Slavs and their ancestors. Chapter I Origin of the Slavs

The Slavs are the largest ethnic community in Europe, but what do we really know about them? Historians are still arguing about who they came from, and where their homeland was located, and where the self-name "Slavs" came from.

Origin of the Slavs

There are many hypotheses about the origin of the Slavs. Someone refers them to the Scythians and Sarmatians, who came from Central Asia, someone to the Aryans, Germans, others even identify them with the Celts. All hypotheses of the origin of the Slavs can be divided into two main categories, directly opposite to each other. One of them, the well-known "Norman", was put forward in the 18th century by German scientists Bayer, Miller and Schlozer, although for the first time such ideas appeared during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

The bottom line was this: the Slavs are an Indo-European people who were once part of the “German-Slavic” community, but broke away from the Germans during the Great Migration of Nations. Caught on the periphery of Europe and cut off from the continuity of Roman civilization, they were very backward in development, so much so that they could not create their own state and invited the Varangians, that is, the Vikings, to rule them.

This theory is based on the historiographic tradition of The Tale of Bygone Years and the famous phrase: “Our land is great, rich, but there is no side in it. Come reign and rule over us." Such a categorical interpretation, which was based on an obvious ideological background, could not but arouse criticism. Today, archeology confirms the existence of strong intercultural ties between Scandinavians and Slavs, but it hardly says that the former played a decisive role in the formation of the ancient Russian state. But disputes about the "Norman" origin of the Slavs and Kievan Rus do not subside to this day.

The second theory of the ethnogenesis of the Slavs, on the contrary, is patriotic in nature. And, by the way, it is much older than the Norman one - one of its founders was the Croatian historian Mavro Orbini, who wrote a work called “The Slavic Kingdom” at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. His point of view was very extraordinary: he attributed to the Slavs the Vandals, Burgundians, Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Gepids, Getae, Alans, Verls, Avars, Dacians, Swedes, Normans, Finns, Ukrovs, Marcomanni, Quadi, Thracians and Illyrians and many others: "They were all of the same Slavic tribe, as will be seen in the future."

Their exodus from the historical homeland of Orbini dates back to 1460 BC. Wherever they did not have time to visit after that: “The Slavs fought with almost all the tribes of the world, attacked Persia, ruled Asia and Africa, fought the Egyptians and Alexander the Great, conquered Greece, Macedonia and Illyria, occupied Moravia, the Czech Republic, Poland and the coast of the Baltic Sea ".

He was echoed by many court scribes who created the theory of the origin of the Slavs from the ancient Romans, and Rurik from the emperor Octavian Augustus. In the 18th century, the Russian historian Tatishchev published the so-called "Joachim Chronicle", which, in contrast to the "Tale of Bygone Years", identified the Slavs with the ancient Greeks.

Both of these theories (although there are echoes of the truth in each of them) represent two extremes, which are characterized by a free interpretation of historical facts and archeological information. They were criticized by such "giants" of Russian history as B. Grekov, B. Rybakov, V. Yanin, A. Artsikhovsky, arguing that the historian should in his research not rely on his preferences, but on facts. However, the historical texture of the "ethnogenesis of the Slavs", to this day, is so incomplete that it leaves many options for speculation, without the ability to finally answer the main question: "who are these Slavs anyway?"

Age of the people

The next sore problem for historians is the age of the Slavic ethnic group. When did the Slavs nevertheless stand out as a single people from the pan-European ethnic "katavasia"? The first attempt to answer this question belongs to the author of The Tale of Bygone Years, monk Nestor. Taking the biblical tradition as a basis, he began the history of the Slavs with the Babylonian pandemonium, which divided mankind into 72 peoples: “From now 70 and 2 languages ​​were the language of Slovenesk ...”. The above-mentioned Mavro Orbini generously granted the Slavic tribes a couple of extra millennia of history, dating their exodus from their historical homeland to 1496: “At the indicated time, the Goths left Scandinavia, and the Slavs ... since the Slavs and Goths were of the same tribe. So, having subjugated Sarmatia to its power, the Slavic tribe was divided into several tribes and received different names: Wends, Slavs, Antes, Verls, Alans, Massaetes .... Vandals, Goths, Avars, Roskolans, Russians or Muscovites, Poles, Czechs, Silesians, Bulgarians ... In short, the Slavic language is heard from the Caspian Sea to Saxony, from the Adriatic Sea to the German, and in all these limits lies the Slavic tribe.

Of course, such "information" was not enough for historians. To study the "age" of the Slavs, archeology, genetics and linguistics were involved. As a result, it was possible to achieve modest, but still results. According to the accepted version, the Slavs belonged to the Indo-European community, which, most likely, came out of the Dnieper-Donets archaeological culture, in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Don, seven thousand years ago during the Stone Age. Subsequently, the influence of this culture spread to the territory from the Vistula to the Urals, although no one has yet been able to accurately localize it. In general, speaking of the Indo-European community, we mean not a single ethnic group or civilization, but the influence of cultures and linguistic similarity. About four thousand years BC, it broke up into conditional three groups: the Celts and Romans in the West, the Indo-Iranians in the East, and somewhere in the middle, in Central and Eastern Europe, another language group stood out, from which the Germans later emerged, Balts and Slavs. Of these, around the 1st millennium BC, the Slavic language begins to stand out.

