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

For the Christian church, which competed very fiercely with the native faith of the Slavs, the composition of such myths was of quite practical importance. Does a religion have the right to life, where the Magi are professional killers, and the believers are their unwitting accomplices? Of course not! It remains only to portray the Slavic faith as such and make the people believe in it.

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

Our chronicles mention human sacrifices twice.

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

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

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

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

As for the murder of the Varangians, how can a crime committed by a riotous crowd be called a religious sacrifice? The chronicler does not mention the presence of either sorcerers or priests during this atrocity, it was performed, thank the Gods, not at all at the temple, and the language does not turn out to be called a religious ritual. Interestingly, the people of Kiev wanted to kill the Varangian young man not just when, but precisely after Prince Vladimir "defeated the Yotvingians and conquered their land." Apparently, patriotic feelings leaped up in the inhabitants of Kyiv and their hands itched, and relations with the Varangians, and even more so with Christians, were then extremely tense. It turns out that the Varangians simply fell under a hot hand, and the Varangian father seems to have done everything possible so that the crowd would not calm down, run amok for as long as possible and with the maximum possible number of victims and destruction: he mocked the Slavic Gods as best he could.

The ancient Russian chronicles do not say anything about the tradition of human sacrifice in Russia, on the contrary: the ritual murder of a person (if any) was an “extra-traditional” event, an event of a state scale. In general, if you look closely at all the sources recognized by official science that assure that sacrificing people to the Gods was a fairly common phenomenon among the Slavs, you can notice one common detail: their authors treated our ancestors and their religion with a huge prejudice and tried to outdo each other in the quantity and quality of slander on the Slavic faith.

A vivid example of such an “ideological chronicle” is given by B.A. Rybakov in the book "Paganism of Ancient Russia":

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

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

They tried to slander the Slavs even those peoples who, to put it mildly, have a stigma in the cannon on this score. For example, no one doubts that among the Greeks human sacrifices were in use and took the form of a well-established custom, but this does not prevent modern Western civilization from considering itself the heir to ancient culture, and, moreover, being proud of it. In the case of the Slavs, the situation is completely opposite: the traditional nature of sacrificing people has not been proven at all, but the slightest mention that our ancestors probably did sacrifice people, causes a whole storm of emotions among the “zealots of national honor”, ​​who already It has long been proposed to forget the Slavic faith and, in general, the ancient "wild" history of the Russian people, like a nightmare.

Although, if you show Slavic faith a little positive attention, you can see that the devil is not so terrible as he is painted.

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

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

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

“I will create you from my fingers. And it will be said that [you] are the sons of Istvareg. And you will become the sons of Istvareg and you will be like My children, and your Father will be forever.”

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

In addition, it is not for nothing that it is said that the Slavs were created from the fingers of Svarog, the Creator: a person in the Slavic faith is not a temporary guest in the manifest world and God's servant, but an indispensable accomplice of the infinite creation of the Universe, a companion of the Gods and their assistant: again, sacrificing a person is extremely unreasonable.

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

So in any case, that the Greeks will start talking about us, that we are sacrificing people - otherwise it is a false speech, and there is no such thing in reality, and we have other customs. And the one who wants to harm others speaks unkindly.

Of course, the Slavs have always had and will have enemies who speak unkindly: it’s not a shame, it’s a shame that our people gradually got used to this and began to agree with the slander pouring on it from all sides.

The myth of paganism

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

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

This word actually appeared in the church environment, where at first it denoted all “infidels”, “non-Christians”: the Great Soviet Encyclopedia says that paganism is “a designation of non-Christian<…>religions in the literature of Christian peoples.

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

One can come to terms with the fact that this concept gradually migrated to science: the famous scientist Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov wrote in his book “Paganism of the Ancient Slavs” that “for all the imperfection and vagueness of the word“ paganism ”, devoid of scientific terminological meaning, ”he considers“ quite legitimate designation by him of that immense range of controversial issues that are included in the concept of primitive religion ... You just need to get rid of his narrow ecclesiastical understanding and remember about his complete conventionality.

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

The fact is that the self-name of faith should be at least clear and understandable, and the concept of "paganism" for its entire centuries of history seems to have completely lost its meaning.

