Slavic Gods: who did the ancient Slavs turn to for help? Mythical creatures of the ancient Slavs.

The Slavic Gods are the progenitors of the Great Slavic Family, and everyone who feels a kindred spiritual connection with the faith of their wise ancestors is intuitively drawn to the sources of the Native Faith.

Should we say that the heavenly patrons of the Russian people are always nearby? From a small drop of dew in the morning to the cosmic solar wind, from the fleeting thought of each of us to great achievements for the race - all this is under the sensitive attention of the Slavic Gods and Goddesses, who grant reliable protection for all times to those who live according to the precepts of the great Gods and Ancestors. If you need the help of the Native Gods, you need to learn to take care of all Living Things, because all Living Things are a continuation of life.

The gods of Slavic mythology support the life of all kinds of matter, maintaining harmony in their life, based on the uniform laws of the heritage of the great Creator. Each of them is in charge of its inherent mission, from the understanding of which the meanings of the Slavic Gods are formed. An unshakable respectful attitude towards the Native Gods will develop during a difficult life, and by receiving warnings and tips, you will be able to follow the right Path.

The pantheon of Slavic Gods is immense, and it is impossible to name all the names, since each name is a great deed in the vastness of the Universe. You will learn about the brightest knowledge that has reached us on the Slavic information portal “Veles”. You can also purchase one made from wood.

God Rod

God Rod- personification of the multitude of all the Light Gods and our many-wise Ancestors.

The Supreme God Rod is One and Multiple at the same time.

When we talk about all the Ancient Gods and our Great and Wise Ancestors: Ancestors, Great-Grandfathers, Grandfathers and Fathers, we say - this is my family.

We turn to him when the Spiritual and Mental support of the Light Gods and Ancestors is needed, for our Gods are our Fathers, and we are their children.

The Supreme God Rod is the eternal symbol of consanguinity, the embodiment of the indestructibility of all Slavic and Aryan Clans and Tribes, their constant interaction and mutual assistance to each other.

When a person from the Great Race or a descendant of the Heavenly Clan is born on Midgard-Earth, his future fate is recorded in the Santia or Haratiya of the God of the Clan, also called the Book of the Clan.

Therefore, in all the Clans of Orthodox ancestors they say: “What is written in the Clans, no one can escape!” or “What is written with a pen in the Haratya of God of the Family cannot be cut out with an axe”

The Supreme God Rod is the Patron God of the Palace of Busla (Stork) in the Svarog Circle. This served to create a folk allegorical Image that Busel

(The stork) brings children from Svarga the Most Pure to prolong our Slavic and Aryan Clans.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Great God Rod, You are our Patron! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We magnify you from eternity, we glorify you to all our Clans! May Your help never fail in all our GOOD and creative deeds, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Mother of God Rozhana

Mother of God Rozhana- (Mother Rodikha, Rozhanitsa). Forever young Heavenly Mother of God.

Goddess of family wealth, spiritual wealth and comfort. Special food sacrifices were made to the Mother of God Rozhana: pancakes, pancakes, breads, porridges, honey and honey kvass.

The ancient Slavic-Aryan cult of the Mother of God Rozhana, like other cults dedicated to the Mother of God and Goddesses, is associated with women's ideas about the continuation of the Family and the fate of the newborn baby, whose Fate is determined.

The Heavenly Mother of God Rozhana at all times patronized not only pregnant women, but also young girls until they underwent the rites of Coming of Age and Naming at the age of twelve*.

*at the age of twelve - the age of 12 years was not chosen by chance by our Ancestors, this is 108 months of the Slavic-Aryan calendar, the period of growing up and gaining initial life experience. In addition, the child’s height at this age reached 124 cm, or, as they said in ancient times, seven spans in the forehead. Before undergoing the Rites, any child, regardless of gender, was called a child and was under the protective protection of his parents, who were responsible for him. After undergoing the Coming of Age and Naming Rites at the age of 12, the child became a full member of the Community and was responsible for all his words and actions.

Patron Goddess of the Hall of Pike in the Svarog Circle. It is believed that when Yarilo-Sun is in the Heavenly Palace of Pike, people are born who feel like a fish in water everywhere.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Three-light Rozhana-Mother! Do not let our Family become impoverished, sanctify the womb of all our wives and brides with your grace-filled power, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

God Vyshen

God Vyshen- Patron God of our Universe in the Light Worlds of Navi, i.e. in Mira Slavi. Caring and powerful Father of God Svarog. A fair judge who resolves any disputes that arise between the Gods of different Worlds or between people.

He patronized our Many-Wise Ancestors in their desire to advance along the Path of Spiritual Development and Perfection, and also patronizes all Orthodox ancestors when they follow in the footsteps of their Great Ancestors.

God Vyshen is the Patron God of the Finist's Palace in the Svarog Circle.

The Highest is strict towards those who seek to distort the Paths of Spiritual Development and Perfection, towards those who pass off falsehood as Truth, the base as the Divine and black as white. But at the same time, He is kind to those who observe the Heavenly Laws of the Universe and do not allow others to violate them. He helps the persistent to win the fight against the dark forces that bring evil and ignorance, flattery and deception, the desire for someone else’s and the humiliation of one living being by another to all Worlds.

God Above gives people moving along the Path of Spiritual Development and Perfection the ability to reflect on various aspects of Life, both Earthly and subsequent, and draw the correct appropriate conclusions; feel when people speak insincerely or deliberately, pursuing some selfish interests, lie.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Great Most High, Glory to all Patron! Hear our call, glorifying You! Help us in our deeds and resolve our disputes, for You are good to our families, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

Goddess Lada

Goddess Lada - Mother(Mother Sva) - Great Heavenly Mother, Mother of God.

Loving and tender Mother of the Most Light Gods of the Great Race, Mother of God-Patroness of all the Peoples of the Great Race (the territories where the Great Race settled, i.e. Slavic and Aryan tribes and peoples) and the Hall of the Elk in the Svarog Circle.

Heavenly Mother of God Lada - Mother - is the Goddess of Beauty and Love, protecting the Family Unions of the Clans of the Great Race and the Families of all descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

In order to receive constant care and heartfelt attention from Lada-Mother, each newlywed couple brings the brightest and most fragrant flowers, honey and various forest berries as gifts to the Heavenly Mother of God, and the young spouses bake pancakes with berry filling and honey pancakes for Lada and placed before the Idol or Her Image.

The Most High Mother of God Lada always gives young spouses everything they ask for to start a happy life together.

It brings home comfort, friendliness, mutual understanding, love, continuation of the Family, many children, mutual assistance, family life, mutual respect and mutual veneration into people's lives. Therefore, they said about such Unions that only Lad and Love reign in them.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Oh, you, Lada-Mother! Mother Sva Most Pure! Don't leave us, bring love and happiness! Send your grace upon us, as we honor and glorify Thee, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle, until the end of Time, while the Yarilo-Sun shines on us!

God Svarog

God Svarog— The Supreme Heavenly God, who controls the course of our Life and the entire World Order of the Universe in the Explicit World.

The Great God Svarog is the Father for many ancient Light Gods and Goddesses, therefore the Orthodox ancestors called them all Svarozhich, i.e. Children of God Svarog.

God Svarog, as a loving Father, cares not only about his Heavenly children and grandchildren, but also about people from all Clans of the Great Race, who are the descendants of the Ancient Svarozhichi, the Light Heavenly Gods on Midgard-Earth.

But our Great and wise Ancestors, in addition to the Children and Grandsons of the Supreme God Svarog, also called the Heavenly Luminaries - the Suns and Stars *, as well as any Celestial body that appeared in the Sky and sometimes fell from Heaven to Earth (meteorites, fireballs, etc.) d.).

* Suns and Stars - among the Slavs and Aryans, these two concepts were different. Luminaries were called Suns, around which more than 8 Earths (planets) revolved in their orbits, and Luminaries were called Stars, around which no more than 7 Earths (planets) or small Luminaries (dwarf Stars) rotated in their orbits.

The Supreme God Svarog loves living Nature very much and takes care of various plants and the most beautiful, rare flowers.

God Svarog is the Guardian and Patron of the Heavenly Vyry (Slavic-Aryan Garden of Eden), planted around the Heavenly Asgard (City of the Gods), in which all kinds of trees, plants and the most beautiful, rare flowers from all the worldly (i.e. controlled) are collected from all the Light Worlds ) to him the Universe.

But Svarog cares not only about Heavenly Vyria and Heavenly Asgard, but also cares about the Nature of Midgard-Earth and other similar Light Lands located at the Border between the Light and Dark Worlds, on which He created beautiful Gardens similar to Heavenly Vyriya.

The fruitful power of the rays of Yarila the Sun and rain showers sent by Svarog to Midgard-Earth warms and nourishes the flora and fauna of the earthly Garden-Vyria near Asgard of Iria, and also warms and nourishes the flora and fauna of the entire Midgard.

The Supreme God Svarog gives the necessary plant food to birds and animals. He indicated to people what food they needed to grow to feed their Clans and what food they needed to feed tamed birds and animals.

Vyriy Garden adjoins the Heavenly Asgard (City of the Gods), in the center of which are the Majestic Mansions of Svarog.

The Great God Svarog is the permanent Guardian of the Heavenly Palace of the Bear in the Svarog Circle.

The Supreme God Svarog established the Heavenly Laws of ascension along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development. All Light Harmonious Worlds follow these laws.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Svarog the Progenitor, Guardian of all Svarga the Most Pure! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We all glorify You, we call Your Image to us! May You be inseparably with us, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Makosh

Goddess Makosh— Heavenly (Sva) Mother of God, Just Goddess of a happy lot and Fate.

Together with his daughters, Dolya and Nedolya, he determines the Fates of the Heavenly Gods, as well as the fates of all people from the Great Race and all descendants of the Heavenly Family living on our Midgard-Earth and on all other beautiful Lands of the Most Pure Svarga, weaving for each of them the Threads of Fate .

Therefore, many people turned to Goddess Makosha so that she would trust her youngest daughter, Goddess Dole, to weave the Thread of Fate into a ball.

Goddess Makosh at all times was a very attentive and caring Patroness of weaving and all kinds of handicrafts, and also made sure that a good harvest grew in the fields where the orachi (peasants) put their Soul into their hard work.

It should be remembered that the great Heavenly Goddess Makosh is not only the Patron Goddess of growth and fertility, as many might think, but a Goddess who gives hardworking and diligent people a good harvest.

To those Clans from the Great Race and to all the descendants of the Heavenly Clans who were not lazy, but worked in the fields, gardens and vegetable gardens by the sweat of their brow, putting their Soul into their hard work, the Goddess Makosh sent her youngest daughter - the blond Goddess Share.

Those same people who worked poorly and carelessly in their fields (no matter what Family they were from) received a bad harvest. Therefore, people said that “Makosh Dolya came from Makosh to measure the harvest” or “Makosh sent Nedolya to measure the harvest.”

For hardworking people, the Goddess Makosh is the giver of all sorts of blessings, therefore, on the Images and Idols of the Goddess Mokosh, she was very often depicted with the Horn of Plenty or its symbolic image in the form of a Heavenly Ladle of Seven Stars*.

* The Heavenly Bucket of Seven Stars is the constellation Ursa Major; in the Slavic-Aryan cosmogonic system this constellation is called Makosh, i.e. Mother of the Bucket.

Orthodox ancestors, invariably following all the instructions of the Goddess Mokosh, strive for a calm and measured life, for the ancient traditional way of life, for sensual empathy and hard work.

Goddess Makosh rules the Hall of the Heavenly Swan in the Svarog Circle. Therefore, the Goddess Makosh is very often depicted as a White Swan, floating along the endless Sea-Ocean, i.e. in the sky.

In honor of the Wise Heavenly Mother of God, the Slavs and Aryans erected Great Kumirni and Temples, for the Goddess Makosh personified not only fate, luck, prosperity in the Slavic Clans, observing the laws and commandments of the Ancient Light Gods, people also turned to her with a request to increase their Ancient Clans, t .e. asked for more children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Empress Makosh-Mother! Heavenly Mother, Mother of God, create for us a well-ordered life, a communal life, a gloriously glorious one. We praise Thee, Mother-mentor, virtuous and diligent, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Veles

God Veles- The Patron God of cattle breeders and livestock breeders, as well as the Ancestral Patron of the Western Slavs - the Scotts (Scots), which is why they told everyone from time immemorial that “Veles is the cattle God.”

Having moved to the British Isles, the ancient Clans of the Slavs - the Scotts - called all the inhabited provinces - the Land of the Scotts - Scotland (Scotland), and in honor of their Ancestral Patron God Veles, they named the lands with the best pastures after him - Wales (Wales, i.e. Veles ).

Since Veles is the Patron God and Ruler of the Heavenly Palace of the Wolf in the Svarog Circle, which is located next to the Heavenly Boundary separating the Worlds of Light and Darkness, the Highest Gods entrusted Veles to be the supreme Guardian of the Heavenly Gates of the Interworld. These Heavenly Gates are located on the Golden Path of Spiritual Development, which leads to Heavenly Asgard, as well as to Heavenly Vyry and to the Bright Halls of Volhalla.

God Veles always personifies comprehensive care, painstaking creative hard work, honesty and determination, perseverance, constancy and masterly wisdom, the ability to be responsible for all one’s actions, spoken words and committed deeds.

God Veles, guarding the Heavenly Gates of the Interworld, allows into the Most Pure Souls of Svarga only those deceased who did not spare their lives in defense of their Clans, in defense of the lands of their Fathers and Grandfathers, in defense of the ancient Faith, who worked diligently and creatively for the prosperity of their Clans and who fulfilled the Two Great Principles from the bottom of their hearts: It is sacred to honor your Gods and Ancestors and those who lived according to their Conscience in harmony with Mother Nature.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Velese Bose is the Patron! Svarga Dvara is the protector! And we glorify You, O All-Kind One, for You are our backup and support! And do not leave us alone, and protect our fat herds from pestilence, and fill our granaries with goodness. May we be one with You, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Marena (Mara)

Goddess Marena (Mara)— Great Goddess of Winter, Night and Eternal Sleep and Eternal Life.

