The ancient, pre-Christian religion of the Slavic peoples is still far from sufficiently known to us. Scientists began to be interested in it from the end of the 18th century, when the national consciousness of many Slavic peoples generally awakened, and interest in folk culture and folk art began to manifest itself in European literature. But by this time, all the Slavic peoples, who had long been converted to Christianity, had managed to forget their ancient beliefs; only some of the folk customs and rituals that were once associated with these beliefs have survived.
The ancient Slavs were never united either politically or economically, and they could hardly have common gods, common cults. Obviously, each tribe had its own objects of veneration, and even each clan had its own. But, of course, much was the same or similar among different tribes.
Funeral cult and family-clan cult of ancestors
The Slavs kept the patriarchal tribal system for a very long time. According to the Kievan Chronicle, "I live each of my kind and in their places, owning each of my kind." Therefore, it is natural that they also retained a family and clan cult in the form of veneration of ancestors associated with a funeral cult.
Throughout the territory inhabited by the Slavic tribes, there are numerous burial grounds and mounds with burials. Funeral customs were complex and varied: cremation (especially among the Eastern and partly among the Western Slavs; among the southern Slavs it is not attested), the burial (everywhere from the 10th-12th centuries), they were often buried or burned in a boat (a relic of a water burial). A burial mound was usually poured over the grave; different things were always laid with the dead, during the burial of nobles they killed a horse, and sometimes a slave, even the wife of the deceased. All this is connected with some ideas about the afterlife. The word "paradise" - a pre-Christian common Slavic word - meant a beautiful garden, which apparently depicted the afterlife; but it probably wasn't available to everyone. Subsequently, the Christian doctrine of the "future life" blocked these ancient ideas; perhaps only Ukrainians have preserved a vague mythological belief about some blessed country - viry (iry), where birds fly away in autumn and where the dead live.
On the other hand, the beliefs concerning the relationship of the dead to the living were remarkably strong, and they are not at all like Christian ones. The dead were divided very sharply into two categories. This division, preserved in beliefs at least among the Eastern Slavs, was perfectly defined by D.K. Zelenin: one category - "pure" dead who died a natural death: from illness, old age - they were usually called, regardless of age and gender, parents ; the other - the "unclean" dead (dead, mortgaged), those who died an unnatural, violent or premature death: the murdered, suicides, drowned people, drunkards (who died from drunkenness); this also included children who died unbaptized (the influence of Christianity!), And sorcerers. The attitude towards these two categories of the dead was fundamentally different: the "parents" were revered, looked at them as the patrons of the family, and the "dead" were afraid and tried to neutralize.
The veneration of "parents" is a real family (and before, obviously, tribal) cult of ancestors. It was attested by medieval authors (Titmar of Merseburg: "domesticos colunt deos" - "they honor the household gods") and partly preserved as remnants to this day. Russian peasants commemorate their parents on certain days of the year, especially on parent Saturday(before Shrovetide, as well as before the Trinity), on the rainbow (post-Easter week). Belarusian peasants celebrated the holiday of dzyads (that is, grandfathers who died) several times a year, especially solemnly in the fall (mostly on the last Saturday of October). They diligently prepared for the holiday, cleaned and washed the dwelling, prepared ritual dishes; Dzyads were invited to take part in the meal, which was always very solemn. Serbs and Bulgarians still manage - and not only peasants, but also townspeople - stranglers, commemoration of the dead in cemeteries, where they bring food, eat and drink on the graves, and leave some to the dead. Whether they look at the dead as patrons of the family is unclear. But before, of course, they looked like that.
The custom of celebrating family glory (Krano Ime), which has survived among the Serbs to this day, must also be considered a relic of the ancient family-clan cult of ancestors. Glory copes on the day of the Christian saint - the patron saint of the family; but the very nature of the holiday and its origin are undoubtedly pre-Christian, and before it was celebrated, apparently, in honor of the ancestors - the patrons of the family.
Another trace of the cult of ancestors that once existed is the fantastic image of Chur or Shchur. It is very likely that this was a revered ancestor. His cult is not directly attested, but convincing traces of him have been preserved in the Slavic languages. Exclamations "Chur!", "Chur me!", "Chur, this is mine!" meant, apparently, a spell, invoking Chur for help; now it is preserved in children's games; Ukrainian (and Polish) "Tzur tobi" - also in the sense of a spell. The verb "shun" means to keep aloof, that is, as if to be protected by Chur. And the word "too" obviously comes from the concept of Chur, as if guarding some boundaries, the borders of the ancestral land, probably. That Chur-Schur was exactly an ancestor is evident from the word "ancestor", great-ancestor. Perhaps the images of Chur were made of wood, which is hinted at by the Russian word "churka" - a stump of a tree *.
* (See A. G. Preobrazhensky. Etymological dictionary of the Russian language. M., 1958, pp. 1221-1222.)
Finally, the last remnant of the ancient family and clan cult of ancestors is the belief in the brownie, which has survived to this day, especially among the Eastern Slavs, where the patriarchal family structure lasted longer. Brownie (house-keeper, homemaker, owner, neighbor, etc.) is the invisible patron of the family; according to popular beliefs, he is in every house, he usually lives under the stove, behind the stove, under the threshold; humanoid; looks after the economy, patronizes hardworking owners, but punishes the lazy and negligent; requires self-respect and small sacrifices - some bread, salt, porridge, etc.; he loves horses and cares for them, but only if he likes their color, otherwise he can ruin the horse. The brownie can appear in the form of an old man, a deceased owner, or even a living one. In his image, as it were, the well-being and trouble of the family and economy were personified. The preservation of this image from the ancient era is explained by the stability of the patriarchal way of life in Russian and Belarusian peasant families; among Ukrainians, this way of life has been preserved weaker, and therefore faith in the brownie has faded. The Western Slavs have similar images: skrzhitek - among the Czechs, Khovanets - among the Poles.
Unclean Dead
The attitude towards the "unclean" dead, who had nothing to do with family or tribal cult, was quite different. The unclean were simply feared, and this superstitious fear was apparently generated either by fear of these people during their lifetime (sorcerers), or by the very unusual cause of their death. In superstitious ideas about these unclean dead, there are apparently very few animistic elements: the Slavs were afraid not of the soul or spirit of the dead, but of himself. This is evident from the fact that, until recently, popular superstitious methods of neutralizing such a dangerous dead man lived: in order to prevent him from getting up from the grave and harming the living, the corpse was pierced with an aspen stake, a tooth from a harrow was driven in behind the ears, etc .; in a word, they were afraid of the corpse itself, and not of the soul, and believed in its supernatural ability to move after death. Bad influences on the weather, such as drought, were also attributed to the unclean dead; to prevent it, they dug out the corpse of a suicide or another dead person from the grave and threw it into the swamp or filled the grave with water. Such unclean dead were called ghouls (a word of unclear origin, may be purely Slavic, since it is found in all Slavic languages), among the Serbs - vampires, among northern Russians - heretics, etc. Perhaps the ancient word "Navie" (" navy") meant just such unclean and dangerous dead; at least, in the Kiev Chronicle there is (under 1092) a story about how the frightened people that happened in Polotsk explained the pestilence (epidemic) by the fact that "se naviers (dead men) are beating the Polochans." The Bulgarians still have navia - these are the souls of unbaptized children. Hence, probably, Ukrainian Navkas, Mavkas.
Community agricultural cults
Next to the family and tribal forms of cult, the Slavs also had communal cults, connected primarily with agriculture. True, there is no direct and clear evidence of them, but numerous and very stable remnants of the agrarian cult have survived in the form of religious and magical rites and holidays, timed to coincide with the most important moments of the agricultural calendar and subsequently merged with church Christian holidays: Christmas time falling on the time of the winter solstice (Christmas and New Year cycle); carnival at the beginning of spring; spring rites, now attributed to Christian Easter; the summer cycle of holidays, partly dedicated to Trinity Day, partly to the day of John the Baptist (Ivan Kupala); autumn brotherhoods - communal meals after harvesting. All these customs and rituals of the agricultural cycle are very similar among all Slavic peoples, as, indeed, among non-Slavic peoples. They once arose, in all likelihood, from simple meals, games and holidays dedicated to the beginning or end of certain agricultural works (V. I. Chicherov showed this well in his studies), but magic rituals and superstitious ideas were intertwined with them. Agricultural magic was either initiatory ("first-day magic" - customs and divination on New Year's Eve) or imitative (rites during sowing, for example, burying a chicken egg in a furrow, etc.). These magical rites persisted until recently.
Much less clear is the question of those personified images of deities - the patrons of agriculture, which the Slavs undoubtedly had. In the literature, however, there are names of some mythological creatures allegedly patronizing agriculture (Koleda, Yarilo, Kupala, Lel, Kostroma, etc.), and former authors wrote a lot about them, especially supporters of the mythological school. But all these images are very doubtful: they were either formed under the influence of Christianity (Kupala is John the Baptist, because the people associated Christian baptism with bathing; Lel - from the Christian "hallelujah"), or are a simple personification of holidays and rituals (for example, Koleda - from the ancient holiday of Kalends, which coincided with the Slavic winter Christmas time).
Old Slavic pantheon
Written sources preserved the names of ancient Slavic deities, and some of them - later lost - apparently had something to do with agriculture. Such were, presumably, the solar deities Svarog, Dazhdbog, Khors. Apparently, there was also a cult of the goddess of the earth, although it is not directly attested. It is possible that the thunder god Perun was also associated with agriculture (this name, it seems, is an epithet and means "striking"), who later became a princely god in Russia; whether he was revered by the peasants is unknown. The patron of cattle breeding was undoubtedly Beles (Volos) - the cattle god.
The female deity Mokosh mentioned in Russian sources is very interesting. This is not only almost the only female image attested in the ancient East Slavic pantheon, but also the only deity whose name has been preserved among the people to this day. Mokosh, apparently, is the patron goddess of women's work, spinning and weaving. In the northern Russian regions, there is still a belief that if the sheep shed, it means that "Mokosh shears the sheep"; there is a belief that "Mokusha goes around the house during the Great Lent and disturbs the spinning women" * .
* (G. Ilyinsky. From the history of ancient Slavic pagan beliefs. "Proceedings of the Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University", vol. 34, no. 3-4. 1929, p. 7.)
The religious and mythological significance of Rod and Rozhanits, who, according to various sources, were worshiped by the ancient Slavs, is unclear. Some researchers see in them generic ancestral spirits (Rod is the ancestor), others - the spirits of birth and fertility. According to B. A. Rybakov, Rod in the pre-Christian era managed to become the supreme deity of all Slavs; but this is doubtful.
In general, did common Slavic deities exist? There was a lot of discussion about this. Many authors, in their romantic-Slavophile enthusiasm, considered almost all known mythological names, even the most dubious ones, as the names of common Slavic gods. Subsequently, it turned out that some gods are mentioned among the Eastern Slavs, others - among the Western, and still others - among the southern. Only the name of Perun is repeated among different groups of Slavs, but, as already mentioned, this is just an epithet of the thunder god. Svarog and Dazhdbog are often considered common Slavic, sometimes Beles; but this is all unreliable.
One can also speak about the cult of tribal gods only presumably. Some names, apparently, of tribal or local gods of the Western, especially the Baltic, Slavs are given by medieval writers and chroniclers Adam of Bremen, Titmar of Merseburg, Samson Grammatik and other authors. It is possible that some of these tribal gods have become more widely known and may have become inter-tribal. Such was Svyatovit, whose sanctuary stood in Arkon, on the island of Ruyan (Rügen), and was destroyed by the Danes in 1168; Radgost was the god of the Lutichs, but traces of his veneration have been preserved even among the Czechs. Triglav was a Pomeranian god. The tribal gods Rugevit (on Ruyan), Gerovit, or Yarovit (in Wolgast), Prov (among the Vagrs), the goddess Siva (among the Polabian Slavs), and others are also known. Among the Serbs, Dabog, who later turned into an antagonist, was a tribal patron christian god. Many other names of deities have survived, but they are doubtful.
"God", "Demon" and "Damn"
Salu the word "god" is primordially Slavic, common to all Slavic languages, and also related to ancient Iranian baga and ancient Indian bhaga. The main meaning of this word, as shown by the data of the language, is happiness, luck. Hence, for example, "god-aty" (having a god, happiness) and "y-god" ("y" is a prefix meaning loss or removal from something); Polish zbože - harvest, Lusatian zbožo, zbože - livestock, wealth. Over time, ideas about luck, success, happiness, luck were personified in the form of a certain spirit that gives good luck. Even at the beginning of the XV century. in Moscow, at a royal wedding, one boyar said to another, arguing with him over a place: "Your brother has God in a kick (that is, happiness in a kick, in his wife), but you have no god in a kick": the brother of the second boyar was married on the king's sister * .
* (See V. Klyuchevsky. Course of Russian history, part 2. 1912, p. 195.)
Another common Slavic designation for a supernatural being is a demon. This word, apparently, meant at first everything supernatural and terrible (compare the Lithuanian baisas - fear, the Latin foedus - terrible, disgusting). Until now, the words "mad", "rage" are preserved in Russian. After the adoption of Christianity, the word "demon" became a synonym for an evil spirit, equivalent to the concept of the devil, Satan.
The same fate befell the concept of the devil. But the pre-Christian meaning of this image is unclear, just as the etymology of the word "devil" is not entirely clear. Of his various attempts to explain, the most plausible is the old assumption of the Czech Karel Erben: he raises it to the Old Slavic krt, which sounds in the name of the West Slavic god Krodo, in the names of the house spirit among the Czechs křet (skřet), among the Poles skrzatx among the Latvians krat. Apparently, the same root is in the word "krachun" ("korochun"), which is also known to all Slavs and some of their neighbors. The word "krachun" ("korochun") has several meanings: winter holiday Christmas time, ritual bread baked at this time, as well as some kind of "spirit or deity of winter, death." "Korochun grabbed him" in Russian means: he died.
One might think that the ancient Slavs believed in a certain deity of winter and death, perhaps the personification of winter darkness and cold. There are traces of some kind of bifurcation of the krt-crt image, which may be associated with the beginnings of a dualistic idea of a light and dark beginning. But the root "krt" has almost disappeared, and "chrt" - the devil - has been preserved in almost all Slavic languages as the personification of all sorts of evil supernatural powers. The devil has become synonymous with the Christian devil.
