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Archaeological researches show that the native land of ancient Indo-Europeans is the area of Southern Urals - Black Sea Coast where they were formed as a uniform language group. The Indo-European languages are formed in ancient times and originate from a single Pra-Indo-European language, whose speakers lived about 5-6 thousand years ago. In territory of Southern Ural Mountains the most ancient beliefs which have become a basis of the subsequent religions are formed: Vedism and Mazdaism which, in turn, have developed from primitive beliefs. Ancient Indo-Europeans exactly here started the culture of metallurgy development, and the presence of a huge number of swamps contributed to it. Indo-Europeans learned to mine swamp ores and smelt iron from them. "Santa Claus" can be translated from Latin as "sacred, closed place" from "sanctus" - "sacred, inviolable, indestructible", "clausum" - "closed locked place, lock, bolt". This is the legendary Varus. In ancient times it was also in Varas: priests with horns on their heads and wings behind their backs burned dead people - that is the prototype of hell. Indo-Europeans carried their goods on sleds in winter for sale and became prototypes of Santa Clauses.
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Andrey Tikhomirov, in 1986 afgestudeerd aan het Orenburgse Staatspedagogisch Instituut met een diploma in geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, staat en recht, werkte als leraar op middelbare scholen en universiteiten, en redigeerde kranten. Hij heeft gepubliceerd in Wit-Rusland, Duitsland, Letland, Mauritius, Rusland en de VS.
