Meet the spirit of Hoval!
Surely everyone is familiar with the words "zakovat", "hustle", "shout" … Now at least we will know from whom.
Fiery spirit (it is worth paying attention to the name of the poem)
Who goes before us in the distance?
All black, it shines alo
Spirit with twelve eyes
The spirit called Hoval.
He is also called Viy, Promotional video:
It is also called the Cloud,
He crawls across the sky like a serpent, He drops a trail of flammable.
Stretching out from the East, He will rest against the smoky West, And wide and far
He threatens, he laughs.
He laughs twisted, Igniting the roofs of the huts.
And it rumbles, and does not want
Evil power to perish in death.
Now, it's gone. The snake is killed.
But above us is Heaven
Eternally hidden, and breathing is hidden
Spirit with twelve eyes.
K. Balmont, 1907
And what do they write on the Internet about this wonderful character?
Khovali was a creature with twelve eyes, located as if on an invisible hoop around the head. When Khovala walks through the village, he illuminates it like the glow of a fire. Some consider it malevolent, while others argue that the rays from Hovala's eyes promote the growth of plants and cattle. At night, his eyes seem to emit a bright light, as if illuminating every centimeter of the surrounding space with the sun. In addition, it is always warm next to Khovala, his energy “burns out” anger, powerlessness and despair from people.
It is much worse if Khovala walked through the city during the day. At this time, his eyes still glow with the same invisible flame, but instead of giving light, they seem to absorb it. And if Khovala fixed his gaze on some object, be it a person or a stone, then this object immediately loses all its vitality - the person begins to wither and very soon dies, the tree withers, the stone crumbles into dust. There is a belief that in the daytime rays of darkness are emitted from his eyes, and the place where they fall immediately becomes invisible: he seems to "hove", that is, hides everything around.
The fiery spirit Zhyzh is very reminiscent of Khoval. He constantly walks under the ground, emitting a flame from himself. If he walks quietly, then he warms only the soil, if his movements are fast, then he sets fires, destroying forests, hayfields and fields. They say that Zhyzh has 12 eyes, and when he decides to get out on the ground and walk through some village, the light of his eyes illuminates everything around even in the darkest night.
Czechs and Slovaks call Zhyzha Zharkookim. From his gaze, everything lights up, and the rocks crumble into dust, so he never opens all his twelve eyes, but looks only with one, and even then tightly squinting.
Viy (Viy Chernobogovich) is one of the key negative characters of the Slavic pantheon of Dasuns, the Navi gods. Viy is one of the first and one of the strongest sons of Chernobog, the embodiment of absolute chaos, darkness and destruction.
According to Slavic beliefs, Nav (it is also sometimes called Dark Navi as opposed to Light Navi - Slavi) is divided into three kingdoms. Until a certain time, the ruler of the Upper was Goryn. When Goryn died, this layer of Navi was empty for a long time, but was later occupied by Veles. The Lower Kingdom was owned by Koschey for centuries. But Chernobog gave the middle Kingdom to Viy.
Viy appeared to our ancestors as a mighty, almost invincible monster (less often - a terrible stooped old man).
Also in Ukraine, whirlwinds and tornadoes were associated with "vim" (that is, "wee").
In Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian fairy tales, the eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) Viy were lifted with pitchforks by his assistants.
The man Viy was looking at could not stand his gaze and was dying. With his gaze, Viy could not only kill a person, but also destroy and turn to ashes a village or city.
And, of course, we cannot ignore Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol and his description of Viy.
“Khoma noticed with horror that his face was iron. They brought him under the arms and put him directly to the place where Khoma was standing.
- Here he is! - Viy shouted and pointed an iron finger at him."
N. V. Gogol, 1835
Maybe it's not surprising to anyone that the spirit has an iron face and fingers, but for me it's so very strange.
And according to the poet Konstantin Balmont - Khoval, aka Viy, is a creature or object with 12 "eyes" that moves across the sky in a cloud or on the ground and periodically sets fire to villages and villages. Such is our interesting arsonist.
