Rus was revived a hundred times, and a hundred times was defeated from midnight to noon (from north to south) …
And then we came to this place and settled in the Russian Lands as firemen. And so two darkness passed, twenty thousand years …
"Book of Veles", Genus I, 1 Where are we from? How was the Russian Land born? How did our ancestors live and what did they believe?
We usually recall in this connection the words of the first Russian chronicler of the Christian era, Nestor, who began his chronicle as follows:
Turning to such sources, we doom ourselves in advance to the study of Russian history, at best, since the founding of Kiev. And at the same time we see that the pre-Christian history and faith by monks-chroniclers is described briefly and extremely reluctantly.
But are there other, actually "pagan" sources? Has the ancient Slavic pre-Christian (more precisely Vedic) tradition died?
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Not. Now we can say firmly: she did not die. Tradition can only perish together with the entire people. It is the basis of life itself, language, songs and epics, folk Orthodox holidays and rituals.
It was also called the Righteous Faith, for the Slavs knew the Truth, knew the Pra-Vedas, the most ancient Vedas, sacred legends about the source of the Vedic faith, which was the first faith of almost all the peoples of our planet.
And now we need to talk not about death, but about the revival of the ancient tradition and faith, about the Russian Renaissance. The ancient faith never died, to this day many Slavic families keep the Vedic tradition.
In our time, the revival of the ancient faith began with the publication of the sacred Vedic books of the Slavic tradition. We are talking about books from the collection of "Russian Vedas" and above all about the "Book of Veles".
And these books speak of twenty thousand years, during which Russia was born, perished and revived again. These books tell about the ancient ancestral homelands, about the lands where the Russian clans were born, about the progenitors of different clans.
And the most ancient ancestral home of the ancestors of the Slavs (first Aryans) "Russian Vedas" is seen in the North, in the sacred Belovodye. Hence, the ancestors of the Slavs, led by the god of the Sun and the first prince Yar, moved first to the Urals and the steppe of Semirechye, then to India and Iran. And here, from the Aryan (Indo-Iranian) clans, the Slavs proper emerged: those who glorified the gods and ancestors.
Russia itself, according to the Vedic tradition, was born after the exodus of the Slavic-Aryan clans from the Urals, India and Iran, thousands of years before the founding of Kiev-on-the-Dnieper and the Baptism of Rus.
Russia was born in the Slavic-Aryan sea of peoples who lived at different times in the lands from the Urals and Altai to the Balkans, from the Volga to the Black and Baltic seas. And the Rus was the name of the descendants of the mermaid Ros (as the Volga was called in ancient times). The Rus glorified Ros and her husband, the Sun-Tsar Dazhbog, as well as their son, the Sun God, and the first ancestor Yar (Aria). They gave birth to Russia, and they always protected Russia from troubles.
Russia was born many times, perished from invasions - and was reborn again. And I believe that now, after new trials, Russia will be reborn again and will be great and happy.
The beginning of the Russian Renaissance?
After the first editions of the "Book of Kolyada", "Velesovaya Kniga" and "Boyanova Anthem", many began to ask me, a translator, collector and publisher of ancient texts.
Someone comes with bewilderment: “Is it possible that in ancient times Russian people created such beauty? Is it possible that they were worried about thoughts so close to us?"
Can the texts of the "Book of Kolyada", "Book of Veles" and "Boyanov's Anthem" also be included in this series? After all, the "pagan" tradition was forgotten, destroyed in ancient times? Do you need it today?
However, wasn’t this the case with the entire Russian national heritage?
Reorganization of civilization is impossible without revision of its fundamental defect and basic lie - artificial religions.
Environmental friendliness, life in harmony with nature have never been part of their tasks, because in religions there is no such concept - "Nature", what our ancestors called "Mother of cheese earth".
