NATURAL ELEMENTS
Solar symbolism is the symbolism of the solar element, the sun, the solar light gods.
The gods of the sun in Slavic paganism are Dazhdbog, Svarog, Khors. They are light, that is, representing the power of the Rule of the gods. Rule - the upper, heavenly world in Slavic mythology. The Slavs represented the Rule as an ideal world, where the laws of justice and honor prevail. Many Russian words tell us about this: correct (as in Prav), spravny (with Prav), rule (in justice), right (in both meanings). Solar symbolism is one of the brightest in the Slavic tradition. Among the solar signs, perhaps, there is not a single one that is harmful. On the contrary, all signs are associated with the acquisition of both material and spiritual goods, their multiplication. The sun in paganism is also an all-seeing eye, which is why, if there was a need, they committed a crime at night - maybe the gods of the Rule will not notice; therefore, evil spirits and dark wizards are activated at night. In the sunny time of the day, on the contrary, the light forces that help man and nature predominate. However, this is only one side of the coin.
The sun
The image of heavenly waters was only a part of a more general picture of the world, where the sky-water layer was only a distant background, and the main thing was the sun in its measured path across the firmament of the middle sky.
It is extremely important to note that in the entire decor of Russian huts of the 18th-19th centuries, throughout the vast expanse of the twelve northern provinces of Russia, the solar signs abounding in this decor were never placed above the sky-water zone, that is, they did not violate the ancient Slavic ideas about the upper sky. The zone of movement of the sun since the Eneolithic was the middle sky, separated by firmament from the celestial-water zone of the upper sky.
This ancient picture of the world was observed with amazing rigor in the system of architectural decoration: the path of the sun across the middle sky is emphasized by the fact that artificial, special boards, “towels”, which did not play any constructive role, descended vertically downwards from the chapels, were used to show solar signs.
The positions of the luminaries at sunrise and sunset were indicated by the placement of solar signs at the lower end of both berths, and thus they appeared in the general composition of the pattern below that part of the berths on which “heavenly abysses” were depicted. Sometimes here, too, to show the morning-evening positions of the sun, they resorted to using two vertical "towels" at the edges of the piers.
Sometimes the path of the sun was marked not by three standard positions, but additionally by several more intermediate signs attached to the lower edge of the piers. The daily course of the sun in these cases was marked by twelve solar signs.
Consider the solar signs that were part of the general defense system of the Russian house from ghouls and navi.
First of all, it should be said that in these three positions (morning, noon and evening), the sun signs were depicted not just as one of the elements of decoration, but quite meaningfully, with a deep symbolic meaning. This is confirmed by the fact that they were almost never placed separately, but always in combination with other symbols - the earth, the sown field, sometimes water. The mutual position of different symbols in one complex additionally emphasized the daytime movement of the sun.
The solar signs themselves are represented by several types. The most stable is a circle with six radii ("Jupiter's wheel"). There is a circle with a cross inside it, and sometimes with eight rays. The rising or setting sun can be shown as a semicircle (arc upwards) with three rays.
Of particular interest are numerous signs depicting a "running" sun: several arcuate lines arranged radially are cut inside the circle; they give the impression of a rolling wheel with curved spokes. The direction of the curvature is always the same: the upper line in the circle has a bulge to the left, the lower one to the right, which determines the position of all the intermediate spokes of this solar wheel. Sometimes the movement of the sun is expressed by only three such arcs, but usually there are many.
Next to the symbol of the sun, one or another symbol of the earth, the field is almost always adjacent.
The sign denoting the earth is an ancient, still Eneolithic symbol of the field and fertility in the form of a rhombus or square, set at an angle and divided into four parts. It stably existed for several millennia and is well reflected in Russian medieval applied art, in church decorative painting and is presented in ethnographic material, mainly in the patterns of the bride's wedding clothes, which once again testifies to the connection with the idea of fertility.
The second group of signs depicts plowed land in the form of a large rectangle or rhombus, drawn along and across. Rectangles and rhombuses, formed by rows of small holes, were depicted on the huts of the huts. In addition, rhombuses are almost always carved on the edge of the berths.
a) "Towels" of the morning, noon and evening complexes with security signs;
B) Noon complex image of the entire daily sun (three daytime suns and two nighttime and white light - in the center);
C) Morning security complex of patterns: the symbol of the night sun on the “towel” and the rising sun on the berth;
D) "Towel" with the image of white light;
E) "Towels" of the midday complex with two suns and a cross
Sometimes the sun is shown as having already risen, above the earth; in these cases, the land is shown not as a rectangle, but as a sign of fertility - a crossed square. In the complex of the lower ends of the piers, the sun is very often depicted as “running”, which is quite consistent with the visual perception of the course of the sun - at sunrise and sunset, the movement of the luminary, rapidly rising or falling relative to the horizon, is especially noticeable.
Noon. The midday sun was depicted on the facade of the hut, at the very top, under the dominant figure of a gable horse, but, as already mentioned, still below the "abyss of heaven", which was the upper sky. In order to leave the sun in its proper tier, the old craftsmen attached a short “towel” board to the tong, hanging vertically down the facade. It was at the lower end of this “towel” that the midday complex of solar signs was located.
The midday complex has always been richer than the morning-evening ones. Most often, two suns were depicted here, just as on the calendar the month of the summer solstice (June) was indicated not by one cross, like other solar phases, but by two crosses.
Two suns one below the other could be the same (usually with six rays), but one of them could be given in the dynamic form of a running wheel. In some cases (in Christian times), an image of an Orthodox cross was placed above the suns, giving clarity to the semantics of solar signs - they were also sacred and had the same power as the cross used to drive away demons.
On some "towels" the entire daily course of the sun was depicted: at the top are three daytime positions of the sun (morning, noon and evening), below are two positions of the night underground sun, and in the center is a huge radiant circle, symbolizing the "white light", the Universe, radiant, the opinion of the Russian people of the XII-XIII centuries, "an intangible and inscrutable light."
Symbols of the earth, as a rule, are absent in the midday composition, but sometimes they are still depicted. In these cases, they are necessarily associated with the sun: either the sun shines on the earth approaching it (from above and below), or a small symbol of the earth is placed between two running suns, and it turns out to be, as it were, comprehensively illuminated.
Perhaps the fundamental sign of solar symbolism. For the first time, this symbol, along with some other symbols of Germanic paganism, was appropriated by Adolf Hitler for his fascist power. Since then, it has become customary that if the swastika is, then we are talking about fascism. In fact, the swastika has nothing to do with the outrage called fascism. This sign is an image of the sun, an appeal to the bright gods; it brings goodness and justice to the world of Reveal, carries a huge charge of light magical energy.
The classical Sanskrit name of this symbol comes from the Indo-European root "su/swa", which means "associated with good". Let us remember the bird Mother Sva (the patroness of Rus'), the god Svarog, Svarga - the habitat of the bright gods of Slavic myths. The word "light" belongs to the same root. Among the Slavs, the swastika was called Kolovrat or solstice. However, Kolovrat still begins with six rays. Since kolo is a circle, a ring, a wheel, a well, a bun. Kolovrat in all ages and among all peoples was a symbol of the sun, there is even reason to believe that the sun in ancient times was called exactly “kolo”.
Also, some authors associate it with the unity of statics and dynamics. Moreover, only a rotating swastika has a dynamic meaning. If it rotates clockwise (to the right), then it symbolizes the desire for everything related to life, with positive qualities and an active masculine principle; rotation counterclockwise, on the contrary, indicates dying, the denial of all positive and passivity of behavior. Absolutely opposite is the interpretation of the direction of rotation of their swastika by the Greeks (who called this sign "tetraxele" - "four-legged", "four-pointed"), since they learned about the swastika from Slavic peoples unfriendly to them and decided that what the Slavs - Rule, they - Hades . Hence a lot of confusion with the direction of rotation and the direction of the rays of the swastikas. The swastika is not only a four-beam sign. There are also swastikas with 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 or more rays. Each type of swastika has its own specific magical meaning. Let's look at some types of swastikas.
The six-pointed cross enclosed in a circle is the thunder sign of Perun.
This sign was very widespread, it was known by the Scandinavians, the Celts, and the Slavs. We can see the thunder sign in the ornament of Russian spinning wheels and on huts right up to our time. They cut it out on them for a reason. In huts, it was carved on a kokoshnik (a board hanging from the end of a ridge) as a magical lightning rod.
Also, the thunder sign - a sign of courage, military prowess - was the magic sign of the Russian squad. This sign can be found on helmets, armor plates. This sign was also embroidered on a men's shirt.
The eight-ray Kolovrat is a sign under which the revival of Slavic paganism is now taking place.
You can see it on the banners of modern pagan communities. Such an honor was given to this sign not by chance. This is a sign of Svarog, the creator god, the god of wisdom. It was Svarog who created the Earth, people (through Dazhdbog), gave people many knowledge, including metal and a plow. The sign of Svarog is a sign of wisdom and higher justice, a sign of Rule. Also, the stake of Svarog is a symbol of the universe. The device of the universal wheel of Svarog is very difficult. Its center is located on Stozhar-Stlyazi - the celestial axis. It rotates around Stozhar in one day and makes a revolution in a year. The very slow rotation of the wheel leads to a change in the zodiacal epochs. Such a revolution of the wheel lasts 27 thousand years. This time is called the day of Svarog.
Trixel is a three-branched swastika. In the north, a “broken” one is used, that is, a trixel that does not have connections between the rays. Its magical meaning is not known very accurately. This is a sign of "what leads", a sign that directs the development of the event in the right direction. This is a rune associated with the direction and orientation of human activity. Simply put, this sign orients a person in life, serves as a kind of guiding star for him. Also, some scientists associate this sign with time and the god of time, among the Slavs - with the Number God, and the three rays of the trixel - with three legs bent at the knees (running), but this definition is very superficial: it is based only on the Greek interpretation of the name of the sign: tri - "three", kselos - "bone, limb".
