Faith is always knowledge! About the Ancient Faith of the Rus and Aryans. Slavic faith Ancient Slavic faith

When we are told that Orthodoxy is the true faith of our ancestors, we agree and demonstrate our ignorance. We go to temples and pray to the all-good God, who calls us to substitute another

The true faith of our ancestors

Why do the last to join Christianity suddenly declare it their true faith? A complex, complex question to which there is no answer... It is known that the Christian Church has already betrayed its flock once when it conspired with the Tatars. Prayers were sung in churches for the glory and health of the Tatar khans. Any resistance to the Tatars was condemned by the church. For this, the Tatars did not plunder monasteries. The first hundred years of Tatar rule accounted for the most fast growth wealth of monasteries throughout the history of the Christian Church. Now here's the story behind this anthem. As is known, its restoration was supported by the head of the current Russian Church. The recent bloody past has been forgotten, when, to the sounds of this anthem, the Bolsheviks destroyed and looted churches and shot priests. Alas, for the sake of conformism, memory, pain, and truth will be placed on the sacred altar.

Today we pray to many gods, Russian boys and girls sing “Hare Krishna”, other Russian boys and girls revere Buddha, others dance Indian dances, others seek wisdom in Tibet, others are in direct contact with Shambhala... And who is Svarog, who Rod, who is Perun, Veles, Horse? Are almost all the Slavs who worshiped these gods reborn only in the last twenty years to such an extent that they are ready to accept anyone stranger into their hearts? There was the baptism of the Slavs, when they were burned, drowned, crucified, trampled under horses... A state was being created and the faith of God's servants, uncomplaining and obedient, was needed. The true Slavs survived, although they went into the forests, secretly worshiping their gods there. But the invisible circle narrowed and narrowed to tighten around the neck of the faith of our ancestors in a painful noose. There was a period of building socialism and then communism, when everything that had to do with runes, Slavic gods, ancient knowledge was burned and destroyed, and people were herded into the Gulag only on suspicion of involvement in ancient cults. And still, grains of magical knowledge were preserved and passed on from generation to generation.
The religion of the Slavs evolved over thousands of years. She was shaped by environment, the world surrounding the Slavs. The Slavs have gone through everything in their thousands of years of history. They experienced prosperity, defeat and rebirth. They lived in an ideal world where everything was available, and they lived in places where the natural elements acted in the guise of a mortal enemy. Iriy gave them everything and did not demand anything in return, but when the Slavs went to the West and East, they not only encountered an alien people, they encountered a different worldview, a different attitude to life. In the West they founded Semirechye, in the East - Asgard. In both countries, living conditions were incomparably more difficult. They had to not only get food, but also protect their clan, their family. The Slavs were faced with a disdainful attitude towards nature (which they could neither understand nor accept), they were faced with a disrespectful attitude towards animals and birds (which for the Slavs was tantamount to the destruction of their blood), they were faced with other gods, incomprehensible and evil. In such conditions, it was possible to preserve the vital spirit and health in only one way - to correctly fit into everything that was happening, into the laws operating in nature. Knowledge about these laws was not easy, bit by bit. They were cherished and multiplied, they served as a guide to action, to the correct organization of everyone and everything. Under these conditions, man was able to correctly understand his place in the world around him. He clearly knew that one must live in peace with nature, without humiliating or defeating it. Then man correctly perceived the unity of the whole world and the fact that this world is governed by laws that are the same for everyone without exception. The Slavs also understood that God, the creator of these laws, cannot be a person, God cannot be someone specifically, God is a substance that permeates everything and everyone, is contained in everything and manifests itself in everything. Our ancestors also felt themselves to be a part of all this and built a practical life based on this.

The Slavs created a system of behavior that no one was allowed to violate. Laws of behavior took the form of cults. This is how a culture was created that made society viable. And in this culture everything was expedient. Religions and folk traditions have been followed for thousands of years and the Slavic community has been preserved for thousands of years. Having lost their traditions, the people die, disperse, lose their face, their identity, their spirit. Our ancestors believed in one God Almighty, did not make sacrifices to any idols, were highly moral, and knew who was responsible for what and to whom it was necessary to turn in each specific case. And it was like this for thousands of years. Even when the Slavs “emerged” from Semirechye and Asgard and were forced to fight other peoples who imposed war on them, it was considered the greatest apostasy to accept another god and another faith. The Slavs burned their dead, they built a fire and placed the body on top, believing that the soul would immediately go to the gods. When Iriy ceased to be associated with the ancestral home, the Slavs, burning the dead, believed that the soul returned to the heavenly Iriy. Death was not considered something catastrophic for the Slavs, they were sad, seeing off the deceased on his last journey, they remembered his past deeds, but did not cry or tear out their hair, they celebrated the beginning of a new life. And only when there was someone who lived according to unjust laws, who violated interaction with birds and animals, who accepted someone else’s faith, he was buried in a coffin, burying him in the ground. The soul of a deceased person, placed in a coffin and buried in the ground, will be tied to a decaying corpse for hundreds of years and will be restless. For our distant ancestors, this terrible punishment was the worst thing that could await them beyond the line of death. But there were more and more traitors and more and more graves appeared in the border areas. The Slavs have always been freedom-loving and did not think of violence against their thoughts, their way of life, their right to live according to the laws of nature and government. The Slavs made their decisions regarding tribal and public affairs at a gathering, at a national assembly.

A thousand years ago the princes decided to break folk traditions for the sake of strengthening their own power over their own people. The princes were tired of obeying the decisions of the veche and the best way was to call upon monarchical power from abroad. The most pronounced monarchical force in those times was the Christian Church, which had long ago moved away from the principles of election and voting. The principle in force in the Christian church was: not the churchmen for the community, but the community for the churchmen. It was in the interests of those in power that the baptism of Rus' was carried out, which resulted not only in the suffering of people, but also in the destruction of culture, history, and traditions.

All this self-destruction had to be justified somehow. Therefore, a myth appeared about wild Rus', to which the West brought its knowledge and culture. The Russian Orthodox Church still considers its main service to the Russian people to be the creation of statehood in Rus'. For some reason, everyone forgot that statehood (and far from the worst) existed in Rus' thousands of years before baptism.
The true faith of our ancestors
The princes trampled the religion of their people into the mud. The structure of faith was disrupted and almost the entire last millennium passed under the sign of struggle (spiritual and physical) with its own people. What the people believed in was spat on and distorted. Good gods were portrayed as villains, good customs were portrayed as serving demons. All this could not but affect the spirit of the people. Violence filled Rus' more and more until it spilled over into everyone, including the princes themselves, rulers, tsars, general secretaries of the CPSU, presidents and the church. Russia is in a constant period of struggle. We cannot create something stable, as soon as something stabilizes in our country, a collapse, a collapse must immediately follow... Russians can no longer live without shocks. We need suffering, we need civil strife, we can no longer live in peace. Our gods look at us with bewilderment, our traditions have been sacrificed to the prince-rulers, and we ourselves do not need our heroes.

In “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” it is said that all Russians are the grandchildren of Dazhbog. The genealogy of the Slavs was brought up to the most important god. Chief God was considered a grandfather, ancestor, ancestor. He protected the family, he was a giver, a giver of earthly blessings. He was one of the family, the most ancient, the oldest, the wisest. Dazhbog did not know the word slave, the Slavs simply did not have it and therefore the Slavs could never say: “I, the servant of God...”. God was everything to them, but he was one of them, he did not consider his descendants to be slaves. Belbog is the guardian and giver of goodness, good luck, justice, happiness and generally all good things. Belbog was depicted with a piece of iron in his right hand. Hence “right”, “justice”. Svetovid was the god of gifts and harvest. Sacrifices collected from fields and gardens were brought as gifts to the gods, and young animals were also sacrificed to them. But it was a reasonable sacrifice. The Slavs never made sacrifices thoughtlessly and aimlessly. The animals were not burned on the altar, but were simply eaten immediately during the feast. The Slavs treated their gods as their ancestors, and if the gods could no longer eat with their descendants, then they could be invisibly present during the feast, rejoicing and enjoying the emotions of their descendants. And this is the main thing in pagan belief: THE GODS NEED HUMAN EMOTIONS. Emotions of happiness, joy, pleasure. The Slavs never sacrificed people, why should God experience suffering? The Slavs never burned animals on the altar; does God really need the pointless destruction and suffering of animals? Our historians have agreed that, allegedly, during the burning of the dead at the stake, women were killed here and thrown into the fire too. Do not confuse paganism with the Inquisition; churchmen burned people at the stake, but not our ancestors, not the grandchildren of Dazhbog. Only Niyana was sacrificed to the god of the underworld. And these people were criminals, murderers, outcasts. They were not normal people, they violated the laws of the Rule, but even they were initially offered to correct themselves, they were given one opportunity, a second, a third, and only then they were sent to Niyan. Living in harmony with nature means not causing unnecessary suffering. And no other religions could be accepted by the Slavs. And that is precisely why they were burned, drowned, driven into dense forests, and “baptized.” And even then nothing worked. And then came lies, deception, forgery...

Christianity could not strangle paganism, but it was able to deceive people. This is how the holiday of Ivan Kupala appeared. On the day of the summer solstice, the Slavs celebrated Kupalo. On this day, the sun (Khors, Kolo) leaves its heavenly palace in a chariot to meet the month. It was customary to watch the meeting of the month with the sun on the night of June 24th. We stayed up and watched the sun play. They observed this from ritual hills or gathered in clearings near rivers. They jumped over the fire, testing not only their dexterity, but also their fate. They sang and danced in circles and streams. A high jump over the fire meant the fulfillment of the plan. At dawn, all the celebrants swam. Thus, by washing they removed evil infirmities and illnesses from themselves. The day of the summer solstice is the time of maximum development of the creative forces of nature and its potential. Naturally, various miracles happened on Kupala night. And it was the holiday of Kupalo. The Christian Church came up with the Midsummer holiday for this day (meaning John the Baptist). Naturally, it didn’t take root. Naturally, the Slavs continued to celebrate Kupalo and did not understand the arrival of John the Baptist at all. But time passed. The Church was persistent, it destroyed the Magi, it killed those who worshiped the “old” faith. And now Ivan Kupala appeared. It was no longer Kupala, although not John, but still Ivan Kupala. So Maslenitsa remained in Christian Rus'. Previously, it was a symbol of the burning of winter and the welcoming of spring on the day of the vernal equinox. It is at this time that the day defeats the night (after this it becomes longer than the night), and the heat defeats the cold. The Christian Church could not defeat the pagan holiday, but was able to deform it, moving the very date of the holiday over many hundreds of years. When the pagans celebrated the equinox (March 24), it was clear and the essence of the holiday was clear, but what are they celebrating now? The Slavs celebrated the Sun (not Jesus Christ, not the Mother of God) and baked an image of the sun (pancakes). At the same time, they burned the idol, which prevented the sun from giving heat. Few people know that on holiday they eat not just a pancake, but the sun. People did not just organize a carnival to have fun, but celebrated a turning point in the development of a natural process. No mysticism, no sacrifices (except pancakes), no violence. Only joy about the coming of spring, followed by summer and a bountiful harvest. But when the church moved the date, the temporal logic was lost. All that was left was a party, a reason to have fun, to get drunk (another Christian innovation).
The Slavs have always celebrated snake holidays. March 25th is the time when snakes crawl out of the ground. The earth is warming up, and agricultural work can begin. The second snake festival is September 14th. At this time, the snakes leave and the agricultural cycle ends. Either these are snake holidays, or holidays of the beginning and end of agricultural work. But all the holidays were associated with natural phenomena on which people’s lives depended. Christians could not celebrate the holiday of snakes, it is contrary to their faith, this cannot be. But they were forced to celebrate St. George's Day, otherwise people would have left the clergy. And then the holiday began to shift over hundreds of years, moving away from its true meaning and moved right up to April 23. Surprisingly, work on the ground began to begin later and later. Almost a month was stolen from us, a warm, spring month. The gods followed people, and if people decided to shift the day of worship of the gods, then nature changed its cycle and expanded the boundaries of winter. Today we have completely distorted the natural calendar, we have displaced everything we could. The gods are trying to adapt to their descendants, they still serve us. Our Gods. They are trying to follow us, but nature has already rebelled. It does not keep up with unreasonable people and new religions, hence earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, deluges... We ourselves, having betrayed the faith of our ancestors, violating the laws of nature, have doomed ourselves to extinction. According to Alexis's prophecy, we have entered an age that will destroy most people. Everyone is sentenced and the magicians knew about this seven thousand years ago. But there is still a chance. Not for everyone, for the few, for those who know and follow.

