“Lie” among the Slavs was the name given to incomplete, superficial Truth. For example, you can say: “There’s a whole puddle of gasoline,” or you can say that this is a puddle dirty water, covered with a film of gasoline on top. In the second statement - True, in the first it is not quite True, i.e. Lie. “Lie” and “bed”, “bed” have the same root origin. Those. something that lies on the surface, or on the surface of which one can lie, or - a superficial judgment about an object.
And yet, why is the word “lie” applied to the Tales, in the sense of superficial truth, incomplete truth? The fact is that a Fairy Tale is really a Lie, but only for the Explicit, Manifested World, in which our consciousness now resides. For other Worlds: Navi, Slavi, Prav, the same fairy-tale characters, their interaction, are true Truth. Thus, we can say that a Fairy Tale is still a True Story, but for a certain World, for a certain Reality. If a Fairy Tale evokes some Images in your imagination, it means that these Images came from somewhere before your imagination gave them to you. There is no fantasy divorced from reality. All fantasy is as real as our real life. Our subconscious, reacting to the signals of the second signaling system (per word), “pulls out” Images from the collective field - one of the billions of realities among which we live. In the imagination there is not just one thing, around which so many are twisted. fairy tales: “Go There, we don’t know Where, Bring That, we don’t know What.” Can your imagination imagine anything like this? - For the time being, no. Although, our Many-Wise Ancestors had a completely adequate answer to this question.
“Lesson” among the Slavs means something that stands at Rock, i.e. some fatality of Being, Fate, Mission, which any person embodied on Earth has. A lesson is something that must be learned before your evolutionary Path continues further and higher. Thus, a Fairy Tale is a Lie, but it always contains a Hint of the Lesson that each of the people will have to learn during their Life.
KOLOBOK I asked Ras Deva: - Bake me a Kolobok. The Virgin swept the barns of Svarog, scraped the bottom of the barrel and baked Kolobok. Kolobok rolled along the Path. He rolls and rolls, and towards him is the Swan: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! And he plucked a piece from Kolobok with his beak. Kolobok rolls on. Towards him - Raven: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He pecked Kolobok's barrel and ate another piece. Kolobok rolled further along the Path. Then the Bear meets him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He grabbed Kolobok across the stomach, crushed his sides, and forcibly took Kolobok’s legs away from the Bear. Kolobok is rolling, rolling along the Svarog Path, and then the Wolf meets him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He grabbed Kolobok with his teeth and barely rolled away from the Wolf. But his Path is not over yet. He rolls on: a very small piece of Kolobok remains. And then the Fox comes out to meet Kolobok: “Kolobok-Kolobok, I’ll eat you!” “Don’t eat me, Foxy,” was all Kolobok managed to say, and the Fox said “am” and ate him whole.
A fairy tale, familiar to everyone since childhood, takes on a completely different meaning and a much deeper essence when we discover the Wisdom of the Ancestors. Among the Slavs, a bun was never a pie, a bun, or “almost a cheesecake,” as the most diverse people sing in modern fairy tales and cartoons. bakery products, who are given to us as Kolobok. People's thought is much more figurative and sacred than they try to imagine. Kolobok is a metaphor, like almost all images of heroes of Russian fairy tales. It is not for nothing that the Russian people were famous everywhere for their imaginative thinking.
The Tale of Kolobok is astronomical observation Ancestors behind the movement of the Moon across the sky: from the full moon (in the Hall of the Race) to the new moon (the Hall of the Fox). Kolobok’s “kneading” - the full moon, in this tale, takes place in the Hall of Virgo and Ras (roughly corresponds to the modern constellations Virgo and Leo). Further, starting from the Hall of the Boar, the Month begins to decline, i.e. each of the encountered Halls (Swan, Raven, Bear, Wolf) “eats” part of the Month. By the Fox's Hall there is nothing left from Kolobok - Midgard-Earth (in modern terms - planet Earth) completely covers the Moon from the Sun.
We find confirmation of precisely this interpretation of Kolobok in Russian folk riddles (from the collection of V. Dahl): Blue scarf, red Kolobok: rolls on the scarf, grins at people. - This is about Heaven and Yarilo-Sun. I wonder how modern fairy-tale remakes would portray the red Kolobok? Did you mix blush into the dough? There are a couple more riddles for the kids: A white-headed cow is looking into the gateway. (Month) I was young - I looked like a fine fellow, I got tired in my old age - I began to fade, a new one was born - I became happy again. (Month) The spinner, the golden bobbin, is spinning, no one can get it: neither the king, nor the queen, nor the red maiden. (Sun) Who is the richest in the world? (Earth)
It should be borne in mind that Slavic constellations do not correspond exactly to modern constellations. In the Slavic Circle there are 16 Halls (constellations), and they had different configurations than the modern 12 Zodiac Signs. The palace of Ras (the Feline family) can roughly be correlated with the zodiac sign Leo.
Everyone probably remembers the text of the fairy tale from childhood. Let us analyze the esotericism of the fairy tale and those gross distortions of imagery and logic that were imposed on us.
Reading this, like most other supposedly “folk” (i.e. pagan: “language” - “people”) fairy tales, we pay attention to the obsessive absence of parents. That is, children are presented with single-parent families, which instills in them from childhood the idea that an incomplete family is normal, “everyone lives like this.” Only grandparents raise children. Even in full family It has become a tradition to “hand over” a child to be raised by old people. Perhaps this tradition was established during serfdom, as a necessity. Many will tell me that times are no better now, because... democracy is the same slave-owning system. “Demos”, in Greek, is not just “the people”, but a wealthy people, the “top” of society, “kratos” - “power”. So it turns out that democracy is the power of the ruling elite, i.e. the same slavery, only having an erased manifestation in the modern political system. In addition, religion is also the power of the elite for the people, and is also actively involved in the education of the flock (that is, the herd), for its own and the state elite. What do we bring up in children by telling them fairy tales to someone else’s tune? Do we continue to “prepare” more and more serfs for the demos? Or the servants of God?
From an esoteric point of view, what picture appears in the modern “Turnip”? - The line of generations is interrupted, joint good work is disrupted, there is a total destruction of the harmony of the Family, the Family, the well-being and joy of family relationships. What kind of people grow up in dysfunctional families? And this is what recent fairy tales teach us.
Specifically, according to “TURNIP”. The two most important heroes for the child, father and mother, are missing. Let's consider what Images make up the essence of the fairy tale, and what exactly was removed from the fairy tale on the symbolic plane. So, the characters: 1) The turnip - symbolizes the Roots of the Family. It was planted by the Ancestor, the Most Ancient and Wise. Without him, there would be no Turnip, and no joint, joyful work for the benefit of the Family. 2) Grandfather - symbolizes Ancient Wisdom 3) Grandmother - Tradition, Home 4) Father - protection and support of the Family - removed from the fairy tale along with figurative meaning 5) Mother - Love and Care - removed from the fairy tale 6) Granddaughter (daughter) - Offspring, continuation of the Family 7) Bug - protection of prosperity in the Family 8) Cat - the blissful environment of the House 9) Mouse - symbolizes the well-being of the House. Mice only appear where there is an abundance, where every crumb is not counted. These figurative meanings are interconnected, like a nesting doll - one without the other no longer has meaning and completeness.