Following the Greek terminology, the four-armed swastika is called a tetraxel.
So, the main forms of the solar symbolism of the swastika are considered. However, there are also many other solar symbols that are less characteristic of the Slavic peoples, for example, the "dragon's eye" - a three-beam swastika with connected rays, used in Wales (Great Britain) in earth magic; the so-called "Celtic version" - a swastika with wavy curved rays inscribed in a circle, sonnenrad (by the way, it was the emblem of some SS divisions), "initiation cross" and many others ...
Also a solar symbol. We do not attribute it to the swastika very conditionally - the cross is also a swastika, only without rays receding to the side. The cross has become one of the most famous Christian symbols. And not only. For example, Catholic missionaries preaching in China saw crosses depicted on the statues of Buddha, whose teaching arose about six centuries before Christianity, and Spanish conquistadors witnessed the veneration of the cross by North American pagan Indians as a fusion of Heavenly fire and Earthly fire.
The word "cross" comes from the common European root cru, which means "curved". We can observe this root in the words circle, curve, steep. Crux is Latin for "cross". There is another version that the word "cross" comes from the Slavic root "kres" - "fire" (compare: kresal - a tool for kindling a fire).
Archaeological evidence suggests that the cross was revered as a symbol as far back as the Upper Paleolithic. The cross is a symbol of life, heaven and eternity. The correct (equilateral) cross symbolizes the principle of connection and interaction of two principles: female (horizontal line) and male (vertical). Crosses are also divided into a straight line, i.e. having horizontal and vertical lines, and an oblique one, having two diagonal lines, with a straight cross personifying a male aggressive creative principle, an oblique one representing a softer creative principle.
A straight cross can also serve as a primitive model of the World Tree, where the vertical line is the World Tree, and the horizontal line is the world of Reveal. Accordingly, a cross with a horizontal line shifted upward indicates the location of the world of Rule on the Tree, downward - the world of Navi. Naturally, these crosses have a corresponding magical meaning.
Consider the main types of crosses characteristic of the Nordic tradition.
The Celtic cross, or kolokryzh, most accurately demonstrates the similarity of the cross with the swastika and all the conventionality of their separation. Look at the six- and eight-beam kolovrats presented in this work. In addition to the number of rays, these signs do not change anything. Despite the fact that this cross is called Celtic, it is known to almost all Indo-Europeans, including the Slavs. The history of the Celtic cross has at least 8-9 millennia. The Celts especially revered this cross. The Celtic cross was also called the "cross of the warrior", "the cross of Wotan" (Odin).
The twelve-pointed cross is a cross with a crossbar on each beam, or a swastika with rays extended to the left (for a dark one - to the right). The purpose of this cross is protection from external influences. Also, many researchers talk about this sign as a magical sign of the Family. It is also called the "helm of terror". This symbol was widespread in ancient times: there is archaeological evidence for this - many amulets with a "helmet of horror" were found in the territories of the Scythians, Mordovians, Indo-European peoples; in the Middle Ages, they decorated the walls of houses and wooden products, as well as often church utensils. The most powerful symbol among the "helms of horror" is the so-called Aegishjalm (Scandinavian name), or the Cross of Invincibility - this symbol surpasses all others in its effectiveness.
Abyss of heaven
The magical system of protection from evil spirits provided for the image not only of the sun and its path through the sky, but also the sky itself as a reservoir of rainwater, necessary for the growth of all living things.
So, the upper contour of the gable pediment of the Slavic house was the sky, along which the sun makes its daily path from the lower left end of the roof up to the gable of the roof, to its “ridge” and further down to the lower right end of the roof.
The firmament consisted of two heavens - water and solar-air, separated by a transparent "firmament of heaven". As for rain, the ancient Slavs believed that rain moisture is taken from the heavenly water reserves stored in the upper sky, located above the middle sky, through which the sun and moon move. The reserves of water in the sky were called "heavenly abysses" in the Old Russian language. Heavy rain, downpour was defined by the phrase: “the abysses of heaven opened up”, that is, the heavenly water opened up, received freedom and rushed down to the earth.
The “firmament” in the medieval sense held the “abyss of heaven” somewhere in an inaccessible height above the airspace of the ordinary sky. This bifurcation of the sky was reflected in the Russian language in the words "heaven" (singular) and "heaven" (plural).
The heavenly abysses of the upper sky were almost always depicted on the sides of house roofs. The most common is a wavy ornament or a pattern of towns, which at a distance are also perceived as waves. Usually the waves of the hackneyed "firmament" go in 2-3 rows, as if emphasizing the depth of the water sky. Very often, along with wavy lines, small circles are depicted, symbolizing raindrops.
Prichelina with the image of wavy jets are known in the Novgorod region, in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Gorky, in the Russian villages of Karelia and in a number of other places in Central Russia and the North.
Another symbol depicted along with heavenly water was the symbols of female breasts. They are known to us from the Novgorod prichelinas of the 11th-15th centuries. The breasts were depicted either in the form of a pattern, where this plot is repetitive, or as paired images of two breasts, carefully marked by the carver, but also forming a wavy pattern in their repetition.
Sometimes the motif of the female breast was conveyed by rounded protrusions on the lower edge of the chapels (going continuously or in pairs, with intervals between pairs), but much more often it was depicted in the form of small jagged (stepped) towns, which at a distance, for a person looking from below, gave a complete illusion that symbolic figure of the chest, which was so carefully and naturalistically carved by the Novgorod carver of the times of Yaroslav the Wise.
Eneolithic farmers imagined rain streams as a stream of milk from the Mother Goddess. And initially, the Slavic pagans revered two heavenly goddesses-children, whose cult was then combined with the veneration of the male heavenly deity - Rod and even survived it, surviving until the 19th century. in a whole series of peasant embroideries.
In medieval Russian, words such as "chest" and "pile" were very close. "Dewy breast" - dew drops that help plants drink heavenly moisture - "dew birth drops." Russian pagans XII-XIII centuries. it was believed that the dew falling from heaven in the form of a mist-cloud is sent by Rod, the god of the sky, precisely as the moisture of life.
The prichelins of Russian huts were decorated in two or four rows. The top row was most often occupied by a zigzag line, a stable ancient symbol of water, in this case - "the abyss of heaven", inaccessible rain reserves. Below there was a row of towns or paired images of female breasts, obviously associated with the idea of the heavenly goddesses in labor, who, according to the ancient hunters, gave birth to “small deer”, and according to the farmers, shed rain on the fields. These two main rows were sometimes interspersed with rows of through round holes depicting raindrops. Towns and semicircles of the lower row were often supplied with the same circles.
Often there is (moreover, in different remote places) a combination in one row of semicircles-breasts with a circle in the middle and short zigzags between them. Here, obviously, the teeth between the semicircles can be interpreted as adding the symbol of water to the image of cloud-breasts.
So, in the patterns of the huts, two ideas inextricably linked with each other were shown: firstly, the presence of rainwater reserves in the upper sky (above the firmament), and secondly, the transfer of this water down to the ground to the plowmen, shown by means of a mythological symbol breasts of heavenly goddesses, irrigating the earth with "birth" "breasts of dew."
Fire
Fire ... Probably, even the most urban person at least once in his life looked at a live fire, not from a gas stove or a lighter, but a real one, which is in a stove or a fire. A spectacle that captivates the eye and mind. Naturally, in a pagan, fire evokes the same feelings.
Fire for a pagan is not just a chemical process, it is a sacred phenomenon. The concept of sacrificial fire (earthly fire) is directly related to this phenomenon - the smoke from the sacrificial fire carries the essences of the victims to Iriy (essences because it is difficult to say that, for example, a pancake has a soul or not, but any object has an essence ). There is also heavenly fire - the fire of the heavenly forge of Svarog. Torah is one of the main creative forces. Let's draw some analogies with the Sun and plasma and the Big Bang theory and the period of the formation of the Earth, when active tectonic processes and volcanic eruptions took place on it. It would also be appropriate to recall the fiery sword - a symbol of justice and Rule, which is armed with many fantasy and historical characters in modern works. Even the Jedi Knights from the George Lucas films, who are essentially pagan, are armed with lightsabers.
There is also the Navi fire, here we will draw analogies with the Christian cult, in which sinners who are in hell are roasted by devils on fires in seven modes of cooking these same sinners (see Dante's Divine Comedy). This primitive belief about the unfortunate fate of sinners has its roots in a wider and more justified pagan idea of Nava fire. A pagan associates Nav with an underground fiery kingdom (remember the Greek Hades) - and by the way, no one is fried there, just an underground fire is understood as an element. Here it would be appropriate to recall the fire-breathing dragons and snakes - they are also the children of Navi. The fire of Navi can be interpreted as a regressive, destructive force that burns goodness and light. After all, you can burn your heart with love (heavenly fire), or you can burn your soul with drunkenness and deceit.
Now let's look at the graphic images of these signs. The signs of fire, especially the heavenly forge, are quite difficult signs to perform and understand.
They represent, as a rule, four-part swastika-shaped signs, but this is not quite a swastika, because the fire does not spin anywhere, the rays, but rather even the flames are located differently than the swastikas. They are connected not only with the formation and orientation of human activity (at any level) in the right direction, but also with giving it the necessary strength. The second aspect is disclosure. It is obvious that both aspects are interconnected - it is impossible to realize the plan without revealing oneself to the world. From these signs the rune of fertility and heritage is made.
Flint - a means for obtaining and maintaining fire - in Ancient Rus' was a common and familiar household item.
A device for producing fire, an oval-shaped metal plate with open ends, which are bent inward or outward in such a way that rings are formed - “antennae”. In earlier times, in Russian life, a flint was known, which had the shape of a dagger without a handle, with blunt edges and a sharp end. Its length ranged from 9 to 30 cm. To obtain fire, it was necessary to have flint and tinder in addition to flint. The man who made the fire struck the flint with a flint, and the sparks that appeared at the same time were caught on the tinder lying in a box with a lid - a tinderbox. The fire flared up in a box, from where it was transferred to birch bark, straw, tow, pine coals or seryanka - homemade matches. The fire was extinguished after its use by closing the lid of the box.
