On June 4 (worm), the Slavs celebrate Summer Troyan or Tribogov day. (Yarilo is wet). It seems very symbolic that in the current year, 2017, the Christian Trinity coincided with the pre-Christian trinity - the Tribogov day. It is not surprising that in early iconography, the Trinity was depicted in the guise of three angels - men:
And only later, they began to portray her like this:
The meaning of the term "trinity" itself is dimly understood even by most Christian believers. The only thing they can say about this is the learned dogma: - "God is the father, God is the son, and God is the Holy Spirit." On an intuitive level, people understand that the meaning of the Christian Trinity is in trinity, or in general in union.
The most savvy in matters of theology remember that according to the Bible, on the fiftieth day after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (the tenth day after His ascension), the Apostles were in the Zion Upper Room in Jerusalem, “… suddenly there was a noise from heaven, as if from a rushing strong wind, and filled the whole the house where they were. And divided tongues appeared to them, as it were, of fire, and rested, one on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance”(Acts 2: 2-4).
On this day, Jews from different cities and countries were in the city on the occasion of the holiday. Hearing the noise, they gathered in front of the house where the apostles were, and since “everyone heard them speaking in his own language” (Acts 2: 6), everyone was amazed. Some of them mocked the apostles and “said they drank sweet wine” (Acts 2:13). In response to this reaction:
“… Peter, standing with eleven, lifted up his voice and cried to them: Men of the Jews, and all that dwell in Jerusalem! This let it be known to you, and heed my words: they are not drunk, as you think, for it is now three o'clock in the afternoon; but this is what the prophet Joel foretold: And in the last days, says God, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy; and your young men will see visions, and your elders will be enlightened by dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. (Acts 2: 14-18)
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In general, everything is confusing and incomprehensible. And what is incomprehensible cannot inspire confidence. Maybe, in order to understand the essence of the issue, try to turn to earlier myths that formed the basis of modern religions? After all, in them everything is usually much simpler and clearer. Behind the allegories, one can easily read quite real events, devoid of any mysticism. And since the Trinity among Christians and the Trojans among the Slavs have pronounced parallels, let's resort to deciphering with the help of our native mythology!
And then it turns out that ethnographers and culturologists have several opinions on this issue at once. The ceremonial side of the celebration does not cause controversy, it is described in detail by the Slavophiles of the nineteenth century, but the meaning of this … However, in order.
- Tribogov day, according to some researchers, is the day of the transfer of the reins of rule from the middle brother of Yarila - the eldest of the three incarnations of Ra - Dazhdbog. Thus, Khors (the winter hypostasis of Ra) and Yarilo (the vernal one), as if merging together with their older brother, begin a new round of the Kolyada wheel, finally completing the transition from winter to summer. And this trinity is Tribog. Thus, Tribog is not a separate character, but the trinity of solar brothers of the youth Khors, the youth Yarila, and the husband of Dazhdbog.
- According to other researchers, Tribog is the unity of the brothers Svarog and Veles with Perun Svarozhich. It is also a very logical version, because the three of them rule over all three worlds: - Iriy, Earth, and the kingdom of the dead.
- And still others are sure that we are talking about the main defenders, about the heavenly warriors Perun and Sventovite (Svyatovite) with Stribog (Stryim). And this version, whatever one may say, is just as convincing, because it was these three who more than once saved the world from Chernobog and his offspring. During the first battle between good and evil, they successfully drove Chernobog into the kingdom of Navi, and then saved the obvious world from Skipper and Goryn. Moreover, their successful tactics of warfare are even described. The lord of the winds Stribog pressed the evil spirits to the ground, not allowing them to soar into the air, Dazhdbog in golden armor on horseback nailed the enemy with a spear to the ground, and Sventovit ended the matter with his kladenets sword. And he helped them invariably, Semargl.
I confess that the third version is closest to me. Not just on an intuitive level, but also because thinking about these characters, I involuntarily flashed out of my memory the lines of "our everything" A. S. Pushkin from the fairy tale "About the dead princess …".
“Light is our sun! You walk all
year round in the sky, bring
Winter to a warm spring, You see all of us beneath you.
Al will you deny me the answer?
Haven't you seen where in the world
You are a young princess?
The sun … It's all clear who else to ask about such matters. If the guess is correct, then “Ay yes Sashka” could mean Dazhdbog. If so, who did he turn to afterwards?
“Month, month, my friend, Gilded horn!
You get up in the deep darkness, Chubby, light-eyed, And, loving your custom, The
stars look at you.
