Modern education has pronounced signs of globalism, and this is expressed, first of all, in the fact that historians all over the world suspiciously unanimously profess the same version of the origin of modern civilization. We agreed once, and in all the school programs of the world, the version that ancient Greek mythology is primary in relation to all others was fixed. Perhaps this is so, but the question arises as to why schoolchildren in any country know exactly the Greek and Roman versions of the cosmogony of the ancients, and are completely unaware of the ideas about the structure and origin of the world, their own ancestors?
Unlike the ancient cosmogony, the ancient Russian is not even systematized to this day. The stories of old people about Svarog, Mokos and Perun with Veles were recorded many times in various regions of Russia and the Baltic states, and each of the fragments has significant differences from each other.
Attempts to combine in one publication the entire picture of Old Russian cosmogony have been made more than once, for example, by Tatyana Buinova. Her work “Children of Svarog. The oldest myths of the Eastern Slavs”is the best of all that I had to study on this topic, but he remained known to a narrow circle of enthusiasts interested in the history of pre-Christian Russia. But the drafters of curricula still do not consider it necessary for our children to be brought up on the basis of the worldview of their ancestors.
I believe that the situation will eventually be rectified, and the discrimination that takes place in relation to Russian culture will be eliminated. And over time, we will come to the conclusion that exaggerated respect for some one of the branches of world culture will not be implanted, and everyone will become equal among equals. But for this, it is necessary to preserve what we have and pass it on to our children and grandchildren so that they do not feel left out. So that they know that in antiquity their ancestors were not at all "barbarians living in pits."
This should correct the "bias" towards the exaltation of some peoples in relation to others, which inevitably leads to the development of Nazi thinking, with all the ensuing consequences. If each nation knows its history and treats the history of its neighbors with respect, then a cultural balance will gradually develop, in which an equal, friendly and interested attitude of representatives of some ethnic groups to others will arise. People will understand that there are no “bad” and “good” nations, and they will begin to enjoy the diversity and identity of all, based on mutual respect for all by all. It's not that difficult! Well, now about how our distant ancestors explained the origin of the world to their children.
The birth of the world
In the beginning was the Words. And Words by God. He was inside the world egg - dozing for himself, dozing under his golden shell, and there was nothing around. There were only grains, so small that they are not visible to anyone living on Earth today. These grains flowed like a river, piercing the golden egg, in which the Words slept.
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He slept for eternity, and dreamed about a wonderful world, in which everything is arranged and where everything has a place. He dreamed of lands and seas, mountains and rivers. Lush forests and flowering plains. He saw fish, animals, insects, reptiles and birds, as well as people. He dreamed of wind and rain, snow and ice. And Slovo was sure that all this really was, and he loved with all his heart the world that he dreamed of.
Once Slovo woke up and was surprised that there was nothing around. Then he decided to give birth to Love. And Love became that spirit, without which nothing can be born.
And when Love appeared in the Word, then he was able to give birth to everything that he saw in his eternal dream. The power of Love is limitless. With Love in your heart, you can give birth to everything. Even Mira. And filled with such power, Words broke the golden egg into pieces, and the waters of heaven and earth came out of it.
Then, Words gave birth to the firmament of heaven, and the firmament of the earth. And all this was from those grains of sand that flowed in the void through the shell of the golden egg. From the same grains of sand, Words gave birth to all creatures flying, floating, crawling and running. Then he gave birth to the Sun, which floated out of his face on a golden boat. The Stars and the Moon floated out on a silver boat. Dawns came out of his eyes, and violent winds came out of his breath.
All things have become words and father and mother. So the whole world in heaven came out of the Word. He gave birth to everything that exists, and therefore people called him Rod.
Kumir of the Rod.
Rod took the Rainbow, cut the umbilical cord, separated the earthly waters from the waters of heaven with a stone firmament, separated Light from Darkness, and Truth from Krivda. He separated the heavenly kingdom Rule from the middle kingdom of Yavi, and from them he separated the dark kingdom of Nav. Lada emerged from the breath of Rod, in which Love was embodied. Lada turned into a bird Sva, and flew over the Earth to spread the power of Love everywhere.
Lada. Don't call her Goddess. She is our foremother.
Then Rod planted a seed, and a huge Oak World Tree, tall and powerful, began to grow. The roots of the Tree went into a deep, ghostly kingdom, where there is only place for the dead and for the dark forces. Its trunk will go across the kingdom of the Explicit, where the living will soon settle and will live until their term expires. The top should be in the Rule, until the heavenly land of Svarga is born, in which the children of the Sort will appear - Words that will rule the world. The story about the children of the Family - the Word, and the children of their children, people will call the Pedigree.
The tree of life. Peace Oak.
Rod looked at what he had done, and realized that everything in the world was mixed, and there was no one to watch the order. Then Rod called the bird Sva and created a relative, creator and helper, Svarog. He breathed his omnipotent spirit into him and gave him all his strength, and dedicated him in all his plans for the birth of the world, which the Sort-Word dreamed of.
Kumir of Svarog.
Then Svarog raised with his own hands over the sea the heavenly land, named after him Svarga, and went to walk on it, looking around the world from the heavens. And he began to embody the will of his father, Rod, here and there harp this and that, that everything was like in a dream of Rod - the Word.
Blue Svarga.