The development of tribal cults into state
When the Slavic tribes, as class stratification began to move to state forms of life, conditions arose for the transformation of tribal cults into national and state ones. Perhaps the cult of Svyatovit among the Pomeranian Slavs spread precisely in connection with this. Among the Eastern Slavs, an attempt to create a nationwide pantheon and a state cult was made by Prince Vladimir of Kyiv: according to the chronicle, in 980 he collected on one of the hills of Kyiv a host of idols of various gods (Perun, Veles, Dazhdbog, Khors, Stribog, Mokosh) and ordered pray to them and make sacrifices. Some researchers, hypercritical (Anichkov), believed that these "Vladimir gods" were from the very beginning princely or retinue gods and their cult had no roots among the people. But this is unlikely. The solar deities Khors, Dazhdbog and others, the female goddess Mokosh, apparently, were also folk deities; Vladimir only tried to make of them, as it were, the official gods of his principality, in order to give it ideological unity. It must be assumed that the prince himself was not satisfied with the attempt to create his own pantheon of gods of Slavic origin - just 8 years later he adopted Christianity from Byzantium and forced the whole people to do so. The Christian religion was more in line with the emerging feudal relations. Therefore, although slowly, overcoming the resistance of the people, it spread among the Eastern Slavs. The same thing happened to the South Slavs. And the Western Slavs, under great pressure from the feudal-royal power, adopted Christianity in the Catholic form from Rome.
The spread of Christianity was accompanied by its fusion with the old religion. The Christian clergy themselves took care of this in order to make the new faith more acceptable to the people. The old agricultural and other holidays were timed to coincide with the days of the church calendar. The old gods gradually merged with the Christian saints and for the most part lost their names, but transferred their functions and attributes to these saints. So, Perun continued to be revered as a thunder deity under the name of Elijah the Prophet, the cattle god Veles - under the name of St. Blaise, Mokosh - under the name of St. Paraskeva or St. Friday.
"Lower mythology" of the Slavs
But the images of "lower mythology" turned out to be more stable. They have survived almost to the present day, although it is not always easy to distinguish what really comes from ancient times in these images, and what was layered on them later.
All Slavic peoples have beliefs about the spirits of nature. Spirits - personifications of the forest are known mainly in the forest belt: Russian goblin, Belarusian Leshuk, Pushchevik, Polish duch lesny, borowy. They personified the fearful hostility of the Slavic farmer to the dense forest, from which land had to be conquered for arable land and in which a person was in danger of getting lost and dying from wild animals. The spirit of the water element - Russian water, Polish topielec, wodnik (topielnica, wodnica), Czech vodnik, Lusatian wodny muž (wodna žona), etc. - inspired much more fear than the relatively good-natured joker goblin, because the danger of drowning in a whirlpool, the lake is much more terrible than the danger of getting lost in the forest. The image of a field spirit is characteristic: Russian noon, Polish poludnice, Lusatian pripoldnica, Czech polednice. This is a woman in white who seems to be working in the field in the midday heat, when custom requires a break in work: noon punishes the violator of the custom by turning his head or in some other way. The image of noon is the personification of the danger of a sunstroke. In the mountainous regions of Poland and Czechoslovakia, there is a belief about the spirits of the mountains guarding treasures or patronizing miners: skarbnik among the Poles, perkman (from the German Bergmann - mountain man) among the Czechs and Slovaks.
More complex and less clear is the image of a pitchfork, which is especially common among the Serbs (among the Bulgarians - samovila, samodiva); it is found in both Czech and Russian sources. Some authors consider it original and common Slavic; others are still only South Slavic. Pitchforks are forest, field, mountain, water or air maidens who can behave both friendly and hostile towards a person, depending on his own behavior. In addition to beliefs, pitchforks appear in South Slavic epic songs. The origin of the image of the vila is unclear, but there is no doubt that different elements are intertwined in it: here is the personification of the elements of nature, and, perhaps, ideas about the souls of the dead, and the power of fertility. The word itself, apparently, is Slavic, but its etymology is debatable: from the verb "viti" - to drive, fight, or from "viliti" - to rush about in a stormy dance (Czech vilny - voluptuous, lustful, Polish wit - scarecrow, scarecrow, wity - nonsense, crazy antics).
The question of the origin of the image of the mermaid is clearer, although the latter is even more complex. The image of a mermaid, or at least some similar one, is known to all Slavs. They argued a lot about him: some considered the mermaid to be the personification of water, others believed that the mermaid was a drowned woman, etc. Now, however, it can be considered proven that the word is not of Slavic, but of Latin origin, from the root "rosa".
The most detailed study of East Slavic mermaids belongs to D.K. Zelenin *; he collected a huge amount of factual material about these beliefs, but his view of their origin suffers from one-sidedness. Already from the time of the works of Mikloshich (1864), Veselovsky (1880) and others, it became clear that it was impossible to understand the beliefs about mermaids and the rituals associated with them, if we do not take into account the influence of ancient and early Christian rituals on the Slavs. Among the peoples of the Mediterranean, the spring-summer holiday of the Trinity (Pentecost) was called domenica rosarum, pascha rosata, in the Greek form ρoυσαλια. These Greco-Roman Rusals were transferred along with Christianity to the Slavs and merged with the local spring-summer agricultural rites. Until now, the Bulgarians and Macedonians know mermaids, or mermaids, as summer holidays (before Trinity Day). The Russians also managed the mermaid week (before the Trinity), as well as seeing off the mermaid; the mermaid was portrayed by a girl or a straw effigy. The very mythological image of a mermaid - a girl living in the water, or in a field, in a forest - is late: it is attested only from the 18th century; it is largely the personification of the holiday or ceremony itself. But this image merged, apparently, with the ancient purely Slavic mythological representations, moreover, quite diverse: here is the personification of the water element (the mermaid loves to lure people into the water and drown people), and ideas about women and girls who died in the water, about unbaptized dead children (impure dead), and beliefs about the spirits of fertility (mermaids in South Great Russian beliefs they walk in the rye, roll on the grass and thereby produce a crop of bread, flax, hemp, etc.). Obviously, this new and complex image of a mermaid replaced the original Slavic ancient images of coastlines, vodonitsa and other female water spirits.
* (See D.K. Zelenin. Essays on Russian mythology. Pg., 1916.)
The modern Slavic peoples have preserved many other superstitious ideas about supernatural beings, partly hostile, partly benevolent to man. They personified either the fear of the elements of nature, generated by the underdevelopment of material production, or social conditions. Some of these ideas go back to the pre-Christian era, others arose in relatively new conditions of life; among the later ones are, for example, Ukrainian beliefs about evil spirits - small spirits personifying the unfortunate fate of a poor peasant. Under the influence of the Church, most of these mythological images were united under the collective name of evil spirits (among Belarusians - unclean).
Ancient Slavic cult and its servants
The question of the ancient Slavic clergy, performers of religious rites is very unclear. The ritual of the family and clan cult was performed, most likely, by the heads of families and clans. The public cult was in the hands of special professionals - the Magi. The word itself has not been satisfactorily elucidated, despite numerous attempts. There is an opinion that it reflected the connections of the Slavs with the Celts ("voloh", "valakh" - the former designation of the Celts), or with the Finns (from the Finnish velho - a sorcerer), or even with the Germans (vo "lva - a prophetess). In any case case, the connection of the word "sorcerer" with the word "magic", "magic" is undoubted. But who were the Magi? Simple sorcerers, shamans or priests of the gods? Were there any differences, ranks, specialization between the Magi? It is difficult to answer this. However, other designations for performers of religious and magical rites have been preserved: a sorcerer, sorcerer, prophetic, accordionist, soothsayer, sorcerer, etc.
There is evidence that after the adoption of Christianity in Russia, the Magi acted as defenders of the old faith and at the same time as leaders of anti-princely and anti-feudal uprisings (for example, in 1071). And this is understandable, because Christianity came to Russia as a purely feudal-princely religion. In later times, all Slavic peoples retained sorcerers, sorcerers, warlocks, who were credited with secret knowledge, intercourse with evil spirits. But along with them, specialists in healing magic associated with folk medicine, healers (whisperers, sorcerers), have survived from the ancient era. In folk beliefs, they distinguished themselves from sorcerers and often opposed themselves to them, arguing that they act with the help of the power of God, and not evil spirits.
It is very characteristic that among the Russians foreigners were considered stronger sorcerers and healers: Finns, Karelians, Mordovians, etc. This phenomenon, however, is known to other peoples.
In the ancient Slavic religion, undoubtedly, there were sacred and sacrificial places, and in some places real sanctuaries and temples with images of gods, etc. But only a very few are known: the Arkon sanctuary on the island of Rügen, the sanctuary in Retra, the pre-Christian sanctuary in Kyiv (under tithe church).
The question of mythology and the general character of the Slavic religion
Unfortunately, ancient Slavic mythology has not been preserved at all, although it probably existed. The scarcity of the remnants of the ancient Slavic religion prompted some researchers to consider this religion pathetic, miserable in comparison with the religions of other ancient peoples. "The paganism of Russia was especially miserable," said, for example, E. V. Anichkov, "her gods are pitiful, her cult and morals are rude" * . But the point, apparently, is simply the insufficient study of the religion of the ancient Slavs and the scarcity of sources. If we knew as much about it as about the religion of, for example, the ancient Romans, the Slavic religion would hardly have seemed to us more miserable and miserable than the Roman one.
* (E. V. Anichkov. Paganism and Ancient Russia. SPb., 1914, p. XXXVI.)
The Slavs worshiped natural phenomena and deified them. Also, our ancestors believed in evil and good spirits, they had a cult of family and ancestors in honor. The first religious belief of the Eastern Slavs was paganism. The main distinguishing feature of paganism is polytheism. worshiped Svarog, Rod, Dazhdbog, Yarilo, Horos, Stribog, Mokosh and.
Summer was replaced by winter, day was replaced by night. People could not understand why frosts come to replace warm days, snow begins to fall. The Slavs thought that all this depended on the will of the gods and other mysterious forces. If it rained heavily in the summer, people believed that it was the angry god Perun who sent fiery arrows to the earth, and therefore such a terrible thunder rumbled and bright lightning flashed.
When the rain ended, it means that God calmed down, the Slavs concluded. Perun seemed to them a giant with a big head, a gray head and a red beard. AT right hand he has a bow, and in his left arrows. Carving an idol out of wood, people covered their beards and mustaches with gold, and the top of their heads with silver. They put an idol on the temple (the highest place), and brought trebs (bloody sacrifices) to the foot.
The victims were birds, animals, and sometimes people. Unlike other pagans, the ancient Slavs did not build temples, they did not have a class of priests, although the Magi (interpreters of the will of the gods) existed. This was the faith of the ancient Slavs, pagan.
People didn't know why the sun shines, the wind blows, the sky happens different color. After thinking, they came to the conclusion that all these phenomena depend on the deities and are in their power. So they appeared: the father of the sun - Svarog, the manager of the air element - Stribog. The Slavs loved their Russian land, so they revered Mokosh, the goddess of the earth.
They composed many songs about the land of the nurse. They treated her with kindness and respect. A plowman, for example, before plowing the land, with tears asked for forgiveness from Mother Earth, that he would hurt her, tear with a plow. If a person took an oath in something and ate or kissed the ground, then he had to fulfill his promise. Otherwise, he became an outcast.
The Slavs came up with a Brownie, Leshy, Vodyanoy, Kikimora, Baba Yaga. They believed that at home, in the forest, on the river, there should be an owner who can help a person, or maybe destroy him.
The pagan ones were associated with agricultural work and the change of the year. The day of the spring equinox is the Maslenitsa holiday, the summer solstice is Ivan Kupala, the New Year is Carols. They performed special rituals at birth, death, weddings. All this was accompanied by songs, of which there were a lot.
Speaking about the religion of the Slavs before the process of introducing the so-called world religions into them, i.e. their Christianization, and partly Islamization, we must understand that in this matter we can rely on extremely unreliable sources: either on our guesses based on lists from ancient chronicles and extremely scattered archaeological finds, or on criticism of Slavic paganism by the Christian church , or on the analysis of preserved oral folk art of unclear origin.
However, while recognizing the unreliability of our ideas about the religion of the ancient Slavs, one cannot deny the obviousness that Slavic polytheism cannot fundamentally differ from pan-European polytheism; moreover, Slavic polytheism is an integral part of the ancient Indo-European religion, just as Slavic culture and language are a subset of European culture and language.
Unfortunately, the political situation in Imperial Russia and the USSR led to a kind of monopoly on official knowledge of Slavic polytheism. Despite the antagonism of these two systems, they pursued the same goal: the discrediting of pre-Christian beliefs and the rise of Muscovite Russia as a consolidating force. With all due respect to B.D. Grekov, B.A. Rybakov and his scientific school, these scientists played an unenviable role in presenting the pre-Christian beliefs of the Slavs as a religious justification for the sovereign and nationalist concept of Slavic history.
Meanwhile, for scientific research it is pre-Christian beliefs that are of interest, since they may turn out to be the key to the still unsolved mysteries of the origin of the Slavs. At the same time, it should be noted that the description of those religious ideas that Christianity found in the Slavic lands in the 5th-10th centuries, although interesting from a cognitive position, does little to understand the historical picture, while the search for the general patterns of the Slavic religion can give significantly greater result.
We know that, as in any disparate society, polytheism was widespread among the Slavic tribes. We deliberately do not use the term "paganism" in this section, since the latter expresses the attitude of the Christian church towards polytheism and does not carry the proper semantic load.
Unfortunately, most of the Slavic chronicles available to us were already written under the strong influence of Greek culture. The consequence of this is the idea that has taken root in the scientific community about some parallels between ancient Slavic beliefs and ancient Greek and other Mediterranean religions, at least at the level of pantheons of deities. Thus, the well-known "Tale of Idols" castigates Hellenistic rites and mentions Greek and Asia Minor deities along with Slavic deities.
In fact, based on the history of the development of Slavic writing, it is obvious that such annals were compiled either by Byzantine monks who are carriers of the corresponding culture, or from the words of travelers overwhelmed with impressions of the religion of the Greeks and Egyptians.
Meanwhile, the history of the settlement of the Slavs rather testifies to their close and even common cultural space with the Scandinavians, and it is in the Scandinavian pantheon that one should probably look for some parallels with the Slavic religion. Analogies with the Mediterranean gods must be considered only from a functional point of view, i.e. with the commonality of their purpose.
Slavic polytheism is not a religion of one closed community. It is the religion of small communities connected by a single origin, language and cultural elements, and nothing more. It is in the history of the development of these communities that one should look for the roots of religion. It is quite natural that, having close contacts in the west with the Germanic tribes and even partially assimilating with them, and in the north and northeast with the Finns, the Slavic communities, most likely, borrowed (and accordingly gave in return) the doctrinal concepts of these peoples. The authors of teachings against paganism were messengers of the Mediterranean, primarily Byzantine culture, and could comprehend the Slavic religion only from their own point of view, from the standpoint of their knowledge, and nothing more.
The Russian Slavic school “from Rybakov” divides the pre-Christian period of Slavic religious history into three stages: worship of “ghouls” and coastlines; the formation under the influence of the Mediterranean (Hellenistic and Egyptian) religions of the cult of the Family and women in childbirth; the formation of a local pantheon of gods headed by Perun. Such structuring is based on fragmentary and peculiarly interpreted primary sources, substantially adapted to the already existing concepts of the scientific school. It is impossible not to notice at the same time that the mentioned school is based on the far from indisputable idea of the commonality of all Slavs in the described period and, as a consequence of this, the commonality of their views and beliefs.