As a result, it seems to me something metallic and moving across the sky. I will allow myself to dream up. For example, this can fly "with 12 eyes":
Or without eyes:
"It is also called a cloud" according to the poet. Yes, very likely.
All kinds of clouds-clouds do not exist.
And we have no idea what is hidden in them.
Tragicomedy - called "man" -
It was the nineteenth funny and scary century, A terrible age because in full bloom of power
He looked at the sky, as they look deep into the grave …
Nikolay Gumilev
Tragicomedy - called "man", 1921
Can the clouds set fire? Yes, definitely:
Medieval engraving, Amsterdam, 1668.
Or maybe it's not the clouds that are setting fire to?
Painting by an unknown artist in Transylvania (Romania). Burning church. The exact time of creation is also unknown, but the monastery, which was located on the site of the modern one, was destroyed by fire in the 17th century, the painting was taken out.
I will translate: Massive fire in Chicago, October 8, 1871.
Albert Robida, 1908 This is how the artist imagined the war in the future.
Actually, why all the previous information. And besides the fact that fire attacks from the air were not fantasy for our ancestors, unlike us. Whether Khovala flew past or who else, the paintings and photographs show that the main objects were mainly castles and monasteries and, in general, all towering structures.
And, of course, entire cities often became targets of destruction. Let's try to consider a few examples of the MOST UNUSUAL fires not of neighborhoods and buildings, but of entire cities: on October 8, 1871, at half past nine in the evening, at the same time, hundreds of miles apart, fires of unprecedented power broke out in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. 24 cities were damaged, 16 cities were completely destroyed.
Pestigo city
The inhabitants of the village heard a terrible roar, and at that very moment the sky was filled with clouds of flame. Witnesses say the fire did not subside gradually - from a forest fire or something else. A whirlwind of flame fell from above. Many died instantly, barely inhaling the hot air.
Testimony of witnesses:
“I can’t describe this tornado, it hit and devoured the village. It seemed like the fire demons of hell descended."
"The sky was covered with a fiery tarpaulin."
"The heavens opened and it rained fire."
"A relentless rain of fire and sand."
The atmosphere was on fire. They talked about big balls of fire. The fire flew over the rooftops and trees, and lit all the streets at once.
Some hid in the wells and died there.
Many rushed to the river and managed to jump into the water. The surviving man said it was almost impossible to lift his head to breathe. People died as soon as they breathed.
In the city of Peshtigo, according to various estimates, from 800 to 1200 people died. The remains of 350 people are in the mass grave. In the district, from 1200 to 2400 people died. The exact number is unknown, since the Indians and loggers were not included in the 1870 census.
Some were left with only bones, others were untouched by fire. The river is littered with corpses.
Many were found dead on roads and open spaces, in safe places, away from buildings, trees or other combustible materials, without any trace of fire, and their clothes were not burnt. On Sugar Bush, the bodies lay in compact masses, as if people were watching what was happening together and died the same way together.
“… We have copper cents taken from the pocket of a dead man at the Peshtigo Sugar Bush… one cent is partially melted, but retained its round shape, and the inscription is legible. Other coins in the same pocket partially melted, but neither the clothes nor the body were charred."
Judging by the descriptions, the fire tornado was accompanied by electrical phenomena, and the incredible heat left behind a somewhat strange picture. The brass fire bell melted. The spoons in the store have merged into a solid mass. Partially melted iron remained from the railroad cars. The masonry of the factory has fallen into ruins. The brick pipes fell apart.
On the right, the tree branches are intact !!!
Here it would be necessary to draw an analogy with the events that are taking place now in the United States - is it not the same spirit of Hoval that in the same strange way burns out settlements in vast areas? You just need to start comparing and see how similar the consequences of these temperature effects are. Witnesses of modern events also claim that they have repeatedly seen the rays hit from above and there are even photographs.
