The traditions of all peoples - from India to Iceland and from America to Australia - speak of various mythical creatures that lived long before our time, resembling people in outward appearance, but in terms of their physiology and capabilities people were not. Among them stood a large group of creatures, similar to the most beautiful people and possessing incomprehensible longevity, as well as magical abilities.
Especially a lot of tales about the divine people of the elves in Ireland and Wales. Its name is Tuatha de Danann, or the Tribe of the Goddess Danu.
Long before Christ, this people ruled Ireland, and also, probably, Britain and France, and left behind them not only memories in folklore, but also quite real material evidence of their existence.
Some historians write that the so-called elves were descendants of people from the vanished continents of Atlantis and Lemuria. According to one of the legends, it was the elves who were the keepers of the Holy Grail.
Some tales mention that elves seem to like white: in their forests there live white deer, white foxes, always white hares.
Atlantis, according to legend - a huge ancient sunken continent, leaving only the tops of its mountains on the surface of the earth. Now it is islands in the Mediterranean (for example, Santorini Island), as well as some of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which are Britain and Ireland. Therefore, it is possible that the Elves were representatives of the ancient civilization of the Atlanteans, who, after the Flood, could be saved at the tops of individual mountains.
Despite this, there are many plots in Irish mythology in which mortals compete with sidi, penetrated into their world for the purpose of matchmaking or to obtain miraculous objects. There are also legends and historical testimonies (not only in Ireland) about marriages between sidies, elves, fairies and people - for example, Beckum White with the King of Ireland, Conn. The Battle - and the birth of their children.
It was also said that someday the last decisive battle between the forces of evil and ignorance will take place with the forces of the pure and undefiled, disappeared from them, and after this a new era of domination of the God-chosen nations on the Earth, "pure soul and body", which one day were forced to leave Our planet or from its surface because of the vices of people.
Elves today live among people, almost completely assimilated with them. Externally, the elf almost does not differ from a person, except for individual characteristics.
The researcher Jacques Valle about elves
The researchers of our century believed and wrote about it in the elves. Their testimonies are preserved. Scientist - researcher of the early XX century Jacques Valle in his book "Parallel World" quotes the words of an Irishman who described the society of elves:
"These are the most wonderful people I have ever seen. They excel us in everything ... Among them there are no workers, but only military aristocrats, noble and noble ... It's a people that differ from us and from disembodied beings. Their possibilities are amazing ... Their eyes are so powerful that they, I think, can see even through the earth. They have a silvery voice, their words are sweet and fast ...
They travel a lot, and like people, they can meet in a crowd ... Smart young people who are of interest to them, they take to themselves ... "
Maybe the elves stayed in Ireland?
One of the most important specialists in elves in Iceland was Youne Gwiudmundsson the Scholar, also nicknamed "The Artist" and "Klykodel" (1574-1658), who left behind two late manuscripts-treatises on elves. All the rest were taken from him, burned, and he himself, twice sentenced to exile.
Olav himself was at first a simple bond (free landowner), also sincerely believed in the existence of the Hidden People, and in 1830, after wandering around his native island, at the request of a friend, recorded his collected testimonies in one thick book.
In order to collect these testimonies, stories, legends and tales, Youn Arnason was forced to address his former students scattered throughout Iceland, asking them to record everything they could find among the common people and then send to him.
Alvian Theory
Alva - asthenic physique, pointed form of ears and markedly increased in comparison with the average human life span. The area of initial settlement is north and northwest of Europe. Now fully assimilated Indo-European race (Celts, Germans, to a lesser extent Slavs).
Representatives of this race, along with the ancestors of the Paleo-European peoples inhabited northern and north-western Europe, inhabiting it until the appearance of the Celtic and Germanic tribes. Later, under the tribes of the tribes, the alva were partially destroyed, partly assimilated, partially inhabited by hard-to-reach and hard-to-reach places, unsuitable for the life of primitive tribes, but allowed the existence of a more developed culture.