Meanwhile, being in the absence of any reliable information, with the exception of very tendentious teachings against paganism, one cannot ignore the fact that the Slavic tribes could not follow a path that was radically different from the historical path of all other peoples, and therefore their religious history in the pre-Christian period had to coincide, to one degree or another, with global trends in polytheistic beliefs,
On the other hand, in almost all Russian scientific schools there are very dubious attempts to interpret teachings against paganism in favor of one theory or another. First of all, this concerns the parallels that the authors of the “teachings” drew between the Slavic and Mediterranean deities. It is quite obvious that for the authors of the "teachings" such parallels were obvious due to their deep knowledge of their own religious reality of that period, and therefore the analogies given must be taken literally, and not allegorically.
Speaking about the parallels between deities in different religious systems, one cannot fail to note some scientific primitivism, based on the supposed absolute of the names of deities. There are entire scientific areas that draw far-reaching conclusions solely on analogies caused by some similarity in the pronunciation of names - for example, the Slavic Perun and the Hittite Perun (or, moreover, the Indian Paryan), while ignoring the spelling of the name, its meaning, origin and chronology.
The path of any civilization began with the stage of gathering and hunting, and the Slavs cannot be an exception. Although there is no written language at this historical stage, and the codification of religious ideas was impossible, nevertheless, the most significant of these ideas remain in oral traditions and are subsequently codified.
Traditional ideas for gatherers and hunters are the deification of the spirits of nature and the beginning of the formation of ideas about the spirits of ancestors. Actually, the deification of the spirits of nature (for example, the appearance of the god of thunder) already implies a certain level of abstraction, to which a person is not able to come immediately, but only at a certain level of development, and therefore initially it could only be about the deification of the spirits of the area that give shelter and food. In a generalized form, we can talk about a kind of "Slavic Shinto", that is, veneration, first of all, of the immediate place of residence, food, the community itself, and already in the second - some spirits identified with the listed concepts.
From this point of view, the so-called ghouls and beregini cannot belong to the same chronological period. Beregini, as the spirits of the place, are analogues of kami, primitive nameless creatures, which, with the development of the level of ideas and abstractions, begin to acquire both names and accompanying rites of worship and appeasement. The appearance of names at the coast is directly related to the personification of their appearance, and at this moment a radical change occurs in the ideas of the Slavs, since we are already talking about a complex of ideas about the spirits of ancestors, which requires an appropriate abstraction from reality. From the standpoint of modern philosophy, the process of including the spirits of ancestors (spiritual images of the dead) in beliefs along with the spirits of the place is natural, but for an ancient person the formation of such a complex was a kind of cultural revolution.
It can be assumed that it was from this moment that the place of the coast was occupied by pitchforks (in a modified form preserved to this day in South Slavic mythology), creatures that have both a form, an image, and names. The representation of the pitchfork in a siren-like form, in the form of flying women, testifies to the formation of ideas about the image of the human spirit after death, about the invisible accompaniment of the living spirits of the ancestors.
Since chronologically, pitchforks in the ideas of the Slavs exist simultaneously with the highest deities, and their functional purpose does not exclude communication with both people and gods, then, based on the external appearance of these creatures, they could well play the role of intermediaries between heaven and earth.
It is curious, however, that in primitive ideas about the spirits of ancestors there is no place for the so-called "ghouls", in the form in which they are described in the teachings against paganism. The authors of these teachings quite frankly use the image of a ghoul in his vampire, necromantic interpretation, to intimidate the layman of his day. There is no doubt, however, that the Slavs had a cult of the dead, completely analogous to such a cult among all the peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa. At the heart of this cult is the awe of the mysticism of the fact of death and the subsequent veneration of both the dead themselves and their spirits. Of course, in the ideas of the Slavs there was an assumption about the possibility of reviving the dead; it is likely that such legends are based on real facts lethargic sleep and other similar conditions. Extremely curious is the assumption of a number of modern researchers that the ghoul was originally called the non-cremated deceased, who, without releasing the spirit, remained in the world of the living and could come to life under certain accompanying circumstances. The period of cremation of the dead among the Slavs is beyond doubt, confirmed by both chronicle sources and archaeological finds.
Be that as it may, about two percent of all burials in Europe are the bodies of men with severed feet, and in some cases with a complete posthumous dismemberment of the body. To date, there is no other version of such a dismemberment than the fear of the exit of the deceased from the grave. At the same time, the developed ideas among the Slavs about bloodsucking ghouls belong to a much later time, to the XIII-XV centuries, and their appearance is probably associated precisely with teachings against paganism and the subsequent mythologization and demonization of such heresies as the Waldensians, Bogomils and Luciferians.
The transition from primitive ideas, from "Slavic Shinto", to the pantheon of higher deities in Slavic religiosity occurred with an increase in the level of abstractions in understanding the nature of things, along with the development of social relations, trade, the accumulation of material values and their revaluation, as well as the growth associated with this process. contradictions, both material and spiritual. This transition is essentially of the same nature as the subsequent transition from polytheism to monotheism, and it is associated exclusively with the needs of society. The enlargement of the Slavic communities and their transition to agriculture required a restructuring of the management structure, which, in turn, brought to life the consolidation of priestly and secular authorities. The need, as a result of this, to transfer spiritual ideas to a higher level, brought to life the formalization of deities and the creation of their pantheon and hierarchy.
There is reason to believe that such processes, independently of each other, have occurred in almost all human communities that have moved from the tribal system of gatherers and hunters to a more orderly and economically developed agricultural one. The "appointment" of the higher deities, which occurred naturally, followed from human nature itself, and therefore we can find analogies between the deities of even territories completely separated from each other. The pantheon of polytheistic deities is hierarchically analogous to the human community with strong matriarchal motives; Thus, the presence in almost all known pantheons of two goddesses associated with fertility indicates the high importance of the giving birth to the feminine principle and its continuity, and the presence of a supreme deity, the first among equals, indicates the principles of community management.
On the other hand, societies that did not leave the state of tribal relations could not give rise to ideas about higher deities (if these ideas did appear in such a society, they were borrowed or imposed by external pressure), and their collision directly with the monotheistic idea inevitably produced a cultural shock, giving birth to such religious monsters as "black Christianity". At the same time, however, the question of the reverse process remains open, when the development of society did not entail the denial of the spirits of ancestors, as, for example, in the Japanese "ancient Shinto", whose traditions could not overcome either Buddhism, or official Shintoism, or Christianity in all his hypostases.
Developing ideas about the world of the gods, a person could not come up with something that he had not encountered in life. It was the development of the hierarchy of human relations that gave rise to ideas about the hierarchy of deities. This process, of course, was very gradual, but could not drag on for centuries, due to the very close communication of peoples on the insignificant European continent. In the human world, the construction of a hierarchy of relationships proceeded in two ways, sometimes intersecting.
The first way is the transition from gathering, fishing and hunting to settled habitation and agriculture, with the subsequent accumulation of wealth and trade. This process caused the stratification of society, the dependence of people within the community, the need for protection from external enemies and competitors.
The second path is the path of settled habitation without giving up hunting and gathering, but with a significant military factor. This path was most clearly observed among the Scandinavian Vikings, when the foundations of the community's well-being were laid through military campaigns, and everyday life was provided by hunting and fishing.
Regardless of the chosen path, society was forced to elect a leader, form a system of social protection, rules of the hostel. Accordingly, the idea of gods also changed - worship of the spirits of ancestors was not rejected, however, it was not as urgent as the need for mystical protection from enemies, bad weather, and most importantly, to prolong the family and increase the size of the community. That is why, in all polytheistic pantheons, the pair of goddesses of fertility, although they never occupy a dominant position, nevertheless, enjoys special respect.
Here it should be noted that the allocation of the cult of the Family and women in childbirth in a separate chronological period, accepted in Russian religious studies, cannot be true. The clan, of course, is identified with the head of the community, the head of the clan, and a couple of women in childbirth symbolize the continuity of the extension of the clan and the development of the community, and such an idea is possible only if there is a general idea of the higher gods. Each representative of the pantheon had his own analogue in the structure of human society, or identified some macrocosmic representations, such as the lord of thunder, lightning and thunderstorms.
As mentioned above, such representations are very typical of most polytheistic beliefs that have not been subjected to external influence. It is this that can explain the presence of deities similar to each other among different peoples, for example, Dazhbog-Osiris-Apollo-Jupiter.
Further enlargement of communities and tribes, associated with the formation of a single state, required a corresponding revision and views on the pantheon of deities. The polytheistic Slavic pantheon assumed the formal equality of the main deities, and the head of the pantheon was only the first among equals - which could not but find corresponding analogies in society. The process of creating a single state, which required rigid and individual power, could not leave such democracy unchanged. The transition from the communal form of society to the state, in principle, could not do without monotheism, and society in this process could go one of two ways: either rethinking the pantheon of deities and establishing a rigid hierarchy with the supremacy of one god, or accepting a foreign, but monotheistic religion.
The situation was complicated by the fact that, despite the recognition of the power of Slavic (and not only) gods, the relationship between gods and people in polytheism is quite related and even familiar - for example, almost all polytheistic religions recognize the possibility of communication with the gods, marriage between gods and people, the transition human to divine status. The monopoly power, which denied the principles of democratic elections, was forced to rely on mystical justifications for its legitimacy, that is, in the limit, on the divine origin of this power. Polytheistic deities were in no way suitable for this purpose: a god proclaiming the divinity of earthly power had to be maximally removed from the human world, alien to him and even incomprehensible.
It is unlikely that the rulers who converted to Christianity or Islam were aware of the theoretical correctness of their actions; however, their actions eventually led to the desired results, which could not but strengthen the tendency for the spread of monotheistic religions.
The history of the development of the main religions of the world testifies to a spontaneous trend in the alienation of the supreme deity from the human world: in Buddhism, deities are the essence of the beings of the human world, differing from people only in some revealed, but latently inherent in people, qualities; in Christianity, God is much more distant from man, although he can still communicate with him directly; in Islam, God is something incomprehensible, comprehensible is, with some convention, only the messenger of God on earth.
Thus, the development of society increases the level of abstraction of God from man; Protestantism not only destroyed the old religious system, it created a new level of detachment from God, generated by the crisis of medieval society. Protestantism anticipated the emergence of modern democratic institutions; in the world of universal suffrage, the level of abstraction of god should be maximum, god is turned into a hierarchy of rules and conventions, and everyone who fulfills these rules is his prophet on earth.
Drawing analogies of Slavic deities with the deities of neighboring peoples, it should be understood that by the time of Christianization, that is, at the apogee of the development of Slavic polytheism, the level of cultural development of Slavic society lagged far behind the level of development of polytheism in Scandinavia, Germany, and even more so - ancient countries. According to a number of researchers, the Slavs did not have time to reach the developed system of higher deities, which by the time of Christianization had just begun to form.
The period of Christianization of the Slavs stretched out for a very long period, due to differences for different Slavic communities in contacts with other peoples. Naturally, the territories included in the region of political interests of Byzantium and Rome quite early (in the 5th - 7th centuries), if they did not convert to Christianity, then at least turned out to be familiar with it, which subsequently provided significant assistance in the activities of both individual missionaries and and the church in general. In the 8th century expansion of Catholic (de facto) Frankish state east brought Catholicism to the Slovenes and Croats, which subsequently contributed to the spread of Christianity in the Great Moravian state.
Difficulties in the introduction of Christianity in the Slavic lands were partly caused by language problems; they were partly resolved in 863, when the Byzantine preachers Cyril and Methodius introduced worship in local languages in the Great Moravian state.
Despite the geographical proximity of Bulgaria to Byzantium, Christianity on the Byzantine model in Bulgaria was adopted relatively late - in 865, during the reign of Khan Boris. Unlike the East Slavic lands, this happened relatively voluntarily, since the southern Slavs had been intimately familiar with Christianity for centuries, and the only constant wars with Byzantium prevented the adoption of Christianity. Even the attempt to restore polytheism, undertaken in 889 by the Bulgarian prince Vladimir, completely failed, although it led to civil strife, which became another drop in the disintegration of the West Slavic community into small destinies.
The migration to Thrace of a mass of Euphrates Paulicans had a specific influence on the Christianization of Bulgaria. During this period, Sergius (Tychicus) made significant changes to Paulicanism, which bore fruit during the iconoclastic conflict: the radicalism of the Paulicans led to the fact that even the iconoclasts themselves sought to dissociate themselves from them. In 970, John Tzimiskes settled a large colony of Paulicans in Thrace near Philippopolis to guard the frontier, guaranteeing them full religious freedom. This colony existed for more than 100 years, until Emperor Alexei Komnenos tried to convert them to the Byzantine faith by force of arms.
From the 10th century in the southern and western Slavic lands, a systemic strengthening of Christianity began, associated with the strengthening of states and supreme power. In 921, Wenceslas I came to power in the Czech Republic, giving carte blanche to the Christian church. In 966, the Polish prince Mieszko I adopted Christianity on the territory of the Old Polish state. In 977, the Hungarian prince, later king, introduced Christianity to Hungary.
At the same time, on the territory of Bulgaria, among ultra-conservative monks, under the influence of Paulican and Euchitian ideas, the Bogomil heresy was born, which had a significant impact on the entire Slavic religious life up to the present day. Despite the harsh repressions carried out by the Byzantine emperor Alexei Komnenos against the Bogomil leadership, Bogomilism established itself in Byzantium, and from there spread to the west. Passing through Dalmatia and Italy, it reached France at the beginning of the 12th century, from where it was soon driven out by other heresies. From Bulgaria, Bogomil ideas penetrated into Russia, where they became widespread among the illiterate people, mainly in the form of Christian legends. Due to the special development in the Bogomil mythology of ideas about Satanail as the firstborn son of God, scary tales with the participation of Satan, often contradicting the Holy Scriptures, were perceived both by the common people and, subsequently, by numerous European writers.
The adoption of Christianity by Russia in 988, which had a purely political significance for the unification of Slavic and non-Slavic peoples and the establishment of an alliance with Byzantium, had a significant impact on neighboring territories and put up a barrier to the spread of Catholicism to the east. At the same time, however, the adoption of Christianity according to the Byzantine model occurred only de jure, while de facto the worship of individual polytheistic deities and the preservation of elements of a polytheistic religious consciousness among the Eastern Slavs remained and remains to this day.
After the schism of the churches in 1054, Western Christianity was adopted in the newly created kingdoms of Central Europe: Poland, Hungary and Bohemia.
By the end of the XI century. Christianity became the state religion in almost all Slavic territories. Separate groups of Slavs who did not accept Christianity were subjected to systematic aggression from neighboring states; so, in 1147, the German feudal lords organized a big crusade against the Slavs.
At the beginning of the XII century. in Western Europe, the Albigensian wars began, which also affected the western Slavic lands. The genetic connection of the Cathars and Albigensians with the Bogomil heresy, which existed in the form of a sect until the 17th century, in some way contributed to the spread of Byzantine Christianity to the West, but the harsh actions of the Catholic Inquisition seriously opposed this advance.
