elements and parameters of the cosmic device. The mountain is in the center of the world – where its axis runs. The continuation of the world axis upward (through the top of the mountain) indicates the position of the North Star, and its continuation of the North Star, and its continuation downward indicates the place where the entrance to the lower world is located», – the «Encyclopedia of Myths» reports. Suffice it to recall the first hill of Egyptian mythology, which rose from the universal waters, on which the «great Gogotun» laid an egg, from which the sun appeared. The Great Goddesses – Mothers of many nations were presented to the archaic consciousness as a certain first raise rising from Chaos. Such a first mountain was the ancient Greek Gaia – the Earth «from itself, which gave birth to Uranus – the sky and took it as a spouse.»
The mistress of the mountains of Cybele. The symbol of Mother Earth was the grave mounds of our ancestors. And we note here that in the ritual text Mother, who has gone to another world, i.e. merged with the eternal universal principle, with Mother Earth, is naturally called the «Red Krasigorka».
Turning again to the image of Lilith, let us recall that her names Batna and Odem meant «womb» and «red», «redness». In the North Russian tradition (as, indeed, in the Hebrew), the Foremother is called «Red» and «Red Mountain». Why exactly «Red»? Beautiful? Hardly. We will find an explanation of this phenomenon in the oldest texts of the Indo-Europeans – the epic Mahabharata, the main block of which, apparently, was formed on the circumpolar ancestral home of the Aryans.
In the first book of the epic «Adiparve» it is said that according to the Almighty, (which in another book – «Forest» is called «the Creator of Light dispersing darkness», «Those who Exist, Was and Will Be», «The visible eternal God, the Immutable Law»), and to His Word (which is voiced by thought)», a huge egg appeared, forever, like the seed of all creatures… In it the true light was the eternal Brahmo, wonderful, unimaginable, omnipresent, the one who is the hidden and elusive reason for the real and unreal and unreal».
In the book «On the Sacrifice of the Horse» («Ashvamehikaparva») Brahmo is called «ether». The text reads: Ether is the highest of the elements… It has only one property and it is called sound. Ether produces seven sounds and a chord. Then the waves of the ether or the «heavenly Ocean» generate «wind» or movement, which already has two properties «sound and touch». Moreover, the intrinsic property of movement is «touch», i.e. inertia. Then visible Light is born, which already has three properties – «sound, touch and image.» The property of Light, which carries in it (as a visible image of the seven first sounds) the seven colors of the spectrum, is the Image, i.e. the entire visible material World. But the first color in this process of manifestation is precisely red. Hence, the «Sun is red» – as an image of materialized light or, as they said back in the 12th century: «A thing is more sun to Light.» And the first, as the prototype of the Earth, is also «Krasnaya Krasigorka».
But why are Old Testament Lilith and «Owl-Mother-in-law» born, seemingly so far from each other, so close to each other?
As it turns out, this distance is only apparent.
Thus, at the end of the 19th century, the first rector of Boston University, William Warren, spoke about the correlation of the image of the World Mountain «with the axis of heaven», i.e. with the North Pole and wrote about that «the Akkadians, who were the forerunners of the most ancient empires of the Tigris and Euphrates, also knew a similar World Mountain, unlike all other mountains, since the sky rested on it and revolved around it. They called her Harsak Kurra.» He also stressed that the Harsak Kurra of the Akkadians is the north-polar «mountain of life» of the Egyptians. He writes: «Joachim Menard believed that» the mythological Akkad was a circumpolar native, in memory of which the Akkad of the Tigris-Euphrates Plain was named».
He supports this assumption with the following facts: «Both names, Akkad and Sumer, are not Assyro-Babylonian, but borrowed from an older prehistoric language; the etymological meaning and common noun of the name «Akkad» clearly brings it closer to a distant country on the north-polar peak of the Earth. «W. Warren also notes that according to the Jews, «Heaven, the refuge of the supreme God, was in the north, in the circumpolar part of heaven, that is, in the sacred region… Job claims that» God makes in the North», in Ezekiel the true God appears from above and from the north (Job 37:22). «Bright weather comes from the north and around God terrible magnificence.»
Speaking about the ideas of the ancient Jews, recorded in the Old Testament, W. Warren cites the words of the prophet Isaiah, addressed to the ruler of Babylon: «How you fell from heaven, dear woman, and son of the dawn! Crashed to the ground, trampling on the peoples. And he said in his heart: «I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on a mountain in the doubt of the gods, at the edge of the North; I will ascend to the cloudy heights, I will be like the Most High». Thus, the place and time of the birth of the images of «Owl-Mother-in-law» – «Red Beauty» and «Lilith – Night Owl», apparently, were the same.
Moreover, the very name Lilith raises a number of questions. So the proximity of the Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages is well known. Back in the 19th century, K. Zeiss, A. Kuhn, F. Bopp noted the special ties of the Aryan within the Indo-European with Slavic, Greek and Armenian.
E. A. Grantovsky in his «Early history of the tribes of Asia Minor» wrote that «the supporters of the predominant Aryan-Slavic or Aryan-Balto-Slavic affinity refer the contacts of the predecessors of the Slavs (and the Balts) and the ancestors of the Aryans to the era of the Indo-European community that did not completely disintegrate (and in absolute dates to a very early period», at least 5—4 thousand BC.
Back in the 50s of the twentieth century, the outstanding Indian Sanskritologist R. Sankrityayana introduced the term «Indo-glory» into scientific circulation, and Professor D. P. Shastri said in 1964: «If I were asked which two languages of the world are most similar to each other, I would answer without any hesitation: Russian and Sanskrit.» The numerous similarities in the modern Russian language and Sanskrit were repeatedly written by N. R. Guseva.
My book «The Golden Thread» gives examples of analogues in the North Russian dialects and classical Sanskrit, as well as the names of the rivers of Russia, which can be explained only through Sanskrit.
Based on the above, it makes sense to remember that in Russian ritual songs such chorus as «lyuli-lyuli», «leli-leli», «leli-leli» is quite often encountered. Turning to Sanskrit, we learn that «li» literally means «to touch, caress, stick, sink, sit down, melt, melt, and dissolve.» Hence «lila» – «game, fun, beauty». In the Hindu tradition, the «love pastimes of Krishna and the cowherd boys fascinated by him» are called «lila». Here «lul (lolati) means» to move here and there, to rush, move, worry, sway, and disappear.» But in the same row there is the word «lulita», which has the same meanings – «to rush, move, worry, and wobble.»
«Lulita» and Lilith – isn’t it too similar both in sound and in meaning? And the folk etymology connecting the name Lilith with the Hebrew lul – «night», apparently, is close to the truth. After all, night is the time of lulita – or lul (to move here and there, rush, sway, etc.), i.e. carnal love. In any case, the Laws of Manu (text 175) directly states that «a twice-born man who has intercourse (sexual) … in the daytime must completely wash himself in clothes to atone for his sin. This is, firstly.
And secondly: remember that Lilith is associated with children, i.e. with those who are legally conceived at night. She gives them, but she can take them away. After all, this is the mistress of Life and Death, the Great Mother of matriarchy. Perhaps that is why in Russia since ancient times (and even today), when they put them to bed, they rocked small children in a cradle (lul), singing «lyuli-lyuli». After all, sleep is an intermediate state between life and death. The cradle «moves here and there, sways, hesitates,» and the child «plunges» into the night, into sleep, in order to return to this world in the morning.Thus, a close connection is being built