep and higher, sometimes reaching up to the knee. Dilithy and Aya's tent was about three meters from the river's edge. There was a low cliff, fifty or sixty centimeters, from our side a river with clear water flowed, and on the other side, along the middle ridge, a black river roaring with a muddy stream of mudflow. They were separated by a bridge five meters wide and two meters high. All the streams running from the grassy slope formed a clear river, the bottom of which was strewn with white and rose quartz. Just below the camp, the muddy river on the other side of the middle ridge joined with the clean one, and together they rushed in a swift stream to Ak-Kem.

When I saw what was happening in nature, I asked the guys to fix the tents with additional braces and, just in case, have a knife in the tent so that they could cut through the canvas and jump out of it if necessary.

At about ten o'clock in the evening a terrible downpour began with wild gusts of wind that literally swept away everything in its path, well, we were "swept away" into tents. Between eleven and twelve at night, something unimaginable began, beyond any comprehension. Nothing could be heard, except for a continuous rumble that pressed on the head with terrible force. The earth vibrated, space shook in the furious malice of the howling wind, and then I realized that something was happening that went beyond perception - a cataclysm. I hardly shouted to the guys and asked Seryozha to go out and look at the riverbed, if they could wash their tent. The answer was shocking: "Nothing will happen." Then it dawned on me ... This is a collapse! Once again I was left alone with the elements. I see that Kami is not going to go out, dressing is useless, as I was in some shorts, I jumped out. Something unimaginable was going on there ... I will not describe it. The beast awakened in me literally threw Aya and Dilithy out of the tent, forced them to move it next to ours. We were all soaked to tubular bones and terribly cold. Nothing was visible, stones, dry branches, uprooted trees and everything that the elements managed to raise from the ground were flying in the air.

Suddenly, I heard the approaching rumble of a formidable element, rushing with increasing speed from somewhere above. Before I fully realized the fatality of the moment, I fell somewhere and, as if from afar, heard an eerie rumble walking along the ground, feeling its vibrations right under the bottom of the tent, under the sleeping bag. The earth did not shake, as during an earthquake, it vibrated, as if some huge mass, tens of thousands of tons, was moving along it.

Woke up in the morning - woke up, so it will be more true. Silence, absolute silence. The birds are singing and the sun is shining. I got out of the tent, when I looked I was horrified: there was no Valley. There was no five-meter jumper between the rivers, there was nothing at all. Where the guys' tent stood, from which they did not want to get out at night, a cliff formed, and if I had not pulled them out by force, they would have simply been washed away and crushed by a mudflow. The whole Valley was knee-deep and higher in mud. The bridge dividing the two rivers was pierced by a lava flow, like a ninth shaft with water and rain rolling down from the peaks. I have never experienced anything like this in my life, although I have seen a lot and endured a lot, but there was only one such night.

I have known Jarla for more than forty years, she has completely changed her appearance, absolutely. The terrain up to Stone Town has been changed beyond recognition. The lava passed through the Valley and went to Ak-Kem. Soon everything hardened and became the surface layer of what you now trampled your roads on.

Since that night, the Yarlu Valley has taken on the appearance that you all know. Imagine that if the height of the canyon dividing the rivers reached two meters in height and about five in width, i.e. we calmly walked along this jumper to the Stone, then how strong was the mudflow that carried it off the face of the earth, like a blade of grass. The terrain leveled out, the bright river was gone, as it was not at all. Now, eleven years later, only a few streams are again trying to find the bed of the future river.

It was such a power, the mudflow suddenly washed away the forest, changed the riverbeds, swept away everything that stood in its way from the face of the earth. scary night, my companions, who were with me then, did not realize what kind of natural cataclysm they were in the epicenter of.”

Studying the discussions between serious researchers of the Roerich heritage, who, by the way, nowhere even mention the Yarlu Valley and do not consider it as possible place stay of the expedition, and more often they argue about from what point the artist saw Belukha, we find the following assumptions.

