A huge cat with a magical voice. Slavic mythology

Russian folklore is immeasurably rich in songs, legends, dances, fairy tales. The latter are an invaluable layer of folk wisdom. Its carriers are a variety of fairy-tale characters. Quite colorful among them is the cat Bayun. It is present in a large number of Russian folk tales. The storytellers always depicted him as a cannibal cat, which was of enormous size.

This cruel scary cat liked to sit on a pole, most often an iron one. Basking in the sun, he patiently waited for travelers. Seeing the pilgrim, he began to purr contentedly, anticipating pleasure. The unsuspecting traveler approached the cat, and he, fluffing his tail, began to tell fairy tales and legends in a quiet beautiful voice.

His voice had magical powers. He lulled a person, plunged him into a slumber, made him supple and defenseless. In the end, the traveler fell asleep soundly, and the terrible cat jumped off his post, released huge strong claws, tore the unfortunate one into pieces and ate the warm flesh, purring carnivorously. These are the horrors he did, and there was no control over him.

The very word "bayun" has always been associated with a talker and a rhetorician. It came from the Russian verb "bayat" - to lull, to lull. Therefore, the terrible cat was given such a nickname. After all, Bayun was just engaged in the fact that he lulled, lulled a person, and then committed violent acts against him and took his life.

The cannibal cat lived for distant lands in the kingdom of the thirtieth. A dense forest stretched around, where there were neither animals nor birds. A narrow road cut through the forest thicket, leading to a pillar with a monster sitting on it. It was believed that if someone defeated the cat, he would be saved from all diseases. Therefore, many good fellows went to distant lands, dreaming of defeating the monster, but they died, drugged by Bayun's magical voice.

However, all Russian folk tales had a happy ending. And if so, then there was always a good fellow who did not succumb to the spell of a terrible cannibal. One of these heroes was Ivan Tsarevich. He went to distant lands to fight the monster. Seeing him, the cat Bayun began to tell fairy tales with his magical voice. But the prince put an iron cap on his head, pulled iron gloves over his hands, and fearlessly rushed at the cannibal.

In this fight, the good fellow won. He exhausted the cat, deprived him of his strength, and he plaintively asked for mercy. He promised that he would fulfill any desire of Ivan Tsarevich. He took the cat with him, brought him to his father in the palace, and the once formidable monster began to meekly and humbly serve the king. Tales were told to him, healed from various diseases.

This is how he was - this fairy-tale character the cat Bayun. Creepy, terrible, cruel towards the weak and defenseless. But, as they say, well done among the sheep, and against the young man and the sheep himself. The one who defeated the cannibal cat became his sovereign master and master. The monster turned into an obedient and helpful animal, spending its healing gift for good purposes.

Stanislav Kuzmin

Russian folklore is full of descriptions of fantastic creatures, the prototypes of which are familiar animals. Slavic mythology gave the authors of epics and fairy tales material for their works, and curious narrations attract the interest of modern children, despite the age of the writings. Cat Bayun is a little-known character, as it is rarely found in literature. This image previously appeared in many fairy tales, but today it has been unfairly forgotten. Nevertheless, the characterization of this hero of Russian narratives is extremely unusual.

History of creation

Cat Bayun is a fairy tale character, a cannibal cat, whose size is hard to imagine. He has a magical voice that puts travelers he meets to sleep. The cat kills rivals and does not shun light victims who are unable to fight his charms. At the same time, the hero, in whose power it will be to defeat the cat, can be saved from any ailments, because the tales of the four-legged are healing.

Bayun - means "narrator, talker". The verb "buy" is interpreted as "to speak" or "to lull". The animal sits on a tall iron pole in the middle of a dead forest that spreads far and wide, in a distant kingdom. There are no living creatures in the area.

The description of this fairy-tale hero is rarely found in epics and folklore. Modern sources of archaic legends and epics - collections of folk tales compiled, and compositions. The writers, without downplaying the importance of the character, talked about him on the pages of his works, proving that the wisdom of the ages is contained in the image of the hero.

Image and character

Fairy tales give an accurate description of the fantastic animal. A cat sitting on a pole has remarkable strength. For example, it easily breaks a metal cap. And you can take it in your hands using steel tongs. The beast has a high intelligence and is able to build long dialogues. At the same time, its dimensions are described in a specific way. The breed of the animal remains unknown, but the authors note that the cat is huge, comparing it to a horse. In addition, the animal is a cannibal.

It is easy to assume that the storytellers compared Bayun's cat with a tiger or a lion. Predators are large in size and easily deal with a person, attack from a hiding place, clinging to the body of the victim with claws and teeth. Bayun's opponents in fairy tales are either Andrei the shooter. The legends about these men mention that they carried the animal in a cage, which means that its dimensions were seriously exaggerated.

Despite the described bloodthirstiness of the beast, he is wise, decent and reasonable. The image of a cat, often used in the folklore of different countries, is symbolic. This animal has never submitted to man. Brave warriors capable of pacifying a mysterious creature are an allusion to the desire of people to tame an independent beast and force them to do someone else's will.

In Slavic mythology

The legends of Russian folklore are deep and multifaceted. Based on their interpretation, the Bayun cat is a kind of conductor between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

The pillar on which the animal sits is replaced in the tale by an oak tree tied with a golden chain. The cat walks the chain and tells stories. The tree he chose is associated with the World Tree growing at the North Pole, in Hyperborea. Bayun's voice is loud and melodious, so sleepy stories can be heard clearly and at a great distance.