But the information of linguistics alone is not enough - to determine the unity of an ethnos, there must be a continuous succession of archaeological cultures. The bottom link in the archaeological chain of the Slavs is considered to be the so-called “culture of under-closing burials”, which got its name from the custom of covering cremated remains with a large vessel, in Polish “flared”, that is, “upside down”. It existed in the V-II centuries BC between the Vistula and the Dnieper. In a sense, it can be said that its speakers were the earliest Slavs. It is from it that it is possible to reveal the continuity of cultural elements up to the Slavic antiquities of the early Middle Ages.

Proto-Slavic homeland

Where did the Slavic ethnic group come into the world, and what territory can be called “originally Slavic”? Historians' accounts vary. Orbini, referring to a number of authors, claims that the Slavs came out of Scandinavia: “Almost all the authors, whose blessed pen conveyed to their descendants the history of the Slavic tribe, argue and conclude that the Slavs came out of Scandinavia ... The descendants of Japheth the son of Noah (to whom the author refers the Slavs ) moved to Europe to the north, penetrating into the country now called Scandinavia. There they multiplied innumerably, as St. Augustine points out in his "City of God", where he writes that the sons and descendants of Japheth had two hundred homelands and occupied the lands located north of Mount Taurus in Cilicia, along the Northern Ocean, half of Asia, and throughout Europe. all the way to the British Ocean.

Nestor called the most ancient territory of the Slavs - the lands along the lower reaches of the Dnieper and Pannonia. The reason for the settlement of the Slavs from the Danube was the attack on them by the Volkhovs. “For many years, the essence of Slovenia sat along the Dunaev, where there is now Ugorsk land and Bolgarsk.” Hence the Danube-Balkan hypothesis of the origin of the Slavs.

The European homeland of the Slavs also had its supporters. Thus, the prominent Czech historian Pavel Safarik believed that the ancestral home of the Slavs should be sought on the territory of Europe, next to their kindred tribes of the Celts, Germans, Balts and Thracians. He believed that in ancient times the Slavs occupied the vast territories of Central and Eastern Europe, from where they were forced to leave the Carpathians under the onslaught of the Celtic expansion.

There was even a version about the two ancestral homelands of the Slavs, according to which the first ancestral home was the place where the Proto-Slavic language developed (between the lower reaches of the Neman and the Western Dvina) and where the Slavic people themselves were formed (according to the authors of the hypothesis, this happened from the 2nd century BC). BC) - the basin of the Vistula River. Western and Eastern Slavs have already left from there. The first settled the area of ​​the Elbe River, then the Balkans and the Danube, and the second - the banks of the Dnieper and Dniester.

The Vistula-Dnieper hypothesis about the ancestral home of the Slavs, although it remains a hypothesis, is still the most popular among historians. It is conditionally confirmed by local toponyms, as well as vocabulary. If you believe the "words", that is, the lexical material, the ancestral home of the Slavs was away from the sea, in a forested flat zone with swamps and lakes, as well as within the rivers flowing into the Baltic Sea, judging by the common Slavic names of fish - salmon and eel. By the way, the areas of the culture of underclothe burials already known to us fully correspond to these geographical features.

"Slavs"

The very word "Slavs" is a mystery. It is firmly in use already in the 6th century AD, at least the Byzantine historians of this time often mention the Slavs - not always friendly neighbors of Byzantium. Among the Slavs themselves, this term is already in full use as a self-name in the Middle Ages, at least judging by the annals, including the Tale of Bygone Years.

However, its origin is still unknown. The most popular version is that it comes from the words "word" or "glory", going back to the same Indo-European root ḱleu̯- "to hear". By the way, Mavro Orbini also wrote about this, though in his characteristic “arrangement”: “during their residence in Sarmatia, they (Slavs) took the name “Slavs”, which means “glorious”.

There is a version among linguists that the Slavs owe their self-name to the names of the landscape. Presumably, it was based on the toponym "Slovutych" - another name for the Dnieper, which contains a root with the meaning "wash", "cleanse".

A lot of noise at one time was caused by the version about the existence of a connection between the self-name "Slavs" and the Middle Greek word "slave" (σκλάβος). It was very popular among Western scholars of the 18th-19th centuries. It is based on the idea that the Slavs, as one of the most numerous peoples in Europe, made up a significant percentage of captives and often became the object of the slave trade. Today, this hypothesis is recognized as erroneous, since most likely the basis of "σκλάβος" was a Greek verb with the meaning "to get military trophies" - "σκυλάο".

The Slavs are perhaps one of the largest ethnic communities in Europe, with numerous myths circulating about the nature of their origin.

But what do we really know about the Slavs?

Who are the Slavs, where did they come from, and where is their ancestral home, we will also try to figure it out.

Origin of the Slavs

There are several theories of the origin of the Slavs, according to which some historians attribute them to a tribe permanently residing in Europe, others to the Scythians and Sarmatians who came from Central Asia, and there are many other theories. Let's consider them sequentially:

The most popular is the theory of the Aryan origin of the Slavs.