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

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

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

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

How, then, to call the Slavic faith?

On the one hand, our ancestors did not need any specific name for their faith, because until a certain moment it was not necessary to single it out from the whole mass of teachings existing on earth.

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

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

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

“... We will not be freeloaders, but glorious Russ who sing glory to the Gods, and so they are Slavs because of this”;
“... We sing glory to the Gods - and we are called such glory”;
"... They became glorious, glorifying our Gods, but they never asked or prayed for their good."

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

Of course, now far from all Slavs profess their native faith, but, nevertheless, problems with the name "Slavic faith" should not arise. Moreover, in overseas dictionaries, the primordial religion of our people is called exactly that - in The Britannica Encyclopedia it is said: “Slavic Religion (Slavic faith) - the faith and religious practice of the ancient Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, including Russian , Ukrainians, Poles, Chekhovs, Slovaks, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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

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

Fortunately, the content does not change beyond the form, but it is time to get rid of unnecessary prejudices.

The myth of fragmentation

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

The dispute, of course, did not lead to anything, and each blind man remained in his opinion.

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

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

For example, in the ancient work “On the history, what about the beginning of the Russian land ...” it is said that the famous Prince Volkhov (son of Prince Sloven) loved to turn into a crocodile and swim along the Volkhov River, sometimes drowning people, for which he was nicknamed Perun by the people and later deified .

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

Who to believe?

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

A similar fate befell every facet of the Slavic faith: there is no such issue concerning it that would not cause a whole bunch of conflicting opinions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Deal with them (with the “pagans.” - A.V.) as follows: destroy their altars, crush their pillars, and cut down their groves and burn their idols with fire.”

It would not be worth paying attention to this: it is clear that such attacks towards the “infidels” are the fruit of the sick thinking of fanatical clergy who worked on the Bible, but the Christian idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe ancient people and their faith, as something primitive and primitive, very organically fit in into the technocratic Western consciousness, which, imagining history as a systematic movement exclusively forward, from simple to complex, believes that the past times are waste material, a passed stage in development, from which there is nothing to learn.

At the time of the craze of Russian emperors for German culture, much, in particular, the above vision of history, migrated from European science to Russian - alas, not always beneficial.

A.S. Khomyakov quite rightly noted that "the connection between the antecedent and the subsequent in the spiritual world is unlike the dead dependence of an action on a cause in the physical world."

The deity is not a binomial of Newton, one does not need to commit violence on oneself in order to feel it, there can be no right or wrong concept about it. Max Müller, one of the founders of comparative linguistics and comparative religion, wrote about this:

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

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

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

one). At the first stage, a person simultaneously realizes himself and the Divine, sensual communication is established between the Divine world and a person.

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

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

A.N. Afanasiev said: “... As soon as the real meaning of metaphorical language was lost, ancient myths began to be understood literally, and the gods gradually stooped to human needs, concerns and hobbies, and from the height of air spaces began to be brought down to earth.”

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

“New ideas caused by the historical movement of life and education,” wrote A.N. Afanasiev, “they master the old mythical material and gradually spiritualize it: from the elemental, material meaning, the representation of the deity rises to the ideal of the spiritual.”

The disease and recovery of religion, according to Max Muller, is a constant dialectical movement, in which the whole life of religion consists. The stoppage of this movement will certainly lead to the appearance, instead of a living faith, of an unviable extreme: a sophisticated philosophy or a heap of fairy tales, which in themselves can give society equally little. Any religion is inherently dual: both abstract and concrete. This duality reflects the duality of the public life. The sciences, growing out of religion, were at first supported by the clergy; the clergy, as far as possible freed by the people from worldly problems, rather quickly advanced both in religious and in scientific knowledge peace.

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

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

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

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

The myth of earthiness

The word "pantheism", which is considered the most apt and complete characteristic of the Slavic faith, is an indispensable companion of any reasoning of the official science about the ancient faith of our people. This word has a rather large amount of meanings and meanings, but for some reason its ambiguity is sharply reduced when it comes to the native faith of the Slavs.

