Neo-paganism is gaining momentum every day. True, not everyone who calls themselves pagans really knows the meaning of the symbolism, the Vedas. For the most part, in the minds of young people, the impression is that all pagans are sort of bearded men and women with long braids behind their backs. But what is worth knowing about the pagan Vedas, and what is it, in general, is it?
Slavic-Aryan Vedas
They consist of several books. The first book "Slavic-Aryan Vedas" is divided into several parts: Circle One", "The Saga of the Ynglings", "Ynglism", There is also an additional appendix called "Organizations and communities of the Old Russian Church of the Ynglings-Old Believers". This book tells about the commandments that Perun left to the peoples of the Great Race, as well as a number of events.This book and its appendices tell about the Yngling ancestors, provide information about the teachings of this church, the calendar, the pantheon, hymns, and general commandments of each God. -Aryan Vedas. Book 1" is quite large, but
This gives very significant knowledge both about Old Believers in general and about traditions in particular.
The second book is in two parts. These are the "Book of Light" and "Words of Wisdom by Velimudr Magus". This book is a kind of mystical work that was translated from runic writing, and also contains the precepts of the ancient sage and sorcerer Velimudr. only the first part of the covenants. The second part is in the third book "Slavic-Aryan Vedas". The third book also consists of two parts: "Inglism" and "Words of Wisdom of the Magus Velimudr". "Ynglism" is a symbol of Yngling beliefs. Well, the “Words” are the very second part of the testaments that came to us from antiquity. The fourth book consists of the "Source of Life" and "White Way", which contain the legends and legends of the ancient Slavs, as well as an indication of their path.
What is most remarkable is that in the predictions that are given in these books, there are truly world-class events that have come true. The description of the structure of the world and the universe is close enough to the modern description, and reading these books will allow you to develop not only the mind, but also spirituality (unless, of course, you do not look for hidden meanings).
Problems of Old Believers and the Slavic-Aryan Vedas in the Mud
Now this knowledge is applied by two types of people. The first type is quite peaceful pagan Old Believers. They substantiate all the Vedas for peaceful purposes, simply perform rituals and observe traditions, enriching themselves with the knowledge and spiritual treasures of their faith.
The second type of people are rigid ideologists. For the most part, they justify their cruelty with certain instructions, which they also distort in their favor. As a matter of fact, it is precisely because of them and the Nazis of the Second World War that public aggression is caused not only by references to the books "Slavic-Aryan Vedas", but also by swastikas. People simply forgot that swastikas were in the most ancient civilizations and carried precisely a bright beginning. However, paganism is not imposed on anyone. The main thing is that faith is close to the spirit and does not go beyond what is permitted. And let the Slavic-Aryan Vedas have different comments, and the true Old Believers will follow the path that Perun and others appointed them
Review of the study of the paganism of the ancient Slavs. Vedas and the discovery of the culture of the Indo-Europeans. Hinduslavs. Russian and Sanskrit. Sanskrit in geographical names. Three main words. Monotheism and polytheism in the Vedas. Sanskrit in the names of Slavic gods. Sanskrit in the names of elemental spirits. Ancient history of the Slavs. High technologies and superweapons in antiquity. "Troubled Millennium" and the stages of the settlement of the Slavs. Vedas record. Expeditions to the Himalayas. Vedic predictions. Arctic Homeland in the Vedas. Origin of Rus'. Monotheism and the evolution of the worship of the Slavs. Vishnu and Krishna in the culture of the Slavs. The Age of Rodoslavia. Phallic cults of ancient Rus'. Perun is the patron of the princely squad. Polytheism and the advent of Christianity. Keys to folk Russian fairy tales. Wise and mantras among the Slavs. Traditional costume as a charm.
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Overview of the study of the paganism of the ancient Slavs
00:00:00 The lecture is called "The Vedas of the Slavs". This is the connection of the pre-Christian culture of Rus', the Slavs as part of the Indo-European unity of peoples, and this is the topic that today's lecture will be devoted to. That is, it is called "Slavs and Vedas." Since we are talking about pre-Christian Rus', we immediately need to voice several such popular myths. For example, the first myth is that this culture - it was. In fact, "tongues" - this means people who speak other languages, incomprehensible, that is, a synonym for the word "Germans" in principle. And it is unlikely that representatives of pre-Christian culture themselves called themselves pagans. Usually they were called pagans by Christian chroniclers, and usually the typical wording was "pagan tongues."
00:00:55 The second popular myth is polytheism. It is believed that paganism, the word paganism, is a synonym for the word polytheism, however, in reality this is not so. Academician Rybakov said that "the idea of monotheism, the idea of monotheism, it arose as an archaic form of worldview, regardless of, long before it and in addition to it."
00:01:22 Therefore, when we talk about this very culture of the Slavs, the acquaintance of modern people, it went in two ways. The first way that this acquaintance went was through popular literature and through the work of reenactors. And now the beginning was somewhere after perestroika, the beginning: 93rd - 96th, "and there was light" - this was the era of Perun. Numerous ones appeared, including the "Sword of Perun", "Perun's Speech", "Perun's Slash", the Slavic-Goritsa wrestling circle "Perun's Way". Then came the period of Svarog. What Alexander Bushkov contributed to. He has one of the heroes of the Flying Islands trilogy, in which Stanislav Svarog is there. Therefore, the "Daughter of Svarog", "The Night of Svarog" began.
00:02:16 And the current state of affairs is characterized by the fact that there is a great interest in Rodoslavia, Rod, as the supreme deity of the Slavs, here, and Lada is also popular - but here the popularity has already subsided a little. The advantage of all these fantasy, reenactors is that they popularize some ancient culture. However, in reality, the images of Slavic deities that they create are often based not on the study of chronicles or some archival materials, but primarily on a tribute to fashion. Therefore, what is promoted is interesting, but what is not promoted, people, since time is short, life is short, often do not know. I usually confuse researchers when I quote them two passages from the annals on the theme of Perun. This means that the ancient Russian chronicle says: “Perun, there are many,” that is, there are many Peruns, and the Lithuanian chronicle says: “There are four Parkunos,” and when you say that there are four Peruns, a person has a complete stupor, because this is the idea of four Perunakh was not promoted.
00:03:21 If we are talking about the study of the paganism of the Slavs, then the same thing, people think that people think that there is some kind of tome with the inscription "Paganism", where everything is completely restored. In fact, there are no dogmas, there are just researchers of varying degrees of objectivity. Therefore, you can take, for example, the work of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and there you will find that Rod, for example, is a petty god, and Lada is a fictional character. And you can take the most interesting works of Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov, he was already an employee ... that was the Institute of Slavic Studies, and he was the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Well, the Russian Academy of Sciences. And there he very convincingly reconstructs the image of Rod as the supreme Deity of the Slavs, shows the cult of veneration of Lada, as the great Mother Goddess. Therefore, you must understand that there is no unequivocal and dogmatic, even in scientific schools, reconstruction of this very period.
The Vedas and the Discovery of Indo-European Culture
00:04:22 How is all this related to Vedic texts and Vedic culture? If we are talking about what the Vedas themselves are, then this is a lot of sacred, ancient, sacred texts that are stored on the territory of Hindustan in India. They are written in an ancient language called Sanskrit, and in Sanskrit, "Vedas" means "knowledge." Yogis and sages who were the custodians of knowledge in that culture, they wrote down the Vedic texts. Some of them are devoted to material knowledge, for example, there are Vedic medicine, the science of space, and some - to worldview issues. Therefore, fashionable words, and a host of others, they are contained in the Vedic texts: that is, the law of retribution for deeds, the principle of creation, the doctrine of. And initially the Vedas were transmitted orally, and only some time ago, when this tradition began to disappear, they were written down. This is what is actually called the Vedas ...
00:05:30 And acquaintance with this knowledge and this heritage of human civilization went in a very tortuous way. Therefore, the first thing to start with is, in general, how the doctrine of the Indo-Europeans arose. The situation was approximately the following. Somewhere in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, they were very convinced that they had restored the history of the ancient world very remarkably. So the world was 6,000 years old, and those peoples who lived in the territory, they were erected to the three sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Therefore, what the researcher’s work actually boiled down to was actually to correlate certain nationalities with those lists of peoples that are not mentioned in the tenth Book of Genesis.
00:06:19 And so everyone lived so quietly, peacefully until the English scientists who collaborated with the East India Company (and the East India Company just colonized India), they began to study the Vedic texts written in Sanskrit . Sanskrit was then understood as such, well ... "Indian Latin". And suddenly it turns out that these same texts speak of existence in ancient times. That is, the fact that the world - it can still be somehow forgiven, but more than that, they are talking about some kind of flying devices, about high technologies,. Well, of course it seemed like some kind of fairy tale. But suddenly it turns out that Sanskrit, this very Indian Latin, and also European languages, also Iranian languages, also Slavic languages, have many parallels. And William Jones, an Indologist, a philologist, an orientalist, he reads, having become acquainted with the Vedas, a lecture that is considered the name of a whole science called "comparative linguistics." It turns out that all languages... many languages were united in antiquity.
00:07:37 Another Indologist, Max Muller, having become acquainted with the Vedas, he realizes the unity of the myths of all peoples. For example, there is such an archetype "Axis of the World", a giant mountain "Axis of the World". In Greece, it will be Olympus, and in the Vedas, Mount Meru. In our fairy tales, in Russian folk tales, there is a glass mountain, a golden mountain. Therefore, Max Müller, he introduces a concept called "comparative mythology". And thus, whoever came into contact with Vedic knowledge, with these texts, they naturally had a feeling of the ancient unity of cultures, the ancient unity of literatures and the ancient unity of languages. Therefore, first of all, linguists, specialists in languages, they create the doctrine of unity in great antiquity of different peoples. And these peoples who lived in truly vast territories, in comparison with modern states, they receive the name "Indo-Europeans". But this term itself is not entirely correct, because there were not only Indians and Europeans, but there were also Slavs, first of all, there were Iranians. Therefore, another term that scientists introduce is the term "". The word arya, it is found in the Vedas, is found in the Avesta, and the very word "aryan" or "aryan" means "noble man" or "man of Vedic culture." And therefore, this unity of peoples was also called "Aryan unity."
Hinduslavs
00:09:07 Then the next question arises. Here there was a great unity of peoples. How did they interact in this ... within the framework of this huge unity? And in the fifties, when there was still the Soviet Union, various Indian scientists, experts in Sanskrit, they begin ... (well, because they themselves were usually born in priestly families, Sanskrit was almost like conversational for them). They begin to travel around the Soviet Union, and suddenly discover that it is between the two groups of Indo-Europeans, between the Slavic-Aryans and the Indo-Aryans, that there are more similarities in culture, in language, in patterns, in rituals than between, say, Indians and Europeans. . And well, here is the simplest example of a language that can be given, let's say we compare Russian, Sanskrit and English. Well, for example, "fire" - "agni" - "fire", "darkness" - "tama" - "darkness", "spring" - "vasanta" - "spring". It is clear, yes, that in the first two cases, when there is Russian and Sanskrit, there is a rather prominent coincidence. And such a professor Rahul Sanskrityayan, he writes a whole work, which he calls "From the Ganges to the Volga", where he introduces a whole concept, which he calls "Indo-glories." That is, ancient education within the framework of the Indo-Europeans, and if we have knowledge about these same Indo-Slavs, then we can understand that in ancient times, when the peoples were united, there could be a natural cultural exchange between the Slavs, other Indo-European peoples, Iranians. This is reflected in our pre-Christian culture.
00:10:54 Briefly, the history of the study of the problem of the Hindu Slavs is as follows. Back in the middle of the twentieth century, the ethnographer and journalist Yuri Petrovich Mirolyubov, he created a number of works on this topic, for example, "Rig Veda and Paganism" and others, where he puts forward the concept that the Slavs were originally located on the territory between Iran and the Indian Seven Rivers, Punjab and then, including the famous battle of Kurukshetra - the largest Indo-European conflict, came to modern territory. In this, he himself relied on the so-called “Book of Veles”, a very controversial monument, which ... there is a constant battle going on whether it is authentic or not authentic. But one way or another, he put forward this hypothesis, which showed where the roots of our paganism, for example. And since the "Veles book", when he began to publish, frank persecution began, then naturally it was shelved. Then Rahul Sanskrityayan, he was very good, that he published "From the Volga to the Ganges", the only problem was that it was published in Hindi. Undoubtedly, we all read Hindi very easily and freely, so this, of course, also fell under the cloth.
00:12:07 Further, Dr. Natalya Romanovna Guseva wrote the book “Hinduism. The history of formation and cult practice, where she also considered, already in connection with the polar, with the idea that there was an ancient civilization at the Pole, here is also the issue of the connection between Indians and Slavs, and this also fell under the cloth. And only in fact, starting from the nineties, when censorship was significantly weakened, the work of the same Natalia Romanovna Guseva came out under the title “Slavs and Arias. The Way of the Gods and Words”, where it was already a scientifically stated concept. Thanks to Svetlana Vasilievna Zharnikova, the works “Sanskrit in the waters of the Russian North” were published, and partial translations of Sanskrityayan’s work “From the Volga to the Ganges” were published. And now, in fact, we are just at the stage when at least some scientific works have come out, which, well, indeed, can be called academic publications, which can be cited as an illustration of the fact that Slavic paganism did not come from outer space, and it has roots in Indo-European. And today we will compare the data of Natalia Romanovna Guseva and Academician Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov, and we will see how wonderfully they complement each other.
Russian and Sanskrit
00:15:13 Therefore, we will start with a rather boring topic - we will talk a little about Russian and Sanskrit. But in order not to be so depressing, it will be possible to read two poems. Because we think that we are so smart now, but in reality, with an interval of about forty years, in 1914 Bryusov, here is Valery Bryusov, that very famous symbolist poet, and somewhere in 40 years - the ethnographer Sergei Markov, they wrote two poems, which in poetic form reflected, here, the idea that we are talking about.
Valery Bryusov
No need for deceptive dreams
There is no need for beautiful utopias;
But Rock raises the question:
Who are we in this old Europe?
Random guests? horde,
Coming from Kama and Ob,
That always breathes fury
Everything destroys in senseless malice?
Or we are that great people,
Whose name will not be forgotten
Whose speech still sings
Consonant with the tune of Sanskrit?
00:14:25 And in the collection "Russian poems about language" of the fifty-fourth year, you will find Sergei Markov's poem "Russian speech". Also quite famous. Here is her snippet
I am Russian. I breathe and live
Broad, free speech.
Lose it in reality -
Like a plague or mutilation.
Her name is immortal.
Her cradle is not forgotten:
At the source of the Slavic river
Sanskrit diamonds sparkle.
So this is the fifty-fourth year. That is, all this information, it has been running since pre-revolutionary times. There are a lot of motives of the Vedic Ramayana in Pushkin's fairy tales, which we will talk about. But so to speak, "out of the water" it all did not come out, and now it broke through in such quiet verses, for those people who are in the subject.
00:15:13 Therefore, if we are talking about some scientific conferences, then the most famous scientific article devoted to Russian and Sanskrit was the article of such a researcher Durga Prasad Shastri. In 1964, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a meeting of the Russian-Indian Friendship Society was held, and it was there that Durga Prasad Shastri published his famous article in which he says: “If I were asked which two languages are closest, I answered without any hesitation: Russian and Sanskrit. And he gives some examples, for example, such an ancient Indian grammarian Panini, Panini's grammar is one of the most ancient grammars in Sanskrit, he shows how adverbs of time are formed from three adverbs, how three pronouns are formed. He then illustrates that according to the same scheme they are in Russian. That is, respectively, in Sanskrit, kim, tat, sarva, and the adverbs of kada, tada, sad are obtained. And in Russian what, that, everything, it turns out when, then and always. Similarly, in Russian and Sanskrit, the expression “That is your house, this is our house” completely coincides. In Sanskrit, "That is your Dham, this is our Dham." And Shastri, he draws attention to a subtle point: in new languages in Latin, English, the link is is needed. Let's say there is my home, there is my house. But in both Sanskrit and Russian, you can say without a bunch, that is, "This is my house." Also, the most archaic layers of the language are numerals and kinship. Let's say der mutter, the mother, mother, here, in Sanskrit, matri, therefore brother, matri, mater, therefore it is in all languages. And also numerals.
00:17:09 As for numerals, in general, a lot of things have been taken from Vedic mathematics in modern culture, but we don't know about it. For example, the well-known theorem of Pythagoras, several centuries before Pythagoras, it is contained in such works of Vedic scientists as Shatapatha Brahmana and Salba Sutra. But since this is not promoted, we believe that Pythagoras is the first. Similarly, we believe that we use Arabic numerals. Our numbers are officially called "Arabic" numbers, although in reality the Arabs took them from Vedic sources, where the concept of "zero", "one", "infinity" was introduced. And so, accordingly, what we consider Arabic numerals are Sanskrit numerals. Similarly, the very sound of numerals. "First" is "purva" or "etoron"; "second" in Sanskrit is "dvapara" or "two"; "third" - "traya" or "treta"; "fourth" is "chatvara". Therefore, for example, the names of great epochs ... there is such a doctrine about epochs, right? That is, satya, dvapara, treta and kali. Everyone who knows Russian will understand that Dvapara and Treta are the second and third epochs in fact. It's just that in our cycle they change places. This is a separate topic for discussion. And besides numerals, grammar, there is still a lot ... a bunch of similarities.