The authors of this hypothesis are called theorists of the “Norman history of the origin of Russia”, which was developed and put forward in the 18th century by a group of German scientists: Bayer, Miller and Schlozer, to substantiate which the Radzvilovskaya or Königsberg Chronicle was concocted.

The essence of this theory was as follows: the Slavs are an Indo-European people who migrated to Europe during the Great Migration of Peoples, and were part of some ancient "Germanic-Slavic" community. But as a result of various factors, having broken away from the civilization of the Germans and finding itself on the border with the wild eastern peoples, and becoming cut off from the advanced Roman civilization at that time, it lagged behind in its development so much that their paths of development radically diverged.

Archeology confirms the existence of strong intercultural ties between Germans and Slavs, and in general, the theory is more than worthy of respect if the Aryan roots of the Slavs are removed from it.

The second popular theory has a more European character, and it is much older than the Norman one.

According to his theory, the Slavs did not differ from other European tribes: Vandals, Burgundians, Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Gepids, Getae, Alans, Avars, Dacians, Thracians and Illyrians, and were of the same Slavic tribe

The theory was quite popular in Europe, and the idea of ​​​​the origin of the Slavs from the ancient Romans, and Rurik from the emperor Octavian Augustus, was very popular with historians of that time.

The European origin of the peoples is also confirmed by the theory of the German scientist Harald Harmann, who called Pannonia the homeland of the Europeans.

But I still like a simpler theory, which is based on a selective combination of the most plausible facts from other theories of the origin of not so much Slavic as European peoples in general.

The fact that the Slavs are strikingly similar to both the Germans and the ancient Greeks, I think you do not need to tell.

So, the Slavs, like other European peoples, came from Iran after the flood, and they landed in Illaria, the cradle of European culture, and from here, through Pannonia, they went to explore Europe, fighting and assimilating with the local peoples, from whom they acquired their differences.

Those who remained in Illaria created the first European civilization, which we now know as the Etruscans, while the fate of other peoples depended largely on the place they chose to settle.

It is hard for us to imagine, but in fact all European peoples and their ancestors were nomads. So were the Slavs...

Remember the oldest Slavic symbol that so organically fit into Ukrainian culture: the crane, which the Slavs identified with their most important task, reconnaissance of territories, the task of walking, settling and covering more and more new territories.

Just as the cranes flew to unknown distances, so did the Slavs across the continent, burning the forest and organizing settlements.

And as the population of the settlements grew, they gathered the strongest and healthiest young men and women and poisoned them on a long journey, like scouts, to explore new lands.

Age of the Slavs

It is difficult to say when the Slavs stood out as a single people from the pan-European ethnic mass.

Nestor attributes this event to the Babylonian pandemonium.

Mavro Orbini by 1496 BC, about which he writes: “At the indicated time, the Goths and the Slavs were of the same tribe. And having subjugated Sarmatia to its power, the Slavic tribe was divided into several tribes and received different names: Wends, Slavs, Antes, Verls, Alans, Massaets .... Vandals, Goths, Avars, Roskolans, Polyans, Czechs, Silesians .... ".

But if we combine the data of archeology, genetics and linguistics, we can say that the Slavs belonged to the Indo-European community, which, most likely, came out of the Dnieper archaeological culture, which was located between the Dnieper and Don rivers, seven thousand years ago during the Stone Age.

And from here, the influence of this culture spread to the territory from the Vistula to the Urals, although no one has yet been able to accurately localize it.

About four thousand years BC, it again broke up into three conditional groups: the Celts and Romans in the West, the Indo-Iranians in the East, and the Germans, Balts and Slavs in Central and Eastern Europe.

And around the 1st millennium BC, the Slavic language appeared.

Archeology nevertheless insists that the Slavs are the carriers of the "culture of under-closing burials", which got its name from the custom of covering the cremated remains with a large vessel.

This culture existed in the V-II centuries BC between the Vistula and the Dnieper.

Ancestral home of the Slavs

Referring to a number of authors, Orbini sees Scandinavia as the original Slavic land: “The descendants of Japheth the son of Noah moved to Europe to the north, penetrating into the country now called Scandinavia. There they multiplied innumerably, as Saint Augustine points out in his City of God, where he writes that the sons and descendants of Japheth had two hundred homelands and occupied the lands located north of Mount Taurus in Cilicia, along the Northern Ocean, half of Asia, and throughout Europe all the way to the British Ocean.

Nestor calls the homeland of the Slavs the land along the lower reaches of the Dnieper and Pannonia.

The prominent Czech historian Pavel Šafarik believed that the ancestral home of the Slavs should be sought on the territory of Europe in the neighborhood of the Alps, from where the Slavs left for the Carpathians under the onslaught of the Celtic expansion.

There was even a version about the ancestral home of the Slavs, located between the lower reaches of the Neman and the Western Dvina, and where the Slavic people themselves were formed, in the 2nd century BC, in the Vistula River basin.

The Vistula-Dnieper hypothesis about the ancestral home of the Slavs is by far the most popular.

It is sufficiently confirmed by local toponyms, as well as vocabulary.