Fire obtained with the help of flint and flint is considered especially beneficial for humans. He brings happiness and prosperity to the house. In the Russian countryside, there were a number of prescriptions on how to handle fire so as not to anger it, not to offend, not to stain its purity. It was impossible to spit into the fire, urinate in it, throw various garbage, sewage into it, trample underfoot, extinguish it. The fire could only be blown out or waited for it to die on its own. If these rules are violated, then the fire will punish the whole village with a fire, and the person who offended the fire with a fire, a red rash on his face.
Ideas about fire and its magical properties were also transferred to the tool for making fire - flint. In Russian fairy tales, a tinderbox is an object that serves to evoke spirits, and also acts as an intermediary between “our world” and the other world. Usually the hero of a fairy tale summons spirits by striking flint and flint.
Water
Water, one of the creative elements, is very interesting from a pagan point of view, it has a lot of sacred aspects, which cannot but be reflected in its symbolism. First, water for a pagan is what gives life to all living things. With the help of life-giving heavenly water, grasses and forests turn green in spring, crops ripen, everything blooms, bears fruit and ears. According to an ancient myth, earth was born from water, brought in the beak of the World Duck. Water carries the sacred meaning of purification. A pagan washing himself in a bath washes away not only physical dirt, but also spiritual dirt - a shell of vice, darkness, hatred. A ritual is created, because the sacred action of rebirth, the renewal of a person is performed - like the renewal of the skin and body of a person in a bath, the soul, his aura is renewed. Ablution was performed before important matters - the priest must necessarily wash in the bath to perform the ceremony, a person must wash, for example, before the wedding - first of all, not for beauty, but so that dark forces do not interfere with the ritual. The warrior always washed both before the battle and after it, so that the battle would not be affected by all the same forces. And the third, but by no means the last, aspect of the meaning of water for a pagan is its flow. Everyone knows the proverb that you cannot enter the same river twice. Many do not understand it - for them the river is a blue line on the map. For a pagan, the river is a stream of water - the water has flowed away, and the river is different. That is, the flow of water is a kind of indicator of time. No wonder they say: "how much water has flowed under the bridge since then", meaning that a lot of time has passed. So flowing river water is also a sacred comparison with time - water inevitably flows away, just as days, years, centuries flow away.
Accordingly, the symbols of water have different meanings.
Life-giving water is heavenly water, or, as the ancients called it, “heavenly waters”. Rain, watering the field, gives vitality to plants, fills them with juices. Also associated with heavenly water is the idea of a cornucopia. Rains water the earth, the earth gives birth to succulent grasses, which means that there is something to feed the cattle, there is plenty of milk and meat, bread is earing in the fields and fruits and vegetables are ripening. Sometimes a cornucopia is depicted with water pouring out of it. The word "rain" is related to the word "Dazhd" - one of the names of the great god - the giver of blessings and the progenitor of people Dazhdbog. By the way, the name Dazhdbog came from two roots - “sales”, that is, to give, do good, help, and actually “god”. Unlike river rainwater, it symbolizes the male fertilizing principle.
A completely different water is river water, unlike rain water, it basically came just from under the ground - from springs, springs. By the way, the spring was considered a sacred place - to desecrate it was the same as to desecrate the temple. After all, water is “born” in the spring - coming from the bowels of the earth, it flows from the spring in a thin stream, the stream connects with another, they connect with the third - this is how a mighty river turns out. Some springs had miraculous healing properties. Again, this is not fiction - it has been scientifically proven that water enriched with salts and minerals flows from some sources, which is very beneficial for health.
Since spring and river water flows, it is depicted as wavy horizontal stripes. River water, unlike rainwater, and along with a thread, can act as a symbol of the flow of time, life. The water flows away along with the moments that have gone forever into the past. This is the truth of life… Water is not just destiny, this leading force, that is, in water there is a sacred symbolism of fate, something that cannot be avoided, however, as a rule, in a positive sense. Flowing water, moving forms a stream and carries along.
There are many amazing legends about magical rivers, they will seem familiar to you from fairy tales - this is the Iry milk river flowing from under the stone of Alatyr (which is on Buyan Island) - it symbolizes not anything, but the Milky Way. The Milk River is a poetic representation of the outskirts of our galaxy. Many legends are connected with the Milky Way and the Milky (White) River, most of them with stories about life after death. However, in these stories, another river appears - Smorodina, the fiery river. It separates the Java world and the “great expanses of Navi” (the saying is “Naviy Shlyakh”, the community “Bor”). Baba Yaga, familiar to many, if not all, guards the borders of Navi.
With this knowledge, many plots of fairy tales become clear - the hero crosses the fiery river and ends up with Baba Yaga - this is a plot that is somewhat similar to the ancient Greek story about Orpheus and Eurydice. And the swan geese carried away brother Ivanushka from sister Alyonushka. Vanya died, and his sister rescued him from the clutches of death.
The idea of Kalinov Bridge is also connected with mythical rivers. Kalinov Most is a multifaceted and very complex concept. It is associated with the subtle states of the human soul - love, high feelings. In later times, “To meet someone on the Kalinov Bridge” meant to love (see the article by V. N. Vakurov “Kalina is hot”, the magazine “Russian Language Abroad”, No. 4, 1990). However, not everything is so rosy. In fact, on the Kalinov Bridge the main battle of the human soul between the beginning of Prav and Navi takes place - a battle with oneself (our life is an eternal struggle). The brilliant Russian artist Konstantin Vasiliev very accurately depicted this duel. A real man in his soul is always a warrior, a warrior of the spirit, but if he is not a warrior, then he is a reptile, both figuratively and literally, that is, a snake, a worm. In the battle on the Kalinov Bridge, it is very difficult to win a complete victory, to destroy one side or another in oneself, just as one cannot be absolutely kind, absolutely wise - therefore, the heavenly chamber of Rule cannot defeat the forces of Navi in any way.
The Slavs considered water to be the element from which the world was formed. Without the life-giving power of light, motionless water fills space in the form of snow and ice, but when light and warmth awaken it, it spreads and, under the influence of light, gives birth and nourishes the annual world. On this basis, the Slavic light-worshippers revered water and inhabited it with various deities (moraine, water, mermaids). They also idolized special female water creatures - coastlines, the cult of which is directly connected with water. Worshiping water deities, the Slavs cleansed themselves with water as a sacred element, made sacrifices to water - flowers, food, chickens. All sacrifices were left on the shore so that the water could take them away.
Worship of coasters, as well as ghouls and vampires, belongs to the most ancient period in the history of the Slavs: evil vampires who need to be driven away and cajoled by victims, and good coastlines who need to “put trebs” so that they help a person.
There are numerous fabulous images of living water and living fire. Living water heals wounds, gives strength, restores life. The Slavs contrasted "living" water with "dead" water. "Dead" water was sometimes called "healing": it splices together the dissected parts of a dead body, but does not yet resurrect it. The "living" water returns to him life. The folk epic tells that the killed heroes are first sprinkled with "dead", and then with "living" water.
Rain in the folk tradition is an object of reverence and magical influence. Power over rain, like other elements, is attributed to representatives of another world - the dead, and especially the gallows and drowned, who are considered the owners and leaders of the clouds - the heavenly herds of cows, bulls, oxen, etc. To drive away thunder and hail clouds, the Serbs turned to the latter in the village to a drowned man or a gallows, calling him by name and conjuring to take his “beefs” away from the fields and lands.
During the drought, the inhabitants of Polissya mourned the mythical drowned Makarka, stirring the water in the well with sticks and crying: “Makarko-son, get out of the water, pour tears over the holy land!” Wells, springs and other reservoirs, according to folk beliefs, are connected with heavenly waters as communicating vessels, therefore, the impact on earthly waters causes the "opening" of heavenly waters. During a drought, they went to springs, wells and rivers, consecrated the water and prayed, wishing for rain.
Often they went to abandoned springs, cleaned them, pouring water on each other, causing rain. They went around villages, fields, performed prayers at a well or river. In the Zhytomyr region, it was customary to walk around an old well to stop the drought: three widows walked in front, one carried an icon, the other bread and salt, the third accompanied them. Everyone joined hands, prayed, asked to send rain. The well was circumnavigated three times, only women participated in the ceremony.
In Polissia, poppy seeds were often poured into the well, money, salt, garlic, consecrated herbs, grains of wheat and rye, prosphora were thrown into the well, consecrated water was poured, all the water was scooped out of the well, etc. Sometimes clay pots were thrown into the well, and in many villages Polissya believed that the pot should have been stolen from neighbors, foreigners, and potters. They used to say in Go-melytsin: “That’s how it doesn’t rain, then we’ll steal somewhere ... smooth, but down the well - bang! And they also say it will rain.” This method turned out to be more effective when the ceremony was performed by a widow or when the pot was stolen from the widow. In the Chernihiv region, a pot of borscht was stolen from the oven and thrown into a well. The motif of borscht is typical for widespread children's songs about rain: Meni porridge, toby borscht, schob ischov thicker wood"; "Go, go, to the plank, to the glazed miner." Sometimes the stolen pots were first smashed and then the potsherds were thrown into the well.
Close to this method of causing rain are the Bulgarian and Serbian methods of protection against "tiled magic": they stole the products of labor or tools for their manufacture from the tilers and brick-makers and threw them all into the water. This action was understood as the removal of damage (“closing the rain”), which was supposedly caused by tilers. They, like potters, were considered the culprits of the drought because of their involvement in the element of fire (firing pots, tiles) and professional interest in dry weather (for the sake of drying their products).