According to Alexis's prophecy, all nations from the year 2000 must turn to their gods. To our own, true ones. This is not always easy and not always possible without blood and sacrifice. Buddha statues are being shot at in Afghanistan, Islam is gaining strength on its territory, and there is a return to the religion of our ancestors. In China, the Christian religion is gradually being expelled from its land. Services are prohibited in churches; Orthodox churches are simply closed. In Germany and England, Sweden and Denmark, images of ancient gods are becoming more and more popular. More and more people are wearing Celtic talismans, and runic inscriptions are already decorating clothes. Tourists go to churches, the Pope asks for forgiveness from adherents of the “old” faith for persecution and destruction for many hundreds of years. You have seen, heard, read all this, but have you really not seen the system and have not discovered a widespread return to the religion of your ancestors? All over the world. Except for Russia, where they still believe in alien gods who do not support, do not give, do not protect. Alexis said that in Russia they will not have time to restore the faith of their ancestors, they will not be able to and will not understand the need.
The true faith of our ancestors
Today Russia is decorated with the Byzantine coat of arms (alien). Russia listens to the anthem of a country (former) that existed for only seventy years. Russia believes in the resurrected Jew (at the same time, it really does not like the Jews themselves). Russia does not have its own national heroes and Russia has a deliberately distorted history. People modern Russia has a great desire to leave his own country. Marry a foreigner (their men are parasites, alcoholics and drug addicts), work abroad (in their own country they don’t need smart, hard-working, talented, or geniuses, and they don’t pay money). And just leave, run away, sail away... The people of Russia do not want to live in Russia. We have become angry, envious, lazy... And at the same time we are trying to talk about the revival of Russia in the era of Aquarius. The revival of the country begins with an appeal to spiritual sources (one’s own), to the faith of ancestors (at least just understanding), to the priori

Topic: What did our glorious Ancestors believe in?

Good evening, dear sirs and madams!

Traveling through the space of the main faiths of the Russian land, I stopped at the Ancient Faith, which existed long before the appearance of Christianity in Rus', which is called Yinglinism. I asked myself a simple question: why did I know nothing about our native faith and who hid it from me under the guise of exalting the Great Teacher Jesus of Nazareth? I received a clear answer to my clear question quite unexpectedly. He came with the full sound of Russian knowledge and filled my heart with national joy and pride for the Russian land. To convey to you my full experiences, I will allow myself to quote a small excerpt from the book “Slavic-Aryan Vedas, Inglinism,” a publication of the Old Russian Church of Orthodox Old Believers.

This is what they write about our Ancient Faith of the First Ancestors, about Ynglinism:

"... The meaning put into the original Image of England by our Wise Ancestors has always meant the Divine Primary Fire of Creation, in which various forms of Life appeared in the Endless Infinities, generated in the New Reality, that is, in numerous Universes."

“The Primordial Sacred Light of England, which departed from the Primordial Creator, whom we, the Old Believers, call the Great Ra-M-Ha, filled our blessed Mirgard-Earth. Therefore, to designate our Religion to the Rune, which stores the figurative meaning of the Divine Primary Fire, we add the Sacred Three-Rune Image concept, denoting the Truth of the Earthly World."

“The Original Source of the Great Life-Giving Primary Sacred Fire was the One Creator, whose name is Ra-M-Ha.”

“For us, the Old Believers-Ynglings, who profess the Ancient Faith of our First Ancestors, Ra-M-Ha is the One Supreme Creator. But it does not follow from this statement that Ynglinism is a monotheistic system.”

“Yinglinism is also not a polytheistic system, although each Slavic or Aryan Family of the Great Race reveres its own Circle of Gods*.”

"IN modern world every representative of the Slavic or Aryan Family needs to know that the Spiritual System, called Ynglinism, is the Ancient Religion of our Ancestors, and not a religion or Neopagan Teaching, as some of our “scientists” are trying to interpret today, because the word “religion” means artificial restoration destroyed or interrupted great Spiritual connection between people and Gods on the basis of any religious teaching. The modern term - Neopaganism - was coined by "learned men" specifically to lead away from the search for their Ancient Foundations of the Old Faith, Ancient History, rich Tradition and great Culture. Neopaganism is called an attempt to return to antiquity through fusion scientific knowledge, mystical worldview, esotericism and theosophy."

“We, the Orthodox Old Believers-Inglings, do not need to restore the great Spiritual connection between us and our Gods, because this Spiritual connection has never been destroyed or interrupted for us, for our Gods are our Ancestors, and we are their children.”

“The Old Russian Church of Orthodox Old Believers is the United Most Ancient Community of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Family, which unites all White people* on the ancient foundations of the Old Faith of the First Ancestors.”

“All people with White skin color, living in different Earths, are the One Universal Clan, a descendant of the Heavenly Clan and the Great Race, from which the White humanity of Mirgard-Earth (planet Earth) originates.”

"In our Everyday life we call ourselves Old Believers-Ynglings or Orthodox Slavs, because:

1. We are Old Believers, since we profess the Old Faith of the Great Race, sent down by the Heavenly Family;

2. We are Ynglings (the ancient Russian name is Ynglyane), since we keep Ynglya - the Sacred Divine Fire of our Ancestors, and kindle It before the Images and Kumirs of the Light Gods and the Holy Wise Ancestors of ours;

3. We are Orthodox because we glorify Rule and Glory. We truly know that Rule is the World of our Light Gods, and Glory is the Light World, where our Great and Wise Ancestors live;

4. We are Slavs, because from our pure hearts we glorify all the Light Ancient Gods and our Holy Wise Ancestors."

The Old Believers-Ynglings claim the following about the external Signs of Faith:

“According to our ancient traditions, Holy Scriptures and legends, during addresses and hymns, also when entering our Temples and Sanctuaries, we signify ourselves with the Holy Sign. To create the Holy Sign, three fingers right hand(large, nameless and small) ends are connected together in honor of the Great Triglav of the World of Revealing (Svarog, Perun and Sventovid), which are Conscience, Freedom (Will) and Light, and two fingers (index and middle) are connected straight together and mean Rod Heavenly and Lada the Mother of God."

“Then we place two fingers folded in this way first on our forehead, then on our eyes (on the left eye, then on the right eye), and then on our lips. With this Holy sign we illuminate our Holy Old Faith - Yinglinism, repeating the Holy Lightning of God Perun , which sanctified the blessed life of all our Ancestors and which sanctifies our daily life in these days."

“We place a holy sign on the forehead to sanctify the mind, which comprehends the Wisdom of the Brogs and our Ancestors; on the eyes, to sanctify our vision and see the true Creation of the Gods and our Ancestors; on the lips, to sanctify our speech, especially when we pronounce the word of God and Wisdom God, which come out of our mouths, and we guard our lips from blasphemy.”

“Bowing our heads during addresses and hymns expresses our respect for our Ancient and Native Gods, and for our Holy Wise and Great Ancestors in gratitude for their help in all our deeds and creations.”

“During the glorification of the Ancient and Light Gods and all the Ancestors of our Clans in the Temples and Sanctuaries, in Kummirny near the ancient Kummirs and near the altars on the Fortifications during the Celebration of Bright Days in the Sacred Groves and Oak Forests, on the banks of the Sacred Rivers and reservoirs, we create the Sign of Glory To create it, we initially place our open right palm on our heart, and then we raise it straightening in the direction of Svarozh Heaven and say:

"Glory to our Gods and Ancestors!"

"Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings in everyday life wear special security symbols, cast from white metal or made from sacred Wood (Oak, Cedar, Birch, Ash, Linden and others), which are called the Amulet of the Tribal Community, the Tribal Amulet or the Amulet of the Inter-Clan Slavic or Aryan Community."

“Each body Amulet worn by an Old Believer-Yingling is in one way or another constantly in connection with the ancient Spiritual Sources of the Old Faith. In addition, the material from which this or that Amulet is made is itself a constant source of Natural healing power.”

“Most Slavic and Aryan Amulets are made of silver. This noble metal is Sacred for Yngling believers, since since ancient times the very beneficial effect of silver products on the body of any white person has been known.”

“Very often, Runic Charms are used, that is, Charms on which ancient protective Runes or Runic texts with protective spells are inscribed, as well as Charms made in the form of any Rune.”

“Wearable Charms” made from Sacred Trees also have a very beneficial effect on a person, since each Charm is endowed with a special Natural healing power.”

“Priests-Priests, Elders and Headmen In general, in addition to the body Amulet of the Ancestral or Community, they have pectoral Protective Symbols, that is, on the chest over festive or Sacred robes”...

Having become familiar with the Fundamentals of Yinglinism and having penetrated its Divine Essence more deeply, I turned my bright attention to the amazing similarity of the Slavic text of the glorification of our Light Gods and Ancestors with the glorification of the Great Initiate Pythagoras:

In the morning and evening, the students sang golden verses to the accompaniment of the lyre:

"Give reverent worship to the immortal Gods
And then keep your faith...

"Honor the memory of beneficent heroes,
Honor the immortal spirits of the demigods...

In addition to the above-mentioned similarity in the veneration of the Gods and Ancestors, in the Teachings of Pythagoras I noticed amazing respect for the student’s parents, earthly father and earthly mother. Even more - at a certain moment of spiritual insight, I began to understand that our Ancient Faith has many similarities with the Teachings of Pythagoras and at the same time complements it with its Slavic-Aryan depth. I think that this is due to the antiquity of the Faith itself and its deeper tetrahedral meaning, which is obtained consistently when reading the runic text of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas and when trying to understand its four-fold meaning. I can say that the runes reflect in their essence deeper, more diverse meanings than sacred words written in sacred letters...

There are many sounds in the world.
Unfortunately, you can’t count them all!
We are not given the opportunity to know everyone
In the light where it lives.

There is depth in the Word of God
Reveals in full
In brain tension,
In enlightening minds.

