History Of The Slavs. Sources That - Alternative View

2024 Author: Keith Bush | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 14:01

Compared to the original, the text is slightly corrected and supplemented. I recommend it to everyone interested in the history of the development of the ancient Slavs in the "pre-baptism" era and concerned about the lack of written sources on this topic. Igor Gray.

When you start writing about the Slavs, many begin to say that there are no official sources.

An old dilemma - a priest in the guise of a wise shepherd or an unknown blogger in a greasy T-shirt comes out to the audience, and an "axiom" is issued: "Slavs before baptism are scum, barbarians, second-class people, cattle, dark, wild and embittered pagans." When trying to prove something to this fanatic from obscurantism or to a political prostitute in a cassock, they have a “killer” argument: “there are no sources that would testify to the achievements of the pagans”.

All. Dead end. Moreover - due to the dullness of the head, deformed by the weight of Christian, or some other, fanaticism. Say, "no - that's all." Archaeological finds are ignored, or their origin is attributed to other peoples (as a rule, those who were baptized before the Slavs). Linguists' research is called "controversial." Folklore testimonies are labeled “fairy tales”. Those. The demands of woodpeckers from monotheism boil down to the following: “Give us chronicles about the Slavs, but let them be written by contemporaries of ancient events” or “let there be chronicles written in the most Christian Byzantium, enlightened Europe or the wise East”.

People who believe this lie and powerlessly spread their hands before the demand of such critics often become the successors of their cause: in despair they create their own “historical artifacts” and distribute under the guise of the heritage of their ancestors - Veles's book, Slavic-Aryan Vedas, Boyan's anthem, “Ancestral treasure Golyakovs "… Being cobbled amateurs, these forgeries are easily exposed, which is what the churchmen, opponents of the Slavs in general and" just "Russophobes, like them, use, loudly crying out:" This is what they call their history! Fake! Now you are convinced that the pagans have NO history ?!”

Since obscurantism is properly nourished, and therefore grows and gains mass (as compensation for the missing force), I will have to once again dunk these gentlemen with their snouts in their own lies.

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About the Slavs of the 1st - 2nd centuries

Rome:

• Ptolemy. 1st - 2nd century A. D. The first mention of the Slavs and Rugs.
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus. 1st – 2nd century AD Describes the Slavic (or later Slavicized) peoples of the Veneds and Rugs.

About the Slavs of the 5th - 6th centuries

Byzantium:

• Priscus. V century. Slavic ethnogenesis.
• The beginning of the 6th century - Procopius of Caesarea (cycle "Wars" from 5 to 8 books), Slavic-Roman relations, the customs of the Slavs, the structure of their society. ("About buildings") - addition. ("Secret History") - about the power of the Slavs.
• Pliny the Elder (VI century) "Natural history". Description of the ants.
• Agathius of Mirinei ("On the reign of Justinian") tells about the Slavs of the 5th century serving in the troops of Byzantium.
• “Answers to Questions” VI century (Pseudo-Caesarea or Caesarea of Nazianzus). The customs of the Slavs are described.
• VI century. Slavic history by John Mask ("Spiritual Meadow").
• Information about the Danube wars of the Slavs is in the decrees (Novellas) of Justian.
• Menander the Protector. (V century) "History". Slavic-Avar wars and the "Slavic politics" of Constantinople.
• The "history" of Theophylact Simokatta (end of the 6th century) - Slavic-Roman wars.
• Theophanes the Confessor (IX century) "Chronography". Slavic-Roman wars, described by Theophylact, but supplemented from other sources.
• Archbishop John of Thessalonica. "Miracles of St. Dmitry Thessaloniki." (VII-VIII centuries) Events in Thrace with the participation of the Slavs.
• "Anonymous military treatise" (VI century) Describes the military affairs of the Slavs.
• Mauritius. "Strategicon". (VI century). The structure of the Slavic society, customs, economy, material culture.
• "The name of the Bulgarian khans." (VIII century). Slavic names of the Bulgarian aristocracy.

