Long before the 10th century, the time of the adoption of Christianity, the Slavs, having passed a long historical path, had an experience of government based on the ideals of veche government, i.e. corresponding to the time of democracy.
They also had developed Vedic culture, Vedic faith. Here we should rather talk about the Vedic worldview of the Slavs. According to a number of sources, for example, the annals of the Mazurinsky Chronicler, "The Legend of Slovenia and Ruse and the City of Slovensk", we know that 2500 BC. e. The Slavs, led by Prince Sloven, or as he was also called Slaven, reclaimed the lands of the north-west of Russia and was founded on the Volkhov river Grad Slovensk (Slavyansk), in the place of which Novgorod arose. Lomonosov wrote: “Before the election to the parish of Rurik, Slavic peoples lived within the Russian borders. Firstly, the Novgorodians were called Slavs by their excellent name and the city from ancient times was known as Slovenian”.
The researchers include the ancient inhabitants of Greece, the Pelasgians, who left the famous Cretan-Minoan culture, destroyed by natural disasters in the 15th century BC, to the Proto-Slavs. e. Ancient texts from the island of Crete were read on the basis of the Russian language.
The Greek writer Gellanik (5th century BC) argued that the Etruscans were a branch of the Pelasgians, who created at the turn of the 2nd-1st millennium BC e. developed civilization and had a tremendous impact on the ancient Roman society. According to the author of "Roman Antiquities" Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1st century BC), the Etruscans called themselves "rasena". Their Slavic origin is indicated by Stephen of Byzantine, Livy Titus (1st century BC), Ptolemy (1st-2nd centuries) and other thinkers of antiquity. Several thousand Etruscan texts are known, some of which were read by our contemporary Oreshkin on the basis of the Russian language.
Decoding of the Etruscan letter was undertaken back in the 18th century by the Pole Slav Fadey Volansky. He wrote: “… for the most part they (Slavs) were designated under the common names of Scythians and Sarmatians. That the Slavs were not inferior to their neighbors in the sciences and arts, on the contrary, they were ahead of them, Herodotus proves in the 46th chapter of Book 4, saying that apart from Anacharsis he did not know a single great husband who was not a Scythian by birth! The oldest finds of Slavic writing, called the Slavic runica and found on the territory of Romania and Yugoslavia, date back to 6-5 thousand years BC.
Empress Catherine II asserted: “… that they (the Slavs) had a written language older than Nestor, but these were lost or had not yet been found and therefore did not reach us. The Slavs had a letter long before the birth of Christ. This was written by a German woman who had no need to embellish Russian history. The 19th century historian Yegor Klasen stated: “… as a result of the testimony of Herodotus and other Greek writers, that many Scythian tribes knew the letter and that the Greeks themselves adopted the alphabet from the Pelasgians, a people also of Scythian, or, which is all the same, of Slavic Russian origin …
The Slavs had a literacy not only before all the Western peoples of Europe, but also before the Romans and even the Greeks themselves, and that the outcome of enlightenment was from the Russ to the west, and not from there to them.
Naturally, the people who created the great civilizations of antiquity had their own developed worldview and culture. The Slavs lived in unity with nature, considered themselves a part of it. They understood that, as a part of nature, they obey the laws of its development. Their worldview was based on the idea of the world as a single system, all parts of which are interconnected and interdependent. The denial of such a principle is the cause of many negative problems of our time.
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In folk art, the Slavic Russians understand the world around them. And folk art itself can be called a collection of wisdom, a textbook with the approximate title "How to go through life to success, making fewer mistakes, helping yourself and others."
Let's take Russian proverbs. These short but succinct phrases carry an instructive meaning. They give recommendations on how to act in life situations: "Measure seven times, cut once", "Listen to the enemy - dig your own grave." They also talk about the need for certain attitudes: "Stand up for your own, don't grab someone else's," "Your own crackers are better than other people's pies." They warn about the consequences of unworthy behavior: "If you lie, you will not die, but in the future they will not believe", "Give up God - stick to Satan." There are proverbs, as it were, generalizing life experience: "And people live in troubles, but disappear in lies", "Simplicity is worse than theft", "Wrong profit - children cannot live."