Goddess Marena, or Marena Svarogovna, one of the three named sisters of the Many-Wise God Perun.

Very often she is called the Goddess of Death, who ends the earthly life of a person in the Manifest World, but this is not entirely true.

Goddess Marena does not end human life, but gives people of the Race Eternal Life in the World of Glory.

It is believed that the Great Goddess Marena has Ice Halls in the far north of Midgard-Earth, in which She loves to rest after wandering around Svarga the Most Pure.

When the Goddess Marena comes to Midgard-Earth, all Nature falls asleep, goes to rest, plunging into a long three-month sleep, for it is said in the Santiy Veda of Perun: “The Great Cooling will bring the Aryan wind to this land, and Madder will cover it for a third of Summer with his White Cloak" (Santiya 5, sloka 3).

And when Marena Svarogovna goes to her Ice Halls, on the second day after the Spring Equinox, the awakening of Nature and diverse life occurs. In honor of the farewell to the Goddess Madder to the North, the Krasnogor holiday, Maslenitsa-Mader Day, is celebrated annually, also called the Farewell to the Goddess of Winter (the modern name is Farewell to the Russian Winter).

On this day, a doll made of straw is burned, symbolizing not the Goddess Madder, as many people think, but the snowy Winter. After the ritual of burning a straw doll, a handful of ashes were scattered over a field, garden or vegetable garden so that a good, rich harvest would grow. For, as our Ancestors said: “The Goddess Vesta came to Midgard-Earth, brought new life to Krasnogor, lit a fire and melted the winter snows, watered the whole earth with living power and woke Madder from sleep. The Mother of Cheese Earth will give life-giving power to our fields, selected grain will germinate in our fields so that we can give a good harvest to all our Clans.”

But Goddess Marena, in addition to observing Nature’s rest on Midgard-Earth, when Mother Nature gathers life-giving forces for the spring awakening and the life of plants and animals, also observes the lives of people. And when the time comes for people from the Clans of the Great Race to set off on a long journey along the Golden Path, the Goddess Marena gives instructions to each deceased person in accordance with his earthly Spiritual and worldly life, as well as in accordance with the creative experience gained, in which direction he should continue his posthumous life Path, to the World of Navi or to the World of Glory.

Goddess Marena is the Patroness of the Fox Hall in the Svarog Circle.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Marena-Mother, Glorious and Trislavna be! We magnify You from eternity, we kindle bloodless Requirements and Gifts for You all the time! Grant us prosperity in all our deeds, and save our cattle from pestilence, and do not let our barns empty, for great is Thy generosity, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Kryshen

God Kryshen— Heavenly Patron God of Ancient Wisdom. He is the God who directs the performance of ancient Rites, Rituals and Holidays, watching over so that during the offerings of bloodless Requirements and Gifts for burnt offerings there are no bloody sacrifices.

In peaceful times, Kryshen preaches the Ancient Wisdom in various Lands of the Most Pure Svarga, and in difficult times for the Clans of the Great Race, He takes up arms and acts as a Warrior God, protecting women, the elderly, children, as well as all the weak and disadvantaged.

Since Kryshen is the Patron God of the Hall of Tours in the Svarog Circle, He is called the Heavenly Shepherd, who tends the herds of Heavenly Cows and Tours.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Bose Spade, Great Roof! You, the Patron of the Light Lands of all in Svarga! We glorify You, we call upon You, may Your Wisdom come with all our Ancient Clans, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

Goddess Rada

Goddess Rada– Goddess of memory, happiness and joy, spiritual bliss, Divine Love, beauty, wisdom and prosperity. One of its meanings is the gift of the sun. Hara is another name of the Goddess Rada, representing the energy of love, joy and loving service to the Roof.

It helps to achieve internal and external balance, reconcile all areas of a person’s life, and find balance of the Soul. Rada, the daughter of the Lady of the Sea and the Sun God Ra, lived on Sunny Island. Rada was so beautiful that they began to say that she was more beautiful than the bright Sunny. Having learned about this, the Sun God Ra arranged a competition with his daughter - who shines brighter? And after the competition, everyone decided that the Sun shines brighter in the sky, and the Rada shines brighter on Earth.

Rada can be seen after heavy summer rains and thunderstorms in the blue sky - at these moments Rada appears briefly in one of its most important and brightest images, in the form of a seven-color rainbow, stretching across half the sky and delighting with its beauty all those who look at the rainbow.

It must be said that the main calling of the Rada is to bring joy to people. And her very name later gave birth to this word - “joy”. And yet it is not the rainbow that is the true appearance of this bright goddess. The true appearance of Rada is a beautiful young girl. It usually appears somewhere in a forest or meadow, often near a river or lake, which emphasizes the proximity of the water element, at dawn or before sunset. Rada smiles at everyone she meets during her walks.

God Yarilo-Sun (Yarila)

God Yarilo-Sun (Yarila)— The Most Serene Heavenly God-Patron of Earthly Life. Yarila is the patron saint of All Bright, Pure, Kind, Heartfelt Thoughts and Thoughts of people.

Yarila is the guardian of Good and Pure Hearts and our daylight Sun, which gives everyone living on Midgard-Earth warming warmth, love and a full life. The image of Yarila the Sun is often depicted in everyday life in the form of various swastika symbols and horses.

God Horse

God Horse- The Solar God is the Patron of good weather, giving grain growers a rich Harvest. cattle breeders have a healthy offspring of livestock, hunters have a successful hunt, fishermen have an abundant catch. God Khors patronized diverse trade and exchange between Clans and tribes. Khors is the Guardian God of the Earth Khors (planet Mercury).

God Indra

God Indra- Supreme God. Gromovnik, assistant to the Supreme God Perun in the Heavenly battles to protect the Most Pure Svarga and all the Starry Heavens from the forces of Darkness.

Indra is the Thousand-Eyed Guardian God of the Bright Heavens and the Heavenly Halls of the Highest Gods on.

He is the keeper of the Divine Swords and the Sacred Divine Weapons of Just Retribution, which are given to him for safekeeping by thirty Protector Gods of the Light Worlds when they rest from Heavenly battles with the Dark Forces.

These thirty Light Protector Gods make up the mighty Heavenly squad of the Thunder God Indra, whose purpose is to protect the Frontiers of the Light Worlds.

The Supreme God Indra has always been the patron saint of the Von-defenders of the Fatherland, as well as for all the Priests-Priests from the most ancient Clans, in which the Ancient Sacred Vedas are stored.

Indra participates not only in Heavenly battles with Dark forces - in ancient times He helped the Slavic and Aryan armies and squads in fair battles with enemy forces that attacked various cities and villages of the Great Race.

In addition, it is believed that God Indra brings down swift streams of rain from the cloudy mountains and, collecting them in special containers, creates earthly springs, streams and rivers, multiplies their waters, grows wide channels for them and directs their flow.

Anthem-Pravslavl:

O Indra! Hear those who call upon Thee! Glorious and Trislaven be you! And help us in battles with our enemies! And grant us help in the deeds sent! And we speak Glory to You and say, Great Indra! And the greatness of Glory, may it be the lot of the Thunderer, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Perun

God Perun(Perkunas, Perkon, Perk, Purusha) - Patron God of all warriors and many Clans from the Great Race, protector of the Lands and Clans of the Svyatorus (Russians, Belarusians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Latgalians, Semigallians, Polans, Serbs, etc.) from Dark forces, God the Thunderer, ruler of Lightning, son of God Svarog and Lada the Mother of God, grandson of God Vyshenya. Patron God of the Hall of the Eagle in the Svarog Circle. God Perun has already arrived on Midgard-Earth three times to protect it and the Clans of the Great Race from the dark forces of the Pekel World.

Dark forces come from different Halls of the Pekel World in order to lure people from the Clans of the Great Race to their full by deception, flattery and cunning, and if this does not help, then they kidnap people in order to turn them all into obedient slaves in their dark World and not let them opportunities to spiritually develop and move along the Golden Path, as was established by God Svarog.

Dark forces penetrate not only Midgard-Earth, but also other Light Lands in Svarga the Most Pure. And then a battle occurs between the forces of Light and Darkness. Perun already once freed our Ancestors from Pekelnoye captivity and blocked the Interworld Gates leading to Hell on Midgard-Earth with the Caucasus Mountains.

These battles of Light and Darkness took place at certain intervals: “after the expiration of the Svarog Circle and the Ninety-Nine Circles of Life”, those. in 40,176 years.

After the first three Heavenly Battles between Light and Darkness, when the Light Forces won, God Perun descended to Midgard-Earth to tell people about the events that had taken place and what awaited the Earth in the future, about the onset of dark times and about the upcoming Great Assas, t .e. Heavenly Battles.

Fluctuations in time between the Third and the upcoming decisive Fourth Battle of Light and Darkness can constitute, in addition to the time indicated above by Perun, only one Circle of Life, i.e. 144 Leta.

There are also Legends that God Perun visited Midgard-Earth several more times in order to tell the Hidden Wisdom to the Priests and Elders of the Clans of the Holy Race, how to prepare for dark, difficult times, when the Arm of our swastika galaxy will pass through spaces subject to forces from Dark Worlds Inferno.

Dark forces that have secretly penetrated Midgard-Earth are creating all sorts of false religious Cults and are specifically trying to destroy or denigrate the Cult of God Perun, erase it from the memory of peoples, so that by the time of the Fourth, decisive battle between Light and Darkness, when Perun arrives on Midgard-Earth , people did not know who He was and for what purpose He came.

In our time, a large number of “true” prophecies have appeared about the End of the World or the End of Times, especially in the Lunar Cults, about the coming to Midgard-Earth of the Supreme God the Savior. Followers of one world religion call him Christ, and other religions call him Messiah, Mosheach, Buddha, Matreya, etc. All this is done so that during the coming of Perun to Earth, white people do not recognize in Him their Supreme God and reject His help, and thereby doom themselves to complete humiliation and destruction.

During his Third visit to Midgard-Earth, about 40,000 years ago, Perun told in Irian Asgard to people from various Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans the Sacred Wisdom about the future, which the Priests of Belovodye wrote down in the X'Aryan Runes and preserved for descendants in the Nine Circles " Santiy Vedas of Perun" (in the nine "Books of Wisdom of God Perun").

Anthem-Pravslav Line:

Perun! Hear those who call upon Thee! Glorious and Trislaven be you! Grant the goodness of the Light of Peace to the entire Holy Race! Show your beautiful face to your descendants! Instruct us in good deeds, grant the people of the world more Glory and courage. Turn us away from the lesson of dissipation, give our Clans a multitude of people, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Dodola-Virgin

Goddess Dodola-Virgin (Perunitsa)- Heavenly Goddess of abundant Fertility, who controls rain, thunderstorms and lightning, wife and helper of the Supreme God Perun.

Only female Priestesses serving Her had the right to make requests to the Heavenly Goddess Dodola-Virgin. Therefore, when people needed rain to water fields and meadows, representatives of different Clans brought rich Gifts to the Temple of Dodola-Virgin so that the Priestesses would perform the ancient Rite of Calling Rain.

During the ancient Rite of Appeal to the Goddess, the Priestesses wore their white dresses with a special ornament and with golden fringe at the bottom and performed an ancient ritual rain dance, asking the great Goddess Dodola-Virgin to send down blessed rain on the fields and meadows. And there has never been a single case in my life when the Goddess Dodola-Virgin refused her faithful Priestesses.

Dazhdbog

Dazhdbog- God Tarkh Perunovich, Guardian God of the ancient Great Wisdom.

He was called Dazhdbog (the giving God) for giving the people of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Family, Nine Santiy (Books).

These Santias, written down by ancient Runes, contain the Sacred Ancient Vedas, the Commandments of Tarkh Perunovich and his instructions. There are various Idols and Images depicting God Tarkh.

In many Images he holds a gaitan with a Swastika in his hand.

Tarkh is very often called the many-wise son of God Perun, the grandson of God Svarog, the great-grandson of God Vyshen, which is true*.

* corresponds to the truth - although there is also an erroneous opinion: Tarkha Dazhdbog in many ancient sources is very often called Svarozhich, i.e. Heavenly God, and many ancient researchers interpret this in such a way that Dazhdbog is the son of God Svarog.

Dazhdbog is the giver of all blessings, happiness and prosperity. Tarkh Dazhdbog was glorified in sacred and folk songs and hymns not only for the happy and worthy life of the Clans of the Great Race, but also for deliverance from the forces of the Dark World. Tarkh did not allow the victory of the dark forces from the Pekel World, which were gathered by the Koschei on the nearest Moon - Lele, in order to capture Midgard-Earth.

Tarkh Dazhdbog destroyed the Moon along with all the dark forces that were on it. This is reported “Santiy of the Vedas of Perun. First Circle: “You have been living peacefully on Midgard since ancient times, when the world was established... Remembering from the Vedas about the deeds of Dazhdbog, how he destroyed the strongholds of the Koschei, which were located on the nearest Moon... Tarkh did not allow the insidious Koschei to destroy Midgard, as they destroyed Deya... These Koshchei, the rulers of the Grays, disappeared along with the Moon in half... But Midgard paid for freedom, hidden by the Great Flood... The waters of the Moon created that Flood, they fell to Earth from Heaven like a rainbow, for the Moon split into pieces and an army of Svarozhiches descended to Midgard"(Santiya 9, shlokas 11-12). In memory of this event, a unique ritual with deep meaning** appeared, performed by all Orthodox people every Summer, on the great spring Slavic-Aryan holiday - Easter.

** A ritual with deep meaning - this ritual is well known to everyone. On Paskhet (Easter) colored eggs are struck against each other to see whose egg is stronger. The broken egg was called the Egg of the Koshcheev, i.e. the destroyed Moon (Lelei), and the whole egg was called the Power of Tarkh Dazhdbog.

Dazhdbog Tarkh Perunovich is the Patron God of the Palace of the Race in the Svarozh Circle.