Look for a worldview in which there is no place for the destruction of our common planetary home. Moreover, even now in Russia, elements of the pre-Christian tradition are found all the time. For example, millions of Russians, in fact, perform Vedic requests to their ancestors in cemeteries, and the immortal regiment, which swept across the country on May 9, was essentially a modern celebration of the ancient pagan Family, because people were not carrying dubious leaders, but their fathers and grandfathers.
Religions are a technology for controlling the consciousness of the masses, thanks to which thousands of people in hundreds of academies and seminaries wade through the jungle of nonsense and contradictions of the so-called "Sacred Texts" that knock common sense out of a person.
Millions of clergy, performing artificial rituals, billions of people praying to invented gods, taking trillions out of their impoverished pockets to buy religious objects that are profitable for those who sell them. Billions of people have a thought hammered into their heads: no need to think, no need to follow common sense - all this is a sin.
But one must believe without hesitation, follow the rules devoid of meaning, one must celebrate the holidays dedicated to events that never happened. Why was this puppet world created? Then, in order to break common sense, to build an unnatural society, where not a thinker, a worker, a creator, but a swindler, a liar, a thief - a parasite, is raised to the top.
The clan of clergy, not participating in the creative life of society, plays the role of intermediaries between a person and higher powers, while they earn good money, receiving payment for creating an ideological base for the domination of a clan of other parasites - political and business pseudo-elites, thus religions consecrate the pyramidal structure of society where the supreme power is from God, even if it is absolutely failed.
It is the parasitic pseudo-elites - ecclesiastical and secular - who desperately oppose the reorganization of civilization on the principles of reason and justice, because in this case they will move to their rightful place - to the social bottom.
Fairy tales, songs, and epics were not at all in the public domain at the beginning of the 19th century before they got into print. The upper class did not know them at all. Brought up by foreign governesses, they even spoke Russian with difficulty. Yes, and among the people, only a few knew fairy tales and epics, the wicked Orthodoxy, the serf system did not contribute to the strength of the national foundations. In each locality, separate songs and stories of fairy tales were kept, and already the songs of the neighbors were unknown.
Many epics were recorded by the last bearers of the tradition in the North and Siberia, not affected by serfdom. And after the publication, these texts were also accused, and to this day they are accused of forgery, that they were composed exactly at the time when they were recorded and published. And large-circulation editions of fairy tales and epics usually passed over in silence the unique recordings of the "pagan" plots. And if in Europe, thanks to the works of the brothers Grimm, the "mythological school" won out in the interpretation of fairy tales, and the rare records of German and French heroic songs (epics), found by that time only on scraps of old parchments, began to be interpreted as pieces of ancient myths, in Russia, on the contrary, the "historical school" won. A much richer epic, a living tradition was often reduced to imitation of foreigners and retellings of events of the recent past.
And this school to this day educates mythologists and writers who are sincerely convinced that Slavic paganism is limited to those ideas that were popular in scientific literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
But most of all at all times the living pagan tradition itself was persecuted. In tsarist Russia, since the time of the Code of Alexei Mikhailovich, there was a law according to which for the "blasphemous", that is, "pagan" faith, penal servitude was supposed, and until the 18th century even a fire (the very existence of this law implies that the bearers of this faith were not rare).
Is it any wonder that even after the publication of "pagan" texts, for example, the "Veda of the Slavs" in 1881, these monuments were surrounded by silence or accusations of forgery. And yet, fate was favorable to some monuments of ancient writing. Thus, a copy of the "Book of Veles" was preserved by Russian emigrants, a copy of "Boyan's anthem" was preserved in the Department of Manuscripts of the Public Library in St. Petersburg. And now they are published..
Other monuments were confiscated and disappeared without a trace. So, in the last century in St. Petersburg, an entire library of runic books that belonged to the collector A. I. Sulakadzev (and the mysterious "White Community").