Russian fairy tales provide useful advice and knowledge about the world around us. The leitmotif of many fairy tales is the struggle between good and evil. Among the protagonists of fairy tales - people - there are positive and negative heroes. There are also characters of the non-material world endowed with supernatural abilities in fairy tales.
Characters-helpers, personifying the good forces and spiritual forces of man, taking the form of animals: the Little Humpbacked Horse, Wolf, Pike. Characters representing evil forces: Serpent Gorynych, Koschey the Immortal, Miracle Yudo and others.
Fairy tales from childhood teach to distinguish between good and evil, false and real, teach to create. The development of fairy tales teaches us not to be afraid of difficulties.
Readers remember how Ivan Tsarevich was looking for Vasilisa the Beautiful. If you want to achieve the goal, go ahead, do not be afraid, rely on your physical strength, on the strength of your spirit, often called an aura and connected through certain channels with higher Divine (good) forces. Overcoming obstacles, the hero gains experience and knowledge that will help him in the future. As a rule, evil characters are not able to destroy the hero, they only prevent him from reaching his goal. If the hero boldly, confidently, using the advice he receives, goes forward, their spell is destroyed. A similar thing happens in life.
Fairy tales explain: be able to defend your interests, fight evil, and sometimes ruthlessly destroy evil. Entering into a duel with Koshchei, Ivan does not waste time on unnecessary reflections, does not think to make a compromise decision, for example, to capture Kashchei and engage in his re-education. He is sure this evil subject must be destroyed, and without emotion he deals with him. The heroes of other fairy tales act in a similar way. They do not explain to enemies that they are doing wrong, do not listen to their arguments. They just beat, showing cunning, ingenuity.
The carriers of evil do not always manifest themselves outwardly. Sometimes they hide behind the guise of piety and delicate manners, trying to achieve their goal with flattering speeches. You must be able to recognize them, otherwise they will crush and eat you. How the Fox ate the protagonist in the fairy tale "Kolobok". Stupid and self-confident, apparently, the Kolobok was therefore in the stomach of the red cheat.
Let's recall the fairy tale "By the Pike's Command." Once upon a time, Emelya lived, lived gray, slept a lot. But the time came, I caught a Pike and went up the hill. Here Pike helped too, but, above all, he himself was brave and quick-witted.
Similar stories in fairy tales about Ivanushka the Fool, who turns out to be not a fool at all.
The explanatory and etymological dictionary interprets the concept of a fool in this way - a fool is an enlightened person who does not use the mind ("d" - given, having, "ur" - light, "ra" - the sun, hence the Russian "URA"; "k" - belonging to anything). At the initial stage of development, the mind is man's best friend.
But at the end of human evolution, he becomes the worst enemy, because this imperfect organ of cognition is limited by the primitive perception of the five senses: smell, touch, taste, sight and hearing - the mind has no other input channels of information.
In Russian folk tales, Ivan the Fool is always evolutionarily superior to his clever brothers. A person using only the abilities of the mind is not able to solve, for example, the following problem: "Go there - I don't know where, bring that - I don't know what."
A fool, using not the mind, but other, more perfect ways of knowing the world, easily copes with such tasks. That is why Russia is a country of fools: “You cannot understand Russia with your mind, you cannot measure it with a common yardstick, it’s special to become, you can only believe in Russia.” With the advent of Christianity, it acquired a negative meaning.
Not only good fellows are tested, but also red girls. After the abduction, Koschey offered Vasilisa wealth and power, only he would marry Koschei, that is, he entered into an alliance with evil, otherwise he threatened to turn him into a statue. She did not succumb to the speeches of Koshchei the tempter Vasilisa, was not afraid of reprisals, retained love and loyalty to Ivan. Thus, she helped Ivan defeat Koshchei. And she herself achieved happiness, Ivan rescued her from captivity, Ivan and Vasilisa began to "live and live and not know grief."
Sincere love helped Vasilisa to overcome obstacles to Ivan. The power of female love is described in the fairy tale "The Scarlet Flower" by the 19th century writer S. T. Aksakov. Sincere female love, perhaps, does not guarantee one hundred percent protection, but it is a certain protective letter and a source of strength for a man.