Early 13th century connected with the capture of part of the Slavic lands by the crusaders. In 1224, the Order of the Swordsmen captured the city of Tartu (the territory of modern Estonia), creating a powerful center of Catholic influence in the Baltics. In 1226, Prince Konrad of Mazovia summoned the Teutonic Order to Poland in order to fight the Prussians.
In 1234, on the river Emajyge near the city of Tartu, Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Novgorod defeated the troops of the Order of the Sword, stopping the advance of the knights to the east. In 1237, the remnants of the Order of the Swords united with the Teutonic Order, forming a vast Catholic state that included most of the Baltic states.
In 1241, the Mongol-Tatar nomads reached the borders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, and then Hungary, defeating almost all the armies of these states.
The invasion of the Ottoman troops at the end of the XIV century. in Serbia, Albania and Bulgaria dealt a serious blow to Slavic Orthodoxy. Both natural (through the assimilation of the population) and violent (through education and the introduction of qualifications) Islamization of the population of these countries ultimately led to the formation among the southern and southeastern Slavs of a religiously unique community, in which Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and Sunni Muslims. An exception in this process is Albania, where, as a result of severe discrimination against the Christian population, a large part of the population converted to Islam. Only in inaccessible mountainous areas did the population retain Christian beliefs - Orthodoxy in the south and Catholicism in the north.
In the first half of the XV century. in the Czech Republic and Slovenia, a powerful movement of the Hussites arose. Their most radical wing, the Taborites, had pronounced anti-feudal and democratic sentiments. The Taborites interpreted the “thousand-year kingdom of God on earth” chialistically, as a kingdom of universal equality, they denied church sacraments, the Catholic cult, and the most radical part, all Christian shrines and rituals. The contradictions between the Taborites and the Chashniks led to an open war between them. Separate detachments of the Taborites continued to fight until 1437, until their last fortress of Zion fell.
The Picards, who represented the extreme left radical wing of the Taborites, stood in the position of a tough physical struggle with the church, completely denied all church rituals, sacraments and shrines. In 1421, the moderate Chashniki Taborites dealt with the leaders of the Pikarts. The chalice-makers themselves proceeded from the democratic principles of the organization of the church and assumed the equality of parishioners and clergy in communion under both types, i.e. bread and wine. The Hussites intended to make the teachings of the Chashniki the Czech state religion. In 1433, the Chashniki entered into an agreement with the Catholics (“Prague Compacts”) and, with their combined forces, inflicted a decisive defeat on the Taborites at Lipai.
In the XVI century. part of the Chashniki became close to the Catholics, the other united with the Czech brothers and Lutherans. However, the counter-reformation and subsequent missionary activity catholic church led to a significant superiority of Catholics among modern Czechs.
The European Reformation did not directly affect the Slavic world, but its consequences had a significant impact on the subsequent religious situation in these countries. Protestants have not received a decisive majority in any Slavic country, but their number is very significant in all West Slavic countries. Protestants rendered big influence on the formation of a number of renovationist trends in Russia in the 19th-20th centuries, and by the end of the 20th century. the expansion of Protestantism in Russia, according to a number of scholars, led to an excess of the number of Protestants over the Orthodox without the formation of their own separate churches (?).
In 1548, the Protestants lost the First Schmalkaldic War, as a result of which the Catholic religion became the only one in Germany. Although this did not directly affect the Slavic lands (with the exception of the Slavs living in Germany), it significantly affected the spread of Catholicism in the countries bordering Germany. After 7 years, as a result of the Second Schmalkaldic War, the princes received the right to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism.
In 1876, an uprising against the Turks took place in Bulgaria, supported by Russia and spreading to Serbia. The uprising ended with the victory of the united Slavic forces, however, the influence of Islam among the southwestern Slavs remains significant.
Existing at the beginning of the XXI century. the religious situation in the Slavic lands looks very peculiar, although it is natural from the point of view of history. The extreme eastern lands of Siberia, Tuva, Yakutia are a zone of influence division between the preserved polytheistic local beliefs (shamanism), Buddhism (mainly of the Gelug school) and Orthodoxy brought by the Russian conquerors. Often, being baptized in Orthodoxy, local residents simultaneously profess Buddhism or a synthesis of Buddhism and shamanism. It is curious that, despite the relatively long experience of the parallel existence of three religions in these territories, there have not even been any attempts to create some kind of syncretic current.
A similar situation is observed in the south of Russia, in Kalmykia, where, however, the influence of shamanism is minimized, and Buddhism is a formal religion that does not prevent the expansion of Orthodoxy.
Almost throughout the territory of the modern distribution of the Slavs, there are local communities of Muslims, as a rule, of the Sunni persuasion. The interpenetration of Christianity and Islam in these territories is minimized, mainly due to the strict observance of traditions by the Muslim population. A somewhat different picture is in those areas of Muslim expansion that belong to the zone of Turkish occupation of the 15th-16th centuries, for example, in southern Bulgaria and Bosnia. In these regions, various religious movements clashed - Orthodox, Catholics, Bogomils - which created a certain poly-religious atmosphere and facilitated the interpenetration of different cultures.
The border between Orthodox and Catholic Slavs is not clearly defined, since it represents either traditionally Catholic territories with a significant penetration of Orthodoxy (Lithuania), or traditionally Orthodox territories with an active penetration of Catholicism (Western Ukraine), or Protestant territories with the influence of both currents (Latvia) . Almost the entire western part of the Slavs, with the exception of the complicated situation in the former Yugoslavia, is a zone of Catholic influence.
The religion of the ancient Slavs is a combination of religious beliefs and attitudes that have developed in the pre-Christian Slavic culture, as well as ways of organizing spiritual experience and behavior. Historically, the religion of the Slavs goes back to the religion of the ancient Indo-Europeans. It acquires relative integrity and originality in the era of Slavic unity, which lasted until the second half of the 1st millennium AD. Gradual settlement led to the emergence of differences in religious ideas and cults; in addition, some forms of religious life appeared, borrowed by the Slavs from neighboring peoples.
Information about the ancient Slavs was preserved mainly in the oral tradition. The only written source Veles book”, raises great doubts among experts about its authenticity.
Slavic ideas about the sacred were associated with ideas about superhuman strength, life-giving and filling the being with the ability to grow. There was a developed system of concepts denoting supernatural forces. The highest category was the gods. The concept of "God" means - giving a share, inheritance, wealth. The gods, just as in the ancient religion, were divided into heavenly, underground and earthly.
belonged to the heavenly gods Perun - the patron god of princely power, squads and military craft. He had an anthropomorphic appearance of a warrior, sometimes on horseback. Stribog- the god of atmospheric phenomena, and above all the wind. Dazh-god or Dazhdbog - a giving god who was related to the sun. Chore(solar - compare Horus or Horus among the ancient Egyptians) and Simargl(a mythological image of a huge eagle, correlated with the upper world).
The underground gods are primarily Earth, "Mother Earth Cheese", "Breadmaker", which among the Slavs does not have an erotic coloring and is subsequently identified with Mokosh. Mokosh - this is a female deity, which is endowed with only positive qualities. However, the Slavs also had ideas about evil female deities who had to make bloody human sacrifices. Was considered a male underground god Whiter, who was also called the cattle god and believed that he would give an abundant offspring, and therefore wealth. Another property of Beles was considered clairvoyance.
Earth gods are the gods of the human world. Their responsibility extends to cultural pursuits, social and family relationships, life and environment. This is first of all Svarog - the god of fire put at the service of man. The continuity of generations originating from common ancestors is personified in the image kinda, next to which they mention women in labor- virgins of fate, determining the share, the fate of the newborn. There were ideas about the gods associated with the professional activities of people.
Along with ideas about higher gods, there were beliefs in gods of a lower level, spirits, werewolves. A significant detachment was called demons, which were attributed to malevolence and destructive power. The spirits of dangerous places to visit were attributed to demons: the wilderness (goblin), swamps ( boggart, swamp) whirlpools (water). Lived in the field midday. Outwardly, demons were represented in human, bestial or mixed form.
The group of half-demons of human origin belonged to the most dangerous - these are people who have not escaped their life path, - ghouls, ghouls, witches, mermaids. They harm the human race and must be feared. There was also the personification of diseases: in passing, fever, mara, kikimora and etc.
Another group personified the concept of fate: Share, Nedolya, Famously, Grief, Truth, Krivda and etc.
The Slavs believed in the immortality of the soul, in its posthumous existence. During the burial, it was necessary to observe all the subtleties of the rite, and only in this case the soul finds peace and will subsequently help the descendants. The Slavs resorted to various forms of burial, often cremation. Water occupied a special place in the understanding of the world among the Slavs. They believed that water is an element that connects the living and other worlds.
In difficult years, the Slavs resorted to the ritual killing of the elderly in the hope that another relative who had passed into the world would alleviate the fate of the living. This rite was called plant on a splint."
There were many rites that accompanied a person to another world, but no less number of rites had to be observed after the funeral. The most important was trizna - competitions and feasts; the meaning of this rite is in the activation of the forces of life, in its victory over the forces of death.
The funeral rite is a rite of passage. The rites of passage also include marriage and the birth of a child. There was also a calendar ritual: Christmas, Shrovetide. Sometimes rituals were accompanied by human sacrifices, but more often the sacrifices were bloodless in the form of food or other gifts. Often sacrificial food was eaten during the feast. In folklore, there is a lot of evidence of sacrificial feasts. The Slavs believed that God was present at these feasts in the form of a guest and at the same time the owner of the ritual feast, who was called " Lord
Divination was widespread. Since water was the boundary between the other worlds and this world, many fortune-telling involves the manipulation of water.
The primary cell of religious life was family or community of families genus. The ceremony was performed by the head of the family. There were no special priests, although there were experts on the wave - Magi.
This article is intended to tell a modern person the true truth, without any distortions and false interpretations, about the Ancient Faith of the Slavic and Aryan peoples - Ynglism.
For our contemporaries in the Russian State and beyond its borders, the very name of the Ancient Faith of the Slavic and Aryan peoples - Ynglism is forgotten and seems to be something alien, alien. AT modern world there is an "indisputable, scientifically proven opinion" about the so-called traditional Russian religions, which have made their "immeasurable contribution" to the creation of the entire Russian history and the Russian state. These religions today include Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
But if we carefully consider this “indisputable, scientifically proven opinion” about traditional Russian religions, then we can’t talk about traditionalism. Christianity only 2000 years ago was brought to the Russian land from the Byzantine Empire; a little later Islam - from Arabia Saud; Judaism - from Israel; Buddhism is from China. And what did the Russian people have initially, in “What” or in “Who” did they believe before the appearance of “traditional Russian religions”?
The official historical science answers this question unequivocally - the Russian people were pagans and professed paganism, a barbaric cult of ignorant, semi-savage people.
But let's look at the word "Gentile" from the other side. In Old Church Slavonic - pagans are
1) strangers, foreigners, foreigners, representatives of a foreign people, with beliefs, traditions and culture alien to the Slavs (Staroslavyansky Dictionary. Moscow, 1894) or
2) “tribes hostile to the Slavs, who spoke other languages and believed in other gods” (Russian Vedas. Supplement. Moscow, 1992). That is, from the point of view of the Slavs, the pagans were Christians, Buddhists, Jews and other followers of foreign religious teachings that flooded the Russian State.
If you ask representatives of official historical science about what beliefs other peoples of the Earth had before the emergence of traditional world religions, the answer will be the same - paganism. Involuntarily, one gets the impression that all, without exception, the peoples on Earth, before the emergence of traditional world religions, professed only one religion - paganism. People worshiped the same Gods, the same forces of Nature, and as a result, all of them were ignorant barbarians and had no history. Or did each nation on Earth create its own history, culture, tradition, and have their own folk Faith, which had its original basis and its own unique name?
The history of the peoples of the Earth throughout their existence has been inextricably linked with the various beliefs of these peoples, with their ancient tradition and original culture. Therefore, one should never consider the history of any people separately from their faith, tradition and culture, or from the point of view of the beliefs, traditions and culture of another people, as is done in modern times, in order to humiliate another people by labeling “pagan”.
According to the modern view of the history of mankind, and it covers about 5-6 thousand years, from ancient Egypt to the present day, almost all peoples of the world, except for the people of Israel, history begins with some sacred legend, a unique epic or myth, headed by whom the great hero, the ancestor, who gave the people his name.
Our Russian history, unfortunately, begins to be considered from the time when the Great Russian State already represented a huge social system with a strong people. Moreover, the Great Russian State, rich in trade, crafts and industry, is for some reason divided into two large independent states: Kievan Rus and Novgorod Rus, as well as several Lesser Russian Principalities. Although in size, any small Principality was several times larger than any Western European state. Now, few people know, even among scientists, how the Great Russian Principalities were originally called, and that they were part of a single Slavic-Aryan Power, covering the vast expanses of Europe and Asia, called Rasseniya.
At the same time, it is hushed up that the division of the Great Russian State into independent, and sometimes opposing Principalities, began as a result of intervention in the 8th - 10th centuries. in the internal affairs of Russia of foreign states, from the Volga Bulgaria and Khazar Khaganate to the Byzantine and Roman Empires. The supreme authorities of these states used various ways inciting discord and enmity between the Great Russian princes: from flattery, deceit, forgery, slander, bribery to armed raids on Slavic cities and villages; and when these methods failed, due to a worthy rebuff from the Slavic armies, then the Great Russian princes and their squads under the guise of "civilized enlightenment" began to impose new religions alien to the Slavs and Aryans: Judaism and Christianity of the Byzantine persuasion, Arianism and Roman Catholicism, Assyrian Zoroastrianism, Arabic Islam and Chayne Buddhism.
The Slavs and Aryans have always been religiously tolerant people, because they knew that God the Creator is one for all living things. They possessed information about Christ and Jehovah, about Mitra and Osiris, about Allah and Shiva, about Gautam Buddha and about the creator of a new ritual of worshiping Fire - Zoroaster, and calmly treated these and other religious trends. In those ancient times, in the cities on the Great Russian lands, for centuries there were temples of various religions, in which foreign merchants who came to the markets celebrated their religious and religious rites. It was these temples that later became centers for the destruction of the Slavic and Aryan Ancient Faith, History, Culture and Tradition.
It is necessary to immediately clarify that the persecution of those who profess the Ancient Faith and its Priests-Priests was arranged not by the true followers of one or another religious Doctrine, who realized the deep, hidden meaning of God's Word in new form, but the newly appeared adherents, who used the new religious Teaching for their own personal and selfish purposes. As a rule, the newly-minted adherents, in order to achieve their goals, including for the usurpation of power, used the fanaticism and complete ignorance of the newly converted followers who do not know the Spiritual essence of the Teaching, setting them against the followers of the ancient Beliefs with a call to destroy the latter, because they are supposedly enemies of the "True Faith".