What goals are being pursued this time is anyone's guess, but this is clearly a cleansing of something else.
Simultaneously with the city of Peshtigo and 22 other cities, Chicago (located 600 km. From Peshtigo !!!!) was on fire, where it took on absolutely surreal features.
“The huge stone and brick structures melted and melted like a snowflake in water and almost as quickly. The six-story building, once occupied, disappeared in five minutes by the clock. Strange, fantastic lights of blue, red and green played on the eaves of the buildings."
Athenian marble burned like coal! And now we look at the painting and its name again:
The Great Fire of Chicago, October 8, 1871
The incident in Peshtigo is very similar to the death of Yeniseisk from a fire on August 27, 1869. The stone rubble that strewn the streets was red-hot, people hid in the river, but still died sitting up to their necks in water, because they could not breathe the hot air, and a storm broke out on the Yenisei, which that day formed a whole ridge of pebbles on the right bank. Even the bells on the bell towers, which were 100 sazhens from the buildings, were melted down. 1 fathom - 2.16 m, i.e. about 200 m from the buildings. The whole city burned down, except for the mountainous part. Another trouble came to the city on September 16, 1869, 20 days after the first. From the southwest came a thick black smoke, which had not been seen. Anxiety and panic of the population led to the expulsion of several hundred people from the city by the tsarist government. Here I will put a question mark: did you get rid of the witnesses?
All this is very much explained from the point of view of alternative history - there was simply a systematic conception of the territory of the former Tartary, the remnants of the Vedic civilization. left over from the flood.
The death of Yeniseisk.
No less mysterious is the fire in Novgorod in 1508, in which people also hid in the water, but did not escape: "God knows the number of those drowned and burned to ashes, and it was burning day and night, and until noon." Then only according to the official version, 3315 people died. For a city fire, this is some kind of prohibitive figure. And before that, 60% of the population had already died, since there was a pestilence for 3 consecutive fall. "There was a pestilence in Veliky Novgorod in 1508 - died of iron for three autumns, and in the last autumn 15396 people will die." In general, it looks like the systematic destruction of the city "by rolling, not washing."
S. Zhivotovsky. Fire in Novgorod in 1508.
We talk so much about floods and so little about fires. I will not say that Sodom and Gomorrah (the descent of fire from heaven to the cities) happened to us often, but they did take place. However, I would like to draw attention to the fact that COMPLETE BURNTING OF THE CITY destroys the historical heritage and all evidence of the development of civilization is much more effective than any flood.
And now let's use the information in the material “The largest urban fires in Russia / Russian Empire. Chronology.
I had an attempt to reveal at least some pattern, and I suspect that there is not one of them (patterns) at all. I think that the essence has not changed over the centuries: as before, they destroy with fire EVERYTHING that interferes with the achievement of any goal, DOES NOT OBEY and PROVIDES RESISTANCE. Most often, the principle operates: "So don't get yourself to anyone." So, we combine fires by city names, not dates. We get a very strange picture. Moscow was constantly on fire, which is understandable - there was a constant struggle for it. However, all the same, I didn't even have a thought about such a catastrophic size:
1331, 1343, 1354, 1356 - Moscow (almost completely burned down)
1382 - Moscow (Khan Tokhtamysh burned the city completely)
1488 - Moscow (about half of the city)
1493 - Moscow (fire destroyed part of the Kremlin, Arbat, Neglinnaya, Sretenka, Petrov Sloboda)
1547 - Moscow (third), more than 2000 people died
1571 - Moscow (Khan Devlet-Girey burned the city almost completely)
1611 - Moscow (Nizhny Novgorod militia burned down the entire city, except for the Kremlin)
1626 - Moscow (almost all of Moscow burned down, including the Kremlin)
1699 - Moscow (the entire Kitay-Gorod and the White City from Neglinnaya to Yauza)
1701 - Moscow (almost the entire Kremlin and part of Zamoskvorechye burned down)
1737 - Moscow (a quarter of the city burned down, including the Kremlin: more than 12 thousand courtyards and two and a half thousand houses, over seventy churches and monasteries), St. Petersburg (more than 1000 houses)
1812 - Moscow (3/4 of the city, destroyed 6,496 out of 9,151 residential buildings (including 6,584 wooden and 2,567 stone), 122 of 329 temples, 8251 warehouse and retail premises)
In short, for foreign tourists-suckers - we have 2 more charred logs left in Moscow - come and see them. And the underground old part of the city does not matter to you, if they show it, then in the CORRECT version.