And in the XX century the “Polovtsian” plaques, the so-called “Polovtsian” tablets, were declared a fake (and the 16th century!) "Leaf of Ivan Smery, Polchapin." After they were declared fake, they were no longer mentioned in the scientific literature, and now there is no opportunity to get acquainted with this monument, despite the fact that any document, even (and even more so) of the 16th century, is legally considered a national treasure.
Finds of archaeologists who do not fit into the generally accepted picture of ancient Slavic history are subject to the same default. Thus, the ruins of the Buzh pagan temple with inscriptions and reliefs, discovered in the last century, are not being studied today, despite the fact that they were mentioned in special literature, and by such authority as academician B. D. Grekov. Why? Precisely because of the reliefs and runic inscriptions.
And is it any wonder that, to this day, disputes about the authenticity of the great monument of Russian culture "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" do not cease. Until now, the only authentic parchment copy of this monument made by A. I. Bardin has not been published or studied. The reason for this is claimed to be that he made forgeries in his workshop. But this parchment, made masterfully, and not from the first edition, but from an original manuscript, should be considered the earliest and most accurate copy of the monument?
For example, in Orthodox Greece they also respect the culture of antiquity, and do not throw Homer's poems into the fires at all, do not destroy the Acropolis. I'm not talking about the fastest growing country in the world - Japan, in which the national faith "Shintoism" is a pagan faith. I will also note that the Buddhists and Shintoists of Japan are not at all at odds with each other.
And how beneficial can be the upbringing of a modern person, based on the "Veles Book", "Boyan's Hymn", "The Lay of Igor's Host" and oral folk tradition! A person who has embarked on the path of Rule will see himself and what he is doing otherwise. Raised on love for the Fatherland, he will become a true patriot, will clearly distinguish between good and evil, truth and falsehood. He will feel like a part of Nature and will no longer be able to destroy the living world around him. The human consciousness will expand, forgotten words and concepts will appear in the language, the world will acquire new colors.
The Russian Vedic spiritual tradition contains both the doctrine of the spirits that patronize Russia, and the oldest in the doctrine of the Almighty. This teaching will enrich the treasury of world spiritual thought. If we support a little the still flickering light of the Vedic Russian faith, then the whole great diversity of our ancient culture will appear to the world - martial art, and folk medicine, and music, and architecture, and crafts, for all this is still alive today. And this will be the beginning of the era of the Russian Renaissance.
What is the Slavic tradition today? And is it correct to call it paganism?
Vedism and Russian paganism
Many things are now called paganism: the faith of the ancient Greeks and Romans, Hindus, the faith of Siberian shamans and African sorcerers. And I think that such an ambiguous definition would be wrong to apply to the Russian Vedic tradition.
Unlike Vedism, paganism (including Russian) cannot have a single ideological basis. More often, paganism is understood as a belief in the existence of many gods and a denial of the existence of the Most High (polytheism).
Paganism is also called pantheism, that is, the veneration and spiritualization of Nature while denying the God of the Family (the Most High). In ancient times, paganism was also understood as belief in alien gods, or worship of demigods, denial of religion as such (atheism). In the Christian era, any non-Christian creed was called paganism.
For then it turns out that, for example, Christianity is not a popular faith, but it is not. In addition, everyone from atheism to Vedism is called one by this name. Therefore, we reject such an interpretation of "paganism" and Russian Vedism, the ancient monotheistic faith, oppose paganism (polytheism, pantheism, atheism).
This does not mean that all Russian paganism, understood as a combination of popular non-Christian beliefs and superstitions, does not represent spiritual value. In Russian paganism, you can find many precious fragments of the ancient Russian Vedic faith - put together, they represent the Russian Vedic faith in its entirety. Therefore, following the usual word usage, sometimes the Russian Vedic tradition will also be called paganism (based on the fact that it also includes the Vedic faith).