Plus, the areas of the culture of underclothe burials already known to us fully correspond to these geographical features!

Origin of the name "Slavs"

The word "Slavs" is firmly in use already in the VI century AD, among Byzantine historians. They were spoken of as allies of Byzantium.

The Slavs themselves began to call themselves that in the Middle Ages, judging by the annals.

According to another version, the name comes from the word "word", since the "Slavs", unlike other peoples, knew how to write and read.

Mavro Orbini writes: “During their residence in Sarmatia, they took the name “Slavs”, which means “glorious”.

There is a version that relates the self-name of the Slavs to the territory of origin, and according to it, the name of the river "Slavutich" is the basis of the name, the original name of the Dnieper, which contains a root with the meaning "wash", "cleanse".

An important, but completely unpleasant for the Slavs, version says that there is a connection between the self-name "Slavs" and the Middle Greek word "slave" (σκλάβος).

It was especially popular in the Middle Ages.

The idea that the Slavs, as the most numerous people in Europe, at that time, made up the largest number of slaves in their mass and were a sought-after commodity in the slave trade, there is a place to be.

Recall that for many centuries the number of Slavic slaves supplied to Constantinople was unprecedented.

And, realizing that the executive and hardworking slaves, the Slavs in many respects surpassed all other peoples, they were not just a sought-after product, but also became the standard representation of the “slave”.

In fact, by their own labor, the Slavs forced other names of slaves out of use, no matter how insulting it may sound, and again, this is only a version.

The most correct version lies in the correct and balanced analysis of the name of our people, resorting to which one can understand that the Slavs are a community united by one common religion: paganism, who glorified their gods with words that could not only pronounce, but also write!

Words that had a sacred meaning, and not the bleating and lowing of the barbarian peoples.

The Slavs brought glory to their gods, and glorifying them, glorifying their deeds, they united into a single Slavic civilization, a cultural link in the pan-European culture.

Where did the Slavs come from? Of course, one can turn to ethnographic sources, but there are also mythological sources on this subject that also deserve attention. Thus, medieval Russian chronicles directly point to the origin of the Slavic peoples from Japheth, one of the sons of Noah.

Japheth and his sons

By the way, the name Japheth (variations - Japheth or Iapetus) means, on the one hand, "beauty", on the other - "spread" or "expansion". According to the Book of Genesis, even before the Flood, Japheth founded the city of Jaffa. After he escaped with his wife on Noah's ark, they had seven sons - Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Firas, who, in turn, also had sons over time. “From them the islands of peoples were settled in their lands, each according to his own language, according to his tribes, among his peoples” (Gen. 10, 1-5). The Tale of Bygone Years says: “After the destruction of the pillar and the division of the peoples, the sons of Shem took the eastern countries, and the sons of Ham - the southern countries, while the Japheths took the west and the northern countries. From the same 70 and 2 the Slavic people also descended, from the tribe of Japheth - the so-called Noriki, who are the Slavs. After a long time, the Slavs settled along the Danube, where now the land is Hungarian and Bulgarian ... From those Slavs, the Slavs dispersed over the earth and were called by their names from the places where they sat down. So some, having come, sat down on the river by the name of Morava and were called Morava, while others were called Czechs. And here are the same Slavs: white Croats, and Serbs, and Horutans. When the Volohs attacked the Danubian Slavs, and settled among them, and oppressed them, these Slavs came and sat on the Vistula and were called Poles, and from those Poles came the Poles, other Poles - Lutichi, others - Mazovshan, others - Pomeranians, others - encouraged. In the same way, these Slavs came and sat down along the Dnieper and called themselves glades, and others - Drevlyans, because they sat in the forests, while others sat down between Pripyat and Dvina and called themselves Dregovichi, others sat down along the Dvina and were called Polochans, along the river flowing into the Dvina , called Polota, from which the Polotsk people were named. The same Slavs who sat down near Lake Ilmen were called by their name - Slavs, and built a city, and called it Novgorod. And others sat down along the Desna, and along the Seim, and along the Sula, and called themselves northerners. And so the Slavic people dispersed, and after his name the charter was called Slavic.

The myth of the three brothers

There is also a myth according to which the ancestors of all Slavic peoples are the three sons of Japheth, whose names were Czech, Lech and Rus. They were first mentioned at the beginning of the 12th century in the Czech Chronicle by Cosmas of Prague. Czechs, Poles and Russes (Russians) respectively went from them. By the way, Rus was mentioned even earlier, in the 10th century, by the Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan, who visited Russia. In his writings, he writes about the origin of the Russians from “Rus, the son of Japheth and the grandson of Noah” ... True, the Russian historian V.N. Tatishchev believes that the legend of the three brothers, the descendants of Noah and Japheth, is just a fiction. The theory of the 16th-century Dalmatian historian and abbot of the Benedictine monastery on the island of Mljet, Mauro Orbini, presented in the book The Slavic Kingdom (published in 1601 in Italian) is even less resistant to criticism. She claims that the ancestors of the Slavic peoples were the great-grandchildren of Japheth Skif, Rus and Slaven. Moreover, according to her, such peoples as Vandals, Goths, Alans, Avars originally belonged to the Slavs, and many European nations supposedly originated from them: Swedes, Finns, Normans, Burgundians, Bretons ...