Individual episodes of fairy tales are interesting. Remember how the heroes of fairy tales were looking for their betrothed. On the way, they met an old witch (old woman) and talked about the upcoming obstacles: you come to a large stone, there are three roads from it. On the left you will go - you will lose your life, on the middle - something will happen, go on the right road. Then he spoke about a dense forest: you will find yourself in a dense forest, you will hear different passions, the cries of monsters, go ahead, do not be afraid and do not look back. If you turn around, you won't see your beloved.
Let's look at the episode with the stone at the fork. In life, people often find themselves at a crossroads. Sometimes the choice is serious: to follow the path of truth or the path of lies and deceit. An incorrectly chosen path can lead to death. The Slavs understood that a person was given freedom of choice and free will. He can decide for himself which way of life to go, and, having made a choice, by volitional efforts to achieve the goal.
Advice with a dense forest is instructive. Go ahead, don't look back, i.e. do not react to any troubles, interference. In life, we are attracted by various situations: a conflict at work, in a family, sometimes a feeling of fear, attempts to lure into unnecessary discussion or business, in which only time and energy will be lost, bad thoughts spinning in our head. It is necessary to resist evil and rudeness. But if we pay a lot of attention to the problems we meet, be afraid of difficulties, let us suppress the will, we will not reach our well-being, the set goal. A beloved-betrothed in a fairy tale can be an analogue of success, happiness in real life.
Having understood the instructive nature of fairy tales, the origin of the word "hint" becomes clear. It is known to everyone since school years. The basis of the word is the word "fairy tale". It is no coincidence that the word "hint" has acquired such a semantic meaning. If a fairy tale helps in learning about life, a hint - a small fairy tale - helps to cope with a small problem.
Let us now turn to Russian epics or, as they are also called, antiquities.
These Russian folk epic songs-legends often tell about Russian knights. Remember how the Russian knights in these works served to protect the borders of the country and entered into battles with the enemy army: alone or in extremely small groups of two or three fighters. This testifies to their excellent abilities in battles with the enemy and strength. As they say, one was worth a whole army.
And the description in the epics of their actions in battle: if they strike forward with the club, a street will form, strike back - a lane! Of course, there is some exaggeration inherent in folk works. But this has a basis. I will cite a hypothesis: this is due, in my opinion, to a certain training and capabilities of our Russian soldiers. They, apparently, knew how to enter a special state, as if dissolving in space and time, when all actions are carried out automatically, without thinking, at the level of, as we say, the subconscious. The strength and capabilities of the warrior's spiritual body are drawn. The fighter sees and anticipates the actions of the enemy, which take place for him as if in slow motion. He is able to prevent or escape from them, becomes practically invulnerable. The energy of the fighter's blow is concentrated, the blows are distinguished by great strength and speed,it is extremely difficult to defend against them, they break the enemy.
A warrior is capable of suppressing the will of the enemies around him and even instilling fear. Perhaps this was due to the powerful biofield (aura) that existed around the Russian knight. Modern studies say that the biofield of Russian people is much larger than the biofield of people of other nationalities. But for the biofield to have strength, it must be clean, the soul must be clean, the human chakras must work well. It is not for nothing that Vlesova Kniga speaks of the need for spiritual purity: “And so we proclaimed the glory to the Gods, who are our Fathers, and we are Their sons. And we will be worthy of Their purity of bodies and our souls, which will never die."
In a similar state, the Russian soldiers, apparently, cut into the ranks of the enemies, laying "streets" in them and returning to their original positions, leaving behind them "lanes". To learn this, one must have knowledge of human capabilities, which was part of the Vedic knowledge. I suppose that someone in an extreme situation managed to get (not to enter, namely to get) into a similar state. And then wonder for a long time how you could have done the seemingly impossible.
Separation from folk roots is fraught with weakening of spirit, will, separation from true knowledge, narrowing of horizons, etc. We must not forget and study folk art. Getting to know him, you understand more and more the wisdom of our ancestors. With the help of folk art, including fairy tales, they prepared children for a difficult adult life.
From an early age, they instilled in them the concepts of good and rejection of evil, taught to resist evil and fight it. Perhaps folk art will help us cope with today's difficulties. If we take the hint.