00:18:27 Well, here are some chosen ones, for example, in Sanskrit "jnana", in Russian "to know". "Nabhasi" - "heaven", "tama" - "darkness", "jvara" - "heat", there, "interfere" - "mish", "naked" - "nagna", and so on. "Light" - "shveta". There are also interesting ones, for example, “vari” - “water”, in Sanskrit, in Russian “cook”, that is, cook in water.
Sanskrit in place names
00:18:49 Another example of the significant influence of Sanskrit is geographical names. Geographical names are a very ancient layer. And when the Indo-European tribes were nomadic, it is natural that they named some objects in the languages they knew. And the simplest, most striking example is the Sanskrit word "Danu". "Danu" in the Avesta and Vedas means "river, water". Therefore, if you look at the names of our largest rivers in Russia, then everywhere you will find a combination of "days". Let's say "Don", "Dnepr", "Dniester", "Danube", that is, Western Slavs, Eastern Slavs, Southern Slavs, and with each of these rivers, if you study theories of the origin of the Slavs, there is usually still some kind of healthy theory of the origin of the Slavs. For example, the Danube-Dnieper, or Vistula-Oder theory. Depending on how the authors of the theory see how those very tribes moved. But Svetlana Vasilievna Zharnikova, she analyzed the names of the northern rivers, and it turns out that, for example, the Ganges River is not only in India, but we also have it in the Arkhangelsk province. Several rivers, which are called Ganges, Ganges-lake. "Jala" in Sanskrit "water", there are rivers Jala. "Padma" in Sanskrit is a lotus, a water lily, yes, let's say the famous Buddhist mantra "Om Mane Padme Hum" - "I meditate on the treasure in the Lotus flower", and there are many rivers called Padma. "Kavash" is "sonorous" in Sanskrit, there are several rivers with the names of Kavash. "Purna" means "full, full-flowing", in the northern rivers there are Purnaya rivers and so on.
00:20:39 And just the same for the Vladimir Region, Alexey Timoshchuk, he did some research and found a certain Sanskrit substratum there as well. And even in Soviet times, Academician Oleg Nikolaevich Trubachev, he identified 150 of the same names in the middle lane. Therefore, we can understand that the rivers, according to the apt expression of Zharnikova, are really a "repository of memory".
Three main words
00:21:06 But first of all, when we talk about the worldview, we are interested in the pantheons of Gods, deities, the ancient history of peoples. This is the next block that we can talk about, and of course we need to start with three important words. These are Veda, Bhaga and Jiva. "Veda" in Sanskrit and in Russian is to know. A righteous person is a person who lives according to the law of God. Another Sanskrit word for knowledge is Jnana or Jnana. The same thing, a lot of coincidences - jnana - in Russian "to know". "J" becomes "z". The second word is God. If you open the Bible in the original Hebrew, then there God is designated by certain names. These are Yahweh, Adonai, Hosts, Elohim. And the very word "God" - it also has a pre-Christian origin. Indicates the Absolute, the creator of the universe. And just the Slavic word God, it is close to the Sanskrit words Bhagas and Bhagavan. That is, "bestower, lord, lord of all wealth."
00:22:12 Next, the word Jiva. Jiva means "soul" in Sanskrit. In general, there have always been serious problems with the doctrine of the soul in different traditions. I like to quote such an episode, when in the year 586, and in 585, the bishops of Burgundy voted, "Does a woman have a soul?" With a margin of one vote, the point of view that there is still a soul won. But the Vedas, they say that not only women, not only men, have a soul - but also trees, plants, other animals, they have a soul - but consciousness is manifested to varying degrees. And the soul, it is in the heart. Not the head, where the brain is, as our physiologists say, but the heart, the mystical center of our Self. Therefore, yogic practices will work with the heart, and no one will say that "I have a headache for this person," but everyone will say, " my heart aches for him." Therefore, this Sanskrit "jiv", meaning "to live, life, soul", it turns into the Russian "alive". Therefore, even among the Slavs, such a goddess is Alive, right? Goddess of Life. Alive, live, belly in the meaning of "life". This is very close to the Sanskrit influence. Therefore, even such key words: "knowledge, God, soul" - "Veda, Bhaga and Jiva" - this goes back to Indo-European times.
Monotheism and polytheism in the Vedas
00:23:36 Further, when we talk about the pantheons of deities, we first of all need to figure out how the belief in one God and belief in many Gods correlated in ancient cultures. How does it compare? At school we are stuffed with two schemes. They are scientifically called monotheism and polytheism. This means that monotheism means that God is one, it is considered, well, Christianity brought this idea. And polytheism is polytheism, they say, when the pagans were wild, they did not understand that there is one Lord. In reality, this is complete nonsense. And if you open, for example, Academician Rybakov, then ... and all ancient cultures - there is a different scheme. Polytheism subordinated to monotheism. That is, in other words, there is one God, the God of gods. It's even in the Bible, right? Yahweh is the God of gods. And there are subordinates, that is, the gods of this material world, who are like administrators of various processes at the president. Or someone, if a staunch monarchist, who are like the king's ministers, for example. According to the Vedas, Lord, he lives in the eternal world, he is immortal, eternal, original. And the Gods are just higher beings of our material world. If we are talking about some slogans, then "even the gods are mortal." Only their lifespan, their capabilities, they, well, exceed ours.
00:25:03 In the same way, Arias, they saw that all energies in the universe are personal. For example, we say: "The Duma passed the law." But in reality, some specific person lobbied for this law. Or, for example, we say: “We have a computer,” but in reality, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or some particular person was behind this computer. He didn't just come from outer space. Astrology, for example, says that even planets and elements have their own temperaments, for example, Mars is hot-tempered, the patron of war. Saturn - commerce, Uranus, there, heavy. Therefore, in reality, the Aryans, the Indo-Europeans, they perceived the whole world not just as some kind of impersonal energies, but as energies that have a certain consciousness. Therefore, to some extent, they were able not only to perceive it, but even, for example, to talk, there, to some extent, with some element. For example, to communicate with the wind, call it or, on the contrary, move it away. To some extent to come into contact with the beasts. That is, these practices are still preserved among some primitive tribes, among shamans, but even more so in ancient times it was simply part of a person’s mental abilities. And also various forces of nature, they saw not just as faceless forces, but as some kind of male or female essence. So they gave them names.
Sanskrit in the names of Slavic gods
00:26:26 Now, if we consider the names of the Gods, then Agni... in Russian Fire, in Sanskrit Agni is the deity of Fire. We say "Fire", but we pronounce "Fire". Vayu or Vata, in Sanskrit, is the deity of the wind. We have "breathe, blow, in the English wind", right? Here is the wind. Further, for example, the Slavs have such a deity Niyam. Niyam is a stern deity, the lord of the underworld, who oversees the violation of, well, compliance with the laws. And in the same way, in Sanskrit, "niyam" means "to punish for the observance or non-observance of some norms," and the deity in Sanskrit is called Yama, the underworld. Well, in our country, any depression is called a pit. A lot of people like to talk about such a deity as Svarog. Most likely, Svarog was an analogue of the Vedic Brahma, that is, the creator of this universe, who creates our world. Svarog creates 14 levels of our universe in such a universal egg, called "brahmanda" in Sanskrit, and ... well, or the Universal Egg, and the Russian word "bung" means to create something. But what is Svarga in Sanskrit? Svarga in Sanskrit means "Worlds of the Gods". Therefore, Svarog is simply, well, as it were, "heavenly."
00:27:52 And then the goddess Lada. The existence of this goddess among the Slavs was proved by Rybakov, he considers various memories of her in various proverbs, rituals, geographical names. In Sanskrit, "lata" means "beautiful, heavenly woman." Stribog - in the word about Igor's regiment - is the deity of the heavenly expanses. "Stribog's grandchildren", they are described as winds, right? In Sanskrit, "stri" means "to extend, to spread." Surya is the god of the sun. In The Tale of Bygone Years, Syria is called Surya, that is, the sunny country. And in the Book of Veles, suritsa is a drink that is infused in the sun's rays and so on. Therefore, sometimes since the "Book of Veles" here, sometimes they like to compare Veles and Shiva. This is not entirely correct, there is only a partial match. A partial coincidence is that both Veles and Shiva are such "hairy" deities. "Veles - hair". Yes, there is a combination. One of Shiva's names is Jatadhara, who wears a head of hair. And the second convergence is that they both patronize cattle. One of the names of Shiva is Pashupati, that is, the one who protects the herd. Veles had the same similarity. But the cult of Veles was associated with the veneration of a bear as a totem, yes. Why do they sometimes say "Russian bears". Here, but in the cult of Shiva this is not at all. That is, there was, well, an adjustment to local conditions. But for all that, why, for example, the Book of Veles, which ... The answer is very simple: because the movements of the Slavic tribes, which were first of all, are described, they were not bloodthirsty, as some European chroniclers depict them, they were nomads, pastoralists. Just like in India they never killed cows, she was treated like a mother. And in the Old Russian language "cowgirl" also meant "treasury".
00:30:06 Mara is the Slavic goddess of death and death: "haze, freeze, scum." In Sanskrit, Mara means death. Here, Yarilo is the deity of spring, male sexuality, male power. For example, when they sowed a field, they made an image of Yaril with such a huge reproductive organ, so, in Sanskrit, "jara" means "lover", right? That is, Yara, Jara, often the Sanskrit J turns into the Russian "y". And everyone who is interested in the East knows this word maya. Maya is the goddess of material illusion. If you look, Western Slavs, then in Bulgarian, also in Czech. "Omaya means" I bewitch, enchant. " Therefore, in the names of the pantheons of Slavic deities, we see a significant presence of Sanskrit. And often even such texts as "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", something becomes clear in it precisely when they turn to Sanskrit. For example, one of the birds that mourns the dead warriors in the field of pain. This bird is called Karna. And in Sanskrit, "karunya or karuna" means "compassion for another's grief. Similarly, spirits are called mavki, in Sanskrit "mav" - lead away, confuse. Or , for example, in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" such a mysterious word "haraluzhnye swords" is used. If you open Russian dictionaries - no, what it is - it is not clear. And it turns out that the only place where there is a parallel, and this is reflected in the academic publication "Words about Igor's Campaign" is the Sanskrit word "kharalangyana", that is, "to strike with sharpness". Therefore, there is such a big interesting topic - this is Sanskrit and Fenya. Well, if we start touching, we will go a little into the jungle.
Sanskrit in the names of elemental spirits
00:31:58 Therefore, we looked a little at the deities, and in addition to the higher deities, there is always the concept of “elemental spirits” in any worldview, including the pagan one. Sometimes they are called elementals, sometimes they are scientifically called "lower deities". But in the names of these lowest deities, there is also a huge amount of Sanskrit. For example, we all know mermaids. Mermaids are water maidens, often the souls of drowned women, according to folk culture. But, what is most interesting, if you take an encyclopedia or some reference books on Slavic mythology, mermaids are not fair-haired. Mermaids, they are usually witches, and all witches, they are usually green-eyed and burning brunette. Then where does the word mermaid come from? It turns out that in Sanskrit there is a word "rasa", which ... one of the meanings of which is "moisture" or "water." Where does the Russian dew come from, right? Close. And that's why mermaids are just "water creatures". Creatures that live in the aquatic environment. Similarly, the spirit that is described in the Vedas is Shishumara. In Sanskrit, shishumara means "death of children" or "an evil spirit that kills children." And in the same way, in Slavonic... in Slavic folklore "shishumara" or "kikimora" is a spirit that will attack children, drink their blood and other optimistic things. Bereginya is, on the contrary, a protective spirit, and in Sanskrit "bhri" means "protect, take care of." Chur is a protective peg, in Sanskrit chur - "to take, appropriate".
00:33:38 The next block of words are words that in pre-Christian culture had a neutral or positive meaning, and after the adoption of Christianity began to have a negative meaning. These are the words of the witch, witch, witch. We understand that in pre-Christian culture, this is primarily the meaning of the words "sorcerer and sorcerer." That is, the keepers of ancient knowledge, teachers and negative ... coloring, most likely, even the word witch did not carry on itself. Another word is idol. They love to call various images of deities idols. It, too, most likely did not have a negative connotation in Sanskrit, "idas" simply means "an object of worship." Among other interesting words ... Often, in the epic about epic heroes, the heroes are called "wolves". And in Sanskrit "balata" or "valata" means strength or power. Therefore, these roots, they are through and through linguistic permeate all pantheons, starting with the gods, then going to the lower deities and ending with sorcerers, heroes, volos.
Ancient history of the Slavs
00:34:54 Next, I think, since we talked a little about the pantheons, before we start talking about the evolution of the worship of the Slavs, here, to make a small digression about ancient history. That is, we said, there was Indo-European unity, there were, perhaps, those very Indoslavs. And the question arises, what is their oldest... their oldest path? Unfortunately, among the monuments accepted by official science, from the point of view of official science, there are no such monuments. The only text that can claim to be the oldest chronicle of the Slavs as part of the Indoslavs is the notorious Book of Veles. If someone tells you that there is an unequivocal opinion of scientists on its occasion, you are being deceived a little. In fact, on both sides, people who have PhDs in philology, PhDs in Slavic studies, they... some are in favor, some are against. I have a separate such thick tome in the computer, when I just read the topic “Scientists: pros and cons” for about thirty-five minutes. It’s just that if I start loading you now, it’s already so hard, well, it’s understandable there ... But he said such and such, but such and such ... Well, I basically have such a thing. And, well, my personal experience at tea, let's say you drink tea with some doctor of science, a candidate of history, and in my practice there is one doctor of philology and two candidates of history, they said: “Well, you know, it’s generally very similar the truth, but if we say it at our university, there will be a kick, and we will fly.” Therefore, do not think that everything is so simple. Therefore, this monument is controversial. But even if we do not accept it as the original chronicle of the Slavic tribes, we can say that this is the hypothesis of Yuri Petrovich Mirolyubov. He, unlike us, who read for the most part, including two smart books and said that "we understood everything." Yuri Petrovich, for example, he wrote about thirty such thick volumes on parallels in pagan and Vedic culture, and his total bibliography is more than a thousand titles of literature. Therefore, at least as a scientist, we must respect his erudition, and we can call him a hypothesis, at least, at least. This hypothesis is completely in line with the hypothesis called “Scythian-Sarmatian origin of the Slavs”, when, as part of the ethnic group of the Aryans, who now live in Asia, as part of the Scythians, the Slavs leave the territory between Iran and India and go to modern territories. There is nothing cosmic, incredible in this.
00:37:36 If we take the "Book of Veles", then the "Book of Veles", it is still a very interesting monument, that's why. The Vedas say that there are four ages of human existence. That is, if now we believe that we have reached the peak of our development, then the idea of ancient cultures, that humanity, on the contrary, is developing from the golden age and degrading. Among Greek authors, you can read this idea of history on the contrary in such Greeks as Hesiod and Ovid. If we take Russian fairy tales, then even in Russian fairy tales there will be a teaching about several kingdoms: a golden kingdom, there, silver, copper. It's the same idea. Therefore the Vedas, they say that in the old days the civilization was more advanced and worldwide. Only then does the whole begin to fall apart. And our era is just described as an era of a certain degradation. But what in ancient times was achieved through mystical forces, we achieve with the help of technology. Therefore, this civilization was ecological, but not man-made. And sometimes it seems to us, well, such a simple one, cattle-breeding. Indirectly, scientists, they exemplify this idea of breaking the whole into parts. If you turn to geologists, then geologists will tell you that there was a single land of Pangea. Well, you know that our continents can be put in pieces, they will come together. And then Pangea breaks up into continents. Language experts will tell you that there was, for example, a common Slavic language, and then they disintegrate: Eastern, Southern, Western Slavs. And ethnographers, for example, will say that there were Indo-Europeans, and then they broke up, here, into those peoples that we know today.