There are a number of polyphonic sounds in a word
Strikes everyone
Halftone of unsteady dreams,
Half-sounds of rows.

Take for example the word "God"
What sounds out of our heads:
Creator of worlds,
Almighty of the foundations.

Either He is the Lord, or the Creator,
That is the Almighty Daredevil,
That is the Eternal One in the world of sleep,
It's as beautiful as spring.

But the Light of the Runes of the Slavic Muses
They speak with the words of the mouth,
That God himself, although one,
But there are a lot of people.

Like Holy Grace, -
Shh! - it’s time to whisper about Him.
As the Creator of all Universes, -
He is creative success.

Impossible even with a chisel
Show him around
Supreme Essence * - Three-Runnik of spheres, -
Light, God Rod, God Above and
A sparkle for the whole family.

Oh, Ra-M-Ha! - I sing to you.-
Enlighten my whole life
The light of England now
And teach us to smile!

1. Note: All white people - it is necessary to immediately calm down those political, social and “religious” figures who shout at every corner about the threat of racism and racial discrimination allegedly taking place in Ingliism. I want to note that Ingliism teaches that every people, regardless of skin color, must preserve their own ancient original Faith, original culture and unique tradition.

2. Note: The Supreme Essence is the Supreme Essence.

3. Note: Literary

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At present, like mushrooms after rain, individual messiahs, groups of people, united in various centers, movements, parties, congresses of various communities, social movements are appearing - who are extremely concerned about lack of spirituality modern society. A lot of programs are being written declaring priority measures for uplifting the spiritual life of the country, which, in the opinion of those creating them, can revive the once lost qualities and dignity of the Russian people and solve everyone’s disliked RUSSIAN QUESTION.