Western Europe:

• Ostrogoth Jordan VI century. On the resettlement of the Slavs. ("On the origin and deeds of the Getae"). About Slavs and Ants ("On the sum of times" or "Roman").
• Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (V - VI centuries) also mentioned the Slavs.
• Latin chronicler Marcellinus (5th - 6th century) remembers the Slavs as Getae (adjusted based on Theophylact Simokatta's information)
• "Bavarian Geographer" (a source of the 9th century) tells the origin and settlement of Slavic tribes in the 5th-7th centuries.
• Martin of Brakarsky, in his epitaph to St. Martin of Tours (6th century), reports on cases of baptism of the Slavs.
• Victor Tonnensky in his "chronicle" mentions the Bulgarian invasion of 559.
• John Biklarsky ("Chronicle") talked about the raids of the Slavs on Byzantium.
• Lombard historian Paul the Deacon (late 8th century). "History of the Lombards". Collisions of the Slavs with the Bavars.
• Thomas Splitsky. (XIII century) About the appearance of the Slavs in Dalmatia (6th century AD).
• Letters from Pope Gregory.
• Saxon Grammar. His work "Acts of the Danes" contains a legend about the Slavic prince Boy. ("Saga of Knitlings") - a description of the cults of the Balto-Slavic ethnos.
• The Balto-Slavic cults of the XI-XIII centuries are described by Adam of Bremen.
• Gerborg is the same.
• Ebbon is the same.
• Helmold is the same.

Eastern Europe:

• Kozma of Prague (XII century). History of Czechs from pagan times..
• Dalimin (XIV century). Same.
• Pzhibik Pulkava. Same.
• Neplah from Oratovice. Same.
• Kooten from Sprineberk (17th century). Legends of the Czechs.
• Gayeks from Libochan (XVII century) legends of the Czechs, listing their gods.
• Vincent Kodlbuk (XIII century). Pagan Poland.
• Bogukhval is the same.
• Dezhva is the same.
• Jan Dlugosz (15th century) - chronicles and oral legends about pagan Poland. Partially - the history of Russia.
• M. Mekhovsky (XVI century). Polish chronicles and folklore, gods.
• M. Cromer (16th century). Same.
• M. Belsky (XVI century). Same.
• M. Stryikovsky (16th century). Same.
• Mater Verborum describes Polish paganism.
• Tkadlechek (XIV-XVI centuries) also gives information about the religion of the Poles.
• The Eastern European translation of the biblical book of Jesus Sirach contains an insert with the name of Veles.

East:

• "Armenian Geography" (source of the 8th century) reports on the actions of the Slavs in Thrace and contains information about the origin of the Slavs, echoing the Slavic medieval legends.
• Abu-l-Hasan Ali al-Masudi (X century) wrote about the origin of the Slavs, about the dawn and death of the Volyn Union (in the 7th century).
• "History of Tabaristan" (XIII - XV centuries) Ibn Isfendiyar. The contacts of Sassanian Iran with the Slavs in the V-VI centuries are described.
• "The History of Tabaristan" by Zahir ad-din Marashi (XIII-XV centuries). Same.
• Syrian John Malala (mid-6th century) writes about the invasion of the Bulgarians and Slavs, mentions the Slavic gods.
• Syrian John of Ephesus (mid-VI century). Same.
• Michael the Syrian (XII century). Bulgarian-Slavic invasions of the 6th century
• Abu-l-Faraj ibn Harun, aka Gregory Ioann Bar-Ebrey. (XIII century) Same thing.

Bulgaria

• Index of Forbidden Books (XI-XIII centuries). Pagan beliefs of the Bulgarians.
• Synodikon of Tsar Boril. Same..

Russia:

• Initial Chronicle (XI - XII century). About the appearance of the Eastern Slavs and the prehistory of Russia, beliefs and religion.
• The Tale of Bygone Years is the same.
• The Ustyug chronicle collection (XVI century) based on the ancient Smolensk chronicle is the same.
• The Life of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir describes the pagan faith of the Slavs.
• The Life of Venerable Abraham of Rostov is the same.
• "The Word about Igor's Host" (XII century) is the same.
• The “Conversation of the Three Hierarchs” is the same.
• “The Mother of God Walking in Torment” is the same.
• Pagan cults from oral traditions ("The Legend of the Conception of Novograd", historical description by T. Rvovsky) - the same
• “The Legend of the Founding of Yaroslavl” is the same.

I would like to note that the primary sources of the 5th - 6th centuries were used, mentioning the Slavs:

• Epistle of Patriarch Nicholas III (XI century).
• "Petitions of Isidore" XV century.
• Small chronicles of the XVI-XVII centuries

Based on the legends of the 5th - 6th centuries, apocrypha with pagan elements were created:

• Apocrypha "The Legend of Tsar Volot Volotovich."
• "The Manuscript of Adam".
• "About Lake Tiberias".

And a number of scientists believe that the works indicated below, reflecting the rights of the Slavic peoples, date back to the above era. It:

• "The law of judgment by men" (XI century). Right. Bulgaria and Great Moravia.
• "Russian Truth" based on the ancient "Russian Law".
• German "Swabian Mirror". XIII century. The right of quarantines.
• "Rozmberg Book". Czech Republic. Law of the XIII-XIV centuries.
• "Elblg Book". Right. Poland XIII-XIV centuries.
• "Vinodolsky Law". Right. Croatia XIII-XIV centuries.
• "General Montenegrin and Highland Law" XVIII century.