In Western Bulgaria and Eastern Serbia, a special ritual is known to be performed during a drought in order to cause rain: the girls sculpted a clay doll named Herman (a male figure up to 50 cm in size with an exaggerated phallus) and then, imitating a burial, buried the doll on the river bank or thrown into the water, wailing: “Oh! Herman, Herman, Herman died of drought for the sake of rain. In such mourning rituals, tears were magically likened to rain. In Polissya, with the same purpose and with the same motivation, the frog's funeral ritual was performed: during a drought, children caught a frog, killed it, dressed it in clothes made of rags, put it in boxes, cried over it as if it were a dead woman, and buried it at the spring; a cross was drawn on the "grave" by hand. Instead of a frog, they could kill some other small animal or insect - cancer, snake, bear, louse, etc. The snake and insects were sometimes hung on a tree or fence. They believed that after that it would rain.
Ritual dousing with water during a drought had an even more direct magical meaning. People poured water on each other, saying: “How water pours on you, so that the rain pours on the ground” (Zhytomyr region). This was done by the river or by the well. Sometimes they poured water on people who, according to popular beliefs, had special magical powers: a pregnant woman (symbolizing the mother earth), a shepherd (the ruler of the earthly herd, capable of influencing the heavenly “herds” of clouds), priest (the same symbol of the shepherd-shepherd). In Polissya, the corners of the hut were also poured over.
Dousing could also be of a redemptive nature, it was used when the cause of the drought was considered a violation of certain prohibitions. So, in the north of the Zhytomyr region, the drought was explained by the fact that some woman in the village on the Annunciation, contrary to a strict ban, baked bread. Then, in order to atone for this sin and remove the punishment (drought), three women gathered, each took two buckets of water, went into the house to the “culprit”, poured out all the water in the middle of the hut and poured water on the outside corners of the house, and in some places poured water on the woman herself .
The ritual of pouring water over (or destroying) the grave of an unclean (false) dead person, if he, in violation of the prohibition, is buried in a cemetery, also has a redemptive character. Sometimes such a grave was dug up, and the corpse was thrown into the river. The Serbs removed the cross from some unmarked grave, carried it into a river or stream and strengthened it so that it would stand until the water carried it away. When they installed the cross, they said three times: “The cross into the water, and the rain on the field! A cross from an unknown grave, rain from an unknown mountain! In Polissya, a towel from icons was stolen from one of the neighbors, soaked in water and hung in its original place (secretly from the hostess). Helped from drought and gauze, which tied the jaw of the deceased: they carried it into the field, burned it there and asked: “For us, Lord, send rain!”
In Polissya and the adjacent regions of Belarus and Russia, the ritual of “plowing the river” was performed to cause rain: during a drought, they plowed or harrowed a dry river bed, or simply dragged a plow along the bottom. Symbolic plowing could also be done right on shallow water: in the Sourozh district they chose a beautiful girl at the age of 15, stripped her naked, hung her with wreaths and forced her to harrow the water in this form. In our time, a similar method of making rain is noted in the Grodno region: old women gathered, stole a plow from the collective farm yard, brought it to the river - only women.
Some harnessed, while others drove. Sometimes, instead of the river, they "plowed" the road or dug holes on the road, symbolically "opening" the water (Polesie).
Since the drought was understood as a natural disaster, general protective measures could be used to stop it, which helped in cases of pestilence, illness, fire, etc.: plowing a village or a roadside cross, bypassing the village and fields, making a harsh linen, towel, or installing ordinary crosses . Another method of causing rain, which was purely magical in nature, was the destruction of an anthill. The anthill was raked with a stick, just as they beat the water in the well; while the sprawling ants symbolized and magically evoked raindrops. This method is known in Polissya and among the southern Slavs. The Serbs, raking the anthill, uttered a special spell: “How many ants, so many drops!”
Pagan ways of making rain, especially at the wells, were severely condemned by the church.
To stop the rain, they performed various stopping or averting actions: they threw an egg into the yard, took out or threw it into the yard, under the house, on the roof of a bread shovel, poker, bread bowl, burned Trinity greens, consecrated willow, etc. in the oven. prolonged rains was considered a desecration of the water. For example, in Bosnia, in this case, they thought that there was something “nasty” in the water - an illegitimate child thrown into the water some time ago or killed, and the rain would not stop until the corpse was removed from the water.
During bad weather, women left the house, took out a wedding shirt and, naming the drowned people from the village by name, asked them to take the bad weather away from the fields. Widely known children's songs such as "Rain, rain, stop ..." undoubtedly go back to magical, incantatory texts.
Air is one of the elements of the universe (like earth, water, fire); the sphere of stay of souls and invisible demonic beings. In folk beliefs, ideas about air and breathing, breath, and wind converge. The space filled with air is larger than the earth; the sky "rests" or "hangs" in the air.
Air serves as a conductor, a medium through which damage is sent, disease spreads. The appearance of evil, impure air is associated with a moment of complete calm, an eclipse of the moon, etc. People who find themselves under the open sky at such a time are ordered to fall face down to the ground so as not to "grab this air."
In the form of steam, air or smoke, the soul leaves the dying.
Among the Eastern Slavs, they say about the agony of a person: the spirit is out, the spirit has gone out or the steam has gone out. Air, steam emanating from the deceased can be dangerous to others. There are many bylichkas in Polissya, which tell how a passer-by sees a couple over a fresh grave, taking on the images of a woman in a white dress, a pillar (or a fiery air column), the deceased himself. This ghost pursues a person when the wind blows in his back, and, having caught up, sits on a prisoner and kills. Escaping from the spirit, you must not stop, you should hit it backhand, run against the wind and hide around the corner, but you can also dispel it with clothes, especially a white scarf.
In Western Belarus, after the death of a person, everyone left the hut and opened the stove so that the air would go up. The well-known custom in Polissya to “raise the air” (usually on the fortieth day after death) is associated with the idea of the Orthodox that the souls of the dead rise into the air and stay there for forty days, after which they fly to higher spheres, to be judged by God, etc. e. In one of the villages of the Sumy region, they “breathe” on the grave of the deceased: those present take the corners of the tablecloth and lift it up three times with the words: “The body is in the pit, the soul is with us, we are home, the soul is uphill!” .
Many demonological characters living in the air, including the disease, have the appearance of steam, wind, air column, thick smoke, gas, etc. So, according to Belarusian beliefs, a witch, after drinking a wonderful liquid, becomes light as fluff and rushes about. through the air, through the wind. Spirits dangerous for a person, causing a strong wind, a whirlwind, a tornado, can lift a person into the air and throw him down, tear him apart in the air, etc. The view of the air as a habitat for demons is also inherent in the Christian book tradition.
Earth
Niva - idiogram of fertility
Mother earth, mother nature... Everyone knows such phrases, but few people thought about why they say so. But this expression came to us from paganism. There is nothing surprising in the fact that our pagan ancestor called the earth mother, she is the giver of all blessings. She feeds, and waters, and clothes, and warms. Earth in union with Heaven (in folk mythology they are spouses) gives us the world in which we live ... Naturally, a lot is said about the earth in folk legends. Goddess of the earth, fertility and fate - Makosh. Her name is formed from two roots: Ma - "mother" and kosh - "purse, store of wealth." Such a decoding gives a clear idea of how our ancestors treated Mokosh and the earth itself. The earth is associated with the feminine - firstly, the earth is capable of giving birth to life, and secondly, its sisters, Dolya and Nedolya, spin the threads of fate (Share spins a happy fate, Nedolya - unhappy), because the thread is a symbol of life. Doli's thread is soft, smooth, Nedolya's is flimsy, thin, like the fate of a person. When the thread breaks, the person dies.
An indispensable attribute of Mokosh is a cornucopia, which once again speaks of its significance for people and their relationship to the earth.
Let's talk first about the symbolism of fertility. It is represented by a very characteristic pattern - a rhombus (or square), divided inside into four more rhombuses. This field. Small diamonds are seed holes. If dots are depicted in small rhombuses, this means that the field is sown - this is a symbol of fertility. If the small diamonds are empty, then the field is not sown. These symbols have a corresponding magical meaning. Countless variations are possible with diamonds, squares and dots. In general, a rhombus (square) with a dot in the middle is something that can give birth, something that is a source of well-being and abundance.
An empty rhombus is the same, but not able (not fertilized) to give birth. Fortune-telling “for a good place” was used until the end of the 19th century, this is how they guessed, for example, in a Belarusian village: a large square was drawn on the ground on the entire proposed place of the estate, then it was divided into four parts crosswise. The head of the family went “to all four directions”, brought four stones from four fields (and carried them under a hat on his head or in the bosom of his naked body) and laid them out in the centers of small squares. As a result, an ideogram of fertility appeared on the site of the future estate, which has come down to us since the Eneolithic and is found on Russian wedding embroideries even at the beginning of the 20th century. Bread, a sown field, pregnancy - these concepts for the ancient Slavs were identical and directly connected with the image of the "home universe", and through it - with the cosmos, with the harmony of the world.
Then the owner stood in the center of the crosshairs - in the center of the universe, in the place of the World Tree - and, baring his head, prayed, moreover, with an indispensable appeal for blessing and help to the dead ancestors. Instead of stones, heaps of grain were sometimes poured. Grain, on the other hand, often outlined the contours of the future house, “fastening the corners”. Heaps of grain or bread were placed in the corners. Three days later they came to look: if the fortune-telling objects (pebbles, grain or bread) turned out to be undisturbed, then it was possible to build.
Such divination, like the sowing of bread, was performed exclusively by men. Women never participated in it.
sprouts
The scheme of the first sprouts is usual: inside the heart-shaped shell, a "krin" with three processes or a sprout with five leaves, resembling a fern, was depicted. It is possible that the so-called "krin" (lily) in this case depicted a seed with a burst shell (two bent lateral spurs) and a bud, a future sprout. The bud-sprout is often reddish in color, differing from the spurs of the shell. The plant is given in the dynamics of growth, in its initial phase; such a “krin” is a spell for the entire future development of the seed. These pictograms were usually placed in the central circle, giving them more importance than the seeds. The four-part composition of four fern leaves reflects the real appearance of the spring fern, the leaves of which are directed in all directions. The sacred nature of the fern is well documented in folklore: beliefs about the blossoming of the fern on the Kupala night.
