The mighty Khors commanded Kitovras to atone for his sins by erecting a temple to the Almighty near Alatyr Mountain. Kitovras had to build it from stones that were not touched by iron. For iron defiles stones.
And then Kitovras said to the Sun God:
- In order to erect a temple from solid stone on Mount Alatyr, we need to ask Gamayun. Gamayun's claw will polish the Alatyr stone without iron.
The Gamayun bird and the Alatyr stone represent the Almighty in the earthly world. Therefore, the touch of the magical claw of the bird Gamayun can manifest a temple and an altar from the stone of Alatyr.
Kitovras and Khors turned to the bird Gamayun, and the bird of the Most High gave consent. And then Kitovras and Gamayun built a temple to the Almighty on Alatyr Mountain.
A temple was built on seven miles, erected on eighty pillars - high, high in the skies. And the Irian Garden was planted around the temple, fenced with a silver fence, and there are candles on all the pillars that never go out. That temple was sixty cubits long, twenty across the crossbar and thirty upward. There were lattice windows in the temple, there were chased doors in the temple. The inside was lined with gold and precious stones. And twelve doors and twelve windows were decorated with stones: carnelian, topaz and emerald; chalcedon, sapphire and jasper; hyacinth, agate and amethyst; peridot, beryl and onyx. Stone birds and animals came to life on the walls of the temple, trees rose to the sky, grass curled, flowers bloomed.
"The Book of Kolyada", IV 6
Legends about the Slavic centaur Kitovras are preserved in the apocrypha “About Solomon and Kitovras”, in various versions of epics about Solomon and Ivan Akulyevich, in Indian legends about the Gandharvas, in the Iranian legend about Gandarva, in Greek myths about centaurs.
A complete presentation of similar world legends about centaurs is in the book by A.N. Veselovsky “Slavic legends about Solomon and Kitovras and Western legends about Morolf and Merlin” (Collected works: vol. 8. Issue 1. Petrograd. 1921). Solomon in the epics and apocrypha took the place of the Vedic sun god Khors. Ivan Akulyevich (Ivashka-Tarakashka, etc.) replaced Kitovras in the epics; when the text was recreated, the heroes of the legends were given their true names.
Many peoples of the world have a legend about the construction of the temple (the Slavs by Kitovras, the Semites by Solomon, the Celts by Merlin, the Iranians by the servants of the White Diva). It has a Vedic origin. Construction is being carried out on Alatyr Mountain, which refers to Elbrus. A description of this temple and the surrounding city on Elbrus is in “Shah-name” (Key-Kavus, 11371-11386) by the poet Ferdowsi, it was taken from the books of magicians - mobeds:
You will say not a city - a pagan temple: Everything is decorated there with flowers, brocade... The city spreads out like a paradise in front of it, Captivating with its unprecedented splendor. Treasures everywhere there are a golden treasure, Here hollow pearls are blinding with beauty... In diamond jewelry, elegant, slender, maidens flaunt fresher than spring.
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