Маўклівыя сведкі мінуўшчыны

Dumb Witnesses of the Past Lyaukou E. A. On the side of roads and fields, along rivers, and in depths of forests one can find huge stones overgrown with moss. They lay there silently 20,000 years ago, when hunters trailed mammoths and later when first settlements cropped up. The stones remember battles with Kiev Rus, raids by Yotvingians, crusades, invasions by Swedes, the Napoleon's army and Nazi atrocities. If stones could speak they would tell us the history of our land, tell us about our ancestors who worshiped stones and opened secrets of human fates. There are stones in Belarus named for the pagan gods Pyarun, Vyales and Dazhboh. There is a sort of Stonehenge, a setting of large stones of the pre-Christianity period. You can read about it in Dumb Witnesses of the Past by Lyaukou.