Very often in various ancient Vedic texts, Tarkha Perunovich is asked to help people from the Clans of the Great Race by his beautiful sister, the golden-haired Goddess Tara. Together they performed good deeds and helped people settle in the vast expanses of Midgard-Earth. God Tarkh indicated the best place to place a settlement and build a Temple or Sanctuary, and his sister, Goddess Tara, told people from the Great Race which trees should be used for construction. In addition, she trained people to plant new forests in place of felled trees, so that new trees needed for construction would grow for their descendants. Subsequently, many Clans began to call themselves the grandchildren of Tarkh and Tara, and the territories in which these Clans settled were called Great Tartaria, i.e. the land of Tarha and Tara.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Dazhdbog Tarkh Perunovich! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We thank You, the giver of all blessings, happiness and prosperity. And we proclaim great Glory to You for your help in our good deeds, and for your help in our military deeds, and against dark enemies and all unrighteous evil. May Your Great Power come with all our Clans, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Alive (Virgo Jiva, Diva)

Goddess Alive (Virgo Jiva, Diva)— Goddess of Eternal Universal Life, Goddess of young and pure Human Souls.

The Goddess Jiva gives each person from the Great Race, or the descendant of the Heavenly Family, a pure and bright Soul at birth in the World of Reveal, and after a righteous earthly life she gives the person to drink the Divine Suritsa from the Cup of Eternal Life.

The Goddess is Alive, is the personification of the fruitful power of Life, eternal youth, youth and love, as well as the highest Beauty of all Nature and man.

Patron Goddess of the Chamber of the Virgin in the Svarog Circle. It is believed that when the Yarilo-Sun is in the Heavenly Palace of the Virgin, children are born endowed with special feelings, such as: foreseeing great changes in people’s lives and predicting formidable natural phenomena, the ability to understand any confusing situation.

Goddess Jiva is the kind-hearted wife and savior of Tarkh Dazhdbog. She also imparts tenderness, kindness, cordiality and attentiveness to pregnant women and nursing mothers from the Clans of the Great Race, who observe ancient family traditions and the centuries-old Tribal way of life.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Jiva Mother! Shower Guardian! You are the Patroness of all our families! We call upon Thee, We glorify Thee, We magnify Thee as the giver of Bright Souls! Give comfort to all people, and give reproduction to our ancient families. And You will come, eternally in our hearts, now and ever and from Circle to Circle. So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Agni (Tsar-Fire, Living Fire)

God Agni (Tsar-Fire, Living Fire)— Heavenly God-Patron of the Sacred Fire of Creation.

God Agni controls the festive Rituals with Fire, bloodless sacrifices.

He is revered in all Clans of Orthodox Old Believers-Iiglings, and in every altar, near the Idol of God Agni, a living Sacred Fire was always maintained.

It is believed that if the Sacred Fire goes out in the altar of God Agni, then the lands of these Clans will stop producing good harvests, craftsmen will forget how to make the necessary utensils, weavers will stop weaving good, high-quality fabric, storytellers will forget all the ancient traditions of their Ancient Clans. Dark times will last until people light the Sacred Fire of God Agni in the altar and in their hearts.

God Semargl (Fire God)

Description of Semargl, compiled on the basis of the works of A. Khinevich “Slavic-Aryan Vedas”

God Semargl (Fire God)— The Most High God, the guardian of the Eternally Living Fire and the guardian of the strict observance of all Fire Rites and Fiery Purifications.

Semargl accepts Fiery Gifts, Requirements and bloodless Sacrifice on ancient Slavic and Aryan holidays, especially on Krasnogor, on the Day of God Kupala and on the Supreme Day of God Perun, being a mediator between people and all the Heavenly Gods.

Fire God Semargl is the Patron God of the Hall of the Heavenly Serpent in the Svarozh Circle.

The Fire God joyfully blesses all people from the Clans of the Great Race, who with pure Soul and Spirit observe all the Heavenly Laws and the Many-Wise Commandments of the Light Gods and Ancestors.

Semargl is also called upon in the treatment of sick animals and people, in order to save patients from various ailments and diseases. When a person’s temperature rose, they said that Fire God settled in the Soul of the sick person. For Semargl, like a Fire Dog, fiercely fights against illnesses and illnesses, which, like enemies, have entered the body or Soul of the sick person. Therefore, it is considered unacceptable to bring down a patient’s fever. The best place to cleanse yourself from illness is considered to be a bathhouse.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Semargl Svarozhich! Great Ognebozhich! Sleep with the pain, cleanse the womb of the child of the people, of every creature, old and young, You, God's delight. Cleansing with fire, opening the power of Souls, save the child of God, may the sickness disappear. We glorify you, we call you to us, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Birth of Semargl!

There are references to the emergence of Semargl from the flame. They say that once the heavenly blacksmith Svarog himself, striking a magic hammer on the stone, struck divine sparks from the stone. The sparks flared up brightly, and in their flames the fiery god Semargl appeared, sitting on a golden-maned horse of a silver color. But, seeming to be a quiet and peaceful hero, Semargl left a scorched trail wherever his horse stepped.

Beliefs associated with Semargl

The name of the God of Fire is not known for certain, most likely because his name is extremely sacred. Holiness is explained by the fact that this God does not live somewhere in the seventh heaven, but directly among earthly people! They try to pronounce his name out loud less often, usually replacing it with allegories.

The Slavs have long associated the emergence of people with Fire. According to some legends, the Slavic Gods created a Man and a Woman from two sticks, between which a Fire flared up - the very first flame of love. Semargl also does not allow evil into the world.

At night, Semargl stands guard with a fiery sword, and only one day a year does he leave his post, responding to the call of the Bathing Lady, who calls him to love games on the day of the Autumn Equinox. And on the day of the Summer Solstice, 9 months later, children are born to Semargl and Kupalnitsa - Kostroma and Kupalo.

Semargl mediator between people and gods

Semargl accepts Fiery Gifts, Requirements and bloodless Sacrifice on ancient holidays, especially on Krasnogor, on the Day of God Kupala and on the highest Day of God Perun, and is a mediator between people and all Heavenly Gods.

Semargl is called upon in the treatment of sick animals and people, in order to save the sick from various ailments and diseases. When a person has a fever, they say that Fire God has settled in the Soul of the sick person. For Semargl, like a Fire Dog, fiercely fights against illnesses and illnesses, which, like enemies, have entered the body or Soul of the sick person. Therefore, it is considered unacceptable to bring down a patient’s fever. The best place to cleanse yourself from illness is considered to be a bathhouse.

God Semargl in Slavic mythology:
God Semargl in pagan mythology was one of the sons of the great god Svarog. Svarog's children were called Svarozhichi, and his son Semargl after birth becomes the god of earthly fire.
One of the Svarozhichs was the god of fire - Semargl, who is sometimes mistakenly only considered a heavenly dog, the guardian of seeds for sowing. This (storing seeds) was constantly carried out by a much smaller deity - Pereplut.

Mentions of the name Semargl in chronicles

The name of Semargl is mentioned in Russian chronicles - the pantheon of the book. Vladimir, it supposedly came from the old Russian “smag” (“Follow him I will call Karn, and Zhlya jump across the Russian land, Smag mooing in a flaming rose” i.e. fire, a tongue of flame, Fire-Svarozhich - half dog, half snake. Probably , the mediator between the waking world and the heavenly world, which in the Vedic tradition is the god of fire - Agni. He is also the foam (fire) serpent from the conspiracies. Mentioned in the Paisevsky collection of St. Gregory (14th century) and the Chrysostom collection of 1271. Fire God - Yognegod. according to the “Veda of the Slavs” by Verkovich, among the Pomak Bulgarians:

Fala ti Yogne God!
Fala ti Yasnu Sun!
You heat it up on the ground.
Pecking the chickadee into the ground...
Pokrivash e tsarna Muggle,
ta sa nishu and gleda.

He is, quite possibly, Rarog, Rarogek is the son of Svarog, according to Czech medieval sources.
The identification of this god with the Iranian Senmurv (a giant magical bird) is considered unjustified, but there is probably a connection with the firebird (the fiery messenger of happiness), which brings his happiness.

Simargl (Old Russian Semargl, Simargl, Sim-Rgl) - in East Slavic mythology, a deity who was one of the seven (or eight) deities of the Old Russian pantheon (see article Slavic mythology), whose idols were installed in Kyiv under the prince Vladimir (980). The name Semargl apparently goes back to the ancient *Sedmor(o)-golvъ, “Seven heads” (cf. the polycephaly characteristic of the Slavic gods, in particular the seven-headed Ruevit). According to another, more controversial hypothesis (K.V. Trever and others), the name and image of Semargl is an Iranian borrowing and goes back to the mythical bird Senmurv. D. Worth connects Semargl with the Dove bird. Semargl's functions are unclear; they are probably associated with the sacred number seven and the embodiment of the seven-membered ancient Russian pantheon. It is characteristic that in some texts of the Kulikovo Cycle the name Semargl is distorted into Rakliy, and this deity is considered as a pagan, Tatar. Lit.: Trever K.V., Sanmurv-Paskudzh, L., 1937; Jakobson R., While reading Vasmer’s dictionary, in his book: Selected writings, v. 2, The Hague-P., 1971; Worth D., Dub-Simyrj, in the book: East Slavic and general linguistics, M., 1978, p. 127-32.
"Myths of the Peoples of the World"

Semargl - the most mysterious deity of the Slavs

This cult developed among the Slavs under the influence of Scythian influence approximately 3 thousand years ago. Semargl, in all likelihood, meant “seed”. This deity was not the most popular among the ancient Slavs, but probably remained the most mysterious to this day. Simargl is a sacred winged dog that protects seeds and crops, revered along with the ancient Russian coast guards. Even in the Bronze Age, among Slavic tribes there is an image of dogs jumping and tumbling around young shoots. Apparently, these dogs protected crops from small livestock: chamois, roe deer, wild goats. Semargl among the Slavs was the embodiment of armed good, “good with teeth,” as well as claws and even wings. In some tribes Semargl was called Pereplut; the cult of this deity was associated with festivals in honor of mermaids, as well as bird-maidens, who were deities of irrigating fields with rain. Rituals in honor of Semargl and the mermaids were held in early January and consisted of prayers for water for the new harvest. Another major holiday of Semargl and mermaids was mermaid week from June 19 to 24, ending with the holiday of Kupala. Archaeologists in many female burials of the 10th - 11th centuries. They discovered silver hoop bracelets that fastened the long sleeves of women's shirts. During ritual pagan games, women before dancing took off their bracelets and danced “carelessly”, depicting mermaids. This dance was dedicated to the winged dog Semargl, and, apparently, the legend of the frog princess came from him. During the ritual, all participants drank a sacred drink prepared with herbs. Gifts were brought to Semarglu-Pereplut, his image in the form of a dog, most often cups with the best wine. In rare surviving images, the sacred dog Semargl was depicted as if growing from the ground. From written sources it becomes clear that the Semarglu ritual took place with the obligatory participation of boyars and princesses, who brought rich gifts to the idol.

“World cults and rituals. The power and strength of the ancients." Compiled by Yu.A. Matyukhina. -M.:RIPOL classic, 2011. Pp. 150-151.
Some researchers compare Simargl with the Iranian deity Simurgh (Senmurv), a sacred winged dog, guardian of plants. According to B.A. Rybakov, Simargl in Rus' in the 12th-13th centuries was replaced by Pereplut, which had the same meaning as Semargl. Obviously, Semargl was the deity of some tribe, subject to the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir.
Balyazin V.N. “Unofficial history of Russia. Eastern Slavs and the invasion of Batu. - M.: OLMA Media Group, 2007., pp. 46-47

Here is my vision of the Slavic god Semargl, born on the basis of personal study of legends and traditions:

Semargl Ognebog is probably one of the most mysterious light gods of the Slavic world.

Its mystery lies in the fact that many Slavic Gods were created by man in “his own likeness” and had a completely human appearance, and Semargl had the image of a winged fiery wolf.

Most likely, the image of Semargl is older than the “humanized” images of the gods……. And it may be the key to your inner strength. Look around you will not see flying fire wolves, there are none outside until you find it inside. Our external world is a reflection of the internal, do not look for gods outside, find them inside yourself and then they will appear outside.

Semargl lives in you - this is your spiritual fire, crushing the chains of ignorance, this is the fire of sacred rage, sweeping away the enemy's outposts on its way, this is the heat of the body, defeating the body's diseases, this is the fire in the furnace, warming you.... in modern understanding - this is even nuclear energy. All this is the god Semargl, or rather his manifestations

According to legend, Semargl was born from the blow of Svarog’s hammer on the Alatyr stone: from the splashing sparks, a flame shot up, and a rider on a golden-maned horse appeared in the fire.

The imagery of the ancient language speaks of the interaction of divine forces, which there is no point in revealing, because their divinity will be lost. Our language is a limited tool, especially after the cutting off of its imagery and the reform carried out by the Bolsheviks. The appearance of Semargl is facilitated by several forces, and at all levels of existence they are similar: the force of friction and impact. The blow of Svarog’s hammer on the anvil of Alatyr gives birth to Semargl, the blow of a wave of your anger against insurmountable circumstances ignites a sacred rage in you, the blow of a flint and a steel against each other causes the fire of the material world, the interaction of two nuclei causes a nuclear explosion.....the interaction of your spiritual and material principles causes spiritual fire.

Semargl's mission is simple and at the same time complex: the Winged Wolf does not let the dark principle from the manifest world into the world of Rule, standing guard over Reveal with a “burning” sword. He is the keeper of the interworld between reality and rule, although Nav is also available to him, and can come from Navi.....

He is the shield and sword of the human world - he can protect, warm, protect, heal, or he can destroy and destroy everything in his path.

The keys and connection to Semargl are stored in your subconscious. And you will receive them only when you become holistic and do not use this power for selfish purposes, when your consciousness is cleared of the dark spots of ignorance, then you learn to consciously use its power. The Slavic Gods will not entrust a nuclear bomb to a child, and the power of Semargl is hidden behind seven seals, which will be revealed only to pure consciousness.

Accept the image of Semargl, feel the divine fire in your soul, help others understand and accept the Native Gods. Help Semargl spread his wings in each of us, help awaken strength, rage and wolfish agility. To the Glory of Our Gods and Ancestors!

Stribog

Stribog- is the God who controls lightning, whirlwinds, hurricanes, winds and sea storms on Midgard-Earth. We turn to him when a rain cloud is needed during a dry period, or vice versa, during a rainy period when it is necessary for Stribog to disperse the clouds and the Yarilo-Sun to warm the fields, gardens and orchards filled with moisture.