It is worth paying attention: after 1812, large-scale fires in Moscow stopped !!!!!
And then everything is more interesting and incendiary.
NEVER had I even suggested that Kostroma and Samara played any key role in the history of Russia. Now they are. They were fired mercilessly. Judge for yourself:
1700 - Samara (almost half of the city burned down, as well as its fortress walls)
1703 - Samara (everything that survived after the fire of 1700 burned down)
1746 - Samara (most of the city burned out)
1765 - Samara (2/3 of the city, "the magistrate, the provincial house, 4 churches, merchant shops, 418 households were burnt down. Only 170 private households remained")
1848 - Samara (the city burned down almost completely)
1850 - Samara (almost completely, 486 wooden and 35 stone residential buildings, all administrative buildings of the city burned down)
1883 - Samara (half of the city burned out)
1413 - Kostroma (almost completely, after which the Kremlin was moved to a new location)
1654 - Kostroma (the Kremlin burned down)
1679 - Kostroma (fire destroyed the Kostroma Kremlin, most of the new city and posadov)
1887 - Kostroma (devastated the northern part of the city)
1773 - Kostroma (almost completely)
1779 - Kostroma (more than half of the city)
1847 - Kostroma (fire from 5 to 11 September 1847. 188 houses, Epiphany Monastery, 3 factories, 4 public buildings burned down. More than half of the city was destroyed)
At the moment, for me, one complete burnout of the city can be an accident. The second complete charring of all cultural property is oddity. The third burning of the ancestors' heritage is a methodical global sweep.
Arkhangelsk is in fourth place in burnout after Moscow, Samara and Kostroma:
1611 - Arkhangelsk (the first big fire in the city)
1637 - Arkhangelsk (destroyed the wooden fortress and the Arkhangelsk monastery, which was not restored after it)
1765 - Kargopol (three quarters of the city burned out, the fire went down in history as "great"), Arkhangelsk region
1667 - Arkhangelsk (the largest fire in the history of the city)
1779 - Arkhangelsk (the central part of the city embankment burned out twice in a year)
1793 - Arkhangelsk (in the center, 1220 buildings were destroyed by fire out of a total of 1650 buildings)
Then see for yourself:
1194 - Novgorod ("great fire", lasted 3 months), Staraya Russa (Novgorod region)
1212 - Novgorod (4,300 out of 5,000 yards were burnt)
1508 - Novgorod (3315 people died)
1709 - Novgorod
1513 - Nizhny Novgorod (destroyed the oak wooden Kremlin)
1530 - Nizhny Novgorod (about a thousand different buildings burned down)
1715 - Nizhny Novgorod (almost the entire city)
1726 - Arzamas (the Kremlin and almost the entire city burned down), Nizhny Novgorod region
1759 - Ufa (the Kremlin and its surroundings burned down, 210 courtyards in total)
1812 - Ufa (half of the city)
1816 - Ufa (248 courtyards)
1821 - Ufa (half of the city)
1579 - Kazan (fire destroyed the entire northern and northeastern part of the city, including the Kremlin)
1815 - Kazan (70 quarters, 166 streets with lanes, 1500 houses and 19 churches, the whole Kremlin burned out)
1842 - Perm (the city center, 300 houses burned down), Kazan (the central part of the city - 1309 houses and 9 churches)
1562 - Pskov (the greatest fire of the city, 52 churches burned down)
1609 - Pskov (almost the entire city with the Kremlin)
1682 - Pskov (completely burned out the Middle city, Polonische city, partly the urban part of Zapskovye)
1599 - Astrakhan (the first big fire in the history of the city, almost everything burned out, except for the Kremlin)
1767 - Astrakhan (a significant part of the city burned out)
1778 - Astrakhan
1673 - Voronezh (the fire swept away a significant part of the walls and most of the houses of residents)
1748 - Voronezh ("great", almost all houses in the new part of the city burned down, more than 1000. Only the Assumption Church, Zeikhgauz and the former shipyard (later a wool washing machine) remained from Peter's buildings.
