Svyatogor: a hero of enormous growth and incredible strength

A long epic is considered by many to be fiction, comparing it with fairy tales. However, the epic, that is, byl, is significantly different from folk fantasy. Of course, the events described in the stories are much exaggerated. But scientists find confirmation that they took place in real life. For example, in the caves of the Kiev Lavra lies cancer with imperishable relics of Ilya Muromets, who lived during the reign of Prince Vladimir Krasnoye Solnyshko. At the same time, lived and Svyatogor - the hero, who repeatedly met with the winner of Nightingale the robber.

Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich are the most famous troika of ancient Russian epic heroes, the prototypes of which, by the way, were real people. But the legends tell of another man, no less revered. It is the hero Svyatogor, whose biography is known, in the main, from epic stories. How he was - is for certain unknown. After all, at the time when Svyatogor-Bogatyr lived, there were no cameras or television. According to the legends, he was a real giant: in his pocket to himself could easily put another knight, and even with a horse! He also drove a casket with his beautiful wife. Bylins tell us how the hero of our story met with Muromets, how they became twin brothers, how Svyatogor married (the moral is this: from fate you will not leave) and how to punish the unfaithful spouse.

According to the epic, a hero lived on the high Holy Mountains (hence his nickname), and did not visit the cities and races of Russia. Why? Russian hero Svyatogor was above the forest, his head reached the clouds. When he was going on the road, the world shook, the rivers poured from the shores, the forests swayed. With difficulty he held Mother of the Cheese Earth. Therefore, probably, he so rarely left his house and went to the people. His strength was very great, and even came from day to day. But this was his curse, his torment: there was no other such a knight that could be compared to strength with a hero. So he did not know where to put it, and in the end she killed him. It can be unequivocally said that Svyatogor is a supernatural being, therefore he is doomed to perish in advance. That confirmation - the coffin found by him in the open field, which took the body of the hero and stopped his ordeal.

According to one version, Svyatogor-hero is a descendant of Lemurians, giants who used to inhabit our planet. Perhaps the last of a kind, and therefore kept away from the human race, while treating her very friendly, although did not understand it. However, such a judgment remains only a hypothesis - without confirmation and refutation.

But some researchers believe that they found the last refuge of the hero. By the period of the war between the inhabitants of Rus and the Pechenegs was the boyar burial mound Gulbishche near Chernigov. Buried in him a man (Svyatogor-bogatyr?), Although not related to the princely family, was still very noble and important, as evidenced by objects in the burial. The weapons and things of the deceased are of impressive size. Perhaps, here lies the historical prototype of the glorious epic hero? It is worth noting that the location of the burial mound also suggests the truth about the epic. Gulbische is located on the Boldiny Mountains, near the Holy Grove. Did these rocks serve as a home for Svyatogor?

Whatever it was, we can assume that a man of enormous growth and great power, so vividly described in the Slavic epic, really walked the Russian land and did good.