We will not talk much about those who made it their duty to humiliate and denigrate everything that relates to the history of the Slavs and Aryans. Such "specialists" are still falsifying history. They attempted in the past and are now trying to take away from the Slavs and Aryans not only their History, Glory, Greatness, Power, wealth, industry, trade, as well as all the good qualities of the Soul and heart, but even seek to eradicate their Ancient Faith, Tradition and original Culture .
One of the paths that such "specialists" have chosen is to impose plausible lies. For example, the myth that supposedly the Ancient Faith of the Slavic and Aryan peoples disappeared more than a thousand years ago, during the Christianization of Russia, and in the modern world there are no traces of the Ancient Faith and there are no followers of it.
This is a lie that has been foisted on people for a long time. It was as if there was no period of Dual Faith in Russia, destroyed by Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov in the 17th century, when representatives of the pre-Christian Ancient Faith lived peacefully on Russian lands - Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings and orthodox, in other words, righteous Christians. But the period of dual faith is well described in the works of Academician Rybakov.
Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century headed the Christian church in Muscovy. He carried out a church reform, which led to a split among Christians. Christians who did not accept Nikon's reforms began to be called the Old Believers or schismatics by the official church. Patriarch Nikon, with his reform, not only replaced the two-fingered with three-fingered and directed the procession around the temples towards the Sun, he did everything to erase the memory of the pre-Christian Orthodox Ancient Faith among the people inhabiting Muscovy. By burning Old Believers and Old Believers in sketes, Nikon tried to achieve what he wanted.
The Greatness, Wisdom and Glory of pre-Christian Orthodoxy were the main obstacle to the spread of Christian teaching among the common people, whose culture and traditions the Christian missionaries did not understand and, therefore, considered wild. In order to excommunicate people from everything native, to replace words and origins, by decree of Nikon in the liturgical Christian books, the phrase "orthodox Christian faith" was replaced by the phrase " Orthodox faith Christian”, which led to the attribution to Christianity of the Spiritual achievements of pre-Christian Orthodoxy.
Another lie periodically appearing in books, newspapers and on television is that supposedly "pagans" were and are engaged in bloody sacrifices. From the standpoint of the Ancient Faith of the Slavs and Aryans, this is an absolutely untrue and completely unproven statement, but which, nevertheless, resonates in the souls of ignorant people. Lies are spread specifically to denigrate our Ancient Faith. A bloody ritual with the sacrificial killing of animals and people, including children, exists in Judaism. There is written evidence for this. For people with black skin, the bloody rite of sacrifice has existed since ancient times, although the Aryans at one time, long before the birth of Christ, made two trips to India to punish the local Negroid tribes of the Dravidians and Nagas for the bloody rite. But what does the pagan, in the Slavic sense of the word, rituals of Judaism and Negroid peoples have to do with the Ancient Faith of the White people - Slavs and Aryans? To any sane person, the answer is clear: they have nothing to do with it.
It must be immediately stated that Ynglism - the Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors - in its original basis does not carry anything anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic, as the "experts" of the pre-Christian Faith and Culture of the Slavs and Aryans like to assert. For Ynglism existed long before the advent of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religious teachings on earth. The original origins of Ynglism must be sought in the depths of Antiquity, in the fertile and legendary country of Daaria, which was located on the sunken Northern continent.
Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings have always been, are and will be religiously tolerant people who respect the right of any person to profess any religion or faith and worship the God that is dear to them and closer in Soul. But the religious tolerance of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings does not mean that they will allow anyone who is not lazy to throw mud at their Ancient Faith, distort it in every possible way or make an object for ridicule out of the Ancient Faith of our First Ancestors.
The name of the Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors - Ynglism, came from the Da'Aryan symbolic word - the image of "Inglia". The meaning put by our Wise Ancestors in the original Image of Inglia always meant the Divine Primary Fire of Creation, in which various forms of Life appeared in Infinite Infinities, generated in the New Reality, i.e. numerous universes. The Primordial Life-Giving Light of Inglia, departed from the One Supreme Creator-Creator, whom we Old Believers call the Great Ra-M-Ha, formed Life on our blessed Earth as well. But it does not follow from this statement that Ynglism is, as it is now customary to say, a monotheistic system.
Ynglism is also not a polytheistic system, although each Slavic or Aryan clan of the Great Race honors its own Circle of Gods. Circle of Gods - i.e. Circle of 16 ancient Gods of the Great Race. In each ancient Family of the Old Believers-Ynglings, the Single Creator-Creator Ra-M-Ha, 12 Light Ancestral Gods, and also the Great Triglav were originally revered. To honor the Circle of Native Gods, Kummirnya was placed next to the dwelling of the Old Believers, which included a fiery altar - Dunya - and 16 Kummirs most revered in each specific Clan of the Ancient Gods placed around it. The altar was intended for bloodless sacrifices and needs (the fruits of the labor of the Slavs, honey, gifts from the forests, etc.). Ynglism can be designated as Rodoteism, because the Slavs and Aryans are generated by the Family, live to continue the Family, serve the Family and leave the Explicit World for the Family.
In modern times, it is necessary for every representative of the Slavic or Aryan Family to know that the Spiritual System, called Ynglism, is the Ancient Religion of our Ancestors, and not a religion or a Neo-Pagan teaching, as some of our “learned men” are trying to interpret today. The word "religion" means the artificial restoration of the destroyed or interrupted Great Spiritual connection between people and the Gods on the basis of any religious teaching. The modern term "Neopaganism" was coined specifically to lead people away from searching for their foundations of the Ancient Faith, Ancient History, Tradition and Culture.
We, Orthodox Old Believers - Ynglings, do not need to restore the Great Spiritual connection between us and our Gods, because this Spiritual connection has never been destroyed or interrupted, for our Gods are our Ancestors, and we are their children. Moreover, Conscience, as a property of character, is genetically inherent only to the Slavic-Aryan peoples. The concept of "Conscience" has an easily revealed meaning: the Joint Message of the Gods and Man in his Soul.
The Old Russian Inglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings is the United Ancient Community of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan, which unites all the White people of our planet on the basis of the Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors. Moreover, all people with White skin color living on planets in different star systems are the One Universal Family, the descendants of the Heavenly Family and the Ancient Race, from which the White humanity of the planet Earth originates.
It is necessary to immediately reassure those political, public and "religious" figures who shout at every corner about the threat of racism and racial discrimination allegedly taking place in Ynglism. Ynglism teaches that every Nation (Clan, Tribe), regardless of skin color, must preserve its own Ancient Primordial (Clan) Faith, original Culture, unique Tradition and live where the graves of the Ancestors are located. Only under these conditions will the People be preserved in Eternity, and will not be dissolved in the mass of faceless citizens of one or another democratic state.
In our daily life, we call ourselves Old Believers-Ynglings or Orthodox Slavs, because:
We are Old Believers, as we profess the Ancient Faith of the Great Race, sent down by the Heavenly Family.
We are Ynglings (Old Slovenian - Inglyane), as we keep Ynglia - the Sacred Divine Fire of our First Ancestors, and we kindle It before the Images and Kummirs of the Light Gods and our Many Wise Ancestors.
We are Orthodox, for we glorify RIGHT and GLORY. We truly know that RIGHT is the World of our Light Gods, and GLORY is the Light World where our Great and Wise Ancestors live.
We are Slavs, for we glorify from our pure hearts all the Light Ancient Gods and our Many Wise Ancestors.
Svetomir.
Writing of the Slavs.
The generally accepted date for the beginning of writing among the Slavs in the form of the so-called “Cyrillic alphabet” is 863 AD. It is believed that two Greek monks Cyril and Methodius gave the Slavs the alphabet, taught to read and write "illiterate" Slavs before that. But who said (and proved!) That the Slavs before the arrival of Cyril and Methodius, until 863, were illiterate?
There is no such evidence in nature. Moreover, Cyril himself in the XIII chapter of the Pannonian Life wrote that he acquired the Gospel and the Psalter in Chersonese, written in Russian letters.
Ancient written monuments, references in the annals, materials of archaeological excavations, inscriptions on the monuments allow, contrary to the popular opinion about the illiteracy of the Slavs before the arrival of Cyril and Methodius, to prove how, for example, V.A. Istrin in the book "1100 years of the Slavic alphabet", the presence of pre-Cyrillic letters among the Slavs. But as before, the majority of authors of books about the Slavs, especially in scientific circles, do not even think about the "priority" of the Slavs in all areas of world culture, about the presence of Slavic writing from ancient times.
Let us give some evidence of the literacy of the Slavs before the arrival of Cyril and Methodius from them. Here is a historical fact. Peter I introduces by decree from January 1, 1700 a new chronology - from the Nativity of Christ - in digital designation. At the same time, he canceled the Slavic Calendar that existed in Russia since ancient times, according to which at the time of the decree there was Lto 7208 from the Creation of the World in the Star Temple. Moreover, the Russian people wrote the number of years not in numbers, but in letters, which proves the existence of writing among the Slavs for at least 7208 years. Another historical evidence is given by Catherine II in her book “Notes on Russian History”, which wrote that “the Slavs had many letters before the birth of Christ.”
Through the efforts of many scientists, including F. Volansky, E.I. Klassen, P.P. Oreshkina, S.G. Grinevich, with the help of the Russian language, the language of the Aryans was studied, ancient Egyptian "hieroglyphs" were read on papyri, clay and stone, Etruscan letters and inscriptions on the Phaistos disc were deciphered, proto-Indian inscriptions on clay seals from Horappa and Mohenjo-Daro were deciphered. As P.P. Oreshkin in his book "The Babylonian Phenomenon": "The signs are different - the language is one."
To determine what kind of "letters" the Slavs had, we will once again give a definition of the word "Slavs". The Slavs are a spiritual and cultural community of white peoples who profess the Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors, glorify their Gods and Ancestors. From the moment the Earth was settled, the people of the white Race recorded, stored and passed down from generation to generation the Wisdom of the First Ancestors, the Vedic Knowledge. The source of this knowledge in modern times are 4 books "Slavic-Aryan Vedas", published by the Old Russian Ynglistic Church of Orthodox Old Believers - Ynglings.
Vedic knowledge is recorded among the Slavs in various scripts, because there is no single Slavic language as such. But there is a common charter among the Slavic and Aryan Clans, consisting of four types of writing:
1) da’Aryan Trags are Figurative Symbols that combine signs of a hieroglyphic type that convey multidimensional values \u200b\u200band diverse Runes. Part of the crypto-hieroglyphic Symbols formed the basis of the cryptograms of the Cretan-Mycenaean culture, the hieroglyphic writing of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other types of hieroglyphic writing.
2) h'Aryan Karuna (Union of 256 Runes), colloquially called priestly writing. Karuna formed the basis of ancient Sanskrit (samskryt), ordinary Sanskrit, Devanagaria, which were used by the priests of India and Tibet. Interesting note. "Sanskrit" is read correctly as "samskryt", which means "self-hidden".
In a simplified version, i.e. with a smaller number of Runes, Karuna was used by the Western Slavs who inhabited Scandinavia, Iceland (48 Runes), the territory of present-day Germany (19), France, Scotland (33), Denmark, Ireland (38) and others in antiquity.
In ancient times, the Kh'Aryan Runes were used more often among the peoples of the Great Race because of the simplicity of their inscription, and the da'Aryan Trags were very difficult to write, and therefore they were mainly used only by the da'Aryan Priests-Keepers of Ancient Wisdom.
3) Rasenskie Molvitsy (Image-mirror writing). This writing is called the Etruscan script, since they were written by Rasen or Etruscan, i.e. Slavs who inhabited Italy in ancient times and founded Rome.
Etruscan writing formed the basis of the ancient Phoenician alphabet. Subsequently, the ancient Greeks took the Phoenician script as a basis, simplified it and made the ancient Greek script, on the basis of which "Latin" later appeared.
4) Holy Russian Images are the most common letter among all Slavic Clans in antiquity. It is also called the Old Slovenian script. Short name - Letter. The letter is used for inter-clan and interstate treaties. Various variants of the abbreviated Initial Letter are known: the Byzantine unival, the Church Slavonic alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet. This can also include Velesovitsa or the font of the Veles book and the Holy Russian Magi, i.e. texts written on boards made of oak, birch, cedar or ash.
Each Slavic script has differences in writing the same signs, depending on the material on which they were written. The most convenient for manufacturing and storage are Haratyas (texts written on parchment by Tragami or other signs). For example, the narrative "Avesta" or "The First Message" was written on 12,000 bull skins.
Another common form of knowledge preservation is Santi (texts written on plates of gold, platinum and other metals). Runes are squeezed out on the plates and filled with paint. The sheets are framed in an oak frame, which is sheathed with red cloth.
There are texts on parchment, written in the semi-runic Slovenian charter, the so-called Glagolic Harati or Slovenian Harati.
Among the Russians, another pre-Cyrillic spelling of the Glagolitic or trade letter was common, which was used to maintain registers, calculations, formalize transactions and trade agreements. Subsequently, the Glagolitic alphabet began to be used along with other languages for recording epics, fairy tales, historical facts, and keeping sacred books.
The simplest is the Slovene folk script, which was used to convey short messages. Later it became known as "birch-bark letter" or "Features and Cuts". This is a permanent letter. Any Rusich owned this letter and could write a message to his relative on a piece of birch bark.
The Old Slovenian language formed the basis of many European languages, for example, English, the letters of the words of which are written in “Latin”, and the words are Slavic in content and sound.
Then what did Cyril and Methodius really create? In fact, these monks have nothing to do with the writing of the Slavs in our understanding of the word. They created Church Slavonic writing for Christian Church in the Slavic lands, taking as a basis the Old Slovenian “Letter”, consisting of 49 letters, 5 (or 6?) letters were removed, and 4 (?) letters were given Greek names (what?). With the help of the Cyrillic alphabet, Christian liturgical books were translated from Greek.
The main difference between the initial letter and any Slavic letter from all other alphabets is that each letter has not only a form and sound, but also a figurative meaning. Words made up of a drop cap are not a set of letters, roots, prefixes, endings, etc., but a certain complex image.
In turn, the prototype of each letter of the “letter cap” is certain Runic signs. For example, the prototype of the letter called "az" are two Runes - "God" and "Earth". Hence the figurative meaning of the first letter of the “Glagolitic” is obtained - “az” is “God living on earth”. This is the name of our First Ancestors, the first white people on Earth.
In addition to alphabetic signs, "letters" and "Cyrillic" have images in numerical value. The Slavs wrote numbers of any order only in letters.
Subsequently, "Cyrillic" was called the "Old Russian language", which also underwent significant changes in the course of the historical development of Russia. The modern Russian language is not figurative, and its letters do not carry any information for the Spiritual development of a person.
It should be noted that the Images of numerals and initial letters are connected to each other and the Universe by energy-informational links. The flow of energy emanating from us, positive or negative, depends on how we speak, read, write. Each spoken word carries a certain Image, which is projected onto the subtle plane. This information is waiting to be used (spoken, written, thought) and converted into energy. Bad thoughts, words, Images excite destructive elements, and good thoughts, words and Images harmonize Nature and calm the elements. From here the meaning of sayings is clear: the word is not a sparrow, it will fly out - you will not catch it; What is written with a pen cannot be cut down with an axe.