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

When you meet something equally incomprehensible, there is a feeling that it is all or too brilliant to be understood by the ordinary modern man, or too stupid. The church and official science, of course, settled on the latter option, believing that the pantheism of the ancient peoples was completely devoid of any meaning and was based on nothing but worship of the soulless forces of nature.

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

The Church believes that pantheism is just an unsuccessful attempt to mix a pure, bright Deity with our “rough”, “dirty” material world: by dissolving God in the Universe, pantheists allegedly make faith in God completely meaningless for a person, and, plus everything , equalize good and evil, making the word "sin" (especially the so-called original) an empty sound. However, only European pantheistic philosophy had the opportunity to experience the beauty of objective criticism, and the failure of “pagan” pantheism seemed so obvious to many that the opinion about the primitiveness of many ancient faiths was accepted by official science without any evidence.

The word “pantheism”, for all its harmless meaning (according to the famous philosopher E. Radlov, pantheism is “a doctrine that identifies God with the world in a certain respect”), has become for ethnic religions something like a hint of their primitiveness. The a priori belief in the infinite earthliness of the Slavic faith has dominated the Russian scientist Olympus for so long that there is a feeling that this belief was not built on the idea of ​​the Slavic Gods, but quite the opposite.

Max Müller wrote: "There are few errors that have spread so widely and are so deeply rooted in us as the error, as a result of which we confuse the religion of ancient peoples with their mythology."

If you look closely, you can see that it is on this error that the generally accepted idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe faith of the Slavs is based for the most part. Veles, for example, in most official scientific publications is considered the god of cattle: sometimes (quite rarely) they write that He had something to do with wisdom, art and religion, but the main function of Veles, as a rule, is patronage over cattle breeding. Probably, they would not have written about His connection with art at all, but the author of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, fortunately, had the imprudence to call Boyan Veles' grandson, and Boyan, as you know, was a poet, not a shepherd. Official science found the following explanation for this evidence: “The god of trade turned out to be the god of culture in general, which is why Veles was presented in the 12th century. scribes the ancestor of all ancient culture and art, in particular songwriting.

How can it be that Veles became the patron of songwriting only at the end of the 12th century?
The idea of ​​Him as the God of wisdom and creativity undoubtedly appeared much earlier and was primordial, as evidenced, for example, by Vleskniga: no need to delve further than the cover of any of its publications, the title itself says a lot. The “Book of Veles” does not tell at all about cattle breeding, it tells about the history of Russia and the Slavic faith. Why dedicate a scientific and religious work to the God of cattle breeding?

The ancient image of Veles, over the long history of its existence, has split into two halves: Veles proper, the patron of sciences and arts, and Volos, the "cattle of God." Veles belongs to the Slavic religious philosophy, and Volos, apparently, is the result of its refraction through the prism of the people's consciousness.

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

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

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

Let us assume that the Slavs had no religion; what to do with, in this case, for example, Kolyada, Lada, Lada, Chislobog?

These gods, even in the popular imagination, did not personify the natural elements and did not have a direct relationship to Reveal, the material world.

Kolyada is the Deity of the annual circle, “Kola Vremyan”, Lad is the God of order, harmony, inner peace, Lada is the personification of love in all its many manifestations, and Numbers, as it is said in Vleskniga, “counts our days and tells God all the numbers - yes be the day of heaven, or be the night, and sleep."

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

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

It is believed that our ancestors did not even have a single divine pantheon: the gods were supposedly born, died, changed their character according to the way of human life or the political situation of the Russian state.

Completely different to Slavic Gods looks Vleskniga, which says:

“And be a whore, who will count the Gods of those, separating them from Svarog, will be expelled from the family, because we have no Gods except the Vyshnya. Both Svarog and others are many, because God is One and Many. Let no one divide that multitude, nor say that we have many Gods.”

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

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

The sun is red from the face of God,
Christ Himself, the King of Heaven;
Young-bright moon from his breasts,
Stars frequent from the robes of God,
Nights are dark from the thoughts of the Lord,
Dawns clear from the eyes of the Lord,
Stormy winds from the Holy Spirit,
Crushed rain from the tears of Christ,
Christ Himself, the King of Heaven.