Stribog also controls the winds and sandstorms on the Earth of Oreya (Mars). In addition, Stribog is the Patron God of the Earth of Stribog (Saturn) in the Yarila-Sun system. But most of all, our ancestors revered Stribog as the destroyer of all kinds of atrocities and the destroyer of evil intentions.

God Varuna (God of the World Waters)

God Varuna— God, who controls the Element of movement of the Starry Sky and oversees the sacred paths that connect the Gates of Interworld in different Halls of Svarga the Most Pure.

Varuna is the God who rules the roads of Human Fates. Only God Varuna can determine the power of Spiritual Formation and the completeness of fulfillment of a person’s Life Purpose.

Raven is the Veshaya bird, the faithful companion of the Ruler God Varuna. He accompanies the Souls of the dead to the Vyria Gate in the Great Most Pure Svarga and informs the Navya Souls about what high goals they have achieved in their Spiritual and Soul development and in fulfilling their Life Purpose on Midgard-Earth.

If God Varuna decides that a person needs to be given the opportunity to complete the work he has begun, which he did not have time to complete due to sudden death, then he sends his assistant, Raven, to Dunya of the deceased person.

Raven, the guardian of Living and Dead Water, makes it possible for the Soul of the deceased to return to his own body, so that a person, returning to the World of Revealing, can complete his unfinished work.

In the World of Reveal they say about such a person: “he experienced clinical death” or “he returned from the other world.” Oddly enough, after the God-Manager Varuna returns a person to his former life, the person changes his behavior, does not waste his life in vain and completes the work that he did not have time to finish.

If a person cannot be returned to his own body due to his complete destruction, then the Heavenly God Varuna asks the Goddess Karna to find a suitable body for this Navya Soul.

God Kolyada

God Kolyada— The Supreme God, who controls the Great Changes in the life of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

In ancient times, the Supreme God Kolyada gave many Clans who moved to the western lands a system of calculating seasonal time for conducting field work - the Calendar (Kolyada's gift), as well as his Wise Vedas, commandments and instructions.

Kolyada is the Patron God of military men and Priests. Kolyada was often depicted with a sword in her hand, with the blade of the sword facing downwards.

In ancient times, a sword with its tip facing downwards meant the preservation of the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors, as well as unshakable adherence to the Heavenly Laws, as established by God Svarog for all the Halls of the Svarog Circle.

The holiday in honor of God Kolyada falls on the day of the winter solstice; this holiday is also called Menari, i.e. Day of Change. On the holiday, groups of men dressed in the skins of various animals (mummers), who were called Kolyada squads, walked around the courtyards. They sang hymns glorifying Kolyada and organized special round dances around sick people to heal them.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Bose Kolyada! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We thank You for your gracious help to our Childbirth! And may You be our intercessor in all our deeds, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Bog Sventovit

Bog Sventovit— The Supreme Heavenly God, who brings the Pure Spiritual Light of Goodness, Love, Illumination and Enlightenment of the World, Rules in the Souls of all White people from the Clans of the Great Race, as well as in the Souls of the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

Orthodox ancestors from various Slavic-Aryan Communities revere God Sventovit for his daily Spiritual help in all good creative deeds and endeavors that are aimed at the benefit and prosperity of our Ancient Clans.

At the holidays in honor of God Sventovit, competitions were held in the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom among young people. Only those young people who had already reached the Circle of Years* were allowed to compete in the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom.

* reached the Circle of Years - i.e. age 16 years.

The point of the competitions held by the Priests of Sventovit was to determine how developed the Ancestral memory, imaginative thinking, intuition, dexterity and ingenuity were in the younger generation.

At the very beginning of the competition, the Priests of Sventovit asked young people questions on various topics and riddles. The winner was the one who answered the most questions and riddles faster and wittily. Then, for the winners of the first competition, competitions were held that determined the dexterity and skill of young people in various martial arts, skill in handling a sword and knife, and accuracy in archery.

Those that passed the above tests were also tested for endurance; For this purpose, young people went to the forest for three weeks, or, as they said in the old days, for thirty days.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Sventovit, our Light Bose! We glorify and glorify You, all the dear! And You enlighten our Souls and send down illumination into our hearts, for You are the Good God, and to all our Clans. We magnify You from eternity and call upon You in our Clans, may our Souls be with You, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle, and at all times, as long as the Yarilo-Sun shines on us!

God Kupala (Kupala)

God Kupala (Kupala)- God, who gives a person the opportunity to perform all sorts of Ablutions and conducts Rituals of Cleansing the Body, Soul and Spirit from various ailments and diseases. God who guides you to a joyful and happy life.

Kupala is a cheerful and beautiful God, dressed in light white robes decorated with flowers. On the head of God Kupala there is a wreath of beautiful flowers.

Kupala was revered as the God of the warm time of Summer, wild flowers and wild fruits.

Many Slavic-Aryan Clans engaged in field farming revered God Kupala along with the Goddess Makosh and Goddess Tara, as well as the Gods Perun and Veles.

Before the start of the harvest and the collection of field fruits, a holiday was celebrated in honor of God Kupala, at which bloodless sacrifices were made to God Kupala, as well as to all the Ancient Gods and Ancestors.

On the holiday, Orthodox ancestors throw their bloodless sacrifices and prayers into the fire of the Holy Swastika Altar, so that everything sacrificed appears on the festive tables of the Gods and Ancestors.

After making bloodless sacrifices from the living fire of the Holy Swastika Altar, the Communities light candles and firelights, which they fasten on wreaths and rafts and send them down the rivers.

At the same time, on a candle or fire, Orthodox ancestors from various Communities say their innermost desire or request for deliverance from illnesses, all kinds of failures, various problems, etc. This ritual can be explained as follows.

A burning candle or firelight illuminates the request or desire of the Communities, the river water remembers them and, evaporating, rises to Heaven, conveying to the Gods all the requests and desires of the Orthodox ancestors.

At the holiday, each of the Orthodox ancestors must undergo complete purification in order to begin collecting the fruits of the field and begin the field harvest. A complete cleanse consists of three parts:

First cleansing (Body cleansing). Everyone present at the holiday on God's Day Kupala must wash their body in sacred waters (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, etc.) to wash away fatigue and dirt.

Second cleansing (Cleansing of the Soul). In order for those present at the holiday on the Day of God Kupala to purify their Soul, large bonfires are lit, and everyone jumps over these bonfires, for Fire burns away all ailments and cleanses the aura and Soul of a person.

Third purification (Purification of the Spirit). Everyone present at the holiday on the Day of God Kupala, as well as those who wish, can cleanse and strengthen their Spirit. To do this, a Circle of Fire is created from the burning coals of a large fire, along which people from various Tribal, Slavic and Aryan Communities walk barefoot. Those who wish to walk through the coals for the first time in order to cleanse and strengthen their Spirit are led by the Community by the hand through the Circle of Fire.

This holiday is inextricably linked with another ancient event. In ancient times, God Perun freed his sisters from captivity in the Caucasus and sent them to cleanse themselves in the waters of the Holy Iriya (Irtysh) and in the Smetannoe Clean Lake (Zaisan Island). This event is also narrated in the fifth ball of Songs of the Bird Gamayun.

Due to the fact that Kupala is the Patron God of the Heavenly Palace of the Horse in the Svarog Circle, on this day it is customary to bathe horses, braid multi-colored ribbons into their manes and decorate them with wildflowers.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Kupala, our Bose! Glorious and Trislaven be forever! We glorify you all the Motherland, we call you to our lands! Grant us all purification, for our Bozeh to rule! Grant to our families a bountiful harvest in the suffering fields, and full bins in our mansions. Now and forever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Chislobog

Chislobog- The Wise, Supreme God, who controls the flow of the River of Time, as well as the Guardian God of the Daarian Circle and various priestly systems of the Slavic-Aryan chronology.

In his left hand Chislobog holds a sword pointing downwards, which symbolizes constant protection and all-round preservation, and in his right hand Chislobog holds his shield, on which is inscribed the Ancient Runic calendar, called the Daarian (Daar) Circle of Chislobog.

According to the Daarian Circle of Chislobog, various chronological calculations were previously carried out in all Slavic and Aryan lands. These systems were used before the forced Christianization of the peoples of Rus' and Europe and before the introduction of a new chronology from the Nativity of Christ (the use of the Slavic-Aryan chronology systems according to the Daarsky Circle of Chislobog in the Russian lands was abolished by Tsar Peter Alekseevich Romanov in the Summer of 7208 from the Creation of the World in the Star Temple (1700) . AD).

Currently, only the Priests-Priests of the Ves Spiritual Administrations and the Elders of the Slavic, Aryan and Tribal Communities of the Old Russian Church of Orthodox Old Believers use different systems of chronology according to the Daaryan Krugolet of Chislobog.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Glorious and Trislaven be, our Chislovog! You, the guardian of the flow of life in the Most Pure Svarga, endowing our belly with a period of understanding of our Yavnago World, and You indicate when Yaril the Sun rises, when the Moons and Stars shine. And grant us, according to Your great Goodness, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of our Clans, to sing to God and our Ancestors Great Glory, as You are a virtue and a lover of mankind. And we all sing the Glory of You, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Karna

Goddess Karna— Heavenly Goddess-Patroness of all new births and human reincarnations**.

**human reincarnations - i.e. new birth on Midgard-Earth in order to fully fulfill your life lesson. On behalf of the Goddess Karna, words appeared that have survived to this day, these are: incarnation - a temporary incarnation on Midgard-Earth in order to complete one’s earthly lesson, interrupted as a result of an accident, by inhabiting the body of another person; reincarnation is a new incarnation of a person on Midgard-Earth in the body of a newborn child in order to continue his interrupted life path and fulfill his earthly lesson.

Goddess Karna grants the right to every person to get rid of mistakes and unseemly actions committed in his Manifest life and to fulfill his destiny prepared by the Supreme God of the Family.

It depends on the Heavenly Goddess Karna in what area on our Midgard-Earth, in which of the ancient Clans of the Great Race, in what conditions and at what historical time the new incarnation of man will take place. So that a person can complete it with dignity, honor and a clear Conscience in another World.

Goddess Tara (Tarina, Taya, Tabiti)

Goddess Tara (Tarina, Taya, Tabiti)- the younger sister of God Tarkh, named Dazhdbog, daughter of the Heavenly God Perun.

Goddess Tara always sparkles with kindness, love, tenderness, care and attention. Her grace is poured out not only on Nature, but also on people.

The eternally beautiful Goddess Tara is the Heavenly Guardian of the Sacred Groves, Forests, Oak Forests and Sacred Trees of the Great Race - Oak, Cedar, Elm, Birch and Ash.

Due to the fact that the Goddess Tara, together with her older brother Tarkh Dazhdbog, protect the endless lands of Belovodye and the Holy Race, these territories are called the lands of Tarkh and Tara, i.e. Great Tartaria.

Goddess Share (Srecha)

Goddess Share (Srecha)— Heavenly Goddess of good fortune, happiness and good luck in life and creative deeds. This is the eternally beautiful, young Heavenly Weaver who spins the wonderful thread of human life.

The Goddess Dolya is a very skilled craftswoman and needlewoman. From her emerald spindle flows a smooth and strong, golden thread of a person’s life and destiny, which she holds tightly in her tender and tender hands.

Goddess Dolya is the youngest daughter of the Heavenly Mother of God Mokosh and the younger sister of the Goddess Nedolya.

Goddess Nedolya (Nesrecha)

Goddess Nedolya (Nesrecha)— Heavenly Goddess, who endows various people and their children with an unhappy fate for violating the Laws of RITA (Heavenly Laws on the Purity of Family and Blood) and the Blood Commandments. She is an elderly Woman who spins a special thread of human life.

From its old granite spindle flows a crooked, uneven and fragile gray thread of the life and fate of a person punished by the lesson of God. When a person completely fulfills the lesson of the Gods, Nedolya breaks the gray thread of his life, and the person, freed from an unhappy fate, goes to the World of the Ancestors, or weaves the golden thread of his younger sister into the person’s fate.

Goddess Nedolya is the eldest daughter of the Heavenly Mother of God Mokosh and the elder sister of the Goddess Doli.

Goddess Lelya

Goddess Lelya— Forever young and forever beautiful Heavenly Goddess. Lelya is the guardian of eternal, mutual, pure and constant Love.

She is a caring and gentle Patron Goddess of seminal happiness, marital harmony and all kinds of well-being, not only in all Clans of the Great Race, but also in all Clans of the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

Goddess Lelya is the obedient daughter of the Supreme God Svarog and the Heavenly Mother of God Lada Mother.

She is a kind, caring and gentle wife of God Volkh, guardian of the Heavenly Halls of Volhalla. Lelya protects His peace and comfort, and the Goddess Valkyrie helps her.

In these Halls, She takes care not only of her beloved husband, but also takes upon herself the responsibility of treating the guests of Volhalla, the warriors who fell in battles and the Heavenly Gods - the Companions of her husband.

In ancient times, the people of the Great Race named one of the nearby Moons of Midgard-Earth in honor of her - Lelei.

Goddess Zarya-Zaryanitsa (Mertsana)

Goddess Zarya-Zaryanitsa (Mertsana)- Heavenly Goddess - Ruler of the dawn and Patron Goddess of a good, bountiful harvest.

This Goddess was especially revered by rural residents, for She contributes to the speedy ripening of abundant harvests and fruits, therefore, nationwide services were performed in Her honor and they asked Her for a good harvest.

In ancient times, it was believed that this blessed Heavenly Goddess-Manager had her beautiful shining Halls on the second Earth from Yarila the Sun (in the modern astronomical system this is the planet Venus), which is why they called her in all the Clans of the Great Race the Land of Dawn - Mertsans.

Mertsana, in addition, is the Patron Goddess of falling in love in early youth. Mostly young girls who fall in love with boys at gatherings and holidays turn to Zara-Mertsane.

In the Temple of the Goddess Mertsana, the girls brought various Gifts, jewelry woven from beads and amber, beautiful bouquets of bright wild and forest flowers, in order to find out from the Priestesses of the Goddess Mertsana what kind of betrothed the Heavenly Gods would give them.

