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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
I will say even more about the spiral form in the macrocosm, namely what is unknown
to science today but what is reflected in ancient creation myths of various peoples.
Incidentally, clever people should think about the following questions: why, despite the
obvious diversity of all kinds of descriptions of the picture of the world, the main
information of different peoples is surprisingly similar? Furthermore, only in few cases
such “coincidences” can be explained by contacts between cultures. How did the ancient
people know how the Universe and life it in was formed or that the polar cosmic
principles have something in common? Why did ancient people perceive the world as an
eternal becoming, and things in existence in it, as a fruit of struggle? How did they know
about the existence of various “spaces” densely populated with “various gods and
spirits” (3, 7, 9 and more “heavens”, “lands”, “heavenly lands”, etc.), about “the
multistage Universe”, the notion of the single fundamental principle of the Universe
which sets form, characteristics, and properties to the world but is devoid of all these
features itself?
Why are similarities discovered of the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of
elements, and why are exactly four elements described the most often – water, fire, air
and earth? Why does in the majority of cases the fifth element unite these four elements
and all this together is tied to the material basis of the world? For instance, ancient
Chinese marked the five basic elements of the world with the term “u-sin” (“u” means
“five”, while the “sin” hieroglyph means “to act, to move”), in other words, “the five
elements being in everlasting motion”. They defined the development of the world,
again, as an interaction of the two opposite cosmic principles — yin and yang. In ancient
Indian writings, besides the four elements, an important role in the Universe was
assigned to the Soul (atman), the mind (manas) and also time (kāla), space (dik) and
such notion as “akasha”. The “akasha” substance was represented as something
indivisible and pervasive. Just a single characteristic was attributed to it – Sound. It was
akasha that, according to Indian descriptions, connected all the above listed substances,
that is, the four material and the four non-material ones. Many sacred legends of the
peoples of the world have preserved the knowledge that the human being consists of five
basic parts.
By the way, the ideas of ancient people about life and death were entirely different from
the contemporary worldview. Death, according to their world outlook, is not the final
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