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

The Slavic faith teaches that the Universe is God, but it cannot be argued that for our ancestors God was exclusively the Universe - the idea of ​​God in the Slavic faith is much broader. As the famous Russian philosopher N.O. Lossky, “If the world is a systematic unity permeated with relationships, then above the world, as its basis, stands the Supersystemic principle, “Divine Nothing”.

The Highness is something like a principle according to which the world "works"; The Higher cannot enter into the world system, and, at the same time, He Himself is this system. It seems that the word "earthiness" in conversations about the Slavic faith would be much more logical to replace the word "realism".

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

One can see God in Nature — to feel His presence in it, or one can see God in nature — to deify the elements of nature.

The Slavic faith certainly belongs to the first case.

In the modern sense, the word religion is a set of certain values, life principles, aspirations, ideals and restrictions. All this is filled with a higher meaning, characterizing the "correctness" or "incorrectness" of human life, words or deeds. The most important aspect here is the inner confidence of a person in the correctness of certain religious aspects, based on his own or introduced from outside beliefs.

The Slavic worldview was built in a fundamentally different way. Therefore, we can talk about the religion of the Slavs only in quotation marks, adapting the description to modern concepts.

The ancient Slavic worldview is based on the divine principle, in which unity is combined with diversity. So, for example, each human race is one, but consists of many relatives. And the same principle applies to the Divine World, where many Gods are united in the image of the One God of the Family. Therefore, it would be more correct to call the Old Slavic system "Rodobozhie", and not to rank it as poly- or monotheism. The Slavs used to say “Gods cannot be counted” - after all, every person can rise through Spiritual development to the Divine level. It is from here that the understanding of the Ancient Slavs comes that many of their Ancestors over the past hundreds of thousands of years have already replenished the Divine ranks and the phrase: “Our Gods are the essence of our Ancestors, and we are their children” is far from an empty phrase.

The native people of a person made up his earthly Family, and the Gods and the departed Ancestors - the Heavenly Family, and all this was considered a single system, within which there is a constant energy exchange, through thoughts, conversions, memory, divine insights, gifts, help and much more. Such blood-spiritual kinship formed the basis of the Slavic world outlook.

The Word "Faith", depending on which letter “e” was used, it can mean completely different concepts: so written through the letter “yat” (ƀ - the image of this initial letter consists in the connection of the Divine and the earthly), the word “Vƀra” was understood by the ancient Ancestors as “Shining Wisdom ”, or, more simply, “Divine Knowledge”, which is the root difference between Slavic and other Spiritual teachings. The Slavs knew that a person has a Soul and Spirit, they knew that there is a path of Spiritual development, they knew that the Gods were the Ancestors who had gone up this path and did not have the slightest doubt in such questions as: “Are there higher powers?”, “What higher powers should be honored?” or “who will help them?” The answer was natural for them: “Of course, first of all, their Grandparents will take care of them.” From this knowledge, the boundless religious tolerance of the Slavs developed, who considered it senseless to discuss with a person of another Faith the question of whose Faith or God is better, how pointless it would be to ask a child: whose dad is better - his or another boy? The ancient Slavs always revered their original Divine Ancestors and did not impose this reverence on anyone else. Therefore, the "religion" of the Slavs is inseparable from the "Vra", from the knowledge and understanding of the logic of the connection between the Divine and the earthly Worlds.

The word "religion" in its original sense consists of the runes "re" (repetition) and "league" (connection of higher and lower) and literally means "re-connection of the higher with the lower." You can figuratively say this: when people lost their original connection with the divine world, they needed to create a second connection, which was called "Re-Lygia". In Nature, when repeating (replicating), there is the possibility of distortion (for example, when copying DNA and RNA), therefore the Slavs always took the original Knowledge as a basis, referring to the centuries-old tradition and experience of the Ancestors. Even tales and fairy tales were transmitted verbatim, since they contained important information about the Universe.