00:39:24 Therefore, it is also explained that there are different eras, and when our era comes, which is called Kali Yuga - the era of degradation. The Vedic texts date it to around 3000 BC. To be more boring, it comes in February 3102, and astrological, Vedic texts, they very interestingly describe the date of the onset of Kali Yuga. There is an astronomical text called Surya Siddhanta, and it says that when Kali Yuga comes, seven planets, they line up. The dark, invisible planet Rahu gains special strength, and they line up on the Ujjain meridian in one line with the Pisces zeta. That is, when they say that we live in the age of Pisces, right? And you know that fish were the symbol of Christians. Not because they ate them, or Peter caught them, but because the Age of Pisces. And so Kali Yuga is the Age of Pisces. And now esotericists often say that a certain era of Aquarius is coming. Therefore, for five thousand years, when Kaliyuga comes, a certain transformation of space and time takes place on the planets. And what is happening at this time in terms of climate: cooling; glaciers are advancing, floods. For example, the city of Krishna, Dvaraka, it sinks under the waves of the sea - this is such a Vedic Atlantis; and also earthquakes, yes, earthquakes, eruptions begin; spiritually, memory is lost, writing begins to be more widely used, mystical powers disappear; and time over the planet is being rebuilt.
High technologies and superweapons in antiquity
00:41:08 All ancient literatures: Ramayana, Mahabharata, Iliad, Odyssey, the epic of Gilgamesh, the legend of King Arthur, there is a completely different space, a completely different time, people communicate with Gods and other worlds, they have some powers - and these are all memories of that very previous era, which was called the Dvapara Yuga. But here comes the Kaliyuga, cataclysms, degradation, oblivion of ancient knowledge, people in places run wild, degrade. And it is from this moment that modern archaeologists are very fond of starting the history of all peoples, especially the Slavs. Well, a classic quote from "The Tale of Bygone Years" "And the Drevlyans lived in the forests in a bestial way, and they had nothing, and a maiden by the water." This is how they lived. Although five thousand years ago in the Mahabrharata it is described that... what was happening at all? There was a huge conflict ... At the turn of the epochs, there was a huge Indo-European conflict, which is described in the Mahabharata as the battle of Kurukshetra. When the rulers of the whole Earth, and not just India, as it is sometimes presented, were divided into two camps, and there was a grandiose battle. Moreover, the Vedas themselves, they claim that not only spears, bows, arrows were used in this battle, but also weapons that were created by mystical forces, but were similar to modern ones in the type of action. For example, mountain weapons were like a force field - they were opposed by wind weapons. And of those that can be identified types of weapons - this is the brahmastra, the so-called controlled nuclear explosion. And if you open the Mahabharata, then all the characteristic features of a nuclear explosion are described there, a comparison is described with how ... the explosion was like an opening umbrella. The consequences of a nuclear defeat are described, that clothes and water became poisoned, feathers turned white in birds, hair and nails fell out in people. And what's the point?
00:43:13 It's very easy to come up with a weapon that incinerates everyone, but it's impossible to come up with a form of a nuclear explosion, the consequences of a nuclear defeat, because you need to know about them. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki were to some extent only a cruel experiment of the Americans, they did not know what it would look like. And the curator of the American nuclear program, Professor Otto Oppenheimer, when he saw in the forty-seventh, in my opinion, year or forty-fifth, the first American nuclear explosion, struck, and this is a historical fact, he quoted the lines of the Mahabharata about an explosion that is brighter than ten thousand suns . In the same way, researchers Davenport and Vincenti, having explored the city of Mohenjo-daro, these are ancient cities: Harappa and Mohenjo-daro are the cities of the Indus Valley, still a proto-Vedic civilization. Literally, "Mohenjadaro" means "hill of the dead." And it is believed that its cause is a flash flood. But after examining Mohenjo-daro, scientists found, for example, that the stones were fused in some places or the radioactivity of the skeletons was forty times higher than usual. Therefore, these were not such primitive nomads, but there were certain technologies that were simply not widely used.
00:44:28 For example, there is the text "Vimanika Shastra", this is a text on the creation of aircraft. And scientists Narin Shah from Hyderabad, he studied this text, he patented several alloys that have aviation characteristics. And in the Maya temples in Colombia, they found such objects that were worshipped, some ancient sacred artifacts. Well, if tomorrow we talk about ancient civilizations, read, or I have it in my computer, you can come up to me, I will show photos, there is a film about how a German scientist and also an American air bureau, they discovered that these are models of jet aircraft. There you can see the wings of the cockpit, well, as if now the natives were given a TV, so that they would do it, they would begin to worship them. And in the same way already in the temples of the Maya they are already simply worshipped. "O sacred plane, your wings fly according to an unknown principle," here. Nevertheless, aerodynamic modern tests of these models, they showed that not only are they working, they are also reactive. Therefore, from the point of view of the Vedas - not technologically advanced, but highly developed. And five thousand years ago, writing was not required, there was a different time and space, and the offensive of Kaliyuga begins.
"Troubled Millennium" and the stages of the settlement of the Slavs
00:45:41 And then I will allow myself to read Academician Rybakov, he says some very interesting things about the Indo-Jewish people. First of all, Rybakov is his book The World of Russian History. He describes the scope of the civilization of the Indo-Europeans. I will read out, this is a literal quote, and you just listen to the scope. “Slavic peoples belong to the ancient Indo-European unity, including such peoples as: Germanic, Baltic, Romanesque, Greek, Celtic, Iranian, Indian and others; stretched in ancient times over a vast expanse from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian and from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The scope of the civilization of the Indo-Europeans. Further, Rybakov says a very interesting thing. "In the scientific search for the ancient fate of the Slavs, the first place belongs to linguistics." That is the science of language. "Linguists have determined that the separation of the pro-Slavic tribes from their related neighboring Indo-European tribes occurred approximately 4,000 - 3,500 years ago." And the Vedas give 3,000 years ago, as the onset of Kaliyuga. Therefore, it turns out that we have lost 1000 years somewhere. And here is the chronicle of this vague millennium, when there are quarrels between the once united Indo-European peoples, the loss of Vedic knowledge, cataclysms, the Book of Veles is a unique document that can be a chronicle. There we find a description of all these events. The battles of the Indo-Europeans, the constant movement of the Slavic tribes. And, for example, it is said, here are the priests ... the loss of Vedic knowledge is partial, right? Here are the priests ... there are verbatim quotations in the translation of Slatina. “The priests told us to take care of the Veda, but we don’t have it now. If it weren’t for our boyans and storytellers, we wouldn’t know who we are and where we come from.” That is, this offensive of the "Kaliyuga" is taking place, and the "Book of Veles" is a kind of chronicle of this vague millennium.
00:47:43 I have a detailed section, but I just won't keep it in time. In short, the "Veles" book, it leads the Slavs along the following route. The first is the Slavs in Semirechye. Well, if you read it, read it yourself. Semirechye is what is called Sapta Sindhu in the Vedas. That is, initially the Vedic civilization was along the channel of the Sarasvati River, a huge river, then Sarasvati dries up, they pass to the Indus. And the Indian Seven Rivers is just the first control point between India and Iran. Then they come to Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is the territory between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Iraq, Iran, then it was Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar. Then they slowly begin to go to the Black Sea and there through intermediate stages. And what is interesting about the Black Sea region? The Black Sea region is the land of the Scythians. The Scythians are a mystical civilization that included many peoples. Until now, they argue whether they were Asians, or Iranians, or part of the Scythians were Slavs. Veles book says: "Yes, part of the Scythians were Slavs." And the Black Sea region is also the cradle of the Cossacks. Therefore, if you look, for example, a Vedic warrior, such characteristic bloomers, a bald haircut with a forelock - and our Cossacks, who ... in the Kuban should know what the Cossacks look like, thank God, it turns out, well, the classic description is description of Prince Svyatoslav, who is sailing on a boat, here, he has this forelock, here, an earring with a carbuncle, if I'm not mistaken. And it turns out that it is from the Black Sea these influences, hence the appearance of the Vedic warrior, kshatriya, and the Cossacks, they largely coincide. And also the view of oriental monks. These pigtails are notorious, shaved ... This is a separate topic, later we will talk about why such a haircut, if we live.
00:49:38 Then gradually from the Black Sea region... contacts first with the Greeks, then with the Goths, with the Huns, the division into Western Slavs, Eastern Slavs, and now gradually they come to the territories they are engaged in. At the same time, there is also a battle with the Khazars. This is the steppe period. And the "Book of Veles" is already ending with descriptions of how Askold and Dir, and, accordingly, Rurik's henchmen, come to Kiev, and begin well ... as if the christinization of Rus' is already proceeding gradually. And, in fact, the Veles book comes to the present stage. In more detail, I have absolutely no opportunity to read, because smoke will go out of the audience.
Vedas record. Expeditions to the Himalayas
00:50:22 Well, then... When priestly succession begins to be lost, when a single civilization begins to disintegrate, then the need arises to write down the Vedas. Moreover, not all the Vedas are recorded, but a certain part, specifically intended for our era. In the Himalaya region at a place called Badarik Ashram. And it is believed that until now the originals of the Vedic texts are kept there in some such secret caves. That is, what Muldashev is talking about, for example, is a very old topic.
00:50:51 And since this knowledge was sacred, expeditions are being organized in the Himalayas. Moreover, at the beginning of the 20th century, politicians, they were... they were very terribly willing, being very unspiritual people, to use very spiritual knowledge to their advantage. Therefore, both Hitler and Stalin, they tried to try on the image of a "true Aryan" naturally. And use for their own purposes the ancient, sacred symbol of the swastika. In general, the swastika is a world symbol, one of the symbols that proves the existence of a world Vedic civilization. Translated from Sanskrit, "su-astu" means "let there be good." That's why you can see on the costumes of the samurai, we have here on the armor. In India, you will see her in shops, in a taxi, you will see her in a traditional Slavic costume. If someone is interested, I refer to the book of Roman Bagdasarov "The Swastika is a sacred symbol." There are many pictures there. And, in fact, not only Hitler used the swastika, but Colonel Shorin during the years of the revolution proposed to introduce the sleeve insignia of the Red Army soldiers, too, with a swastika. And just like Hitler's occult department Anenerbe, he sent expeditions to the Himalayas. Roerich was also asked to run there. Wander, meditate, and in ... the Bolsheviks had such a "United Labor Brotherhood" Barchenko. And Chekist Bokiy, who also collaborated with him, he also organized expeditions to the Himalayas. Therefore, all the politicians of the 20th century were very occult-oriented, revolving around the Aryans, swastikas and the Himalayas. But the charm is that Vedic knowledge, it is revealed only to worthy people, according to its schedule, and the external use of this paraphernalia did not help any of these politicians. But they discredited it all perfectly. Starting from the word "ary", and ending with a swastika. However, the real Vedic knowledge is spread by saints and avatars, and not by members of the second or third Himalayan expedition. Therefore, no matter how they twisted, in fact, it all did not give any result.
Vedic predictions
00:53:05 But, nevertheless, there are certain predictions in the Vedas, because those sages who wrote them down were known as "tri-kala-gya", that is, those who know the past, present and future. And there is in the Vedas, for example, a prediction about the coming of Buddha, in the Bhagavata Purana, about the coming of Jesus Christ in the Bhavishya Purana. And it is also said that after 5000 years of Kali passes, there comes a certain "golden streak" of golden energies, the energy of Satya Yuga, the Golden Age. When the whole world is again united into one whole, and interest in Vedic knowledge is revived. Therefore, this does not mean at all that, since we live in this "vein of gold", there will not be a third world war, or we will have economic prosperity, but it is only that, due to globalization, we are regaining access to various alternative ancient worldviews. This is a fact, because anyone who wants to can now get on the Internet and get a lot of information. One can argue or not, but this is really happening with us now, as well as interest in the Vedas. Even scientific papers are being published that were still unthinkable in the fifties of the 20th century, such processes are taking place.
Arctic Homeland in the Vedas
00:54:19 Therefore, there was a small block that spoke about the movements of the Slavs after the battle on the battlefield of Kurukshetra to the modern territory. And here we can also say about the problem of the polar ancestral home. This Hyperborea is a topic that is widely discussed. For example, the same Svetlana Vasilievna Zharnikova, she is a supporter of the polar theory. And what are we talking about? That in past epochs the climate was different over the planet, more fertile. And those territories that are now covered with ice and snow, if you turn to geologists and take maps, it turns out that they were free of snow. The best proof of this are the ancient maps. For example, there is a so-called Piri Reis map, and this Piri Reis map shows Antarctica free of ice. And there is another map, which is called the map of the cartographer Gerardus Mercator, both of them are around the 16th century, and already on the map of Mercator, where we now believe, lies only the pole, only the north pole, a huge continent is depicted there, along which four rivers flow. And two scientists, the Indian scientist Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and also the scientist Warren and our Russian biologist and ecologist Elachich, they together came to the same conclusion that there was an ancient polar civilization. And the time reference they give is about 50,000 years, that is, these are not the last glaciers. And there is such a clever expression "the lost paradise of the Mogul-Shekstinsky glaciation", somehow it sounds like this. But what is the idea? That where the North Pole and ice are now - there was once a huge continent, maybe it is there now, maybe it sank.
00:56:15 But in that... All the cultures of the peoples of the world talk about it. For example, the most famous is Hyperborea, yes, the Greeks, hyper - extreme, boreal - north. Here, these same Hyperboreans and their heirs were considered Slavs, including Slavic tribes. Therefore, it is possible that if we are talking about modern Slavic territories, part of the population could have lived since the time when there was a continent, then it got colder, and now they came to our lands. And the other part of what we understand by the Slavs, it came from the territory precisely between Iran and India, from where ... hence the influence of Vedic culture. But the Vedas themselves, they say something even more revolutionary - they say that civilization was worldwide. They say that initially the founders of mankind, whose name is Manu in Sanskrit, come from Svarga, that is, from the planets of the Gods - and civilization immediately arises on the entire planet. That is, these disputes about the ancestral home, in essence, this is a certain ideological sabotage, which was first imposed by the British. I have a separate lecture about this, called "The Lie and the Myth of the Theory of the Roman Invasion." So this is the idea of the ancestral home, what is it ... What is its sabotage, that there is one ancestral home, and the guys from the ancestral home are super, these are true arias, and all the rest are second-class and so on. Therefore, the Germans constantly say: "We have an ancestral home", the Slavs - "we have", the Indians - "we have". This is the pitting of peoples. And if we understand that initially the whole human civilization, it populates well on the planet right away. And even the name of the first person Manu, look, well, in German: der Man, in English the man and so on. The progenitors of humanity... Civilization arises immediately. Darwinian evolution is a kind of myth that was designed to simply prove that nothing happened and everything appeared. This is not a Vedic concept. The Vedic concept - on the contrary, evolution develops from consciousness to matter, and not from matter to consciousness.
Origin of Rus'
00:58:10 That's why it was such a small historical block. And then there will be the following blocks: this is the evolution of the worship of the Slavs; traditional culture, embroidery, clothing, archeology, clues to fairy tales; then the problems of pre-Christian writing in Rus'. I'm already cutting it to the limit, and my question is, do you... can you stand it all... the celebration of life... Or do we need... need a break?
[Man from the audience] We endure.
We endure, okay? Anabiosis does not occur? So good. Since you are so inquisitive, you can talk more about the origin of Rus'. I just missed that, but it's still interesting, right? Here, then, is the origin of Rus'. Well, in fact, even the origin of the Slavs, it did not cause such ... such a massacre as the origin of Rus'. Here, in reality, Rus', apparently, it was the name of one of the Slavic tribes. Well, you understand that the Slavs are generally a broader concept. There are Western Slavs, that is, there is Poland, the Czech Republic, there are Eastern Slavs - that's us. Here are the southern ones - all sorts of Bulgarians. It's clear. Well, so, it would seem, well, the Slavs are a global concept, however, the main disputes were, of course, about the origin of Rus'. Where is the word from? What kind of people? And already since the times there of the seventeenth-eighteenth century, well, naturally there were two main hypotheses.
00:59:40 The first is the 18th century, it was formulated by the Germans Bayer, Miller and Schlözer, called the "theory of bringing statehood", the "Norman theory", - that there were very advanced Swedes who had a state, the Vikings, here they were called in the Swedish dialect "ruotsi". "Ruotsi" in the dialects of the Scandinavians - this means the Swedes, and they come, bring us statehood, we live here simply in the forests, worship stones, they bring all this. And now the Swedish word "ruotsi", it turns into the name of Rus'. Well, of course, Miller, Schlozer, Bayer liked it very much, but academicians Kryshanninikov, Popov, Tretyakovskiy and Lomonosov, who led the fight against all this, with these hypotheses, jointly stated that “Miller did not show a single case in the whole speech the glory of the Russian people, but only mentioned more that it can serve infamy. And finally, it is worthy of surprise with what carelessness he consumed the expression that the Scandinavians successfully conquered all of Russia with their victorious weapons.