It would be logical to assume that the hero is a forest dweller. Then he is the ancestor of famous predators: lynx or Siberian wild cat. Zoological sources confirm that such animals were not uncommon in the Urals or Siberia at a time when these lands were inhabited by our ancestors, the Aryans. We are talking about the time for 5-7 thousand years before the appearance of the Russians. The history of the mythical character is surprisingly long, not worse than the popular legends of Egyptian mythology.

The cat is capable of peaceful interaction with people, because in some fairy tales he is invited to lull small children. The inhabitant of the other world responds to the call, speaking and putting to sleep. If the narrator sees the victim in the interlocutor, then he charms her with his voice and eats it. The cannibal sorcerer is able to magically heal an opponent if he resists conspiracies. Some fairy tales describe that the cat Bayun, subdued by brave warriors, remains in the service of the king.

The word "bayun", in addition to direct decoding, is regarded as a mention of Bayan, a Russian storyteller, whose fame is comparable to that of a great writer. The storyteller told about the legends of the past, which were little known to the world. The mention of this man connects modern civilization and the disappeared civilization of Hyperborea.

At the end of this period, Bayun the cat moved to the dead forest and settled down on the border of two worlds: the afterlife and the real, sitting on an iron pole. Curious in this case is the mention of the metal from which the protective caps of the warrior and the claws of the animal are made. After all, legends date back to a time when such material was not known to the world.

The name Bayun is consonant with the name Gamayun. is the name of the things of a bird that knows about the past.

The original Russian image of the cat has been cherished by history for 17 millennia. The familiar image of an animal that plays the role of a home amulet in everyday life and a warm friend that brightens up loneliness is older than the mythological characters of Ancient Egypt and Greece. Some parents still sing a lullaby today about a cat who is invited into the house for a cake or a glass of milk to lull a baby who does not want to sleep.

No matter how you look at Rus', - at random from time immemorial,
In the fields instead of rye - quinoa and loach,
On the icons - a ghoul, and with a club - the law,
On an iron pole - Bayun the cat.

Sergey Yesenin

Cat Bayun is a very remarkable figure in a Russian fairy tale, but this character, surprisingly, is known only from one Russian fairy tale “Go there without knowing where, bring it without knowing what”, and in a very unattractive form of a huge cannibal cat. It is this factor that is noted in the free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.
“Cat Bayun is a character in Russian fairy tales, a huge cannibal cat with a magical voice. He speaks and lulls the approached travelers with his tales and those of them who do not have enough strength to resist his magic and who have not prepared for a fight with him, the sorcerer cat mercilessly kills. But the one who can get a cat will find salvation from all diseases and ailments - Bayun's tales are healing.
The word bayun means “talker, narrator, rhetoric”, from the verb bayat - “tell, speak” (cf. also the verbs lull, lull in the meaning of “lull”). Fairy tales say that Bayun sits on a high, usually iron pole. The cat lives far away in the distant kingdom or in a lifeless dead forest, where there are neither birds nor animals. In one of the tales about Vasilisa the Beautiful, the cat Bayun lived with Baba Yaga.
There are a large number of fairy tales where the main character is given the task of catching a cat; as a rule, such tasks were given with the aim of ruining a good fellow. Meeting with this fabulous monster threatens with inevitable death. To capture the magic cat, Ivan Tsarevich puts on an iron cap and iron gloves. Having requisitioned and caught the animal, Ivan Tsarevich delivers it to the palace to his father. There, the defeated cat begins to serve the king - to tell fairy tales and heal the king with lulling words. [VP]
It is interesting to provide references on the basis of which this patchwork is sewn.
link 1 – unavailable since 06/14/2016
link 2 - Fairy tales “Go there - I don’t know where, bring it - I don’t know what” and “The Tale of Fedot Sagittarius”
link 3 - Fairy tales "Baba Yaga and the cat Bayun" and "Ivan the Fool and Baba Yaga"
link 4 - "Russian folk tales" / Comp., entry. Art. and approx. V. P. Anikina, M., Pravda 1985., 576 p.
The link generally falls out of context, and this is the main characteristic of the word Bayun.
A reference to the only Russian fairy tale "Go there - I don't know where, bring it - I don't know what", where Bayun is presented as a negative character. "The Tale of Fedot Sagittarius" by L. Filatov does not contain information about the cat Bayun.
Link about Baba Yaga and the cat Bayun. In truly folk tales (retellings of storytellers), Bayun the cat is absent and there is a reason for that. This is truly folk art, and not the Judeo-Christian ideology, which is saturated with many Russian, so-called folk tales.
Link to a collection of Russian folk tales, where, probably, there is also a fairy tale "Go there - I don't know where, bring that - I don't know what."
Thus, there is only one Russian folk tale, where the cannibal cat Bayun is presented. The following is a paragraph from this tale in Wiki.
“... Andrey the shooter came to the thirtieth kingdom. For three miles, sleep began to overcome him. Andrei puts three iron caps on his head, throws his hand over his hand, drags his foot by foot - he walks, and where he rolls like a skating rink. Somehow he survived his drowsiness and found himself at a high pillar.
Cat Bayun saw Andrey, grunted, purred and jumped from the pole on his head - he broke one cap and the other, he took up the third. Then Andrei the shooter grabbed the cat with tongs, dragged him to the ground and let's stroke him with rods. First, it was cut with an iron rod; he broke the iron one, began to treat it with copper - and this one broke it and began to beat with tin.
The tin rod bends, does not break, wraps around the ridge. Andrey beats, and the cat Bayun began to tell fairy tales: about priests, about clerks, about priest's daughters. Andrei does not listen to him, you know he is courting him with a rod. The cat became unbearable, he sees that it is impossible to speak, and he prayed:
- Leave me, good man! Whatever you need, I'll do it for you.
- Will you come with me?
- Wherever you want to go.
Andrei went back and led the cat behind him.
- “Go there - I don’t know where, bring it - I don’t know what”, Russian fairy tale”
The following can be noted in this paragraph:
“Andrey beats, and the cat Bayun began to tell fairy tales: about priests, about clerks, about priest's daughters. Andrei does not listen to him, know that he is courting him with a rod.
The role of the cannibal cat, it would seem, is contained in the words of Princess Marya:
“Early in the morning Marya Tsarevna woke Andrei up:
- Here you have three caps and pincers and three rods, go to distant lands, to a distant state. You won’t reach three miles, a strong dream will overcome you - Bayun the cat will let drowsiness on you. You don’t sleep, throw your hand over your hand, drag your foot by foot, and where you roll with a skating rink. And if you fall asleep, Bayun the cat will kill you.”
In the article "Forgotten evil spirits" the author writes:
“Of all the characters in Russian folk tales and folklore, Kot-Bayun is quite close to her tail. From what? From the fact that he is so little changed in fairy tales. Why? That's what we'll talk about."
So we're back to the original question? Why is Kot Bayun not so popular? E. Prokofieva, who wrote a guide about evil spirits, was able to mention him in only two instances: in Pushkin's "Ruslan and Lyudmila" and Uspensky's "Down the Magic River".
As for Pushkin's "Scientist's Cat", he is not very similar to Bayun: he does not destroy people, he does not send sleep, although, like Bayun, he tells fairy tales and also sings songs. But unlike Bayun - "I was sitting under him, and the scientist cat told me his tales. I remember one: this tale, now I will tell the world ..." I.e. this cat not only did not touch Pushkin, but also told him his tales without such arguments as those rods with which Andrei was courting Bayun.
The image of a cannibal cat from the fairy tale “Go there - I don’t know where, bring it - I don’t know what” has migrated to modern satirical and children’s literature without any reason, so to speak, according to a knurled image, for example, in the modern fairy tale “Down the Magic river L. Uspensky
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Rice. 1. Cat Bayun in the company of Barabas, Chumichka, Koshchei and Likha