So think about it later, whether Russian fairy tales have been changed, whether known or unknown, and who they “work” for now.
CHICKEN RHOBA
It seems - well, what stupidity: they beat and beat, and then a mouse, bang - and the end of the fairy tale. Why all this? Indeed, only tell foolish children...
This tale is about Wisdom, about the Image of Universal Wisdom contained in the Golden Egg. Not everyone and not at all times is given the opportunity to cognize this Wisdom. Not everyone can handle it. Sometimes you have to settle for the simple wisdom contained in the Simple Egg.
When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing it hidden meaning, The ancient WISDOM contained in this fairy tale is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on a subtle plane, on a subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmations, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.
ABOUT KASHCHEY and BABA YAGA
In the book written based on the lectures of P.P. Globs, we find interesting information about the classical heroes of Russian fairy tales: “The name “Koshchey” comes from the name of the sacred books of the ancient Slavs “koschun”. These were wooden tied signs with words written on them. unique knowledge. The guardian of this immortal inheritance was called “koschey.” His books were passed down from generation to generation, but it is unlikely that he was truly immortal, as in the fairy tale. (...) And into a terrible villain, a sorcerer, heartless, cruel, but powerful... Koschey turned relatively recently - during the introduction of Orthodoxy, when everyone positive characters the Slavic pantheon was turned into negative ones. At the same time, the word “blasphemy” arose, that is, following ancient, non-Christian customs. (...) And Baba Yaga is a popular person among us... But they could not completely denigrate her in fairy tales. Not just anywhere, but precisely to her, all the Tsarevich Ivans and Fool Ivans came to her in difficult times. And she fed and watered them, heated the bathhouse for them and put them to sleep on the stove in order to show them the right path in the morning, helped to unravel their most complex problems, gave them a magic ball that itself leads to the desired goal. The role of the “Russian Ariadne” makes our granny surprisingly similar to one Avestan deity,... Chistu. This cleansing woman, who sweeps the road with her hair, drives away dirt and all evil spirits from it, clears the road of fate from stones and debris, was depicted with a broom in one hand and a ball in the other. ... It is clear that with such a position she cannot be ragged and dirty. Moreover, we have our own bathhouse.” (Man - the Tree of Life. Avestan tradition. Mn.: Arctida, 1996)
This knowledge partly confirms the Slavic idea of Kashchei and Baba Yaga. But let us draw the reader’s attention to the significant difference in the spelling of the names “Koschei” and “Kashchei”. These two are fundamental different heroes. That negative character that is used in fairy tales, with whom all the characters, led by Baba Yaga, fight, and whose Death is “in the egg”, is KASHCHEY. The first rune in the writing of this ancient Slavic word-image is “Ka”, meaning “gathering within oneself, union, unification.” For example, the runic word-image “KARA” does not mean punishment as such, but means something that does not radiate, has ceased to shine, has turned black because it has collected all the radiance (“RA”) inside itself. Hence the word KARAKUM - “KUM” - a relative or a set of something related (grains of sand, for example), and “KARA” - those who have collected radiance: “a collection of shining particles.” This has a slightly different meaning than the previous word “punishment”. Slavic runic images are unusually deep and capacious, ambiguous and difficult for the average reader. Only the Priests owned these images in their entirety, because... writing and reading a runic image is a serious and very responsible matter, requiring great accuracy and absolute purity of thought and heart.
Baba Yoga (Yogini-Mother) - Eternally beautiful, Loving, Kind-hearted Goddess-Patroness of orphans and children in general. She wandered around Midgard-Earth, either on the Fiery Heavenly Chariot, or on horseback through the lands where the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans lived, collecting homeless orphans in towns and villages. In every Slavic-Aryan Vesi, even in every populous city or settlement, the Patron Goddess was recognized by her radiating kindness, tenderness, meekness, love and her elegant boots, decorated with gold patterns, and they showed Her where orphans lived. Ordinary people called the Goddess differently, but always with tenderness. Some - Grandma Yoga Golden Leg, and some, quite simply - Yogini-Mother.
The Yogini delivered the orphans to her foothill monastery, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian Mountains (Altai). She did this in order to save the last representatives of the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans from imminent death. In the foothill Skete, where the Yogini-Mother conducted the children through the Fiery Rite of Initiation to the Ancient High Gods, there was a Temple of the God of the Family, carved inside the mountain. Near the mountain Temple of Rod, there was a special depression in the rock, which the Priests called the Cave of Ra. From it extended a stone platform, divided by a ledge into two equal recesses, called LapatA. In one recess, which was closer to the Cave of Ra, Yogini-Mother laid sleeping children in white clothes. Dry brushwood was placed in the second cavity, after which LapatA moved back into the Cave of Ra, and the Yogini set fire to the brushwood. For all those present at the Fire Rite, this meant that the orphans were dedicated to the Ancient High Gods and no one would see them again in the worldly life of the Clans. Foreigners who sometimes attended the Fire Rites very colorfully told in their lands that they witnessed with their own eyes how small children were sacrificed to the Ancient Gods, thrown alive into the Fiery Furnace, and Baba Yoga did this. The strangers did not know that when the lapata platform moved into the Cave of Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone slab onto the ledge of the lapata and separated the recess with the children from the Fire. When the Fire lit up in the Cave of Ra, the Priests of the Family transferred the children from the lapata to the premises of the Temple of the Family. Subsequently, Priests and Priestesses were raised from orphans, and when they became adults, the boys and girls created families and continued their lineage. The foreigners knew none of this and continued to spread tales that the wild Priests of the Slavic and Aryan peoples, and especially the bloodthirsty Baba Yoga, sacrifice orphans to the Gods. These foreign tales influenced the Image of the Yogini-Mother, especially after the Christianization of Rus', when the Image of the beautiful young Goddess was replaced by the Image of an old, angry and hunchbacked old woman with matted hair who steals children. roasts them in an oven in a forest hut, and then eats them. Even the Name of Yogini-Mother was distorted and they began to scare all children with the Goddess.
Very interesting, from an esoteric point of view, is the fabulous Instruction-Lesson that accompanies more than one Russian folk tale:
Go There, we don’t know Where, Bring That, we don’t know What
It turns out that not only fairy tales were given such a Lesson. This instruction was received by every descendant from the Clans of the Holy Race that ascended the Golden Path Spiritual Development(in particular, mastering the Steps of Faith - the “science of imagery”). A person begins the Second Lesson of the First Stage of Faith by looking inside himself to see all the diversity of colors and sounds within himself, as well as to experience the Ancient Ancestral Wisdom that he received at his birth on Midgard-Earth. The key to this great storehouse of Wisdom is known to every person from the Clans of the Great Race; it is contained in the ancient instruction: Go There, not knowing Where, Know That, you do not know What.