01:00:52 The Slavic hypothesis was formed by Academicians Tatishchev and Lomonosov, and in Soviet historiography it was developed by Academician Rybakov. And in tsarist Russia in the 19th century it was Normanism that prevailed. If you go to America, to England, there also they like Normanism more. Although Rybakov has a bunch of arguments why Normanism is complete nonsense. But what is most paradoxical is that both hypotheses are based on two different places in the same text - The Tale of Bygone Years. So, which passage of The Tale of Bygone Years is a confirmation of the Scandinavian hypothesis? “And the Slavs said to themselves: let's look for a prince who would rule over us and judge by right, and we went across the sea to the Varangians to Rus'. Those Varangians were called Rus, as the others are called the Swedes, and other Normans and Angles, and still other Gotlanders. So are these." On what story ... a fragment of the "Tale of Bygone Years" do the Slavs build their theory? “Of the same Slavs, we are Rus'. And the Slavic and Russian people are one, after all, they were nicknamed Rus from the Varangian, and before that there were Slavs, although they were called glades, but the speech was Slavic. Let's make some comments. The first thing that causes great skepticism is The Tale of Bygone Years itself. In addition to the sensational, simply very sensational academics of Fomenko-Nosovsky, there are more, well, just no one else read at all. Another Academician Rybakov in completely academic, old editions of the early nineties, he wrote something like the following. “You should pay attention to that...” - this is the book “The Birth of Rus'”, “Checking the tendentiously selected arguments of the Normanists, one should pay attention to the fact that tendentiousness appeared in our sources themselves, dating back to Nestor's Tale of Bygone Years. As A. A. Shakhmatov, an excellent connoisseur of Russian chronicle writing, proved in his time, the historical work of Nestor (circa 1113) underwent two revisions, and both times the revision was carried out by a hand hostile to Nestor.
01:03:01 A wonderful example of a... so-called objectivity is the description of the life of the Drevlyans. So, "The Tale of Bygone Years" describes how different Slavic tribes lived. "The meadows had the custom of being meek and quiet, they had shame and a marriage custom." That is civilization, marriages, peaceful disposition. “The Drevlyans live in a bestial way, they live bestially, they kill each other, they eat everything unclean, they don’t have marriage, a girl is washed away by the water.” And the Vyatichi and northerners lived in exactly the same way. Well, it’s understandable - the Drevlyans are just animals, in the forests, everything is unclean, they steal girls, monsters. What do archeological data reveal? We open the Brokagauz-Efron dictionary “Describing the customs of the Drevlyans, the chronicler exposes them as opposed to their contemporaries, the glades, an extremely rude people. Neither archaeological excavations, nor data contained in the chronicle itself, confirm such a characterization. From the archaeological excavations in the country of the Drevlyans, it can be concluded that they had a well-known culture. A well-established burial rite testifies to the existence of religious ideas about the afterlife. The absence of weapons in the graves testifies to the peaceful nature of the tribe. Finds of sickles, shards and vessels, iron products, remnants of fabric and leather indicate the existence of arable farming, pottery, blacksmithing, weaving and leather crafts among the Drevlyans. Many bones of domestic animals and spurs indicate cattle breeding and horse breeding. Numerous items made of glass, silver, bronze and carnelian of foreign origin indicate the existence of trade. The absence of coins gives reason to conclude that the trade was barter. The political center of the Drevlyans in the era of their independence was the city of Iskorosten. At a later time, this center moved to the city of Ovroch. And another academic publication, the Slavic Encyclopedia, reveals the secret of such a negative attitude of the "Tale" towards the Drevlyans: "The evidence of the chronicle about the backwardness of the Drevlyans is not objective, but reflects the desire to discredit the Drevlyans, who for a long time resisted their inclusion in Kievan Rus and Christianization."
01:05:25 This is how we see how "objective" The Tale of Bygone Years is in relation to those peoples who somehow did not please Nestor, let me remind you, the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, who was also the creator of the official state chronicle. That's it, that's how things like this turn out. And also very much what the Norman hypothesis looks like, this is another armchair hypothesis, the Germans wrote here, and another theory was called "The Theory of the Aryan Invasion". It was created by Theodor Goldstucker, Max Müller, well, they were German-English colonial scientists who seized India and preached ... well, how missionaries were. So the "Theory of the Aryan invasion" is about the same as the Vikings. That is, there was nothing in India, there was no Vedic culture, and beautiful white-faced Aryans come from somewhere and bring everything. The same in a different package. Therefore, there were two such custom theories, starting from the origin of Rus', ending with the "Aryan invasion", and both of them are written on the water with a pitchfork, but I skip part of the arguments, we just have limited time.
01:06:43 So, the very names "Rus" or "Rossy" are trying to be explained in different ways. Here, I have already told the Swedish version, academician Rybakov raised it to the name of the river "Ros", a tributary of the Dnieper, where one of the Polyansky tribes lived, then it spread. But the Indo-Europeists, they erect the names of Ross or Russ, these ones with the alternation of “o” - “u” to an even more ancient period, the Indo-European, and in Iranian, for example, ruxie means “white”. In Ossetian Rus - grew - "light". Rosan means "bright" in Scythian. Russ or race in Sanskrit "light, white". And therefore, various scientists such as Oleg Nikolaevich Trubachev, Natalya Romanovna Guseva, Doctor of Historical Sciences, they suggest that as part of the Indo-European unity, and not some group of Slavic tribes, there was already the name of a certain group of Slavs, as "light". Rusy means "light, light-skinned, fair-faced" and so on. But the meaning, you need to think about the meaning of this! This designation had meaning only if there were constant contacts, for example, with Indians, Iranians, who were darker-skinned. And then it is clear that it was a certain delimitation of different nationalities in what? As part of a huge geo-political unity, those very Indoslavs. Otherwise, the name itself simply does not make sense. Well, it was such a "gallop across Europe" about the origin of Rus', the origin of the Slavs. There are more hypotheses, but it will take a long time to analyze, so I outline the outline, and then the evolution of the worship of the Slavs. From monotheism to paganism.
Monotheism and the evolution of the worship of the Slavs
01:08:31 So, what we have already said, but... The Slavs were Monotheists before the adoption of Christianity. There is a text by Procopius of Caesarea, which ... the middle of the VI century, which writes: “They Antes and Slavs believe that only one God is sovereign over everything. They worship rivers and nymphs and all sorts of other deities, and with the help of these sacrifices they also perform divination. So who are we talking about? That there are two schemes: the first is one God; and the second - nymphs, silvas and other charms. These are completely different facets of the worldview, but there is monotheism. In the same way, the "Book of Veles" says: "God is dumb, is it Vyshen." "We have no Gods except the Most High." Therefore, the Slavs had monotheism before Christianity. This is the first important question. To understand the essence of the evolution of the worship of the Slavs, one must turn to another important Vedic concept, which is called the concept of Trimurti. Trimurti are the three supreme deities who control, from the point of view of the Vedic worldview, all the processes of this material world. In the Vedas they are called Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva, respectively. Vishnu is responsible for the energy of maintenance, Brahma (in Rus' Svarog) for the energy of creation, activity, Shiva for destruction and renewal. That is why, even as part of the Indo-European unity, when the Slavs did not separate, most likely the worship of the Highest was carried out. In the "Veles Book" or in the Bolarian "Veda of the Slavs" it is "God le Vishnu le". And later, worship began to move to Svarog, Shiva-Siva, and they apparently gave the following image, which we will talk about. But first of all, the era of the Vyshnya, even in the Book of Veles: "Vyshen and Roof" - this is largely like memories of Vishnu and Krishna of the Mahabharata and so on.
Vishnu and Krishna in the culture of the Slavs
01:10:35 The memory of the worship of Vishnu in the language is still in the words "height, height", the name "Most High" in the meaning of "Lord". In the same way, the Book of Veles says: “Not a thing to Bose, except Vyshen.” The Bulgarian "Veda of the Slavs", collected by the Slavist Verkovich, there is found "God is Vishnu le." That is, if the eastern ... in the "Veles book" Vyshen, then the southern Slavs, there is already "God le Vishnu le." Further, it is described that here is the whole Veles Book, such a bird, Sva Glory, flies there, which beats its wings, sings the exploits of the Slavic peoples, leads them and says: “We believe this, because these words are from the bird Vyshnya.” Well, here are the plates later, there it is shown a little in the graph. If you refer to the Vedic worldview, then Vishnu always sits on Garuda. Garuda is a vahana, that is, a riding ... an eagle that Vishnu wears. Therefore, Swa Glory, which flies from the Vyshnya, is an analogue of the Garuda eagle, which is depicted in many Indian temples, which is the bearer of Vishnu. Further, if we are talking about Krishna, then the concept of Krishna in India, it is also dual. That is, everyone now knows the word avatar, right? After a James Cameron film. And the Scriptures say that there are two types of ideas of God. The first idea of God is the idea of God as a formidable king, right? Strict but fair. This is the idea of God as Vishnu. It is represented in various world religions, not only in the Vedic. Relationship with him is a relationship of awe and reverence. In his kingdom, everything is fine, there are no problems and so on. This is the idea of God as Vishnu.
01:12:26 But the following question arises. In this world, friendly, parental, close relationships are possible. And the Vedas say that the form of the Absolute with which a closer relationship is possible is the form of Krishna. Therefore, Krishna comes as an avatar, as an incarnation of the Absolute in the form of a historical person, then he... his life is divided into two stages. The first stage, well, the land is invaded by hostile kings, the Kurukshetra war is brewing, the battle is the one we were talking about. And they hide him, as astrologers predict that a great personality will come who will defeat the current king, he is hidden in the community of shepherds with King Nanda. He lives there in the bosom of nature, dances with girls, communicates with fellow shepherds. This is the first part of his life. And here is an interesting parallel with the Greek genre of idyll. Here we are saying: "My friend and I have a complete idyll." "We have a complete idyll at home." In fact, the word "idyll" comes from the Greek genre. And the ancient Greeks suddenly and for some reason believed that the ideal space for relationships is the relationship of shepherds and shepherds. And here such a parallel of the Vedic worldview results here. And in the second part of Krishna, he already appears as a politician, a historical figure. He is speaking the Bhagavad-gita. This is the first "interview with God", where there is karma, reincarnation, the principle of reincarnation. And the very offensive of Kali Yuga comes when, having lived for 120 years in a young body, Krisha leaves this planet, his sea fortress Dvaraka sinks to the bottom (in the twenty-second year, marine archaeologists began to dig it up, in the eighties they dug it up). The Pandava brothers, the invincible warriors, are stripped of their powers, and the last emperor Parikshit, who comes after this, becomes the last emperor of the Earth. Well, and there he is dying from the curse of a Brahmin boy there. The disintegration of society begins with the disintegration of the clergy class. And off we go. There are some interesting dynamics there.
01:14:39 But in the culture of the Slavs, all images mutated. So what connection can we trace? Here in the "Book of Veles" there is a roof, but this is not at all like the Indian Krishna. It's just such a deity, which, well, covers everything, controls everything. The very name Krishna from Sanskrit means "All Attractive". In Russian there is a word "red". You know that red is not only red, but also means the word "beautiful". Therefore, when we say "beautiful girl" - this does not mean that the girl is red - it means that the girl is very beautiful. Another deity, another name for Krishna, is Govinda, the protector of cows. "Gavi" in Sanskrit is a bull, "beef" and in Russian and Sanskrit "calves". And in ancient times, according to the conclusions of the Institute of Slavic Studies, the Slavs never killed cows. I have a quote that "a cow is not killed even in case of illness..." and so on. Now, I mean, it's already very... even to this day in some villages it's just like, like in India, only natural death.
01:15:36 Another interesting parallel with the holiday of Ivan Kupala. One of the names of the same Krishna is Gopala, that is, Krishna ... a classic Indian miniature: Krisha dances a round dance with shepherd girls on the banks of the Yamuna River. We are watching the Kupala holiday. There is a boy, a girl, a night, a round dance. And how did evolution happen? First, the word "Gopala" turned into "Kupala" and was identified with the concept of "bath". Then this holiday absorbed the features of the Khors holiday, that is, the deity of the solar disk. Bonfires are, well, a symbol of flames. We conquer the night with fire. And even later ... how did "Ivan-Kupala" appear? Even later, when the day of the equinox is April 24 or May, this day, when Ivan Kupala was celebrated, it was already correlated in Christianity with the day of the appearance of John the Baptist. And now this is the latest tradition, so there is "Ivan Kupala". That's why we see that the images are constantly blurred. In the same way, the deeds of the Absolute on this Earth and the deeds of God in general are called lilas in Sanskrit. "Lila" means divine play. We are talking about the fact that God has no occupation, he does not need to survive, and it is said that in the spiritual world every word is a song; every step is a dance; that is, there is no such hard work, it is all a divine game.
01:17:07 And we have Lel - this is the deity of children, games. "Lalaka" in Sanskrit means "playing", that is, perhaps intuitively, the writers of the 19th century endowed Lel with the features of Krishna, because there is no historical data on how Lel looked like. But if you look at all the romantic poets of the 19th century, this is such a young man with a flute, that is, the 19th century was a rather mysterious period, because Pushkin, perhaps intuitively, takes a bunch of Ramayana motifs and adds Ruslan and Lyudmila, we will get to that. Poets of the end of the 19th century, especially village poets, here is Klyuev, there, Klychkov, they endow Lel with the features of Krishna. That is, it is possible that some Vedic knowledge still existed in folk culture, which was lost later. Mirolyubov wrote about this. But modern scientists say, bring us a grandmother, let her speak in Sanskrit, and we will believe you. But anyway, these are the coincidences, they are really quite strange, and they do exist. This is what could be said about the period of worship of Vyshna and Kryshnya. Further, the tribes continue to separate from each other and worship is transferred to the next very huge layer, well, a time period, it is called Rodoslavie. Or a period of veneration of the Family.
The era of Rodoslavia
01:18:36 If you open the works of the Institute of Slavic Studies, you will find that the concept of the Family as the supreme deity of the Slavs is not there at all. Rod is such a small god, well, like a brownie. Genus - women in labor. And merit in the discovery of the deity of the Family, as an ancient deity of the Slavs, the worship of which preceded the worship of Perun, and the study of his image belongs to Academician Rybakov. And how did Academician Rybakov prove this? First, he cites chronicle evidence. Classical works "Paganism of ancient Rus'", "Paganism of ancient Slavs". Chronicle evidence, what could they be? Well, of course, Christians in the fight against paganism. And so Rybakov cites the "Word of the Idols" of the beginning of the 12th century. “The same slavens began to put the meal to the Family before Perun their God.” The commentary on the Gospel, on the manuscript of the 15th-16th centuries, states: “For everyone is the creator of God, and not Rod.” In the early translations of the Bible, the "Book of Genesis" is called "Kinship", and God the Father is called the "Generator". And the collection of the Kirilo-Belozersky Monastery (1476) contains an abridged translation-retelling of one of the works of Gregory of Sinoit about the eight stages of the existence of the Universe. From the formless existence of God the Creator to the Last Judgment. And these stages are called in no other way than "native visions". Consequently, "The Slavs began to put a meal for the Family, before Perun to their God." What does it say? As for the era of worship of Perun, which is very publicized, Perun, "Children of Perun", we will still talk (because there were actually four of them). There was that very period of worship of the Family or Rodoslavie.
01:20:35 Next, Rybakov begins to analyze linguistics and words after the annals. Ah... In Russian, what is a people? The people are what is born. Fertility is the ability to bestow life. Nature is all living things. A spring is what the earth gave birth to. It turns out that in the language there is a connection with the idea of birth and reproduction at the root “genus”. Further archeology. The most famous such ancient deity is the so-called "Sbruch idol". It was found on the Sbruch River, and there, on this Sbruch River, several Slavic tribes crossed there: Tivertsy, Buzhans, Croats, Volynians. And there a huge Deity was found, it is so elongated, partly phallic in shape, with four faces, it was originally painted red. And having analyzed this deity, having considered various symbolic signs on it, Rybakov proves that this is the deity of the Family. Four heads are a symbol of power over all sides of the universe. Another subtle series of Rybakov's observations shows that in Russian words with the alternation of "rod-ruds" are connected, on the one hand, with the idea of reproduction and fertility, and on the other hand, with blood as a symbol of the unity of the tribe. Remember Mowgli, right? "We're the same blood". What do I mean? Rudy in Slavic languages means "red". If you remember “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” by Gogol, right? “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka,” says the beekeeper, whose name is Rudy Panko, that is, Red Panko. Similarly, in dialects, ore is not a mineral that is dug out of the ground, but ore means blood. Therefore, it turns out that words with alternating genus-ores ... also, for example, ryady, rydet in the meaning of blush, they are associated with blood and red.
