This is an amazing island - Buyan: familiar to everyone since childhood and unknown throughout life, accessible and understandable as a place of action in many literary and folklore works, and mysterious, like a real geographical point.
Sometimes it can be found at almost every step: when reading to a child Pushkin's tales, while mystically esoterically solving problems with unhappy love, lack of money, an evil boss ("Buyan" conspiracies are quite harmless and are aimed more at an amateur than a professional), but sometimes you can lose your Buyan in everyday life and bustle, although his eternal registration remains unchanged - the most hidden and waiting for a miracle corner of the human soul.
Versions. Versions. Versions
Of course, it cannot but exist if Alexander Sergeyevich himself believed in this island and remembered it as a very real place. Only very unusual.
What was it like on the island of Buyan, since there you could get a sword-treasure, and a needle with Kashcheeva’s death, and all your heart’s wishes to be quickly fulfilled? Not without the help of the omnipotent Alatyr stone, of course.
One version claims that Buyan is one of the sacred centers of the ancient civilization of Arat (Aryans), living in the territory of modern Ukraine, Belarus and southern Russia. Moreover, Buyan was considered the first most important place of power and symbolized the light - Ra. Once on the island, the sun god Svyatovid was worshiped, according to the ancients, one of the most powerful and most responsive to prayers. On the shore, the place of the sanctuary and the stone "clone" of the amazing god are still preserved.
There are a huge number of versions of the real existence of a fabulous island in the modern world. And each of them has the right to life, although most are simply amazing in their fantastic quality.
Wherever they sought the island of Buyan, it was shrouded in mystery like the mythical Shambhala. And where just did not find! And on the Ob and on the Dnieper. As options were considered about. White, which is slightly west of the Gulf of Ob and slightly north of the Yamal Peninsula, and about. Khortytsya not far from Zaporozhye, by which it was necessary to swim past, heading "to the kingdom of the glorious Saltan", that is, the Turkish Sultan.
There is a version of the geographical involvement of the island in the northern country of Hyperborea, a contemporary of Atlantis, and many more interesting options.
Rugen He is Ruyan. He is Buyan
It's almost impossible to believe in it! Our fabulous island is a respectable German resort. The sunniest place in Germany, beloved by the conservative citizens of the country and its guests, with the infrastructure equipped according to all modern health and entertainment requirements.
One of the most important questions of the descendants of the ancient Slavs falling on Rugen is whether it is possible to recognize the true island of Buyan in all this resort splendor. Where is the famous Lukomorye located? In theory, it should be nearby.
So, Rügen-Ruyan-Buyan is located in the Baltic Sea, between Denmark, Germany and Poland. It was inhabited as early as the Stone Age by the Rugier tribe, who went to the mainland (to the territory of modern Germany). It was replaced in the 7th century by the Baltic Slavs (ruyan), a people who were gradually engaged in agriculture and piracy, possessed a powerful flotilla and worshiped Svyatovid.
The remains of the ancient Slavic temple can be seen today.
Why is the Rügen version the most plausible?
In a detailed analysis of this version, the first thing that comes to mind is all the same familiar from childhood lines about an oak tree with a gold chain, about miracles that you will have to believe in on a marvelous island, about unprecedented animals. In a word, no scientific approach, one fabulous literature.
But do not rush to rebuke yourself, study the vegetation on the island of Buyan: quite often oak and beech groves - everything, as the poet described. And he wrote not from the ceiling, but diligently modernizing folk tales heard from the nanny. Folklorists, we must pay tribute to them, at all times adhered to reality and used the most accurate descriptions in their creations.
In addition, the German island, like that Buyan, is supported by another legend - about the famous Hyperborea. The northern country, inhabited by people who owned the technique of levitation, was very close to modern Rügen. According to legend, the native of Hyperborea was also Solntsebog Apollo. Please note: the country is northern, and there are plenty of solar gods.
But this is not the point, but the fact that the word “buoy”, “buoy”, spread in the northern Slavic latitudes, which means elevation, terrain, an open place suitable for building a temple, came to us from Hyperborea.
An island in the Baltic Sea-Ociana, a country beyond Borey (the north wind), the often used word "Buyan" ... The coincidences are too obvious to be accidental.
Historical reference
The people, called the Ruyan, belonged to the Northwest Slavs and are nowhere referred to as Hyperboreans, although the possibility of a relationship between these peoples is not ruled out. Perhaps the rudiments came from Hyperborea.
Having mastered the island of Buyan, they took up their usual affairs: agriculture, cattle breeding and repelling the attacks of enemies. Although many historians suggest that the Baltic Slavs (also called this people) did not shy away from piracy and kept the then population of Denmark and Norway at bay by charging taxes.
