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investigations, we shall combine them in a single "case". In order —_ form an integral picture of what preceded and accompanied the to see the reality that has for so long escaped the eyes of 1908 catastrophe. researchers, we shall have to shift our gaze backwards and The first to learn of the coming calamity were the shamans of forwards in space and time to look at events separated by tens, the native tribes. Two months before the explosion, rumours of even hundreds of years. the approaching "end of the world" began to spread across the To this end, we shall turn to the accounts of eyewitnesses, of taiga. Going from one settlement to another, the shamans warned which even in such a sparsely populated part of Siberia there were the people of an imminent cataclysm. The people began to move thousands. Even in the late 1960s it was possible to find some their herds from the upper reaches of the Podkamennaya 3,000 people who remembered that extraordinary event! Tunguska to the Nizhniaya Tunguska and further, towards the Before we turn to the facts, we ought to share what we surmised River Lena. in the course of our investigation: an hypothesis about the The exodus of the Evenk began immediately after a suglan Tunguska explosion that will be unexpected for many, but which (gathering) of all the nomadic clans who moved around in close was formed during the analysis of a large amount of data. Drawing proximity, which took place in the month of Teliat (May). A on the testimony of thousands of witnesses to the Tunguska explo- secret conference of the elders had resolved that the cyclical sion, the findings of researchers, the course of their wanderings should be text of the Yakut epic Olonkho, the changed and that the clans should reconstructed chronology of events move close together along the new and an analysis of the consequences A course. of the explosions described not only A very, very long time ago . Then there was a big ritual occa- in the epic but also through the efforts someone constructed, in what Is sion at which the "Great Shaman" of scientific researchers, it is possible announced the "End of the World": ° known as "the Valley of Death", to put forward the reasoned sugges- The ancestors said that they had to tion that in the immense, uninhabited a complex that still today is move from their traditional places. territory of northwestern Yakutia No one should be there after the there is an ancient underground tech- protecting the Earth from month of Teliat in the month of nical installation. meteorites and asteroids. Muchun [June], thus said the ances - A very, very long time ago, some- tors... The upper people want to visit one constructed, in what is known as Dulia... No one should see that. "the Valley of Death", a complex that And so the nomads began to move still today is protecting the Earth from across the taiga... meteorites and asteroids. Of course, such a suggestion is stagger - Obeying some inner sense and supporting, as it were, the pro- ing. It is hard even to contemplate such a possibility. It follows nouncements of the shamans, the wild animals began to leave. that for thousands of years, something existed alongside us that The birds flew from their nesting grounds, the swans left the lakes exceeds not only our current achievements but even our boldest and the fish disappeared from the rivers. An immense expanse of fantasies about what might be achieved—and we failed to notice! taiga, measuring several tens of thousands of square kilometres, Naturally, none of those who researched the various scientifically lost its fauna. Only those who did not believe the shamans' words inexplicable consequences of the Tunguska catastrophe could remained in the danger zone. have imagined that all the traces left by the explosions were the All this speaks for itself. Obviously some early warning of the result of the activities of some ancient cosmic defence complex approaching event was given through the shamans who "spoke left by unknown builders! with the spirits of the ancestors". The animals, birds and fish reacted instinctively to the approaching danger, reacting to the nanan ana tha Ch. Local Legends and the Shamans’ Warnings Here is one detail preserved in the ancestral memory of the local population, passed down through the millennia in an ancient epic poem. The legends passed on by word of mouth tell how this land was once suddenly wrapped in impenetrable darkness and the surroundings were shaken by a deafening roar. A hurricane of unseen force arose and the land was shaken by mighty blows. When everything had calmed down and the darkness had dis- persed, an unprecedented sight met their eyes. In the midst of the scorched land, glowing in the sun stood a tall vertical structure that was visible at a distance of many days' journey. For a long period of time, the structure gave out unpleasant, ear-splitting noises and gradually diminished in height until it had disappeared under the ground altogether. In place of the tall structure there was an immense, yawning, vertical "orifice". In the course of our exposition of the facts, we shall present several texts from the Olonkho which testify strongly in favour of the stated hypothesis because of the obvious technological nature of the events described in the ancient tales. It is surprising that the people who translated and analysed these texts did not notice or even suspect this. Let us begin with a detailed reconstruction of events, trying to "Grandpa" Matvei (108), a witness of the 1908 Tunguska explosion, photographed with the author at the Evenk settlement of Siuldiukar in 1997. 52 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005