Russian fairy tales have undergone many distortions, but, nevertheless, in many of them the Essence of the Lesson embedded in the fable has remained. It is a fable in our reality, but it is a reality in another reality, no less real than the one in which we live. For a child, the concept of reality is expanded. Children see and feel much more energy fields and flows than adults. It is necessary to respect each other's realities. What is Fable for us is Fact for the baby. That is why it is so important to initiate a child into “correct” fairy tales, with truthful, original Images, without layers of politics and history.
The most truthful, relatively free from distortion, in my opinion, are some of Bazhov’s fairy tales, the fairy tales of Pushkin’s nanny - Arina Rodionovna, recorded by the poet almost verbatim, the tales of Ershov, Aristov, Ivanov, Lomonosov, Afanasyev... The purest, in their pristine completeness of Images, to me Tales seem to be from book 4 of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas: “The Tale of Ratibor”, “The Tale of the Clear Falcon”, given with comments and explanations on words that have fallen out of Russian everyday use, but have remained unchanged in fairy tales.
The fairy tale is a lie, but in it there is a Hint, Whoever knows it has a Lesson.
“Lie” among the Slavs was the name given to incomplete, superficial Truth. For example, you can say: “Here is a whole puddle of gasoline,” or you can say that this is a puddle of dirty water covered with a film of gasoline on top. In the second statement - True, in the first it is not quite True, i.e. Lie. “Lie” and “bed”, “bed” have the same root origin. Those. something that lies on the surface, or on the surface of which one can lie, or - a superficial judgment about an object.
And yet, why is the word “lie” applied to the Tales, in the sense of superficial truth, incomplete truth? The fact is that a Fairy Tale is really a Lie, but only for the Explicit, Manifested World, in which our consciousness now resides. For other Worlds: Navi, Slavi, Pravi, the same fairy-tale characters, their interaction, are the true Truth. Thus, we can say that a Fairy Tale is still a True Story, but for a certain World, for a certain Reality. If a Fairy Tale evokes some Images in your imagination, it means that these Images came from somewhere before your imagination gave them to you. There is no fantasy divorced from reality. All fantasy is as real as our real life. Our subconscious, reacting to the signals of the second signaling system (per word), “pulls out” Images from the collective field - one of the billions of realities among which we live. In the imagination, there is only one thing that does not exist, around which so many fairy-tale plots revolve: “Go There, no one knows Where, Bring That, no one knows What.” Can your imagination imagine anything like this? - For the time being, no. Although, our Many-Wise Ancestors had a completely adequate answer to this question.
“Lesson” among the Slavs means something that stands at Rock, i.e. some fatality of Being, Fate, Mission, which any person embodied on Earth has. A lesson is something that must be learned before your evolutionary Path continues further and higher. Thus, a Fairy Tale is a Lie, but it always contains a Hint of the Lesson that each of the people will have to learn during their Life.
KOLOBOK
He asked Ras Deva: “Bake me a Kolobok.” The Virgin swept the barns of Svarog, scraped the bottom of the barrel and baked Kolobok. Kolobok rolled along the Path. He rolls and rolls, and towards him is the Swan: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! And he plucked a piece from Kolobok with his beak. Kolobok rolls on. Towards him - Raven: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He pecked Kolobok's barrel and ate another piece. Kolobok rolled further along the Path. Then the Bear meets him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He grabbed Kolobok across the stomach, crushed his sides, and forcibly took Kolobok’s legs away from the Bear. Kolobok is rolling, rolling along the Svarog Path, and then the Wolf meets him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I will eat you! He grabbed Kolobok with his teeth and barely rolled away from the Wolf. But his Path is not over yet. He rolls on: a very small piece of Kolobok remains. And then the Fox comes out to meet Kolobok: “Kolobok-Kolobok, I’ll eat you!” “Don’t eat me, Foxy,” was all Kolobok managed to say, and the Fox said “am” and ate him whole.
A fairy tale, familiar to everyone since childhood, takes on a completely different meaning and a much deeper essence when we discover the Wisdom of the Ancestors. Among the Slavs, Kolobok was never a pie, a bun, or “almost a cheesecake,” as they say in modern fairy tales and cartoons, the most varied baked goods that are passed off to us as Kolobok. People's thought is much more figurative and sacred than they try to imagine. Kolobok is a metaphor, like almost all images of heroes of Russian fairy tales. It is not for nothing that the Russian people were famous everywhere for their imaginative thinking.
The Tale of Kolobok is an astronomical observation of the Ancestors over the movement of the Moon across the sky: from the full moon (in the Hall of the Race) to the new moon (the Hall of the Fox). Kolobok’s “kneading” - the full moon, in this tale, takes place in the Hall of Virgo and Ras (roughly corresponds to the modern constellations Virgo and Leo). Further, starting from the Hall of the Boar, the Month begins to decline, i.e. each of the encountered Halls (Swan, Raven, Bear, Wolf) “eats” part of the Month. By the Fox's Hall there is nothing left from Kolobok - Midgard-Earth (in modern terms - planet Earth) completely covers the Moon from the Sun.
We find confirmation of precisely this interpretation of Kolobok in Russian folk riddles (from the collection of V. Dahl): Blue scarf, red Kolobok: rolls on the scarf, grins at people. - This is about Heaven and Yarilo-Sun. I wonder how modern fairy-tale remakes would portray the red Kolobok? Did you mix blush into the dough?
There are a couple more riddles for the kids: A white-headed cow is looking into the gateway. (Month) I was young - I looked like a fine fellow, I got tired in my old age - I began to fade, a new one was born - I became happy again. (Month) The spinner, the golden bobbin, is spinning, no one can get it: neither the king, nor the queen, nor the red maiden. (Sun) Who is the richest in the world? (Earth)
It should be borne in mind that Slavic constellations do not correspond exactly to modern constellations. In the Slavic Circle there are 16 Halls (constellations), and they had different configurations than the modern 12 Zodiac Signs. The palace of Ras (the Feline family) can roughly be correlated with the zodiac sign Leo.
TURNIP
Everyone probably remembers the text of the fairy tale from childhood. Let us analyze the esotericism of the fairy tale and those gross distortions of imagery and logic that were imposed on us.
Reading this, like most other supposedly “folk” (i.e. pagan: “language” - “people”) fairy tales, we pay attention to the obsessive absence of parents. That is, children are presented with single-parent families, which instills in them from childhood the idea that an incomplete family is normal, “everyone lives like this.” Only grandparents raise children. Even in intact families, it has become a tradition to “hand over” a child to be raised by old people. Perhaps this tradition was established during serfdom, as a necessity. Many will tell me that times are no better now, because... democracy is the same slave-owning system. “Demos”, in Greek, is not just “the people”, but a wealthy people, the “top” of society, “kratos” - “power”. So it turns out that democracy is the power of the ruling elite, i.e. the same slavery, only having an erased manifestation in the modern political system. In addition, religion is also the power of the elite for the people, and is also actively involved in the education of the flock (that is, the herd), for its own and the state elite. What do we bring up in children by telling them fairy tales to someone else’s tune? Do we continue to “prepare” more and more serfs for the demos? Or the servants of God?
From an esoteric point of view, what picture appears in the modern “Turnip”? - The line of generations is interrupted, joint good work is disrupted, there is a total destruction of the harmony of the Family, the Family, the well-being and joy of family relationships. What kind of people grow up in dysfunctional families?.. And this is what recent fairy tales teach us.