01:22:36 Therefore, here we find a certain complex of signs that is associated with the image of the Family: from archeology to language. And then we begin to compare it with the Vedas and Sanskrit. First of all, we still remember, if the head does not smoke, what is trimurti: Vishnu, Brahma - the creator of the Universe, and Shiva. One of Shiva's names is Rudra. Rudra is Shiva in the form of an angry lord of the elements, who is associated with the idea of fertility, reproduction. And the Vedas call Rudra the "Red Boar of the Sky." In the Yajur Veda, Shiva is also called by such names as "rohita, tamra and aruna", which means "reddish, red-brown". Rudra is approached with a prayer: “May we multiply, O Rudra, through children. May it bring good to men and women." This is the Rig Veda. In the same way, both in Russian and in Sanskrit, words with alternations of genus-ores are associated with birth, reproduction with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe fertility of people and the earth. In Sanskrit, "rodhadti" - to increase the number, roh - to grow, rohat - growth, rhodes - earth. Yes, in all ancient cultures - mother Earth. That is, the generative principle. Both in Russian and in Sanskrit, words with an alternation of genus-ores in the root are associated simultaneously with blood and red. In Russian, rudy is red, red, ore, blood, in Sanskrit - rodha, rudhiha - red, rudhira - red, bloody.
01:24:06 Therefore, we see that it is obvious that in Vedic culture, like the Slavs, in fact, the image of the Family, he absorbed such two influences, firstly, the image of Brahma, Svarog is the creator of this Universe, his four heads represent power over all directions of the Universe. And on the other hand, Shiva in the hypostasis of Rudra, from where the very word Rod is most likely. And from Rudra he takes the red color, the idea of connection with the unity of the tribe by blood, these are the very Ancestral influences. Clan, tribal unions and so on. And also the connection with phallic cults, as symbols of fertility, which we will talk about. Therefore, all such a small investigation that we conducted, you can compare with such an innocent statement by academician Oleg Nikolaevich Trubachev: “The Old Slavic Rod is a“ purely Slavic ”innovation. That is, after what we have said, we understand that long before the actual Slavic tribes at the Indo-European level, there are a lot of similarities that also illustrate the alternation of "genus-ores". So Oleg Nikolaevich breaks off in this case. He was wrong.
01:25:20 In the same way, researcher Wei writes: "Svarog, "heavenly" and Rod - "giving birth" - these are often epithets that define one or another side of the Deity, and they do not have to designate different gods."
Phallic cults of ancient Rus'
01:25:35 An additional and very mischievous evidence of the existence of a cult of the birth of a new life, fertility, male productive force is such a topic as phallic cults in Rus'. In the Vedic civilization, Lingas and Yoni, that is, symbols of the male and female principles, they are quite officially distributed in the worship of Shiva-Rudra. On such a symbol of the masculine, garlands are hung, oil is poured. But we have to reconstruct everything, of course. And it is reconstructed according to archaeological finds, here are the old proverbs and sayings, as well as heraldry data. The first - is it on the territory of the Slavs that they find some kind of left column or what? Such stone idols are of two sizes. Small stone phallic figurines and large ones. Large ones were placed on the streets in front of houses in the steppes, and small ones were part of the Slavic wedding set. So the chroniclers write: “They honor the shameful uds, and they are created in the image, and bow to them, and lay the treb. Slavena at weddings put shame in buckets and drink.
01:26:47 Proverbs and language. So we all know about such a fig, shish. Shish is such a symbolic sexual amulet in fact. And in Sanskrit "shishna" means "phallus". Another name for kukish, in Sanskrit "kuchita" means "to curl, to shrink." And here is Natalia Romanovna Guseva, by the way, a doctor of historical sciences, she writes: “If in India they openly worship the shiva lingam, then we have to find in the paganism of the Slavs only traces confirming the ancient worship of the phallus. We can find memories of iconic images in old male sayings. For example, “Shish to tar and put against the wall”, which indicates that the wooden phallic idol was saved by impregnating it with resin. Or "Because of the forest, the forests of the dark brought a huge shisha." And here we are probably talking about the transportation of a large phallic idol from the forest to the steppe, ”Natalya Romanovna Guseva calmly continues.
01:27:52 As for heraldry, it's even more interesting. Here I myself, for example, come from Smolensk. And the Smolensk coat of arms, it is very beautiful. This is the Gamayun bird, such a prophetic bird, invincible, powerful, which sits on a cannon. This is what a modern row looks like. However, a number of scientists, for example, Troinitsky, Shklovsky, they showed a categorical judgment that the prototype of the Smolensk coat of arms is a bird on the male reproductive organ. Why? Because if you look at the coat of arms of the 15th century, on which it is recorded in the chronicles of the Cathedral of Constance, it is not completely there ... there is not a cannon, but lions. And not completely lions, but half lions. And the halves of the lions, as it were, subtly hint at the fact that, well ... just can’t you depict them half? Therefore, a number of scientists quite frankly said that this comes from ancient symbolism like this. And Razhnev, the author of the book “The Coat of Arms of Smolensk”, we talked with him, he says: “Yes, they simply don’t show it in local history museums, but such happiness, as it were, stone ... archaeologists also dig up.”
Perun is the patron of the princely squad. Polytheism and the advent of Christianity
01:28:59 And so, we see that a whole complex of worldviews was associated with the cult of veneration of the Family, ranging from fertility, reproduction, connection of the tribe with one blood, and ending with phallic cults. Then, finally, we come to the latest such period in the evolution of the Slavs, which is called "Adoration of Perun." Finally, a familiar word rang out, yes. Perun, everyone is already used to it. It is most likely from the era of the worship of Perun that the phenomenon of Slavic paganism, which is known as polytheism, arises. When, depending on tribal worship or moods, preferences of the tribe, someone worshiped Khors there, someone Stribog, someone Veles. And Perun was worshiped first of all by the princes, because Perun ... who is Perun? This is a bearded warrior who leads the army of the Gods. Well, apart from that very Trimurti, about which we spoke, no one leads them. But all the other Gods are headed by ... The army of the Gods is headed by the formidable Perun. He is Indra in the Vedas. Therefore, as the leader of the army of the demigods, he patronized the princely squad. Therefore, the princely squad, including Prince Vladimir, glorified him. This is where the legend came from, that Perun is the supreme deity. In fact, the princes simply valued them very much and the warriors.
01:30:27 Ideas about Perun's appearance coincide with ideas about the Vedic Indra. Indra is a warrior with a beard, with a sword, heads the gods, and so on. Controls rain, clouds, lightning, and Indra defeats the serpent Vritra. The same thing, Perun's victory over the Serpent is recorded in such legends as "The Legend of the Serpent Shafts". To the south of Kyiv there are huge ancient fortification structures, well, defense structures, so as not to say strong words, here, defense hills. They are called the Serpent Shafts, and according to legend, how did the Serpent Shafts come into being? The hero on the plow, he passed and plowed. Harnessed a snake to a plow and on this snake he plowed these ramparts. The furrows stretched. And this later legend, it comes from the legend of Perun, who defeats the snake. There is a very simple transformation going on in Christianity. Guess yes? Perun, who defeats the snake, he becomes George the Victorious, here in Krasnodar, please, the famous stele. And accordingly, Perun, who controls the clouds, he is Ilya the Prophet. Elijah the Prophet rides across the sky in his chariot. That is, the image is split in two, but it is assimilated. Just like the equinox holiday - Maslenitsa. Pancakes are a symbol of the sun, it becomes with us ... well, also a conceptual Christian holiday. Therefore, later cultures simply take and earlier assimilate. Although what is a radiant from the point of view of Christianity? It's not clear at all, "sho tse take." An outright request, really.
01:32:12 Therefore, we will begin to deal with Perun, we already remember that different Gods have many names. As we have a creative pseudonym, if we write poetry on the Internet, they have it too. So, one of the ancient Vedic names of the Indus is Parzhanya. Parzhanya means "lord of the clouds". In Russian, steam is water, but water is in the form of a cloud. And if j turns into th, which we have already observed, for example, jara is yarilo. That parzhanya - paryanya, parun, perun - this is a completely acceptable modification, not so complicated. Therefore, for example, in Belarusian dialects, a cloud is Parun or Peruna, not Perun, but Ferry. Therefore, this "a", it is preserved. But what is most interesting, here we are moving on, that it turns out that there were four Perunov. So the ancient Russian texts testify: "Perun is many." That is, there are many Peruns. And the Lithuanians confirm: “There are four Parkunos. Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern. What are the names of the four Peruns, what happened to them? We will no longer find answers to these questions in the paganism of the Slavs. But we will find them if we look in the Vedas, where there is a very clear teaching about loka-palas. Loka-palas are the guardians of the cardinal directions. "Loka" - abode, side of the world, "fell" - protector. And the names... there are different lokopal schemes, but one of the most traditional: Indra, that is, the same Perun, is the main one. Next comes Soma - the God of the Moon, the lord of moisture, then Varuna - the lord of rivers, and Kubera - the ruler of the lower worlds. Of the four, Indra is the chief. Three out of four lokopals are united by the motif of power over the waters. Varuna is the lord of all waters, "vari" in Sanskrit is water, hence the Russian to cook. Here Varuna is the lord of the waters. Further, Soma is the ruler of the Moon, and the Moon is associated with moisture and vegetation, and Indra is the believer of the clouds. Therefore, it is natural that this motive of connection with water, with moisture, it unites everyone into one heap and in the end only one Perun remains, everyone else is forgotten, which corresponds to the Vedic Indra or the Vedic Parjanya.
01:34:26 However, in the Book of Veles, the name of Indra is also found in the variant "The son of light Intra the water of darkness and mahu"... Well, "the son of light, Indra of darkness leads, and we have a higher helper, and ancient times are ours good". The memory of Indra, as the lord of the waters, is also preserved in the legends about Indrik the Beast. There is a whole layer of literature called Apocrypha. Well, such folk Christian literature, but not recognized by the church. One of the most famous apocrypha is the "Pigeon Book", there are several versions of it and the "Pigeon Book", it contains a description of the amazing beast Indrik. One of the explanations for the word Indrik is that it is a modified meaning of the word Edinrok, i.e. Unicorn. But, apart from ideas, there is no documentary evidence of this. However, here is a comparison of a fragment from the Pigeon Book about Indrika and Indra's victory over Vritra. So, The Pigeon Book.
“Indrik the Beast walks,” yes? “He walks through the dungeon, cleans streams and channels. Wherever the beast passes, the spring boils there.”
And here is a fragment of the Rig Veda. Mandala one: "He, Indra, killed the snake, he drilled the channels of the waters, he cut the bowels of the mountains." Therefore, it turns out that Indra gradually turns into a certain Indrik-Beast, and so on. But the connection with the motive for the release of groundwater remains. Similarly, there are a number of lakes called Indrus, Indraya. And the very word "indra" or "indriya" in Sanskrit means "strength, power."
01:36:06 Also, the Russian word "par" is associated with the word "Pardzhanya" or with Perun in the version "Far". What is steam? Steam is water, but not in the form of a liquid, but in the form of a cloud. Therefore, this whole complex of Perun's connection with power over waters, over moisture, four lokopals, all this is very transparent, if you are a little familiar with the Vedic worldview. Therefore, shortly before the adoption of Christianity, it is already present, the Genus is forgotten, even more so the Vyshen and the Roof are forgotten. And usually the pagans are so convinced, they say that there was some kind of such a powerful, invincible superpower and suddenly, unknown and for some reason, all of a sudden - Christianity. In fact, one must understand that by the time Christianity came to Rus', many of the original Vedic ideas had mutated greatly. There was a very vague idea of the pantheons among the Slavs. Each tribe had its own ideas, and therefore Christianity, it comes for two reasons. According to the worldview, it again brings the idea of a single God, which was lost after the era of Rodoslavia, because Perun is already the most advanced among others. And also Christianity was associated with the orientation of Vladimir to Byzantium. Because geopolitical alliances were needed. But unfortunately, at the same time, part of the literature that remained is either simply destroyed or made to be unreadable. For this, the alphabet known to us is invented. We will talk about this in the section on pre-Christian writing in Rus'.
Keys to Russian folk tales
01:37:50 Keys to Russian folk tales. First of all, we must understand that a fairy tale originates from a myth. Initially, there were no textbooks, there were only teachers who passed on knowledge from person to person, a small number of books that were quite expensive, intimate. Therefore, many ideological things were transmitted through myths. Myths were sung by storytellers. And already in its later version, in fact, the degenerated myth takes the form of a fairy tale. But often it is so simplified that neither the storytellers themselves, nor the unfortunate children who read these fairy tales, are aware of these mythical roots of fairy tales. Although they are, and they are quite interesting. Let's start with the simplest thing, the innocent chicken Ryaba we know. Here, well, it would seem, in the late phenomenon of paganism Grandfather and Baba ... there are such whole tunes: "Oh did, oh fret, oh grandfather and woman." Grandfather and woman are a synonym for Svarog and Lada, that is, a pair of creatures that create this world.
01:39:00 In the same way, some pagan sources describe a legend about how at first there is neither earth nor water, and only a duck swims on the water. And this duck, she carries a certain world, universal egg, which opens and the Universe is created. But this is a late mythology, rather simplified, degraded. But in a variety of traditions, ranging from Greek mythology, where the Universe was understood as enclosed in a golden egg, and ending with Vedic mythology. Where, for example, it is described that there is a universal egg, Brahmanda, of golden color, which consists of fourteen planetary systems. Seven higher worlds and seven lower worlds. This is the traditional cosmogonic scheme. And thus, a certain bird that carries a golden egg that breaks - these are the codes of the mythological creation of the Universe. It is precisely these codes that are carried by the innocent tale of the hen Ryaba.
01:40:00 Next Kolobok. Kolobok is also such a fairy tale is very dramatic. The gingerbread man rolls and rolls and eventually dies in the fox's teeth. And we must remember that the Slavs did not have full compliance with modern astrology, right? And many designations of constellations were what is called "zoomorphic". That is, they corresponded to some animals. What is a kolobok? Gingerbread man, as well as pancake in ancient traditional culture, is a symbol of the Sun. Therefore, the Vedic texts say that the demon or serpent is Rahu, he swallows the Sun and an eclipse occurs. Therefore, Gingerbread Man in essence is an allegory of the eclipse of the Sun. When the Sun goes through different constellations and at some point the Fox, she personifies as Rahu, swallows the Sun. Therefore, this myth, it contains codes for the origin of the solar eclipse. Further from traditional fairy tales, we can move on to a literary fairy tale. We know that Pushkin created his fairy tales based on Arina Radionovna, who grew up among the people. How much Pushkin is there, how much Arina Radionovna is now no one will say. But one way or another, in a number of his tales, we find a very concentrated amount of certain Vedic codes. In "Ruslan and Lyudmila" these are the codes of the largest, here are the two largest epic poems on Earth - this is "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata". And in "Ruslan and Lyudmila" we find the codes of the Ramayana. The plot of the Ramayana is as follows: the evil demon Ravana, he flies to the place where King Rama lives in exile with his beloved Sita, kidnaps Sita. And Rama, whose heart is broken with grief, he goes in search of her, eventually invades the kingdom of the evil Ravana, defeats him and unites with Sita. This is the story of the Ramayana.
01:42:12 But if we look at the actual fairy tale "Ruslan and Lyudmila", then the motives are the same. Here is the evil Chernomor, he kidnaps Lyudmila. Ruslan goes in search of him and in Vedic mythology there are two brothers - this is the very evil Ravana: a powerful many-headed demon that can take the form of a man, and his brother Kuvera. Kuvera is a dwarf, the keeper of countless treasures. And the Vedas describe that before Ravana settled in the paradise region of Lanka, on the island of Lanka, there was Kuvera, his younger brother, a dwarf. And then Ravana overthrows his brother Kubera, receives from him a magical flying chariot, and Kuvera, he goes to the northern regions and guards treasures underground. Therefore, in the guise of Chernomor, we find such an old man who guards treasures, a sorcerer, a sorcerer, a significant amount of Kubera, the devil of Kubera, the brother of the demon Ravana. Rama himself could hit Ravana only with a special weapon, a special arrow. His heads grew back like those of Zmey Gorynych. And in the same way we see that in "Ruslan and Lyudmila" Ruslan can defeat Chernomor only with a special sword, which, if you remember, he picks out, pulls out from under a huge head.
01:43:40 A huge head is another ancient code - legends about giants. According to Vedic ideas, in the past era, the growth of people, their life expectancy was much longer. Remember the Bible: Patriarchs, Noah lived there for 900 years and so on. Therefore, a giant head is also an indication of the presence of even more ancient eras. When there were giants, to that same Dvapara-yuga and earlier eras. Another tale, the tale of Tsar Saltan, is thirty-three heroes. Thirty-three heroes come out of the sea. A logical question arises, why are there exactly thirty-three of them, why do they come out of the sea? The Vedas explain that there is the head of the army of the gods, the same Indra (or among the Slavs Perun), which we spoke about, and accordingly there are thirty-three main gods that he leads, and many more are subordinate to them. Therefore, there is also such a thing as symbols of other being. Other being - it means "another space, another world, another dimension", the space of the Gods. And what symbols of otherness can you find in fairy tales? Firstly, these are numerological symbols, that is, numerical. "Three is the ninth kingdom, three is the tenth state", there is the seventh heaven. Secondly, these are spatial symbols, for example, a dark, dark dense forest. This means another space has already gone. Caves, the hero falls into the ground: whenever such events do not occur, you should know that the action actually takes place already in another world. Therefore, the "33 heroes" who come out of the sea, the sea is a symbol of other being, these are thirty-three gods of the material world.