Culturologist I.A. Zhernosenko writes that: “N.K. Roerich could not go to the northern foot of Belukha through Kucherla, because. from Kucherla, you can get to Belukha only by passing one of the passes: Kara-Turek or Riga-Tourist. The first scree, height 3060 m, category 1A; the second snow scree, height 2850 m. Both passes are impassable for horses, have a category of difficulty adopted in mountain tourism.

Our contemporaries refute his statement, stating that the Karatyurek pass is not talus and there is an excellent horse trail through it. Of course, they are right, but they do not take into account the fact that over the past twenty years, numerous tourists have made it good, and more than eighty years ago, only hunters and rare groups of explorers walked around these places.

At the same time, according to the deadlines that the Roerich expedition had to meet, we are considering only the option of its exit from Tungur, excluding the Upper Uimon.

You must understand that the goals and objectives set before Roerich by his modern admirers, who claim the artist's involvement in the Master Stone in the Jarl Valley, require special preparation and time.

This is not just a horseback ride along the surrounding ridges, but a full-fledged micro-expedition, on which Roerich had to go along with a group of trained people, provisions, tents and other butor necessary for everyday life.

Also, this group should have included people who had special equipment and skills in working with stone.

Were there such people in the expedition of the Roerichs? And if so, why are their names not announced anywhere? This is not at all characteristic of either the Roerichs themselves or their companions.

In the diaries of the expedition members, we find detailed information about the role assigned to each member of the group, from the Leaders themselves and their closest assistants to the last servant (shepherd).

N.K. Roerich paid much attention and spared neither time nor ink to show the involvement of each person in the common Cause.

Therefore, we meet detailed descriptions the most ordinary daily activities, along with stories about the activities carried out by the expedition in the field of research activities, the laying of suburgans and meetings with high-ranking people.

There is not even the slightest mention of who was responsible for the section of work on the engraving of symbols and when they were carried out. Not a single word anywhere.

Let's get back to the timing. Three days on the road to Yarla and back, with the work of drawing two symbols on the Stone, which, by the way, was still underground at that time.

Take yourself back to the 30s of the last century, imagine the weight and volume of expeditionary equipment, as well as the area of ​​interest to us on the approaches to Belukha, which then rather resembled impenetrable jungle than a developed tourist area with trodden paths, camp sites and other civilized services, which it is today.

Could Roerich undertake such an expedition within the specified time frame? Draw your own conclusions.

It is necessary to mention two more important factors related to the personality of Nikolai Konstantinovich himself.

It is absolutely not in Roerich's style to do some more or less important work and keep silent about it. This is well read not only in the diaries of his associates, but also in how he conducted his affairs in the social sphere and how carefully he followed so that his name would not be lost in the annals of history.

For example, while in Altai, Roerich personally made a memorial plaque for the graves of executed partisans. During their travels in Mongolia and Tibet, the Roerichs repeatedly erected Buddhist shrines - stupas and suburgans. Each such building was accompanied by rituals according to the customs of the host country and brightly covered in the diaries of the expedition members.

Many Roerichs have repeatedly tried to initiate lawsuits against Rikla, who allegedly appropriated their trademark, which is actually the oldest Cosmic Symbol of the Trinity on Earth.

How can a person in his right mind perceive that the most ancient symbol on the Banner of Peace is the property of Roerich? And now when International Center Roerich patented the sacred Symbol as his trademark, thereby vulgarizing the idea of ​​the Roerich movement, he once again convinced us of the absence of boundaries of human ignorance.

To patent the symbol of the Trinity, which existed in the Cosmos long before the birth of life on Earth and as a life principle used by the inhabitants of various planets, is tantamount to appropriating a piece of the sky, a star or a piece of interplanetary space into personal property.

N.K. himself Roerich very carefully monitored the preservation of his name for each product of his intellectual work, by obtaining various kinds of documentary evidence.

However, look at what he said about the Banner of Peace:

“This symbol is of great antiquity and is found throughout the World, therefore it cannot be limited by any sect, organization, religion or tradition, as well as by personal or group interests, for it represents the evolution of consciousness in all its phases.”