"Religion" of the Slavs (in modern meaning words) has always been devoid of fear of higher powers and was based on family care, reverence and love, since the Slavs have always considered themselves "children of God". That's why Slavic prayers- this is mainly the glorification of the Gods, addresses and hymns. This is a deep trust in higher powers. The main thing is to call them, and what a particular person needs, they know themselves (in the same way wise parents know what their child really needs). From this glorification, such a Slavic concept as Orthodoxy appeared (they praise the Rule, and the Rule in the ancient Slavic picture of the world is the world of the Gods). Hymns and appeals to the Gods and Ancestors supported inseparable bond with the Heavenly Family. Understanding that the word is a vibration, that each initial letter carries its own image and energy, the Proto-Slavs could even determine the direction of prayer, that is, in which part of Svarga they are turning, in which constellation. But at the same time, such an appeal must certainly come from the heart.

The effectiveness of prayer today has been proven by science, in particular, by the methods of MRI (magnetic resonance therapy). So, the American psychologist Andrew Nurberg, as a result of large-scale research and MRI of several thousand people, found out that prayers, like meditation, enhance the work of the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for processing new data and perception in general. It means that daily prayer is an effective exercise for the brain.

The ancient Slavs did not need any proof, because communication with the Divine and Spiritual worlds was the basis of their existence and everyday life.

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

"If you shoot the past with a gun, the future will shoot you with a gun."

Just as it is impossible to build a house on sand, it is also impossible to build a healthy society without knowing one's roots.

And now everything is going to cut us off from them.

In history books, right after Princess Olga with her completely miserable foreign policy, comes Vladimir. hiding from enemies under the bridge, and Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich, who founded the first (!) Russian Empire, is let through.

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

And more and more often in recent times on the pages of newspapers, on television and on the Internet, we hear the word "pagan".

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

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

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

That it was called "paganism" and therefore was immoral; that there was some Perun; that the Slavs made human sacrifices. This is a “gentleman's” set, absorbed by us from the media, beyond which almost no one advances. Almost nobody.

Myths around the Slavic faith

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

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

Our Ancestors did not believe in God in any way - but how can one believe in the Sun or the Earth. – and therefore there was no need for the name of faith.

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

Not "foreign, other people", as you can often hear now. It is "the people in general". Therefore, a "pagan" is a people's man, a man of his people.

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

The Romans used the words “pagan” and “paganus”, calling them agriculture and farmers (if not literally, then this word would mean a person who does not live in a city), that is, people close to the earth, to nature (unlike townspeople ).

So, adding up all the meanings of this word, we get that a “pagan” is a person of his people who does something popular and is in close connection with the earth and nature.

And the fact that Christians gave the words "pagan" and "pagan" the meanings of "savage" and "vile, disgusting" is a personal matter of Christians. In essence, this is what they said:

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

But, since the stereotype “pagan = savage” is still firmly in the minds of the vast majority of the population of our country, we resort to a different name:

"Slavic Native Faith", or "Rodnoverie".

This word reflects the very essence of the Faith of the Slavs.

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

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

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

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

[!] Procopius of Caesarea testifies about the one God of the Slavs in the VI century, and, five thousand years later, the German Helmold. This is evidenced by the treaties of Russia with the Greeks: in 945:

"And those of them (Rus), who are not baptized, do not have help from God and from Perun."

In 971, the militant pagans of Svyatoslav swear:

"from God, we believe in him, in Perun, and in Volos the Cattle of God."

Rod - the name of the one God of the Slavs

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

One of the ancient Russian books says:

“For everything there is a creator God, and not Rod.”

[!] In the "Word of Isaiah the prophet about Rod and Rozhanitsy" it is Rod, as the plenipotentiary representative and deputy of the entire host of Gods, that is opposed one god Christian.

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

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

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

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

In the "Pigeon Book", a spiritual verse that has preserved under the thin cover of Christian words ancient myth Russian paganism, this Sacrifice is described as follows:

"That's why our white light began -

From the holy spirit of Sagaofov;

The sun is red from the presence of God;

A young month is clear from the breasts of God;

Morning dawn, evening dawn

From the eyes of God…

Pay attention to the verb "conceived" - not "created", not "created"!

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

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

• desire for proselytism
• cruelty towards non-believers,
• belief in the falsity of all other faiths.

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

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

[!] Honoring the ancestral Gods, the Slavs believed that other peoples revere Them, only in a different way.

[!] Moreover, in Gama, the future Hamburg, the Slavs in the temple of Jupiter-Hammon began to honor their Thunderer Perun and other Deities, rendering honors to antique statues.