"You don't want to, don't! Koschey said. - Come on, Bayun, put them to sleep! Let them sleep until our victory.
Bayun stepped forward and looked first at one boyar, then at another. And everyone he looked at immediately fell to the floor and fell asleep right on the spot. A minute later all the boyars were asleep. There was only snoring."
“Cat Bayun jumped out onto the bridge and looked at Ivan the Cow Son with his witch eyes. No matter how Ivan strengthened himself, no matter how he struggled with sleep, he could not resist. He fell and, defenseless, fell asleep right on the bridge. The cat jumped up on his chest and began to tear the chain mail with steel claws.
Several horsemen from the left bank rushed to the aid of the hero. But Bayun directed his lantern eyes at them, and they fell from the horses, as if they had been knocked down. But this was foreseen by Vasilisa the Wise. She stepped forward, and in her hands was something wrapped in a rag. A magic club jumped out of the rag and flew towards Bayun. In vain he rolled his eyes. In vain he growled and showed his claws. The club flew up to him and let's beat on the sides.
The cat left the hero and rushed under the protection of Koshchei the Deathless.
The club of Vasilisa the Wise and the rod in the hands of Andrei Sagittarius are similar objects as factors of influence.
Interestingly, in Western European fairy tales, both cats and troubadours have very positive characters, for example, in the fairy tales "Puss in Boots" and "The Bremen Town Musicians". Why didn’t the light turn against the black cat in the Russian fairy tale?
Cat Bayun, in fact, opposes in his tales the official Judeo-Christian religion adopted in Rus', which is why he is objectionable, therefore his archer beats with a rod. This tale is ideologized, like many other Russian folk tales, where Koschei the Immortal and Baba Yaga, the Nightingale the Robber are mentioned. I have already written about the etymology of these characters earlier. Koschey is a koshchy, folk storyteller. Baba Yaga - witch, healer, Nightingale the Robber - gusler Slavisha. These are representatives of the pagan religion, which was persecuted by Judeo-Christianity. If Koschey turned into Koshchei in a fairy tale, Slavish the gusler into Nightingale the robber, then the boyan-narrator turned into Bayun the cat, since the boyan and button accordion are consonant words. Thus, a very unworthy role fell on the poor animal as a scapegoat for the sins of others.
A certain apologist for Judeo-Christianity, S. Kolibaba, even tried to distort the meaning of the word "bait", reducing its origin from the Hebrew root BAA - "to ask, to ask a question."
“From the above examples, it is clear that the Russian term “bayat” was originally understood as posing a question (a problem that arose) before mystical forces - a sorcerer, a fortune-teller, and also before the Divine forces (God Sabaoth narrated bayat over the sick) - a request for a solution to the problem.
Sorcerers, soothsayers, blasphemers, boyans, turning to nature, higher powers, people, as a rule, sang songs, i.e. bayali.
“Boyan, then the prophetic one, if anyone wants to create a song, the mind will spread on the tree, like an eagle in the clouds, a gray wolf on the ground ...” [SPI]
Where is the question to solve the problem?
“BAYU or bau, bai, bayushki, refrain for lulling, rocking a child; it's time for you bayushki, go bainki, bye-bye, go to sleep. Bayushki bayu, mallet beats. Lull someone, nurture, lull, lull, humming rock, rock, lull; cradle with someone, mess around, babysit while lulling. Okay lulling, but sleep does not take. The nurse cradled her handkerchief. I did care that I fell asleep. Rock him. I crammed myself to the point of being tired. Relax, go to dinner. Lull him some more, and you lull, lull, sing along. I lulled all night, I lulled my hand, pumped it out. I got mad all over the house, sang. lullaby cf. motion sickness, lulling the child with a chorus. Bayukala vol. luller m. luller, baukalka f. nurse, nanny, sang. Bayukalka unsteadiness, cradle, rocking chair, cradle, carriage. Baika lullaby song, refrain for lulling a child; | Vologda cradle, cradle. | In the meaning of a dialect, a fable and a pipe, see bait; fabric, see bike.» [SD]
“BAIT south of Moscow, bait and bait, bait (bayati and bati; sows and nets, deeds and children; as from singing a song, so from a father a fable) sowing. and east. also in app. lips. talk, chat, talk, tell, talk, interpret; foul, bakul, balabonit, kalyakat, gamble, etc. He ba "t, I ba" t, I won't go ba "t. Everyone knows the truth, but not everyone knows the truth. Better not bang, blink your eyes, as if you understand. it was accordion that the wife is not a mistress. Soup sip, but buy less. Know a lot, but buy little. It is not appropriate to bayan much. For three years the boy did not bay, yes - a fool mother. We will not be rich from shata and bati (chatter). buy on your share, and I speak on my side. You buy on your share, and I will spread it on my half. Buy, buy, but say. The people buy it - but they don’t know what. Our grandfathers bought the truth, and we only echo We were able to. We used to play about it too. With a pretext the same as saying: "I got myself a fishing line, uttered it in an agreement; I got into a frenzy, you won't be able to. on whom; to get drunk to your fill: you beat him up, or what? You can’t fight him off. Beat him a little more, ”[SD]