The antiquity of the Symbol of the Trinity is beyond doubt. No wonder Nikolai Konstantinovich depicted rocks in the Himalayas with an engraving of the Symbol of the Trinity in one of the paintings, with the only difference: there is no circle. Stones with the same symbolism, but already in a circle, in in large numbers found in Altai and Siberia. Two such stones are well known to everyone: one lies in Katun, not far from Ak-Koba (between Multa and Katanda), the other is in the village of Kuyus, but there are many others that local residents find in various places in the Altai mountains, in the taiga and mountain saddle. Time has not erased the creations of the ancient stonemasons, and three circles in one appear on the faces of the stones, sometimes clearly, sometimes barely guessed.

“Many argue that the Symbols were engraved during the expedition of the Roerichs to the Altai. However, this is fundamentally not true. The rock engraving is many centuries older than the Trinity Symbol on the Banner of Peace legalized by Nicholas Roerich. The Roerichs saw Stones with three-petal flames in Altai and perceived them as the Message of the Teacher. It really was the Message left by the hand of a nameless Brother, who had been fulfilling his task in Altai for some time. We approve! The symbolism was once engraved by the hands of ancient Masters during the search for ways to the mythical Belovodye. Even in the pre-Mongolian period, monks, as a rule, alone, and more rarely envoys of aspiring princes, extended their gaze towards an unknown country, closely connected by spiritual ties with India and Tibet. Sinegorye, Belovodye excited the minds of restless seekers of a happy life with tales and legends about their mystery. The signs were left by the messengers of the White Brotherhood as guiding stars to the Abode of the Light Gods.

(talk "Hidden Milestones of the Paths of the White Brotherhood", "Milestones of the Fiery Accomplishment", Volume 4)

The diaries of the expedition also lack any mention of Lake Ak-Kem, which Roerich would have seen if he crossed the Katun Range or the Karatyurek Pass, as some prospectors suggest. The beauty that he could see by visiting the Ak-Kem Lake would certainly be reflected in his work, both in prose and in painting. One can only regret that this did not happen, because he could be the first artist who painted Ak-Kem Lake and the beautiful face of Belukha, reflected in its waters, Boris and Bronislava, eternal guards frozen on the approaches to the majestic snows. Such canvases appeared much later, because every self-respecting artist who has visited the Altai mountains considers it a matter of honor to capture this incomparable landscape. In the paintings of Roerich, Belukha shows us only its snow-white peaks, hiding from the artist's brush behind the picturesque ridges of the surrounding mountains.

Artist B. Smirnov-Rusetsky, student of N.K. Roerich, only in the seventies of the twentieth century reached the Ak-Kem lake and painted Belukha in the traditions of his Master.

B.A. Smirnov-Rusetsky. Beluga. Fog

Some researchers are of the following opinion: “... if you look at the artist’s paintings, it is clearly visible that Belukha is depicted not from the sources of the Katun, but at a great distance, and from a certain height, which allows you to show the peak well dominating the area, its outlines are not hidden slopes of mountains to the right and to the left.

Based on this, it can be assumed that N. Roerich was not going to go to the sources of the Katun, it was enough for him to see Belukha from a point closer to the Upper Uimon, especially since in the artist’s diary entries we find: Belukha itself, about which the deserts whisper. (I.L. Mershina. Altai route of the Central Asian expedition: 80 years later).

N.K. Roerich. Beluga. Sketch

Needless to say, the Edelweiss Valley, if the artist visited it, would also be on his canvases or in diary entries, although the Stone might not have attracted his attention, since it was significantly “drowned” in the ground and hidden in thick grasses, now shamelessly trampled by numerous visitors ...

We will not remind you that there is another engraving on the narrow end of the Stone, which is not indicated in any article, in any tourist booklet - the year 2000. Those who read Rikl's books know the date of the Dedication of the Stone, which is celebrated as his birthday (July 22, 2000). This is so, by the way, because this circumstance only makes the attacks of individual adherents of the version of the Roerich Stone even more aggressive. Like, damned vandals, ruined a cultural monument. Have you ever thought that if it were not for these symbols, which some attribute to forms of manifestation of vandalism, neither you nor thousands of other people would ever know about the Master Stone in the Jarlu Valley?