[!] It was the same in the Balkans, according to the life of Gregory Svyatogorsky: there the Slavs revered their Mother Goddess in an ancient marble statue.

Were there churches in Russia?

Yes they were.

[!] They are mentioned by Jacob Mnikh in “Praise and Memory to the Russian Prince Vladimir”, claiming that he “ idol temples excavated and crossed «.

[!] A temple in Northern Russia mentions the Jomsviking Saga.

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

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

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

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

[!] And in Rerik, around the sacred oaks of Perun stood " well-made fence «.

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

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

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

[!] Titmar of Meserburg about the city of Radigoshch (Retra) and the sanctuary of Svarozhich:

“There is nothing in it but a temple of wood, skillfully built, which, like foundations, is supported by the horns of various animals. Its walls on the outside are decorated with images of Gods and Goddesses, wonderfully carved, as can be seen by the viewer.

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

Human sacrifice is a Jewish invention

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

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

Human sacrifice was offered only when a terrible danger threatened the people, and there is nothing vile, terrible or wild in this.

And for anyone who is like that, let him openly admit that the SELF-SACRIFICE of Matrosov or Gastello is the essence of vile and wild things.

Our ancestor, sacrificing himself (by his own will, "closing the embrasure with his chest!"), saved the people with his life.

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

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

[!] So, we can say that Rod sacrificed himself so that the world would appear, so that Dazhbog Svarozhich would marry Zhiva and give birth Ourea. from which all Slavic clans keep their account.

And our ancestor, sacrificing himself, did so, repeating the action of the Family - he gave himself so that the world might live. And this was not a sacrifice, but SELF-sacrifice. Feel the difference?

Jew Vladimir offered bloody sacrifices

Only once were bloody trebs brought in Russia - bloody and meaningless, and this was under Prince Vladimir, the son of a Jewish slave from Prince Svetoslav.

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

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

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

The Varangians, who were part of the squad, would also not send a Christian to Odin. And if you take revenge, then where is the sacrifice? And so, and so - not according to our Spirit. If they wanted to take revenge, then Constantine and Methodius would not have read the Bible in Slavonic, and there would not have been a church in Kyiv.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regarding children...

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

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

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

That is, Leo the Deacon, seeing the Scythians - yes, they were undoubtedly Scythians, but not Scythians-Sarmatians! - and remembered that he had heard about the sacrifices of the nomadic Scythians. Then he expanded his story considerably.

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

[!] In accordance with the vow that Yahweh gave Jephthah - "offer on a burnt offering" the first living creature that he meets on the threshold of his house after the victory over the Ammonites - he sacrificed his daughter(Judg 11:29-39).

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

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

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

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

(Kryvelev Iosif Aronovich, "The Book of the Bible").

Pagan Russia - a great civilization

It was Rodnovery that led the Slavs to that greatness, which can be read about in the annals:

• "Gardarika" - the country of cities - the Normans called not France, not England, but Russia.
• “Rival of Constantinople,” wrote Titmar of Meserburgsky about Kyiv.
• The Bavarian Geographer - unfortunately unknown by name - named for each union of tribes two - three-digit numbers of cities.
• The French poem "Renaud de Montaban" tells how the title character acquires "a magnificent chain mail from Russia", as a result of which he acquires the glory of the invincible among the soldiers of Emperor Charles.
• Weight written sources the most diverse segments of the population - evidence of universal literacy.

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

• subdue the Pechenegs under Igor,
• and under Svyatoslav Khorobr - to unite, despite centuries of enmity, the Pechenegs and Magyars,
• and create a huge Empire,
• in which ordinary community members were buried with silver and gold ornaments,
• and about the merchants of whom Ibn Fadlan will say that for them a fortune of many tens of thousands of silver dirhams was not uncommon.

The thing is that the primordial Faith of the Slavs did not divide, did not force them to “hate their father and mother”, but brought up the cult of equality and tolerance.

The Slavs did not have any single "pantheon" of the Gods: somewhere they honored Perun more. somewhere - Veles. and in the lands of the redarii - even Mitra. So the story of all the hypostases of the One would take too much time.

Yes, and not about the Gods and Goddesses, I made this report, but its purpose was to debunk false tales, composed in huge quantities so that we were afraid of our ancestors and their deeds.