Goddess Vesta

Goddess Vesta— Heavenly Goddess-Guardian of the Ancient Wisdom of the High Gods. The younger sister of the Goddess Madder, who brings peace and Winter to Earth.

Goddess Vesta is also called the Patroness of the Renewing World, the good Goddess of Spring, who controls the coming to earth of the Holy Race - Spring, and the awakening of the Nature of Midgard-Earth.

On the day of the Spring Equinox, a nationwide celebration was held in Her honor, and pancakes were always baked as a symbol of Yarila the Sun; Easter cakes, bagels and bagels with poppy seeds, as a symbol of the earth awakening after winter sleep; gingerbread cookies in the shape of larks and cookies with swastika symbols.

In addition, the Goddess Vesta symbolized not only the acquisition of the Ancient Wisdom of the High Gods by representatives of the Slavic and Aryan Clans, but also the receipt of pleasant, good news in each Clans of the Great Race.

Belobog

Belobog— Heavenly God-Guardian of the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. He is a generous giver of every blessing, happiness and joy to all hardworking people from the ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans. In ancient times, Belobog instructed our Many-Wise Ancestors to do creative work for the Glory and Greatness of all Clans of the Great Race. The Wise Belobog granted the good creators walking along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, and they created such beautiful creations that no one could repeat during the existence of life on Midgard-Earth.

Belobog not only protected the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, having gathered the bright Heavenly Host, from the encroachments of the evil Chernobog and his dark army, i.e. all the greedy followers of his ideas from the Worlds of Darkness, but also observed how Ancient Knowledge changes the consciousness of the inhabitants of the Border Worlds, which includes our Midgard-Earth.

Thanks to Belobog, creative people are born on the lands of the Manifest World, filling life with beauty, love, goodness and harmony, without which human life would be gray and uncomfortable.

Chernobog

Chernobog— God, who controls the Knowledge of the material World and cold reason, simple but iron logic and exorbitant egoism. He watches how the Ancient Knowledge of the World of Arlegs spreads across other Worlds and Realities.

Chernobog fled from his World to the Dark Worlds, because he violated the Heavenly Laws established by the Supreme God Svarog. He insidiously broke the seal from the Secret Ancient Knowledge of his World, which was guarded by Belobog. And the Ancient Knowledge of the World of Arlegs sounded throughout all the lower Worlds, right down to the darkest depths of the Pekelny World. He did this in order to obtain for himself, according to the law of universal correspondence, the Ancient Knowledge of the Highest Worlds. To justify himself and his actions before the Heavenly God Svarog, Chernobog gathers his supporters throughout all lands in the Worlds of Navi and Reveal. He tries to develop in his supporters greed, permissiveness, cold reason, iron logic and exorbitant selfishness.

Chernobog in our World on Midgard-Earth first gives a person the opportunity to touch the smallest particles of the Ancient Knowledge of his World and observes how a person will behave in such a situation.

If a person who has received the Knowledge of the Higher World begins to exalt himself above others, violates human and Heavenly Laws, then Chernobog begins to fulfill all his base desires.

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Map of Slavic lands
Territory of the Slavs

Unlike ancient mythology, well known from fiction and works of art, as well as the mythologies of the countries of the East, the texts of the myths of the Slavs have not reached our time, because at that distant time when the myths were created, they did not yet know writing.

In the 5th – 7th centuries after the Great Migration of Peoples, the Slavs occupied the territories of Central and Eastern Europe from the Elbe (Laba) to the Dnieper and Volga, from the southern shores of the Baltic Sea to the north of the Balkan Peninsula. Centuries passed, and the Slavs became increasingly separated from each other, forming three modern branches of the largest family of related peoples in Europe. Eastern Slavs are Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians; Western - Poles, Slovaks and Czechs (the Baltic Slavs were assimilated by their Germanic neighbors in the 12th century); southern - Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians. Despite the division of the Slavs, their mythologies have retained many common features to this day.

Thus, all Slavs know the myth about the duel between the thunder god and his demonic opponent and the victory of the thunderer; All Slavic traditions are familiar with the ancient custom of burning an effigy at the end of winter - the embodiment of dark evil forces or burying a mythical creature like Maslenitsa and Yarila among the Russians and Belarusians and Herman among the Bulgarians.

Slavic mythology and the religion of the Slavs were composed of the deification of the forces of nature and the cult of ancestors. The only supreme god, the “creator of lightning”, like Indra among the Hindus, Zeus among the Greeks, Jupiter among the Romans, Thor among the Germans, Perkunas among the Lithuanians - among the Slavs Perun. The concept of the thunder god merged among the Slavs with the concept of the sky in general (namely, the moving, cloudy sky), the personification of which some scientists see in Svarog. Other high gods were considered the sons of Svarog - Svarozhichi; such gods were the sun and fire.

The sun was deified under the name Dazhdbog, and Khorsa. Brother of Svarog, the most mysterious god and guardian of herds Veles originally also a solar god. All these names of the highest god are very ancient and were used everyone Slavs. Common Slavic ideas about the highest god received further development among individual Slavic tribes, new, more defined and more bizarre forms.

Thus, among the Western Slavs the highest god was considered Svyatovit, and corresponded to it Triglav- a three-headed idol that was worshiped in Shchetin (Stettin) and Wolin. In the city of Retra, the same highest god, the son of Svarog, was called Radegasta, and in Czech and Polish legends he appears under the name Kroka or Kraka.

Already ancient writers assumed that the name Svyatovit appeared as a result of the confusion of the pagan god with the Christian saint Vitus; the name Radegost was also supposed to be transferred to the god from the name of the city, and the city received this name from one of its princes. Krak, according to the legend of Kozma of Prague, was a wise and fair judge and ruler of the people. Whatever these guesses may be, there is no doubt that all the names listed meant the same high god and that they all appeared later.

The vague evidence that has reached us about the Slavic gods, which is explained in folk tales and songs, boils down to the struggle between the light and dark forces of nature, fertility and infertility, summer and winter, light and darkness, life and death, Belbog and Chernobog. Intertwined with these ideas were views on the afterlife and the cult of ancestors. The souls of the deceased lived in some distant country at the end of the world, where the sun sets; this country was called by the Slavs navyem, vyryem, iriya, paradise, hell. The deceased must be prepared for this country as if on a long journey, which is achieved by proper burial.

Until the funeral rites are performed, the soul wanders on earth; among the southern Slavs the soul in this state is called Vidogonya. The soul is doomed to eternal wandering on earth if the correct ritual has not been performed; Thus, the souls of girls or children who drowned in water become mermaids, waving, with a pitchfork. To make it easier for the deceased to travel to the kingdom of the dead, the Slavs resorted to burning: the fire of a funeral pyre instantly separated the soul from the body and sent it to heavenly dwellings.

Fight of Dobrynya Nikitich
with Zmey Gorynych

In the cult fire of the funeral pyre, P. N. Milyukov sees a connection between two independently emerging systems of religious ideas: the deification of the forces of nature and the cult of ancestors. On the one hand, fire was a manifestation on earth of the heavenly solar god, a messenger of the heavenly gods; on the other hand, he contributed to the purification of the soul of the deceased and thus himself turned into a symbol of the soul of the ancestor, which under the name Rhoda, Chura,brownie became a household deity, guardian of the family and clan. On the hearth, both of these meanings of fire merged into one inseparable whole; it equally honored the elemental heavenly god and the tribal deity of the family community.

This dual meaning of fire finds the most striking confirmation in the belief of the Western Slavs about a domestic creature (its Czech name is Křet, Slovenian Skrat), which, under the guise of a fiery serpent, flies through a pipe and brings the owner all kinds of bread and other fruits of the earth, and sometimes various treasures. In the Tula province there is a belief that from the day of Epiphany (winter solstice) a fiery serpent (sun) appears and visits red maidens (earth). By the time Christianity began to spread among the Slavs, Slavic mythology had not yet created such clear ideas about the gods as, for example, the Greeks had come to: the Slavic gods continued to merge with the elements that they personified and did not yet have clear anthropomorphic features. Likewise, the cult of ancestors among the Slavs had not yet developed into such distinct, complete forms and did not have such strict legal consequences as among the Greeks and Romans.

The religious views of the Slavs come down to those ancient layers of religious beliefs that constitute the common property of the peoples of the Aryan tribe: they formed before the beginning of the history of the Slavs as a separate tribal group and hardly moved further. Accordingly, they did not develop strict forms of cult, and there was no special priestly class. Only among the Baltic Slavs do we find a strong religious organization: idols for whom temples were erected, priests who performed divine services according to a certain order, with known rituals, who had a hierarchical structure and over time acquired the significance of a leading caste. Other Slavic tribes had neither public idols, nor temples, nor priests; Representatives of clan unions made sacrifices to the clan and heavenly gods. It was only under the influence of the Varangians that the Russian Slavs came to the idea of ​​depicting their gods in idols.

The first idols were placed by Vladimir, Prince of Kyiv, on the hill to Perun, Khorsu, Dazhdbog, and in Novgorod, Dobrynya - to Perun over Volkhov. Under Vladimir, for the first time, temples appeared in Rus', probably built by him, in which, according to the saga of Olav Trygveson, he himself made sacrifices. But under the same Vladimir, Christianity was introduced into Russia, which put an end to the development of the Slavic cult, although for a long time it was not yet able to supplant the remnants of pagan beliefs.

After the adoption of Christianity, the popular consciousness of the Slavs mixed the new faith with the old, partly merged their gods with Christian saints, partly relegated them to the position of “demons”, and partly remained faithful to their ancestral gods. Kozma of Prague († 1125) says: “and hitherto among many of the villagers, just like among pagans, some honor springs or fires, others adores forests or trees, or stones, others make sacrifices to mountains or hills, others bow to idols, deaf and dumb. which he made for himself, praying that they would rule his house and himself." By these idols Kozma obviously means the household gods, which the Czechs called with skrits And with grilles, among Russians - brownies, etc.; The Czech brownie Křet was depicted by the Czechs in the form of small bronze figurines, the size of a finger, which is why he was called Paleček (boy the size of a finger).

The most interesting reflection of Slavic mythology is the association of pagan beliefs with Christian holidays. Like other Aryan peoples, the Slavs imagined the entire cycle of the seasons as a continuous struggle and alternate victory of the light and dark forces of nature. The starting point of this cycle was the onset of a new year - the birth of a new sun. The Slavs incorporated the pagan content of this holiday into the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, and the celebration of Christmastide itself received the Greco-Roman name. carols.

The rituals with which the pagan Slavs greeted the onset of spring and the summer solstice were also, to a greater or lesser extent, timed to coincide with Christian holidays: such as Rusalia, Semik, Kupalo. Given the pagan nature of the holidays, the name of the holiday turned into the name of the deity in whose honor it was once celebrated. Thus, other Slavic gods appeared like Yarila, Kostroma, etc., the number of which probably increased thanks to the narrow-minded accusatory zeal of Christian missionaries, who did not think about the general religious thought of the Slavs and saw a special god in every name.

The originality of Slavic mythology, which, like any other, reflected the worldview of its creators, lies in the fact that their life was directly connected with the world of lower spirits that live everywhere. Some of them were credited with intelligence, strength, and benevolence, while others were credited with cunning, malice, and deceit. The ancients believed that all these creatures - beregins, pitchforks, watermen, field workers, etc., constantly interfere in their lives and accompany a person from the day of birth until death.

The Slavs believed that good and evil spirits were near them, that they helped to harvest a bountiful harvest and brought illnesses, promised a happy family life, order in the house and punished for unseemly deeds. The Slavs feared and revered the gods, of whom there were relatively few and who controlled natural phenomena and elements - thunderstorms, fire, rains, trying to appease them with prayers and sacrifices. Since the actual Slavic texts and images of gods and spirits have not been preserved due to the fact that Christianization interrupted the pagan tradition, the main source of information is medieval chronicles, teachings against paganism, chronicles, archaeological excavations, folklore and ethnographic collections. Information about the gods of the Western Slavs is very scarce, for example, “The History of Poland” by Jan Dlugosz (1415 - 1480), which gives a list of deities and their correspondence from Roman mythology: Nyya - Pluto, Devana - Venus, Marzana - Ceres.

Czech and Slovak data on the gods, as many scientists believe, need a critical attitude. Little is known about the mythology of the southern Slavs. Having early fallen into the sphere of influence of Byzantium and other powerful civilizations of the Mediterranean, having adopted Christianity before other Slavs, they largely lost information about the former composition of their pantheon. The mythology of the Eastern Slavs has been most fully preserved. We find early information about it in the “Tale of Bygone Years” (XII century), which reports that Prince Vladimir the Holy (? – 1015) sought to create a nationwide pagan pantheon. However, his adoption of Christianity in 988 entailed the destruction of the idols of the so-called Vladimirov pantheon (they were solemnly thrown into the Dnieper), as well as the ban on paganism and its rituals. The old gods began to be identified with Christian saints: the thunderer Perun turned into Saint Elijah, the god of wisdom Veles into Saint Blaise, the sun god Yarilo into Saint George. However, the mythological ideas of our ancestors continue to live in folk traditions, holidays, beliefs and rituals, as well as in songs, fairy tales, conspiracies and signs. Ancient mythological characters such as goblin, mermaids, merman, brownies and devils are vividly imprinted in speech, proverbs and sayings.

Developing, Slavic mythology went through three stages - spirits, nature deities and idol gods (idols). The Slavs revered the gods of life and death (Zhiva and Moran), fertility and the plant kingdom, heavenly bodies and fire, sky and war; not only the sun or water were personified, but also numerous house and forest spirits; worship and admiration were expressed in the offering of blood and bloodless sacrifices to them.
In the 19th century, Russian scientists began to explore Russian myths, tales and legends, understanding their scientific value and the importance of preserving them for subsequent generations. The works of F.I. were key to the new understanding of Slavic mythology. Buslaeva, A.A. Potebnya, I.P. Sakharov, such specific works as the three-volume study by A.N. Afanasyev “Poetic views of the Slavs on nature”, “Myths of Slavic paganism” and “A brief sketch of Russian mythology” D.O. Sheppinga, “Deities of the Ancient Slavs” by A.S. Famintsina.