However, few people seriously analyze the lessons of the historical past of our people! For the overwhelming majority of “public figures of the Russian scale,” the history of the Russian state is associated with the appearance of Kievan Rus on the historical horizon, and even more precisely, with the process of Christianization, which was the starting point of the Spiritual enslavement of the Russians. As for the pre-Christian period, the “official point of view” is the absurdity that the Slavs supposedly lived in separate tribes, not knowing statehood, not observing any laws and regulations, as God laid down on the Soul, and were guided only by the customs that had developed in specific tribe. It is not clear what served as the impetus for the unification of such “motley” tribes into such a community as Kievan Rus?
The average person might argue that little is needed to unite several tribes of pagans. It is enough, supposedly, for the “strong hand” of an ambitious prince to appear. However, in order for any state to emerge, in addition to the external factor in the person of a statist prince capable of taking over the territories where scattered tribes lived, an internal factor is also needed, connecting all these tribes together. As a rule, at all times this factor is a certain ideological system, often with a certain religious orientation.
If you believe modern representatives of official historical science, it turns out that paganism (in modern language) is a very variable system of views of a person, tribe, community on the world around them. And since different tribes had different Gods and revered different spirits, the conclusion followed that the Russian Slavs did not have a single cult. But if this is so, how did the formation of Kievan Rus occur? Who invented that the pre-Christian Faith of the ancient Slavs was paganism? Where did this nonsense come from?
Pagans in Rus' were considered either residents of other territories who did not speak Russian, or adherents of one of the religions - followers of artificially created cults of worship of some force or personality. The Russians themselves could not call themselves infidels (pagans)! (“Pagan” is an ancient word. The Book of Veles refers to tribes hostile to the Slavs as pagans, who spoke other languages ​​and believed in other gods. “Russian Vedas” comments, p. 287, M. 1992).
The real name of the Ancient Slavic Faith of the Ancestors - INGLISM - is known only to a few Russians for obvious reasons. "INGLIA" is one of the runes of the X'Aryan script, the image of which is something primordial, primary, the Sacred Fire of Creation, a particle of the Creator that gives life.
The expression “pagan Slavs” used in everyday life, in one context or another, acquires its true meaning - “gentile Slavs”. But then the following question arises: “For whom were the Slavs of other faiths?” The answer is clear to any sane person: “For representatives of various religious faiths: Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., that is, first of all, for representatives of the so-called “world” religions. But at the same time, representatives of these confessions are pagans (non-believers) in relation to the Slavs. Whom is the “Book of Veles” calling Slavs...So we walked, and were not parasites, but were Russians - Slavs who sing glory to the Gods and therefore are Slavs. ( III 8/2, M. 1994) Consequently, those Russians who want to learn more about paganism should actively study literature about “world” religions - the cults of the non-white population of Midgard-Earth.
The Russian language dictionary defines the concept of “religion” as one of the forms of social consciousness, a set of mystical ideas based on belief in supernatural forces and beings (gods and spirits) that are objects of worship. (Ozhigov’s Dictionary of the Russian Language). Ingliism is a natural Faith, not an artificially created one. The cornerstone of Ingliism is the cult of the Ancestors. Veles’s book comes to the rescue: “Our gods are our fathers, and we are their children”! That is, our Ancestors called their ancestors, great-grandfathers, and forefathers Gods - and there is nothing supernatural or mystical in this. The Slavs only honor the memory of their Great Ancestors. And even more so, the Russians do not worship anyone, because they are free people, and not servants of God. For their Gods (Great Ancestors), the Slavs are children, God's children. You can only be a slave to someone else's god.
Ingliism is a solar cult, a cult where such concepts as Conscience and Veneration of Ancestors are at the forefront. The goal of Ingliism is the preservation and transmission of Ancient Wisdom until society returns to the level of Spirituality and intelligence that was at the time of the settlement of Midgard-Earth by our ancestors.
Currently, it is officially recognized that the state on Russian Land was formed with the advent of Kievan Rus. If we take into account how the Russian language dictionary interprets the concept of “state,” then perhaps this is so. Namely, it is the political organization of class society. carrying out its management, protection of its economic and social structure, in class-antagonistic societies is used to suppress class opponents. Consequently, the emergence of antagonistic classes and class opponents became characteristic of Kievan Rus! Why weren't they there before? What happened in Rus' before the formation of Kievan Rus? This question is complicated due to the sufficient temporal distance from today and the lack of information (true information) on the pre-Kiev period national history.
After the peoples of the Great Race (including the Germanic Clans and the Slavic Clans) moved in several waves from the territory of the Holy Race (Belovodye or Semirechye) to the lands of the European continent, the Slavs occupied a fairly vast territory. It included Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Black Sea region. Western Europe was occupied by the descendants of the Aryans - the ancient Germans, Celts (Gauls). The clans of the Great Race lived in communities (not to be confused with the concept of the era of the primitive communal system). The entire life of the Slavic community was based on the law of coping, on the commandments of the Great Ancestors (Gods) left by their descendants.
The assertion of modern historical science that before the formation of Kievan Rus the Slavs lived in tribes, not knowing any statehood, without any legal basis, to say the least, taken from the air. If you rely on official history, you can only shrug your shoulders at the real fact that a large number of cities stood on Slavic territory. The Scandinavian Vikings also called the Russian Land "Gardarika" - a country of cities. The “wild scattered tribes” of that time lived well.
The presence of cities already presupposes a fairly high level of social organization. City, - according to the definition of the Russian Language Dictionary, - locality, administrative, commercial, industrial and cultural center. Thus, the city is already characterized by stratification of the population, at least by type of labor activity. It is known that in Russenia (the land of the Holy Race, from where the Clans settled) there was a caste stratification of society. There were nine main groups, but there were no antagonistic relationships between them. The relationship between the city population and rural communities was harmonious. Harmony was achieved through Copper Law, the oldest form of self-government within rural Slavic communities or cities.
A skeptic may notice that an important place in the state mechanism is occupied by the coercive apparatus: the army, police, etc., called upon to some extent to exercise state power. But for the Slavs such an apparatus was not needed, since Kopa’s decisions were carried out by everyone voluntarily and with great enthusiasm. Violations of the customary law of the cop, as well as its decisions, have never been observed. At the same time, there has never been a shortage of combat warriors to repel an external enemy (how unlike the current state of affairs with the conscription of recruits into the Russian army). The position of prince was elective and was not inherited. If the prince was not pleasing to Kope, he was driven away. As we see, even before Kievan Rus there was always order on the Russian Land.
Why were Kopa's decisions not violated? Only because the basis of Copper Law was the Faith of our Ancestors - Ingliism - the commandments given to the Slavs by their Great Ancestors. And these commandments have nothing in common with the now widely advertised Jewish “hot ten”.
It is worth noting that coping law has nothing in common with so-called democracy. For democracy, as a form, is primarily inherent in the slave state. Naturally, there can be no talk of any legal equality of rights for all members of society. The first violin in democratic states has always been played by wealthy representatives of society, slave owners. Thus, democracy turns out to be the rule of the minority over the majority. And since there were no slaves in Rus' (before the adoption of Christianity), there was no so-called democracy. The same idea is confirmed by Veles’s book: “...We ourselves are Dazhdbog’s grandchildren and did not seek to sneak in the footsteps of strangers...”.
With forced Christianization, Kopnoe law began to be gradually forced out, first from Western Europe, and then from the territory of Rus'. An echo of the Copper Law was the Novgorod Assembly and the Zaporozhye Sich.
What is Kievan Rus famous for? Of course, the “renunciation” of the Faith of the Ancestors and the transition to paganism - Christianity. Experts generally believe that such a religion was most suitable for meeting the needs of the state power that had developed on the territory of Kievan Rus. Both secular and ecclesiastical power ended up in the hands of the bastard Prince Vladimir - Vasily. The widely available literature vividly describes the extraordinary joy with which the population of Rus' accepted an alien, pagan religion (Christianity). But Ingliism does not belong to those religions that one can accept and then, having found a more interesting and better faith, switch to it. This is as impossible as choosing new parents and Ancestors for yourself. Before Christianization, there was no betrayal in Rus' at all. During the “peaceful” Christianization, the inculcation of the teachings of the “apostle” Saul (Paul), out of twelve million people living in Rus', only three million converted Christians remained alive. The overwhelming majority of these were orphans whose parents did not want to accept religion instead of the Faith of their Ancestors. Government she was especially zealous, destroying the priestly caste, destroying ancient temples - temples and sanctuaries, destroying sacred books and manuscripts, persecuting the families of the Old Believers.
Over time, rulers changed, the socio-political way of life changed, but the attitude in the “corridors of power” towards the primordially Slavic Faith and representatives of the Old Russian Inglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Inglings did not change.
In order to consolidate the “successes” achieved, the state needed an appropriate structure - a bearer of an ideology alien to the Russians. Thus, out of oblivion, the Russian Orthodox Church appeared. However, paradoxically, it was never Russian or Orthodox in its essence! In fact, this is a Christian church that does not implement the covenants of Yeshua (Jesus), but follows in line with the teachings developed by the “apostle” Saul, a zealous persecutor and murderer of the first followers of the Messiah. Christianity itself is just a branch on the bushy tree of Judaism.
According to the relevant literature, a story has been circulating for a long time that the word “Orthodoxy” supposedly came from some Greek word. But the word itself, unfortunately, is never indicated, and apparently there is a reason for this. Such a Greek word has never existed in Nature! The word “Orthodoxy” consists of two words: “rule” and “glorify”. The concept of “rule” refers to the pre-pagan (pre-Christian) period of life of our people. In the x"Aryan letter there is a corresponding rune - "Rule", the image of which is: the Bright World of the Gods; Heavenly Law; the Law that operates in all Worlds; Harmony. Thus, Orthodoxy is the glorification of the Bright World of the Gods, the glorification of a certain universal Law. The current opinion that in the tenth century Russia adopted Orthodoxy is absolutely erroneous, for the Russians have always been Orthodox. Another thing is that they tried to make the Orthodox Russians Christians, contrary to the words of the Messiah “In the house of a healthy person, a doctor is not needed,” “The unhealthy have need of doctor, but sick." Naturally, the process of Christianization took place to the detriment of the Faith of the Ancestors.
Of course, the process of accepting Christianity is not a one-time process. For some period, dual faith persisted in Rus'. However, government support for the Christian Church played a role. The state did not need free people, but uncomplaining subordinates. Both the descendants of Prince Vladimir-Vasily of Kyiv and representatives of the Rurik and Romanov dynasties fought with the Slavs (Orthodox Old Believers-Yinglings). And this is not surprising, since the tsar is not so much a secular person as a representative of the church hierarchy. “This cup has not passed” and the proletarian state of “workers and peasants” that arose on the long-suffering Russian land. By adopting scientific atheism, it showed its true essence. Atheism - by denying the existence of God, actually fights God. Throughout the history of religions, Satan has become known as the main fighter against God. Thus, atheism is one of the forms of Satanism, the cornerstone of the religion of Karl ben Mordechai (Karl Marx) and Blank-Ulyanov (Lenin), as well as their ideological “children and grandchildren” in the person of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Labor Russia and others like them. In order not to be unfounded, we note that in 1920 AD, during the period of struggle against the Russian Orthodox Church and other religious denominations, the Cheka-OGPU authorities collected lists of several dozen Old Believers-Ingling communities in the city of Omsk. Four years later these people were sent to various concentration camps. Only seven communities survived that did not submit such lists. During the arrests of community members, the following ancient spiritual sources of the Slavic-Aryan Clans disappeared without a trace: “Santiya Ognimara”, “Agni-Vedanta”, “Sword of Stribog”, “Omnasva” and many others.
The state has always been on guard of its foundations. This fate did not escape the coverage of issues in the history of our country, especially before the pagan (pre-Christian) period. The favorite phrase of representatives of the power structures of the state of the proletariat: “The people will not understand!” Now, the Marxists-Leninists have buzzed all ears that during their time power belonged to the people. How “stupid” the people have fallen for such wise leadership. But how similar this phrase is to the famous biblical aphorism: “Many knowledge - many sorrows!” There is an “elite” - “new Gods”, which has the right to the entire range of information, and there are people of the lower class - their own information is given for them. The fooling of the people begins in the pro-Soviet school. Instead of studying an objective course of the domestic pre-pagan (pre-Christian) history of our land, schoolchildren are given ideological poison - the Bible, the sacred book of the Jewish people - into their hands. You might think that in our country the Jewish population is not 1%, but at least 51%.
The mythology of the Greeks is studied in great detail and in detail, although even in the Book of Veles it is said: “These Hellenes are enemies of the Ruskolans and enemies of our Gods. In Greece, they do not worship Gods, but people carved out of stone, like men. And our Gods are images.” (III 22). We are not against the knowledge of Wisdom contained in the sacred books of any people. Moreover, the key phrase is inherent in Ingliism: “Do not reject the Gods that you have not known!” But then it is not clear why we learn the wisdom of our enemies, but the school is not able to give the wisdom of its people. Apparently school curricula are compiled not by Russian people, but by the same Greeks or Jews?
Following the “good” Christian tradition, the history of the Native Land begins with the formation of Kievan Rus, so that it seems that the Slavs appeared on Earth almost as the last thing. Without having time to leave the primitive communal system, they immediately found themselves in the emerging state - Kievan Rus. But our country is so rich in evidence of pre-pagan (pre-Christian) times. The Omsk land - the Sacred Land of the Slavs - Belovodye is no less rich in this heritage.
There is information from official sources that the territory of modern Siberia (with the exception of the northern regions) was inhabited by white people at least 13 thousand years before Christ. (Paleolithic and Neolithic eras). After the Great Glacier retreated far to the north in the 4th - 3rd millennium BC. Human "sites" are found even on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. There is evidence of extensive exchange ties between the Irtysh region, Altai, the Urals, the present territory of Kazakhstan, and Central Asia. Mound burials and remains of ancient settlements were discovered in the Irtysh region. An interesting fact is that in one of the graves they found the remains of brocade clothing - and this turned out to be the oldest find of brocade fabric on the territory of the then Soviet Union. Experts generally believe that the development of Siberia began in the 16th century with the campaigns of the Cossack ataman Ermak Timofeevich. But few people yet know that Omsk is a restored city. Today in the city there is a monument to Ivan Buchholz, the first commandant of the first Omsk fortress, who founded it in 1716.
The “grateful public” sings the praises of the commandant’s “insight”, deliberately hushing up the fact that this place was pointed out to Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov by the governors of the city of Tara in the Summer of 7136 (1628 AD), and to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov - a Russian historian , explorer and cartographer Semyon Remezov in Summer 7198 (1690). Only the city did not need to be founded initially, but restored: “...it will have to be a city again...”. And this certificate is not “closed under seven seals”, but is stored in the regional state library named after. A. S. Pushkin and it is called “Drawing Book of Siberia”. But what kind of city stood on the site of Omsk, official science cannot say, or maybe it does not want to.
The history of the Tara riot of Summer 7230 (1722 AD) did not receive wide publicity. A riot broke out in the city of Tara, where the overwhelming numbers of Old Believers-Slavs (Orthodox Ynglings of the Faith of the First Ancestors) and righteous Old Believers-schismatics, followers of Archpriest Avvakum lived.
The reason that provoked the protests of the masses was the anti-Russian reform of Tsar Peter the Great, which was expressed in the Germanization of the people, the imposition of an alien, foreign culture, the incessant persecution of dissidents, people of different faiths, and the forcible imposition of orthodox Christianity of the Nikon type.
The uprising was brutally suppressed by the state apparatus. With the blessing of the highest hierarchs of the Nikon Church and the decree of Tsar Peter the Great, mass executions began, striking in their Christian cruelty.
Hundreds of dissident “skete elders” were hanged, wheeled, quartered, impaled (to this day in the city of Tara there is a place called Kolashny Row, because at this place Old Believers and Old Believers were impaled). Those captured in the monasteries were flogged, and neither children nor women were spared. The total number of those punished amounted to thousands, which indicates that a significant number of Russian people lived in Siberia who had not betrayed the Faith of their Ancestors, and official documents of that time say the following: “... in 722, when by decree of His Imperial Majesty... All Russian subjects were ordered to take an oath, then some disobedience followed from the Tara citizens and it was considered a rebellion, therefore many Tara residents received death penalty, such as: cutting off the head, hanging by the ribs, others were impaled and pacified with other punishments. At this time, up to 500 houses of the best citizens were destroyed, and from that time the city of Tara lost its former power, beauty, and population." ("Description of the Tobolsk Governorship" RGVIA, f.VUA, d. 19107.)
New outbreaks of protest in the 20s of the 18th century led to the fact that military forces began to practice mass burnings of dissident people over a vast territory from the Urals to Altai. Later, in order to hide the traces of such punitive actions, these crimes were written off on the conscience of those burned, and new terms appeared in everyday life - self-immolation, burning.
During the years of Soviet power, periodically, excavations were carried out in the historical center of Omsk. All work was carried out under the heading "Secret", as a rule, at night, when it was easy to remove the selected soil unnoticed. Subscriptions were taken from persons engaged in these works not to disclose the “great state secret” by representatives of a well-known department, popularly referred to as the “Grey House”. What can be hidden from ordinary citizens - that in the central part of the city there were many underground passages, some of which passed under the riverbeds of the Irtysh and Om?
What kind of secrets are these? If the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-KGB were the vanguard of the Communist Party, then whose vanguard is the current FSB? If there are secrets from the Russian people, then apparently this is a group of ill-wishers.
The state's attempts to deal with the Slavs do not stop to this day. For many years the red tape has been dragging on around the transfer of ownership to the Old Russian Church of the Temple of Wisdom of Perun. Because of the position of Ms. Fedyaeva, a representative of the city administration, the issue is generally “frozen.” You see, Mrs. Fedyaeva does not like the image of the ancient Slavic solar symbol - Kolovrat, in which she sees the Nazi swastika of the Third Reich.
However, every year there are more and more crosses on buildings and the necks of townspeople, and the presence of the latter on tanks and planes of the Hitlerite Wehrmacht is documented. Where is the logic in the actions of a government representative? There is an old disease - Russophobia!
Recently, isolated publications devoted to Slavic (pre-pagan, pre-Christian) topics have begun to appear.
280 years is no longer a date for Omsk. In an article by associate professor, candidate of philosophical sciences N. Salokhin published in the Omsk newspaper "Commercial News" N21 for 1997, a very bold hypothesis is put forward for domestic science - that the city of Omsk is the same age Egyptian pyramids, and maybe even older.
But according to the chronicles of the Old Russian Inglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Inglings, in 1997, on August 21, Omsk (Asgard of Iria) turns a little long, but 106,775 years old. Where is Moscow - the capital of the new Russians with its immensely inflated 850 years - this “Third Rome”.
It is possible that now the question is about our objective history, is one of the main ones. The call is increasingly being heard: “Return to your roots!”
Our respected N. Salokhin says this about this: “... who controls the past controls the future.” Unfortunately, in power in our country there were forces not only not interested in restoring the historical truth about the Russian people, their culture and traditions, but also not interested in the normal development of Russian national science as such."
Currently, Slavic kindergartens, Slavic gymnasiums, and Slavic centers are appearing on our land. However, there are no more Slavs, because behind the Slavic sign, pure Christianity flourishes, behind which Judaism lurks. The appearance of such formations on Russian Earth and even so difficult economic situation in the country suggests that cash It is not by chance that people go to open and operate such cultural centers.
State power is increasingly merging with the “Russian Orthodox Church,” which should correctly be called the Russian Orthodox Christian Church, headed by Mr. Roediger (Alexy 2).
In all relations with the state, the Old Russian Inglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings has one big plus - the state could not destroy the Old Russian Faith of the Ancestors - Ingliism, the church itself, the Slavic-Aryan and Vedic communities, Hermitages and Skufs. Our Ancient Faith still remains a “white spot” for the state (against the general gray background) and this saves it from vulgarization, saves it for subsequent generations of Slavic-Aryan Clans in its original form and purity.

One of the most common myths once invented about the Slavic faith is the myth of its extreme cruelty and bloodthirstiness. It is believed that human sacrifices were commonplace for our ancestors, and they were performed in front of the entire motley public who visited the temple on the holiday: women, children, crazy people, and people with weakened psyches watched the murder of a person.

For the Christian Church, which competed very harshly with the native faith of the Slavs, the creation of such myths had a completely applied value. Does a religion have the right to exist, where the Magi are professional killers, and believers are their unwitting accomplices? Of course not! All that remains is to portray the Slavic faith as such and make the people believe it.

One of the most reliable, according to the church and official science, sources allegedly confirming that ritual murders of people were widespread among the Slavs are ancient Russian chronicles. But is their evidence really that serious?