The heart-shaped scheme (point up) has become a stable form of expression of the agrarian essence of the ornament.
Seed pictograms do not occupy the central circle. Germinating seeds are sometimes arranged in groups of four.
Flowers
As a secondary plot on women's jewelry, there are small flowers with four petals. The floral character of these miniature images is emphasized by the color of the petals in red and white or red and blue.
One of the main plant plots is a stable scheme, which presents a conditional plant (usually with two roots, well rooted) with branches and petals widely spread apart. Above the formed crevice in the plant, an oval "grain" of pollen is depicted. The importance of the pollination process is emphasized by the disproportionate amount of pollen penetrating the plant and the obligatory red coloration.
On late cassocks, under a flourishing cross, an oval grain is depicted, and on the reverse side of the plaques there are four flower cups pollinated by oval pollen.
There is such a legend. The white-flammable stone Alatyr was revealed at the beginning of time. He was raised from the bottom of the Milky Ocean by the World Duck. Alatyr was very small, so the Duck wanted to hide it in her beak. But Svarog uttered a magic word, and the stone began to grow. The duck could not hold it and dropped it. Where the white-combustible stone Alatyr fell, the Alatyr mountain rose. It is a sacred stone, the center of the knowledge of the Vedas, the mediator between man and God. He is both “small and very cold” and “great as a mountain.” Both light and heavy. He is unknowable: "... and no one could know that stone, and no one could lift it from the earth." When Svarog hit Alatyr with his magic hammer, gods were born from the sparks. On Alatyr, the temple of the Most High was built by the half-horse Kitovras. Therefore, Alatyr is also an altar, a stone-altar to the Almighty. On it, the Almighty Himself sacrifices Himself and Alatyr turns into stone.
According to ancient legends, Alatyr fell from the sky, and the Laws of Svarog were carved on it. So, Alatyr connected the worlds: the heavenly - the heavenly and the revealed - the valley. The book of the Vedas, which fell from the sky, and the magical bird Gamayun also served as an intermediary between the worlds. Both the Book and the Bird are also Alatyr.
In the earthly world, Alatyr is revealed by Mount Elbrus. This mountain was also called Bel-Alabyr, White Mountain, Belitsa. The White River flows from Elbrus-Alatyr. In ancient times, the White City was near Elbrus, the Slavic tribe of Belogors lived here. Alatyr is associated with the heavenly world, Iriy, Belovodie, that is, with paradise, through which milk rivers flow. Alatyr is a white stone.
The river Baksan flows from Elbrus. Until the 4th century n. e. it was called the river Altud or Alatyrka. These names contain the root "alt", which means "gold" (hence - "altyn"). Therefore, Alatyr is also a magic stone, the touch of which turns everything into gold. This is the Golden Mountain, Mount Zlatogorka and Svyatogora. So, Alatyr is the Holy Mountain.
There is also a stone Alatyr in the Urals on the Iry mountains, from where the sacred Ra-river originates. And at its mouth on the island of Buyan there is also a stone Alatyr, which heals from diseases and gives immortality. The Altai Mountains were also called Alatyr-mountains, the Golden Island of the Sun in the Northern Ocean was also called Alatyr-Island.
Alatyr is not only a mountain or a stone - it is the sacred center of the World. It is triune, therefore it means the path of Rule between Yavu and Naviu, between the valley and the mountain worlds. It is two-in-one - both small and large, and light and heavy. He is one, because all worlds are united in him. He is unknowable, like Rule. This is the original stone.
Ornaments and symbols are still very popular today. Since historical times, people sacredly believed in evil spirits and spirits. In order to protect themselves from otherworldly far-fetched characters, the people came up with protection in the form of various amulets on clothes depicting various signs and unusual symbols.
Different details of embroidery carry a completely unique significance: from birth to the last journey of a person.
Drawings traditionally passed down through generations are divided into four types:
- plant origin
- geometric ornaments
- vegetable mixed with geometric
- patterns representing the gods in the form of animals
Needlewomen most often use floral and geometric embroidered ornaments. Among knowledgeable embroiderers, patterns of plant origin have the following interpretations:
Symbolism of the rose
Since ancient times in Ukraine, the rose has been considered the most revered sunny flower. Red roses, resembling blood, symbolize life.
Ornaments and symbols created by noble needlewomen included rose flowers and leaves and were embroidered with a closed strip, resembling an endless wreath, denoting uninterrupted life, rebirth and renewed movement of the sun. Sometimes roses were depicted in a geometric pattern in the form of stars collected in an endless sky.
bunches of grapes
Grape patterns are recognized throughout central Ukraine. Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv regions are famous for embroidered shirts and towels, decorated with large bunches of vines.
This vegetation means the joy associated with marriage, the well-being of the future family, the world. Garden - grapes are marked by a vital field. Here the husband is the sower, the earner, and the wife is the keeper of the hearth. A bunch of grapes resembles a family tree with healthy and numerous members of the genus. The Ukrainian history of embroidery goes back to ancient times and reveals the meaning of ornaments and symbols.
Poppy
The poppy was considered the most magical flower in Ukraine, protecting the family from the evil eye and problems. Consecrated poppy seeds were scattered in the house, the master's yard, showered with residents and animals.
The red color of the flower represents the blood of the dead. Poppy pattern, boxes with seeds, leaves represent protection from evil intent or the memory of the fallen warriors - members of the family. Young women from the family of the deceased soldier wore wreaths of seven poppy flowers. Such an action meant an oath to protect and continue the family.
White Lily
The tenderness and fragility of a lily flower is equated with girlish innocence, charm and beauty. The image of lilies and a pair of white swans look touching - a sign of pure sincere love and endless fidelity. The lily is embroidered like a flower, leaves and a bud, symbolizing the mystery of the birth of a new life and personifying female energy, as a symbol of purity, charm, virgin purity. The line drawing can be supplemented with a cross blessing the young family. The image above the drop flower prophesies fertilization.
Oak
Even in ancient times, Perun was considered a powerful, formidable, omnipotent God. The symbolic sign of the aforementioned God is an oak, which is considered a symbol of masculine strength, powerful vital energy, and inflexibility.
Clothes, towels and men's household items were decorated with oak patterns, making Ukrainian men strong and courageous, proudly defending their family. Oak is a powerful plant, personifying the sun god, development and life. Oak and viburnum combine girlish beauty and masculine strength. They often embroider shirts.
Kalina - a symbol of the family
Kalina is a bush that glorifies the Ukrainian race, conveys the girlish beauty of the birth of life. Viburnum berries mean the immortality of the Ukrainian people. A bush with life-giving flowers and fruits was planted in the yard. The old Slavs came up with a name for the sun - "kolo". It is believed that viburnum took this name for herself. Juicy clusters of the aforementioned berry denote a healthy and strong family. Ukrainian craftswomen embroidered wedding towels, all kinds of shirts with clusters of red viburnum.
Symbolism of hop leaves
Embroidery in the central part of Ukraine - Podol is famous for the pattern of hop leaves. Hops are a sign of youth, carrying a positive energy supply of feelings of love and rebirth. Hops were used to decorate shirts and towels intended for weddings. It can be considered a wedding symbol, personifying the course of life and a young strong family.
Bereginya
The strongest amulet in Ukrainian embroidery is a flowerpot with flowers, birds and Beregynya - a magical flower, marked by maternal power, reflecting the preservation of the entire human race. Ukrainians honor the symbol of the coast, combined with their mother, her gentle and gentle hands. The Bereginya of the human race is depicted as a flowering plant or a female silhouette. This is a sign of healing, purification, protection. Embroidered with red thread with the addition of black. Shades of red signify the sun and purifying fire.
The history of embroidery with a creative image and the meaning of amazing ornaments and iconic symbols is interesting. Chernobrivtsy are healing flowers that heal spiritual experience and bodily illnesses, personifying love for wildlife.
Ornaments and symbols of the Sun and Water
Slavic embroidery uses patterns that symbolize the Sun and Water - the forces that support earthly life. Sun and Water are parting symbols, similar to an octagonal flower. This striking ornament connects the elements that support earthly life. Signs are perceived by solar and water parental energy. A flower of eight corners or a rosette is the Sun, and a twisted one is Water.
geometric patterns
A popular type of embroidered pattern of the Slavic peoples is a rhombus. National folk embroidery is famous for the image of rhombuses. This is a strong amulet that brings happiness and good luck. The symbol is widespread and is used in the embroidery of the ethnic clothes of the Slavs.
When embroidering all kinds of significant patterns, Ukrainian needlewomen often used geometric patterns, the meaning of which was made public.
- The Earth and the Sun, supplemented by Water - the symbols that give life to all living things, are indicated by symbolic rhombuses, which mean the fertility of the Earth, heated by the heat of the sun.
- The stars represent the solar system and the universe, characterized by order and harmony.
- A rhombus crossed by lines - a field, a land plot.
- Rhombus with dots in the center - fertility, fertilization.
- The circle is a symbol of the Sun and harmony.
- Wavy contours - water sources.
- Radiation - well-being, blessing from heaven, well-fed life.
Cross of Lada-Virgin Mary- A symbol of Love, Harmony and Happiness in the family, the people called him Ladinets. As an amulet, it was mainly worn by girls in order to have protection from the "evil eye". And so that the strength of the power of Ladin was constant, he was inscribed in the Great Kolo (Circle).
Ladinets, also known as the Harmony of the Feminine, is a female Amulet that brings the female essence to harmony. Calmness and joy in the soul are immediately reflected in the appearance - you become more beautiful and attractive, and most importantly - healthier.
The amulet gives peace, joy and self-awareness as a Woman.
The red ray remains unchanged in any case, the color of the second ray changes depending on the sign of the Zodiac.
Fire - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius,
Water - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces,
Earth - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn,
Air - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
For the elements of the Earth - the classic black color (many embroider dark green).