Specifically, according to “TURNIP”. The two most important heroes for the child, father and mother, are missing. Let's consider what Images make up the essence of the fairy tale, and what exactly was removed from the fairy tale on the symbolic plane. So, the characters: 1) The turnip - symbolizes the Roots of the Family. It was planted by the Ancestor, the Most Ancient and Wise. Without him, there would be no Turnip, and no joint, joyful work for the benefit of the Family. 2) Grandfather - symbolizes Ancient Wisdom 3) Grandmother - Tradition, Home 4) Father - protection and support of the Family - removed from the fairy tale along with figurative meaning 5) Mother - Love and Care - removed from the fairy tale 6) Granddaughter (daughter) - Offspring, continuation of the Family 7) Bug - protection of prosperity in the Family 8) Cat - the blissful environment of the House 9) Mouse - symbolizes the well-being of the House. Mice only appear where there is an abundance, where every crumb is not counted. These figurative meanings are interconnected, like a nesting doll - one without the other no longer has meaning and completeness.
So think about it later, whether Russian fairy tales have been changed, whether known or unknown, and who they “work” for now.
CHICKEN RHOBA
It seems - well, what stupidity: they beat and beat, and then a mouse, bang - and the end of the fairy tale. Why all this? Indeed, only tell foolish children...
This tale is about Wisdom, about the Image of Universal Wisdom contained in the Golden Egg. Not everyone and not at all times is given the opportunity to cognize this Wisdom. Not everyone can handle it. Sometimes you have to settle for the simple wisdom contained in the Simple Egg.
When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing its hidden meaning, the Ancient WISDOM contained in this fairy tale is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on a subtle level, on a subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmations, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.
ABOUT KASHCHEY and BABA YAGA
In the book, written based on the lectures of P.P. Globa, we find interesting information about the classical heroes of Russian fairy tales: “The name “Koshchey” comes from the name of the sacred books of the ancient Slavs “koschun”. These were wooden tied tablets with unique knowledge written on them. The guardian of this immortal inheritance was called “koschey.” His books were passed down from generation to generation, but it is unlikely that he was truly immortal, as in the fairy tale. (...) And into a terrible villain, a sorcerer, heartless, cruel, but powerful... Koschey turned relatively recently - during the introduction of Orthodoxy, when all the positive characters of the Slavic pantheon were turned into negative ones. At the same time, the word “blasphemy” arose, that is, following ancient, non-Christian customs. (...) And Baba Yaga is a popular person among us... But they could not completely denigrate her in fairy tales. Not just anywhere, but precisely to her, all the Tsarevich Ivans and Fool Ivans came to her in difficult times. And she fed and watered them, heated the bathhouse for them and put them to sleep on the stove in order to show them the right path in the morning, helped to unravel their most complex problems, gave them a magic ball that itself leads to the desired goal. The role of the “Russian Ariadne” makes our granny surprisingly similar to one Avestan deity,... Chistu. This cleansing woman, who sweeps the road with her hair, drives away dirt and all evil spirits from it, clears the road of fate from stones and debris, was depicted with a broom in one hand and a ball in the other. ... It is clear that with such a position she cannot be ragged and dirty. Moreover, we have our own bathhouse.” (Man - the Tree of Life. Avestan tradition. Mn.: Arctida, 1996)
This knowledge partly confirms the Slavic idea of Kashchei and Baba Yaga. But let us draw the reader’s attention to the significant difference in the spelling of the names “Koschei” and “Kashchei”. These are two fundamentally different heroes. That negative character that is used in fairy tales, with whom all the characters, led by Baba Yaga, fight, and whose Death is “in the egg”, is KASHCHEY. The first rune in the writing of this ancient Slavic word-image is “Ka”, meaning “gathering within oneself, union, unification.” For example, the runic word-image “KARA” does not mean punishment as such, but means something that does not radiate, has ceased to shine, has turned black because it has collected all the radiance (“RA”) inside itself. Hence the word KARAKUM - “KUM” - a relative or a set of something related (grains of sand, for example), and “KARA” - those who have collected radiance: “a collection of shining particles.” This has a slightly different meaning than the previous word “punishment”.
Slavic runic images are unusually deep and capacious, ambiguous and difficult for the average reader. Only the Priests owned these images in their entirety, because... writing and reading a runic image is a serious and very responsible matter, requiring great accuracy and absolute purity of thought and heart.
Baba Yoga (Yogini-Mother) - Eternally beautiful, Loving, Kind-hearted Goddess-Patroness of orphans and children in general. She wandered around Midgard-Earth, either on the Fiery Heavenly Chariot, or on horseback through the lands where the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans lived, collecting homeless orphans in towns and villages. In every Slavic-Aryan Vesi, even in every populous city or settlement, the Patron Goddess was recognized by her radiating kindness, tenderness, meekness, love and her elegant boots, decorated with gold patterns, and they showed Her where orphans lived. Ordinary people called the Goddess differently, but always with tenderness. Some - Grandma Yoga Golden Leg, and some, quite simply - Yogini-Mother.
The Yogini delivered the orphans to her foothill monastery, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian Mountains (Altai). She did this in order to save the last representatives of the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans from imminent death. In the foothill Skete, where the Yogini-Mother conducted the children through the Fiery Rite of Initiation to the Ancient High Gods, there was a Temple of the God of the Family, carved inside the mountain. Near the mountain Temple of Rod, there was a special depression in the rock, which the Priests called the Cave of Ra. From it extended a stone platform, divided by a ledge into two equal recesses, called LapatA. In one recess, which was closer to the Cave of Ra, Yogini-Mother laid sleeping children in white clothes. Dry brushwood was placed in the second cavity, after which LapatA moved back into the Cave of Ra, and the Yogini set fire to the brushwood. For all those present at the Fire Rite, this meant that the orphans were dedicated to the Ancient High Gods and no one would see them again in the worldly life of the Clans. Foreigners who sometimes attended the Fire Rites very colorfully told in their lands that they witnessed with their own eyes how small children were sacrificed to the Ancient Gods, thrown alive into the Fiery Furnace, and Baba Yoga did this. The strangers did not know that when the lapata platform moved into the Cave of Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone slab onto the ledge of the lapata and separated the recess with the children from the Fire. When the Fire lit up in the Cave of Ra, the Priests of the Family transferred the children from the lapata to the premises of the Temple of the Family. Subsequently, Priests and Priestesses were raised from orphans, and when they became adults, the boys and girls created families and continued their lineage. The foreigners knew none of this and continued to spread tales that the wild Priests of the Slavic and Aryan peoples, and especially the bloodthirsty Baba Yoga, sacrifice orphans to the Gods. These foreign tales influenced the Image of the Yogini-Mother, especially after the Christianization of Rus', when the Image of the beautiful young Goddess was replaced by the Image of an old, angry and hunchbacked old woman with matted hair who steals children. roasts them in an oven in a forest hut, and then eats them. Even the Name of Yogini-Mother was distorted and they began to scare all children with the Goddess.