About the Slavs of the 7th - 8th centuries

Byzantium:

• George Pisid (the poem "About the invasion of the barbarians". VII century) wrote about the siege of Constantinople by the Avars, Persians and Slavs in 628
• "Easter Chronicle". Same.
• Also. Fyodor Sinkell "About the insane attack of the godless Avars and Persians on the God-protected city." Same.
• Georgy Kedrin. Same.
• Theophanes the Confessor. "Chronography". Slavic-Byzantine relations at the turn of the VIII - XI centuries.
• Patriarch Nicephorus. "Breviary" Slavic-Byzantine relations at the turn of the VIII - XI centuries.
• "Miracles of St. Dmitry Thessaloniki". Second meeting. Slavs in Macedonia, the siege of Thessalonica, politics with the empire, etc.
• "The Life of St. Pancrates" tells about the Slavs in Sicily (VIII century) and about the settlement and culture of the Adriatic Slavs.
• Unknown author ("Monemvasian Chronicle" X century) - the settlement of the Slavs in Hellas.
• Arefa ("Chronicler in Brief" X century). Same.
• Konstantin Porphyrogenitus. "On the management of the empire" X century - the settlement of the Slavs in the north-west of the Balkans, "On the Fems" - Slavic history of the VII-VIII centuries
• Coptic chronicler John Nikiusky (VII century) writes about the campaign of the Slavs against Byzantium.
• Decree of Justinian II from 688-689, preserved in the form of an inscription on a marble slab in the church of St. Dmitry in Thessaloniki. The facts of the South Slavic history of the 7th century.
• Seal of 694-695 mentioning the resettlement of the Slavs to Asia Minor by Justinian.
• Athos legend about the foundation of the Kastamonite monastery. It tells about the Slavs in Macedonia.
• "The Life of St. Stephen" (in the Old Russian translation of the Greek work) the campaign of Prince Bravlin.

Western Europe:

• Pope Agathon's message to the VI Ecumenical Council (680) tells about the Christianization of the Dalmatian Slavs.
• An anonymous arrangement of Strabo's Geography draws a map of the settlement of the Slavs in Hellas.
• Isidore of Seville (VII century) also about the settlement of the Slavs in the Balkans.
• Fredegar (7th century "The Chronicles of Fredegar"). On the relationship of the Slavs and Franco kings.
• "Conversion of the Bavars and Quarantines" IX century. About the Slavic state Samo.
• "Acts of King Dagobert". Same.
• Paul the Deacon "History of the Lombards". Advancement of the Slavs to the west, relations with the Lombards, Avars and Bavars, campaigns in Italy.
• "Chronicle of St. Benedict of Cassinsky" (IX century). Same.
• The Life of Saint Abbot Columbian and His Disciples VII century. Attempts to baptize the Alpine Slavs.
• The Life of Saint Bishop Amanda. Same.
• "Franco Cosmography" VII century. The geographical position of the Slavic peoples.
• Italian "Salerno Chronicle" X century. Slavs in Dalmatia.
• Two letters of the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III mention the Slavs.
• Diplomas of the Germanic feudal lords Peigiri and Egilolf. Same.
• Inventory of the Hersfeld Monastery ("St. Lukla's Breviary"). Same.
• Diplomas of the Carolingian monarchs of the Würzburg diocese. Same.
• "Breviary recordings" from Salzburg. Same.
• Letters of the "apostle of the Germans" Boniface about the Slavs.
• Letters from the court scholar Alcdin. Same..
• "Life of St. Boniface”Willibald. Same..
• The Life of Bishop Willibald of Eichsitett. Same.
• "Life of Sturmi". Same..
• "Riddles Sent to Sister." Boniface. Same.
• "Conversion of Bavarians and Quarantines". Essay on the history of the Khorutan principality.
• 14 monuments of Fransk annalism of the VIII-IX centuries (Lorsch, Moselle, Petau, St. Nazarius, Aleman, Wolfenbüttel, Kingdom of the Franks, Royal, Salzburg, Fulda, Metz, St. Maximin's annals, a fragment of Duchenne, "Fulda compilation"). Mentions about the Slavs.
• Certificate of Merit from the Prague Diocese (X century). Tribal structure of ancient Bohemia of the 7th-8th centuries.