For the element of Fire, black is also used (many embroider dark brown).
For the element of Air - blue.
For the element of Water - blue or turquoise.
Ladinets are usually embroidered in combination with roses.
A girl, a woman who was presented with the amulet Ladinets or the Harmony of the Feminine, should, after receiving the gift, walk in a skirt and dresses for 40 days !!! Even at home, you need to wear bathrobes or sundresses, in trousers, shorts, etc. it is forbidden! This applies to yourself as well! It is very important!
Another Ladinets is a popular and simplified name for the amulet "Kolo-Ladnik".
Ladinets is a couple to Kolyadnik (Rodovich). Together they personify the feminine (Ladinets) and masculine (Kolyadnik) principles, and form a heavenly family.
The Slavs called the Goddess Lada the great Mother Goddess, or the Woman in Childbirth. It is Kolo (circle, feminine) and 8 elements (the symbol of infinity) that emphasize the feminine character of the amulet, harmony and the embodiment in eternity of all living things and things.
Kolo-Ladnik or Ladinets can be seen paired with Kolyadnik inside the family home - these are symbols of the giving and receiving beginnings, they personify the unity of a man and a woman, and are twisted in a whirlwind of solar movement, which is embodied in 2 amulets.
Ladinets is given to a woman, regardless of her marital status. If Ladinets is worn by an unmarried girl, a girl, he reveals femininity, feminine qualities and character traits in her. For a married woman, Ladinets will help give birth to healthy children, promote family well-being, keep Peace, Harmony and Consent in the house.
The Cross of the Lada of the Virgin (Ladinets) is a Symbol of Love, Harmony and Happiness in the family. This amulet was worn mainly by girls in order to have protection from the "evil eye". In order for the strength and power of Ladin to be constant, the amulet was inscribed in the Great Kolo (Circle).
If there is a Ladinets amulet in the house, Trouble will never befall him. For this pattern, the traditional colors are blue and emerald green.
When to embroider: 10, 14 lunar day.
As far back as the Paleolithic period, mankind has known the art of ornamentation. Valuable information was invested in a repeating pattern. Such an image is capable of evoking associations that are intertwined with each other, helping to understand the full depth of the work.
Ancient Slavic culture in patterns and ornaments
They have absorbed many sacred, magical meanings, have a special energy. Magi used signs for sacraments and rituals. With their help, shamans could erase the boundaries between worlds and travel to a dark or bright world, communicate with the gods, pay tribute and respect to the forces of nature. A man who lived among nature continuously watched her, transferred her lines to fabric, dishes, household items. Each line was non-random and endowed with its own meaning. The ornament helped the ancient Slavs to protect their homes, themselves and their families; for this, patterns were applied to window and entrance openings, clothes, towels.
Traditional colors in symbolism
The ornament was applied to clothes with special trepidation, as it protected the one who wears it from evil spirits. The ritual pattern was applied to vulnerable parts: neck, collar, hem, sleeves.
Red
Most of the embroidery was red, as a symbol of life and love. This color protects the living. Red is also a sign of energy, fire, that is, the sun. He gives a healthy body, warmth, removes any evil eye.
It is not for nothing that ordinary phenomena were endowed with the epithet “red”: the red sun, which gives life to all living organisms; spring is red - the personification of the beginning of life; red summer - dawn, life triumphs; red girl - a beautiful girl, healthy, full of strength, etc.
Black
In combination with red, it enhanced the protective effect of the ornament. Black is the fertile Mother Earth, this color was assigned the role of protecting a woman from infertility.
The sign, embroidered in a black zigzag, means an unplowed field, it was worn by girls who need to be fertilized. Wavy black lines - a plowed field, ready for the grains to germinate, that is, for fertilization.
Blue
The blue color protected from bad weather and natural elements. It was used mainly on men's clothing, because it was the man who was often away from home, getting food or being at war. Blue water is the sky on earth, its reflection. The blue embroidered ornament on the man's dress tells us that he embarked on the spiritual path of self-improvement.
Male color, a sign of readiness to protect a woman. If a young man gave a girl a blue embroidered handkerchief, this meant that he had the most serious intentions, he was ready to protect his chosen one for the rest of his life. An important point: the man himself necessarily tied a gift on the head of the girl, thereby confirming his intentions.
Green
The green color was endowed with the power of plants and helped protect the body from wounds. Symbol of the Forest, youth and rebirth. Green depicted the World Tree, sown fields and young shoots.
The Slavs had names: - a green garden meant blooming life; - the deep sea is green, the same as "beyond distant lands", very far away; - green wine had a negative connotation - strong alcohol intoxication. But, at the same time, this color denoted the space of a stranger, places inhabited by evil spirits.
In the southern area, the Slavs had conspiracies that helped drive out evil spirits on the “green grass”, “green tree”, “on the green mountain”. Mythological heroes also had green parts of the body: the hair and eyes of a mermaid and a goblin, and the merman himself was all the color of sea mud.
White
The dual color is white. It is associated with everything pure, bright, holy, but at the same time it was considered mourning. Any other color is combined with this color, so white is a symbol of harmony, reconciliation. Also, white light is the space that is intended for human life.
People with pure thoughts and bright thoughts were described as follows: white hands, white face, white birch tree. Everything that is sincere, bright and kind in the world, everything is reflected in white: - white tablecloths protect guests from evil thoughts; - white sheets protect from death; - white underwear creates a barrier to grief and illness; - a white apron is able to protect the female organs from the evil eye.
Slavic symbols and their meaning
Alatyr Another name is the cross of Svarog, an eight-petal star. This is the Eye of the Family. It was applied to the clothes of people in charge, the sign acted as a talisman on a dangerous and long journey. The cross combines all svargas, two-headed and triglavic and many other sacred symbols, as it is the basis of all things.
Bereginya
This symbol has many names: Rozhanitsa, Mother of the world, Goddess of the house and others. She protects her entire family, family, hearth, children. Beregina is allowed to host in heaven, in nature, she was responsible for fertility. The female image was embroidered with raised or lowered hands as a sign of a talisman and blessing.
The embodiment of the Universe, the center and axis of the world, the personification of the entire Genus. Women, so that the family is strong and healthy. In the minds of the Slavs, the place of the World Tree was given in the center of the world, in the middle of the ocean on an island of land. Branches stretch to the sky, gods and angels sit in the crown. And the roots go deep underground, to the Underworld, where demonic entities, demons live. Bereginya and the Tree of Knowledge were interchangeable. Often the Goddess of the house was depicted with roots instead of legs - a sign of the earth.
Kolovrat
The well-known sign of the swastika originates from the Slavic peoples (it acquired a negative meaning thanks to Hitler and the Nazi army). Kolovrat, or Solstice, is the most ancient and deeply revered pagan amulet. It was considered the most powerful protective sign, which personifies the unity of the Family, its continuity, the Rotation of everything and everything. Thus, the idea of the Eternal Revival received a symbolic embodiment.
In the direction of rotation of the swastika (salting / anti-salting) determine the Sun in summer and winter. The aspiration along the course of the sun (Reveal) is bright, it is a Creative force, a kind of symbol of energy control, superiority over existing matter. She is opposed to the left-sided swastika (Sun of Navi), this is the triumph of everything earthly, the superiority of the material essence and instinctiveness of things.
Undoubtedly, the most common were the symbols that brought happiness. Orepey (or Arepey) is one of them. The comb rhombus received this name in the Ryazan region. In other regions, it is known as oak, well or burdock. The rhombus itself in the Slavic ornamental tradition has many interpretations: agriculture, fertility, it was believed that it was also feminine, the sun.
A sign with a dot in it meant land planted with seeds. On the robe of a woman in the shoulder area, Orepey denoted the World Mountain, Alatyr-stone with a god sitting on it. Gates to another world were embroidered on the hem. On the elbow means ancestor. Often the rhombus pattern ended with crosses. So the Slavs believed that they spread happiness and good on all four sides. The symbol of a sown field brought prosperity, success, wealth to the Slavs, increased vitality, gave a person self-confidence.
Thunderbolt
The sign of Perun (the god of thunder) was depicted as a cross with six ends, which was inscribed in a hexagon or circle. At first, only men could use it and exclusively in a military environment; it was depicted on the weapons and armor of warriors. It was believed that Thunderbolt had a detrimental effect on female energy. Later, the ornament began to be applied to simple clothes and dwellings in order to protect themselves from destructive lightning. Often this sign was decorated with shutters and door jambs.
Makosh
The Heavenly Mother of God is the arbiter of destinies. With her daughters, Shares and Nedolya, she weaves the threads of fate for gods and people. Those who adhere to a righteous lifestyle, honor the saints, know the canons, draw a good lot, and Makosh gives them a Share, a good fate. For those people who follow their desires and selfishness, Nedolya will be the mistress of fate. Makosh patronizes fertility, women's handicrafts, on her shoulders is the responsibility for the crossroads of the Interworld.
The symbol helps to call for help the power of the gods, it protects, heals, helps to find harmony and happiness. A noose-like sign is able to connect torn, confused and broken parts into a single whole.
Water
Water acted not only as an element, it is knowledge, the beginning of which is in the Interworld. The personification of the Currant River, which serves as the border between Yavu and Naviu, a river that carries the knowledge of ancient ancestors, oblivion and death. The river Ra is a bright road to God. The milk river in Iria carries knowledge of the highest level and grants immortality.
A strong amulet, personifying the union of two Clans. This ornament was always present in wedding embroidery. The pattern means the eternal spiritual, mental and physical merging of entities: two newlyweds and two Clans. The threads of the Body, Soul, Spirit, Conscience of both Clans are intertwined into a new created Life System.