Very interesting, from an esoteric point of view, is the fabulous Instruction-Lesson that accompanies more than one Russian folk tale:
Go There, we don’t know Where, Bring That, we don’t know What.
It turns out that not only fairy tales were given such a Lesson. This instruction was received by every descendant from the Clans of the Holy Race, who ascended the Golden Path of Spiritual Development (in particular, mastering the Stages of Faith - the “science of imagery”). A person begins the Second Lesson of the First Stage of Faith by looking inside himself to see all the diversity of colors and sounds within himself, as well as to experience the Ancient Ancestral Wisdom that he received at his birth on Midgard-Earth. The key to this great storehouse of Wisdom is known to every person from the Clans of the Great Race; it is contained in the ancient instruction: Go There, not knowing Where, Know That, you do not know What.
This Slavic Lesson is echoed by more than one folk wisdom in the world: To seek wisdom outside oneself is the height of stupidity. (Chan saying) Look inside yourself and you will discover the whole world. (Indian wisdom)
Russian fairy tales have undergone many distortions, but, nevertheless, in many of them the Essence of the Lesson embedded in the fable has remained. It is a fable in our reality, but it is a reality in another reality, no less real than the one in which we live. For a child, the concept of reality is expanded. Children see and feel much more energy fields and flows than adults. It is necessary to respect each other's realities. What is Fable for us is Fact for the baby. That is why it is so important to initiate a child into “correct” fairy tales, with truthful, original Images, without layers of politics and history.
The most truthful, relatively free from distortion, in my opinion, are some of Bazhov’s fairy tales, the fairy tales of Pushkin’s nanny - Arina Rodionovna, recorded by the poet almost verbatim, the tales of Ershov, Aristov, Ivanov, Lomonosov, Afanasyev... The purest, in their pristine completeness of Images, to me Tales seem to be from book 4 of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas: “The Tale of Ratibor”, “The Tale of the Clear Falcon”, given with comments and explanations on words that have fallen out of Russian everyday use, but have remained unchanged in fairy tales.
Vice-Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of Slavic Thinking, St. Petersburg.
The Russian fairy tale contains the wisdom of the people and the knowledge of the ancient Priests - its creators. Each fairy tale has several deep meanings. Each of them is separate big topic, but they are all interconnected. The first, well-known meaning - moral . Good stronger than evil. For our ancient Ancestors, this was the main law of life. This is the spiritual content of the fairy tale.
The second meaning of the tale lies in reflection of the annual cycle of natural phenomena . We are indebted to the works of Academician B. A. Rybakov for clarifying the similarities of the Russian fairy tale with the ancient Greek myths about Demeter and Persephone. Let us also compare: Ivan the Tsarevich and the Frog Princess on the one hand and Orpheus and Eurydice on the other; Koschey and Hades, Vasilisa and Persephone. Just as the heroine of a Russian fairy tale ends up in the kingdom of Koshchei, Eurydice ends up in the underground kingdom of Hades. And just as Ivan Tsarevich goes to help out his bride, so Orpheus goes in search of Eurydice. In Russian fairy tales, just like in the Greek myth of Orpheus, a very important place is given to the main character’s ability to play musical instruments. For example, when he forces the kidnapper of his bride (often the Sea King, which is close in meaning to the underground and underwater world) to dance until he drops, after which he returns the kidnapped girl to the hero. But the Greeks, unlike the Slavs, treat Hades with respect and fear. Moreover, they do not think about defeating Hades. Orpheus, as we know, returns home with nothing, and Eurydice remains in the kingdom of death.
The Slavs have a completely different ending to such a tale. They believe without a doubt that Good and Love conquer death itself. Therefore, Ivan Tsarevich saves his Frog Princess, Ruslan saves Lyudmila, and Prince Elisha resurrects the dead princess. This is how the fairy tales of other Slavic peoples end, as well as the fairy tales of the Baltic peoples, which are similar in content and meaning.
We find many similarities in Russian fairy tales with the Greek myth about the abduction of Persephone (Goddess of Nature, daughter of Demeter - Goddess of the Earth) by Hades. Persephone lives for six months in the gloomy underground kingdom of Hades, the other six months - on the beautiful Earth, under the Sun. And when she returns to Earth, then spring comes, flowers and vineyards bloom, crops rise. Persephone returns to Earth from the dark kingdom of Hades, according to some myths, her mother (she puts on beggar's rags and walks around, wandering, refusing to grow bread and grapes so that people begin to starve, then Zeus gives in to Demeter's requests and every spring orders Hades to let her go land Persephone). According to other myths, Persephone is saved from the kingdom of death by the God of the winter (dying and rising during the winter solstice) Sun - Dionysus.
The same theme is wonderfully reflected in the fairy tale “O dead princess”, retold in verse by A. S. Pushkin. Here the princess is Nature, the seven heroes are the seven cold months, when Nature is forced to live in separation from her groom, the prince Elisha - the Sun. The evil stepmother who kills the princess is winter. And the crystal coffin is the ice and snow cover that covers the Earth and rivers in winter. In the spring the sun hits the ice cover with its ray, the crystal coffin is destroyed, and Nature is resurrected. So Elisha revives his bride and leads her out of the underground grotto. We find the same motif in the epic about Svyatogor (the epic “Svyatogor and the earthly craving”).
The next meaning found in the fairy tale is dedicatory . In ancient times, every young man went through a school to learn the art of war. Experienced relatives taught him archery, javelin throwing, and wrestling techniques. The old men passed on to him the knowledge of military science, the tricks of the enemy, the ability to camouflage, and survive in Nature. Before undergoing the rite of passage into a man, the young man underwent various tests. This is reflected, as V. Ya. Propp showed, in most Russian fairy tales.
The oldest woman of the Family (who entered the fairy tale in the image of first the kind and then the terrifying Baba Yaga) revealed ancient wisdom to the young man. He was initiated into Spiritual Knowledge, including about posthumous existence. For belief in the afterlife was widespread and understanding of what happens to a person after death (after all, Warriors always had to be prepared for this) was necessary and of paramount importance. According to the ideas of the Slavs, after death the soul enters the world of the Ancestors, the kingdom of the Foremother Moose, Ursa or Turitsa (depending on which animal was the totem patron of a given Clan). As a result, the moral side of initiation was very important, for our Ancestors revered Mother Nature. They considered animals to be her children and their distant Ancestors. They believed that the souls of animals also went to Heaven. If there was a failure in the hunt, they believed that the Great Mother Bear had sacrificed too many of her children to them, and it was time for them to bring gifts to her, and they imposed a fast on themselves.
There was also a female dedication, as ancient as the male one (“Finist-Clear Falcon”, “Vasilisa the Beautiful”). Fairy tales often contain animals, which the hero saves life and who subsequently help him (“magic helpers” according to V. Ya. Propp). These are helper animals: Bear, Bull, Wolf Dog, Eagle, Raven, Drake, Pike. Animals whose son in one fairy tale or another is main character: Ivan Bykovich, Ivan Medvedkin, Ivan Suchich, Ivan the Cow's son (B. A. Rybakov “The Paganism of the Ancient Slavs.” M., 1994).