Scandinavia:

• The Saga of the Skjeldungs (as narrated by Saxon Grammar) tells about the events of the epochal battle on the Bravalle fields for the Ladoga lands between the Scandinavian dynasty of Khrerik the Thrower of the Rings and the Slavic prince Ratibor.
• The Saga of Herver complements the story of the Battle of Brawalla.

Southeast Europe:

• The Chronicle of Pop Duklianin tells the history of the Serbs and Croats.
• "Book of Pontiffs" IX century. About the Slavs in Dalmatia in the 7th century.
• Thomas of Split ("History of the Archbishop of Salona and Split", XIII century). Same.
• Miletius (Poetic Chronicle of the XIV-XV centuries). History of the Dalmatian Slavs.
• Annals of Ragusa Anonymous. Also.
• Letter of the XIII century, substantiating the claims of the Bar diocese in its dispute for primacy with Dubrovnik. Same.

East:

• "Mixed Chronicle" Syria. The invasion of the Slavs in Crete is mentioned.
• Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari ("Region of the Slavs" VII century). Geography of the Slavic peoples.
• Ahmed ibn Abu Yakub ibn Jafar ibn Wadih al-Katib al-Abbasi al-Yakubi (IX century). Contacts of Arabs and Slavs from the words of eyewitnesses of the VIII century. Campaign of the Arabs to Khazaria in 737 and about the resettlement of the Slavs to the lands of the Caliphate
• Ahmed ibn Yahya ibn Jabir ibn Daud al-Balazuri (IX century). Same.
• Al-Kufi (IX century). Same.
• Persian "Collection of Histories" (XII century). Legend about the origin of Russia.

Bulgaria:

• "The Legend of Isaiah the Prophet" (it is - "Apocryphal Chronicle"). South Slavic historiography of the XI-XIV centuries.
• Chronicle notes in the translation of the Byzantine chronicle of Constantine Manasseh of the XIV century. Also.

Eastern Europe:

• "Bohemian (Czech) Chronicle".
• Dalimil "Czech Rhymed Chronicle".

Russia:

Sofia-Novgorod vault of the 15th century. History of the Slavs before baptism

Faith, worldview and customs of the Slavs are well described in the following sources

Southern and Eastern Slavs:

• Abu-l-Hasan Ali al-Masudi (X century). Washers for gold and precious stones.
• Georgy the Younger. "Life of George Svyatogorsky".
• "About history, that about the beginning of the Russian land and the creation of Novgorod" (XVII century).
• "The word of St. Gregory, hidden in the interpretations of how, at first being pagans, the peoples bowed to idols and put up treasures to them, which they still do" (XI-XII centuries).
• The word of a certain Christ-lover and an adherent of the right faith (XI century).
• Conversation of St. Gregory Theologos about the beating of the hail. (XI century).
• The word of Isaiah the prophet, interpreted by St. John Chrysostom, about giving the second meal to Rod and Rozhanitsy (XII century).
• Questioning Kirikovo, who asked the bishop of Novgorod Nifont and others (XII century).
• A word interpreted by wisdom from the holy apostles and prophets and fathers about the creature and about the day called the week. (XII-XIII centuries).
• The word of our Holy Father John Chrysostom (XIII century).
• Word from the Holy Gospel (list of the XIV century).
• The question of what is idolatrous treasure (XIV century).
• Word and revelation of the holy apostles (late 15th early 16th century).
• Conversation of three saints (XIV century).
• On the inspiration of the spirit in man (list of the late 15th early 16th century).
• Rule of the Monk Sava (XIV century).
• Instructions for spiritual children (XIV century).
• Desert Chronicle (XIV century).
• "Synopsis". I. Gisel (1674).
• Monday's Lesson of the Holy Spirit (17th century).
• Confession of each rank according to the Decalogue (XVIII century).
• Rumyantsev collection (XVIII century).
• Anania Fedorov. Suzdal chronicler (1754).

Poles:

• Provincial Statute in Brief (1420).
• Czestochowa manuscript of Jan from Mihochin (1423)
• A manuscript of a Polish Hussite (15th century).
• Polish Glossa in the Life of St. Voitsech.
• The true story of the founding of the monastery on Lysaya Gora (16th century).

Czechs:

• Chronicle of the Hungarian King Bela (XIII century).
• Chronicle of Neplah (XIV century).
• German translation of the chronicles of Dalimioa and Neplahi (XIV century).
• Jiri Strzhedowski. Ecclesiastical history of Moravia.

