Kuyva rock

 mountain, interesting place

Kuyva - the most famous sights of Lake Seydozero. Translated from the Sami Kuyva means "old man". According to tradition, Kuyva - this is the stagnation of the stone figure Chudskoye army. Saami never seen in a humanoid shape to rock the patron of this place, but tried not to scream around him and not think about it badly. Veneration Kuyvy as deities emerged relatively recently, thanks to legends-novodelam.

The figure has the shape and height of 74 meters. Its bas-relief in favor of the wall at 3-4 meters in some places and it is very evident especially in the winter. Plumb walls uneven. The processes of weathering gradually destroy it raskalyvaya apart. At the foot of the rocks - huge scree of debris.
That Kuyva is natural, has long been known. In 1923, Academician A.E Fersman examined image Kuyvy, and in his book "Memoirs of a stone," he wrote this: "As we saw during our expedition, a dark figure formed by a combination of lichens, mosses and wet potekov on the rocks." Moisture on the cliff, most likely taken from the melting snow from above, prosachivayas on chimneys.

Fersman from the book "Memoirs of a stone" (tells Sami Annushka Kobeleva):
"It was a long time ago when I still had not been, nor was Vasyl that keeping deer in Little Lake, there was no old Arkhipov on Mopchegube, very long ago it was. Got to our land strangers affects - shvety, but we were lop as lop - naked, without weapons, even without shotguns, and knives are not all were. Yes, and we did not want to fight. But shvety became sort of bull and vazhenok, rybi took our seats, pens and ponastroili lemmas - nowhere was lopi деться. So gather old and started thinking how to expel shveta, but he was such a strong - a big, with guns gunshot. advised, argued and decided together to go against him, to choose our deer, and once again sit on Seyyavr and Umbozero.
And they went to this war - who drobvikom, who with a knife, went to all shvetov and shvet was strong and not afraid lopi. He subtilty lured to Seyyavr our lop and it became a crumb.
To the right ring - both did not have ten of our, and every drop of blood drabble mountains, tundra Hibiny yes, hit the left - so again it was our ten, and then ditch lopskoy razbryzgalis on the tundra.
You know, he showed me, a red stone in the mountains - it even has the same blood lopskaya, the blood of the old Sami.
But oserchali our elderly, as we saw that shvet became chop them hid in the willow, posobralis with forces and everything covered from all sides shveta it go here - do not pass it: either to Seyyavru down, or the tundra vylezti, so he stood on the cliff that hangs over the lake. You when going to Seyyavre himself to see giant Kuyvu - this is a shvet that our Sami spread-eagle on the rock, our elderly, when the war came to him.
So he stayed there, Kuyva damned, and our re-captured the old bulls and vazhenkami again sat on the seats and began rybi promyshlyat ...
Only now the red drops of blood remained on the Sami tundra, all of them do not gather, they shed a lot of our elderly, while Kuyvu осилили ... "

legend, recorded Russian scholar Yu V. Wiese with the words Kuzma Danilova, Seeds Galkina and Philip Sorvanova (presumably the inhabitants of Lovozero churchyard):
"He came in with his team Lovozero Chudskoye Chief Chude-Chueriv, they were unbaptized, and began to plunder the Lapps. Lopare fled from them on one island in Lovozero, where the" Old Woman ", which brings hotels when going on the hunt. Chud noticed which escaped falls, the village at karbasa and went after them in pursuit. Then one Lapp began to beat in korvi cards (drum - approx. avt.) and request that the "old woman" had the weather. "old woman" had heard his and made great weather, so that all the chud, gnavshayasya for falls on karbasah, drowned in the lake. survived only Chude-Chueriv and cook. They managed to get to Coils-Bay, where the chef started cooking dinner. A chef was warlock. cook it prevents the spoon in the pot, and sentences: "That would be me, break lopskie head." In this time falls came and saw Chudskoye chief, wounded him, bow in hand. In his injured leg is to take him alive. The cook, when I saw it, took the treasury and that it lacked Lopare, threw her into the water, then ran himself into the lake and, as a pike to swim Seydyavryoku in Seydozero. Where Chivruay (chivr - rubble, "why" - Stream) flows into the Seydozero, he got to shore, but the fossils. Therefore the mountain, which stands in the place called Pavratchorr. Chude-chueriv was compelled to surrender. He was baptized as a sign of faith and put that on the left leg kangu (Lappish shoes), which is visible on it now. He lived for some time among the Lapps, and when old, went to the tundra, but there remains a stone. still worth it at the same location, so called tundra Kuyvchorr. "

"Kuyva to Seydozere enjoys special recognition by the Lapps Seydozerskih (in winter they live in Lovozero churchyard). Karbasah Driving on past Kuyvchorra, falls are afraid to shout and swear loudly out of fear that the" old man "is angry. We are asked, that we observe would be a possible silence near Kuyvy. Lopare avoid the dirty water in Seydozere as "Old Man" does not like this, and otherwise will not bring the fish. When is the need to recruit a cauldron of water, falls never zacherpnet sooty boiler water directly from lakes, as it is usually, but zacherpnet clean bucket and then perelet water boiler. If the long is bad weather, falls said: "The old man none angry."
\ \ Lappish Seidi. B. Wiese. Proceedings of the Archangel Russian society studying the North. 1912