baj-baj - bye, goodbye (English), i.e. go to rest.
By the way, bye and peace, perhaps, the same root words.
baj > pokoj - peace (glor.) (reduction p / b, omission k) / pax- peace (lat.) / peac - peace (eng.)
Slavic interpretation of foreign words is carried out according to the method of searching for Slavic roots in foreign words (http://www.tezan.ru/metod.htm).
Nowhere is the meaning of BAIT as "ask", "ask".
Kolibaba writes:
“BA+IT, BA+YAT = Heb. BAA to ask, to find out, to find out, to ask + ET time, term, period, opportune moment; those. find out the moment, the time of occurrence of events.
BAYA+TH, BAIA = Heb. BAIA problem, question (inquire)."
Why does the ending of the verb -AT, -ITH like a particle of the word BAYAT turn into a Hebrew word?!
If you write a verb in Hebrew, then it will most likely be LE-BAA, where -LE- is the ending that is at the beginning of the word. Why is that? Yes, because Hebrew words are written from right to left, so the ending -LE has become a prefix.
In Latin and Romance, the ending -ere, -ire, are is transformed into -le in Hebrew (reduction l / r). In German, the ending is -en (replacing r/n). In English, the ending to is at the beginning of the word, as in Hebrew (to bi), that is, bi-ti > biti - being (glor.) (transl. to / bi).
BAI (glory) and BAA (heb.) - the same root in the meaning of speaking, calming, singing. Where did the meaning "to ask" come from? Modification BAA - vedati - vedati (slav.) (omission d, reduction v / b).
The most interesting thing is that Kolibaba writes a review in Russian, which is a derivative of the Slavic languages, and at the same time declares that he does not know what the Slavic language is, considering it an artificial language originating from the Church Slavonic language, which in turn is in the main concepts of church worship consists of Jewish roots. The Orthodox Church, which conducts services on the basis of the Greek language, would know about this.
Further Kolibaba writes:
“Regarding your “criticism”, I inform you that I do not know Slavic languages, by the way, science too.
The ethnonym "Slavs" is rather vague, known since the 5th century, but who was understood by "Slavs"? At this time in Europe, incl. and Eastern, an extraordinary mixture of tribes and languages. Maybe they were the Huns, the remnants of Attila's troops defeated by Rome, or the Avars (Avar Khaganate (modern Hungary), or a little later, the Bulgarian Turks.
Archeology finds only primitive buildings (dugout pits), craft at a low level, primitive religious beliefs (shamanism), low culture, most cultural universals are missing: libraries, writing, literature, schools, teachers, etc.
The Church Slavonic (conditional name) language appeared around 861, when the Byzantine educator Cyril was on a business trip with the Khazars and in the Jewish communities of Crimea. Khazars are Jews, Jews are the ruling elite of the Khazar Khaganate.
Thus, the Church Slavonic language was created in the Judeo-Christian environment, had the task of introducing the multi-speaking population of the Black Sea region to Judeo-Christianity.
This task was completed in an ultra-short time and brilliantly, most of the languages ​​​​of Eastern Europe came out of Church Slavonic.
You must understand (although it is difficult for you) that the Church Slavonic language is not Slavic in the literal sense of the word, but an ARTIFICIAL, CHURCH language, and most of its words-concepts (lexicon) are associated with the sacred language of the Church. The Church (in all countries) had access to every person (from a peasant to a monarch) and the scientific apparatus of monks and priests, who studied, formed and introduced into the "national circulation" words-concepts composed of Jewish roots (from the language of God, God is with us Jew, or do you deny it?). History does not find other similar organizations.
The tale that the ethnonym "Slavs" is known in historical sources only from the 5th century does not stand up to criticism. One can guess that in the struggle between Christianity and paganism in Western Europe and in Rus', little has survived from Slavic books, writings, and general references to the Slavs, with the exception that “The Tale of Igor's Campaign” (and that is, there are many skeptics about the authenticity of the work ). Yes, and the Slavic tribes were called in historical sources in a completely different way, either chipped by Herodotus, or the Scythians by Ptolemen, or the Sarmatians by Tacitus. Fortunately, the language of the ancient Slavs (Proto-Slavic) has been preserved, which belongs to Vulgar Latin.