Our chronicles mention human sacrifices twice.

“The Tale of Bygone Years” tells that in 980 Prince Vladimir “placed idols on the hill behind the tower courtyard... And they made sacrifices to them, and brought their sons and daughters, and the Russian land and that hill were defiled with blood,” and three years later, according to According to the same chronicle, the Kievans decided at all costs to “slaughter a young Varangian youth as a sacrifice to the gods: when his father refused to give his son to the “demons,” the Kievans “called out and cut the canopy under them, and so they were killed.”

In the first case, the chronicler says that the Russian land was desecrated with blood: if ritual murders were committed frequently and consistently, then, according to the logic of the chronicle, there would be nothing to be desecrated on the Russian land.

As S. Lesnoy rightly noted in his book “Where are you from, Rus'?”, “if human sacrifices had existed before Vladimir, then the chronicler had nothing to write about and be indignant about: it would have been a common thing; in fact, it is emphasized that it was from Vladimir that the Russian land was defiled by the blood of people sacrificed.”

However, it is not known whether the chronicler spoke at all about human sacrifices themselves - if our ancestors brought their sons and daughters to the temple (as Buddhists bring their children to temples, Muslims to mosques, etc.), then this does not mean at all that they were certainly killed there, and regarding the fact that, as the chronicle says, “the good God did not want the death of sinners” - here we are obviously talking about spiritual death: Christian “enlighteners”, as is known, were for some reason sure that they alone possess a certain “divine truth”, and all the rest, supposedly rejected by God, are stupid, blind and morally corrupt.

As for the murder of the Varangians, can a crime committed by a violent crowd be called a religious sacrifice? The chronicler does not mention the presence of either the Magi or the priests at this atrocity; it was not committed, thank the Gods, at a temple, and it would be hard to call what happened a religious ritual. It is interesting that the people of Kiev wanted to kill the Varangian youth not at any time, but precisely after Prince Vladimir “defeated the Yatvingians and conquered their land.” Apparently, patriotic feelings rose up in the residents of Kyiv and their hands itched, and relations with the Varangians, and especially Christians, were then extremely tense. It turns out that the Varangians simply fell under the hot hand, and the Varangian father, it seems, did everything possible to prevent the crowd from calming down, rampaging as long as possible and with the maximum possible number of victims and destruction: he mocked the Slavic Gods as best he could.

Old Russian chronicles say nothing about the tradition of human sacrifice in Rus', on the contrary: the ritual murder of a person (if such was committed) was a “super-untraditional” event, an event on a national scale. In general, if you look closely at all the sources recognized by official science, which claim that sacrificing people to the Gods was a fairly common phenomenon among the Slavs, you will notice one common detail: their authors treated our ancestors and their religion with enormous prejudice and tried to outdo each other in the quantity and quality of slander against the Slavic faith.

A striking example of such “ideological chronicling” is given by B.A. Rybakov in the book “Paganism of Ancient Rus'”:

“...Where Gregory the Theologian speaks about human sacrifices among the Crimean Taurians, he uses the word enoktonia, i.e. ritual murder of foreigners, and the Russian author replaced it with “child cutting,” i.e. sacrificing infants."

Alas, it is difficult to disagree with the phrase from the decision of the Synod of 1734: “The chronicles are full of lies and disgrace the Russian people.”

Even those peoples who, to put it mildly, have no idea about this matter, tried to slander the Slavs. No one, for example, doubts that among the Greeks human sacrifices were in use and took the form of a completely established custom, but this does not prevent modern Western civilization from considering itself the heir of ancient culture, and, moreover, being proud of it. In the case of the Slavs, the situation is completely opposite: the traditional nature of sacrificing people has not been proven at all, but the slightest mention of the fact that our ancestors probably still sacrificed people causes a whole storm of emotions among the “zealots of national honor” who have already They have long been proposing to forget the Slavic faith and, in general, the ancient “wild” history of the Russian people, like a bad dream.

Although, if you show a little positive attention to the Slavic faith, you will notice that the devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

While the Greeks, on the festival of Apollo, held in early June, chose two people (a boy and a girl), hung garlands of figs on their necks, forced them to run around the city to the sound of flutes, and then burned them exhausted at the stake and threw the ashes into sea, - the Slavs sewed two dolls for Kupala, male and female, and symbolically threw them into the Kupala fire, without disturbing the festive mood and leaving people with bright, good impressions of the past celebration. And how, in fact, could it be different with the Slavic attitude towards human life?

You can find out what this very attitude towards a person was, for example, by reading the Vleskniga (VK) - the only truly independent source telling about sacrifices in the Slavic faith (in fairness, it should be noted that the debate about the authenticity of the VK in Russia has almost subsided, and in other countries they stopped long ago).

Vleskniga says, reproducing Svarog’s message to Arius, the ancient leader of the Slavs:

“I will make you from my fingers. And it will be said that [you] are the sons of Istbareg. And you will become the sons of Istbar, and you will be like My children, and Your Father will be yours forever.”

Did our ancestors really think that people are the descendants of the Gods and, at the same time, that the ritual murder of a person, Dazhbozh’s grandson, could have a beneficial effect on relations with the divine world? Hard to believe.

In addition, it is not for nothing that it is said that the Slavs were created from the fingers of Svarog, the Creator: man in the Slavic faith is not a temporary guest in the revealed world and not God’s servant, but an indispensable accomplice in the endless creation of the Universe, a comrade-in-arms of the Gods and their helper: again, sacrificing a person is extremely unwise.

“We have true faith,” says the VK, “which does not require human sacrifice. And this is done by the Vorags, who, truly, who always performed it, called Perun Parkun, and made a sacrifice to him. We should give a field sacrifice...

So, in any case, the Greeks will begin to say about us that we sacrifice people - otherwise this is false speech, and there is no such thing in reality, and we have different customs. And he who wants to harm others speaks unkindly.”

Of course, the Slavs have always had and will have enemies who say unkind things: that’s not what’s offensive, what’s offensive is that our people gradually got used to this and began to agree with the slander pouring in on them from all sides.

The myth of paganism

In our time, it is customary to indiscriminately call the Slavic faith paganism, and “paganism” itself appears to many as the childhood of the people, a certain stage in its development, which sooner or later ends, and the native faith is necessarily replaced by one of the so-called “ world religions - Christianity or Islam.

However, this is not the worst option: according to the church, a “pagan” is potentially a dangerous person, who not only himself got lost in the jungle of “satanic” knowledge, but can lead other people there and therefore is subject to immediate destruction or re-recruitment.

This word actually appeared in the church environment, where at first it meant all “unbelievers”, “non-Christians”: in the Great Soviet encyclopedia it is said that paganism is “a designation for non-Christian<…>religions in the literature of Christian peoples".

Over time, the church ceased to be so irreconcilable towards Jews and Muslims and now does not call them pagans, but the relationship with the original folk religions was strained from the very beginning, and remained strained, therefore, thanks to the efforts of many generations of preachers, the Slavic faith - the name “paganism” is fixed.

One can come to terms with the fact that this concept gradually migrated to science: the famous scientist Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov in his book “Paganism of the Ancient Slavs” wrote that “with all the imperfection and vagueness of the word “paganism”, devoid of scientific terminological meaning,” he believes “quite “It is legitimate for him to designate that vast range of controversial issues that are included in the concept of primitive religion... One only needs to renounce its narrow ecclesiastical understanding and remember its complete conventionality.”

Indeed, in ethnographic science it is not important whether the name of a faith conveys its essence or not, but how some of the modern followers of the Slavic faith managed to try on the title of “pagans” is difficult to understand.

The fact is that the self-name of a faith should at least be clear and understandable, but the concept of “paganism” over its entire centuries-old history seems to have completely lost its meaning.

It is enough to compare the above quote from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia with what the Brockhaus and Efron dictionary understands by paganism:

“Paganism is a general designation for all (my italics - A.V.) confessions, except Christian, Jewish and Mohammedan,” and, despite this, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Confucianism, Lamaism and Brahmanism are classified as paganism, as stated in in the same dictionary, “not quite correct.”

Some dictionaries believe that paganism is everything that is not Christianity, others believe that paganism includes all religions except Christianity, Islam and Judaism, but this, according to others, does not prevent Buddhism, Taoism and others from being removed from the category of pagan religions relatively developed religions of the East, while still others, in turn, consider all these disputes completely meaningless and call exclusively “primitive” religions paganism.

And, what is most interesting, there are no right and wrong: everyone is happy and happy, only one word suffers: “paganism”, which, of course, received many of the most different interpretations, but, alas, because of them it lost its meaning.

How, in this case, should we call the Slavic faith?

On the one hand, our ancestors did not need any specific name for their faith, because until a certain moment there was no need to distinguish it from the entire mass of teachings existing on earth.

If necessary, they simply said “our faith”, “native faith”, in general - “Slavic faith”, which, in fact, could well pass for the name of the primordial religion of our people.

At first glance, it seems that this name speaks exclusively about the Slavic origin of the faith and cannot say anything about its essence, but this is only at first glance: if you pay attention to the origin of the word “Slavs,” then everything will fall into place.

The original meaning of this word is constantly spoken of in the Veleskniga:

“...We will not be parasites, but glorious Rus who sing glory to the Gods, and that is why they are Slavs”;
“...We sing glory to the Gods - and we are called such glory”;
“...They became glorious, glorifying our Gods, but they never asked or prayed for their good.”

One of the basic rules of the Slavic faith is not to ask for anything from the Gods and constantly glorify Them; accordingly, a Slav is a person who adheres to this rule, honoring the Gods in the Slavic way.

Of course, now not all Slavs profess their native faith, but, nevertheless, problems with the name “Slavic faith” should not arise. Moreover, in overseas dictionaries the primordial religion of our people is called exactly this way - in The Britannica Encyclopedia it is said: “Slavic Religion (Slavic faith) - the beliefs and religious practices of the ancient Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, including the Russians , Ukrainians, Polyakov, Chekhov, Slovak, Serbov, Horvat and Sloven.”

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001, also believes: “Slavic Religion (Slavic faith) is the pre-Christian faith of the Slavs.”

It so happened that the Slavic faith was constantly renamed and renamed: the first churchmen called it “trash” in Latin, later “trash” was replaced by “paganism”, and for some reason modern overly convinced church leaders liked an even more meaningless word - “neopaganism” .

Fortunately, the content does not change behind the form, but it’s time to get rid of unnecessary prejudices.

The myth of fragmentation

The current state of debate about the essence of the Slavic faith is reminiscent of the well-known parable of the three blind men and the elephant, which tells how one day three blind men began to share with each other their knowledge about this animal: one of them, feeling the elephant’s leg, convinced his comrades that the elephant looked like a pillar, the second had a chance to feel the tail, and he said that the elephant, on the contrary, looked like a rope, and the third, who felt the trunk, considered elephants to be the closest relatives of snakes.

The dispute, naturally, led nowhere, and each blind man remained with his own opinion.

In the case of the Slavic faith, the situation is complicated by the fact that there are much more “blind” people, and the “elephant” has come to us in an unnatural, stained form beyond recognition.