The island prospered, the population did not live in poverty. On the coast was built the capital and part-time fortress - Arkona. Somewhere in these places was stored the legendary Alatyr-stone, certainly white.
Alatyr in the modern interpretation increasingly makes sense of the altar. Its color is not surprising: the white chalk cliffs of Rugen are the main building material with material that could be used in antiquity.
Buyan Island, where is (or was) not one useful artifact - a very real historical, eventful place.
Traditions brought from Buyan
And now in many Ukrainian and Belarusian villages they are guessing at Christmas in Buyan, in pagan terms, that is: the owner “hides” behind a bowl of pies or behind a loaf and asks: “Can I see you well?”, While the whole family should be without a twinge Conscience to convince that it is completely invisible, thus invoking prosperity and well-being for the whole year in the hut.
This type of fortune-telling was also known by the ancient ruyan. From the island, he, in fact, spread throughout the Slavic lands: once a year, performing a ceremony in honor of the god Svyatovid, the priest stood for a ritual honey cake, which was baked on a huge size, almost of human height. If the priest was not visible behind the “bun,” then the year was a success, if it is visible, the priest ordered the next year to bake a larger pie, thereby programming the people for prosperity and faith in a good harvest.
As you can see, it’s impossible to “swim” and pass by the island of Buyana, even just having fun with Christmas fortune-telling.
Personal island
And yet everyone has his own true Buyan. For most of us, this island since childhood has become a symbol of calm, departure from everyday life, a point on the map of our souls, where it is good, where it is warm, where it is cozy. Agree that even in adulthood, a person needs a fairy tale. And here is the whole island of Buyan. A world in which every blade of grass, every magic flower, every firebird is familiar.
According to the esoteric beliefs, each of us is endowed with magic. How do you imagine the island of Buyan, the point in your subconscious that is responsible for your faith, such miracles will happen in your life.
The more fairy tales you have in yourself, the more space the notorious island occupies in your soul, the more chances are that everything will turn out perfectly for you both in your career, in your personal life, and in relations with people.
Remember the first acquaintance
There are no options here. Most of us first learned about the wonderful island thanks to A.S. Pushkin. A classic could not get past the Buyan island with its unique positive impact on humans.
Such a place must certainly take its place of honor in literature. That's what the poet thought and made the island famous all over the world.
True, when describing Buyan Island, Pushkin did not adhere to strict coordinates, therefore the only guiding lines in his fairy tales are oaks, the no less mysterious Lukomorye, the sea-pane and the bay, where no beauty goddesses, but a platoon of armed fellows leave the sea foam.
This is the essence of the tale: to hint that there is a magical land, but do not indicate the exact address. This advantage of the genre was used by the author. On the island of Buyan Pushkin, of course, did not happen, but he even twisted some intrigue - they still have not figured it out to the end.
What is a place of power?
Mystics and esotericists tirelessly reiterate that there are such points on our planet that being in them makes a person stronger physically, opens the “third eye” (in other words, strengthens intuition), gives unprecedented abilities: to get younger, levitate, and move quickly in space.
According to the mystics, Rugen and now remains such a point. Geographers, confirming the presence of ancient tectonic faults on the island, indirectly confirm the possibility of focusing a very strong energy here, which an ordinary person can feel both on a physical and emotional level.
The energy of the earth may have weakened somewhat, but it is there and it acts. They say the action is felt even at a distance. Therefore, magicians of different ranks and directions are so actively addressing this particular place of power in their rituals.
And ordinary rural grandmothers respect him. When they begin to read "on the island of Buyan", the conspiracy, in theory, should automatically normalize life and remove all obstacles to happiness.
Let's go, or what?
Want to stop guessing and look for the answer to the question, how do you imagine Buyan Island? Then make out "Schengen". And let's go!
Only on the spot you can make sure that a fabulous island exists. Moving away from beaches, hotels and cafes, you will be able to fully breathe the healing air of ancient Buyan, find a fabulous oak tree (without a cat), see amazing white cliffs that for centuries have continued to look magical and unusual.
I'd like to see a fairy tale with my own eyes. Moreover, where is Buyan Island hidden, in what sea-hawk, under what name, we already know.
What could be a new fairy tale?
We suggest a little imagination and suggest that it would be if the famous poet came to the modern island of Buyan. Would Pushkin be surprised, delighted or disappointed?
What fairy tale could get out from under the pen of a classic? Indeed, if you do not take into account resort civilization on the coast, the essence of the island remains the same - mysteriously fabulous.
The riot of vegetation and the dazzling whiteness of the cliffs, reserves with the remains of the sacred beech, the Royal Throne cliff, which the aspirants to the throne tried to conquer, forest lakes and swamps leading to them “unknown paths” - all this continues to bewitch, mysteriously affect and can provide rich material for new tales.