Hello, friends.
My wife's colleagues suggested a walk on Saturday, April 1 to Mount Kunya. We call it a "weekend hike". So yesterday we spent in close communication with nature and historical antiquity.
Today I will try to give you a little virtual journey through the ancient and mysterious Khakass land. We will also go to Mount Kunya, which is located two dozen kilometers from the capital of Khakassia, the city of Abakan.
Kunya, according to the ancient Turkic Kyun-Tag (mountain of the Sun) lies on the left bank of the Yenisei and, together with the mountain massifs of Sukhanikha, Tepsei and Oglakhty, forms the "Big Yenisei Gate". These four mountains have been sacred to the locals since ancient times, there were sanctuaries on each of them, there are large clusters of petroglyphs on them.
Kunya is famous for the remains of ancient stone walls, one of which stretches along the mountainside for a distance of about two kilometers. Modern historians do not have an unambiguous opinion about the purpose and time of construction of these objects.
Next to the ritual site, leaning with one edge on a rocky ledge, and with the other on a small stone, there is a separate stone block – the head of the Kyun-Tag spirit.
Next to the ritual site, leaning with one edge on a rocky ledge, and with the other on a small stone, there is a separate stone block – the head of the Kyun-Tag spirit.
Perhaps this is the ancient shrine for which stone walls were built and which people worshipped thousands of years ago.
There are also two panels with ancient petroglyphs. One of them, located on the Yenisei side and visible from afar, has long been invaded by vandals, and in 2016 it was almost destroyed under a layer of paint. At the end of May 2017, the "rock artist" was installed, it turned out to be a thirty-seven-year-old resident of Krasnoyarsk. He explained that he had painted a rock above the river to mark the fact of his presence there, but he simply did not notice the ancient petroglyphs.
The second panel is located in the inner log and he was more lucky, although even here it was not without fans to "correct" ancient drawings.
On a flat vertical platform measuring about three meters per meter, there are many images of figures of people, animals, birds, and some people in strange "clown hats" on their heads. The drawings date back to the second millennium BC.
The Podkuninskaya pisanitsa was discovered and copied for the first time in 1907 by the ethnographer Alexander Adrianov. Also, there are separate images of people and animals on nearby stone ledges.
From the mountain there is a stunning view of the Yenisei Valley and the Krasnoyarsk reservoir, a person who is on it experiences a spiritual uplift and a surge of positive emotions, so climbing Kunya is very popular with residents of Khakassia.
Camera: Nikon 1 S1
Location: Khakassia
Friends, thank you for your attention, see you soon.
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