Descendants of Mosoch?

And at the beginning of the 17th century, the Swedish historian Peter Petreus de Yerlezunda came to the conclusion that the ancestor of the Russians (Muscovites) was the son of Japhet Meshekh, "usually called Mosoch." “The Muscovites got their name partly from the Moscow River, partly from Mosokh, the son of Japhetov,” he writes in his “History of the Grand Duchy of Moscow” (1615). Thus, at least the fact that the Slavs descended from Japheth is the generally accepted point of view and the most likely option, as many sources say about this. And it is not so important what exactly the names of the descendants of the son of Noah, who founded the various Slavic peoples, were called.

We all know that the Slavs played an important role in the formation of the states of Eastern Europe. This group of kindred peoples, the largest on the continent, have similar languages ​​and similar customs. Its population is approximately three hundred million people.

Eastern Slavs in antiquity: settling in Europe

Our ancestors were a branch of the Indo-European family of peoples, which during the Great Migration scattered throughout Eurasia. The closest relatives of the Slavs are the Balts, who settled in the territories of modern Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Their neighbors were the Germans in the south and west, the Scythians and Sarmatians in the east. The Eastern Slavs in ancient times went through Eastern and Central Europe, where they founded the first cities of Ukraine and Poland in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Vistula. Then they overcame the foothills of the Carpathians, settling along the banks of the Danube and on the Balkan Peninsula. The great territorial remoteness of the Proto-Slavs made its own adjustments to their language, customs and culture. Therefore, the group was divided into three branches: western, southern and eastern.

Eastern Slavs in antiquity

This branch of our forefathers occupied a vast territory. From Lake Ladoga and Onega to the Black Sea, from the Oka and Volga to the Carpathian Mountains, they plowed the land, ordered trade, built temples. In total, historians name fifteen tribes of the Eastern Slavs. In the neighborhood with them, the Finno-Ugric tribes coexisted peacefully - our ancestors were not distinguished by excessive militancy, but preferred to maintain good relations with everyone.

Occupations of the Eastern Slavs

Our ancestors were farmers. They skillfully wielded a plow, a sickle, a hoe, a plow with a plowshare. The steppe inhabitants plowed the expanses of virgin lands, in the forest zone, trees were first uprooted, and the ash was used as fertilizer. The gifts of the earth were the basis of the diet of the Slavs. Millet, rye, peas, wheat, barley, buckwheat, oats were used for baking bread and for cooking cereals. Industrial crops were also grown - flax and hemp, from the fibers of which threads were spun and fabrics were made. People treated domestic animals with special love, since each family raised cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, and poultry. Together with the Slavs, cats and dogs lived in their houses. Hunting, fishing, beekeeping, blacksmithing and pottery were developed at a very high level.

Religion of the Proto-Slavs

Before the arrival of Christianity in the Slavic lands, paganism reigned here. Eastern Slavs in ancient times worshiped a whole pantheon of gods who personified the forces of nature. Svarog, Svarozhich, Rod, Stribog, Dazhdbog, Veles, Perun had their own places of worship - temples where idols stood and sacrifices were made. The dead were burned at the stake, and mounds were piled over the ashes placed in a pot. Unfortunately, the Eastern Slavs in antiquity did not leave written evidence of themselves. The famous book of Veles raises doubts among researchers about its authenticity. However, archaeologists find a large number of household items, weapons, remnants of clothing, jewelry, religious things. They can tell about the life of our ancestors no less than chronicles and legends.

There is an opinion everywhere that the real history of the Slavs begins with the Christianization of Russia.

It turns out that before this event, the Slavs did not seem to exist, because, one way or another, a person, multiplying, inhabiting the territory, leaves behind a trace in the form of a system of beliefs, writing, language, rules governing the relationship of fellow tribesmen, architectural buildings, rituals, legends and legends.

Based on modern history, writing and writing came to the Slavs from Greece, law - from Rome, religion - from Judea.

Raising the Slavic theme, the first thing Slavism is associated with is paganism. But let me draw your attention to the essence of this word: "language" means people, "nick" - none, unknown, i.e. a pagan is a representative of an alien, unfamiliar faith.

Can we be Gentiles and Gentiles for ourselves?

The Christian religion came from Israel, just as history came from the Jewish Torah. Christianity has existed on Earth for only 2000 years, in Russia - 1000. Considering these dates from the position of the Universe, they seem insignificant, because. the ancient knowledge of any nation goes far beyond these figures.

It is strange to think that everything that was long before Christianity was accumulated, collected, passed down from generation to generation - heresy and delusions. It turns out that all people on Earth have lived for centuries in illusion, self-deception and delusion.

Returning to the Slavs, how then could they create so many beautiful works of art: literature, architecture, architecture, painting, weaving, etc., if they were ignorant forest dwellers?

Raising the richest Slavic-Aryan Heritage, the Slavs appeared on Earth long before the representatives of other peoples. Previously, the term "earth" had the same meaning as the Greek name "planet", i.e. celestial object moving in its orbit around the sun.