Many different theories and assumptions have accumulated about the essence of the Slavic faith - one more beautiful than the other; To be convinced of the abundance and diversity of existing views, it is enough, for example, to try to count the names of the Slavic faith offered from everywhere (there are only about seven of the most common names). All this confusion in modern science stems from exactly the same confusion in historical sources about the Slavic faith.

For example, in the ancient work “On History, About the Beginning of the Russian Land...” it is said that the famous Prince Volkhov (son of Prince Sloven) loved to turn into a crocodile and swim along the Volkhov River, at times drowning people, for which he was popularly nicknamed Perun and later deified .

And in “The Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles” Perun is considered a man who served as an elder among the Hellenes and for his exploits began to be revered by the Slavs as a god.

Who to believe?

It is clear that both of these testimonies are unsuccessful attempts to humiliate Perun before the people, but official science argues differently: if both passages are taken from reliable historical sources, then it turns out that there were several ideas about Perun among the people.

A similar fate befell every facet of the Slavic faith: there is no question concerning it that would not give rise to a whole bunch of conflicting opinions.

Official science for a long time tried to take in at once everything that was written in bygone times about the faith of the Slavs, to create at least some kind of system from all the true and false evidence about it, but soon realized the futility of its efforts and came to a “final and irrevocable” conclusion : the Slavic faith is not a faith at all, but a heap of primitive superstitions.

As D.S. wrote Likhachev, expressing the opinion of official science about the faith of the Slavs, “Paganism was not a religion in the modern sense... It was a rather chaotic collection of various beliefs, cults, but not a teaching. This is a combination of religious rituals and a whole heap of objects of religious veneration.

Therefore, the unification of people of different tribes, which the Eastern Slavs so needed in the 10th-12th centuries, could not be achieved by paganism.<…>Paganism was not united. This idea... should also be understood in the sense that in paganism there was a “higher” mythology associated with the main gods,<…>and “lower” mythology, which consisted mainly in connection with beliefs of an agricultural nature.”

In a word, “paganism” is presented as the fruit of the unbridled children’s imagination of the people.
Ancient people sat after a hunt and thought about the sky, clouds, lightning and everything else that surrounded them, endowing the objects of their imagination with will and reason, these tales gradually accumulated, and, in the end, a kind of heap of tales gathered, which they decided to call "paganism". And when statehood appeared, the princes found it convenient to use fairy tales to frighten and convince the people - this is how the process of politicization of “paganism” began, which is believed to have led to its division into two loosely connected parts: the overly politicized “upper” and the too primitive “lower.” "

But, as they say, the games are over - the people have matured, and “paganism” has left its native lands forever. Here, in general terms, is the official version of the biography of “paganism”. From the outside, everything looks logical: a person must feel that in this world there is something higher than him, and where should ancient man look for this Something, if not in nature, if he is not yet able to know the real God?

The ability or inability to know the “real” God seems to be the key point of the above theory of modern scientists and ancient preachers. This ingenious consideration invariably accompanies almost every scientific and church treatise on the Slavic faith, and what is meant by it is difficult to understand. Do the properties of the human soul really depend on the volume of the brain? No. From historical era? Also no! Meanwhile, such an unfounded, humiliating and condescending attitude towards ancestors and their heritage has been preached by the church from time immemorial - in the Bible (Deuteronomy, chapter 7, verse 5), for example, it says:

“Do with them (the “pagans.” - A.V.) this way: destroy their altars, break their pillars, cut down their groves, and burn their images with fire.”

This would not be worth paying attention to: it is clear that such attacks towards the “unbelievers” are the fruit of the sick thinking of fanatical clergy who worked on the Bible, but the Christian idea of ​​​​ancient people and their faith as something primitive and primitive fits in very organically into the technocratic Western consciousness, which, imagining history as a systematic movement exclusively forward, from simple to complex, believes that past times are waste material, a passed stage in development, from which there is nothing to learn.

During the time of the Russian emperors' craze for German culture, much, in particular the above-mentioned vision of history, migrated from European science to Russian science - alas, not always bringing benefit.

A.S. Khomyakov quite rightly noted that “the connection between what precedes and what follows in the spiritual world is unlike the dead dependence of action on cause in the physical world.”

The deity is not a Newtonian binomial, you don’t have to commit violence against yourself in order to feel it, there can be no right or wrong concept about it. Max Müller, one of the founders of comparative linguistics and comparative religion, wrote about this:

“As soon as a person begins to recognize himself, as soon as he feels different from all other objects and persons, he immediately recognizes the Supreme Being... We are so created without any merit that, as soon as we wake up, we immediately feel our dependence on all sides from something else. This first sensation of the Divine is not the result of thinking or generalization, but an idea as irresistible as the impressions of our senses.”

The feeling of oneness with the Divine is not an end point, but a starting point; It is precisely with this feeling that every faith begins, and primitive myths, simplification of initially abstract images, etc. - an inevitable consequence of the maturation of any religion, for, as Max Muller said, poetry is older than prose.

The above understanding of the development of religion appeared in the works of M. Muller, A.S. Khomyakov and A.N. Afanasyev: in their works they described almost the same mechanism for the formation of faith, which has three stages.

1). At the first stage, a person simultaneously realizes himself and the Divine, and sensory communication begins between the Divine world and man.

The gods of our ancestors were not man-made idols, as is now believed, but abstract, abstract images: as M. Müller wrote, “let us not allow ourselves to be mistaken... regarding the fact that natural and idolatrous veneration existed then.”

2). At the second stage, a long-term “disease of religion” begins - the general forgetting by the people of the divine images and metaphors with which ancient man tried to portray the Gods.

A.N. Afanasyev said: “...As soon as the real meaning of the metaphorical language was lost, ancient myths began to be understood literally, and the gods little by little humbled themselves to human needs, concerns and hobbies, and from the heights of the air spaces began to descend to the earth.”

3). The third stage is a time of partial healing of faith, associated, first of all, with the growth of a person’s spiritual needs.

“New ideas evoked by the historical movement of life and education,” wrote A.N. Afanasyev, “take possession of old mythical material and little by little spiritualize it: from elemental, material meaning, the idea of ​​a deity rises to a spiritual ideal.”

The illness and recovery of religion, as Max Muller believed, is a constant dialectical movement in which the whole life of religion lies. Stopping this movement will certainly lead to the emergence, instead of a living faith, of an unviable extreme: a sophisticated philosophy or a heap of fairy tales, which by themselves can give society equally little. Any religion is initially dual: it is both abstract and concrete. This duality reflects the duality of social life itself. The sciences, growing out of religion, were at first supported by clergy; The clergy, freed as much as possible by the people from worldly problems, advanced quite quickly in both religious and scientific knowledge of the world.

It does not take much time to form a religious movement - its foundations are laid in two or three centuries, and the further development of faith is aimed more at understanding and improving the old than at inventing the new. At the same time, the entire philosophy of faith could hardly be clear to the simple, mostly illiterate population. Trying to understand religion, the people created their own interpretation of religious revelations, putting abstract divine images into more understandable earthly ones. The initially abstract system of faith gradually began to acquire fairy tales, traditions, and legends. They are the reflection of religious philosophy, and not vice versa, and the richer, more diverse the reflection, the more multiple the common people’s ideas about the world of God, the richer the source that gave birth to them. The fate of folk mythology is much happier than the fate of Slavic religious philosophy.

During the Christianization of Rus', the main blow, of course, fell on the very “crown” of the Slavic faith, its cult component: the Byzantine “enlightenment” executed the Magi, burned liturgical books, destroyed temples, trying to destroy the essence of the faith and hoping that the orphaned folk culture in search of “food” for the brains” will be forced to come to Christianity. Slavic religious philosophy went underground, but its popular re-interpretation remained in plain sight, and therefore it seemed to many researchers that this re-interpretation was the whole essence of the Slavic faith. Some of them earnestly tried to find the abstract part of religion, but apparently could not or would not understand the ancient metaphors and came to the conclusion that it was either dead or never existed at all.

This is where the bone of contention lies, which has given rise to long and heated debates in the scientific community about the essence of the Slavic faith.

However, in order to see the truth, you don’t need much - to treat the faith of your ancestors without prejudice, and then, I think, everything will certainly fall into place.

The Myth of Down to Earth

The word “pantheism,” considered the most apt and complete characteristic of the Slavic faith, is an indispensable companion to any discussion of official science about the ancient faith of our people. This word has a fairly large volume of meanings and connotations, but for some reason its polysemy is sharply reduced when it comes to the native faith of the Slavs.

You can talk as much as you like about the complexity of European pantheistic philosophy or the profundity of pantheistic myths ancient Greece, but in relation to “pagan” pantheism it can only mean one thing: blind worship of the natural elements. Why did the Slavs consider themselves “Dazhbozh’s grandchildren” and get married “in a circle of broom bushes”?

When you come across something equally incomprehensible, you get the feeling that it’s all either too brilliant to be understood by the average modern person, or too stupid. The Church and official science, of course, settled on the latter option, believing that the pantheism of the ancient peoples was completely devoid of any meaning and was based only on the worship of the soulless forces of nature.

In general, the church’s relationship with pantheistic philosophy did not develop from the very beginning: the personification of “natural” pantheism is “paganism” hated by Christianity, and pantheistic philosophers for the most part are very far from the Christian vision of the world.

The Church believes that pantheism is just an unsuccessful attempt to mix the pure, bright Divinity with our “rough”, “dirty” material world: by dissolving God in the Universe, pantheists allegedly make the very belief in God completely meaningless for a person, and, on top of that, , equate good and evil, making the word “sin” (especially the so-called original sin) an empty sound. However, only European pantheistic philosophy was able to experience all the charm of objective criticism, and the inconsistency of “pagan” pantheism seemed so obvious to many that the opinion about the primitiveness of many ancient faiths was accepted by official science completely without evidence.

The word “pantheism,” for all its harmless meaning (if you believe the famous philosopher E. Radlov, pantheism is “a doctrine that identifies God in a certain relationship with the world”), has become for ethnic religions something like a hint of their primitiveness. The a priori conviction in the infinite earthiness of the Slavic faith has dominated the Russian scientific Olympus for so long that one gets the feeling that this conviction was not built on the idea of ​​​​the Slavic Gods, but just the opposite.

Max Müller wrote: “Few delusions have spread so widely and are so deeply rooted in us as the delusion by which we confuse the religion of ancient peoples with their mythology.”

If you look closely, you can see that it is on this misconception that the generally accepted idea of ​​​​the faith of the Slavs is based for the most part. Veles, for example, in most official scientific publications is considered the god of cattle: sometimes (rather rarely) they write that He had something to do with wisdom, art and religion, but the main function of Veles, as a rule, is called patronage over cattle breeding. They probably wouldn’t have written about His connection with art at all, but the author of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” fortunately, had the imprudence to call Boyan Veles’s grandson, and Boyan, as you know, was a poet, not a shepherd. Official science found the following explanation for this evidence: “The god of trade also turned out to be the god of culture in general, which is why Veles was represented in the 12th century. scribes, the founder of all ancient culture and art, in particular songwriting.”

How can it be that Veles became the patron of songwriting only at the end of the 12th century?
The idea of ​​Him as the God of wisdom and creativity undoubtedly appeared much earlier and was original, as evidenced, for example, by the Vleskniga: there is no need to delve further than the cover of any of its publications, the name itself speaks volumes. “The Book of Veles” is not about raising livestock at all, it is about the history of Rus' and the Slavic faith. Why dedicate a scientific-religious work to the God of cattle breeding?

