Last time, we settled on the assumption that the schismatic Old Believers seemed to believe in someone other than the Jewish savior from Nazareth. At least, judging by the tombstones that survived the “living” after total Christianization. Thus, stuffed cabbage, including.
Old Believer "Roman" monuments.
In order not to get confused, knowledge needs to be systematized. The head is an unreliable thing, so here is:
In order not to run from photo to photo, here is the entire list. Probably the Old Believers had more tricks up their sleeve, variants of monuments, but these are the main ones.
If, in all this variety, you did not find familiar motives, then I will help you, but a little later. Because, wood is wood, but in the courtyard there is a flourishing of civilization - brick, stone, iron. Even the “Old Believers” thought up by the authorities did not want to lag behind progress. It is clear that these comrades, of a still unknown faith, also laid down the wood, and did not sit around the pieces of wood.
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This is an Old Believer cemetery in the town of Zlynka, in Belarus, not far from Chernobyl. The city is now considered one of the citadels of the Old Believers. But nowadays, as you can see from the new burials, Old Believers who are "correct" from the point of view of the Russian Orthodox Church live there - with a cross in their foreheads! Those graves that are in the photographs were built by "real" Old Believers. the last grave of this type, without Christian symbols, was marked in 1932.
I managed to find a meager classification of Old Believer tombstones:
I think you can guess where I am going. Already in a brick and stone design, everything should become clear and without prompts.
But, you will not believe, we have even more illustrative examples. As always, the tracks lead to St. Petersburg. There is an abandoned 19th century Old Believer cemetery.
His story is just a treasure for any conspiracy theorist. True, I think that in the surviving version, there is little that corresponds to real events.
In short. In 1835, the merchants of the Old Believers, the Gromov brothers, received permission to create an Old Believer cemetery. This in itself is strange, in the light of the fact that a little further from the capital, their fellow believers everywhere self-burn.
The site was allocated next to the Mitrofanevsky cemetery, which was already functioning. The merchants quickly turned around and after five years cheerfully received guests.
Then they expanded, built churches for 2,000 people and, according to every one, improved themselves. In general, they developed. As gratitude, people began to call him Gromovsky.
During the revolution, everything got mixed up, partially plundered and demolished. The funny thing is that by 1950 the Mitrofanievskoye cemetery (plus several huge cathedrals), which was many times larger and was the mother of Gromovsky, had completely disappeared. I did not find his photographs, as well as photographs of the main churches, on the Internet. However, I am not alone. Other people who tried to illustrate their story were also left with nothing.
Now, activists are trying to save the remnants of Gromovsky. The authorities gladly supported the initiative and cleared a place for new burials. As you understand, in the process, the old ones were demolished, for which the activists fought.
In these photographs, you can clearly see what the cabbage rolls, carved chapels, log cabins turn into, when the village Old Believer moves to the city and he first has a stone (brick), as in Belarus, and then money, as in St. Petersburg. He can allow himself any fantasy beyond the grave, except…. The cross.
The Gromov cemetery was almost completely destroyed, there are no old photographs at all (even Soviet ones), but the remaining grains are enough to see the reality, hidden, later, by all these crosses and Jesus.
Let's take a look at other "modern", in the sense of stone, Old Believer monuments. Let's see how the traditions were held firmly. Although after the self-immolations, the question is, of course, rhetorical.
There are both old and not so good ones. Particularly interesting is the crypt of Savva Morozov, where you can clearly see the substitution of crosses later. In this photo, you may not even notice it.
Well, now TO EUROPE !!!
I hope you see an obvious similarity, both with the Old Believer birdhouses and with their stone brothers.
I deliberately did not take the central graves of Europe. On the same Père La Chaise there are more analogues than we have preserved. It's just that there are always too many Russians hanging out there. For some, this will be a reason to say that they were in formation there and were buried according to their charter.
Once again, to consolidate:
It would be clearer, of course, to compare the well-preserved central ensembles of necropolises, such as the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Show their counterparts in Europe and America. But to this, any skeptic will put forward his moronic and only, but holy argument - then it was so fashionable!
Here you need to look for a cross with a magnifying glass. Everything ancient Roman, including the graves of famous people, such as Lomonosov or Chichagov. Until 1880-90, if it flashes anywhere, it is clear that it was later attached. Either descendants of faith, or the authorities, so as not to scorch the youth of the official "millennial religion."
I do not believe that you can bury yourself without the symbol of your Faith if you are a Believer. After battles, people ransom the corpses to bury them according to their traditions.
Here, themselves go to hell knows that the supposedly non-existent 2K years of religion in another country. Even if very fashionable, this is overkill.
Religion, in general, is not about life, but about death. Hope for continued existence under the wing of their deity.