Our Earth had the name Midgard, where "mid" or "middle" means middle, "gard" - hail, city, i.e. the middle world (remember the shamanic idea of ​​the structure of the Universe, where our Earth was connected with the middle world).

About 460,500 years ago our ancestors landed at the north pole of Midgard-Earth. Since that period, our planet has undergone significant changes, both climatic and geographical.

P class="-11"> In those distant times, the North Pole was a continent rich in flora and fauna, Buyan Island, on which lush vegetation grew, which our ancestors settled in.

The Slavic Kin consisted of representatives of four peoples: Da'Aryans, Kh'Aryans, Rasenov and Svyatorus.

The Da'Aryans were the first to arrive on Midgard-Earth. They came from the star system of the constellation Zimun or Ursa Minor, the land of Rai. The color of their eyes - gray, silver - corresponded to the sun of their system, which had the name Tara.

They called the northern mainland, where they settled, Daaria. Then followed the Kh'Aryans. Their homeland is the constellation Orion, the land of Troar, the sun - Rada - green, which is imprinted in the color of their eyes.

Then the Svyatoruss arrived - blue-eyed Slavs from the constellation Mokosh or Ursa Major, who called themselves Svaga. Later, brown-eyed Rasen appeared from the constellation of the Race and the land of Ingard, the Dazhdbog-Sun system or the modern Beta Leo.

If we talk about the peoples belonging to the four Great Slavic-Aryan Clans, then the Siberian Russians, northwestern Germans, Danes, Dutch, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, etc. went from the Da'Aryans.

The Eastern and Pomeranian Rus, Scandinavians, Anglo-Saxons, Normans (or Muromets), Gauls, Belovodsky Rusichs originated from the Clan Kh`Aryans.

The genus Svyatorus - blue-eyed Slavs - is represented by northern Russians, Belarusians, Polans, Poles, East Prussians, Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Scots, Irish, Asses from Iria, i.e. Assyrians.

The grandchildren of Dazhdbozhya, Raseny are the western Ross, the Etruscans (the ethnic group is Russian or, as the Greeks called them, these Russians), Moldavians, Italians, Franks, Thracians, Goths, Albanians, Avars, etc.

The ancestral home of our ancestors is Hyperborea (Boreas - the north wind, hyper - strong) or Daaria (from the first Slavic clan of the Da`Aryans who settled the Earth) - the northern mainland of Midgard-Earth.

Here was the source of ancient Vedic knowledge, the grains of which are now scattered throughout the Earth among various peoples.

But our ancestors had to sacrifice their homeland for the sake of saving Midgard-Earth. In those distant times, the Earth had 3 satellites: the Moon Lelya with a circulation period of 7 days, Fattu - 13 days and the Month - 29.5 days.

The Dark Forces from the man-made galaxy of 10,000 planets (darkness corresponds to 10,000), or, as they also call it, the Hellish World (that is, the lands there are not yet fully developed, they are only “baked”) have chosen Lelya for themselves, deployed their forces on it and directed their blow to Midgard-Earth.

Our ancestor and the Highest God, Tarkh, the son of God Perun, saved the Earth, defeating Lelya and destroying the kingdom of Kashcheev. Hence the custom of breaking eggs at Easter, which symbolizes the victory of Tarkh Perunovich over Kashchei, a mortal demon who found his death in an egg (a prototype of the Moon).

This event happened 111,814 years ago and became a new starting point for the chronology from the Great Migration. So the waters of Lely gushed to Midgard-Earth, flooding the Northern continent. As a result, Daaria went to the bottom of the Arctic (Cold) Ocean.

This was the reason for the Great Migration of the Slavic clans from Daria to Rasiya along the isthmus to the lands lying to the south (the remains of the isthmus were preserved in the form of the islands of Novaya Zemlya).

The Great Migration lasted 16 years. Thus, 16 became a sacred number for the Slavs. The Slavic Svarog circle or zodiac, consisting of 16 Heavenly Halls, is based on it.

16 years is the full part of the circle of Years in 144 years, consisting of 16 years passing through 9 elements, where the last 16 years were considered sacred.

Gradually, our ancestors settled the territory from the mountains of Ripey, covered with burdock, or Ural, which means lying near the Sun: U Ra (Sun, Light, Radiance) L (bed), to Altai and the Lena River, where Al or Alnost is the highest structure, hence the reality - a repetition, a reflection of Alness; tai - peak, i.e. Altai is both mountains, which contain the richest deposits of mines, and a focus of energy, a place of Power. From Tibet to the Indian Ocean in the south (Iran), later southwest (India).

106,786 years ago, our ancestors rebuilt Asgard (the city of Ases) at the confluence of Iria and Omi, erecting Alatyr-Gora - a temple complex 1000 Arshin high (more than 700 m), consisting of four Temples (Temples) of a pyramidal shape, located one above the other .

And so the Holy Race settled: the Clans of Ases - Gods living on Earth, the Countries of Ases throughout the territory of Midgard-Earth, multiplied and became the Great Family, forming the country of Ases - Asia, in modern Asia, having built the state of Aryans - Great Tartary.