Ancient image of Veles for long history of its existence split into two halves: Veles himself, the patron of the sciences and arts, and Volos, the “beast of God.” Veles belongs to Slavic religious philosophy, and Volos, apparently, is the result of its refraction through the prism of popular consciousness.

It’s hard to say whether official science was right or wrong in combining these two Gods into one, but calling Veles primarily the patron of cattle breeding is already superfluous (however, this is not the worst thing you can come to by taking their mythology as an example of the native faith of the Slavs) . Almost all the Slavic Gods found themselves in a similar unpleasant situation along with Veles.

Perun, the God of battle and struggle (not only physical, but also spiritual), whom our ancestors metaphorically called the Thunderer, through the efforts of modern scientists, turned into a lightning thrower, an arsonist God.

Svarog, the Creator God, considered by the Slavs to be the heavenly Father of all things, became the heavenly blacksmith, Belobog became the personification of good, Chernobog - evil, etc. Alas, at this rate, official science is unlikely to ever understand what the Slavic faith is. Unfortunately, it is a completely logical question that occasionally comes up in various kinds of studies about “paganism”: did our ancestors even have their own religion, was their culture limited to just primitive, mundane mythology?

Let us assume that the Slavs did not have any religion; what to do with, in this case, for example, Kolyada, Lada, Lada, Chislobog?

These gods even in popular imagination did not personify natural elements and were not directly related to Reveal, the material world.

Kolyada is the Deity of the annual circle, “Kola of Time”, Lad is the God of order, harmony, inner peace, Lada is the personification of love in all its many manifestations, and Chislobog, as it is said in the Vleskniga, “counts our days and says to God the numbers are all - yes be it day in heaven, or be it night, and fall asleep.”

Divine images do not arise spontaneously, separately from the others, therefore, where there is one abstract Deity, others will certainly be found - and, most importantly, there will be a religious philosophy, about the absence of which the Slavs complained so much about official science. The philosophy of religion is the framework on which the components of faith are attached, the order according to which it “works.”

It is not surprising that scientists who did not see or did not want to see this order in the native faith of the Slavs, considered it mundane, aimed exclusively at satisfying the everyday, earthly needs of man.

It is believed that our ancestors did not even have a single divine pantheon: Gods were allegedly born, died, changed their character in accordance with the way of human life or the political situation of the Russian state.

The Vleskniga looks at the Slavic Gods completely differently, which says:

“And if there is some kind of fornication, who will count those Gods, separating them from Svarog, he will be cast out from the race, because we have no Gods except the Most High. Both Svarog and others are many, because God is One and Many. Let no one divide that multitude and let no one say that we have many Gods.”

In other words, every facet of God is God. The gods of the Slavs are manifestations of a single First Principle, a single First Cause, which Vleskniga calls Vyshny (the Most High), but this does not at all mean that the Slavic faith belongs to monotheistic religions.

The image of Vyshn is inherently very far from the monotheistic God-Creator, who once created the world and controls it from the outside: Vyshn, rather, is the world itself - a single world organism, the personification of the Universe. The Dove Book says:

The sun is red from the face of God,
Christ Himself, the King of Heaven;
The month is young and bright from his breasts,
The stars are frequent from the garments of God,
The nights are dark from the thoughts of the Lord,
The dawns are clear from the eyes of the Lord,
Stormy winds from the Holy Spirit,
The rain is falling from the tears of Christ,
Christ Himself, the King of Heaven.

Despite the fact that the Dove Book has undergone many editions and distortions throughout its life, it will not be difficult for an unbiased person to notice in the above passage the main idea, which, it seems, has changed little since Aryan times: God is everywhere and in everything, Nature and God are one, an inseparable whole.

The Slavic faith teaches that the Universe is God, but it cannot be argued that for our ancestors God was exclusively the Universe - the idea of ​​God in the Slavic faith is much broader. As the famous Russian philosopher N.O. wrote. Lossky, “If the world is a systematic unity, permeated with relationships, then above the world, as its basis, stands the Supersystemic principle, “Divine Nothingness.”

Vyshen is something like the principle according to which the world “works”; The Above cannot enter into the world system, and, at the same time, He Himself is this system. It seems that the word “down to earth” in conversations about the Slavic faith would be much more logical to replace with the word “realism”.

A person who professes the native faith of the Slavs is in constant communication with the Gods; he does not so much believe in Them as he feels, feels: not feeling the Divine next to him is the same as not feeling the living World around him or not noticing his own soul. It is interesting that even during the time of the introduction of Christianity in Rus', none of the “enlighteners” allowed themselves to deny the very existence of the Slavic Gods: they were considered demons, devils, evil spirits, children of Satan, but, one way or another, they did not doubt their existence at all. We will not argue that the Slavic faith is pantheistic in its essence, but this is not at all the pantheism that official science imagines when talking about the native faith of the Slavs.

You can see God in Nature - feel His presence in it, or you can see God in nature - deify the natural elements.

The Slavic faith certainly belongs to the first case.

Why did I choose this particular topic? There is such a good proverb:

“If you shoot the past with a gun, the future will shoot you with a cannon.”

Just as you cannot build a house on sand, it is also impossible to build a healthy society without knowing your roots.

And now everything is moving towards cutting us off from them.

In the history books immediately after Princess Olga with her completely wretched foreign policy, Vladimir is coming. hiding from enemies under the bridge, and Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich, who founded the first (!) Russian Empire, is missed.

The 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg is celebrated, and the first stone fortress in all of Europe - Ladoga - is forgotten...

And more and more often lately we hear the word “pagan” on the pages of newspapers, on television and on the Internet.

The first thing that comes to mind is the image of an unwashed, shaggy and stupid savage, spending all his free time from war in orgies and human sacrifices. It is precisely this image that has been instilled in the Russian people over the past millennium, and, with the beginning of “democracy” and “glasnost,” it began to be instilled again.

But, if we knew a little more about the religion of the Slavs than we can learn from books in glossy covers saturated with anti-Russian sentiments, then we would not think about the pagans - our Ancestors! - as if they were uncultured savages.

What do most of us know about the Faith of the Slavs?

The fact that it was called “paganism” was therefore immoral; that there was some kind of Perun; that the Slavs made human sacrifices. This is a “gentleman’s” set, which we absorbed from the media, and almost no one moves beyond it. Almost nobody.

Myths around the Slavic faith

I will begin to dispel the myths around the Faith of the Ancestors in order.

But, to begin with, I want to say that our Ancestors did not call either their beliefs or themselves in the light of their beliefs with any special word. And not because there was the so-called and often mentioned “darkness of paganism.” No, there was a huge, strong and daring state. But because they did not seek to isolate themselves from other peoples. From pagans - because they themselves were pagans; from Christian and Muslim - because a pagan cannot be confused with either one or the other.

Our Ancestors did not believe in God at all - but how can you believe in the Sun or the Earth. - and therefore there was no need for the name of faith.

[!] First of all, the word “pagan” comes from the word “language”, that is, “people”.

Not “alien, another people,” as can often be heard now. Precisely “the people in general.” Consequently, a “pagan” is a people’s man, a man of his people.

Suffix " Nick» similar to English « er"(for example: help - assistant, cold - refrigerator); Thus, we can say that a “pagan” is someone who does something popular, lives the life of his people.

The Romans used the words “pagan” and “paganus”, calling them agriculture and farmers (if not literally, then this word would mean a person living outside the city), that is, people close to the land, to nature (as opposed to city dwellers ).

So, adding up all the meanings of this word, we get that a “pagan” is a man of his people, doing something folk and being in close connection with the earth and nature.

And the fact that Christians gave the words “pagan” and “wicked” the meaning of “savage” and “vile, disgusting” is a personal matter of Christians. Essentially what they were saying was:

“Give up your people, call yourself a better citizen-citizen, be ashamed of your faith and Ancestors.”

But, since the overwhelming majority of the population of our country still has the stereotype “pagan = savage” firmly in their minds, we resort to another name:

"Slavic Native Faith", or "Rodnoverie".

This word reflects the very essence of the Slavic Faith.

[!] First of all, the Slavic Faith is monotheistic.

And the Slavs are no more polytheists than Christians, who worship three gods in one.

For example, you can address me as “Pavel”, “Pavlik”, by my patronymic, and each time my attitude towards the addressee will initially be different - although this will not mean that there are many of me. One person can have several professions; in approximately the same way the Slavs understood the essence Rhoda; and Perun and Svarog are not the names of different gods, but the personal qualities of God - Lightning Strike, Light Blacksmith...

[!] In fact, Rodnoverie in particular, and paganism in general, was - and remains - the oldest monotheistic religion.

[!] Procopius of Caesarea in the 6th century testifies to the one God of the Slavs, and, half a thousand years later, the German Helmold. This is evidenced by the treaties between Rus' and the Greeks: in 945:

“And those of them (Russians) who are not baptized have no help from God and from Perun.”

In 971, the militant pagans of Svyatoslav swear:

“from God, we believe in him, in Perun, and in Volos Skotya God.”

Rod is the name of the one God of the Slavs

Despite centuries of militant Christianity and 70 years of no less militant atheism, the name of our Russian God has reached us.

One of the ancient Russian books says:

“God is the creator of everything, not Rod.”

[!] In the “Word of Isaiah the Prophet about Rod and the Rozhanitsy”, it is Rod, as the authorized representative and deputy of the entire host of Gods, that is opposed to the one god of Christians.

For those who are interested in this topic, I would like to recommend the books by B. A. Rybakov “The Paganism of Ancient Rus'” and “The Paganism of the Ancient Slavs”.

What is the fundamental difference between the pagans’ idea of ​​the One and the Christians’ idea?

[!] The race, as is clear from His very name, generates the world from Itself, and does not create it. The world is the body of the Family, and not a “creature” fundamentally separate from it, like among the Jews. Christians and Muslims.

[!] But for its existence, Rod sacrificed His integrity. And so we get the cult of sacrifice and Sacrifice, God who sacrificed Himself for the world. And the attitude towards the world - the body of God, His sacrificial gift.

In the “Dove Book,” a spiritual verse that preserved the most ancient myth of Russian paganism under the thin cover of Christian words, this Sacrifice is described as follows:

“That is why our white light was conceived -

From the holy spirit of Sagaofov;

The sun is red from the face of God;

The month is clear from the breasts of God;

Morning dawn, evening dawn

From the eyes of God..."

Pay attention to the verb “Conceived” – not “created”, not “created”!

Hence the attitude of the Slavs towards nature (listen to the word itself: pri-RODA) - the attitude is not the “king of nature”, who should “rule ... over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all creeping things that creep on the earth."

Unlike later monotheistic religions of the Abrahamic persuasion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), Rodnoverie does not have their inherent features, such as:

• desire for proselytism,
• cruelty towards non-believers,
• the belief that all other beliefs are false.

[!] And that is why Rodnoverie was and remains a world religion.

Despite the fact that the Slavs said “Rod”, the Norwegians “Odin”, and the Indians - “Shiva”, they could always agree with each other without malice and deception. A Norwegian came to a Slavic temple. he could calmly make sacrifices on it, just like the Slav did in Norway.

