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The Russian North is an amazing, fabulous land. He is sung in our ancient songs, epics, traditions and legends. And not only in them. The most ancient myths of Greece tell about the distant northern side of Hyperborea, which lies near the coast of the cold Cronian Ocean. They told us that it was here, behind the harsh northeastern wind of Boreas, that there is a land where a wonderful tree with golden apples of eternal youth grows. At the foot of this tree, feeding its roots, a spring of living water gushes – the water of immortality. Here, for the golden apples of the maiden-birds of the Hesperides, the hero Hercules once went. In the far north, in Hyperborea, at Tartess – «the city where the wonders of the whole world sleep until the time comes for them to be born and come out to mortals on earth», the golden boat of the Sun was waiting for Hercules. And this is not surprising, because Hyperborea is the birthplace of the solar Apollo and here, according to the ancient Greek myth, snow-white winged swan horses brought him here every summer.

But not only had the ancient Greeks glorified the distant northern land in their legends.

From the depths of millennia, this hymn sounds to the land lying at the northern border of the world, near the shores of the Milky (White) Sea: «That country rises above evil, and therefore it is called the Ascended! It is believed that it is in the middle between the east and west… This is the ascended Golden Bucket road… In this vast northern land, a cruel, insensitive and lawless man does not live… There is a murava and a wonderful tree of gods… Here the Great Ancestor strengthened the Pole Star… The northern land is known as „ascended“, for it rises in all relationship». With such heartfelt words, the ancient Indian epic «Mahabharata» tells about the far circumpolar north.

The Russian North – its forests and fields were not trampled by hordes of conquerors, its free and proud people, for the most part, did not know serfdom, and it is here that the most ancient songs, fairy tales, and epics of Russia have been preserved in purity and integrity. It is here, in the opinion of many researchers, that such archaic rituals, rituals, and traditions have been preserved, which are older than not only the ancient Greek ones, but even those recorded in the Vedas, the most ancient cultural monument of all Indo-European peoples.