Strong and weak beginnings in the wedding are indicated by color: male - red (fire), female - blue (water). The unification of the energies of the two Elements generates a new universal energy and is a manifestation of infinite life in time and space.
fireworks
In the culture of the ancient Slavs, Ognevitsa was a strong female amulet. A beneficial effect was only on a mature female body and a formed soul. The presence of this image on the clothes of young girls and girls was not allowed. Ognevitsa effectively acted on married women who gave birth to at least one child. She protected from everything bad, starting from a random word and ending with purposeful evil deeds.
Carrying a sacred meaning, Ognevitsa was embroidered only on clothes, you will not find it on household items. This symbol is able to take away any trouble from a woman, direct her to positive aspirations. Slavets often performs in tandem with her - a swastika solar symbol that helps protect women's health. The Slavs knew that Ognevitsa enhances the action of the energy flows of the protective symbols that are next to her.
Stribozhich
Stribozhich directs his creative energy to protect against the elements (hurricane, snowstorm, storm, drought, and others). The amulet gave immunity to the entire Family and the Household of the Family. Sailors also loved this symbol. They carved signs on sailing ships, and Stribozhich gave them good weather. He was revered by farmers and farmers. Embroidered on work clothes, the pattern called for a cool breeze in the hot midday heat. There is an opinion that the blades of windmills were built in accordance with the location of the petals of the symbol. This allowed the most efficient use of wind energy.
The Slavs attached great importance to the color scheme. The red blades of the sign are solar energy, activity. The inner space of white color means unity with the Universal heavens, the place where energy originates. The outer blue color speaks of sacredness, the highest level of spiritual development. This wisdom is not given to everyone, it is given only to the elect.
Spiral
The spiral is a sign of wisdom. The blue pattern meant sacred wisdom. The ornament, made in other colors, was a talisman against evil forces and the evil eye. Slavic women loved to embroider spiral images on their headdresses.
The spiral itself is the oldest symbol of the Universe, because many galaxies are arranged according to this principle. And mankind since ancient times has been developing in an upward spiral.
A little more about symbols
It is possible to comprehend the beauty of the protective Slavic symbols if you study their meanings. Watching the patterned embroidery, considering the bizarre interweaving of ornaments, the eye loses focus, and the picture becomes "holographic". Attention switches between dark and light signs. Where the dark is all earthly, and the light is the heavenly world.
In order to decipher the meaning inherent in the patterns, it is necessary to take into account the fact that, depending on the location of the protective symbolism on the clothes, its interpretation also changes. The Slavs accepted a three-part division of the world: Yav, Nav and the world, where a place is reserved for man. Accordingly: the neck, the shoulders are the highest divine light, the hem is the Underworld, the sleeves are the middle human world.
Placing one sign in different worlds, it also acquired different meanings. Masculine and feminine, light and darkness, earth and sky, top and bottom - such opposites ultimately lead to the fact that the process of movement, development occurs continuously and forever.
The ancient Slavs had to observe the golden mean, to keep the two sides of power in balance. Symbols have been created and improved over the centuries; they have absorbed special sacred meanings, magic, and the works of ancestors. These are strong protective amulets, so their beauty and aesthetics should be judged last. For a very long time, the masters honored the canons according to which the ornament was embroidered, they knew the meaning. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, much was lost.
Modern embroiderers can no longer explain what they embroider, but somewhere in the distant outback the most ancient patterns still live and delight their admirers. There are still people who consciously wear protective clothing, delving into and comprehending the secrets of the past.
Slavic costume has always been admired by overseas merchants. Clothes skillfully emphasized external and spiritual beauty. The rhythm of geometric details plays a significant role. To know the truth, to feel harmony and splendor is possible through creativity. However, you should not look at the mysterious ornament on the run. This requires a special mood, a spiritual attitude, when a person hears his heart and is ready to follow his call.
Currently Solar symbols many people associate with submission of anti-Russian media, it is not known for whom working , with Fascism and Adolf Hitler. This has been hammered into people's heads for the last 70 years. Few people now remember that the Swastika was depicted on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923, as legalized state symbols; that on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army in the same period there was also a Swastika in a laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika were the letters R.S.F.S.R. There is even such a version that the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat, as a party symbol, was presented to Adolf Hitler by Comrade I.V. Stalin in 1920. There are so many legends and conjectures around this ancient sign that we decided to tell in detail about this ancient sign on Earth. solar cult symbol.
Represents a rotating cross with curved ends directed clockwise or counterclockwise. Now all Solar symbols are called in one word - SWASTIKA, which is fundamentally wrong, since each Solar symbol in ancient times had its own name, purpose, protective power and figurative meaning.
Solar symbols, as the most ancient, are most often found in archaeological excavations. More often than other symbols, they were found in ancient burial mounds, on the ruins of ancient cities and settlements. In addition, swastika symbols were depicted on various details of architecture, weapons, clothing and household utensils among many peoples of the world. found everywhere in ornamentation, as a sign of Light, Sun, Love and Life.
The oldest archaeological artifacts depicting swastika symbols now date back to approximately 4-15 millennium BC. 
(on the right is a vessel from the Scythian Kingdom 3-4 thousand BC). According to the materials of archaeological excavations, the richest territory for the use of the swastika, both for religious and cultural purposes, is Russia and Siberia.
Neither Europe nor India nor Asia can compare with Russia or Siberia in abundance solar symbols covering Russian weapons, banners, national costumes, household utensils, everyday and agricultural items, as well as houses and churches. excavations of the ancients 
mounds, cities and settlements speak for themselves - many ancient Slavic cities had a clear shape of the Swastika, oriented to the four cardinal points. This can be seen on the example of Arkaim, Vendogard and others (on the left is a plan-reconstruction of Arkaim).
Solar symbols were the main and, one might say, almost the only elements of the most ancient Proto-Slavic ornaments. But this does not mean at all that the Slavs were bad artists. First, image varieties Solar symbols there were a lot. Secondly, in ancient times, not a single pattern was applied just like that, each element of the pattern corresponded to a certain cult or protective (charm) meaning, since each symbol in the pattern had its own magical power.
Bringing together the strengths of different solar symbols, white people created a favorable atmosphere around themselves and their loved ones, 
in which it was easiest to live and create. These were carved patterns, stucco molding, painting, beautiful carpets woven by industrious hands.
But not only Aryans and Slavs believed in the magical power of swastika patterns. The same symbols were found on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC.
Solar symbols in levorotatory and dextrorotatory forms are found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC.
In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a burial stele of the Meroz kingdom, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife, and the Swastika flaunts on the clothes of the deceased.
The rotating cross also adorns the golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and the clay utensils of the ancient Indians, beautiful carpets woven by the Persians and Celts.
Man-made belts created by Komi, Russians, Sami, Latvians, Lithuanians and other peoples, 
also filled solar symbols, moreover, at present it is difficult even for an ethnographer to figure out which of the peoples to attribute these ornaments to. Judge for yourself.
Since ancient times, solar symbolism has been the main and dominant among almost all the peoples on the territory of Eurasia: Slavs, Germans, Mari, Pomors, Skalvians, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Hindus, Icelanders, Scots and many others.
In many ancient beliefs and religions Solar symbols are the most important and brightest cult symbol. So, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism, the Swastika is the eternal cycle of the Universe, a symbol of the Buddha Law, to which everything that exists is subject (Dictionary "Buddhism", M., "Respublika", 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism - a security symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman.
In India and Tibet, it is depicted everywhere: on the walls and gates of temples, on residential buildings, 
as well as on the fabrics in which all sacred texts and tablets are wrapped. Very often, sacred texts from the Book of the Dead are framed with swastika ornaments, which are written on burial covers before kroding (cremation).
You can observe the image of many Swastikas both on an old Japanese engraving of the 18th century (picture above), and on peerless mosaic floors in the halls of the St. Petersburg Hermitage (picture below).
But you will not find any messages about this in the media, because they have no idea what the Swastika is, what ancient figurative meaning it carries, what it has meant for many millennia and now means for the Slavs and Aryans and many peoples inhabiting our Earth.
In these media, alien to the Slavs, the Swastika is called either a German cross or a fascist sign and relegates its image and meaning only to Adolf Hitler, Germany 1933-45, to fascism (National Socialism) and the Second World War.
Modern "journalists", "is-Torics" and guardians of "universal values" seem to have forgotten that the Swastika is the Ancient Russian symbol, that in the past, representatives of the highest authorities, in order to enlist the support of the people, always made the Swastika a state symbol and placed its image on money .
So did the princes and tsars, the Provisional Government, and the Bolsheviks, who later seized power from them.
Matrix banknotes in denominations of 250 rubles, with the image of the Swastika symbol - Kolovrat - against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made by special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
The Provisional Government used these matrices to issue banknotes in denominations of 250, and later 1000 rubles.
Starting from 1918, the Bolsheviks put into circulation new banknotes in denominations of 5,000 and 10,000 rubles, which depict three Kolovrat Swastikas: two smaller Kolovrats in side ties are intertwined with large numbers 5000, 10,000, and a large Kolovrat is placed in the middle.
Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was in use until 1923, and only after the appearance of banknotes of the USSR, they were withdrawn from circulation.
The authorities of Soviet Russia, in order to get support in Siberia, created sleeve patches in 1918 
for the soldiers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front, they depicted a Swastika with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside (see photo on the right). But they did the same: the Russian Government of A.V. Kolchak, calling under the banner of the Siberian Volunteer Corps (see the photo at the top left); Russian emigrants in Harbin and Paris, and then the National Socialists in Germany.
Created in 1921 according to the sketches of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and the flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) subsequently became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). Few people now know that in Germany the National Socialists did not use the Swastika (Swastika), but a symbol similar to it - Hakenkreuz, which has a completely different figurative meaning - a change in the world around us and a person's worldview.
For many millennia, various inscriptions solar symbols had a powerful influence on the way of life of people, on their psyche (Soul) and subconsciousness, uniting representatives of various tribes for the sake of some bright goal; gave a powerful surge of light divine forces, revealing the internal reserves in people for all-round creation for the benefit of their Clans, in the name of justice, prosperity and well-being of their Fatherland.