Russia and the Russian people are the direct heirs and successors of the traditions of the Ancient Slavic Culture. Therefore, it is necessary to significantly postpone the date of the celebration of the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture by a hundred thousand years ago.
Conscience of the Soul of the Clans of the Great Race
God Svarog established the Universal Laws of the ascent of the Soul along the Golden Path of Spiritual and Soul Perfection. The free passage of the Soul along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development is assisted by the Wise Knowledge of these Worlds.
In our Universe, the Golden Path of Spiritual Ascension, leading up, is called Svaga, along which the Light Harmonious Worlds are located. They follow one after another: the World of People, the World of Legs, the World of Arlegs, the World of Arans, the World of Radiances, the World of Nirvana, the World of Beginnings, the World of Spiritual Power, the World of Cognition, the World of Harmony, the World of Spiritual Light, the Worlds of Spiritual Assets, the World of Law, the Worlds of Creation , World of Truth, Worlds of Patrons. At the end of Svaga, the Frontier passes, beyond which the Greatest World of Rule begins.
The Human World is Four-Dimensional — Body, Soul, Spirit, Conscience. The beings of the Worlds located along the Golden Path have the following number of dimensions: the World of Humans - 4, the World of Legov-16, the World of Arlegs-256, the World of Arans-65536, the World of Radiance-65536 squared, ... the World of Patrons-65536 at four thousand ninety-six degree. There are intermediate Worlds: five, seven, nine, twelve and smaller in number of dimensions.
The transition of the Soul from one World to another World is possible, but it is necessary to cross the threshold, which is associated with the loss of the body, this dimension. Such a transition of the Soul in the World of Reveal is called by people Death. Death is the loss by the Soul of the body in which the Soul lives. In another World, the Soul inhabits the body of a rational being of the World into which it is directed.
The body is controlled by the Soul, the Soul is controlled by the Spirit, and the Spirit is controlled by the Conscience. Conscience is the joint Message of the Human Soul and the Light Gods. Mother of God Jiva grants to each Pure Soul Ancient Wisdom - Spirit, i.e. part of Heavenly Truth. The soul must cognize this Wisdom in the Explicit World in accordance with the passage of the Time of Life. There is a Higher Mental and Spiritual meaning in this. Wisdom in the Soul, through energy channels, interacts with the Heavenly Truth. Their constant, harmonious relationship is called Conscience. If the Spiritual personality performs actions in accordance with the Spirit bestowed in the Soul, then the Conscience of a person is calm, the Soul and the Body develop harmoniously. Peace in the Soul fills time with the meaning of Life. It is called by us, to Live according to Conscience! If People of the Clans of the Great Race neglect their Conscience and commit voluntary and involuntary sins, then anxiety, ailments and illnesses overtake them. People of the Clans of the Great Race cannot lose the Highest Truth and Wisdom of the Light Gods and our Ancestors, for it is impossible to lose what is connected with our Souls and Hearts.
WHITE WAY
A man walks along the path of his life
And they don't know what they were born for?
Why did the Gods send them to the World of Reveal,
What is the goal in life and what is after it?
Where will this path lead them?
Whether to the White Light, or to the Darkness?
Such thoughts do not leave a person,
From birth in the World of Reveal to death.
And these reflections are not wonderful at all,
For the times now are the Night of Svarogia.
This Night of Svarog is not in the yard,
And lies in the hearts of men.
And if someone forgets his ancient family,
Then the darkness of the night will fall on his heart.
And no one after all, acre human beings themselves,
Unable to disperse the darkness of the night.
And until people know the Light,
And they will not follow him along the White Path,
Until that very time, this night darkness
Will live in human hearts.
For the most vicious enemies of men,
They huddle in their hearts, and in their souls.
And only man by his deeds,
Which are aimed at the splendor of the Childbirth,
They will be able to pluck out of themselves, all that Evil,
What settled in their Souls and Hearts.
Laziness and Gluttony and Desire of someone else's
The entire human mind is clouded.
And man no longer sees the White Way,
And they roam the world unrepentant.
And all their searches are in vain, for behold,
The cold of Darkness bound their Hearts and Souls.
Great Sweep and Longing for Death,
They begin to gnaw at the inside of people.
Only a return to their ancient roots,
Helps to return to the White Way.
This path, man, begins in Svarga,
And only then do they enter the Explicit World.
Mother of God Jiva gives birth to their Souls,
Giving great Wisdom for life.
Souls swiftly fly to the Halls
And on the Earth blooming then fall.
Souls for life choose births for themselves,
To be born in the Clans of those Great.
And be under the supervision of the Great Gods,
Whose patronage guards Rod.
The Great Makosh of Fate will harmonize them,
With Worlds, Gods and Strong Conscience.
Their birth in Reveal leads to creation,
And it gives striving to Spiritual life.
Knowledge of all Svarga and the Earthly World,
For a human, it will begin with the Wisdom of the Family.
This wisdom is not applicable, eternal,
She is in the beginning with the roots of the Family.
But he directs everyone to the coming time,
Along the Bela Way that penetrates into the Rule.
Different nations have their own path-destination
And in different Worlds they are waiting for their return.
For the Great Race the White Path is prepared
And only she only ascends on it.
Glorious are the Worlds that are filled with Light
To the Worlds where their descendants are met by their Gods.
The connection is inseparable between the Worlds in the Rule,
And the primordial Light was given to them from the very beginning.
Souls aspire there from birth in Reveal,
But not every Soul reaches those Worlds.
For the Dark Forces, from the Eternal Worlds,
All Souls strive to lure into their Inferno.
Falsehood and Flattery, Gluttony and Lust
They try to fill their souls every day.
So that they stray and rush about in the darkness,
And they did not know their cherished White Way.
And this path is not easy, it is glorious with diligence,
Creative Labor and Ancient Faith.
Every one who is born begins to create
Own World according to Svarog Laws.
As a child, a hut made of tree branches,
Or the sandy Kremlin on the river bank.
And then, according to the Parental will,
For the benefit of the Childbirth, he begins to create.
Only in labor, creating only goodness,
In Reveal, the born White Way acquires.
Walking along the White Path, he listens to Conscience,
And the ancient Gods instruct him in every possible way.
From the elders of the Clans, he learns all the Wisdom,
What the Mother of God Jiva put into the Soul.
Only knowing Wisdom and strengthening the body
He begins to create a family union.
Love, Joy, Happiness and Ancient Faith,
They give offspring in a sacred union.
Filling children with the Light of the Wisdom of the Kind
They are taught to see clearly.
With which this beautiful world is covered
And they will know the secret Meaning of the Universe.
This reveals in the born the Light of Power,
What illuminates the White Path of Ascension.
From Reveal, born, falls into the Glory World,
Where the Ancestors of the Clans will joyfully meet him.
And there he will continue to create creation
Which he began to make in the Explicit World...
But all the Dark Worlds are not pleased with the foundations,
By which all those born in the Light live.
They do not like the White Way of Ascension,
And black Envy overshadows their entire vision.
It is hard and cramped for them in that Pekelny World,
Where Greed and Malice are legalized everywhere.
There is no Love, Prosperity, Happiness,
Only Selfishness, but desire for Profit.
Desire of the Alien, Deception and Debauchery,
The only meaning of Pekelnoy life.
They do not know in that world, a harmless life,
That only one Creation grants a way out.
And leave their Inferno, the Dark Forces,
They direct their gaze to the Light Worlds.
Where the bowels of the earth are filled with riches,
And the inhabitants there, Lies, Deception have not experienced.
And they rush across the boundless expanses,
And blooming secretly arrive on Earth.
Using Lies and words very flattering,
The Velmies infiltrate Trust in the Citizens.
As soon as the residents gain Trust,
They begin to comprehend their ancient heritage.
Having learned everything that is possible in the ancient heritage,
They begin to interpret it in their favor.
They declare themselves to be Messengers of God,
But the World is brought only by Strife and War.
Using cunning and vicious deeds,
They turn the young away from Wisdom.
They teach them to live in idle idleness,
To non-compliance with the traditions of the fathers.
And those who listen to the messengers from Hell,
They lose their Way and their immortal Soul.
They roam without way in their world,
But then they plunge the Soul into Hell...
Only those who did not heed the hypocrites from Hell,
They will see the White Way that goes to Svarga.
Those who go into the Darkness remain in the Darkness,
Aspiring to the Light, Svarga is known.
Every living person chooses his own path,
By his deeds he opens the Gates.
One, the gates to Svarga will be opened by God Veles,
To others, Viy to Pekla will show the way ...
Only by living God's habit,
All the Light Gods help in every possible way ...
And the human is moving measuredly to Svarga,
White Way, according to the Laws of Svarozh.
Conscience helps them to follow this Path,
She directs to the accomplishment of deeds.
To the Glory of the Family, to the Greatness of the Fatherland,
And turns away from all deeds that are not decent.
All the ancestors of the Clans help those who are walking,
So that their family thread is not interrupted ...
Paths beyond the death line are not trodden,
For those who were born under the light of Yarila.
And therefore the White Way indicates to the living,
Where they will find all the most ancient Powers...
Word of Wisdom Prophetic Oleg
What is not born, does not die.
The wounds of heroes heal faster than the wounds of the vanquished.
Magi - healers, conjure, witches, conjure, play tricks, enchant, portend.
Meat interferes with the magic, it makes them go berserk.
The Magus knows how to hide pain and disappointment.
Any magician masters destruction before creation.
See the connection of words, you will be able to extract magic only by translating one into another.
Our everyday life can be hell for the beings of some worlds, and heaven for the beings of other worlds.
If something has arisen here, then somewhere it has disappeared.
The sword does not cut the guilty head, but they cut another place.
In this world it is difficult to find a friend, even more difficult to lose an enemy.
Friends are often fake, but enemies are always real.
If a warrior needs to defeat only enemies, then the sorcerer needs to defeat two at once: himself and the enemy.
It is unworthy for a sorcerer to fight like a wild beast, he must use the knowledge of sorcery.
Anyone who is safe is protected by God, but strangers do not touch.
The stars show the way to the weak, and the strong themselves move them.
A real person must change, only fools do not change.
Initiates clearly hear the voices of the Gods.
In every person there is a drop of blood of the Most High God of the Kind.
You people are the younger Gods who live for a moment.
A slave dreams of eating to satiety and dragging a woman into bed, he can only free himself if he starts dreaming about something other than slavish joys.
Everything is poison and everything is medicine. The dose makes it one way or the other.
The most powerful Gods are people who have gained power.
Magi prefer spring water instead of wine.
The hardest thing is to conquer yourself.
In order for the spell to work, you must very accurately and vividly imagine in your imagination what you want.
For a spell, you need a clear mind, a cold head, concentration. If even a little anger is mixed in, any spell is down the drain.
Word of Wisdom Magus Velimudra
And it was told to you, children, that this Word would be, the Word of great wisdom, the Ancient Word. This Word is not something that rested in the mist, but something that Mother Life herself composed and bestowed on the Volkhva the name of Velimudr. This Word of Wisdom, in other words, the Message, it is for good people to carry it all their lives. Heed the call, children, to know the news, not like traversing the gati through the marshes. It is necessary to perceive this message both with your mind and with your heart, and above all, delve into every image of the Word of the Wise.
“For those children of God who choose the Right Path leading to the summit of the Spirit, it becomes more difficult to walk with every step, because the road they are walking along, constantly narrowing, turns into a path that rises steeper and steeper and disappears into the transcendental distance. But those who go to the end along this Path, despite the hardships and hardships, will gain such Spiritual benefits, Wisdom and Spiritual Power, which they did not even think about. Those who decide to go down the outgoing road will never get enough strength to return to their origins and rise to the very heights, for those who go down lose their Mind and Strength, and Hell will open its wide doors before them, and for those who are persistent going to the top of the Spirit, Veles-God opens the Gates from Heaven and all the multi-coloredness of Svarga the Most Pure, who is steadfast in the Spirit, acquires himself.
“Whoever is likened to a person who lives only by his desires and all sorts of vicious deeds, he destroys his pure Soul and does not fulfill his duty to the Family. And after this, it is not surprising that the immeasurable Hell becomes a refuge for such people at the end of the Life Path.
“Someone is trying to know the small, and someone is great from the Ancient Wisdom, thinking at the same time that it is easy to do, but hundreds of human lives may not be enough to know the small or great from the Ancient Wisdom.”
“Knowing the World of Reveal around us, sooner or later we come to a clear understanding that we know ourselves, because our existence in the World of Reveal is an integral part of ourselves.”
“If someone has a burden on their Soul, it is easiest to share it with their neighbor or relative, and when your neighbor needs your help, help him too.”
“If your neighbor is in trouble, never refuse to help him, for trouble never walks alone, and can visit you too.”
“If someone caresses and feeds an orphan child, giving him shelter, warmth and comfort, from the Soul, and not for self-interest, then he will do a good deed and there will be more benefit from him than from a hundred speaking Wise Men.”
“Those of the children of men who aspire to another World without knowing the Joy of creation in their World of Reveal, who have not developed their Soul and Spirit, who have not known the Wisdom of their Gods and Ancestors, will face disappointment and great darkness, for they are not able to see the beauty and the greatness of the new World, since their Soul and Spirit are asleep.”
“Only those who do not think about doing any good deeds do not make mistakes, and do not put their hands to creation for the good of their kind.”
“The greatness of each Clan-Tribe is due to its creative work for the benefit of the Clan and friendly unity with other Clans and Tribes, and if all Clans live in unity, goodness and mutual respect, creating for the good of their descendants, to the glory of their Gods and Ancestors, then no a dark force or an enemy army will not be able to overcome this Great people.”
“He who comprehends a little, he will find a little, and he who knows a lot does not gain anything, but his Spirit becomes stronger.”
“Relationships in the Communities should be based on Diligence, Kindness, Love and Mutual Aid, and not on coercion and fear. Forced labor cannot bear good fruits, for the one who creates, under compulsion or out of fear, withdraws into himself and cannot put his Soul into the fruits of his labor. Creative labor for the benefit of your Clans and your Communities must be only voluntary and at the call of your hearts, otherwise the fruits of such labor will be fruitless and ugly.”
“Those of human children who are able to hear all the variety of sounds of the surrounding World of Mother Nature will be able to hear how his heart beats in unison with the Universe, and who only listens only to himself and his reasoning, will never hear the magnificent Heavenly music.”
“Whoever points to the place where orphans vegetate to the Yoga Mothers has accomplished a small deed. And whoever raises an orphan child to his feet, under the shadow of his Great Family, he has accomplished a greater deed.
“The longer a person’s hair, the more God’s Power he receives, for this Power nourishes the body, Spirit and Soul of a person, and directs him to creation and righteous deeds, in which the measure of everything is Conscience.”