The Vedic faith, in the form of various ramifications of Iduism and Zoroastrianism, folk faiths, is now professed by a quarter of humanity. We are talking not only about India and the countries of Indochina In Europe, America, Australia, various oriental religious societies based on the Vedic worldview, and the "neo-pagan" communities themselves, cover up to a tenth of all believers. Zoroastrians (Gebras and Parsis) are represented in the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran and in the Parliament of India.
The developed types of Vedic faith are spiritually based on Indian Vedic and Iranian Zoroastrian (Avestan) literature, which includes thousands of volumes of ancient writings and their modern interpretations.
The most famous books of the Vedic religion of India are the Vedas. There are four of them. "Rigveda", "Veda of hymns", Samaveda, "Veda of tunes". And also two additional Vedas created for the needs of priests and healers - Yajurveda, Veda of sacrificial formulas (there are white and black), and Atharvaveda (Veda of spells). Later the Vedas compiled commentaries on them - hundreds of philosophical treatises: Brahmanas and Upanishads.
Additional Vedic literature in India is the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas. The heroic poem Mahabharata is revered by the Indians as the fifth Veda, this is the world's largest poem, including one hundred thousand quatrains. In essence, the Mahabharata is a separate literature (the famous Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Mahabharata).
Ramayana is a poem about the ancient hero and king of India, Rama, the incarnation of the Almighty. Puranas are a collection of stories about incarnations of the Supreme, about the life of the demigods.
Zoroastrian literature of Ancient Iran is represented primarily by the Avesta. The Avesta has four parts - Yasnu ("worship"), Vispered ("all the main chapters"), Videvdat ("the law against the demonic devas") and Yashta ("hymns").
Here, only the sacred books of the currently active confessions were mentioned, no less extensive literature is given by archaeological, ethnographic research in different countries of the East. Also, later works based on priestly books that have not come down to us (for example, "Shah-Nama" by the poet Ferdowsi). And it would be wrong to believe that these texts have nothing to do with the Russian Vedic tradition. On the contrary. Many of these texts tell about the lands lying to the North of India and Iran. These are the most important and very ancient descriptions of the lands of Ruga, which was revered and revered as the ancestral home of the Aryans, the source of the Vedic faith by both Hindus and Zoroastrians.
Attention should be paid to the commonality of many texts, mythological subjects of Russian and other Vedic traditions. You can put alongside the texts of Russian folk songs, spiritual poems and the texts of Indian and Iranian Vedic literature repeating them.
This comparison will certainly lead to the conclusion that in Russia the songs are no less, and often even more archaic, than in India and Iran. This is justified by the fact that it is Russia that is the source of the Vedic faith.
The great spiritual heritage of Vedic Rus can rightfully be placed next to the living Vedic tradition of the countries of the East.
Scripture and sacred tradition of the Russian Vedic faith
The oldest songs and epics in the oral tradition of Russia have been well preserved. They are poetic, accessible. Where, for example, the Puranas give a short retelling of the plot of an ancient myth, the Russian tradition gives the very ancient song, very beloved by the people and almost not distorted by time.
Many ancient Vedic hymns, sacred songs and partly myths have been preserved by the oral and written tradition of Orthodox mystical sects. One can name the Dove Book, Animal Book, Secret Book, Golden Book and many other folk books revered by the Old Believers, Dukhobors, “God's people” (whips, eunuchs), bogumils and others.
A complete collection of Slavic folk songs, epics, fairy tales and legends, spiritual verses - thousands of volumes. And they contain the very Primordial Vedas lost by the Aryans who came from the North to India and Iran. Other collections of Russian folk songs and epics contain tales that are older and better preserved than those of the Puranas.
Now I have published a complete set of the Primordial Vedas, named by the ancient name of this collection of myths and traditions of the Slavs: "The Star Book of Kolyada." Each text of this book has a prototype in the oral tradition and in the folk books of the Slavs (also in close traditions). I have done work on the collection of texts, translation into modern Russian, ordering, collation, highlighting the ancient basis. "The Book of Kolyada" should be considered a source according to the ancient faith of the Slavs, for every text, figurative expression, thought of this book can be certified by a folk song, an epic, a tale.
