Filipava Alesia. Acrilic painting 

       Contemplating the darkness of the polar night, we only see the glowing silhouettes of hidden  pictures, forming amazing shapes. They involve us in the tales of the ancient shamans of their travels to the heavenly realms through the North Star.

       The heavenly world is a tabernacle, Milky Way −the seam, and the stars are the holes, through which the otherworldly light enters the Universe.

       The sacred mountain Sumer abuts the North Star. It is the center of the world and the top of the Universe. Once upon a time there was nothing except of this mountain, and the Gods begun to churn the Primary Ocean with it, created the stars, Sun, Moon and Planets. The future shaman climbs this mountain, goes through the experience before initiation, and later, during his astral travels, he goes back to its summit, to associate with Supreme Spirit.