[!] Honoring the Gods of their fathers, the Slavs believed that other peoples worshiped Them, only in a different way.

[!] Moreover, in Gama, the future Hamburg, the Slavs began to honor their Thunderer Perun and other Deities in the Temple of Jupiter-Hammon, paying homage to ancient statues.

[!] The same thing happened in the Balkans, according to the life of Gregory of Svyatogorsk: there the Slavs revered their Mother Goddess in an ancient marble statue.

Were there churches in Rus'?

Yes they were.

[!] They are mentioned by Jacob Mnich in “Praise and Memory of the Russian Prince Vladimir,” claiming that he “ idol temples, excavations and cuts «.

[!] A temple in Northern Rus' is mentioned in the “Saga of the Jomsvikings”.

[!] The temple was also found in Ladoga, on Varangian Street (see photo 1).

“In the middle of the city (Arkona) there was a square on which stood a temple made of wood, of the most elegant workmanship... the outer wall of the building stood out with neat carvings, including the shapes of various things...

The distinctive feature of this city (Korenice) were three temples, noticeable by the brilliance of excellent craftsmanship.”

[!] Helmold says that Svyatovit had in Arkona " temple of greatest splendor «.

[!] And in Rerik, around the sacred oak trees of Perun there stood “ skillfully made fence «.

[!] “The Life of Otto” about the temples of Triglav in Volyn: “ Built with great care and skill «.

[!] Gerbord about the idol of the same Triglav in Szczecin:

“was built with amazing care and skill. Inside and outside it had sculptures that protruded from the walls, images of people, birds and animals, depicted so in accordance with their appearance that they seemed to be breathing and living... The colors of the external images could not be darkened or washed away by any weather, snow or rain, such was the skill of the artists.”

[!] Thietmar of Mezerburg about the city of Radigoshch (Retra) and the sanctuary of Svarozhich:

“There is nothing in it except a temple of wood, skillfully constructed, which, as foundations, is supported by the horns of various animals. Its external walls are decorated with images of Gods and Goddesses, amazingly carved, as can be seen by those looking at it.”

And this is written by Western European monks, familiar with ancient art, who stood at the cradle of Gothic. The Germans, the destroyers of the Slavic lands, choking with delight, describe the pagan temples of the Slavs.

Human sacrifice is a Jewish invention

Now it's time to deal with human sacrifices. To begin with, I will quote lines from the Book of Veles. talking about victims.

1st tablet, 5a: “Here is our sacrifice - this is the honey of Surya from the nine powers, left by people in the Sun - Surya for three days, then filtered through wool. And this is and will be our sacrifice to the true gods, which our forefathers [gave]. For we come from Dazhbog...” 2nd tablet, 7a: “Glory to our gods! We have true faith, which does not require human sacrifice. The same is done among the Varangians, who make such sacrifices and call Perun Perkun. And we made sacrifices to him, but we dared to give only field sacrifices, and from our labors millet, milk, fat. They also reinforced Kolyada with lamb, and also during Rusalia. on Yarilin's day. and also to Red Mountain." 1st tablet, 4b: “The Russian gods do not take human sacrifices, only fruits, vegetables, flowers and grains, milk, nutritional antimony fermented on herbs, and honey, and never live birds or fish. And it is the Varangians and Hellenes who give the gods a different and terrible sacrifice - a human one. We did not want to do this, since we ourselves are Dazhbog’s grandchildren and did not seek to sneak in the footsteps of strangers.”

Human sacrifice was made only when the people were in dire danger, and there is nothing vile, terrible or wild about this.

And for those who feel this way, let them openly admit that the SELF-SACRIFICE of Matrosov or Gastello are vile and savage matters.

Our ancestor, sacrificing himself (himself! of his own free will, “covering the embrasure with his chest!”) as a sacrifice, saved the people with his life.

And the essence of the sacrifice was not “feeding the blood of idols,” as many now believe.

The Rod Himself - which is clear from His name - did not create the whole world, but gave birth to it, that is, gave a part of himself. The world for the Family is not something separate and unusual for Him, but rather something native.

[!] So, we can say that Rod sacrificed himself so that the world could appear, so that Dazhbog Svarozhich would marry Zhiva and give birth to Oreya. from whom all Slavic clans trace their origins.

And our ancestor, sacrificing himself, did the same, repeating the action of the Family - he gave himself so that the world could live. And it was not a sacrifice OFFERING, but SELF-sacrifice. Can you feel the difference?

The Jew Vladimir made bloody sacrifices

Only once were bloody demands offered in Rus' - bloody and senseless, and this was under Prince Vladimir, the son of a Jewish slave from Prince Svetoslav.

As the so-called “Initial Code” brought to us, Vladimir in 983 AD. h.l. arranged a human sacrifice; The warriors, throwing grain, pointed to the same warrior, but converted to Christianity.

They write (for example, N.I. Kostomarov) that this act was not a sacrifice, but was revenge, because a Christian was chosen for the sacrifice.

Yes, indeed, a Christian would never be chosen for sacrifice, if only because the victim was not chosen. The Slav himself walked towards her. And even if they had chosen a victim, they would never have chosen a Christian: such a requirement would have been disgusting for the gods, and it would not have risen - after all, the sacrifice went straight to Iriy, and how could a Christian get there?

The Varangians who were part of the squad would also not have sent a Christian to Odin. And if you take revenge, then what does sacrifice have to do with it? And so, and so - not according to our Spirit. If they wanted to take revenge, Constantine and Methodius would not have read the Bible in the Slavic language, and there would not have been churches in Kyiv.

Despite the fact that in the Prologue legend of the collection of the 15th century. it is indicated that the sacrifice was made in honor of the victory over the Yatvingians (does it matter what occasion the Traitor chose?), and Vladimir conferred with the “city elders,” that is, with the city elders - this does not prove anything. So what if they were the heads of clans?

Vladimir was actually a prince, but he accepted the Semitic faith.

[?] And one more thing: why didn’t these “elders” demand to sacrifice anyone before - under Svyatoslav, for example, or under Igor? Why was such an incident recorded in the chronicles only under Vladimir?

And one more thing: if sacrifices were ubiquitous and frequent, would they even be written about in chronicles, where all important and unusual (I would say, out of the ordinary) events are recorded?

First, I will say the words of Leo the Deacon, so beloved by some:

“And so, when night fell and the full circle of the moon shone, the Scythians came out onto the plain and began to pick up their dead. They piled them up in front of the wall, made many fires and burned them, slaughtering many captives, men and women, according to the custom of their ancestors. Having made this bloody sacrifice, they strangled [several] infants and roosters, drowning them in the waters of the Ister. They say that the Scythians venerate the mysteries of the Hellenes, make sacrifices according to pagan rites and pour out libations for the dead, having learned this either from their philosophers Anacharsis and Zamolxis, or from the companions of Achilles.”

So, the Slavs gathered their dead comrades and laid them on the fires.

They then slaughtered “many captives, men and women.” In my opinion, the Greeks confused two different events. The Slavs NEVER put the dead along with the prisoners on the fire. But the southern and, especially, western Slavs had the custom of sacrificing prisoners to the gods.

Regarding children...

Here Leo the Deacon universally calls the Slavs “Scythians,” completely ignoring the difference between the Scythian nomads and the Scythian farmers (who, in fact, are the ancestors of the Slavs).

The Sarmatian nomads, who lived in the northern Black Sea region and had close relations with the Hellenes, could indeed adopt some of their customs (“They say that the Scythians revere the mysteries of the Hellenes”).

But the sedentary Scythians lived MUCH further north, and did not communicate so closely with the Hellenes (in fact, in Greek manuscripts it is said about them only once).

That is, Leo the Deacon, seeing the Scythians - yes, they were undoubtedly Scythians, but not Sarmatian Scythians! - and remembered that I had heard about the sacrifices of the nomadic Scythians. After which he significantly colored his story.

[. ] And I can tell where the rumors about human needs came from: from Semitic legends. For example.

[!] In accordance with the vow that Yahweh made to Jephthah - to “offer as a burnt offering” the first living creature that he met on the threshold of his home after the victory over the Ammonites - he sacrificed his daughter(Judges 11:29-39).

[!] Only the intervention of an angel prevented Abraham from sacrificing his son Isaac.

[!] The Bible tells how a certain Achiel the Bethelite built the city of Jericho after its destruction: “on firstborn he laid the foundation on his Aviram and on his youngest son Segube set up its gates” (1 Kings 16:34).

[!] Excavations have established that the construction of city walls and individual buildings on the bones of sacrificed infants was by no means a rare occurrence.

“In the buildings of a number of ancient Jewish cities (Megiddo, Gezer, Jericho) skeletons were found walled up in the walls children. It is possible that the skeletons found in Jericho are the remains of the unfortunate children of Achiel the Bethelite, who acted, as the Bible assures, “according to the word of the Lord” (1 Kings 16:34).”

(Kryvelev Joseph Aronovich, “The Book of the Bible”).

Pagan Rus' - a great civilization

It was the Rodnoverie that led the Slavs to the greatness that can be read about in the chronicles:

• “Gardarika” - the country of Cities - was the name the Normans called not France, not England, but Rus'.
• “The rival of Constantinople,” Thietmar of Meserburg wrote about Kyiv.
• The Bavarian Geographer - unfortunately unknown by name - named two to three-digit numbers of cities for each tribal union.
• The French poem “Renaud de Montaban” tells how the title character acquires “a magnificent chain mail from Rus'”, as a result of which he acquires the glory of invincibility among the soldiers of Emperor Charles.
• The mass of written sources from the most diverse segments of the population is evidence of universal literacy.

The Slavs, who were not mired in strife and unsanitary conditions leading to pandemics of plague and cholera, who did not kill their own relatives because they called the Gods differently, were able to do the impossible:

• subjugate the Pechenegs under Igor,
• and under Svyatoslav the Khorobry - to unite, despite centuries-old enmity, the Pechenegs and Magyars,
• and create a huge Empire,
• in which ordinary community members were buried with silver and gold jewelry,
• and about whose merchants Ibn Fadlan will say that for them fortunes of many tens of thousands of silver dirhams were not uncommon.

The whole point is that the primordial Faith did not separate the Slavs, did not force them to “hate their father and mother,” but fostered a cult of equality and tolerance.

The Slavs did not have any single “pantheon” of Gods: somewhere Perun was more revered. somewhere – Veles. and in the lands of the Redarii - even Mithras. So a story about all the hypostases of the One would take too much time.

And I did not make this report about Gods and Goddesses, but its purpose was to debunk false fables, composed in huge quantities so that we would be afraid of our ancestors and their deeds.

Slavic Paganism is not a religion with its dogmas, rules ossified in time and the fight against science.

Rodnoverie is the way.

The path of Protection, the path of History, the path of Culture and Development.

And, having turned away from this path, we will forever be mired in the worship of modern gods: mass media and highs.

References:

1. B. A. Rybakov “Paganism of Ancient Rus'” and “Paganism of the Ancient Slavs.”
2. Ozar Raven "Svyatoslav".
3. Kreslav Lynx “Sacrifices among the Eastern Slavs: reality and fiction.”
4. Sergey Paramonov "Veles's Book".