The history of the origin of the Slavic alphabet

The history of the origin of the Slavic alphabet is like a well-twisted detective story. The establishment of unity of views of historians on this issue is hindered by the almost complete absence of primary sources. The only source that has come down to us is the “Legend of the Letters” by the Chernoriz Khrabr, who tells in his essay that the Slavs, being pagans, used the Greek and Latin alphabet (“letters”). There we also find a message about the creation of the Slavic alphabet by Constantine in 863.
Many questions arise:
1. Two alphabets. Why did Constantine (Kill) and Methodius create two alphabets - Cyrillic and Glagolitic, and the latter, according to the general opinion of researchers, was created earlier than Cyrillic? Maybe the Cyrillic alphabet was created by Cyril, and Methodius - the Glagolitic. ? But it is stated quite clearly that the brothers created two alphabets, which are completely different in lettering. Why were two Slavic alphabets created with completely different letters? It is alleged that Constantine created the Glagolitic alphabet, and not the Cyrillic alphabet, then it should be explained why the second, and not the first, is called Cyrillic. In this regard, it was suggested that the name "Cyrillic" used to belong to that Slavic alphabet, which later became known as the Glagolitic alphabet.
2. Confusion with names. The research literature mentions the names of Constantine and Methodius. So, for example, the preaching of Constantine in Moravia, in Rus', the life of Constantine, and not Cyril, is described. In some texts, the name of Constantine is mentioned as church, and Cyril is worldly, in others Constantine-Cyril is mentioned. Thirdly, the name Cyril (before becoming a monk - Constantine). Methodius generally has only one name - Methodius. “It is known that Methodius, like Constantine, before his death took the monastic name - Methodius, while the name given to him at birth is not known”!. If Konstantin is a monastic name, then why is the Slavic alphabet named after the worldly name Cyril? Why does Methodius have only one name?
From the whole complex of questions, it can be assumed that Constantine and Methodius created only one Slavic alphabet - Glagolitic, and another Slavic alphabet - Cyrillic has long existed. Further, I assume that the name Cyril is a fictitious or distorted word of some other meaning.
This whole tangle of questions can be unraveled if we trace the mission of the Slavic educator through the "Life" of Constantine.
“From the surviving “Life” of Constantine it is known that before the Moravian mission he visited Khozaria (in the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov), on the way there he stopped in the Crimea, in the city of Korsun (Chersones), a Greek colony in East Slavic territory. Here he found the "Korsun Books", a gospel and a psalter written in "Rossian letters", possibly in Russian letters. Konstantin allegedly even met a person who read these books, and immediately learned to read them himself. .
Returning to the controversy, which was the original - Glagolitic or Cyrillic, we read:
“In the Cyrillic copy of the “Book of the Prophets”, rewritten in 1499 in Novgorod, there is an afterword that is available in the original, written in 1047. In the afterword, Pop Ghoul Likhoy indicates that the manuscript was written “is kourilovice”, i.e. with original written in a different alphabet. There are separate verbal letters in the manuscript. This makes it possible to consider that the original manuscript was written in the Glagolitic alphabet, which was then called Cyrillic ("kurilovitsa")" .
The confusion is extraordinary.
From all of the above, I dare to assume that both “Cyrillic” and “Kurilovitsa” (a distorted word “Korsunica”) and “Russian letters” refer to the “Korsun Books”. "Korsun Books" is a Coptic script!
In fact, then everything falls into place. Constantine and Methodius really created the only Slavic alphabet - the Glagolitic alphabet, and this does not contradict anything, and the Cyrillic alphabet (distorted "korsunitsa") was and is still the Coptic Greek alphabet. The Glagolitic alphabet lost its meaning in Slavic writing over time and currently exists only in Croatian church books.
Kolibaba: "Regarding your "criticism", I inform you that I do not know Slavic languages, by the way, science too."
What science? Is it the former director of the Institute of Linguistics M. Krongauz, who once said that if we extract all foreign words from the Russian language, then we will become dumb, or A. Zaliznyak, who launched an open war on "unprofessional linguistics"? I do not understand such scientific authorities.