Slavic paganism is not a religion with its dogmas, rules ossified in time and struggle with science.

Native faith is the way.

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

And, turning off this path, we - forever - will be mired in the worship of modern gods: mass media and high.

References:

1. B. A. Rybakov "The paganism of ancient Russia" and "The paganism of the ancient Slavs."
2. Ozar Raven "Svyatoslav".
3. Kreslav Rys "Sacrifices among the Eastern Slavs: a true story and a fairy tale."
4. Sergei Paramonov "Book of Veles".

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At present, like mushrooms after rain, individual messiahs are appearing, groups of people united in various centers, movements, parties, congresses of various communities, social movements - who are extremely concerned about the lack of spirituality of modern society. A lot of programs are being written declaring priority measures for raising the spiritual life of the country, which, in the opinion of those who create them, can revive the once lost qualities and dignity of the Russian people and solve the not beloved RUSSIAN QUESTION.

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

One of them, who felt the elephant's leg, convinced his comrades that the elephant looked like a pillar, the second had a chance to feel the tail, and he said that the elephant, on the contrary, looked like a rope, and the third, who felt the trunk, considered elephants the closest relatives of snakes. The dispute, of course, led to nothing, and each blind man remained in his opinion.

In the case of the Slavic faith, the situation is complicated by the fact that there are much more “blind people”, and the “elephant” has come down to us in an unnatural, unrecognizable form. A lot of all sorts of theories and assumptions have accumulated about the essence of the Slavic faith - one more beautiful than the other; to be convinced of the abundance and diversity of existing views, it is enough, for example, to try to count the names of the Slavic faith offered from everywhere (only the most common names are about seven).

All this confusion in modern science comes from exactly the same confusion in historical sources about the Slavic faith. For example, in the ancient work “On the history, what about the beginning of the Russian land ...” it is said that the famous Prince Volkhov (son of Prince Sloven) loved to turn into a crocodile and swim along the Volkhov River, sometimes drowning people, for which he was nicknamed Perun by the people and later deified 8, and in the "Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles" Perun is considered a man who served as an elder among the Hellenes and for his exploits began to be revered by the Slavs as a god 9. Whom to believe? It is clear that both of these testimonies are unsuccessful attempts to humiliate Perun in front of the people, but official science argues differently: if both passages are taken from reliable historical sources, then it turns out that there were several ideas about Perun among the people.

A similar fate befell every facet of the Slavic faith: there is no such issue concerning it that would not cause a whole bunch of conflicting opinions. For a long time, official science tried to grasp at once everything that was written in past times about the faith of the Slavs, to create at least some kind of system from all the truthful and false evidence about it, but soon realized the futility of their efforts and came to the “final and irrevocable” conclusion : Slavic faith is not a faith at all, but a heap of primitive superstitions. As D.S. Likhachev wrote, expressing the opinion of official science about the faith of the Slavs:

Paganism was not a religion in the modern sense ... It was a rather chaotic collection of various beliefs, cults, but not a doctrine. This is a combination of religious rites and a whole heap of objects of religious veneration. Therefore, the unification of people of different tribes, which the Eastern Slavs so needed in the 10th-12th centuries, could not be carried out by paganism. The language was not uniform. This idea... should also be understood in the sense that in paganism there was a “higher” mythology associated with the main gods, and a “lower” mythology, which consisted mainly in connection with beliefs of an agricultural nature 10.

In a word, "paganism" is presented as the fruit of the unbridled childhood imagination of the people. Ancient people sat after a hunt and thought about the sky, clouds, lightning and everything else that surrounded them, endowing the objects of their fantasy with will and mind, these tales gradually accumulated, and in the end a kind of heap of tales gathered, which they decided to call "paganism »; and when statehood appeared, the princes found it convenient to use fairy tales in order to frighten and convince the people - this is how the process of politicization of “paganism” began, which, it is believed, led to its division into two loosely connected parts: an overly politicized “upper” and a too primitive “lower ". But, as they say, the games are over - the people have matured, and "paganism" forever left their native expanses.