“The best and most effective, pleasant and refreshing remedy for heavy fatigue, after the labors and deeds of the righteous, is a restful sleep.” But a person closed himself in for so long that now he sees the World of Reveal only through narrow cracks in the cave of his own ideas.
“From a pure heart and with pure thoughts, bring bloodless sacrifices and requirements to your Gods and Ancestors in the World of Reveal, for what is sacrificed to them will appear before them in the World of Light Navi and in the World of Rule.”
“Protection of all their Clans, the Holy Land of their Fathers, the Ancient Faith of their First Ancestors, is the first duty of every man from the Great Race or a descendant of the Heavenly Clan, but at all times while the Yarilo-Sun shines.”
“With willingness, follow the instructions of your Parents and the Elders of your Family, for not a single Parent or Elder wishes harm to his child or grandson.”
“In all his deeds, great and small, and in all relations between his Relatives or Community members of other Clans - our Mind's Conscience and Truth, should be the measure of everything. In relation to all pagans, one must fulfill the Commandment to Perunov: “What deeds people do to you, the same you do to them, for each deed is measured by its own measure.”
“The most unforgivable acts for a person are betrayal, envy, slander, gluttony, the desire for the good of an alien Kin and covetousness.”
“The most important thing in a person’s life is Life itself; only Duty to the Family can be above Human Life.”
“The unexpected in a person's life happens more often than the expected. This is due to the fact that a person tends to perceive the Explicit World in accordance with his conclusions at the level of limited knowledge. In connection with these conclusions, a person in Life very often gives out wishful thinking, ignoring the Laws of Existence of the Explicit World.”
“Protect and take care of your Parents and the Elders of your Clans, all the days and their advanced years, for your children, looking at you, when the time comes, they will also treat you.”
“All phenomena of various Natural Forces, manifested around us, do not exist on their own, but are accomplished in strict accordance with the Ancient Laws of the Universe, which are observed by all creatures living in the Nature of Midgard, and therefore must be observed by people.”
“If no one applies his strength to accomplish righteous deeds, how will you see what good will happen in the future to you and your loved ones. Therefore, you create what you are able to create, and what will happen will happen, because nothing happens to those who do nothing, and therefore, it’s as if they don’t exist, as if they weren’t born in this world.
“The dark forces use two ways to lure people and prevent them from developing in the Explicit World of Midgard, creatively creating for the benefit of the Family, improving Spiritually and Mentally: the first is ignorance, and the second is ignorance. On the first path they do not allow people to know, and on the second they say that knowledge is unnecessary and harmful to people.
“You won’t know life with someone else’s mind and you won’t become smarter, and if you don’t know with your mind the essence of your life and the World of Reveal, how can you worthily live it and fulfill your Duty to your Family and the Heavenly Family.”
“Nothing happens in our World without some initial reason. What cannot be in the World in general, that never happens in this World. If something happens in the World, then it is possible in this World. Nothing happens by chance, because every chance has its own pattern, cause and starting point of the event.
“Three Great Mysteries of Existence are hidden for the memory of man and they are kept behind nine seals: How man was born in this world; how his whole life flew by unnoticed; and when a person will go along the Honest Path of Glory, through the World of Light Navi, to the Heavenly Abode of Svarga, where he will again see his Ancestors.
“Know, children of the Great Race, that only that is the true descendant of the Gods, who is able to create and create for the benefit of his Ancient Family, to the Glory of the greatness of his Fatherland and his Ancient Primordial Faith.”
“If some young Parents begin to protect their child from creative deeds for the good of their Family, then they will ruin their Soul and his life. And the Soul of that child will be callous, and life will be joyless and worthless. And if the young Parents indulge in every possible way the various whims of their child, then they will destroy his bright Spirit, and the death of the Spirit of the child is not forgiven to anyone living.
“Knowing the surrounding World with all his heart, a person begins to understand that everything living in the world, stone and wood, has a Soul. Knowing the power of the Soul of stone and wood, a person finds the Ancient Source of the healing Forces of Mother Nature, with the help of which one can expel pain and illness from human bodies.
“Remember, children of the Great Race, that your strength lies in unity, between all Clans and Tribes, on the foundations of the Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors.”
“In the Ancient Runes there is a hidden meaning, from ancient times a reminder to everyone: The lot of the blind is only a verb, the lot of the all-seeing is silence.”
“Which of the children of men thought about the Primordial, True Essence of all things and about the Primordial One, Who created this Nature and various Worlds, in those ancient times, when there was nothing, nothing, and especially nothing from what we intuitly call Nature, Time and Worlds, and when the darkness was covered with darkness.
“It is a person who, unlike other creatures living on Midgard-Earth, is able to rejoice with all his Soul for the success of his neighbor and grieve with all his heart when trouble comes to his neighbor.”
“Never grieve that in the past you did good deeds or helped your loved ones, for good deeds are created only at the call of your great heart and according to your Pure Conscience.”
“Keep the memory of all military people who laid down their lives, for their friends, for the land of their Fathers, for the Holy Faith of their Ancestors, for the prosperity and future of their Clans.”
“All that was created for the greatness and prosperity of your Clans and all the descendants of the Great Race cannot be blamed. For the Great Ancestors of your Clans have invested their pure Souls in the fruits of their creative labor.”
“The sacred duty of every husband, from all the Clans of the Great Race, is to protect his native patrimonies, old and small from his Clans, the Clans of his friends and relatives.”
“Do not let unrighteous anger into your gracious heart, for anger will destroy all goodness and spoil your pure heart.”
“No one can ever deny a person the right to know the Truth and the Great Ancient Wisdom, which was left by the Gods and Ancestors.”
“If the men of the Clans of the Great Race do not show due concern for the protection of the Borders of the land of their Fathers, then who can save the Ancient Clans from death and all kinds of humiliation.”
“Repay your enemies and enemies only for those unrighteous deeds that they have done in your land. And let your Conscience and your pure Soul be the measure of your retribution for all their unrighteous deeds.
“The Great Duty of every Parent, and every Elder of the Ancient Family, to bring up all their offspring according to the ancient Laws of the Family, by the Day of Age of Descendants.”
“Clan friendship and mutual assistance should grow stronger in all your lands. If you refuse to help all your near clans, then which clan will help you.
“Why does a person need to go against his Soul and his Conscience, because they are above everything in the world, and a person must always take care of them. Can someone from the outside fill the Soul of a person or his Conscience with Joy and Happiness?
“Conscience is the highest gift of God, you can’t run away from it, you can’t hide, you can’t deceive it and you won’t speak. For good deeds, she gives Joy, for bad deeds, she gives suffering.
“The soul of a person and his conscience can only be born on their native land, and they are only capable of living on it. If any person leaves his native land, leaves the burial mounds of his Ancestors, that person will lose his Soul.”
“Whoever reveres God Perun always saves his Ancient Clans from troubles and hardships. And whoever reveres Rod and Lada-Mother, he multiplies his Ancient Childbirth with healthy offspring.
“Whoever lives according to Conscience, that person is sinless. The soul of a person and the Conscience have existed since the Ancestral years, and by their will a person lives.
“Remember the children of the Great Race, and you, the descendants of the Heavenly Family, that Life must be lived in Joy, for it is only a single moment. A bright life in the World of Reveal is given to a person by his bright Soul and Conscience. All people revere the Soul and Conscience, and how can a righteous person, in the name of something or someone, destroy his Pure Soul and Conscience.
“When you defend your patrimonies from your fierce enemies and enemies, who come to your lands as thiefs, then reject pride and anger from yourself, and do not let revenge into your hearts, for any revenge, anger and pride cloud your eyes and harden your hearts.”
“Children from all Clans of the Great Race and wise descendants of the Heavenly Clan, you are always free in your Souls and in all creative deeds, and this was established by our Light Gods. No one who came from outside taught the Ancient Families our Conscience and therefore cannot be free over it.
“Listen to the children of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Clans of the Heavenly words to my words. If you live your life with great honor and according to your Conscience, then your pure and bright Souls with the smoke of the Sacred Bonfire-Kroda will ascend to the Most Pure Svarga. And if your whole life is lived dishonestly and not according to Conscience, then before your Family and Ancestors, you yourself will keep the answer.
“Strengthen the children of the Great Race, all your Ancient and Glorious Clans, and revere like in the Old, the Light Gods and your Ancestors. Protect your lands from enemies, which are watered with the Sweat and Blood of your wise Fathers and Grandfathers. Create the children of the Great Race for the glorious descendants of your Clans.”
“Each act you perform leaves its indelible mark on the eternal Path of your life, and therefore create people, only beautiful and good deeds, but for the Glory of the Gods and your Ancestors, for the edification of your descendants.”
“Live the children of the Clans of the Great Race, in the Great Relationship with your Gods, in friendship with your Clans and Clans, in Lada and Love for your Relatives, in Respect and Right Justice for all with your Border Enemies.”
“If you have disagreements with your neighbors or your relatives, then you should look for the reasons for the disagreements that have arisen only in yourself.”
“Blessed Words about the friendship of the Clans, which come from your pure heart, will strengthen the friendship between your Clans, better than any oaths on the Sword and in the name of your Tribal God.”
“Remember, children of the Great Race, never spur yourself on with fear. For it is like snake venom, in small quantities it is beneficial, but it quickly accumulates in the Soul and poisons the future life.”
“The desire for Pure Light will always live in the heart of man. But being on Midgard-Earth, a person will never reach the Sun, even if he has to climb the highest mountain on Earth, because the Yarilo-Sun will always be in a height inaccessible to man. And therefore, the seeker can find and acquire the Shining Pure Light, only in his Loving Heart, in the Clear Mind and in the Light Spirit.
“Remember the children of the Great Race, never spare your belly, in defense of your Ancient Family, in defense of the Ancient Faith of your Ancestors, in defense of the Holy Land of your Fathers.”
“Just as the light coming from the Yarila-Sun cannot be hidden in a dark vessel, it is also impossible to take away from the Race, the Land of Ancestors, Will, Conscience and Faith.”
“Remember the people of the Ancient Clans my words, that for each person, from the Great Race, the Higher Gods have established their Lesson. And what is destined for you from above, that is not possible in any way to utter or change at will. And therefore, fulfill your Earthly Lesson, established by the Heavenly Gods, and what is destined to come true will come true.
“Think, children of the Great Race, about who you are in your true essence, and why you live on Midgard-Earth. Look into the corners of your Soul, and look into the depths of your heart. And you will see the Ancient Wisdom of the Family, which was given by the Light Patron Gods, at earthly birth, in your Family.
“Remember, children of the Great Race, that no matter how much good you multiply, no matter how great wealth you have, it will not exalt you over other Clans, and will not grant power to your Family. For even having multiplied goodness and great prosperity, in your Family, none of you will be able to stop the movement of the Yarila-Sun or force Time to flow back.
“Do not renounce the children of the Great Race from your Brotherly and Nearby Clans, for when hard times come, all your Clans will come to the rescue, all your Brotherly and Nearby Clans.”
“Children of the ancient Clans of the Great Race, respect your Fathers and mothers, for they gave life to all of you. And do not leave your care for your Parents until the very end of their earthly life.
“Knowing the surrounding Explicit World, experience the children of the Clans of the Great Race that nothing can appear from nothing, and nothing can disappear without a trace, and therefore, everything has its source, and everything has its place in the World.”
“Worldly treasures and riches, multiplied by you on Earth, will not be able to be useful to you in the subsequent Worlds of Navi and Glory, for the True Treasures and Wealths necessary in the Worlds of Navi and Glory are Love, Primal Faith, Creation, and the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors yours."
“On the ancient holiday of Lubomir, create a great feast for the whole world, for whoever does not make Wedding feasts, deprives the children of their births of honest prosperity and grace, and those Communities and Gods do not accept new Family Unions.”
“Wrong deed or decision, committed out of ignorance by the Community, the Gods can forgive or not notice. But the very same deeds or decisions made out of ignorance by Rodan can bring disaster to the whole people.
“The Ancient Faith of the Ancestors and Conscience always live only in open hearts. So open your eyes, children, your hot and trembling hearts, and hear the voice of your pure hearts, and have the courage to follow them.
“Do not look for shining placers of Heavenly stars at the bottom of a deep lake, for they are high above you. And in order to see their true radiance, you need to fix your eyes on Heaven.”
“Remember the children of the Clans of the Great Race, and you, the glorious descendants of the Heavenly Clan, that you are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Ancient Gods, and therefore, you are initially free people, and for a person of the Great Race, Will, this is the original state. It cannot be given or taken away. For Will, this is the state of your Spirit!”
“Entering the Sacred Forest or the Oak Forest, bring good gifts to the Master of the Forest, for a person who has not brought gifts, the Master of the Forest will whirl, confuse, confuse all the paths and paths for him. It will take away from the gaze all the hunting game, the cry will run into the mind of the kikimora.
“People of the ancient Clans of the Great Race, always work and create for the benefit of the prosperity of your Clans. Always invest your pure Soul in the fruits of your creative labor. And then, no need will touch, multiplying and all-prospering Ancient and Great Kinds of yours.
“Remember, the heads of the Clans of the Great Race, that you should never leave the care of all the descendants of your Clans until their physical and Spiritual maturity. For the growing offspring of your Clans that have not grown strong and have not reached maturity cannot be a reliable support in the subsequent life of your Clans.
“Just as day follows night, as the Sun is born in the Morning Dawn, so any unseemly deed committed by a person of the Great Race, by accident or with malicious intent, becomes known to the Gods and the Community.”
“To build a dwelling for your Family, do not cut down a dead and sleeping Tree, and do not disturb the Tree on a full moon. For the Gods will not see your new dwelling, and the brownie will not look after your good. You are looking only for the revived Trees, the juice of the Raw Earth, which have drunk in the spring. Bring the chosen Tree, forgiveness and offer gifts and treats for him. On which, a blessed day in the Week, you begin to put up the dwelling of your Family, that Patron God will help you.
“Do not litter your children with the mother tongue, with the verb and adverbs of a foreign language. In the hearts only the words Native ones live, and other voices are dead for the Soul.
“Remember, children of the Clans of the Great Race, that nothing ever happens to a person on Midgard-Earth by chance, because any accident is a pattern determined by Fate and God's Laws. Everything that happens in a person's life is a sign of the Patron Gods of the Family, indicating the deeds you have created. And therefore, pay attention to everything that happens around you.
“To the one who fulfills the Heavenly Laws of the Gods, Mother Nature grants vitality, and the Heavenly Gods grant his Family, happiness in the heart and wealth in children. The Patron Gods of the Family protect this gracious person and his loved ones from all evil, falsehood, darkness and deceit, and this Goodness is also true and true, like the light of the Yarila-Sun in Heaven, and like a constant flow of water in the river.
“When the Highest Gods come to the rescue, never think about where the Great Power came from. Just accept with gratitude what the Patron Gods have given you.”