They themselves called their country Belovodye from the name of the river Iriy, on which Asgard of Iriy was built (Iriy - white, clean). Siberia is the northern part of the country, i.e. Northern Truly Divine Iriy).

Later, the Clans of the Great Race, driven by the harsh Daariyan wind, began to move further south, settling on different continents. Prince Skand settled the northern part of Venya.

Later, this territory became known as Skando (i) nav (i) ya, because, dying, the prince said that his Spirit after death would protect this Earth (navya is the soul of the deceased, living in the world of Navi, unlike the world of Reveal) .

The Vanir clans settled in Transcaucasia, then, due to drought, they moved south of Scandinavia, to the territory of the modern Netherlands. In memory of their Ancestors, the inhabitants of the Netherlands keep the prefix Van in their surnames (Van Gogh, Van Beethoven, etc.).

The clans of God Veles - the inhabitants of Scotland and Ireland, in honor of their progenitor and patron, named one of the provinces of Wales or Wels.

The Svyatorus families settled in the eastern and southern parts of Venya, as well as the Baltic states.

In the eastern part is located the country of Gardarika (a country of many cities), consisting of Novgorod Rus, Pomeranian (Latvia and Prussia), Red Rus (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), White Rus (Belarus), Lesser (Kievan Rus), Sredinnaya (Muscovy, Vladimir), Carpathian (Hungarians, Romanians), Silver (Serbs).

The clans of the God Perun settled Persia, the Aryans settled Arabia.

The clans of God Niya settled on the Antlan mainland and became known as Ants. There they lived together with the indigenous people with the skin of the color of Fire, to whom they passed on the secret knowledge.

Remember at least the fall of the Inca civilization, when the Indians mistook the conquistadors for the White Gods, or another fact - the patron saint of the Indians - the Flying Serpent Queyzacoatl, according to the descriptions of a white man with a beard.

Antlan (fallow deer - inhabited territory, i.e. the country of Ants) or, as the Greeks called - Atlantis - became a powerful civilization, where people eventually began to abuse their knowledge, as a result of which, violating the laws of nature, they brought down the moon Fatta to Earth, themselves they flooded their peninsula.

As a result of the catastrophe, the Svarog circle or the Zodiac was shifted, the axis of rotation of the Earth tilted to one side, and Zima or Marena in Slavic began to cover the Earth with its snow cloak for a third of the year. All this happened 13,016 years ago and became the starting point of the new chronology from the Great Cooling.

The Ants clans moved to the country of Ta-Kem, where they lived with people with skin of the color of Darkness, taught them sciences, crafts, agriculture, the construction of pyramidal tombs, which is why Egypt began to be called the country of man-made mountains.

The first four dynasties of the pharaohs were white, then they began to prepare elected pharaohs from the indigenous peoples.

Later there was a war between the Great Race and the Great Dragon (Chinese), as a result of which a Peace Treaty was signed in the Star Temple (observatory) between Asura (As is an earthly God, Ur is a settled territory) and Ahriman (Arim, Ahriman is a person with a darker color skin).

This event happened 7516 years ago and became the starting point of the new chronology from the creation of the World in the Star Temple.

The Slavs were called Ases - the Gods living on Earth, the children of the heavenly Gods - the Creators. They have never been slaves, "a dumb herd" without the right to choose.

The Slavs never worked (the root of the word “work” is “slave”), they never seized other people’s territories by force (the Greeks called them tyrants or tyrenes for not letting their lands be seized), they worked for the good of their Family, were the owners of the results of his labor.

The Slavs sacredly honored the laws of RITA - the laws of Race and Blood, which did not allow incestuous marriages. For this, Russians are often called racists. Again, you need to look at the root in order to understand the deepest Wisdom of our Ancestors.

The globe, like a magnet, is represented by two opposite poles. White peoples inhabited the north positive pole, blacks - the south negative. All physical and energy systems of the body were tuned in accordance with the work of these poles.

Therefore, in a marriage between a white and a black, the child loses the support of the clan through both parents: +7 and -7 add up to zero. Such children are more prone to diseases, tk. deprived of full-fledged immune protection, they often become aggressor revolutionaries protesting against systems that did not accept them.

Now the Indian teaching about chakras has become widespread, according to which 7 main chakras are located in the human body along the spine line, but then the question arises: why does the energy in the head area change its signs: if the right side of the body has a positive charge, then the right hemisphere will have a negative .

If energy, like an electric current, flows in a straight line, without being refracted anywhere, it cannot simply take and change its sign to the opposite.

Our ancestors said that there are 9 main chakras in the human body: 7 are located along the spine line, 2 - in the armpits, forming an energy cross.

Thus, the flow of energy is refracted in the center of the cross, changing its sign to the opposite. Jesus Christ also said that everyone carries his own cross, i.e. everyone has their own energy cross.

Now scientists are ridiculing the ideas of the ancients about the structure of the Universe, which has the shape of a disk resting on three elephants, which, in turn, stand on a turtle floating in the vast world ocean. The picture seems naive and stupid if you look at things flatly.

The Slavs, on the other hand, have always been famous for imaginative thinking, behind every word, every image, you need to look for a series of meanings. The flat disk of the Earth was associated with flat everyday thinking and dual consciousness, thinking in yes-no categories.