Here, in general terms, is the official version of the biography of "paganism." From the outside, everything looks logical: a person must feel that in this world there is something higher than him, and where should an ancient person look for this Something, if not in nature, if he is not yet able to know the real God?

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

Deal with them (with the "pagans." - A.V.) as follows: destroy their altars, crush their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn their idols with fire.

It would not be worth paying attention to this: it is clear that such attacks towards the “infidels” are the fruit of the sick thinking of fanatical clergy who worked on the Bible, but the Christian idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe ancient people and their faith as something primitive and primitive very organically fit into technocratic Western consciousness, which, imagining history as a systematic movement exclusively forward, from simple to complex, believes that the past times are waste material, a passed stage in development, from which there is nothing to learn. At the time of the craze of Russian emperors for German culture, much, in particular, the above vision of history, migrated from European science to Russian - alas, not always beneficial.

A.S. Khomyakov quite rightly noted that “the connection between the preceding and the subsequent in the spiritual world is unlike the dead dependence of the action on the cause in the physical world” there can be no right or wrong concept in it. Max Müller, one of the founders of comparative linguistics and comparative religion, wrote about this:

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

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

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

At the first stage, a person simultaneously realizes himself and the Divine, sensual communication is established between the Divine world and a person. The gods of our ancestors were not man-made idols, as is now believed, but abstract, abstract images: as M. Müller wrote, “let us not be mistaken ... regarding the fact that then there was a natural and idolatrous veneration” 13.

At the second stage, a long “disease of religion” begins - the general oblivion by the people of divine images and metaphors, with which the ancient man tried to portray the Gods. A.N. Afanasiev said: “... As soon as the real meaning of the metaphorical language was lost, ancient myths began to be understood literally, and the gods gradually humbled themselves to human needs, concerns and hobbies, and from the height of air spaces began to be brought down to earth” 14.

The third stage is the time of partial healing of faith, associated primarily with the growth of a person's spiritual needs. “New ideas, caused by the historical movement of life and education,” wrote A.N. Afanasiev, “take possession of the old mythical material and gradually spiritualize it: from the elemental, material meaning, the representation of a deity rises to a spiritual ideal” 15.

The disease and recovery of religion, according to Max Müller, is a constant dialectical movement, in which the whole life of religion consists. Stopping this movement will certainly lead to the appearance instead of a living faith - an unviable extreme: a sophisticated philosophy or a heap of fairy tales, which in themselves can give society equally little.

Any religion is inherently dual: both abstract and concrete. This duality reflects the duality of social life itself. The sciences, growing out of religion, were at first supported by the clergy; the clergy, as far as possible freed by the people from worldly problems, advanced quite rapidly both in religious and scientific knowledge of the world. It does not take much time to form a religious movement - its foundations are laid in two or three centuries, and the further development of faith is aimed more at understanding and improving the old than at inventing a new one.

At the same time, the whole philosophy of faith could hardly be clear to the simple, mostly illiterate population. Trying to understand religion, the people created their own interpretation of religious revelations, clothing abstract divine images in more understandable earthly ones. Initially, the abstract system of faith gradually began to acquire fairy tales, traditions, legends. They are the reflection of religious philosophy, and not vice versa, and the richer, more diverse the reflection, the more common people's ideas about the world of God, the richer the source that gave birth to them.

The fate of folk mythology is much happier than the fate of Slavic religious philosophy. During the Christianization of Russia, the main blow, of course, fell on the very “crown” of the Slavic faith, its cult component: the Byzantine “enlighteners” executed the Magi, burned liturgical books, destroyed temples, trying to destroy the essence of faith and hoping that the orphaned folk culture in search of “food for brains” will be forced to come to Christianity. Slavic religious philosophy went underground, and its popular rethinking remained in sight, and therefore it seemed to many researchers that it was in this rethinking that the whole essence of the faith of the Slavs was. Some of them sincerely tried to find the abstract part of religion, but, apparently, could not or did not want to understand the ancient metaphors and came to the conclusion that it either died or never existed at all.

This is where the bone of contention lies, which gave rise to long and heated debates in the scientific community about the essence of the Slavic faith. However, in order to see the truth, you need not so much - to treat the faith of your ancestors without prejudice, and then, I think, everything will certainly fall into place.