The dedicatory meaning of the tale is inextricably linked with the even more ancient Vedic meaning . A fairy tale is the Slavic Veda. More precisely, that part of the Vedas that remained in the Slavic lands, despite Christianization, during which, as is known, there was a struggle with the Magi and their teaching. Before the adoption of Christianity in Rus' and other Slavic lands, Ancient Vedic Knowledge existed in two complementary directions. Let's call them conventionally: male tradition and female tradition.
The guardians of male knowledge were the Priests, Veduns, Magi, who passed on to the youth the martial arts (in India “Dhanurveda” - “Military Veda”), the tricks of the enemy, as well as the habits of animals, knowledge of the basics of treatment (in India “Ayurveda”), tales and hymns , knowledge about the origin and structure of the Universe (in India “Rigveda”). This Vedic Knowledge was brought to India during the Aryan campaign. We find an echo of this event in the epic “Dobrynya Nikitich’s Campaign to India.” In India, this Knowledge has been quite well preserved to this day. In the Slavic lands, they were subject to destruction by representatives of Christianity (who, basically, had a superficial understanding of the essence of Slavic Knowledge).
The other half of the Ancient Vedic Wisdom of the Slavs was preserved in women's tradition, and she did not get to India, since the movement of the Aryan tribes was carried out with a significant predominance of men. This female branch has been very well preserved in Russia, despite the severe persecution that befell it. It was preserved because, unlike men’s, it had no relation to state politics, being domestic and communal. The guardians of this tradition were not only the Priestesses, Witches and Magi, but every woman in her home, in her family, preserved the Ancestral Knowledge of her great-grandmothers. The Slavic woman, like the entire rural world, went to the Christian church on Sundays, but at home neither the priest nor anyone else could forbid her to embroider patterns that reflected the idea of our Ancestors about the Universe, to wear ancient clothes on holidays, depicting a microcosm , sing songs to Lada and Lele and celebrate ancient holidays on the banks of rivers and lakes, in groves and on the mountains, treat yourself and your family with spells and herbs.
Fairy tales, epics, and songs represent a significant part of the Slavic Veda. Of course, fairy tales and epics were passed down not only through the female line; grandfathers also told them to their grandchildren. In many fairy tales, and especially in the epics they inherited, it is the male tradition that can be traced. But still, to a greater extent, the Ancient Vedic Knowledge was preserved by women and old people (unlike the Vedas that came to India), because it was transmitted secretly and more to children than to young men and women.
Let us consider an epic and a ritual song, reflecting in their content the knowledge of the birth of the World. This is an epic about Danube Ivanovich. Let us recall its brief summary. Danube Ivanovich obtains a bride for Prince Vladimir, and he himself marries her heroic sister. At a feast at Prince Vladimir's, being drunk, Danube Ivanovich boasted that he could shoot a bow very accurately. To which his wife, a hero, who was with him at the feast, noticed that she was a much better shooter than him.
Danube Ivanovich began to bet with her: they would go out into the open field and lay it on their heads silver ring, and whichever one of them hits the hoop is the better shooter. And so they did. We drove out into an open field, put the Danube “silver ring” on his head, Nastasya the Queen took aim and hit the ring with an arrow. Then Danube puts a silver ring on his wife’s head, moves away and begins to take aim. Then his wife says to him: “Danube Ivanovich, you are drunk now, you will not end up in the ring, but you will end up in my zealous heart, and under my heart your child is beating. Wait until it’s born, then we’ll go to the field and shoot.” Such words from his wife seemed offensive to the husband. How could she doubt his accuracy? The Danube fired a red-hot arrow from a tight bow, and its sweet one hit him right in the heart. Blood poured out in a stream from the white chest. And then Danube Ivanovich thrust his sword into his chest. And two streams merged into one large river, the Danube.
So in the epic a river is born, and the river is for ancient Slav was the whole World, the whole Universe – the River of Life. And she is born from a married couple who sacrificed themselves for her, but not ordinary people, but heroes.
A hero in a fairy tale is often an allegorical designation of a hero or deity. We also find the plot of sacrificing oneself for the sake of creating the World in India, where such a God-hero turns out to be Purusha, the “giant from the fog.” This is how our Ancestors imagined the birth of the World, Life, and Space. The world was born from the Divinity, which contains the male and female principles. But the Divinity, even when dying, remains immortal - it continues to live, or rather, is resurrected in the world born by Him: in plants, rivers, trees, birds, fish, animals, insects, stones, rainbows, clouds, rain, and, finally, in people - His descendants. And people, constantly improving, having gone through a lot human lives, become Gods, and from them new Worlds, new Universes are born. Well, if they lived unrighteously, they became restless after death or began a new long evolutionary path from a simple grain of sand. Therefore, our Ancestors looked at all of Nature as the body of the Divine. Hence the veneration of groves, forests, mountains, the Sun, Heaven, lakes and many animals. Death was perceived by the ancients not as the end of life and something hopeless, but as a transition from one state to another, as a difficult test associated with pain, fear, uncertainty, contributing to the spiritual growth of a person, as purification and renewal. People are forced to undergo this test. The deity, according to the beliefs of the Slavs and other peoples, voluntarily accepts death and is resurrected. This motif is clearly visible in the Egyptian legends about Osiris, in Greek myths about Dionysus, in the legends about the Phoenix, which burns itself to rise from the ashes.
The everyday details with which the fairy-tale epic about Danube Ivanovich is richly decorated again show the multi-layered nature of this genre, the multifaceted nature of its understanding. In this sense, the epic resembles a parable, which very well shows what pride and intransigence of a husband and wife towards each other can lead to.
Close in meaning to this epic is the song “The fast river spread out, overflowed.” At the same time, the position remains valid that in ancient songs, just like in ancient fairy tales, it is not so much about ordinary people, how much about Ancestors - heroes and Deities. Also, the river with its banks, stones, fish is the River of Life, the Universe, the Cosmos, which is born from the body of a drowned (sacrificing) girl - the Virgin Goddess. Her chest becomes the shore, her hair becomes the grass on the shore, her eyes become white pebbles, her blood becomes river water, her tears become spring water, and her white body becomes a white fish.
Ritual Russian songs, as well as the surviving songs of the southern and western Slavs, myths and hymns of other representatives of the Indo-European family, are very closely related to fairy tales and tales, reflecting some features of the primary consciousness of the Proto-Slavs.
In the Russian fairy tale “The Copper, Silver and Golden Kingdoms,” the kingdom arises from an egg. The wind in the fairy tale “About the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” has the divine property of omniscience. We find a direct connection with the Russian fairy tale “About the Dead Princess” in the Upanishads, where the human soul, going to another world, passes through the Month of the Sun and Wind (Upanishads, Bro. V, 10).
Let us also dwell on the closeness of the Slavic verbal tradition to other related cultures. Myths Ancient Greece and the Indian Vedas help us better understand our own, largely unsolved culture. A. S. Famitsin and B. A. Rybakov in their works show the similarity of ancient Greek myths with Russian epics and fairy tales. None later works cannot compare in depth with these beautiful monuments of folk wisdom.