Al will you deny me the answer?
Have you not seen a
young princess where in the world ?
It is not entirely clear, though … Sventovit is ours, a husband with four faces, facing all four cardinal directions. It may well correspond to the role of the Moon, which, like the Sun, sees everything that happens in all parts of the world at the same time. And if here you can still doubt, and consider that the idea is "far-fetched", then Elisha's third assistant dispels doubts almost completely:
“Wind, wind! You are powerful, You chase flocks of clouds, You stir the blue sea, Everywhere you blow in the open, You are not afraid of anyone, Except for God alone.
Al will you deny me the answer ?
In this case, we do not need special discernment in order to understand that "Oh yes son of a bitch" meant Stribog. Quite a sensible version in my opinion:
Version as version. I do not presume to claim that she is better than others. But here's what's curious. All three hypostases of Tribog, according to version number three, have quite recognizable prototypes in Christianity: -
- Stribog, this is Saint Myron Vetrogon, - Sventovit, this is the holy martyr Vit,
And Dazhdbog … And no hint is needed. So everything is clear. The image of St. George is too difficult to confuse with anyone. But that's not all…
Researchers of the Veles book do not doubt at all that Dazhdbog is neither more nor less Jesus. And as an argument provide this:
“With [vyataya] She walked the secret path, never knew her husband. [Jaco] about his daughter prayed to the gods so that his family would not be cut short. And that prayer was heard by Dazhbog, for His hour had already come. And He gave us a prayer: He came among us, having yet to return. A cloud was clear on Him - that the newborn Infant carried the sign of God. And so we set off on a journey, having [gifts] up to our God, to whom praise is sounded: be blessed, King, now, ever, ever and ever! It has been said, O magicians: those [who went] found, reprimanded and returned back. " (Veles's book. Board number 16)
Quite a decent version. In my opinion, it would be wrong to dismiss her. You need to consider all the existing ones, and the more there are, the more likely the chance to come closer to understanding the foundations of the worldview of our ancestors. The good news is that the study of information that can shed light on the mystery of the Slavic Tribog, I was able to make several small discoveries. It turns out that already at the beginning of the nineteenth century, our recent ancestors had almost completely lost their knowledge of the level of knowledge of pre-Christian Russia.
With great surprise, admiration and almost childish delight, Russian collectors of Slavic folklore of the early nineteenth century report numerous chronicles of various travelers from Europe and the countries of the Arab world, with descriptions of Slavic temples that have come down to them, but, unfortunately, are already unknown to us.
The first thing that struck them was that the Slavic temples, contrary to the established stereotypes, were made of stone all the time, although there were also wooden ones. And their ruins were found on the territory of modern Germany back in the thirties of the nineteenth century. True, I suspect that they still exist in Russia. For example, the Dmitrievsky Cathedral in Vladimir:
Even a cursory glance of a layman inexperienced in cult architecture is enough to realize that this is a pagan temple, not a Christian one.
It fully fits the descriptions contained in the early medieval sources, which are narrated by researchers of the nineteenth century. There are several differences:
- There are no two outer rings of the fence, which usually had seven or nine gates
- Instead of realistic painting of high reliefs, the walls are simply whitened from foundation to dome.
- The dome changed shape from egg-shaped to bulbous, and acquired a cross at the top
- Instead of an idol under the dome, there is now a domed space for parishioners.
Speaking specifically about this cathedral, I have practically no doubts that it was the temple of Dazhdbog. Look at the central high relief of the pediment above the parish:
I can swear that I saw old photographs in which the letters "J" were above the right hand of the depicted figure of a man with a musical instrument, and the letters "BG" were next to his left shoulder. Conclusion: The inscription meant, most likely - "Dazhdbog".
Later photos featured other letters: - "ЦРЪ" "ДВЪ". But in this photograph, taken after restoration, the letters are probably missing altogether. They were simply shot down and whitened. Already in our time, in the twenty-first century. Probably because everyone has long believed that the image depicts the biblical guslar, King David. Such are the metamorphoses …
But imagine that the temple was painted red, the plants were green, the faces and hands of the gods were flesh-colored, and the birds and beasts were gray, black and blue. And then imagine that here:
there was a wooden, stone, all-metal or combined sculpture of a creature six or more meters high. It was painted in natural colors for a living person. Dressed in woven clothing and armor, holding a gilded shield, giant sword, bow, or spear in hand. And next to them lay a huge saddle, harness, stirrups and other equipment and weapons of the same gigantic size.