Brief retellings of myths from the "Star Book of Kolyada" are placed in the first part ("Slavic myths") of this book, and the main sources are indicated in the comments to the texts.
One of the most important sources on Slavic mythology and the ancient Vedic faith of the Slavs should also be considered the book "Veda of the Slavs", a collection of songs of the South Slavic people of the Pomak Bulgarians. This book (in two volumes) was published at the end of the last century in Belgrade and St. Petersburg by Stefan Ilyich Verkovich. The Veda of the Slavs contains ritual songs and prayers to the Slavic gods, it is no less significant for the Slavs than the Rig Veda is for the Hindus. It has not yet been translated into Russian, but the main Slavic myths from this book were included in the Book of Kolyada.
In addition to thousands of volumes of Slavic folklore, Russian Vedic literature is also represented by monuments of ancient writing. First of all - this is the "Book of Veles", then "Boyan's Hymn" and "The Word about Igor's Host." Already these monuments are enough to talk about the great Russian Vedic literature and written culture.
Most of all is now known "The Lay of Igor's Regiment", created, as Academician B. A. Rybakov, boyar Peter Borislavich in the XII century. His nephew Bishop Theodore advocated the unity of the Russian Vedic and Christian traditions, for which he was executed, and the books he wrote were burned. This family kept the Russian Orthodox Vedic faith, they were the successors of a tradition dating back to Boyan and Zlatohor, singers of Ancient Russia.
Boyan's Hymn is the oldest monument of Slavic writing, created in the 4th century. It has come down to us, like The Lay of Igor's Campaign, in a copy of the early 19th century (kept in the Public Library in St. Petersburg), but the original may still exist. It tells about the victory of the Slavs in the war against the Goths of Germanarech. Contains news about the princes Busa and Slovenia, the singers Boyana and Zlatohor.
"The Book of Veles" is the sacred scripture of the Slavs. It was written on wooden tablets (43 boards) in the 5th-9th centuries by the priests of Ruskolani and Ancient Novgorod. Contains the mythology of the Slavs, prayer texts, legends and stories about the ancient Slavic history from the XX millennium BC to the IX century AD. "The Book of Veles" has been known since the beginning of the 19th century, but has come down to us in a copy of the early 20th century.
Until recently, other sacred texts of the ancient Slavs were also known, about two dozen sources. The most extensive and significant of them are as follows: "Perunitsa" (Perun and Veles broadcasting in Kiev temples to the priests Moveslav, Drevoslav and others), judging by the description; consisted of 12 books. Further: “About Kitovras. Fables and Koshchuny "(a conventional name, this is Slavic Vedic mythology), 143 boards of the 5th century. "White Book", which includes legends about Kolyada Venedsky, funeral feasts of Zlatogor, Bus Beloyar, Novgorod legends from the times of Burivoy and Vladimir the Ancient. There were also essays on geography, fortune-telling books, and so on.
The pompkon communities of Bulgarians (“The Golden Book”, “The Bird's Book”, “The Book of Wanderings” and so on) have also preserved the memory of many books. These books were also destroyed not so long ago.
Today these books are not available to us. Some of them, apparently, are in closed state storage facilities in Russia. Some of them at the beginning of the 19th century were exported through Masonic channels outside the Russian Empire, mainly to Austria. Now these manuscripts are scattered across the libraries of Europe and America, and are revered in secret writing.
Plates "Books of Veles" from the temple library of Ancient Novgorod. In the XI century, this library was taken to France by Queen Anna Yaroslavna. At the beginning of the 19th century, the library returned to Russia and was acquired by A. I. Sulakadzev. In 1919, the plaques were found in the Neklyudov-Zadonskys estate and taken to Belgium, where they were copied by the historian Yu. P. Mirolyubov.
Here are the front and back sides of plate II 16, according to photographs taken by Yu. P.