The first to emerge was the mythological school, which is based on the comparative historical method of study, the establishment of an organic connection between language, folk poetry and folk mythology, and the principle of the collective nature of creativity. Fyodor Ivanovich Buslaev (1818-1897) is rightfully considered the creator of this school. “In the most ancient period of language,” says Buslaev, “the word as an expression of legends and rituals, events and objects was understood in the closest connection with what it expresses: “the name imprinted a belief or event, and from the name a legend or myth arose again.” “Epic ritual” in the repetition of ordinary expressions led to the fact that what was once said about any subject seemed so successful that it no longer needed further modification. Language thus became “a faithful instrument of tradition.” The method was originally associated with comparison. languages, establishing common forms of words and raising them to the language of the Indo-European peoples, for the first time in Russian science was transferred by Buslaev to folklore and applied to the study of the mythological legends of the Slavs.

Poetic inspiration belonged to one and all, like a proverb, like a legal maxim. There was a whole people who were poets. Some individuals were not poets, but singers or storytellers; they only knew how to tell or sing more accurately and skillfully what was known to everyone. The power of tradition reigned supreme over the epic singer, not allowing him to stand out from the group. Not knowing the laws of nature, neither physical nor moral, epic poetry represented both in an inseparable totality, expressed in numerous similes and metaphors. The heroic epic is only a further development of the mythological legend. The theogonic epic gives way to the heroic at that stage of the development of epic poetry when legends about the affairs of people began to join pure myth. At this time, an epic epic grew out of the myth, from which the fairy tale subsequently emerged. The people preserve their epic legends not only in epics and fairy tales, but also in individual sayings, short spells, proverbs, sayings, oaths, riddles, signs and superstitions.

These are the main provisions of Buslaev’s mythological theory, which in the 60-70s of the 19th century gradually developed into a school of comparative mythology and the theory of borrowing. The theory of comparative mythology was developed by Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev (1826-1871), Orest Fedorovich Miller (1833-1889) and Alexander Alexandrovich Kotlyarevsky (1837-1881). Their focus was on the problem of the origin of myth in the very process of its creation. Most of the myths, according to this theory, go back to the ancient Aryan tribe. Standing out from this common ancestral tribe, the peoples spread its legends throughout the world, therefore the legends of the “Dove Book” almost completely coincide with the songs of the Old Scandinavian “Elder Edda” and the most ancient myths of the Hindus. The comparative method, according to Afanasyev, “provides a means of restoring the original form of legends.” Epic songs are of particular importance for understanding Slavic mythology (this term was introduced into use by I.P. Sakharov; before that, epic songs were called antiquities).

Russian heroic epics can be ranked alongside heroic myths in other mythological systems with the difference that the epics are largely historical, telling about the events of the 11th-16th centuries. The heroes of the epics - Ilya Muromets, Volga, Mikula Selyaninovich, Vasily Buslaev and others are perceived not only as individuals related to a certain historical era, but above all - as defenders, ancestors, namely epic heroes. Hence their unity with nature and magical power, their invincibility (there are practically no epics about the death of heroes or about the battles they fought). Initially existing in an oral version, as the work of singer-storytellers, epics, of course, have undergone considerable changes. There is reason to believe that they once existed in a more mythologized form.
Slavic mythology is characterized by the fact that it is comprehensive and does not represent a separate area of ​​​​the people's idea of ​​the world and the universe (like fantasy or religion), but is embodied even in everyday life - be it rites, rituals, cults or the agricultural calendar, preserved demonology (from brownies, witches and goblin to banniks and mermaids) or a forgotten identification (for example, pagan Perun with the Christian Saint Elijah). Therefore, practically destroyed at the level of texts until the 11th century, it continues to live in images, symbolism, rituals and in the language itself.

"Slavic Monsters"- Agree, it sounds wild. , goblin, water - all of them are familiar to us from childhood and make us remember fairy tales. That is why the fauna of “Slavic fantasy” is still undeservedly considered something naive, frivolous and even slightly stupid. Now, when it comes to , we more often remember zombies or dragons, although in our mythology there are such ancient creatures, in comparison with which Lovecraft’s monsters may seem like petty dirty tricks.

The inhabitants of Slavic pagan legends are not the joyful brownie Kuzya or the sentimental monster with a scarlet flower. Our ancestors seriously believed in those evil spirits that we now consider worthy only of children's horror stories.

Almost no original source describing fictional creatures from Slavic mythology has survived to our time. Something was covered in the darkness of history, something was destroyed during the baptism of Rus'. What do we have except vague, contradictory and often dissimilar legends of different Slavic peoples? A few mentions in the works of the Danish historian Saxo Grammarian (1150-1220) - times. “Chronica Slavorum” by the German historian Helmold (1125-1177) - two. And finally, we should recall the collection “Veda Slovena” - a compilation of ancient Bulgarian ritual songs, from which one can also draw conclusions about the pagan beliefs of the ancient Slavs. The objectivity of church sources and chronicles, for obvious reasons, is in great doubt.

Its text was allegedly carved (or burned) onto small wooden strips, some of the “pages” were partially rotten. According to legend, the “Book of Veles” was discovered in 1919 near Kharkov by white colonel Fyodor Isenbek, who took it to Brussels and handed it over to the Slavist Mirolyubov for study. He made several copies, and in August 1941, during the German offensive, the tablets were lost. Versions have been put forward that they were hidden by the Nazis in the “archive of the Aryan past” under Annenerbe, or taken after the war to the USA).

Alas, the authenticity of the book initially raised great doubts, and recently it was finally proven that the entire text of the book was a falsification, carried out in the mid-20th century. The language of this fake is a mixture of different Slavic dialects. Despite the exposure, some writers still use the “Book of Veles” as a source of knowledge.

The history of Slavic fairy-tale creatures may be the envy of other European monsters. The age of pagan legends is impressive: according to some estimates, it reaches 3000 years, and its roots go back to the Neolithic or even Mesolithic - that is, about 9000 BC.

The common Slavic fairy-tale “menagerie” was absent - in different areas they spoke of completely different creatures. The Slavs did not have sea or mountain monsters, but forest and river evil spirits were abundant. There was no gigantomania either: our ancestors very rarely thought about evil giants like the Greek Cyclops or the Scandinavian Jotuns. Some wonderful creatures appeared among the Slavs relatively late, during the period of their Christianization - most often they were borrowed from Greek legends and introduced into national mythology, thus creating a bizarre mixture of beliefs.

Alkonost

Aspid

Auca

Slavic witch, popular folklore character. Usually depicted as a nasty old woman with disheveled hair, a hooked nose, a "bone leg", long claws and several teeth in her mouth. Baba Yaga is an ambiguous character. Most often, she acts as a pest, with pronounced tendencies towards cannibalism, but on occasion, this witch can voluntarily help a brave hero by questioning him, steaming him in a bathhouse and giving him magical gifts (or providing valuable information).

Hut on kurnogi

Bannik

Bas Celik (Man of Steel)

Ghouls

Gamayun

Divya people

Brownie

Drekavac (drekavac)

Firebird

Kikimora (shishimora, mara)

Koschey the Immortal (Kashchei)

Koshchei’s “signature” feature was immortality, and far from absolute. As we all probably remember, on the magical island of Buyan (capable of suddenly disappearing and appearing before travelers) there is a large old oak tree on which a chest hangs. There is a hare in the chest, there is a duck in the hare, there is an egg in the duck, and in the egg there is a magic needle where Koshchei’s death is hidden. He can be killed by breaking this needle (according to some versions, by breaking an egg on Koshchei’s head).

Goblin

Dashingly one-eyed

Mermaid

There were also “tree mermaids” living in tree branches. Some researchers classify mermaids as mermaids (in Poland - lakanits) - lower spirits who take the form of girls in transparent white clothes, living in the fields and helping the field. The latter is also a natural spirit - it is believed that he looks like a little old man with a white beard. The field dwells in cultivated fields and usually patronizes peasants - except when they work at noon. For this, he sends midday warriors to the peasants so that they will deprive them of their minds with their magic.

It is also worth mentioning the crowfish - a type of mermaid, a baptized drowned woman, who does not belong to the category of evil spirits, and therefore is relatively kind. Waterworts love deep pools, but most often they settle under mill wheels, ride on them, spoil millstones, muddy the water, wash out holes, and tear nets.

It was believed that waterwomen were the wives of mermen - spirits who appeared in the guise of old men with a long green beard made of algae and (rarely) fish scales instead of skin. Bug-eyed, fat, creepy, the merman lives at great depths in whirlpools, commands mermaids and other underwater inhabitants. It was believed that he rode around his underwater kingdom riding a catfish, for which this fish was sometimes called “devil’s horse” among the people.

The merman is not malicious by nature and even acts as a patron of sailors, fishermen or millers, but from time to time he likes to play pranks, dragging a gaping (or offended) bather under the water. Sometimes the merman was endowed with the ability to shapeshift - transform into fish, animals or even logs.

Over time, the image of the merman as the patron of rivers and lakes changed - he began to be seen as a powerful “sea king” living under water in a luxurious palace. From the spirit of nature, the merman turned into a kind of magical tyrant, with whom the heroes of the folk epic (for example, Sadko) could communicate, enter into agreements and even defeat him with cunning.

Sirin

Nightingale the Robber (Nightingale Odikhmantievich)

It is very difficult to list all the fabulous creatures of the Slavs: most of them have been studied very poorly and represent local varieties of spirits - forest, water or domestic, and some of them were very similar to each other. In general, the abundance of intangible creatures greatly differs the Slavic bestiary from the more “mundane” collections of monsters from other cultures
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Among the Slavic “monsters” there are very few monsters as such. Our ancestors led a calm, measured life, and therefore the creatures they invented for themselves were associated with the elementary elements, neutral in their essence. If they opposed people, then, for the most part, they were only protecting Mother Nature and ancestral traditions. Stories of Russian folklore teach us to be kinder, more tolerant, to love nature and respect the ancient heritage of our ancestors.

The latter is especially important, because ancient legends are quickly forgotten, and instead of mysterious and mischievous Russian mermaids, Disney fish-maidens with shells on their breasts come to us. Do not be ashamed to study Slavic legends - especially in their original versions, not adapted for children's books. Our bestiary is archaic and in some sense even naive, but we can be proud of it, because it is one of the most ancient in Europe.

It was bad with evil spirits in Rus'. There have been so many bogatyrs recently that the number of Gorynychs has dropped sharply. Only once did a ray of hope flash for Ivan: an elderly man who called himself Susanin promised to lead him to the very lair of Likh One-Eyed... But he only came across a rickety ancient hut with broken windows and a broken door. On the wall was scratched: “Checked. Likh no. Bogatyr Popovich."

Sergey Lukyanenko, Yuliy Burkin, “Rus Island”

“Slavic monsters” - you must agree, it sounds a bit wild. Mermaids, goblins, water creatures - they are all familiar to us from childhood and make us remember fairy tales. That is why the fauna of “Slavic fantasy” is still undeservedly considered something naive, frivolous and even slightly stupid. Nowadays, when it comes to magical monsters, we more often think of zombies or dragons, although in our mythology there are such ancient creatures, in comparison with which Lovecraft’s monsters may seem like petty dirty tricks.

The inhabitants of Slavic pagan legends are not the joyful brownie Kuzya or the sentimental monster with a scarlet flower. Our ancestors seriously believed in those evil spirits that we now consider worthy only of children's horror stories.

Almost no original source describing fictional creatures from Slavic mythology has survived to our time. Something was covered in the darkness of history, something was destroyed during the baptism of Rus'. What do we have except vague, contradictory and often dissimilar legends of different Slavic peoples? A few mentions in the works of the Danish historian Saxo Grammarian (1150-1220) - times. “Chronica Slavorum” by the German historian Helmold (1125-1177) - two. And finally, we should recall the collection “Veda Slovena” - a compilation of ancient Bulgarian ritual songs, from which one can also draw conclusions about the pagan beliefs of the ancient Slavs. The objectivity of church sources and chronicles, for obvious reasons, is in great doubt.

Book of Veles

The “Book of Veles” (“Veles Book”, Isenbek tablets) has long been passed off as a unique monument of ancient Slavic mythology and history, dating from the 7th century BC - 9th century AD.

Its text was allegedly carved (or burned) onto small wooden strips, some of the “pages” were partially rotten. According to legend, the “Book of Veles” was discovered in 1919 near Kharkov by white colonel Fyodor Isenbek, who took it to Brussels and handed it over to the Slavist Mirolyubov for study. He made several copies, and in August 1941, during the German offensive, the tablets were lost. Versions have been put forward that they were hidden by the Nazis in the “archive of the Aryan past” under Annenerbe, or taken after the war to the USA).

Alas, the authenticity of the book initially raised great doubts, and recently it was finally proven that the entire text of the book was a falsification, carried out in the mid-20th century. The language of this fake is a mixture of different Slavic dialects. Despite the exposure, some writers still use the “Book of Veles” as a source of knowledge.

The only available image of one of the boards of the “Book of Veles”, beginning with the words “We dedicate this book to Veles.”

The history of Slavic fairy-tale creatures may be the envy of other European monsters. The age of pagan legends is impressive: according to some estimates, it reaches 3000 years, and its roots go back to the Neolithic or even Mesolithic - that is, about 9000 BC.

The common Slavic fairy-tale “menagerie” was absent - in different areas they spoke of completely different creatures. The Slavs did not have sea or mountain monsters, but forest and river evil spirits were abundant. There was no gigantomania either: our ancestors very rarely thought about evil giants like the Greek Cyclops or the Scandinavian Jotuns. Some wonderful creatures appeared among the Slavs relatively late, during the period of their Christianization - most often they were borrowed from Greek legends and introduced into national mythology, thus creating a bizarre mixture of beliefs.

Alkonost

According to ancient Greek myth, Alkyone, the wife of the Thessalian king Keik, upon learning of the death of her husband, threw herself into the sea and was turned into a bird, named after her, alkyon (kingfisher). The word “Alkonost” entered the Russian language as a result of a distortion of the ancient saying “alkion is a bird.”