“Remember the children of the Clans of the Great Race, and you, the glorious descendants of the Heavenly Clan. That all the Heavenly Wisdom of the Gods, which is kept by the ancients of all your Clans, should belong only to the Race and your Clans, and no one else. And therefore, never reveal the secret Vedas to enemies and strangers. So that they could not use the Heavenly Wisdom of the Higher Gods, but against your ancient Clans.
“Do not go against your Fate, which the Mother of God Makosh wove for you, and against the call of your Heart and Conscience. For you will lose all the Ways of life, and you will be called outcasts.”
“Whoever of people in error rejects good and wise words, he misses time, then regrets. Whoever, having heard good and wise words, follows them immediately, accomplishing deeds, he is very successful in life and the prosperity of his Family will multiply.
“Never rush and do not rush people, in your grace-filled deeds and conversations, and may your every movement and word always be smooth and calm, like the flow of water in a quiet morning river. Before committing any deed, or interrupting a conversation that has just begun, listen to the voice of your heart.
“If the Priest of the Gods or the Elder of the Family instructed you to do a good deed, then do it immediately, as if this good deed was entrusted to you, your own Father.”
“Do not think that everything happens on Earth only at the thought of the Highest Gods, and nothing depends on your mighty Will and your blessed thoughts. Only unreasonable people who do not know the Truth of Life speak like that. Heavenly Gods only observe your creative deeds, and come to the human call when people ask them for help.
“Take care, as the apple of your eye, of the Kummirs of the Heavenly Patron Gods and all the Shtands of your ancient Clans. For if you do not save the Shrines of the Clans, then your ancient Clans will not escape your sorrows, dark hard times and losses.
“By the will of the Highest Tarkh Dazhdbog, the Ancient Vedas will be hidden until the Time of Light, in Haratya and Santiy, which contain Tragi and Runes, from the curious gaze of dark people. For it is useless for dark creatures to know about the Glorious deeds of the Ancient Gods, which multiply the Light in the Pure Svarga. The Vedas are understandable only to the enlightened, who have realized the Way in their lives. And people who did not know the Wisdom of the Family, how can they know the secret Vedas.
“Never refuse shelter to those ancient Clans of the Great Race who seek protection for their offspring from fierce enemies in your settlements, relying on the power of the swords of your Clans. For the preservation of Clans and blood brothers is a good deed for each Clans.
“Remember the people of the Clans of the Great Race that the Sacred places on Midgard-Earth have always been, are and will be Sources of the inexhaustible Great Life Force. Regardless of whether the Temples stand on Sacred Places near the Sources of Power, and regardless of the words and opinions of people, they always bestow Life Force on all those who suffer and need.”
“Each captive of the enemy wars, who caused damage to the Ancient Family, let him compensate for the damage with his own labor. After three full years, he is free to return to his native land or stay.
“Never start a dispute, because of which Clans and Peoples of Midgard-Earth the Patron Gods are better or more important, because this is not subject to your mind. Honor Holyly, in your ancient Clans, originally Native Patron Gods, but do not blaspheme or humiliate people who honor gods unknown to you.
“Remember the people of the Clans of the Great Race that only the Guardian Priests, the servants of the ancient Highest Gods, discover that hidden Wisdom left by the Gods and Ancestors, which is contained in Trags and Runes.”
“Know people that life in Svarga flows according to the Heavenly Laws, and does not depend on your thoughts. No matter how dark people reject the order and movement of the Heavenly Luminaries, the Yarilo-Sun will rise in the east, and a clear day will replace a dark night.
“Explore the people of the Race, this Wisdom: No one can protect your Clans, from foreign Clans and cruel enemies, if you yourself do not want to defend yourself. No one will create prosperity in your Clans, if you yourself do not want to create for the Clans. No one will bring up your children with dignity until you yourself bring up your offspring.”
“Realize the people of the Great Race, my words: Ancient Wisdom is known bit by bit, through great diligence, long-suffering, and painstaking creative work, because it is impossible to realize all the diversity contained in the Vedas at a single time, and to cover with your gaze, the entire Universe. If someone seeks to master the Knowledge in order to reach the heights of power and honor, he will eventually be worse than a madman, and all his aspirations will be in vain.”
“Ancient Wisdom is learned not in order to dominate and command someone, and not in order to be proud or exalted over other Clans. Ancient Wisdom was always learned in order to realize one's Life Path, and in order to pass it on to descendants.
“Remember the children of the Clans of the Great Race, and you, the glorious descendants of the Heavenly Clan. Do not listen to those dark people who say that your Ancient Gods and the dead Ancestors of your great Clans will never help you in difficult times. For the paths and thoughts of your Gods and Ancestors cannot be led by the dark ones, and whatever they say to you is only a lie and a great deception, which lead away from the Right Paths, into darkness.
“Work and create, people of the Race, in the name of the Gods and Ancestors of your Clans, for if there is prosperity in your Clans, your Peoples will live in abundance. And if the Peoples prosper in abundance, then your State will be called the Great.”
“For every accomplishment or good deed, as well as for an event in human life, there is a time and place determined from above. And therefore, which deeds must be performed, perform without delay and without haste. Create people that are able to create, and what will happen is what is destined by the Gods.
“Listen to the children of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Clans of the Heavenly words to my words. Remember and pass on to your descendants. The Future for all your Clans will spring from the Past of your Clans, for you yourself create your Future, guided by the Love that lives in your hearts. If there has never been in the Past, Love in your Hearts and Clans, then there is no Future for your Clans, and therefore the Present is meaningless. For everything that you do for your Clans, and your descendants, will turn to dust. Remember, there will be Love in the heart, which means there will be a Future for your Clans.”
HYMNS OF THE BIRDS OF THE GREAT RACE AND APPEAL TO THE LIGHT GODS OF OUR
To the Glory of the Gods and Our Ancestors!
We pronounce this appeal before the laying of the 6 Blood Sacrifices and Treasures on the alatyr-stone or altar, as well as during all Orthodox and Divine services.
Ancestor-Rod, Heavenly Rod! Strengthen my heart in the Holy Faith, grant me the Wisdom of my Ancestors, Your sons and grandchildren. Grant happiness and peace to Your peoples, now and forever and from age to age! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
We read this appeal before studying the Ancient Slavic-Aryan Vedas, as well as before classes or studies.
To the Glory of the One and Indivisible God the Father, the Tri-Light Great Family of Our Parent! May all our deeds be done, but for the Glory of our Gods and Ancestors, and for the prosperity of our Clans and descendants! Now and ever and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Heavenly Family, Progenitor! You, the Patron of all Clans! Remember all my Ancestors! Koi in Your Light Svarga! Now and ever and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
We read this appeal when bringing bloodless Treasures and Gifts to all our Ancestors, on the days of the Memory of the Ancestors and on Parental days.
Blessed be Ancestral Rod, Heavenly Rod! We thank Thee for the help of Dukhovna, for the help of Glorious, but in all our deeds! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Blessed be Triglav the Great! Now and ever and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Blessed is Inglia - Life giving birth to the Light of the Great Ramha, now and forever, and from century to century!
With this appeal, we thank the Creator-Creator of the Universes for His creation and for the life He gave to us and to the entire Heavenly Family.
Be blessed, Perun - our Leader, now and forever, and from century to century! And lead us to Glory Trisvetla! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
With this appeal, we glorify God Perun, the protector of all Clans of the Great Race and all descendants of the Heavenly Clan).
Blessed be, Patrons of the Clans of the Great Race, the Heavenly Clan, Lehi-Guardians and the Great Triglavs, now and forever, and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
With this appeal, we glorify and thank the Gods and Legs for God's help, God's Wisdom, God's Light and Freedom.
Ancestral Rod, Heavenly Rod, protect my heart from the scab of soullessness, indifference and lack of will, grant me the Help of my Ancestors. Sons and Grandchildren of Yours, grant me Strength and Will in order to fulfill my duty to my Family, now and forever, and from century to century! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Bless Dazhdbog, Tarkh Perunovich, for good deeds, for glorious deeds, but in defense of the Holy Faith and the land of the Holy Race, and in defense of our Elders, our wives and children. Protect from desecration by the pagans of the Holy Land of our Holy Land. May the Mansions, Sanctuaries and Temples of ours not be defiled, now and forever, and from century to century, for our Old Faith is great and mighty. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Glory to Ancestral Rod, Heavenly Rod, we thank You for our meal, for the bread and salt that You give us, to nourish our bodies, to nourish our Soul, to nourish our Spirit, may our Conscience be strong and may all our deeds be Yes, to the glory of all our Ancestors and to the Glory of the Heavenly Kin. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Ancestor Rod, Heavenly Rod, we thank you for the food that you give us and strengthen the strength of our Rod, may we be with you now and forever and from Circle to Circle. Taco be, taco be, taco be.
Perun! Wake up to those who call Thee, Glorious and Trislaven! Health and a multitude of the Family to all the children of Svarog, give, Kindness of patronage, show mercy, rule over everyone, even from the Motherland! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Glory to Ancestral Rod, Heavenly Rod, blessed be for centuries, You, the basis and protection of all Your people, the Sons of Svarog - Svarozhich, the Sons of Perun and Ros - Rosich, all the grandchildren of Dazhdbog and Stribog and Beles and Sventovit. Grant Your sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren Happiness, Wisdom and Freedom, so that they enter Vyriy the Light, and to their Father in Svarga, and may the Righteous Light find, and Svarog will only let them through! Taco be, Taco be, Taco be!
Glorious and Trislaven be the Holy God, instructing us on Holy Life, for you have indicated, You, the Way to Svarga the Pure and Rule there. And this rule is true, for the dark Nav is removed below Reveal, and Slav is arranged above Reveal, and taco abide forever and ever.
My father and my mother! My brothers and sisters! I stand before you with my open heart and pure thoughts! You are the strength and power of my Family. You are the Glory and wisdom of my Family. You, eternal help in all my creative deeds. May we arrive together in our life and in our deeds, now and forever, and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
With this appeal, we call on our Family.
Perun! Wake up to those who call Thee, Glorious and Trislaven! Weapons, bread and Strength, howl to the defenders of the Race, give! Sword of your Strength in the face of reality! Protecting all the Vesi of Svarog, rule over all the Son of Svarog! Taco be, Taco be, Taco be!
With this appeal, we call on Perun before the battle.
Semargl-Svarozhich! Great Fireman! They slept in pain, cleanse the womb, in the child of a person, in every creature, in old and young. You are God's Delight! Cleansing with fire, opening the power of the Soul, save the child of God, may the twigs perish. We glorify you, we call to ourselves, now and forever and from Circle to Circle. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Perun! Wake up to those who call Thee, Glorious and Trislaven! Give the goodness of Svarga and Peace to the whole Holy Race, and the awakening of the Spirit, children, reveal Perun! The kind of glorifier, rule over all, perished so that Spiritual darkness! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
This appeal is a speech before Kummir.
Glory to our Light Gods, the source of the power of our Life, for our Bozi is the Light in the darkness of the unbelief of our world!
We speak this appeal in our temples.
Our Heavenly race, the One God, having risen from sleep, I thank Thee for a restful sleep, for bodily rest, and taking up my deeds, I ask Thee: help me at all times, in every deed, and deliver me from the evil of the dark, may all be my deeds, but to Your Glory and to the glory of my Family and the Great Race, so be, be so, be so!
We speak this hymn-address when we wake up from sleep.
Our Heavenly Clan, the One God, going to sleep, I call Thee: grant me a peaceful sleep and bodily rest, and save me from all troubles and send the Leg of the Guardian Sleep for the sake of the Soul, and if I die in a dream, take my Soul to Yourself, for You are the God-Guardian of our souls and bodies, and settle her in Heavenly Vyria and forgive all my sins, voluntary and involuntary, for Great and Wise - You, so be, so be, so be!
We speak this appeal, going to sleep.
Good night to all Gods and Ancestors! Good night brownie! Good night to all good people! Now and ever and from Circle to Circle.
We speak this short address, going to sleep, instead of the previous address.
Our father Perun, Bose the Guardian! You are the Ruler of the Light Forces of Svarga, grant us good luck, in Glory, without crying! Shelter from deceit, from darkness and dope! From Black God's vices, from foreign dues. Lead us to creation, and our Clans to prosperity. Now and ever and from Circle to Circle. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Perun! Vmi calling upon Thee! Glorious and Trislaven wake up! Health, bread and Family, give my children, bring thunder! Rule over everyone! More from Rodno! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Glory to the Thrice Holy, life-giving Great Triglav of the World of Reveal - Svarog, Svetovit, Perun, who are the Conscience, Light and Freedom of all the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan! Our Fathers began in the same way, they sang His Great Glory, and remembering the Sichs and Warfare, with a fierce thief who came out of the darkness. The same way we speak the Great Glory, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Glory to our Ancient Fathers, who are now in the Most Pure Svarga, and see all our deeds, and smile well at us. And so we are not alone, but with our Fathers. And we are descendants, sensing the Glory of our Forefathers, we keep in our hearts the Holy Race, which is and remains the land of our Gods and Fathers. Now and ever and from Circle to Circle. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
The Wanderer Lies down, my Light Guardian, given to me by the Patron-Kin for protection, I ask You earnestly: You, enlighten me today and save me from all evil, guide me to a good deed and direct me on the Righteous Path, may all my deeds be, but to the Glory of Svarog and the Kind of Heaven, taco be, taco be, taco be!
MAIN HYMNS-APPEALS TO THE HEAVENLY MOTHER OF GOD
Empress, Mother Lada, Heavenly Mother, Mother of God! Visit us, You, by the Power of Light, bless for good deeds, for glorious deeds, but for the Glory of our Family, so be, be so, be so!
With this appeal, we ask for the blessing of the Lada Mother of God before starting work.
Empress, Mother Lada, Heavenly Mother, Mother of God! Blessed are You, Patroness of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan, we thank You for your help in our deeds, and at all times, while the Yarilo-Sun shines. Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Empress, Mother Lada, Heavenly Mother, Mother of God! Bless, You, I’m on a long road, I’m crossing, and I’m going straight, and may Your name be hallowed from Generation to Generation! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
With this appeal, we ask for the blessing of the Lada Mother of God when we set off on our journey.
Jiva-Mother, Heavenly Mother, who sent down a pure Soul, help in the cause of righteousness, in the prosperity of our Family. Illuminate in the clear Svarga, our aspiration-path, to Tarkh the Light in solace! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Empress, Makosh-Mother, Mother of Heaven, Mother of God! Weave for us the Fate of the Light, the Fate of the Clear, but without the Dark Threads. And may Your mercy not perish, but to all our Clans! We sing the Great Glory to you, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Empress, Makosh-Mother, Mother of Heaven, Mother of God! You, Mother-Rozhanitsa, Svarog sister! Grant us good luck, without aunts and cry! Give health to children, great and young! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
Mother-Rozhanitsa, Kindred sister, hear, You, our verbs, accept our bloodless, essential gifts, grant healthy offspring to all our Clans, so that our eternal Family Thread will never be interrupted. For Thee, we sing the Great Glory, and in our mansions, Thee, we call, now and forever, and from Circle to Circle! Taco be, taco be, taco be!
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