And here? All my life I prayed to Christ, I was grateful, meek and kind. I fasted and slept only with my wife. Or in general, he wrapped himself in celibacy. Everything to get a better room in the "Paradise" hotel. And here it is, the moment of the solemn entrance to the "all inclusive 5 star"! You confidently raise your leg to cross the threshold, and suddenly face control makes a sign to the guards not to let you in.
You are so all for treason. I have been waiting for this moment for 70 years. The track record swells with fasting and other hardships in the name of faith. How? Why?
-Yes, look at your hand! - laughs Petya-face control.
Lo and behold, you have a bracelet on your hand from another hotel. Instead of a cross with Jesus, Mount Olympus and Zeus with the Olympians.
You are trying to explain that this is a mistake. Probably confused in purgatory when they were distributed according to beliefs. But the guards just laugh.
Why do they say, bastard, lay down under Aphrodite in the cemetery? Yes, he also covered himself with a painting of half-naked Greco-Roman women. Go, now look for your Olympus, but here you can only with a cross around your neck.
And you, like a fool, stand and do not understand what to do now. Olympus hell knows where, and it's not a fact that they'll let you in. Here, Peter rings menacingly with keys and sarcastically shows the fact. The cloud on which you arrived is already leaking. The lease will expire soon. We'll have to fall. And from below, a gloomy laugh is heard and smells of gray.
For what, I ask, then, have you spent your whole life in prayer and in bed with your wife? It will be a shame, horror !!!
In general, I think that this is the worst dream of an orthodox follower of any religion. You have been knocking your forehead on the floor all your life, and after death, Professor Kapitsa meets you in heaven. Suggests solving the equation to be worthy of eternal life. And you only know how to knock your forehead, and mutter something indistinct behind the priest.
Kapitsa throws up his hands. Says, I'm sorry, we don't hold fools. And you, as it should be, decompose into atoms together with the body.
Sorry, distracted.
I took the Old Believers as an example, because they cannot be accused of following fashion trends in the architectural decoration of tombs. For the sake of their ceremonies, they climbed into the stove with historians and worked with wood, so there is hardly a force in the world that would make them put a naked man in a sheet on their grave.
So, if you have come up with a legend, please consider the actions of its followers and their accessories as authentic. This is me for historians.
By the way, they are. Meet:
Everything is fine and no Christ.
I think you yourself are able to recognize the pattern, but just in case, a couple of ancient and middle Roman examples:
Basically, I don't even want to know how historians explain this. Sometimes it seems to me that they are kidding. Purely for fun.
For example, do you know what they say about cabbage rolls? That they have the shape of a birdhouse to attract birds and especially pigeons, as symbols of the holy spirit, to help the soul fly up.
Are there normal ones there?
So they probably have an explanation. They will call these Roman patterns that have come down to us through Christianity. And they will surely find some Christian meaning. After all, the first worshipers of Christ lived in the heyday of Rome, which means they used what they saw around.
And the priests will help and publish a brochure of interpretation. Newly found, through the holy spirit, who went down to the birdhouse-stuffed cabbage and pecked the hermit monk so that he would be enlightened. And it dawned on him. According to the scheme of St. Paul.
By the way, I am not suggesting that the Romans be considered Old Believers, but Old Believers are Romans. I am even ready to agree to the transition of symbolism from one to another through the dove, since the Roman Empire existed at the beginning of the arrival of Christianity.
Only it was a little later. Since we can trace the schismatics with their sketes and cabbage rolls in the region of 150-200 years, it means that the fall of Rome and the victory of Christianity over the Olympic gods were about the same place.
And they made everyone believe, only by the end of the 19th century, as evidenced by the schismatics and their graves. And noble comrades settled in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, in the Roman burial grounds, not for the sake of a joke over St. Peter, but according to the rules of their then faith.
By the way, do you know the name of the necropolises in the world that are similar in appearance to our Old Believers' cemeteries? Jewish.
There are no Magendavids in ancient Jewish cemeteries. For the same reason that the Old Believers do not have a cross. They haven't been invented yet. The real appearance of a six-pointed star as a symbol of Judaism 60-80 years of the 19th century.
As I understand it, when this whole business was created, the denominations were distributed and the distinctive features of each were identified. Where is the cross, where is the cross with a stick, where is the tablet like the Protestants.
But still there is a lot that is superfluous. Diverse, incomprehensible. This is what the Jews were told. Like a persecuted people, they could not hang their star openly everywhere, so they were encrypted. There are graves in one style, there in another. As well as synagogues, which have no stylistic uniformity.
Well, in the end, otherwise I'm a little tired of the graves. Remember I told how the Old Believers were buried. And in what way. Surprisingly, the Romans agreed with them!
And so as not to be lost. The Old Believer Church is REAL. No crosses. Stuffed cabbage, graves and crosses clumsily attached to them.