On the origin of Hebrew

History reference:
“Hebrew is a modern modification of the Hebrew language, formed on the basis of the language of the Mishnaic period. Refers to the Semitic languages ​​of the new stage. The official language of the State of Israel (along with Arabic). The number of speakers, St. 3.5 million people
K ser. 1st millennium BC other Hebrew the language fell into disuse as a spoken language and remained the language of religious practice and high-style spiritual and secular literature. In the 2nd floor. 18th-19th centuries on its basis, Hebrew was formed, mainly among the Jews of Eastern Europe, as the language of enlightenment. and fiction. From the second half of the 19th century Hebrew has also become the spoken language of everyday communication.” .
When I was five years ago, at the Literaturnaya Gazeta forum, I met a Jew from Israel with a strange combination of first and last name Volodimer Betz (maybe it was a pseudonym), who ardently convinced me that the Russian language came from Hebrew. At the time, I did not attach any serious significance to this statement. But, now, publications have begun to appear about the role of Hebrew in the Russian language and not only in the language, but also in the history of Muscovite Rus'.
All this would be nothing, but if we add to this the book by O. Suleimenov "From Az to Yat" about the influence of Turkism on the Russian language, a dictionary of foreign words (7 thousand words) with Latin, Greek, French and other roots, then one gets the impression that the Russians do not have their own original, historical language, but only a collection of prison jargon in Hebrew, strong expressions from Tatar mat, scientific terms from Latin and Greek, and other everyday words from Western European languages. Or maybe it's the other way around? All the words introduced into the Russian language are in fact the secondary advent of Slavic roots in a form distorted beyond recognition. Maybe all foreign languages ​​are based on the predecessor of the Russian language - the Proto-Slavic language, which was formed long before the Nostratic languages.
Exploring the Nostratic languages, I came to the conclusion that they all belong in their origin to a single proto-language, which I designated as the Proto-Slavic language, since in its modern form the Proto-Slavic language remained only in the Slavic languages ​​in almost unchanged form.
Hebrew has not escaped the significant influence of Proto-Slavic, there will be many examples of this, including the Hebrew-Proto-Slavic dictionary.

scientist cat
Returning to Wikipedia, the one-sidedness of information about Bayun the cat seems strange.
There is also Pushkin's:
“At the seaside, the oak is green;
Golden chain on an oak tree:
And day and night the cat is a scientist
Everything goes round and round in a chain;
Goes to the right - the song starts,
To the left - he tells a fairy tale.
A.S. Pushkin was very careful about Russian folklore and it was not in vain that he appropriated the epithet “scientist” to the cat Bayun.
He gave, in fact, a completely new interpretation of the image of Bayun the cat. Yes, and in many sources it is said about the creative, protective role of the cat in the fairy tale. For example, in Ch. Perro's fairy tale "Puss in Boots", the cat, which was inherited by the youngest of the brothers, provides invaluable services to its owner, thanks to its cunning and, say, wisdom. Isn't that a learned cat?
In the Encyclopedia of Symbols we read:
“cat, cat Matou Chat m; le. F;lin Qui tient du chat, qui en a la souplesse. L;opard, le plus souvent, mais aussi le Tigre, la Panth;re, le Chat.
A domestic animal endowed in folk representations with dual symbolism and various demonic functions, and often paired with a dog. Her domestication took place ca. 2000 BC e. in Egypt, based on the Nubian light yellow cat (the short-tailed reed cat was known there even earlier). Later, cats from Egypt came to Greece and Rome. In a number of mythological traditions, the image of a cat acts as the embodiment of divine characters of the highest level. In the myths about the hero-serpent fighter of various traditions, the cat can act as: actually a serpent fighter; its incarnation - for example, the hero of the Belarusian fairy tale of the same name Ivan Popyalov turns into a cat; snake fighter assistant; sometimes the cat-slayer is inverted into the opponent of the serpent as the incarnation or helper of the serpent, for example, in a number of Lithuanian mythological texts. The functions of the serpent fighter and his opponent are combined in the tale of Volya Volovich. The opposition of the snake fighter and the snake in a transformed form (through the opposition of "cat and mouse") is widely represented in rituals and their degenerate forms - children's games. The motives of both the transformation of a cat into a man and the reverse transformation, as well as the combination of human and cat elements in the character, are known. The elusiveness of the boundaries between the feline and the human, partly allows us to explain the origin of the “feline” names in folklore (names such as Ivan Tsarevich’s brother Kot Kotovich, Kot Kotofeich, Kotofey Ivanovich, Kotonailo, etc.) and onomastics. In various mythopoetic traditions, the motifs of a learned cat are common.
In the same time:
“In lower mythology, the cat acts as an incarnation or assistant (member of the retinue) of the devil, evil spirits. In a number of traditions, it is endowed with the features of vampirism. The negative evaluation of a cat in many cultures is associated with an aggressive attitude towards a woman. Basic values: Sun, Moon, variability of the luminary (strength of the Sun, phases of the Moon) - the ability to change the shape of the pupil; femininity, grace, grace independence, freedom, self-will, independence, fickleness deception, deceit, cunning, cunning, duplicity resourcefulness, elusiveness, vitality (nine lives) laziness, desire, lust, cruelty night, darkness, witchcraft, witch, evil spirits misfortune , evil, death - black"
In Egypt, China, cats were revered and deified. The Bible says that the cat saved Noah's Ark:
“In the legend of the global flood, the cat saves Noah's ark: plugging the hole with its tail, which was gnawed by a mouse created by the devil. It is forbidden to kill a cat, otherwise there will be no luck in anything.