01:45:28 Goldfish. Among the many incarnations of the Supreme, the incarnation of an avatar is described when the Supreme comes in the form of beasts. For example, there, Kurma in the form of a turtle with a mountain on its back, by the way, in Khabarovsk, next to the museum of local lore, there is a huge stone turtle, and it has a mountain on its back. Here, we will talk about archeology. But including there is Mother-avatar, in India she is in all temples. This is the embodiment of the Almighty in the form of such an omnipotent Golden Fish. And in the "Golden Fish" it somehow turns out. In addition to the actual motives, plots of fairy tales, there are many more elements associated with Vedic cosmology in Russian fairy tales. We still remember, yes, by talking about the Universe in the egg, that there are seven levels of higher worlds and seven levels of lower worlds. And in the middle of the Universe there is a huge mountain, the axis of the world. In Sanskrit, it is called Meru, from the Greeks ... they borrowed it and began to call it Olympus. Therefore, if in fairy tales we find references to the glass mountain, then this rather refers to the Hyperborea complex, right? About the polar civilization. From the point of view of Vedic cosmology, the North Pole is a projection of that same Meru onto the space of the Earth. If we find a golden mountain, then this indicates Meru. Therefore, the golden or glass mountain is one of such central elements of cosmology.
01:47:05 Next is the kingdom of snakes. For example, Bozhov, remember the “Mistress of the Copper Mountain”, under the caves known to us there are some secret invisible caves where people live who can turn into snakes. In Sanskrit, this is called "nagas". That is, the kingdom of intelligent snakes, Nagas. And this is also present in fairy tales. Baba Yaga is also a famous character. Firstly, Baba Yaga, she is on the border of the world of the living and the dead, this is evidenced by such an element as her "bone leg". She's already half-decomposed. Secondly, Yaga, she constantly demands a sacrifice. Judging by the most ancient reconstructions, a human sacrifice is possible. Remember, Ivanushka either boils or fries. And in Sanskrit, the most famous word for "sacrifice" is yajna. Russian, by the way, lamb, lamb, right? That which must be sacrificed to the fire, agni. But another meaning of the word sacrifice is the word "yaga", so baba ..... this is also in the Russian-Sanskrit dictionary of Kochergina. Therefore, a baba yaga is a character that requires a "yaga", that is, a sacrifice.
01:48:12 Cosmology in proverbs is most clearly expressed in the proverb: "To be in seventh heaven with happiness." We say: "I'm in seventh heaven with happiness." In a variety of texts there is this teaching about the seven heavens. If we take Christian texts, then there is, for example, such a work by Dionysius the Areopagite, which is called "On the Heavenly Hierarchy". And here, where Dionysius the Areopagite forms the Christian teaching that there are seven upper heavens, the upper world is the world of God, and there Seraphims, Cherubims and so on live there at different levels. And this text is accepted to some extent by Christians, and from the Apocrypha, that is, from texts that are considered more a work of folk culture, there is such a well-known "Book of Enoch", and "The Book of Enoch" - this is the biblical King Enoch traveling through the universe, angels show it has different levels, and it is also written there that there are seven upper heavens, and only the upper seventh heaven is the world of God. Therefore, in this innocent proverb “To be in the seventh heaven with happiness”, the codes of Vedic cosmology, and of global traditional cosmology in general, are encrypted. Even the Russian word "paradise", it is close to the Sanskrit "raj", which means "wealth, kingdom."
01:49:27 "The abyss of heaven opened up." From the point of view of some pagan worldviews, between different levels of the sky there are those very "holes" - water storages. That's why the abysses of heaven open up, and this expression itself is used in the legend of the Flood, right? The abysses of heaven opened up, and Noah stood, under the Ark, right? Further "Ashwattha" and the world tree. We remember in Pushkin's fairy tale that a cat, he walks along a certain Tree on a golden chain. The World Tree is also one of the symbols of the Universe. But in older cultures, there is an even more interesting symbol that looks like an Inverted World Tree. What does this mean? This means that this world is only a distorted reflection of the ultimate reality. For example, in Slavic ... in fragments of Slavic conspiracies there is such a moment. “On the Okiyane sea, on the island of Kurgan, there is a white birch, roots up, crown down.” What does this mean? This world is only a reflection of the higher world. And the Bhagavad-gita is a Vedic text, it gives an example of the Ashwatthi tree. She compares the material world to the Ashwattha banyan, whose roots are directed upwards and crowns downwards. Therefore, this world, where there is old age, death, illness and suffering, is only a reflection, it cannot be the true home of the soul, right?
Wise and mantras among the Slavs
01:50:54 Next, what I can say a few words about is mudras and mantras in Slavic culture. Mudras are special finger locks that are associated with a certain circulation of energy, and the fig known to us is a protective mudra. Therefore, in India, you can pass by and see yogis meditating with their hands folded with figs. This does not mean that they have something against you, it means that they block certain channels. Similarly, one of the most famous mantras, that is, sacred speech formulas, is the syllable Om or Aum. The Bible says, "In the beginning was the Word." In a similar way, the Vedas say that Brahma (or among the Slavs Svarog), the creator of this Universe, he creates different levels, these are the 7 levels of planetary systems. But he does not work with a shovel, not with a scoop, but he creates different levels of systems with special sacred mantras. And we can see this in the example of resonance, for example, a car passes by, the windows begin to tremble. In the same way, some Cypriot legends, they say that the priests moved the stones from which they made the pyramids, using special pipes that they blew, or using spells. That is, there was an ancient mystical science of using sounds, mantras. And here is the mantra of connection with the Almighty - this is Om or Aum. And when a Slav, he walks for a long time through a dark forest, he already sees devils and bears, it’s scary, lonely, he starts shouting not “ege-ge-ge”, not “wow”, not “ryat, people”, he starts shouting: "Au-au-au" - yes? Just like "thank you" is a reduced form of "God save you" if you know, yes, about that? That "ay" is a reduced form of that very syllable "Aum". Or when you are giving a lecture, or someone is giving a lecture, you can also see such a wonderful state of the lecturer, I know it when he says like this: "Eammm." This is also a reproduction of the same vibration. “Oh my God! I forgot, well, send me this information file of my lecture!
01:53:18 We have already said about figurines, then we can say a few words about clothes. If you look at traditional Indian clothing, then these are usually strips of fabric. Here in Krasnodar, this should be very clear to everyone, even now it is the Krasnodar summer, it is already becoming clear to everyone. And what is the idea that various seams, joints, they generally, well, to some extent, negatively affect the energy, therefore they try not to use joints. But if you are walking, you have snow under your feet, some kind, well, if not Siberia, then at least obviously not the Black Sea region, then you cannot do without seams. Therefore, why are ritual patterns, swastikas, amulets, symbols of the sown field mainly located on the seams, because, firstly, it mattered that the tribes differed from each other, by the clothes it was clear which tribe you belong to. And secondly, it also served as amulets. And the articulations and everything in general had a significant meaning. And even if the traditional Russian and Indian patterns, I had it somewhere in the tablet, to compare Indian and Vologda, there is almost complete identity of the pattern... [Break-off. The voice recorder is dead. Missing sections: ritual haircut of monks and warriors, cremation and reincarnation among the Slavs, pre-Christian writing of Rus' and Sanskrit, "Book of Veles" and "Veda of the Slavs"]
Neo-pagans attach great importance to the sacred writings of the Magi, the priests of Perun and Veles, and there are more than one book of this kind. In addition to the old one, revealed in the middle. XIX century, which all scientists recognized as a fake made by Sulakadzev, at the end of the XIX century. in Belgrade and St. Petersburg was published by S. I. Verkovich (1881) "Veda of the Slavs" - supposedly a collection of songs of the Bulgarian Pomaks. I have not found references to this fake anywhere in the professional works of Bulgarian and Serbian folklorists. But our ultra-patriots included the main myths from this book in the collection "The Book of Kolyada" (Asov 20006; 2003), exemplary for domestic falsifiers. By the way, they take Kolyada (Old Russian carol, a deck is read) for an ancient Slavic god, although this is only a borrowed name for the holiday, derived from the Roman-Latin calendae (“calends”). The Romans called Kalends the first days of the month (hence our word "calendar").
After the Second World War, in 1953, a new shrine appeared - the Vlesova Book, which was allegedly found in the form of boards covered with runes, in 1919 the white officer Ali Izenbek, baptized Teodor Arturovich Izenbek, in Kursk or Oryol province or not far from Kharkov near the Veliky Burlyuk station in the ruined noble estate of the princes Donskoy-Zakharzhevsky or Zadonsky, where she presumably got from Sulakadzev or his widow (there was something similar in his surviving catalogue). Isenbek took the boards abroad. In Belgium, another white emigrant, engineer and journalist Yu. Cyrillic, but he died (in 1970), without waiting for the full publication (and Isenbek died back in 1941). Copies were published in parts in 1957-1959. in the Russian émigré press (primarily in the journal The Firebird. Other emigrants began to study the contents of the book - Mirolyubov's friend A. Kurenkov (former General A. A. Kurenkov) and S. Lesnoy, who had appropriated Kuren's translations and settled in Australia (under this Doctor of Biological Sciences S. Ya. Paramonov, who fled with the Germans, is a pseudonym. They were the first publishers of the book (Lesnoy also introduced the title), and the tablets themselves disappeared. Allegedly, they were confiscated by the SS during the war.
And since 1976, after an article by journalists Skurlatov and N. Nikolaev in Nedelya, a stir began in the Soviet press.
Did Izenbek and Mirolyubov have the boards, or is it just another journalistic craft and forgery? Reading the book, which is even more obvious rubbish than Sulakadzev's fake, immediately convinces of the latter.
For non-specialists, it is clearer than the ancient Russian chronicles. But for specialists it is just completely absurd (Buganov et al. 1977; Zhukovskaya and Filin 1980; Tvorogov 1990). It contains a lot of names and terms that are only apparently connected with the Old Russian language. Sinich, Zhitnich, Prosich, Studich, Ptichich, Zverinich, Dozhdich, Gribich, Travich, Listvich, Myslich (published by Kurenkova, 11b) - all this is the formation of names that is alien to the Russian language: after all, these are, as it were, patronymics from the names Thought, Grass, etc. etc., but neither in the recent past nor in antiquity were such names given to men (Thought Vladimirovich? Grass Svyatoslavich?). The name of the Slavs is explained in the text (Mirolyubov's archive, 8/2) from the word "glory": "they sing glory to the gods, and therefore they are the Slavs." But in Old Russian there was no self-name "Slavs", but there was "Slovene" - from the "word". One psychological difference of the text is striking. Usually the chronicles of any nation (and Russian chronicles are no exception) contain not only reports of glorious deeds, but also descriptions of dark spots - fratricide, betrayal and greed of princes, atrocities of the crowd, drunkenness and fornication. In the Vlesovaya Book, the Slavs are completely devoid of these weaknesses, they are always ideal.
But even this is not enough. In the 1990s a certain Bus Kresen (aka Asov or A.I. Barashkov) published a new version of the Veles Book, stating that this particular one is the only correct translation of Mirolyubov's texts. However, in each edition (1994, 2000), this "canonical" text also changed. In fact, the reader received another Veles Book.
Asov also took up defending the Book of Veles from revelations. An article by the paleographer L.P. Zhukovskaya (1960) “A fake pre-Cyrillic manuscript” was published in the journal “Problems of Linguistics”, in “Problems of History” - a critical note by a group of authors with the participation of academician Rybakov (Buganov et al. 1977), in “Russian speech ”the same note by the same Zhukovskaya and Professor V.P. Filin (Zhukovskaya and Filin 1980), in the Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature of the Pushkin House - a lengthy exposé article by a well-known specialist in Old Russian literature, Doctor of Philology O.V. Tvorogov (1990).
Zhukovskaya pointed out the linguistic absurdities in the book. For all Slavic languages up to the X century. nasal vowels were characteristic, denoted in Cyrillic by two special letters - "yus big" and "yus small". In Polish, these sounds have been preserved (“maz.” “husband”, “mieta” “mint”), in modern Russian they have disappeared, merging with “y” and “ya”. In the Book of Veles, they are conveyed by the letter combinations “he” and “en”, which, however, are now and then confused with “u” and “I”, and this is typical of modern times. In the same way, the sound designated "yatem" and eliminated in orthography after the revolution, because by that time it had already merged with "e", sounded different from "e" in Old Russian. In the Veles book, in those places where “yat” should be, there are either “yat”, then “e”, and the same thing in places where “e” should be. Only a modern person could write in this way, for whom it is one and the same and who did not know not only the history of the language, but even the rules of pre-revolutionary spelling, thoroughly.
Buganov and others pointed out that there were no Zadonsk or Don princes among the Russian princes. Together with Filin, Zhukovskaya drew attention to the fact that for some reason the paleographic character of the font was taken from India - from Sanskrit (the letters seem to be suspended from one line), and the rendering of sound in some places seems to show the influence of the Semitic alphabets - vowels are omitted, only consonants. "Veles" was turned into "Vles" in the Bulgarian manner. Zhukovskaya did not doubt that she was facing a falsification, and believed that its author was Sulakadzev, and Mirolyubov was her victim. Curd published and analyzed in detail the entire "Vlesov book" and all the materials related to it. He noted the extreme suspicion of its discovery: how were the “cracked and rotten” (Mirolyubov’s words) tablets preserved for many years in a bag lying around anywhere? Why didn't the finders show them to specialists from the University of Brussels? - after all, at that very time, Lukin's pamphlet "Russian Mythology" (Lukin 1946) was published in Brussels. Why didn't they call the experts? Why did Mirolyubov first announce that the letters were “burnt out” on the “boards”, and then that they were “scratched with an awl”?
The history of Rus', as it appears in this source, is completely absurd. Where science very slowly deepens Slavic roots into the past from Kievan Rus (so far it has advanced only three centuries), the book abruptly takes events many millennia inland - to where there were no Slavs, Germans, Greeks, etc. , but there were their ancestors that were not yet divided, with a different language and other names. And he finds ready-made Slavs there. When it comes to more recent events, the book mentions a few Gothic names vaguely known from The Lay of Igor and the writings of Jordanes, but avoids naming Greek and Roman kings and generals - naturally: ancient history is too well known, one can easily be mistaken if you don't know her very well. The book talks all the time about Greeks and Romans, but without specific names.
Further, it is curious that all the critics of the book are the most famous specialists, professional Slavists: paleographer, historian, archaeologist, specialist in ancient Russian literature, linguist. And all those who defended the book do not have a special education, they are ignorant in Slavic and paleography - an engineer-technologist in chemistry Mirolyubov, who was carried away by Assyriology, General Kurenkov (Kur), a doctor of biology entomologist (specialist in insects) Lesnoy, that is, Paramonov (whose work on "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" was publicly rejected by professionals), journalists. In the monograph “The Book of Veles”, the writer Asov (1994; 2000a) tries to refute the arguments of specialists in Russian antiquities, but he has nothing to say in essence.
And in another book, “Slavic Gods and the Birth of Russia” (2006), he mainly focuses on non-Russian surnames and the Jewish interests of some of his opponents: Walter Lacker, professor at the University of Washington for Strategic Studies, leading researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. A. Shnirelman teaches at the Hebrew University of Moscow and cooperates with Jerusalem - what can we expect from them (or, as another zealot of the Russian people, deputy Shandybin, says, “what do you want?”). There, the classic of Russian linguistics Vostokov spoke disparagingly about the Book of Veles - Asov (20006: 430) immediately nods: by birth, he is Osten-Saken! Well, maybe all these are bad people, but they can also say the right things - it is not the personality that needs to be considered, but their arguments. And what about Zhukovskaya, Tvorogov and Filin? And the situation is absolutely bad with yet another revealing article, which Asov simply hushed up, because among its authors is none other than Academician B. A. Rybakov (Buganov, Zhukovskaya and Rybakov, 1977). Finally, let's take a closer look at those through whom the "Book of Veles" is allegedly revealed to the world - Sulakadzev (Sulakadze after all!), His widow Sophia von Goch, Ali Isenbek ... Why not suspect these?
Archaeologists, historians and linguists are struggling with material in order to enlighten century after century the dark distances before the 6th century. n. e. - there, already four centuries before Kievan Rus, everything is debatable and unclear. But everything, it turns out, has already been decided. If Academician Rybakov extended the history of Russian culture and statehood deep into 5-7 thousand years, and the bold science fiction writer Petukhov spoke about 12 millennia of the “true history of the Russian people”, then Asov (20006: 6) subtracted from the “sacred books” the truth “about twenty thousands of years, during which Russia was born, perished and reborn again. Who is bigger? (There are more: the Ynglings trace their pedigree from 100,000 years ago, and in the Russian “Rig Veda” by V. M. Kandyba, the Aryan forefather of the Slavs, Orius, moved to earth from space 18 million years BC. That’s all, if I may say , in all seriousness).