Balto-Slavic ethnos:

• Vidukind of Corvey. Acts of the Saxons (X century).
• Letter to St. Bruno of Querfurt to Emperor Henry III
• Titmor of Mersenburg. Chronicle. (XI century)
• Monk Albert from Three Sources. Chronicle. (XI century)
• Epistle of Bishop Adelgot (1108).
• Monk of Preflingen. Life of Otto (XII century).
• The Passion of the Martyrs Buried at Ebstorf (XIV century).
• Chronicle of Pulkava.
• Nikolay Mareshalk Turiy. Annals of Herules and Vandals (15th century).
• Konrad Botho. Saxon Chronicle (1492).
• Zacharius Harzeus (Brandenburg chronicler of the 16th century).
• David Hitraeus. Saxon Chronicle (16th century).
• Adalbert Krantz. Vandalia (1572).
• Christopher Manlius. Notes on the Affairs of the Lusatia (1580).
• Peter Albin. Meissen Chronicle (1590).
• History of the Kamenka diocese (first half of the 17th century).
• Valentin von Eichstedt.
• Jeremiah Simon. Eilenburg Chronicle of the XVI-XVII centuries.
• Budyshinskie annals.
• Ecclesiastical history of Silesia.
• Eckhardt "Monuments of Jüterbog" (1732).

And separately - about the presence of a letter among the pagan Slavs before the mission of Cyril:

• Chernorizets Brave "On the Letters" (X century)
• "Explanatory Paleya" (XV century)

Total - one hundred ninety-seven written sources. Learn materiel!

As a postscript - an appeal to Rodnovers

Your laziness and illiteracy have led the denomination to the problems that we face every day. These are controversies lost to knowingly lying clerics (and many of these controversies were public). This is your inability to argue for certain aspects of paganism for yourself. This is the impossibility to recreate the ceremonies and worldview of the ancestors in the form that is closest to the original, which your “communities” complain about. It is also the politicking you have adopted to fill the information void. These are corrupt impostors who have declared themselves "wise men" and have seized control of leading positions within the Rodnoverie. These are numerous falsifications, which, being easily criticized, discredit the native faith like nothing else.

You have believed the clerical lies and you yourself have tried to destroy the native faith. Taking the absence of sources as an axiom, you have lost the opportunity to polemize, conduct rituals, and have an ideological platform; you called on politicians and businessmen to rule you, and now you support their undertakings in order to somehow justify your own worthlessness.

But if you just had to attend to the search for primary sources - in a short period of time you would find most of the above. And even then it would be much easier for you to recreate and defend the faith of your ancestors.

However, you are too lazy. Or they just didn't have enough brains. And you went further in your own illiteracy - by believing in Christian propaganda, you began to reconstruct the lie, called upon to bury paganism under a heap of foreign filth in ancient times. Drinking instead of a meeting ritual, whores instead of fertility rituals, robbery instead of protecting relatives and homeland, necro-attributiveism instead of light rituals, abortion instead of the duty of childbearing … Continue to list? And after all, within yourself you are trying to justify this lie, artificially adjusting to it the version of the “pagan base” you have invented.

And the most illiterate of you blame official science for the invented lack of sources. Like, sold, hearty, went to the panel "Jewish". But it is precisely modern science that we owe our knowledge. And THESE achievements of the pagans are not able to really challenge any cleric. That is why they try to keep silent about the discoveries of scientists and, explicitly or subtly, set the Rodnovers on science, so that they, instead of a mighty ally, would take rotten fakes as a base.

And it would be worth remembering that:

1. Academician B. A. We owe to Rybakov knowledge about the development of Slavic paganism from the Paleolithic to the present day. It was he who created the theory of the evolution of the gods and discovered the hierographic embroidery-prayers on national clothes.

2. D. Dudko was able to convey to the masses evidence of the existence of the pre-Cyrillic Slavic writing.

3. The Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR has published an extensive and detailed list of Slavic achievements in agriculture, crafts, politics and architecture, manifested even BEFORE the baptism of Rus.

4. S. Alekseev, based on hundreds of chronicles of Arabs, Byzantines, chroniclers of Western Europe, etc., reconstructed the history of the Slavic states from the 3rd century AD. to Rurik.

5. Invaluable folklore and ethnographic material was presented by V. Dal, S. Maksimov, M. Zabylin, A. Afanasyev.

But you believed that no one knew anything about the Slavs, and you called the science corrupt at all times. Although it would be worthwhile to give yourself the trouble to think: if you PERSONALLY know nothing about paganism, this does not mean that all other people also do not know anything.

Learn materiel, gentlemen, Rodnovers. And to gentlemen clerics (although, what kind of gentlemen are they?) I strongly recommend to apologize for lying about the primary sources. Moreover, to do it as publicly as they had lied before.

Author: Skrytimir