The white-flammable stone Alatyr was revealed at the beginning of time. He was raised from the bottom of the Milky Ocean by the World Duck. Alatyr was very small, because the Duck wanted to hide it in her beak. But Svarog uttered the magic Word, and the stone began to grow. The duck could not hold it and dropped it. Where the white-combustible stone Alatyr fell, the Alatyr mountain rose. The white-flammable stone Alatyr is a sacred stone, the focus of the Knowledge of the Vedas, the mediator between man and God. It is both “small and very cold”, and “great as a mountain”. Both light and heavy. It is unknowable: “and no one could know that stone, and no one could lift it from the earth...

A unique megalithic (stone) structure is located about 130 km southwest of London. It is Stonehenge, which has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1986 and is now managed by the British Crown in the English Heritage Office. What is Stonehenge, one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, and why are the eyes of those who explore the mysteries of history chained to it for many years? To begin with, we should turn to the historical name of this mysterious complex, which in ancient times sounded like "Stanhengues"...