Legends about the deities of the "Alievian" origin arose in the western Indo-European cultural space, which, I believe, was entirely supported by the alvi themselves, who quickly realized to themselves all the benefits of being considered gods - at least, the alva could be sure that from Further victorious wars, they secured themselves.
Myths, legends, stories about Elves in our world
The old legend speaks of how the well water has deteriorated in one Bulgarian village, and there were not any decent rivers nearby. A clean, innocent girl went to her magic forest at her own peril and risk, found a unicorn there and made friends with him. Then she told him about her misfortune, and he agreed to come to the village and clean the water everywhere. But when the girl led a wonderful creature, the peasants, remembering that the unicorn's horn is very expensive, tied the savior and killed the animal.
In one of the monastic chronicles it is mentioned that in the beginning of the XV century in Scotland in the mountains was found a person dying from wounds, speaking in an unknown language. He was lean, even fragile. Recovered, the stranger surprised everyone with agility in fencing and archery - he never missed!
With time, having learned the language, he told that he belongs to the people "Elva". According to him, this people live very, very far away. One interesting feature: he was sharp-witted! Wounded, immediately brought to church.
You can find such references in other countries. For example, in one of the family chronicles of Norway it is mentioned that in the fourteenth century one of the girls married a tall and beautiful figure of an outsider, an unsurpassed archer. However, he was soon accused of witchcraft. He lived in marriage for eight years and left two daughters, also distinguished for their beauty. But the daughters, in addition to beauty, also inherited some signs of the father - pointed ears, which, of course, greatly complicated their continued existence ... This outsider called himself "Helveta".
In the chronicles, you can find other evidence. Different peoples, different storytellers, often without any contacts, have for centuries described the mysterious Helvet or Elve practically the same.
It is possible that among us there are representatives of the people of the elves. But even if this mysterious race completely disappeared, there was a "gene pool" and therefore the elves' descendants are born and to this day. For example, the American Kenneth O'Hara, having first taken an onion at the age of 43, realized that he simply could not miss. He was examined by doctors, psychics, and it was thanks to the latter that he did not become a professional athlete: psychics determined that at the time of the shot 0'Hara spills a huge amount of mental energy. On this basis, he was forbidden to speak. After studying his genealogy, Kenneth O'Hara learned that in the 15th century one of his ancestors - an Irishman - married a captive from the people of Helva - a woman was captured during a raid on one of the islands off the coast of Scandinavia.
There is a legend about St. Michael, which says that elves are none other than a special kind of angels. "
Writer Viktor Kalashnikov even mentioned their names in the Atlas of Secrets and Riddles: they are Adramelik and Ariel, Ariok and Ramiel.
The same subject is also discussed by the researcher Leonid Korablev, who wrote a "Little treatise on how to seek and find ways of communicating with the now hidden people, that is, with true elves." Here are his words: "The elves taught people the culture and art of writing. They are able to penetrate the mind into the future and read the thoughts of mortals ... And they are similar in appearance to ideal people of high stature, but certainly not to "literary winged dwarfs".
There are a lot of myths about the original origin of elves. One of the most interesting stories tells how Eve, bathing her children, was afraid of the voice of God, who called her. She hid those children who did not have time to wash. Then God told Eve that because she had hidden her children from him, he would hide them from people. And he made them invisible. Before the flood began, God took these children into the cave and filled them with stones. From them, and went the race of elves and other supernatural beings who possess different magical abilities.
Almost all particularly noble families in Sweden own jewelery or jewelry related to the legends of trolls and elves. The next story is connected with the wife of the state councilor Harald Steak.
One evening late in the summer, an elf woman came to her, who wanted to rent a wedding dress to wear it for a wedding. After some reflection, the counselor's wife decided to lend her dress. A few days later the dress was returned, but with gold and pearls at each seam, and from it hung a ring of the purest gold with the most precious stones. This dress was handed down for several centuries - along with the legend itself - in the Steka family.
The myth of the tribe of the goddess Danu
The people of the tribe of the goddess Danu (Tuatha de Danann) was something like an ancient Greek or Roman aristocracy, only more subtle and powerful. In addition to his dazzling beauty and abilities, unusual for people, he wore clothes from fabrics, which, according to popular belief, at that time were unknown.