1773 - Voronezh (one third of the city, 249 residential buildings and 258 trade shops)
1679 - Kasimov (fire destroyed the city, walls and towers, cathedral and three parish churches), (Ryazan region)
1825 - Kasimov (third of the city)
1837 - Ryazan (almost all wooden buildings of the city)
I still have the feeling that cities began to burn out when they became either strongholds of regions or had a STRATEGIC VALUE. Therefore, I will end my selection with Siberia and the destroyed Yeniseisk:
1677 - Tobolsk (big fire, the Kremlin burned down) - Ural, Siberia
1695 - Tyumen (the strongest fire in Tyumen in the 17th century, 604 courtyards burned down). Siberia
1701 - Tobolsk (676 yards in the upper and 206 in the lower posad were burned down)
1703 - Yeniseisk (Siberia)
1778 - Yeniseisk (almost completely)
1788 - Tobolsk (largest, over 1800 houses, more than half of the city, including the Kremlin)
1705 - Tyumen (729 courtyards burned down, 47 survived), Siberia
1716 - Irkutsk (the first big fire of the city, the Kremlin burned down), Siberia
1869 - Yeniseisk (destroyed 6/7 of the city, which led to its decline), the death of the city
1879 - Irkutsk (half of the city, 75 blocks, 105 stone and 3418 wooden buildings)
1881 - Krasnoyarsk (up to 40 stone and up to 400 wooden houses)
Irkutsk, fire 1879
Above, we got acquainted with the circumstances of the death of Yeniseisk! And he burned already 3 times !!! Apparently, it was some kind of key point at one time, despite its insignificant size and small number of inhabitants.
However, it is important to understand: even a city that was once burnt to the ground is ALREADY not a MONUMENT (from the word MEMORY) of the achievements of our ancestors. And I don't care who turned our cities of Khovaly to ashes (and they certainly couldn't do without them) or those who serve them.
1719 - Suzdal (the Kremlin burned down, almost all churches and houses of the inhabitants)
1742 - Kaluga (600 courtyards burned down)
1742 - Torzhok (the Kremlin burned down)
1743 - Solikamsk (almost the entire city, 700 houses burned down, only 20 survived)
1747 - Smolensk (the Zadneprovskaya side burned out)
1748 - Bolkhov ("great fire", the Kremlin, the nunnery, 12 stone and wooden churches and about 1,500 philistine courtyards (out of a total of about 1,800), Oryol Region
1748 - Mozhaisk ("huge")
1754 - Kaluga (the largest, half of the city burned down, about 1200 courtyards, 14 churches)
1763 - Staraya Russa (all wooden the buildings), 1763 - Tver (852 out of 900 houses burned down, almost all government buildings)
1766 - Torzhok (the city center burned out)
1768 - Yaroslavl (250 common houses, almost 600 shops burned down)
1774 - Rzhev (fire destroyed almost all wooden buildings), Zaraisk (almost the entire city)
1778 - Astrakhan, Vladimir (the Yamskaya Sloboda burned down, the most ancient monuments of the city were destroyed or damaged)
1784 - Rzhev (the fire destroyed almost all the wooden buildings)
1788 - Kovrov (the city burned down almost completely)
1792 - Cherdyn(the city burned down almost completely)
1806 - Lipetsk (almost completely destroyed the wooden city)
1809 - Minsk (more than 200 houses)
1811 - Kiev (over 2 thousand houses in Podol), Saratov (almost the entire city, 1380 houses, 360 shops and barns)
And so on. In the 18th century alone, about 35-40 ancient cities burned out, some 2-3 times. I don't even want to think about the number of victims. You can familiarize yourself with the rest of the list of "buried towns". Once again, I will make a reservation: data on city burnouts may be inaccurate, since they have been extracted from official sources and, of course, they require correction and significant additions.