This world rests on three elephants: matter, as the basis of the West, the idea, the basis of the Arab East, and transcendentalism or mysticism, the basis of India, Tibet, Nepal, etc.

The tortoise is the source, the primordial knowledge from which the “elephants” draw their energy. Such a turtle is just the North for other peoples, directly connected to the Primordial Knowledge — the ocean of Infinite Knowledge and Absolute Truth (energy).

The simplest solar symbol of the Slavs is the swastika, which was widely used by Hitler, which left a negative imprint on the symbol of human structure.

On the other hand, Hitler's main goal was world domination, to achieve which he used the most powerful and advanced weapons, he took as a basis neither Egyptian hieroglyphs, nor Jewish or Arabic cabalistic signs, namely Slavic symbols.

After all, what is the Swastika - this is an image of a cross in motion, it is a harmonious number four, indicating the presence in any descendant of the Slavic-Aryan peoples of the Body that his parents endowed him with, the Soul that the Gods inhabited in this body, the Spirit - connection with the Gods and protection Ancestors and Conscience, as a measure of all human deeds.

Let us recall at least the Kupala holiday, when people bathed in the rivers (purified the body), jumped over the fire (purified the Soul), walked on coals (purified the Spirit).

The swastika also indicated the structure of the Universe, consisting of our World of Reveal, two worlds of Navi: dark Navi and light Navi, i.e. Glory, and the world of the Most High Gods - Rule.

If we turn to the Western hierarchy of worlds, it is represented by the physical world, corresponding to the World of Reveal, which is washed on both sides by the astral plane, corresponding to Navi, the mental one goes higher, as an analogue of Slavi. In this case, there is no question of a higher World of Rule.

From the school bench, children are told that Greek monks taught literacy to ignorant Slavs, forgetting that these same monks took the Slavic initial letter as a basis, but since it could only be understood on the images, they excluded a number of letters, changing the interpretation of the remaining ones.

Subsequently, the language became more and more simplified. The Slavs always had two prefixes bez- and bes-, where without meant absence, demon - belonging to the inhabitant of the dark world, i.e., speaking immortal, it means a mortal demon, if we say immortal, it will mean a completely different thing - the absence of death .

The initial letter of the Slavs carried a huge meaning. At first glance, the same sounding word could carry a completely different meaning. So the word "world" can be interpreted in completely different ways, depending on which letter "and" will be used.

Peace through "and" meant a state without war, because. the figurative meaning of "and" is the connection of two streams. The world through "i" had a universal meaning, where the dot - denoted the Supreme God Ancestor. World through; was interpreted as a community, where two dots denoted the union of Gods and Ancestors, and so on.

Often scientists see a kind of underdevelopment in the polytheism of the Slavs. But again, superficial judgments do not give an understanding of the issue.

The Slavs consider the Great Unknown Being to be the Progenitor God, whose name is Ra-M-Kha (Ra - light, radiance, M - peace, Ha - positive force), which manifested itself in the New Reality, from the contemplation of this reality lit up with the Great Light of joy, and from this light of joy, various Worlds and Universes, Gods and Ancestors, were born, direct descendants, i.e. whose children we are.

If Ramha manifested into a New Reality, then there is still some higher Old Reality, and above it, more and more.

In order to understand and know all this, for the Slavs, the Gods and Ancestors established the Path of Spiritual Revival and Improvement through creation, awareness of various worlds and infinities, development to the level of the Gods, because. Slavic Gods are the same people - Ases, who inhabited various Earths, creating for the benefit of the Family, who have passed the Path of Spiritual Perfection.

The images of the Slavic Gods were not and could not be photographic, they did not convey a shell, did not make a copy, but conveyed the essence of the Deity, the main grain and the Divine structure.

So Perun with a raised sword personified the protection of the Clans, Svarog with a sword point down kept the Ancient Wisdom. He is God for that and God, that he could take on various guises in the Explicit World, but His Essence remained the same.

The same superficial understanding ascribes human sacrifices to the Slavs. Western materialists, attached to the body, identifying the physical shell with a person, cannot understand that people did not burn in fire, but used fire (remember the fiery chariots) as a means of transportation to other worlds and realities.

So Slavic knowledge has a rich history and culture, the roots of that wisdom go back centuries and millennia.

We, as direct descendants of our Slavic Gods and Ancestors, have an internal key to the system of this knowledge, opening which, we open the Bright Path of Spiritual Development and Improvement, we open our eyes and hearts, we begin to see, know, live, know and understand.

All Wisdom is inside a person (Wisdom is not inside a person. Here the author is mistaken. A person is born an animal. Further, with the right development and upbringing, he has a chance to become a “reasonable animal” and actually a person. For more on this, see the book by Academician N.V. Levashova "The Last Appeal to Humanity" . — D.B.), you just need to want to see and realize it. Our Gods are always there and ready to help at any moment, like our parents, ready to lay down their lives for their children.

Only children often do not understand this, they are looking for the Truth in other people's houses, in overseas countries. Native parents are always tolerant and kind to their children, contact them and they will always help.

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