Slavic Alkonost is a bird of paradise with a surprisingly sweet, euphonious voice. She lays her eggs on the seashore, then plunges them into the sea - and the waves calm down for a week. When the eggs hatch, a storm begins. In the Orthodox tradition, Alkonost is considered a divine messenger - she lives in heaven and comes down to convey the highest will to people.

Aspid

A winged snake with two trunks and a bird's beak. Lives high in the mountains and periodically makes devastating raids on villages. He gravitates towards rocks so much that he cannot even sit on damp ground - only on a stone. The asp is invulnerable to conventional weapons; it cannot be killed with a sword or arrow, but can only be burned. The name comes from the Greek aspis - poisonous snake.

Auca

A type of mischievous forest spirit, small, pot-bellied, with round cheeks. Doesn't sleep in winter or summer. He likes to fool people in the forest, responding to their cry of “Aw!” from all sides. Leads travelers into a remote thicket and abandons them there.

Baba Yaga

Slavic witch, popular folklore character. Usually depicted as a nasty old woman with disheveled hair, a hooked nose, a "bone leg", long claws and several teeth in her mouth. Baba Yaga is an ambiguous character. Most often, she acts as a pest, with pronounced tendencies towards cannibalism, but on occasion, this witch can voluntarily help a brave hero by questioning him, steaming him in a bathhouse and giving him magical gifts (or providing valuable information).

It is known that Baba Yaga lives in a deep forest. There stands her hut on chicken legs, surrounded by a palisade of human bones and skulls. Sometimes it was said that on the gate to Yaga’s house there are hands instead of locks, and the keyhole is a small toothy mouth. Baba Yaga's house is enchanted - you can enter it only by saying: “Hut, hut, turn your front to me, and your back to the forest.”
Like Western European witches, Baba Yaga can fly. To do this, she needs a large wooden mortar and a magic broom. With Baba Yaga you can often meet animals (familiars): a black cat or a crow, helping her in her witchcraft.

The origin of the Baba Yaga estate is unclear. Perhaps it came from Turkic languages, or perhaps derived from the Old Serbian “ega” - disease.

Baba Yaga, bone leg. A witch, an ogress and the first female pilot. Paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov and Ivan Bilibin.

Hut on kurnogi

A forest hut on chicken legs, where there are no windows or doors, is not fiction. This is exactly how hunters from the Urals, Siberia and Finno-Ugric tribes built temporary dwellings. Houses with blank walls and an entrance through a hatch in the floor, raised 2-3 meters above the ground, protected both from rodents hungry for supplies and from large predators. Siberian pagans kept stone idols in similar structures. It can be assumed that a figurine of some female deity, placed in a small house “on chicken legs,” gave rise to the myth of Baba Yaga, who can hardly fit in her house: her legs are in one corner, her head is in the other, and her nose rests into the ceiling.

Bannik

The spirit living in the baths was usually represented as a small old man with a long beard. Like all Slavic spirits, he is mischievous. If people in the bathhouse slip, get burned, faint from the heat, get scalded by boiling water, hear the cracking of stones in the stove or knocking on the wall - all these are the tricks of the bathhouse.

The bannik rarely causes any serious harm, only when people behave incorrectly (wash on holidays or late at night). Much more often he helps them. The Slavs associated the bathhouse with mystical, life-giving powers - they often gave birth here or told fortunes (it was believed that the bannik could predict the future).

Like other spirits, they fed the bannik - they left him black bread with salt or buried a strangled black chicken under the threshold of the bathhouse. There was also a female version of the bannik - bannitsa, or obderiha. A shishiga also lived in the baths - an evil spirit that appears only to those who go to the baths without praying. Shishiga takes the form of a friend or relative, invites a person to steam with her and can steam to death.

Bas Celik (Man of Steel)

A popular character in Serbian folklore, a demon or evil sorcerer. According to legend, the king bequeathed to his three sons to marry their sisters to the first one to ask for their hand in marriage. One night, someone with a thunderous voice came to the palace and demanded the youngest princess as his wife. The sons fulfilled the will of their father, and soon lost their middle and older sister in a similar way.

Soon the brothers came to their senses and went in search of them. The younger brother met a beautiful princess and took her as his wife. Looking out of curiosity into the forbidden room, the prince saw a man chained. He introduced himself as Bash Celik and asked for three glasses of water. The naive young man gave the stranger a drink, he regained his strength, broke the chains, released his wings, grabbed the princess and flew away. Saddened, the prince went in search. He found out that the thunderous voices that demanded his sisters as wives belonged to the lords of dragons, falcons and eagles. They agreed to help him, and together they defeated the evil Bash Celik.

This is what Bash Celik looks like as imagined by W. Tauber.

Ghouls

The living dead rising from their graves. Like any other vampires, ghouls drink blood and can devastate entire villages. First of all, they kill relatives and friends.

Gamayun

Like Alkonost, a divine female bird whose main function is to carry out predictions. The saying “Gamayun is a prophetic bird” is well known. She also knew how to control the weather. It was believed that when Gamayun flies from the direction of sunrise, a storm comes after her.

Gamayun-Gamayun, how long do I have left to live? - Ku. - Why so ma...?

Divya people

Demi-humans with one eye, one leg and one arm. To move, they had to fold in half. They live somewhere on the edge of the world, reproduce artificially, forging their own kind from iron. The smoke from their forges brings with it pestilence, smallpox and fevers.

Brownie

In the most generalized representation - a house spirit, the patron of the hearth, a little old man with a beard (or completely covered with hair). It was believed that every house had its own brownie. In their homes they were rarely called “brownies,” preferring the affectionate “grandfather.”

If people established normal relations with him, fed him (they left a saucer of milk, bread and salt on the floor) and considered him a member of their family, then the brownie helped them do minor housework, looked after the livestock, guarded the household, and warned them of danger.

On the other hand, an angry brownie could be very dangerous - at night he pinched people until they were bruised, strangled them, killed horses and cows, made noise, broke dishes and even set fire to a house. It was believed that the brownie lived behind the stove or in the stable.

Drekavac (drekavac)

A half-forgotten creature from the folklore of the southern Slavs. There is no exact description of it - some consider it an animal, others a bird, and in central Serbia there is a belief that drekavak is the soul of a dead, unbaptized baby. They agree on only one thing - the drekavak can scream terribly.

Usually the drekavak is the hero of children's horror stories, but in remote areas (for example, the mountainous Zlatibor in Serbia) even adults believe in this creature. Residents of the village of Tometino Polie from time to time report strange attacks on their livestock - it is difficult to determine from the nature of the wounds what kind of predator it was. The peasants claim to have heard eerie screams, so a Drekavak is probably involved.

Firebird

An image familiar to us from childhood, a beautiful bird with bright, dazzling fiery feathers (“they burn like heat”). A traditional test for fairy-tale heroes is to get a feather from the tail of this bird. For the Slavs, the firebird was more of a metaphor than a real creature. She personified fire, light, sun, and possibly knowledge. Its closest relative is the medieval bird Phoenix, known both in the West and in Rus'.

One cannot help but recall such an inhabitant of Slavic mythology as the bird Rarog (probably distorted from Svarog - the blacksmith god). A fiery falcon that can also look like a whirlwind of flame, Rarog is depicted on the coat of arms of the Rurikovichs ("Rarogs" in German) - the first dynasty of Russian rulers. The highly stylized diving Rarog eventually began to resemble a trident - this is how the modern coat of arms of Ukraine appeared.

Kikimora (shishimora, mara)

An evil spirit (sometimes the brownie's wife), appearing in the form of a small, ugly old woman. If a kikimora lives in a house behind the stove or in the attic, then it constantly harms people: it makes noise, knocks on walls, interferes with sleep, tears yarn, breaks dishes, poisons livestock. Sometimes it was believed that infants who died without baptism became kikimoras, or kikimoras could be unleashed on a house under construction by evil carpenters or stove makers. A kikimora that lives in a swamp or forest does much less harm - it mainly just scares lost travelers.

Koschey the Immortal (Kashchei)

One of the well-known Old Slavonic negative characters, usually represented as a thin, skeletal old man with a repulsive appearance. Aggressive, vengeful, greedy and stingy. It is difficult to say whether he was a personification of the external enemies of the Slavs, an evil spirit, a powerful wizard, or a unique variety of undead.

It is indisputable that Koschey possessed very strong magic, avoided people and often engaged in the favorite activity of all villains in the world - kidnapping girls. In Russian science fiction, the image of Koshchei is quite popular, and he is presented in different ways: in a comic light (“Island of Rus'” by Lukyanenko and Burkin), or, for example, as a cyborg (“The Fate of Koshchei in the Cyberozoic Era” by Alexander Tyurin).

Koshchei’s “signature” feature was immortality, and far from absolute. As we all probably remember, on the magical island of Buyan (capable of suddenly disappearing and appearing before travelers) there is a large old oak tree on which a chest hangs. There is a hare in the chest, there is a duck in the hare, there is an egg in the duck, and in the egg there is a magic needle where Koshchei’s death is hidden. He can be killed by breaking this needle (according to some versions, by breaking an egg on Koshchei’s head).

Koschey as imagined by Vasnetsov and Bilibin.

Georgy Millyar is the best performer of the roles of Koshchei and Baba Yaga in Soviet fairy tales.

Goblin

Forest spirit, protector of animals. He looks like a tall man with a long beard and hair all over his body. Essentially not evil - he walks through the forest, protects it from people, occasionally shows himself, for which he can take on any form - a plant, a mushroom (a giant talking fly agaric), an animal or even a person. The goblin can be distinguished from other people by two signs - his eyes glow with magical fire, and his shoes are put on backwards.

Sometimes a meeting with a goblin can end in failure - he will lead a person into the forest and throw him to be devoured by animals. However, those who respect nature can even become friends with this creature and receive help from it.

Dashingly one-eyed

Spirit of evil, failure, symbol of grief. There is no certainty regarding Likh’s appearance - he is either a one-eyed giant or a tall, thin woman with one eye in the middle of his forehead. Dashing is often compared to the Cyclopes, although apart from one eye and tall stature, they have nothing in common.

The saying has reached our time: “Don’t wake up Dashing while it’s quiet.” In a literal and allegorical sense, Likho meant trouble - it became attached to a person, sat on his neck (in some legends, the unfortunate person tried to drown Likho by throwing himself into the water, and drowned himself) and prevented him from living.
Likh, however, could be gotten rid of - deceived, driven away by force of will, or, as is occasionally mentioned, given to another person along with some gift. According to very dark superstitions, Likho could come and devour you.

Mermaid

In Slavic mythology, mermaids are a type of mischievous evil spirits. They were drowned women, girls who died near a pond, or people swimming at inopportune times. Mermaids were sometimes identified with “mavkas” (from the Old Slavonic “nav” - dead man) - children who died without baptism or were strangled by their mothers.

The eyes of such mermaids glow with green fire. By their nature, they are nasty and evil creatures, they grab bathing people by the legs, pull them under the water, or lure them from the shore, wrap their arms around them and drown them. There was a belief that a mermaid's laughter could cause death (this makes them look like Irish banshees).

Some beliefs called mermaids the lower spirits of nature (for example, good “beregins”), who have nothing in common with drowned people and willingly save drowning people.

There were also “tree mermaids” living in tree branches. Some researchers classify mermaids as mermaids (in Poland - lakanits) - lower spirits who take the form of girls in transparent white clothes, living in the fields and helping the field. The latter is also a natural spirit - it is believed that he looks like a little old man with a white beard. The field dwells in cultivated fields and usually patronizes peasants - except when they work at noon. For this, he sends midday warriors to the peasants so that they will deprive them of their minds with their magic.

It is also worth mentioning the crowfish - a type of mermaid, a baptized drowned woman, who does not belong to the category of evil spirits, and therefore is relatively kind. Waterworts love deep pools, but most often they settle under mill wheels, ride on them, spoil millstones, muddy the water, wash out holes, and tear nets.

It was believed that waterwomen were the wives of mermen - spirits who appeared in the guise of old men with a long green beard made of algae and (rarely) fish scales instead of skin. Bug-eyed, fat, creepy, the merman lives at great depths in whirlpools, commands mermaids and other underwater inhabitants. It was believed that he rode around his underwater kingdom riding a catfish, for which this fish was sometimes called “devil’s horse” among the people.

The merman is not malicious by nature and even acts as a patron of sailors, fishermen or millers, but from time to time he likes to play pranks, dragging a gaping (or offended) bather under the water. Sometimes the merman was endowed with the ability to shapeshift - transform into fish, animals or even logs.

Over time, the image of the merman as the patron of rivers and lakes changed - he began to be seen as a powerful “sea king” living under water in a luxurious palace. From the spirit of nature, the merman turned into a kind of magical tyrant, with whom the heroes of the folk epic (for example, Sadko) could communicate, enter into agreements and even defeat him with cunning.

Mermen as presented by Bilibin and V. Vladimirov.

Sirin

Another creature with the head of a woman and the body of an owl (owl), with a charming voice. Unlike Alkonost and Gamayun, Sirin is not a messenger from above, but a direct threat to life. It is believed that these birds live in the “Indian lands near paradise”, or on the Euphrates River, and sing such songs for the saints in heaven, upon hearing which people completely lose their memory and will, and their ships are wrecked.

It's not hard to guess that Sirin is a mythological adaptation of the Greek Sirens. However, unlike them, the bird Sirin is not a negative character, but rather a metaphor for the temptation of a person with various kinds of temptations.

Nightingale the Robber (Nightingale Odikhmantievich)

A character in late Slavic legends, a complex image combining the features of a bird, an evil wizard and a hero. The Nightingale the Robber lived in the forests near Chernigov near the Smorodina River and for 30 years guarded the road to Kyiv, not letting anyone through, deafening travelers with a monstrous whistle and roar.

The Robber Nightingale had a nest on seven oak trees, but the legend also says that he had a mansion and three daughters. The epic hero Ilya Muromets was not afraid of the adversary and knocked out his eye with an arrow from a bow, and during their battle, the whistle of the Nightingale the Robber knocked down the entire forest in the area. The hero brought the captive villain to Kyiv, where Prince Vladimir, out of curiosity, asked the Nightingale the Robber to whistle - to check whether the rumor about the super-abilities of this villain was true. The nightingale, of course, whistled so loudly that he almost destroyed half the city. After this, Ilya Muromets took him to the forest and cut off his head so that such an outrage would not happen again (according to another version, Nightingale the Robber later acted as Ilya Muromets’ assistant in battle).