Well, this would be the end of the story about the twelve-eyed fiery spirit, which hides everything or from which you have to hide yourself, but curious information came across: Hawala is an informal financial and settlement system between brokers, used mainly in the Middle East, Africa and Asia … State structures are unable to track these flows, as a result of which HAVALU is often used for the drug market, terrorist financing, etc.
I don’t know how much you trust the poets and artists of the 19th century. From my point of view, these are one of the few sources of information that can and should be considered. Let's turn again to the poetry of the Silver Age.
HoVala, Baal, Baal - maybe a wrong logical chain. But what a lined up.
My friend, my brother, weary, suffering brother.
Whoever you are, do not lose heart:
Let not truth and evil reign sovereign
Over the land washed with tears
May the holy ideal be shattered and frightened
And innocent blood is striking, -
Believe, the time will come - and Baal will perish, And love will return to earth! …
Semyon Nadson (1881)
This character has been mentioned more than once. But, briefly, let me remind you: the Assyrian-Babylonian-Semitic deity, combined a lot of functions - was considered the god of thunder, the patron of waters and war, the god of fertility, sun, sky. In the culture of the ancient Greeks, Zeus can be considered an analogue of Baal. In ancient Semitic languages, the name of the deity sounds like "Bel" or "Baal" and is translated as "lord", "master", "Lord". Used as a common noun "lord" in relation to both gods and the rulers of cities. His wife is the goddess Astarte, an analogue of the Sumerian Ishtar.
Baal with lightning, 15-13th century, BC
And finally, again about the 19th century from the poet of the Silver Age Alexander Blok and photographer Maxim Dmitriev. Conclusions to make yourself.
Alexander bridge across the Volga in Syzran. 1894 g.
Machine department. All-Russian art and industrial exhibition. 1896 g.
The nineteenth century, iron, Truly a cruel age!
To you in the dark night starless
Careless abandoned man!
People's canteen in Pralevka village, Lukoyanovsky district. 1891 - 1892
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But the one who moved, guided
Pioneers of all countries, -
He knew what he was doing, sending
Humanist Mist:
There, in a gray and rotten fog, The flesh has withered and the spirit has gone out, And the angel himself is a sacred marriage, It seemed to fly away from us …
Alexander Blok. "Retribution" 1909-1921
Distribution of bread on loan to peasants in the town of Knyaginin. 1891-1892
Nizhny Novgorod "tramps".
A group of Old Believers. The village of Kuznetsovo, Semyonovsky district.
Types of Old Believers. Sharpansky skete in Semyonovsky district.
Congress of Old Believers in Nizhny Novgorod.
I didn’t even have an idea that we had so many Old Believers at the end of the 19th century.
The hut of the Tatar Salovatov in the village of Kadomke, Sergach district. 1891-1892
Foundation of the city cathedral mosque in Nizhny Novgorod. 1902 g.
And also all religions miraculously coexisted with us.
Rector of the Pomors' prayer house in Semyonovsky district. 1897 g.
Types of praying mantises in the Seraphim-Ponetaevsky women's monastery. 1904 g
Roc or Rock is probably very EVIL
In conclusion, I would like to say that in the 19th century we were pursued by an EVIL ROCK, but we survived. Now we are trying to rethink all the past and must withstand, relying on the knowledge of our ancestors. All prosperity and patience!
Author: Buttercup Caustic