To feel the flavor of the writings of Bus Kresen, that is Asov, let's take his last book. I will quote a few passages from the section "Slavic myths". The myths were "restored" by Asovs according to the "Vedas of the Slavs", "The Book of Kolyada" and other sacred books of equal reliability.
“In the beginning of time, the world was in darkness. But the Almighty revealed the Golden Egg, in which the Family was enclosed - the Parent of all things. The clan gave birth to Love - Mother Lada ... The Sun God Ra, who emerged from the face of the Family, was approved in a golden boat, and the Moon in a silver one. Rod emitted from his mouth the Spirit of God - the bird Mother Swa. By the Spirit of God, Rod gave birth to Svarog - the Heavenly Father ... From the Word of the Most High, Rod created the god Barma, who began to mutter prayers, glorifications, tell the Vedas ”(Asov 20006: 21).
So, the author of the writings ascribes to the densely ancient Slavs faith in the Almighty, the Spirit of God and the Word of God, knowledge of the Egyptian sun god Ra (where is Egypt, and where are the primitive Slavs!) And the Indian term of the Vedas (unknown as the designation of sacred books anywhere except India). Barma (apparently, from the old Russian "barma" - shoulders in princely vestments) resembles the Indian "karma", but he knows how to mutter and mutter primordially Slavic prayers.
And now the myths about Perun:
“Veles and Perun were inseparable friends. Perun honored the god Veles, because thanks to Veles he gained freedom, was revived and was able to defeat the fierce enemy of his Skipper-beast. But the story of the struggle between Perun and Veles is also known. Perun is the Son of God, and Veles is the Spirit of God ... The reason for this struggle is also called: the incitement of the Dyya clan. The fact is that both Perun and Veles fell in love with the beautiful Diva-Dodola, the daughter of Dyya. But Diva preferred Perun and Veles rejected. However, then Veles, the god of Love, nevertheless seduced Diva and she gave birth to Yarila from him.
But then, in sorrow, outcast, he went aimlessly and came to the Smorodina River. Here he met the giants Dubynya, Gorynya and Usynya. Dubynya uprooted oaks, Gorynya moved mountains, and Usynya caught sturgeons with his mustache in Smorodina. Then we went together, saw a "hut" on chicken legs. “And Veles said that this was the house of Baba Yaga, who in another life (when he was Don) was his wife Yasunya Svyatogorovna”. And so on (Asov 20006: 47).
I will omit the Slavic myths in which the gods Vyshny and Kryshny, unknown to the Slavists, appear (the reader, of course, will easily recognize the Indian Vishnu and Krishna, but let experts guess how they got to the Slavs).
Eshe a little about Perun. Perun gave birth to mother Sva from the god Svarog, having eaten Pike Rod. When Perun was still a baby, the Skipper-beast came to the Russian Earth. “He buried Perun in a deep cellar and took away his sisters Zhiva, Marena and Lelya. For three hundred years Perun sat in a dungeon. And after three hundred years, the Mother Sva bird beat its wings and called the Svarozhichs. Svarozhichi Veles, Khors and Stribog found Perun, who was sleeping like a dead sleep. To wake him up, living water was required, and the mother turned to the Gamayun bird:
“- You fly, Gamayun, to the Riphean mountains beyond the wide East Sea! How in those mountain ranges of Ripey on the mountain on that Berezan you will find a well ... ". And so on (Asov 20006: 98-99). Mother Sva in Asov's program speaks just like a Russian epic storyteller of the early 20th century. By the way, only the ancient Greek geographers called the Urals Ripean Mountains, and in the ancient Slavic environment this name was unknown. In general, the names are partly taken from literature on mythology and folklore collections (Perun, Vsles, Svarog. Stribog, Khors, Rod, Dodola, Zhiva. Madder, Baba Yaga. Gamayun, Usynya. Gorynya, Dubynya), partly distorted (Lelya from Lel) , partly invented (Sva, Yasunya, Kiska).
And here is the glorification of Perun from the hymn to Triglav in the "Book of Veles":
And the Thunderer - God Perun,
God of battles and struggle
said:
"You. reviving the manifest.
Don't stop spinning the wheels!
You who led us on the right path
to the battle and the feast of the great!
About those. who fell in battle.
those. who walked, you live forever
in the army of Perunov!
“Glory to Perun - the Fire-haired God!
He sends arrows at enemies
The faithful are led along the path.
He is the warriors - honor and judgment,
Righteous He is the Golden Fleece, merciful!”…
(Asov 20006: 245-298)
According to East Slavic ideas. Perun was black-bearded (in folklore) or (among the princes) gray-haired (the head is silver), and only the mustache was "gold". but the authors of the Veles Book did not know Russian folklore and mythology in such detail.
The names of the German god Odin and the Roman emperor Trajan, who entered the Balkan-Slavic folklore, are united and “systematized” in the Veles book of Asov in a very Russian way: the descendants of the forefather Bogumir are “the brothers Odin, Dvoyan and the son of Dvoyan Troyan” (Asov 2000b: 259) . Then it was necessary to remake Odin into Odinyan, but it would have turned out too Armenian. The historical narratives of the Veles Book are about the first Kiev on Mount Ararat (in the fourth millennium BC), Moscow as the first Arkaim (the second - in the Urals in the second millennium BC). about the father of Yarun-aria. the hero Kiske. the country of Ruskolani and so on. - I'm not going to disassemble here. Historians have said enough about their fantasticness and absurdity. This is ultra-patriotic rubbish.
Unfortunately for Asov and others like him, after the death of Mirolubiv (1970) in Munich, his admirers, full of the best intentions, published (in 1975-1984) in seven volumes (!) his archive, which also analyzed Tvorogov. And what did it turn out? The publications include Mirolyubov's previously unpublished manuscripts "Rig Veda and Paganism" and his other writings on the origin of the Slavs and their ancient history, written in the 50s. Mirolyubov was fanatically obsessed with the idea of proving that the "Slavic-Russian people" are the most ancient people in the world. He came up with a fantastic story - that the ancestral home of the Slavs was next to India, that from there they moved about 5 thousand years ago to Iran, where they started breeding war horses, then their cavalry fell on the despotism of Mesopotamia (Babylon and Assyria), after which they captured Palestine and Egypt, and in the VIII century. BC e in the vanguard of the Assyrian army, they invaded Europe. All this nonsense does not fit in at all with the archeology and written history of all these countries, well known to specialists, but completely unknown to the engineer Mirolyubov.
So, in 1952, in the manuscript "Rig Veda and Paganism", Mirolyubov complained that he was "devoid of sources", and expressed only the hope that such a source "will be found one day." How "devoid of sources"?! What about Vlesov's book? Not a word mentions the presence of the “Vlesovaya Book”, the tablets, which by that time, as he was sure, he had allegedly copied for 15 years and then researched! All his information about Slavic myths is provided with references to his nanny "great-grandmother" (great-grandmother?) Varvara and a certain old woman Zakharikha, who fed in the "summer kitchen" of the Mirolyubovs in 1913 - of course, it is impossible to verify this information. Meanwhile, just the information that later appeared in the Vlesovaya Book is presented! Those same nonsense - Reality and Rule as the main holy concepts, the forefathers Beloyar and Ar, etc. It was only in 1953 that the discovery of the Vlesovaya Book was announced, but only one photograph was presented, which caused criticism - and no more photographs presented. The first publications of sketches began in 1957.
Curds (1990: 170, 227, 228) comes to the impeccably substantiated conclusion that the Vlesova Book is “a falsification of the middle of our century” (it began to be made in 1953), “a gross hoax of readers by Yu. P. Mirolyubov and A. A. Kurom ", and her language is "artificially invented by a person who is not familiar with the history of Slavic languages and who was unable to create his own, consistently thought-out system."
The smart and intelligent leader of a part of the neo-pagans, Velimir (Speransky), while analyzing the “sacred writings” of the neo-pagans on the Internet, cannot hide his impression that both the Book of Vlesov by Mirolyubov-Kura-Lesny and the Book of Veles by Bus Kresen (Asov-Barashkov) were written not by the ancient wise men, but by modern wise men, and in this sense - falsifications. But he does not consider them less interesting and less pagan because of this. Does it matter when they are made? What matters is what they teach. “The point is not the truth of ideas, but their functionality” (Shcheglov 1999: 7). Shcheglov (1999: 8) admires the "immortal idea of the usefulness of myth for the masses".
Fragment from the book by L.S. Klein "The Resurrection of Perun". St. Petersburg, 2004
), which belong to the category of shruti (heard).
The main part of the Vedas are samhitas - collections of mantras, which are adjoined by brahmanas, aranyakas and upanishads - texts that are commentaries on the Vedic samhitas. The mantras contained in the Vedas are repeated as prayers and used in various religious rituals.
For many centuries, the Vedas were transmitted orally in poetic form and only much later were they written down. The Hindu religious tradition considers the Apaurusheya Vedas to be uncreated by man, eternal divinely revealed scriptures that were given to mankind through the holy sages. Information about authorship is indicated in the anukramani.
Origin story
The Vedas are considered one of the most ancient scriptures in the world. At first they were transmitted orally from generation to generation, and before the Vedas were written down, for many centuries there was an oral tradition of their transmission.
In Hinduism, it is believed that at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, immediately after the creation of the Universe, Brahma (God the Creator) receives Vedic knowledge. At the end of the cosmic cycle, Vedic knowledge goes into an unmanifested state, and then reappears in the next cycle of creation. Great rishis (sages) receive this knowledge and pass it on orally for millions of years.
Hindus believe that more than 5000 years ago, the surviving part of the Vedic knowledge was written down and divided into four Vedas by the great sage Vyasa (Vedavyasa), who also outlined its main essence in the form of aphorisms of the Vedanta Sutra.
Vyasa handed over each Veda to one of his disciples for ordering. Payla ordered the hymns of the Rig Veda. The mantras that were used in religious and social ceremonies were collected by Vaishampayana in the Yajurveda. The hymns of the Samaveda were collected by Jaimini. The Atharva Veda, which is a collection of hymns and charms, was ordered by Sumanta.
Presumably the Vedas were compiled over a period that lasted for about a thousand years. It began with the compilation of the Rigveda around the 16th century BC. and ended in the 5th century BC. However, since the Vedas were written on short-lived material (palm leaves, tree bark), the age of the manuscripts that have come down to us does not exceed several hundred years.
At the moment, the Vedas are the most ancient philosophical teaching that was brought to India by the Aryans. The Vedas are very strong, powerful, super-logical and humanistic knowledge! In the "wrong" hands this knowledge can turn into a terrible poison, in the "right" hands it can become the salvation of mankind. For a long time this knowledge was under the protection of the Brahmin priests. The Vedas contain the Great Truth. There is an opinion that the Vedas are the legacy of the most ancient highly developed civilization that has survived to this day.
What are the Vedas? Why was this knowledge kept secret? Where did this knowledge originally come from, who wrote the Vedas? How was the transfer of knowledge? After watching the video, you will come closer to understanding what this mysterious and powerful Vedic knowledge contains.
Basic texts of the Vedas
The Vedas include four Samhitas (collections of mantras):
1. The Rigveda (Veda of hymns) consists of hymns-mantras intended to be repeated by the chief priests.
The Rigveda is considered to be the oldest surviving Indian text, from which the other three Vedas borrowed some material. The Rigveda consists of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 texts, which are divided into ten books called mandalas. The hymns are dedicated to the Rigvedic gods, the most frequently mentioned among which are Agni, Indra, Rudra, Varuna, Savitar and others. All the mantras of the Rig Veda were revealed to 400 Rishis, 25 of whom were women. Some of these Rishis were celibate while others were married.
Scholars believe that the books of the Rig Veda were compiled by poets from various groups of priests over a period of five hundred years. According to Max Müller, the Rigveda was composed between the 18th and 12th centuries BC. in the Punjab region. Other researchers indicate later or earlier dates, and some believe that the period of compilation of the Rigveda was not so long and took about one century between 1450-1350 BC.
There is a great linguistic and cultural similarity between the Rig Veda and the early Iranian Avesta. This kinship is rooted in Proto-Indo-Iranian times and is associated with the Andronovo culture. The most ancient horse-drawn chariots were found in the Ural Mountains and date back approximately to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.
2. The Yajurveda (Veda of Sacrificial Formulas) contains mantras intended for adhvaryu assistant priests.
The Yajurveda consists of 1984 verses, partly borrowed and adapted from the Rigveda and set out in prose. The Yajurveda mantras have a practical purpose - each mantra is meant to be used during a specific part of the sacrificial ritual. The mantras of this Veda were composed for all Vedic rites, and not only for the ritual of Soma, as in Samaveda.
There are two main editions of this Veda - Shukla Yajur Veda and Krishna Yajur Veda. The origin and significance of these editions are not exactly known. The Shukla Yajurveda contains only the texts and formulas necessary for performing sacrifices, and their explanation and philosophical interpretation are separated into a separate text by Shatapatha Brahmanu. In this it differs greatly from the Krishna Yajurveda, in which the explanations and interpretations of the mantras are integrated into the main text and usually follow immediately after each mantra.
3. The Samaveda (Veda of Chanting) contains mantras meant to be chanted by the udgatri chanting priests.
The Samaveda consists of 1875 verses, most of which are borrowed from the Rigveda. The Rigvedic texts are modified and adapted for chanting, some of them are repeated several times.
The Samaveda served as a collection of hymns for the choir priests who took part in the liturgy. The priests who chanted hymns from the Samaveda during Vedic rituals were called udgatri, a word that comes from the Sanskrit root ud-gai ("sing" or "chant"). The style of chanting played a key role in the use of hymns in liturgies. Each hymn had to be sung according to a strictly defined melody - hence the name of this Veda (saman in Sanskrit is the melody of a praise song or hymn).
4. Atharva Veda (Veda of spells) is a collection of mantra spells.
The Atharva Veda consists of 760 hymns, one fifth of which is shared with the Rig Veda. Most of the texts are metrical, and only some sections are written in prose. According to most scholars, the Atharvaveda was compiled around the 10th century BC, although some parts of it date back to the Rigvedic period, and some are even older than the Rigveda.
The Atharva Veda contains not only hymns, but also comprehensive knowledge devoted, in addition to the religious aspects of life, to such things as the sciences of agriculture, government, and even weapons. One of the modern names of the Atharva Veda is Atharva-Angirasa, after the holy sages and great magicians of this line.
Linguistically, the mantras of this Veda are among the oldest examples of Vedic Sanskrit. Unlike the other three Vedas, the mantras of the Atharvaveda are not directly related to solemn sacrifices. Its first part consists mainly of magical formulas and spells that are dedicated to protection from demons and disasters, healing diseases, increasing life expectancy, fulfilling various desires and achieving certain goals in life. The second part contains philosophical hymns. The third part of the Atharvaveda mainly contains mantras intended for use during wedding ceremonies and funerals.
Additional texts
The Vedas consist of basic texts (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda), which are called samhitas. Three collections of commentaries adjoin each samhita: brahmanas (hymns and mantras that are used for Hindu rituals), aranyakas (commandments for forest hermits) and upanishads (philosophical texts). They reveal the philosophical aspects of the ritual tradition and, together with the Samhita mantras, are used in sacred rituals. Unlike the main texts, this part of the Vedas is usually set out in prose.
The Samhitas and Brahmins are categorized as karma-kanda (ceremonial section), while the Aranyakas and Upanishads are classified as jnana-kanda (knowledge section). While the Samhitas and Brahmins focus on ritual practices, the main theme of the Aranyakas and Upanishads is spiritual self-realization and philosophy. They discuss in particular the nature of Brahman, atman and reincarnation. The Aranyakas and Upanishads are the basis of Vedanta.
We offer you to additionally watch a lecture by Ilya Zhuravlev, in which he introduces listeners to the ancient philosophy described in the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Tantras and other ancient sources on yoga. Description of chakras, mudras, yoga practices (asanas, pranayama, meditation) in ancient texts. The difference between ancient and modern practices.
The Upanishads are ancient Indian treatises on religious and philosophical subjects. They are a continuation of the Vedas and belong to the sacred scriptures of Hinduism of the shruti category (“heard from above, divinely revealed”). They mainly discuss spiritual philosophy, meditation, questions of God, the soul, karma, reincarnation, the development of consciousness, liberation from suffering. These works written in Sanskrit are characterized by depth and poetic exposition, and reflect the mystical experience of ancient yogis. Ilya Zhuravlev's lecture discusses the main plots, ideas and terms, the main practices described in these ancient treatises on yoga.