At first, only clergy of various Tribal cults, Religions and religions used this, then representatives of the highest state power - princes, kings, etc., began to use swastika symbols, and after them all kinds of occultists and politicians turned to the Swastika.
After the Bolsheviks completely captured all levels of power, the need for the support of the Soviet regime by the Russian people disappeared, because it is easier to seize the values created by the same Russian people. Therefore, in 1923, the Bolsheviks abandoned the Swastika, leaving only the five-pointed star, the Hammer and Sickle as state symbols.
In ancient times, when our Ancestors used the Kh'Aryan Runes, the word
- Swastika, translated as Coming from Heaven.
- Rune SVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God),
- C - Rune of direction;
- TIKA runes - movement, advent, flow, run.
Our children and grandchildren still pronounce the word "tick", that is, to run. In addition, the figurative form of the TIKA runes is still found in everyday words Arctic, Antarctica, mysticism, homiletics, politics, etc.
Ancient Vedic sources tell us that even our galaxy has a shape solar symbol, and our Yarila-Sun system is located in one of the arms of this Heavenly Swastika. And since we are in the galactic arm, our entire galaxy (its ancient name is Svasti) is perceived by us as Perunov's Way or the Milky Way.
Everyone knows that the Slavic prince Prophetic Oleg nailed his shield to the gates of Constantinople (Constantinople), 
but few people now know what exactly was depicted on the shield. However, a description of the symbolism of the shield of the Prophetic Oleg and his armor can be found in historical chronicles (Figure of the shield of the Prophetic Oleg on the left).
Prophetic people, that is, those who have the gift of Spiritual Foresight and know the Ancient Wisdom, which the Gods and Ancestors left to people, were endowed by the Priests with various symbols. One of the most prominent representatives of prophetic people was the Slavic prince - Prophetic Oleg.
In addition to being a prince and an excellent military strategist, he was also a high-level priest. The symbolism, which was depicted on his clothes, weapons, armor and the princely banner, tells about all this in detailed images.
The Fiery Swastika depicted on the shield of the Prophetic Oleg (symbolizing the land of the Ancestors) in the center of the nine-pointed Star of Inglia (the symbol of the Faith of the First Ancestors) is surrounded by the Great Kolo (Circle of Patron Gods), which radiates eight rays of Spiritual Light (the eighth degree of Priestly initiation) to the Svarog Circle. All this symbolism speaks of the enormous Spiritual and physical strength that was directed to protect the Native Land and the Holy Old Faith.
They believed in the Swastika as a talisman that "attracts" good luck and happiness. In Ancient Rus', it was believed that if you draw Kolovrat on the palm of your hand, you will definitely be lucky. Even modern students draw the Swastika on the palm of their hand before exams. Solar symbols they also painted on the walls of the house so that happiness reigned there.
As a cult and everyday solar symbol that brings happiness, luck, prosperity, joy and prosperity, the Swastika was originally used only among the white people of the Great Race, professing the Old Faith of the First Ancestors - Ynglism, in the druidic cults of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia.
The only ones who don't recognize solar symbols sacred, are representatives of Judaism.
Some people may object: they say that in the oldest synagogue in Israel, the Swastika is depicted on the floor, and no one destroys it. Really, solar symbol is present on the floor in the Israeli synagogue, but only to be trampled underfoot by all who come.
Various variations of the Swastika symbols with no less different meanings are found not only in cult and protective symbols, but also in the form of Runes, which, like letters in ancient times, had their own figurative meaning. So, for example, in the ancient Kh’Aryan Karuna (Runic alphabet), there were four Runes depicting Swastika elements:
It had a figurative meaning: a powerful, directed, destructive Fiery stream (thermonuclear fire).
Had figurative meanings:
Sacred Fire of the hearth, as well as the Sacred Fire of Life, located in the human body, and other meanings.
It had a figurative meaning:
Ice Flame guarding the Peace of the Universe. The rune of the transition from the World of Reveal to the World of Light Navi (Glory), incarnation in a new Life. Symbol of Winter and Sleep.
Had a figurative meaning
Primary Fire of the Creation of the Universe, from this Fire a lot of different Universes and various forms of Life appeared.
Solar elements in Russia, for political purposes, were used not only by the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, much earlier than them, representatives of the Black Hundred began to use Solar symbols. At the end of the 20th century, the organization Russian National Unity began to use the Swastika symbolism.
Solar symbols carry a great secret meaning. They have great wisdom. Everyone opens before us the Great picture of the universe. The study of ancient symbols, Runic writings and ancient Traditions must be approached with an open heart and a pure Soul. Not for self-interest, but for knowledge!
A knowledgeable person never says that Solar symbolism is a German or fascist symbol. Only unreasonable and ignorant people speak like that, because they reject what they are not able to understand and know, and also try to wishful thinking. But even if ignorant people reject some symbol or some information, this does not mean that this symbol or information does not exist. Denial or distortion of truth for the sake of some, violates the harmonious development of others.
Even the ancient symbol of the Greatness of the Fertility of the Mother of the Raw Earth, called SOLARD in ancient times, some incompetent people rank as fascist symbols. A symbol that appeared many thousands of years before the rise of National Socialism.
At the same time, it is not even taken into account that SOLARD in the symbolism of the RNE is combined with the Star of the Lada-Virgin Mary (see on the right), where the Divine Forces (Golden Field), the Forces of Primary Fire (red), the Heavenly Forces (blue) and the Forces Nature (green).
The only difference between the original Symbol of Mother Nature and the sign used by the RNE is the multicolor of the Original Symbol of Mother Nature (on the right) and the two-color one of the Russian National Unity.
Common people had their own names solar symbol. In the villages of the Ryazan province, he was called "feather grass" - the incarnation of the Wind; on Pechora - "hare", here the graphic symbol was perceived as a piece of sunlight, a ray, a sunbeam; in some places the Solar Cross was called a “horse”, “horse shank” (horse head), because a long time ago a horse was considered a symbol of the Sun and Wind; were called Swastikas-Solyarniki and "flinters", again, in honor of Yarila-Sun. The people very correctly felt both the Fiery, Fiery Nature of the symbol (Sun) and its Spiritual essence (Wind).
The oldest master of Khokhloma painting Stepan Pavlovich Veseloe (1903-1993) from the village of Mogushino, Nizhny Novgorod region, observing traditions, 
painted on wooden plates and bowls, calling him "ginger", the Sun, and explained: "This is the wind of a blade of grass shakes, stirs."
In the photo, you can see swastika symbols even on a carved cutting board (left).
In the countryside, girls and women still wear elegant sundresses, ponevs and shirts for holidays, and men wear blouses embroidered with swastika symbols of various shapes. Lush loaves and sweet cookies are baked, decorated on top with Kolovrat, Salting, Solstice and others. Solar symbols.
As mentioned earlier, before the second half of the 20th century, the main and almost the only patterns and symbols that existed in Slavic embroidery were Swastika ornaments.
The enemies of the Clans of the Great Race in the second half of the 20th century began to decisively eradicate this, and eradicated it in the same way as they had previously eradicated the Ancient Slavic and Aryan Folk Culture, Ancient Faith and Folk Traditions, true, undistorted by the rulers, History, as they destroy the long-suffering Slavic The people, the bearer of the ancient Slavic-Aryan Culture.
And now they are trying to ban any kind of rotating Solar symbols in many ways the same people or their descendants, but using different pretexts: if earlier this was done under the pretext of class struggle and anti-Soviet conspiracies, now it is a struggle against the manifestation of extremist activity.
For those who are not indifferent to the ancient Native Great Russian Culture, several typical patterns of Slavic embroidery of the 18th-20th centuries are given. On the presented fragments you can see for yourself Solar symbols and ornaments.
The use of swastika symbols in ornaments in the Slavic lands is simply incalculable. They are used in the Baltic States, Belarus, the Volga region, Pomorie, Perm, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Urals, Altai and the Far East and other regions.
Academician B.A. Rybakov called - Kolovrat - a connecting link between the Paleolithic, where it first appeared, and modern ethnography, which provides innumerable examples of swastika patterns in fabrics, embroidery and weaving.
But after the Second World War, in which Russia, as well as all the Slavic and Aryan peoples suffered huge losses, the enemies of the Aryan and Slavic Culture began to equate fascism and the Swastika, although the Slavs used this throughout their existence.
Streams of lies and fictions about the Swastika overflowed the cup of absurdity. "Russian teachers" in modern schools, lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia teach children complete nonsense, which The swastika is a German fascist cross made up of four letters "G", denoting the first letters of the leaders of Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes replaced by Hess).
Listening to such "unfortunate teachers", you might think that Germany during the time of Adolf Hitler used exclusively the Russian alphabet, and not at all the Latin script and the German Runic.
Is it in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS), there is at least one Russian letter "G" - no! But the flow of lies does not stop.
Patterns and elements from solar symbols used by the peoples of the Earth over the past 10-15 thousand years, which is confirmed even by archaeologists.
Ancient thinkers said more than once: "Two misfortunes hinder human development: ignorance and ignorance." Our Ancestors were knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and therefore used various Swastika elements and ornaments in everyday life, considering them as symbols of the Yarila-Sun, Life, Happiness and prosperity.
Only narrow-minded and ignorant people undertake to denigrate everything that is pure, bright and expensive that remains among the Slavic and Aryan peoples.
Let's not be like them! Do not paint over the Swastika symbols in the ancient Slavic Temples and Christian temples, on the Kummirs of the Light Gods and the Images of the Wise Ancestors.
Do not destroy, at the whim of ignoramuses and Slav-haters, the so-called "Soviet staircase", the mosaic floor and ceilings of the Hermitage or the domes of the Moscow St. Basil's Cathedral just because various options have been painted on them for hundreds of years Solar symbols.
One generation replaces another, state systems and regimes collapse, but as long as the People remember their ancient roots, honor the traditions of their Great Ancestors, preserve their Ancient culture and symbols, until that time The people are alive and will live!