Folk beliefs about the cat

“It is believed that if a person sleeps with a cat, his mind will go haywire. It is dangerous to carry a cat with horses, because the horse dries out from this. Cats are not allowed into the church. Cats and dogs should not be allowed to eat food consecrated in the church. However, the Poles sometimes gave them specially consecrated bread and butter for Easter. This custom is explained by the popular belief that people have bread thanks to a cat and a dog: according to the widespread legend about the grain ear, people now use bread, which God left only for cats and dogs, for their disrespectful attitude towards bread. It is a bad omen if a cat (any, not just black) crosses the road or meets on the way. For a hunter and a fisherman, a meeting with a cat promised failure in fishing. In this regard, they tried not to mention the cat during the hunt or called it differently (for example, a casserole). In the form of a black cat, they often represent evil spirits. At the same time, the cat is believed to be able to see evil spirits invisible to humans. A devil may appear in the image of a cat. In the guise of a cat, they represent the souls of the dead, especially those who atone for their sins after death or died not by their own death. In the form of a cat, death is shown to small children. The black cat was also seen as the embodiment of diseases: cholera and "cow death". Russians believe that black cats and dogs protect the house from lightning, but they also consider it dangerous to have them in the house during a thunderstorm. This is explained by the belief that during a thunderstorm God tries to strike the devil with lightning, and the devil hides from God, turning into a cat, dog or other animal. The Ukrainians know a story about how a forester during a thunderstorm saw a black cat, which the thunder did not take, and shot it with a consecrated tin button. After that, he had a dream about St. George and said that he had killed Satan, who had teased the saint for seven years. The cat has the features of a home patron. Its presence in the house has a positive effect on the economy and livestock. They believe that a stolen cat brings happiness to the house. And in an unhappy house there are no cats. When moving to a new house, the owners often let the cat into it first, and only then move in themselves. Entering after her, the owner goes to a corner, which the brownie should choose for himself. A cat brought to a new house is put on the stove next to the chimney, that is, where, according to popular beliefs, the brownie lives. There are also frequent stories about a brownie who turns into a cat. K. is used in folk magic and medicine. It is believed, for example, that a black cat or cat has a miraculous bone. If obtained, it can make a person invisible or give him the ability to know everything. Anyone who, at midnight at a crossroads, pricks his finger with such a bone and signs with blood, will receive in the service of a devil-domovoi, who will bring stolen money, grain, milk from other people's cows, etc. (see Enrichment Spirit) ). In some Russian provinces, in order to prevent the start of the loss of livestock, it was considered necessary to bury the dead cattle in a barn along with a live cat. To protect themselves from cholera, they made a furrow around the village with a small plow, into which they harnessed a cat, a dog and a rooster, always black. The swollen udder of a cow was treated by scratching it with the claws of a domestic cat. A child with consumption was bathed in a font with a black cat so that the disease would pass to the cat. From a cold, one should sniff the smoke of a burned cat's tail. White cat hair was used as a remedy for burns. According to popular belief, the cat is able to have a beneficial effect on sleep. Therefore, the image of a cat, like a hare, is often found in lullabies. Before a baby is placed in the cradle for the first time, a cat is placed there so that the baby sleeps soundly. The concept of the relationship between a cat and a hare was noted among the Serbs, who believe that the hare originated from a cat. In folk culture, a cat is a symbolic analogue of a bear, and a dog is a wolf. In East Slavic fairy tales, in Russian and Lusatian bylichkas, an evil spirit, frightened by a bear (hell, kikimora, water, etc.), calls him a “cat”. Russian peasants know a way to call with the help of a cat a forest spirit - a “boletus”, which has a bearish appearance. Folklore and fairy-tale motifs: the transformation of a hero-serpent fighter or a monster into a cat - the East Slavic cycle of fairy tales about Ivan the Cat's son, the Belarusian fairy tale Ivan Popyalov.

Purring

One of the features of the cat family is the purring of animals to a positive external stimulus. Possibly, the purring of a cat or a cat is reminiscent of mumbling songs, conspiracy songs of the boyan singer.
“The mechanism of purring has long been a controversial issue, since a special organ responsible for the production of such sounds has not been found in felines. According to recent studies, the mechanism of purring is as follows: electrical impulses arise in the cerebral cortex, which arrive at the muscles located near the vocal cords and cause them to contract. Actually, the "purr apparatus" is located in cats between the base of the skull and the base of the tongue and is a thinly connected hyoid bones. Muscle contraction near the vocal cords causes them to vibrate. The cat makes a purring sound with its mouth and nose, and the vibration spreads throughout its body, while during the purring it is impossible to listen to the lungs and heart of the animal. [VP]
“The reasons why a cat purrs are also not entirely clear. Cats have been observed to purr when they are being petted and feel safe, less so when they are eating. Cats sometimes purr during childbirth, and kittens can purr as early as two days old. Some researchers suggest that with the help of purrs, cats demand that their owner feed them or simply pay attention, and the types of purring can be different: it can express pleasure, boredom, greeting the owner, anxiety, gratitude. Another theory is that with the help of purring, cats stimulate their brains to produce a hormone that acts as a relaxing, healing and pain-relieving one: indeed, cases have been recorded when injured cats purr in pain. Scientists at the University of California at Davis suggested that purring with its vibration strengthens the bones of a cat, which are negatively affected by long immobility: it is known that cats can sleep and doze for 16-18 hours a day. Based on this theory, they proposed using a "purr of 25 hertz" to quickly restore activity that had been in zero gravity for a long time" [VP]
“And frequencies from 20 to 200 Hz are usually the average range of the heart. The heart is usually said to work at a frequency of 58 to 75 Hz. Many mistakenly compare this to heart rate. But the pulse is the number of beats per minute, and here we are dealing with frequency. Therefore, low throat singing, when the choir sings, even men say what they take for the soul, and at the same time touch their hearts with their hands. The heart begins to work normally. Classical music is just in this range - 58-75 Hz "
Perhaps the low frequency of purring at 25 Hz has a beneficial effect on the heart. The heart seems to calm down. Purring is like deep throat singing.