So that the Sun would rise and set, so that noon would give way to midnight, and so that without hesitation, the horses-days rushed one after another from dawn to dusk. And from sunset to dawn, in the light of the stars and a clear month, so that black horses-nights gallop around the world.
Svarog looks at the earthly firmament, but does not see the Mother of the Raw Earth anywhere in the world of Revelation. And the Mother of Cheese Earth - the nurse is needed so that the Tree of Life grows and is nourished from it. Svarog walked for six days, looking for Mother Earth to Cheese, when on the seventh day he spotted the Ripean Mountains.
Ripean mountains on the map of Ptolemy. This is not the Ural.
On one of the peaks lay the Bel-combustible stone Alatyr.
Runa Alatyr.
He took the Alatyr-stone and threw it into the blue sea. The sea froth, boiled and, like cottage cheese from milk, emerged from the sea of Cheese-Earth. Small, pretty. Appeared, but immediately drowned in the sea. Then Svarog asked the Rod-parent:
- Help us, Father Rod, to get the Earth-nurse from the bottom!
And then, at the behest of Rod, two ducklings appeared from the foam of the sea. One is white with a white beak, and the second is a black gogol with a red beak. Ducks dived deep into the depths of the sea, and disappeared there.
A day passes, another passes, Svarog is waiting, but the sea surface is calm. Only on the third day, towards evening, did the tired ducks return. Slightly alive, but with prey. They brought in a grain of earth in their beaks. Then Svarog took these grains in his hands, began to crumple in his palms and ask the original Rod:
- Help us, Rod, our father and mother, to revive the Cheese Earth - the nurse!
And then the Sun began to warm the Earth, a month began to cool, then violent winds blew the earth from the palm of Svarogova and carried it in all directions. The Cheese Earth was distributed and expanded, began to water and feed everything around. And then life on Earth began to warm up. Then the World Oak Tree gained strength, went deep into the ground and grew up to the very Blue Svarga.
And to prevent the Earth from sinking to the seabed again, Rod gave birth to the snake Yushu, which has tremendous strength. So that he would hold the Earth-nurse and would not let her move from her place. But if that serpent moves, the Earth will tremble and toss and turn with it.
Yusha is a snake.
And then, at the behest of Rod, Makosh, a wise and knowledgeable, noble mistress, was born near Mother's Raw Land! Makosh sat down at the heavenly spinning wheel, given by the Rod himself forever, and began to weave the lives of people and other creatures from the yarn of Svarog's thread. The threads of fate were tied in knots. As the thread is woven, it will come true, whether you are an immortal, a man, or a forest animal.
Makosh.
Soon, when Mokosha has too many threads, her daughters Dolya and Nedolya will help to determine the fate of all that exists: Share will be in charge of a successful life, and Nedolya will send misfortunes. Only one of them will know whether knots are tied on the threads of the Makoshevs for misfortune or happiness.
Share and Nedolya. The author of the dolls is Dara Berestushka.
Lada, love and soul of the Sort of women in labor to patronize. After all, she herself is the main woman in labor, the patroness of marriages, children, and the hearth. A mighty fertile goddess. Her and Makoshi gave Rod their feminine principle - powerful, night, dark, autumn-winter, connected with water and earth. To Svarog, he gave rise to a masculine powerful, sunny, light, spring-summer, associated with fire and air. So that they pass them on to the whole world.
And then, the heavenly King Svarog taught. At his whim, asilks and volots came out of the Damp Land. These giants are huge, but mighty. The prince of the former was Gog, and the prince of the latter was Magog. The Tsar ordered them to be engaged in the construction of a new world: to drag mountains from one end of the earth to another, to destroy some rocks, to build others. Plant trees everywhere, lay paths for rivers. And to make it easier to work, Svarog gave them stone maces. If you hit with such a mace, only sand will remain from the mountain, and a wet place from the forest, but if you throw the mace up to the sky, it will hit the stone vault, thunder in the sky will rumble and Prav will shudder.
Well, in the bowels of the earth, in the darkest and gloomiest kingdom, Svarog bungled three vaults of stone for underground inhabitants, and a whole bunch of snakes-asps were born under the ground.
Svarog, meanwhile, began to look for the Alatyr-stone thrown by him into unknown depths across the seas-oceans. The same treasured stone that helped create the Earth-nurse. And Alatyr was found in the depths of the sea, not far from the Baltic coast. Since then, the sea, from the waters of which Svarog took the original stone, became known as Alatyr. And the island, which rose at the site of the fall of the combustible stone, was named Buyan. And as soon as Svarog took out a pebble, Alatyr began to grow, boiling, pouring white and silver.
Svarog knew that Alatyr would still serve him well. At the behest of the Rod, at the will of the creator Svarog, the Vedas were carved on Alatyr - the stone by which one should live. Fertile rivers flowed from under the stone of Alatyr to bring harvest to the land, health and strength to all living. Springs flowed with living water and dead water. And Makosh will be in charge of these flows.
Svarog, was satisfied with everything that he did on Earth. He created a sacred fire in heaven and made a heavenly forge. He began to forge different things in it, new, unprecedented things. He made a cup to drink the sacred drink from it, made a plow to plow the earth, forged a battle ax to defend against black forces.
This is how our World was born.
Continuation: "The first battle between good and evil."
Author: kadykchanskiy