And finally, the custodians of the Roerichs' heritage can conduct an examination to confirm the truth, which will confirm that the date of the application of the symbols is indeed 2000.

Today, many opinions and proposals are being expressed about how exactly to return the Master Stone in the Jarl Valley to the name of its true Parent and Initiator, Master Rikl, the person who opened this Place of Power in the Altai Mountains to the whole world. Everyone offers their own forms of a fair resolution of this situation, according to their inner content and state of mind.

Far from everything that comes from the pages of your letters and oral statements can be accepted and supported by us, because, as Rikl said in one of his last conversations with his students: “The people of the Earth do not know anything about justice, although this word sounds from mouth as often as their calls are heard mobile phones piercing space with deadly vibrations.

In modern times, the word "justice" has become synonymous with a fig leaf, with which, after falling into sin, humanity, which turned the holy principle of creation into lust, began to cover up its shamelessness. For the most part, earthlings adjust justice to their personal benefits and ambitions, which they present in the images of high aspirations and benefactors.

But, in spite of everything, no matter how you express your feelings and emotions, we rejoice that everything that happens with the Master and around his name does not leave you indifferent. Protect the name of your Master, but if you do it through aggression, lies and hypocrisy, know that such protection makes His movement in the worlds of Cosmos and Earth difficult.

At the end of our conversation, let's return to the question: why did we decide to take part in the discussion, which in recent years has grown into a fierce dispute between the followers of Master Rikl and N.K. Roerich, which is joined by an increasing number of both interested and independent people.

We decided to answer with the words from the book "Community", § 94, perhaps the words of the Teachers you revere will be able to reach your heart:

“Often you talk about the imperfection of existing books. I will say more - errors in books are equal to a serious crime. Lies in books should be prosecuted as a form of gross slander. The speaker's lies are persecuted according to the number of listeners. Lies of the writer - according to the number of prints of the book. It is a grave crime to take the place of the people's book depositories with lies. One must sense the true intent of the feeder in order to appreciate the quality of his mistakes. Ignorance will be the worst foundation. Fear and meanness will take the next place. All these features are unacceptable in society. Elimination of them must be carried out in new construction. Prohibitive measures, as always, are not suitable. But an open error should be removed from the book. The need to withdraw and reprint the book will bring the writer to his senses.

Every citizen has the right to prove a mistake. Of course, new views and constructions must not be hindered, but the wrong should not be misleading, because knowledge is the shell of the community and the protection of knowledge falls on all members ».

“Remember the favorite words of N.K., which he repeats so often: “We must rely on the truth, on true facts, all our words and actions must be pure, like a crystal, for we live before the eyes of the whole world.” Therefore, keep vigilant watch that the enemies, dressed in the guise of friendship, do not distort the facts, so that inaccuracy does not creep even into trifles, because great magnitudes are added up from trifles. An unseen pebble under the foot drops the giant. (Sowing on December 31 gave its harvest.) Do not obstruct the way!”

It remains in the end to voice the request of Master Rikla to the visitors of the Yarlu Valley - do not tear the edelweiss, do not trample the herbs.

“At the same time, I ask you to defuse the energy and physical situation around the Place of Power Stone-Master in YARLu. Do not settle next to the City and the Stone closer than a kilometer, this is not my prohibition, but the Request of the Master. Do not put your toilets under the Altar Bowl, remove the tents below, to the first clear water, this is a kilometer and a half from my parking lot - everyone knows it. Go to the Master for a visit, as to holy place, and do not distort the energy with your presence in His Aura, for you are all carriers of psychic energy, both positive and negative. Cleanse the place of your own impurities and retreat to the borders of Reverence.

P.S.: Just a word, but those who listened to the live conversations of the Master on the new disc dedicated to Rikla's expeditions in 2005 and 2012 will understand the essence of this postscript.

There were many different names for Belukha, but one of them has a special meaning for us - Mousse Doo Tau, since ancient times the Kirghiz of the southern Altai called it.