So what, in fact, was the substitution of Boyan the song-singer for the cat Bayun in the Russian folk tale? There are several factors involved here:
1. sound similarity of the names Boyan and Bayun
2. Replacing the singer Boyan with the cat Bayun as a way to combat dissent in Christian ideology
3. comparison of the singer Boyan with evil spirits in the form of the cat Bayun to discredit the folk storyteller.
4. Boyan's songs are compared with the physiological purring of a cat.
5. Comparison of the image of a cat in boots with the image of an ogre in the fairy tale "Puss in Boots" by Ch. Perrault.

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I would like to believe that this is a fake.

What is close to us:

Two feelings are wonderfully close to us.
In them the heart finds food:
Love for native land
Love for father's coffins.

Based on them from the ages,
By the will of God Himself,
human self,
The pledge of his greatness.

Living shrine!
Without them, the soul would be empty.
Without them, our cramped world is a desert,
The soul is an altar without a deity.

A.S. Pushkin<октябрь 1830 г.>

Abbreviations

SPI - A Word about Igor's Campaign
PVL - The Tale of Bygone Years
TSB - Great Soviet Encyclopedia
SD - Dahl dictionary
SF - Fasmer's Dictionary
SIS - dictionary of foreign words
TSE - Efremov's explanatory dictionary
TSOSH - explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov, Shvedov
CRS - dictionary of Russian synonyms
BTSU - Ushakov's big explanatory dictionary
SSIS - collection dictionary of foreign words
MAC - small academic dictionary of the Russian language
VP - Wikipedia

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2. Article "Forgotten evil spirits: Bayun the cat", http://samlib.ru/k/kaminjar_d_g/kot-bajun.shtml
3. E. Uspensky, "Down the Magic River"
4. S. Kolibaba, "Bayat-etymology",
5. S. Kolibaba, review of the article "Phraseology" Mother Earth ""
6. A.S. Pushkin, poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila"
7. Encyclopedia of symbols, http://www.symbolarium.ru/index.php/
8. site "Slovenica arts", Ivan Turkulets, "Scientist cat"
9. site "Russian language", cat scientist, http://rus.stackexchange.com/questions/11799/-
10. Purring, Wikipedia, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/
11. The purr of a cat. Why do cats purr, http://www.murlika.msk.ru/poleznoznat/murlikaniekoshki.php
12. Frequencies and man, http://spear.forum2x2.ru/t2052-topic
13. V.F. Krivchik, N.S. Mozheiko "Old Church Slavonic", ed. "High School", Minsk, 1985
14. Linguistic encyclopedic dictionary, ed. "Soviet encyclopedia, Moscow, 1990
15. 16. http://www.machanaim.org/tanach/_pol2ism/2ism_prod_gl13.htm
17. L. Eilman “What do the Hebrew words that are fixed in the Russian language tell about”, article,

The Nejem cat, who lived during the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the first cat to have a name. Turning into a cat, which Professor McGonagle from Harry Potter can do, for example, is called eluranthropy. The Bayun cat in Russian fairy tales is a huge cannibal cat with a magical voice. He speaks and lulls approached travelers with his tales and mercilessly kills. But the one who can get a cat will find salvation from all diseases, since Bayun's tales are healing. In the time of Richard III, in Cheshire there lived a forester named Catherling, who grinned savagely when he managed to catch a poacher. They say he became the prototype of the Cheshire cat. Monument to the cat Begimot in Kyiv The color of a cat in fairy tales can be anything, but if the cat is black, then it has mystical properties. It is not surprising that Bulgakov's cat Begemot was black. Charles Perrault's Puss in Boots was of an unknown color, however, he is usually depicted as red. Puss in Boots from Shrek is also red.
The cat from The Bremen Town Musicians by the Brothers Grimm was an elderly animal, which his own mistress, seeing his unsuitability, decided to drown in the river. Actually, that's why the cat ran away from home and ended up on the road to the glorious city of Bremen, where he was found by no less decrepit donkey and dog. The only animal that was young was the rooster. He ran away from home because they were going to kill him on the occasion of the arrival of guests. Rolan Bykov as Basilio the Cat ("The Adventures of Pinocchio") The cat Basilio and the fox Alice got their names only in the fairy tale about Pinocchio. In the tale of Pinocchio, they are nameless. Hoffman wrote a novel on behalf of the cat "Worldly views of Kota Murr, coupled with fragments of the biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler, accidentally surviving in waste sheets" .. Hoffman spoke of Murr as his "highly educated pupil, endowed with an extraordinary mind and beauty." Soviet animation gave us the cat Leopold and the cat Matroskin. Studio "Hannah Barbara" made Jerry the mouse and Tom the cat famous all over the world. Tom's full name is Tomcat. This is a derivative of the name in general of all male individuals of the cat family. By the way, in the first series of "Tom and Jerry", which was released in 1940, Tom's name was Jasper. In the Hollywood film about the cat Garfield, a great original and gourmet, the role of Garfield's owner was played by actor Breckin Meyer. At the same time, in order to get this role, he hid one of his shortcomings - an allergy to cat hair.