Other post-Vedic texts such as the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Puranas are not Vedic scriptures, although they are positioned as the fifth Veda in some branches of Hinduism.
There is also a category of texts called by the term "upaveda" ("minor knowledge"). This term is used in traditional literature to refer to a number of specific texts that are not related to the Vedas, but are simply an interesting subject for study. This includes:
- “medicine”, adjoins the “Atharvaveda”.
Dhanurveda - "martial arts", adjoins the "Yajurveda".
Gandharvaveda - "music and sacred dances", adjoins "Samaveda".
Astra-shastra - "military science", adjoins the "Atharva Veda".
In other sources, the Upaveda also include:
Sthapatya Veda - architecture.
Shilpa Shastras - arts and crafts.
And their significance attracted the attention of researchers for many centuries. The fact that the Russian language was used to encode the Vedas has been established for a long time, but the secrets of the language themselves have not yet been revealed to this day. In the old days, for the interpretation of symbols, they resorted to the help of the Vestal Virgins, baptized witches by Christians. Vedas - a word derived from the word "know", which reflects the deep content of the worldview.
general information
The history of the Slavic Vedas is much deeper than the exotic Indian traditions that have taken root in modern society. Vedism is a deep history of our people, reflecting the peculiarities of its spirituality. Vedism is believed to be the most ancient teaching, about the coming of which Vanga spoke to people.
There is no such science that could explain how the amulets, the Vedas, were born; the meaning of this worldview is also not amenable to logical scientific perception and systematization. This worldview included the idea of the presence of some higher divine essence, as well as the existence of a hierarchy among the gods. Identification of the highest essence, significance for the Slavic peoples, the importance of this object for the formation of spirituality at the level of the people - all this has repeatedly become the object of research by prominent philosophers and scientists. In the eighteenth century, the history of Rus' and the Vedas were the focus of attention of Lomonosov, Popov, a century later - Tolstoy and Zamaleev. In the nineteenth century, works devoted to the Slavic divine pantheon were written by Sudov, Osipov, and other prominent figures of the era, but it was during that period that the understanding of the supreme god was violated.
Past and present
Reflecting the history of the Slavs before the baptism of Rus', the Vedas are a tradition that interprets the divine essence as a kind of absolute. Currently, it is interrupted, and much has been lost and forgotten. Since knowledge left people gradually, over the centuries, discussions have become more and more extensive, devoted to what are the correct names, what functions lie on the gods. In the Vedas, the gods were not supposed to have a personal name, but luminosity was inherent in all of them. The first place in the hierarchy was occupied by the fire of the cosmos, a fiery light that manifested itself in thousands of faces.
Every person faces darkness and light. Among people it is customary to single out light, dark. Light brown hair is inherent in the first - they are called Russian. They were supposed to carry light, it was they who were called Aryans - hence the term "Slavic-Aryan Vedas." Aryan means nobility. The word that came to us from Sanskrit has recently been forgotten; rather, the titles associated with light, common in the past, are remembered - “lordship”. Initially, they reflected a person's belonging to the number of the best. An Aryan is a noble person who brings light and gives good to his world. A light person is the opposite of a dark one, opposing evil.
Covert and overt
You can find a lot of books about the Slavic-Aryan Vedas these days - this topic is of interest to an increasing number of people. Many of our compatriots would like to return to their roots, and are looking for ways to learn and receive information. The Vedas are one of the most ancient scriptures on our entire planet. In ancient times, people sought to preserve messages for the future that would help future generations. They passed on their knowledge through these messages, shared their understanding of virtue, pointed out how to keep the spirit pure. The Vedas, created by the priests at the time of the birth of the doctrine, were derived very carefully, thoughtfully, accurately. Messages carved on a metal plane have survived to this day. They were created so as not to suffer from rust, not to deteriorate over the years and centuries. In these messages is hidden thousands of years of wisdom, great knowledge, not intended for the general public.
Closely connected with the history of ancient Rus' before baptism, the Slavic Vedas are secret divine instructions transmitted to humanity striving for light and righteousness. They were intended to preserve the spirituality of the people, striving for a harmonious existence with the outside world. The Vedic teaching required each person to be aware of the level of responsibility for deeds. And today, the Vedic teaching allows us to realize the connection between consequences and causes, get to know the ancient wisdom better, touch the pure truth, which was not influenced by the bloody dictatorships that have so much changed the human world in recent centuries.
Do I need it?
In the history of mankind, the Vedas are an important, but undeservedly forgotten step in the development of civilization. As in the past, the Vedic teaching can give food for thought to a modern person, a large amount of fundamentally new information, the reflection of which helps to transform, become better, turn one's life towards the light. The Slavic Vedas in ancient times were hidden from the uninitiated, and then the level of secrecy became even greater - both the keepers of ancient wisdom and the rulers of countries sought to hide the doctrine of light. The first tried in this way to keep it intact, the second - to prevent a change in the lives of subordinates for the better.
It is believed that through simple books, the Vedas of the Slavs are not amenable to knowledge and awareness. This is one of the reasons why the ancient wisdom was kept so secretive for many centuries. It was believed that ordinary people are not yet ready to gain light, are not able to know the divine instructions, until the right time has come. Even the Vedas available today are full of gaps, much remains to be deciphered - mysterious symbols and signs leave room for imagination and assumptions.
Own and Neighborhood
The Vedas of the Slavs and Aryans that came from the time of the history of Ancient Rus' are known. In addition to them, there are Indian Vedas. The Slavic-Aryan doctrine compares favorably with its understandable style and style. Those people who wrote down the Vedas centuries ago sought to convey the meaning without the possibility of misreading, so they did not use ornate formulations. Some Vedas were available to everyone and everyone, and they were written so that even a small child could understand the information encrypted with symbols. Through the Vedas, children were taught to be aware of good and bad, to distinguish the content of their actions. A modern person can also get acquainted with such publicly available Vedas, thereby becoming one of the people with ancient knowledge. Do not underestimate the Vedic teaching, the roots of which are in Slavic origins.
Closely related to the history of Russia, the Vedas are now available to anyone who is interested in them. It is enough just to let the Vedic teachings into your life, thereby becoming closer to the Slavs. It is believed that this will attract good luck, know happiness and find harmony in everyday life - and all this is so lacking for a simple person in our time, in a frantic pace of life filled with difficulties and problems. Vedic books simplify the upbringing of children, since the information in them is presented in such a way that even a small child can realize what is right and what is completely wrong to do.
For everyone and for everyone
They say that the Russian Vedas made a significant contribution to the history of mankind. If modern people open their lives to the Vedic teachings, perhaps this will be the way to resurrect the nation, the state. Some believe that it is through the Vedas that power can be returned to the Russian people, raising the national spirit. The Vedas allow you to look at the familiar and understandable from a new point of view, and even obvious things turn out to be not so banal.
The Vedas of the Slavs are a way to increase one's own morality. A person who follows such a teaching can be an example to follow and an object for the pride of future generations. Slavic Vedas are associated with national self-consciousness, pride, forgotten and lost by many in the ups and downs of the last centuries. Some say: the Vedic book should be present in every home, in every family, and then gradually everything in life will fall into place, ideals will return, and other people's idols will be rejected.
Connections and cultures
Do the Slavic-Aryan Vedas differ from the Indian ones, how great are these differences, and what teaching should be introduced into your life? These issues have recently become more and more relevant, and knowledgeable people publish articles, books, and impressive works to cover them. It's no secret: there are indeed many similarities between these two teachings, and this is largely due to the common language base. Among other Indo-European languages, the two closest languages, as linguists say, are Russian, Sanskrit, that is, the language that was spoken in Ancient India. The study of the Slavic religion shows its similarities with Hinduism. In both of these currents, books filled with higher knowledge were called the Vedas. It is worth noting: in the alphabet of our ancestors, the third letter was “lead”. There are some similarities at the present time, for example, the name of the currency: rupees and rubles.
A rather surprising similarity follows from the Indian and Slavic-Aryan Vedas, which reflected the structure of the world. It has long been believed that there is a mysterious Hyperborea far to the north, and Nostradamus spoke of the Russians as a Hyperborean people who came from the northern lands. In the "Book of Veles", which has come down to our days, there is information about the transition made by the Slavs twenty thousand years before the beginning of our era due to the onset of cold. However, modern excavations of fossils also confirm that earlier in the far north the climate was different. Lomonosov's studies also testify to this. Even Pliny the Elder wrote about the Hyperboreans, who lived near the Arctic Circle. He also spoke about the connection between these people and the Hellenes.
Linguists, geographers and historians: working together
Exploring the Vedas of the Slavs, one cannot but pay attention to the amazing similarity of some names, including geographical destinations. So, the Arctic is a word derived from the Sanskrit "Arch", denoting our main luminary.
Not so long ago, organized research confirmed that about four thousand years ago, a Mediterranean climate reigned in the territory of modern Scotland. In the Arctic, as shown by the work of Russian paleontologists, about 30 thousand years ago it was quite warm. Treshnikov argued that the Arctic Ocean about 15 millennia ago was a zone of temperate climatic zone.
The Vedas of the Slavs are of particular interest against the background of geographical research and analysis of works not only modern, but also written centuries ago. So, Mercator in 1569 depicted Hyperborea as a mainland formed by four island parts with a mountain in the center. Such a mountain is also mentioned in the epic of the Hellenes and Indians. The reliability of Mercator's work is confirmed by the mapped strait, officially opened only in 1648, and in 1728 named after Bering. Probably, Mercator formed a kata, focusing on ancient sources.
A number of Russian scientists are convinced that a mountain is indeed hidden in the waters of the northernmost ocean of our planet, the top of which almost reaches the ice layer. Perhaps, along with the Mendeleev and Lomonosov ridges, it sank not so long ago.
If you pay attention to the map of Phineus compiled in 1531, Hyperborea is also present there. It is also on the map of the world created at the end of the sixteenth century in Spain. This work is still kept in the National Library of Madrid.
Geography and countries
Linguists who studied the Vedas of the Slavs, Russian and Sanskrit, suggested that the Russian word "world" has the same roots as the Sanskrit name Meru - mountains, the central point of Hyperborea. The world is both harmony, and civilization, and the universe in which we live, and in Indian cosmology, the metaphysical Meru permeates the planetary poles, representing the axis of our world. The human world revolves around her, despite the absence of physical manifestation.
Conducting a cross-cultural analysis, it is difficult to deny the presence of a developed northern civilization in the past. However, this does not allow clarifying the circumstances under which she disappeared, the reasons for what happened. But we can say with confidence: in Hyperborea there lived people who glorified the hierarchy of the universe through divinity, which is why they were called Slavs. The Vedas of the ancient Slavs suggest that people considered themselves divine solar descendants, Yaroslavs. How "Aryan" as a term came to the Slavs has not yet been established, perhaps Yara and Arius are the same word that has changed in different cultures over the centuries.
"The Book of Veles"
From this book, which gives a fairly complete picture of the Vedas of the ancient Slavs, it is known that a severe cold snap was the reason for Yar to take the survivors to the southern lands. So from the north, people moved to the Ural region, from where they eventually moved to Punji, the Indian state, today called Punjab. Further, under the leadership of Jarun, they moved to the eastern European regions. However, in ancient Indian sources, this story is recorded with slightly different names, for example, Yaruna is called Arjuna, which means “silver” in translation and is close to the sound of the Latin name for silver. Some associate the term "white man" and Yara, Aria.
The Vedas of the Slavs, the history of the ancient people show how important the manifestation of divinity was for them. People knew that they depended on some external great power. Both in India and in Russia these forces were personified as deities. The rituals that the Slavs practiced were designed to connect a person and the power that lives in the cosmic distance. The power of the entities was such that they could hear the request of any person and respond favorably to it. It is worth noting: the names of the personified forces among the Slavs and the Indians had a lot in common.
Everything is interconnected
The Vedas and the history of the Slavs clearly show: for a Russian person, the life-giving face of the sun has always meant a lot, and therefore was deified. It is the study of the Sun in ancient culture that helps to learn many features of the Vedic traditions, including the sacred name. Yar, Yarilo - it is this name that is encoded in a huge number of words used today: faith, measure. Even the “fool”, the same Ivanushka from fairy tales, is closely connected with this Vedic tradition - the sacred meaning of this name is due to the specific life path that the epic hero is forced to go through in all his stories. Philosophers, linguists, who analyzed Slavic epics and legends, proved that Vedism is a complex system of worldview that united the entire society of the ancient Slavs. From it followed the priorities of the tribe, the rules of conduct, spiritual attitudes and features of the activity of each individual member of society.
No less significant was the word "rule", which is also reflected in the name of the religion - Orthodoxy. Rule is closely connected with reality, Navi. The sorcerers of the old times knew: being is illusory, multifaceted, and the truth is only in the divine commandments. The most significant of them was considered the law, reflecting the consequences and causes: you will reap what was sown. This idea is extremely close to the karma that spread through the teachings of the Brahmins in India.
The Slavs, however, knew "karna". Asov speaks about this term in his work. The man who lives the truth makes the world of his dreams real; truth is the path from the divine to the present. At the same time, one who glorifies the truth is considered Orthodox. In those days, there was also a system that was exceptionally close to modern yoga, and the word “yogi” itself is actually “goy”, which meant the Slavs in the Hebrew language.
History and religion: close connection and value
The Slavic Vedas are not only an important source of ideas about life in ancient times, they are also a cultural monument reflecting the thousand-year history of human civilization. It is now known that all the Vedas were written on one of three materials: wood, parchment and metal. The choice of material for recording was based on the features of the text. Santi were called plates minted from expensive metal - most often from gold, which is not afraid of rust. Sacred texts were minted on the plates, then they were fastened together, receiving special metal books. Charati were written on high quality parchment, and the texts on the tablets were called sorcerers. It is believed that the most ancient of those that have survived to this day are santii. Dedicated to Perun, they were written over forty thousand years ago. It was the santias that at first were called the Vedas, but the analysis of the text made it possible to see references to other sources, ancient even for the authors of Perun's santias. Nowadays, they either have sunk into oblivion, or are stored in secret places, and will be announced in the distant future.
Santii are called upon to fix a picture of the world, they contain ancient knowledge. Some believe that santii can correctly be called an archive of the most important knowledge of mankind.
Haratis mostly copied santii or contained extracts from the original teaching. They were more widespread, used by the priests for their needs. The most ancient surviving harati are called the "Book of Wisdom", dated to 26,731 years before the beginning of the current era. It was much easier to write them down than to forge santi, so extensive texts and historical information were mainly recorded in this way. The legends preserved information about the composition “Avesta” written on twelve thousand prepared oxen skins, which spoke about the war between the Aryan peoples and the Chinese with the victory of the former. It is believed that the document was burned by the hands of Alexander the Great.
It's curious
It is assumed that in the "Avesta" it was written about the "Creation of the world in the Star Temple." This is the name given to the fact of a peace agreement, which became known to ordinary people as the creation of the world. The Star Temple is the designation of the year in which the document was drawn up. Every 144 years, in accordance with the ancient calendar, it is he who repeats.
According to the Vedas, the universal galaxies are formed by ether, a pra-matter that dies as the life cycle ends. The first stars in the Galaxy, as the Vedas said, lit up in the center - and it was here that life was born, gradually spreading throughout the cosmos. It was in those days that civilization was most developed. Our habitat, according to the ideas of the ancient sorcerers, was part of a system of 27 planets with Yaril in the center, as well as asteroids, of which modern astronomers cannot find prototypes for many. The earth was called Midgard. Presumably, for about three hundred millennia, the climate on our earth was not at all the same as we know it. To write this document, it is believed that Runic, the ancient runic system of the Aryans, was used.
If you wish to get to know the ancient Vedic teachings better, you should first of all look for the "Vedas of Perun". This ancient work has been restored and translated into a language understandable to the common man. It is believed that the guardians of the Ynglistic Church are those people who are responsible for the preservation of these ancient santi, created about 40 thousand years ago.
You can learn about the idea of the Aryans about the creation of the world from the haratya. Quite curious material is a legend dedicated to the Bright Falcon, which tells about the miracles available to people of the past. Despite the simple form of narration, close to a fairy tale, this is a multifaceted work that tells about the high level of civilization that existed in previous centuries. Philosophers concluded from this tale: in the past, the Aryans, the Slavs, were capable of controlling aspects of reality with consciousness, thought.
Curious is the "Source of Life", a book dedicated to legends, traditions of ancient times. Such collections existed in previous centuries, and each ancient family has its own particle of the world of the past. The “Book of Veles”, mentioned earlier, is no less curious - the text written by the ancient Slavs tells about the worldview system and the historical ups and downs of the Slavic tribes. For many thousands of years, the Magi supplemented and rewrote this book using a writing system that appeared before the Cyrillic alphabet. Written in the divine language, the Book of Veles was kept on tablets.