Let's consider the myths about the three sons of Zeus: Apollo, Ares and Dionysus. Three Gods, so different, even opposite in many ways to each other, and, nevertheless, representing a certain unity. Apollo is the beautiful God of the Sun, Light, patron of muses, travelers and sailors, patron of bees, herds and wild animals (even wolves were considered animals of Apollo, and the Greeks did not dare to kill them). Apollo is a healer, a healer. At the same time, he punishes the disobedient and sends his arrows at them. Apollo was born from Zeus and the Goddess Latona (Leto) and already in childhood he defeated the serpent Python, and thereby saved his mother, as well as his sister Artemis. A similar plot is present in Russian fairy tales, Orthodox apocrypha and ancient Indian myths about Krishna and Varuna.
Another son of Zeus from Hera is Ares (for the Romans, Mars). A formidable and proud young man - this is how the Greeks portrayed him. His name is consonant with the Slavic Yaril. But at the same time, Ares is a fierce God of battle. "Ares!" - the Amazons shouted before the battle, terrifying their opponents. This is the God of fierce and cruel battle, in contrast to Athena, the Goddess of military science.
The third son of Zeus, born twice, born in fire, Dionysus, is completely unlike him. A beautiful, slender and gentle young man holding a bunch of grapes in his hands - this is how he is depicted in Greek sculpture. Dionysus is the God of cereals, green shoots, life-giving sap of trees, wine, vines, God the healer, comforter of the suffering. A drink made from grape juice - a light dry wine - that gives a person health and joy was called the blood of Dionysus, because when a person drinks this sparkling drink and it begins to play in his veins, a person experiences that joyful and peaceful state characteristic of the Gods, as if the blood of the Gods flows in his veins.
Another meaning of the fairy tale is its connection with yoga . In this regard, the fairy tale “Ivan the Talentless” is interesting. In it, in the final part, it directly talks about the purpose of magical things: mirrors, books and dresses. “There was charm in the treasured dress, wisdom in the book, and all the appearance of the world in the mirror.” And then it talks about the main gift for the daughter, the meaning of which is not revealed, but becomes clear from the fairy tale itself. The fairy tale “Finist - Clear Falcon” is also close in meaning, although in terms of plot it is at first glance directly opposite to the first. The girl, in search of the flown away Finist, goes through a difficult and long journey: she broke three cast iron staffs, trampled three pairs of iron boots, ate three stone loaves, until she came to Baba Yaga, who gave her magical things: a golden saucer and a silver apple, a silver hoop with a golden needle, crystal hammer and diamond studs. And the girl gave all these magical things to return Finist Yasna Falcon.
What were these magical things? A golden saucer with a silver apple is a gift, the ability to understand, see the world, comprehend the essence of things and the causes of phenomena and events. This corresponds to the yogic ability of clairvoyance. The crystal hammer and diamond studs are a musical instrument. Owning a musical instrument means power over people (remember that in many fairy tales the main character, with the help musical instruments makes the king and his entire retinue dance) and even over the elements of Nature (in other fairy tales and the epic “Sadko”, the main character, by playing the harp, makes the Sea King himself dance). We find a similar plot in the myth of Orpheus. Weaving and embroidering carpets and towels the main character in fairy tales and myths (Athena, the Frog Princess), as well as the spinning of the thread of fate by the Moiras among the Greeks and Makoshya among the Slavs, as a rule, reflects the creation by the Goddess of the pattern of the Universe (remember that all forests, seas, all animals, birds are usually depicted on the carpet , fish, cities and countries, people and the royal palace). We can say that the hoop and the needle are associated with the ability of creativity and transformation, both the obvious world, the human body, and his subtle bodies, his destiny. Embroidered shirts, according to ancient beliefs, help preserve human health and life, and the belt is associated with his fate. All these gifts are given to the heroine Baba Yaga, since she passed on Spiritual Knowledge to the ancient Proto-Slavs as the oldest woman of the Family.
Yoga is the improvement of a person spiritually, mentally and physically. Man reveals enormous psychophysical capabilities. But the main goal of higher yoga is communion with the Almighty, merging with Him.
It is very likely that the stages of initiation were carried out in accordance with the zodiac calendar. This is supported by the fact that some of the Russian fairy tales are dedicated to annual folk holidays, the connection of which with starry sky and with the position of the Sun on it is unconditional.
Regarding the topic of initiations, it should be noted that fairy tales have preserved the memory of ancient female initiation. Such, for example, is the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful.” When the fire in the house goes out, the stepmother's daughters send Vasilisa to Baba Yaga for fire. To go to Baba Yaga means to go to the Other World, to come into contact with the world of death (“yaga” - “sacrifice”, Sanskrit). The girl is helped in both earthly affairs and on this difficult journey, from which few have returned, by the doll that her mother gave her before her death. This doll, a maternal blessing (an obligatory part of the dowry in the old days), was not a toy, but a special spiritualized thing among the ancient Slavs and personified the patronage of the Ancestors on the maternal side.
Wooden dolls - “punks” are still preserved in the Arkhangelsk region. Such dolls stood in ancient times in the red corner, in the same place where embroidered towels with images of Rozhanitsa hung, and they special days On holidays and commemorations, sacrifices were made in the form of kutya, porridge, bread, eggs, and ritual food. This fairy tale reflects the belief that a girl’s happiness and women’s happiness depend, first of all, on the patronage of her mother and on the desire to live in harmony with the world around her: she feeds Baba Yaga’s cat and dog, asks the little devil to save her from the fiery furnace, and she agrees, ties the birch tree with a ribbon, and the birch tree releases it (a version of the fairy tale as presented by I. V. Karnaukhova). Tying a birch tree with a ribbon reflects the ritual of the Green Christmastide - decorating birch trees with ribbons and curling the birch trees. These are Semik and Trinity, now celebrated by Christians, one of the biggest holidays of the year, associated with the veneration of Ancestors and the spring-summer revival of life. “Whoever does not make wreaths, his womb will die,” is sung in one of the songs of this holiday. The wreath gives longevity to the mother. A wreath thrown into the water symbolizes the connection of the young people with each other and with Heaven.
The second part of this tale is dedicated to those events when a girl, having returned from Baba Yaga, that is, as if from the other world, spins, weaves and embroiders a beautiful shirt for the groom, after which she marries the prince. This part reflects the idea of the ancients that one of the most important foundations of strength family life is the bride's dowry, which includes: clothes for her, clothes (shirt and belts) for her future husband, gifts to the groom's relatives in the form of shirts, towels, belts. This dowry had to be made by the hands of the girl herself. The girls have been doing it since childhood and before marriage, that is, throughout my youth and youth. But a person has only one youth, and therefore she cherished the union with the one to whom the girl gave the work of her whole life. It goes without saying that the dowry had great value for the well-being of the family, since in marriage women had many new worries, and she did not have time to make clothes in such quantities.
The creation of a dowry by the future bride meant the creation of a microcosm, and patterned towels and shirts carried cosmogonic imagery.
Male and female initiations, despite all their differences, contributed to the preservation of the Tribal Foundation of the family and community, as the main units of society.