For his first novels and poems, Vladimir Nabokov used the pseudonym "Sirin".

In 2004, the village of Kukoboi (Pervomaisky district of the Yaroslavl region) was declared the “homeland” of Baba Yaga. Her “birthday” is celebrated on July 26th. The Orthodox Church sharply condemned the “worship of Baba Yaga.”

Ilya Muromets is the only epic hero canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Baba Yaga is found even in Western comics, for example, “Hellboy” by Mike Mignola. In the first episode of the computer game "Quest for Glory" Baba Yaga is the main plot villain. In the role-playing game "Vampire: The Masquerade" Baba Yaga is a vampire of the Nosferatu clan (distinguished by ugliness and secrecy). After Gorbachev left the political arena, she came out of hiding and killed all the vampires of the Brujah clan who controlled the Soviet Union.

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It is very difficult to list all the fabulous creatures of the Slavs: most of them have been studied very poorly and represent local varieties of spirits - forest, water or domestic, and some of them were very similar to each other. In general, the abundance of intangible creatures greatly distinguishes the Slavic bestiary from more “mundane” collections of monsters from other cultures
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Among the Slavic “monsters” there are very few monsters as such. Our ancestors led a calm, measured life, and therefore the creatures they invented for themselves were associated with the elementary elements, neutral in their essence. If they opposed people, then, for the most part, they were only protecting Mother Nature and ancestral traditions. Stories of Russian folklore teach us to be kinder, more tolerant, to love nature and respect the ancient heritage of our ancestors.

The latter is especially important, because ancient legends are quickly forgotten, and instead of mysterious and mischievous Russian mermaids, Disney fish-maidens with shells on their breasts come to us. Do not be ashamed to study Slavic legends - especially in their original versions, not adapted for children's books. Our bestiary is archaic and in some sense even naive, but we can be proud of it, because it is one of the most ancient in Europe.

An important part of Slavic culture are myths and legends passed down from generation to generation. They store ideas about the world, history and the wisdom of the people. The gods and creatures of Slavic mythology are the personification of knowledge about the world of our ancestors.

Slavic gods and deities

Like many ancient peoples, the Slavs endowed natural phenomena with divine guises, trying to explain what they did not understand. Gods in ancient Slavic myths and legends are the embodiments of various spheres of human life, phenomena associated with the forces of nature, fears and desires, ideas about the universe.

Belbog

In the beliefs of the Slavs it appears as a personification:

• Sveta;
• virtues;
• happiness;
• positive human feelings;
• wealth;
• fertility.

Belbog is considered one of the most influential and powerful gods in ancient Slavic mythology. He is often contrasted with Chernobog - the gloomy and gloomy embodiment of darkness.

I usually depict Belun as a good-natured old man with a long snow-white beard, wearing simple peasant clothes. In this guise, he appears to people, helps them harvest crops, and find the way home for travelers lost in the forest. The abode of the god of light is located on the top of a sacred mountain, eternally sanctified by the warm rays of the Sun.

Stable expressions associated with the name of this god appeared among the people.

When a person felt a surge of energy and was in a good mood, he said: “It was as if he had become friends with Belbog himself.”

In Rus', Veles has always been considered one of the most significant and respected gods. He took part in the creation of the world - he gave the world movement. Veles made it so that day began to give way to night, he created time itself, the change of seasons. Thanks to him, there is a balance between good and bad. He also has the following responsibilities:

• wildlife conservationist;
• giver of good luck;
• patron of wanderers, traders, scientists and creators;
• the master of the afterlife, Nav, the judge of the souls of dead people.

Veles is able to take on the guise of wild animals and appear to people in this form. Popular Slavic talismans - and

The first son of the supreme creator god Svarog is Dazhdbog. It is responsible for sunlight and warmth. Dazhdbog has many other names. Among them:

• Radegast;
• Dab;
• Svarozhich;
• Radigosh.

It is believed that the lion is a sacred animal of the Sun God, so on the frescoes he is depicted as a beautiful young man riding in a chariot drawn by huge lions.

According to legends, the solar god protects those who are getting married. He accompanies the wedding procession of the newlyweds and gives them joy. Newlyweds were given among the Slayan runes

Clear weather and a calm, pleasant wind are reflected in the image of the ancient Slavic god Dogod. He is a tall and slender young man with long curly light brown hair and bright blue eyes. The god is dressed in simple robes of silver and blue colors, which the Slavs associated with a quiet wind and tranquility. On his head you can see a wreath of cornflowers.

Some people claimed that Dogoda has colorful wings on his back. He flies above the human world among the clouds and gives him his warm smile.

The Slavs loved and honored this god and dedicated songs and dances to him.

Kolyada

A wise and powerful god named Kolyada gladly shared sacred knowledge with people. He taught them the divine laws of life, told them about the structure of the world, and created the first calendar.

Kolyada is also the god of feasts and leisure. In his honor, people from ancient times go to visit each other on Christmas night and tell carols - ritual poems and songs,

One of the greatest gods of the Slavic pantheon is the little-known younger brother of the god Rod, the patron of universal wisdom Kryshen. His birth had a special purpose - the god Kryshen was destined to save humanity and return fire to them by fighting the powerful Chernobog. Brother Rod entered into a fight to the death with the god of darkness off the coast of the Arctic Ocean and won.

The son of the beautiful goddess Lada has many names:

• Lubitsch;

Lel is the embodiment of burning passion and is distinguished by her good-natured but frivolous character. He takes the form of a handsome young man with blond curls who can shoot sparks from his hands. This god is able to ignite the flame of passion in the hearts of lovers and take the form of the sacred bird stork. The most famous amulet is the Lada amulet.

Autumn

After the god Kolyada passed on his sacred knowledge to people, his younger brother Ovsen took responsibility for the embodiment of this wisdom. He is also considered the personification of human faith in a bright future. They believe that Ovsen is the one who boldly steps into the unknown and leads people.

Ozem

According to legends, the god Ozem lives in the underworld with his pale-faced beauty Sumerla. They are the owners of all underground treasures, metals and precious stones, which they carefully protect from greedy people. Contrary to their own expectations, possessing treasures does not bring happiness to Ozem and Sumerla, but only anxiety and fear of losing them. The only time when they can feel calm and sleep without fear is winter, when snow protects their untold wealth.

The underground lords have their own servants and scouts: snakes, moles, rats and mice.

The most famous and powerful son of Svarog is Perun - the god of thunder and lightning. Perun has a hot-tempered and unbalanced character. When he gets angry, he rains lightning from the sky.

For his strength and courage, Perun is considered the patron saint of warriors and everyone whose work is related to weapons. He protects true warriors, helps them win and save their lives. This is a just god who can punish anyone who breaks the law.

According to one legend, Perun gave his sacred shield to people to protect them from Chernobog. He protects the inhabitants of the human world of Reveal.

Since ancient times, the Slavs worshiped the god of thunder and lightning, prayed to him asking for protection, strength and support,

The god Rod is considered the progenitor of all gods and the creator of the human world. He created the Earth and everything on it. He is also the father of Svarog - the supreme god who completed the creation of the Rod.

Semargl

When Svarog struck sparks from the sacred stone of Alatyr with a hammer, the god of fire Semargl was born from this flame. He protects family hearths and monitors the harvest. Semargl can take the form of a sacred winged dog.

The god of fire stands guard all year round, holding a sword in his hands that burns with a bright flame. He protects the world of people from evil, but on the day of the autumn equinox he leaves his post and follows his beloved Bathing Suit. It is believed that at this time all evil spirits come out.

The embodiment of the wind is Stribog, born from the breath of the creator Rod. Stribog is usually depicted as a good-natured old man with thick gray hair who lives somewhere on the edge of the forest. He is able to control the winds, create storms, and turn into a bird. Sailors and farmers turned to the help of the wind god.

Stribog has many sons, who are the embodiments of different winds:

• Whistling is a violent and strong wind;
• Podaga is a hot and dry wind that lives in desert areas;
• Dogoda is a light summer breeze that plays with hair;
• Siverko is a cold and harsh north wind.

In addition to the main wind gods, there are known references in legends to the gods of the western, eastern, southern, day, and night winds.

Horse

One of the sons of the creator Rod is Khors. He protects the heavenly body and is responsible for sunlight. Khors is considered a kind, hardworking and cheerful god. He is always next to his brother Dazhdbog.

In ancient Slavic mythology, Chernobog is the embodiment of everything negative:

• cold;
• death;
• disease;
• dark;
• destruction;
• madness.

He is depicted with long black hair, black eyes, and black clothes. Chernoboga is the only one to whom blood sacrifices are made. People are afraid of his wrath and ask for mercy.

Yarilo

God Yarilo in ancient Slavic legends is depicted as a man with thick red hair. He is dressed all in white and rides on a snow-white horse with a golden mane. His head is often decorated with a wreath of the first spring flowers. Yarilo is of great importance for Slavic culture:

• the herald of the beginning of spring;
• the personification of spring warmth and light;
• the embodiment of fertility and love.

Mythical creatures in Slavic legends

The ancient Slavic bestiary is rich in images of mythical creatures. In old legends you can often find references to extraordinary creatures, the images of which are based on the images of animals, birds, and people.

One of the most striking and widespread mythical images in Slavic culture. Alkonost is depicted as a huge bird with the head of a beautiful girl. According to legends, these miracle birds have an unusually beautiful voice. When Alkonost sings, people's hearts skip a beat with delight. The mythical bird lives in heaven - in the paradise of Iriy.

Russian people have always honored and respected mothers for their dedication, care and sincere love. The power of motherhood became the basis for the mythical image of Arys-field.

According to legend, a widower married a witch who hated his own daughter. The man married the girl to a kind young man, and over time they had a son. This did not calm the evil and envious witch. She converted her stepdaughter in Arys-Pole, drove her out into the forest and, with the help of witchcraft, replaced her with her own daughter. Only she did not want to look after the child and feed him.

Then the young man’s mother noticed that something was wrong, took the child and called Arys-Pole. The mother came running from the forest, took off the lynx skin and fed the baby. Her husband saw this, stole the skin and burned it, thanks to which the girl returned to her original appearance. When everyone found out the truth about what happened, the witch was burned at the stake as punishment.

Vodyanoy, an evil mythical creature, lives in rivers and lakes. The merman is often depicted as a disgusting old man. Sometimes his image is supplemented with elements of the external appearance of an animal or fish.

The Vodyanoy lives in his underwater palace made of shells and stones. He is surrounded by fish and mermaids - the souls of drowned women. It is believed that in his kingdom live cattle that come out of the water at night and graze in the forest.

The image of a person capable of turning into a wolf has existed for many centuries in the myths and legends of different peoples and cultures. In Slavic mythology, such a creature has many names:

• werewolf;
• wolfhound;
• ghoul;
• Vovkulak.

To take on the image of an animal, the wolfdog must perform a somersault over an old stump or aspen stake driven into the ground. According to ancient legends, eclipses occur when a werewolf eats the Moon or the Sun.

Gamayun

Another image of a divine bird with the head of a beauty is Gamayun - a messenger between the worlds of gods and people. If a person saw a sacred bird and heard its cry, then soon he will find his happiness.

In Slavic legends he appears as a positive but mischievous character. Features of this mythical creature:

• The brownie likes the house to be clean. He gladly helps hardworking owners, cleans, corrects their small mistakes, and helps maintain order.
• He is particularly thrifty and does not like waste.
• The home spirit treats the livestock with special love and attention, takes care of them and makes sure that the animals do not get sick.

Despite the fact that brownies are good-natured, they can mock owners they don’t like, and then...

Spirits especially do not like lazy, dissolute and alcoholics. They can tickle them in their sleep, throw them off the bed or even strangle them, throw things around, make noise and break dishes.

Brownies live behind the stove. If the owner of the house decides to make peace with the little spirit, all that is needed is tobacco, bread, beautiful fabric, etc.

If the brownie likes the mistress of the house, then he tries in every possible way to make her work easier. At night, he braids the girl’s small braids and amuses himself that he was able to decorate his favorite.

Sinister

Sinister is an evil spirit that brings problems and troubles to people. There are several options for depicting evil spirits in legends. Some believe that evil spirits are the spirits of poor old people who settle in human houses and doom their inhabitants to eternal poverty. They are sometimes described as evil brownies - little spirits who live behind the stove and bring trouble to the inhabitants of their home.

One of the most famous and widespread creatures in folk tales is considered to be the Leshiy - the spirit of the forests. This is an ambiguous and multifaceted image; you can find a large number of descriptions of Leshy’s appearance and behavior. Often the forest spirit is described as an old man with long, green hair, dull eyes and sharp nails. He can be of the human race, or he can become either a giant or a dwarf. Leshy wears the simplest peasant clothes, and sometimes goes barefoot.

The main occupation is to protect the forest from any harm and confuse travelers. He can take on the forms of animals and birds, scare a person lost in the forest with sounds, screams, rustling, hit him with tree branches, etc. Some legends say that forest spirits are capable of tickling him to death.

Sometimes Leshy kidnap human girls and marry them. Children are born to them, and they remain forever living in the forest. It is dangerous to walk along the paths in the forest at night, as you may stumble upon a wedding procession of spirits.

The spirits that live in the forest are on hostile terms with the merman and brownies.

Mavki

In ancient Rus' they believed that stillborn children and dead babies became Mavkas. The image of the forest spirit Mavka has much in common with the mermaid. Usually Mavka is depicted as a beautiful girl in a white shirt or a small child. These spirits live in the forest. They lure people into the thicket, lead them astray, mock and sometimes kill.

Conclusion

Old Russian myths and legends are replete with a large number of different deities and evil spirits, which are usually the embodiment of one or another natural force, sphere of people’s lives. Gods can be friendly or hostile towards people. Russian mythological creatures are distinguished by their unusual appearance, reminiscent of animals and people at the same time. Mostly, they are the personification of human fears.