Often the heads of the statues were gilded, silver-plated, or cast entirely from precious metals. Armor and weapons were also often plated with gold or silver. Descriptions of idols (idols) with eyes made of huge blue sapphires, with limbs carved from jasper, malachite, mammoth tusks, porphyry, lapis lazuli and other stones have survived. Moreover, the huge arms and legs were so skillfully glued from small stones that they seemed monolithic due to invisible seams.
The statements of those travelers who claimed that the Russians worship Saturn are of great surprise. I note that all the reports about the temples of Saturn on the territory of Tartaria belong to Arab travelers. They describe idols in the form of a naked man sitting on a throne with a height of one and a half to three fathoms (3.72 - 7.44 m.) With a bull's head, cast from pure gold, on whose head stood a jug with an inextinguishable flame between the horns. This is very reminiscent of the temples of the fire-worshipers of the Zoroastrians. These stories also give rise to memories of the legends about the golden calf, but most likely, we are not talking about Saturn, but about Veles. Here only he could be portrayed with a turkey head.
But the most striking information has been preserved about the Sventovita temple in Arkona, on the Ruyan island (now the island of Rügen, Germany). There, the Slavs had a temple so special that even staunch Christians fell prostrate in fear and confusion. The statue of the four-faced Sventovit was so gigantic that it boggled the imagination of anyone who was at her feet. Despite its antiquity and dilapidation, already in those days (according to the official version, the XI-XII century !!!) it amazed with the scale, perfection and richness of decoration.
In one of the eight hands of Sventovit there was a horn of a gigantic size (it should be noted that at the base of the foundations of Slavic temples, many horns were laid), which the chief priest of the temple filled with sweet wine. By the horn of wine, he made predictions of future events.
But the most surprising thing was this:
Gemstones of especially large sizes were placed on the walls of the dome. Sapphires, rubies, emeralds, diamonds, etc. On certain days and hours, through imperceptible holes in the dome, thin rays of light illuminated one or another stone, and the priests knew exactly what day came on the calendar, what would follow. Those. it is what modern orthodox historians call the "ancient observatory." Yes … The priests did not need an electronic clock. They knew other, more reliable and accurate methods of time tracking. But that's not all.
The priests of Sventovit were also excellent weather forecasters. How? That's how. Those "magic sounds" that shocked and awe the aliens in the temple were just a weather forecast for the initiates. The fact is that clay vessels with narrow necks sticking out were walled up in the stone vaults of the dome. The hemispherical geometry of the dome did not allow air currents to “play” on all “flutes” at once. Each vessel had its own "voice", and the priests knew how to distinguish between these voices.
Depending on atmospheric pressure, wind direction and speed, sounds of different volume, tonality, and character (intermittent, howling, clapping, etc.) sounded from different directions. For the uninitiated, these sounds, amplified by the acoustics of the dome vaults, seemed like a living hell. They thought it was the idol himself who was communicating with them. Thin squeaks, low bass howls, crackling, crying, etc., did not stop in the temple almost never. Only their tonality, intensity (number of "voices") and loudness changed.
But those who knew how to read the "messages" of wind and atmospheric pressure, knew how to make very accurate weather forecasts for several days in advance, which was vital for the Baltic Slavs, who were entirely dependent on the stormy situation at sea.
And we are told about "wild barbarians, subhumans who lived in pits, who could not read, before the appearance of Cyril and Methodius." Moreover, they do not even have their own Russian language …
But okay. Let's finish with the rituals on the Tribogov day, which could be observed among the Slavs a hundred years ago. Although they are distant echoes, they are still messages from the past, a particle of knowledge about the structure of the universe.
On the night of Troyan, girls and women “plowed” the village in order to protect themselves from evil forces.
After the conception, the “tonsure” ceremony was held for young men. So they were initiated into warriors. Then they arrange a feast in the field. The main dishes at the feast were sweets, scrambled eggs and pies. The main drink was bread beer. He was laid as a sacrifice. The word "to eat" previously meant "to make a sacrifice." That is why those who knew how to make a sacrifice, otherwise - to eat, were called priests.
Then they acted out a fairy tale or an epic, where each participant had his own role. Well, do not give or take - the folk theater. And then there was the most desirable part of the holiday for young people with games and dances, allowing premarital girls and young men to do what they were not allowed to do on weekdays. Those. holding hands, hugging, and openly expressing sympathy for each other. This was a kind of prologue for continuing their acquaintance during the celebration of Kupala. But this will be discussed a little later.
Author: kadykchanskiy