The further fate of the tribe at first in Ireland and, throughout Britain and France, the world reigned, but soon the people of the tribe of the goddess Dan began to quarrel, and affected the greatest of them. Lug's wife betrayed him with the son of Dagda Kermad, for which the God of Light struck the latter with a spear. Dagda had to search for a long time magical potions, to resurrect his son. And then his grandson Mack Kyle killed Lug himself. Mack Quile and his brothers Mac Kecht and McGrene became the three kings of the tribe of the goddess Danu.
This is not the end of the disaster. The Tuatha de Dananne killed their guest, Ita, who had set foot on the coast of Ireland. In order to avenge him, the Sons of the Mile of Spain organized a punitive expedition. They sailed to Ireland on numerous ships. As they say in the Book of the Occupations of Ireland, "thirty-six leaders of the Goidels were with them, that they sailed on thirty-six ships. Four and twenty more servants were with them, and each in his ship, and with each of four and twenty more servants.
And Lugaid, the son of Ita, a mighty, brave and glorious warrior, sailed with them, in order to avenge his father. " As they say in the Book of the Occupations of Ireland, "thirty-six leaders of the Goidels were with them, that they sailed on thirty-six ships. Four and twenty more servants were with them, and each in his ship, and with each of four and twenty more servants. And Lugaid, the son of Ita, a mighty, brave and glorious warrior, sailed with them, in order to avenge his father. " As they say in the Book of the Occupations of Ireland, "thirty-six leaders of the Goidels were with them, that they sailed on thirty-six ships. Four and twenty more servants were with them, and each in his ship, and with each of four and twenty more servants. And Lugaid, the son of Ita, a mighty, brave and glorious warrior, sailed with them, in order to avenge his father. "
The name of Mile, the legendary ancestor of the Goidels, comes from the Latin Miles Hispaniae. His wife was Scott, which means simply "Irish." She was the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and fled with the Goidels, who feared his anger because they did not take part in the pursuit of the Jews.
For a long time the goidels could not come to the island - the magic fog and the enchantments of the Tuatha de Danann stirred the storm, until one of the Sons of Miles, Eber Donne, dispersed them, for which his ship sank in waves with him. But, at last, the two remaining sons of Mile, Eber Finn and Eremona, managed to get to the shore. There were many Goidels. They were superior in strength to the tribe of the goddess Danu and wanted to enslave the Tuatha de Danann, and to use for their own purposes the magical abilities of the latter.
"Three days later and three nights after that, the sons of Miles fell upon the tribes of the goddess Danu at the Battle of Sliab Mie" and defeated them, but the Scot, the wife of Erimon, perished. The goidels were able to cope with the Tuatha de Danann and Lyfa. And then there was a terrible battle at Tailty, where the three kings of the goddess Danu, McKeil, Mac Kecht and McGrene, and three queens, Banba, Fotla and Erie, were killed, and the rule of the toilets was broken.
But even despite the defeat of the sons of Mil, the tribe of the goddess Danu did not leave Ireland completely. With his magical abilities, he managed to get the sons of Mil to share power with him.
Elves go underground and beyond the sea
According to one version of the saga "Education in the Houses of Two Bowls", the country was divided into two parts by Amorgen - the poet and sage of the Goidels, in such a way that the tribe of the goddess Danu (Tuatha de Danann) inherited the lower, underworld. In the saga "On the seizure of the Sid" it is said that, at the end of the conflict between the Goidel and the tribe of the goddess Danu, a friendship was established between Dagda, the leader of the Tuatha de Dannan, and the sons of Mile, and that Dagda divided the magical dwellings under the hills (sidies) between each other, Lug and Oghma .
Sides are numerous hills in Ireland, in which, according to various Irish sagas, the people of the tribe of the goddess Danu lived. According to linguists, this word could mean "a magic fortress".
In another, more recent, versions of the saga of "Education for Homes Two of Cups" leaders of the Tuatha de Danann are Manannan (supreme king) and Bodb Derg, son of Dagda (King), who distribute ten LEDs are among the most famous leaders of the Tuatha De Danann; Manannan himself settles overseas, in Emain Ablach or Avalon.
"When crushed Erimon their heroes and warriors in the battles of Tailtiu and Druim Ligen and otsporil Irish soil, the Tuatha Dé Danann called noble High King, the great and mighty of Manannan, so he gave them advice. And Manannan said that warriors must disperse on the sidelines and live in the hills and friendly valleys of Ireland. Named then Manannan and warriors their king Bodb Derg, and have Manannan all noble men of their LEDs: Bodb Derg - Sid Buydb Loch Dergirt, proud Midir - Sid Truym with beautiful slopes, the kind Sigmalu - beautiful to look at Sid Nennta, Finnbaru Honey - Syd Mead with a black top, great Tadgu son Nuada - Sid Dromma Den, Abartahu son Ilda-Taha - Sid Buida with a wonderful top, Fagartahu - truly glorious Sid Finnabrah, Illbreku - Sid Esa Ruad Aed, son of Lear Lugaid - Sid Finnahayd with green grass, pulling sweet-contradictory - Sid Kleytig. And every one of the tribes of the goddess Danu, who was supposed to be a settlement, and decent housing, to appointed Manannan special place for every noble warrior and gave them Fet APPhI, because of what and they were invisible, Pier Goibniu in order to avert the king's death and old age , And the pigs of Manannan, so that they could kill them and again those pigs were alive.
The Irish sagas also say that his people swam across the sea and settled on mysterious islands - Brendan, Blessed, Yablonev ... The location of the new homeland of the Tuatha de Danann can serve as a fragment from the saga "The Adventures of Art, son of Conn." The tribe of the goddess Danu, who gathered for a council in the Promised Land because of Beckuma White (the daughter of Eoghan Inbir), who committed adultery, expels her to Ireland.
Thus, after the defeat of the sons of Mil Tuatha de Danann were pushed to the periphery of the developed space - to the islands and to the depths of the hills, where formerly there was a shelter of the Fomors. And on the site of the Battle of Tylitus, Samhain was established - an annual holiday (from October 12 to November 1). The edge of the worlds these days disappeared and the Tuatha de Danann could be seen by mortals.
The tribe of the goddess Danu (Tuatha de Danann) turns into elves
After the people of the tribe of the goddess Danu settled in the sacred hills - sidov or overseas, he became known as sidi, and in later times - as elves. The very habitat of the sidi has been called "The Magic Country".
In Irish and Welsh folklore, the "Magic Country" combines space beyond the sea with the underworld. Sometimes she appears before people as a ghostly, foggy island, with many names: the Blessed, Guy-Brasil, Avallon, etc. On Avalon lies the legendary King Arthur, transferred there by the fairy Morgana. In Wales, the Enchanted Land is called Tir-Nan-Og, or the Land of Eternal Youth, which lies beyond the sea in the west, or Tyrfo Tuinn is the Earth under the Waves. In the Enchanted Land, secret paths lead. It is believed that the passage to it can be found at the bottom of the sea and in the depths of mountain lakes, as well as in the hillsides.
The ruler of the sidas was Queen Medb, a tall slender beauty with bright blue eyes and long blond hair. Behind her, she developed a wide mantle of the finest white silk. The man who happened to meet with Medb, soon died of love anguish.
The other sidi were also very tall, and their beauty could immediately "blind" the mere mortal. With one touch of the hand they took away the will and the mind from man.
The Sidi were male and female. Depending on their mood, they could be hostile to people, but could help them. But more often, if people did not bother them, the Siders paid no attention to them. The sidi had many worries: they composed and performed magic music, grazed herds of livestock, made an unusually tasty ale.
Man, Accidentally wandered into their land (it was always men), the sideways, as a rule, turned into their slave. If, however, the unfortunate man managed to escape and reach the house, his sanity never returned to him. Sometimes the former prisoners of the Sid became prophets or healers, acquiring the ability to foresee the future or heal people.
Attention! The remains of the present Elf are found