The endless world of fairy tales gives us a reflection of many major events past. The fairy tale “Dmitry the Tsarevich and the Udal the Good Fellow” reflects the Proto-Slavs’ ideas about the Divine. And again in this fairy tale we are faced with manifestations of yoga. The brave, kind fellow saves Ivan Tsarevich from the six-headed snake. The magical assistant Dal, a good fellow, is an image of the victory of the spiritual principle in a person over his base instincts.
Manifestations of the basic laws of yoga can also be seen in the legend about Prophetic Oleg, in its content, reminiscent of epics and fairy tales. The horse here conventionally denotes those principles in man that helped to survive on Earth for the time being (a horse in battle is the personification of rage in battle). But at a certain level of his development, a person must be able to win, curb base instincts (this corresponds to riding a wild horse in many fairy tales) or completely abandon some of them (as in the legend about Oleg the Prophet). And if a person returns to the predominance of lower bodily desires over higher ones, then this will be the snake that will destroy him.
The above example clearly shows the interpenetration of different semantic levels inherent in an epic, fairy tale, and ritual song. Oleg reigned in Novgorod, then in Kyiv, conquered Constantinople, and died in Staraya Ladoga, where his burial mound is now shown. In the same way, the arrival of the ancient ancestors of the Slavs in India is reflected in the epic about Dobrynya’s campaign in India. We find even more ancient events related to Palestine and Asia Minor (evidence of the presence of the Proto-Slavs there) in the tales of Tarkh Tarakhovich on Siyan Mountain, about the Sunflower Kingdom and others.
To a modern person, brought up and educated in concepts and ideas modern science, it is difficult to imagine that until recently our Ancestors had a completely different picture of the world and a different worldview, and, what is even more significant, they had a universal connection with Nature and the Universe. Fairy tales, epics, ritual songs help to understand this connection. The key here is the image of the Bogatyr (Good Well done). The image of the Bogatyr in fairy tales and epics very often represents the Sun. Such is the prince Elisha, breaking the crystal coffin of his bride, Svyatogor the hero, cutting with his sword the bark that covers his future bride. All these are images of the spring Sun, cutting with its rays the icy crust covering the Earth.
It is possible that the twelve labors of Hercules reflect the movement of the Sun along zodiac circle. Moreover, the victory over Hydra can be considered as the victory of the Sun over cold, darkness, dampness, and purification Augean stables- like the cleansing power of the Sun. The name Hercules itself contains the obvious root "Yar". The images of Yegor the Brave defeating the serpent, the hero Eruslan Lazorevich, the Greek hero Perseus, and the God Apollo are solar. This desire for the Luminary is not accidental. It itself is a mystery even to modern science.
To make the presentation more complete, let’s look at some more Cossack songs. It was the male tradition of singing that was preserved among the Cossacks, as well as certain rituals that apparently existed even in the princely squads ancient Rus'. This, for example, is bringing a strand of hair to one’s native river before going to battle. This is also an appeal to the river upon returning from the battlefield: “Hello Don, you are our Donets, hello, our dear father,” is sung in a Cossack marching song. One Belarusian song talks about a young guy going into the army and turning to his bride with a request to take his hair to the Danube, which she does: “I wrapped my yellow curls and took them to the Danube River.” Here is a clear trace of the presence of the Slavs on the Danube, perhaps during the time of Svyatoslav the Khoroby, or even in more ancient times, when the Slavs lived in large numbers along the Danube. How ancient are these customs, and also how related they are to Slavic peoples, can be judged by the texts of the famous “Iliad”, where the hero Achilles, before leaving for war, brings a lock of hair to his native river.
The ritual nature of many songs, conventionally now called recruitment songs, is also undeniable. Let’s take the song “Like in our pole.” Literally, it sings about what often happened to people who stood up to defend their Fatherland. But it also has a ritual meaning. A soldier, and in the ancient images of these songs - a good fellow, a hero - is the Sun, which goes in winter to a foreign, distant country, and goes out there, dies (this is how people who lived in the north, especially beyond the Arctic Circle, perceived the winter solstice really no longer rose above the horizon). But people believed that the Sun would definitely rise, they had to wait for it, just as they wait for a warrior from the war, and this expectation helps him return alive. The same expectation helps the Sun pass the point of dying, the winter solstice.
However, this makes sense fairy tale turns out to be far from exhausted.
Tales, epics - ancient Slavs and their meanings.
The great power of legends in which is hidden Great Wisdom our Ancestors. Moreover, when reading fairy tales meaningfully, new sensations emerge every time. In the age of speed, we read fairy tales to our children without explaining the essence of what we read. Sometimes we just don’t have time for the child to fall asleep without listening to the end, having been tired for the day, and somehow there’s no point in telling them in the morning about the knowledge embedded in fairy tales. Those. we deprive them of knowledge, but sometimes we ourselves don’t know what is included in this or that fairy tale.
Please note that all tales and epics were passed on from mouth to mouth so that the image of the event would not be lost. In order to somehow reduce the influence of Slavic Culture on the Slavs themselves and the peoples who became acquainted with the Heritage of the Slavic Ancestors, Christian monks began to rewrite tales with distortions and the tales turned into a meaningless story. Zadornov went further and suggested reducing fairy tales and epics to SMS messages.
Tale, fairy tale, true story, fable
A tale is information recorded from the words of eyewitnesses, i.e. “KAZ in a word” - showing an image in a word. Tales were written down using Images, because an image conveys more information. Sometimes the images were comparative, for example, some words of the peoples of China, Korea, etc. resembled barking, about such people they said: “barking people,” which later turned into the concept - dog-headed, i.e. this does not mean that a person has a dog's head, but it meant that incomprehensible sounds are heard from this head, like a dog barking.
A fairy tale is one of the forms of storytelling when there is some hint of authenticity. Fairy tales were passed down exactly from generation to generation, word for word, because any fairy tale is figuratively encrypted information. The priests gave such information to the people so that it would not be lost; they knew that the old people would pass it on to the young without distortion. Nowadays fairy tales can embellish, add something of their own, but before this was not the case: as the grandfather told it, so the grandson will pass it on word for word to his son, grandson, etc. and the information will be without distortion, and whoever knows the keys will be able to understand the information.
Byl (from other words “to be”) - what happened.
A tall tale is something that did not happen in Yavi, but it happened in Navi or Slavi, Rule, i.e. not in this form of existence, but it happened anyway.
Bayat - some fairy tales, legends were sung, i.e. They bawl, they usually bawl before bedtime so that the child falls asleep. Even the Negro Pushkin: “Whether people lie or lie, this is the wonder in the world...”, i.e. “They lie or lie” - they speak correctly or distort information. Therefore, a lot of what you studied, i.e. learned from childhood (fairy tales, legends, songs, epics, fables) - this is all ancient truthful information on which the child learned about the world around him.
Tales were not perceived as reality only by materialists. They didn’t perceive it because they were blinded. Moreover, Mr. Lunacharsky removed Images from the language, and therefore they stopped understanding the Wisdom of the Ancestors. In the first lesson, I explained to you what their delusion was - when our Ancestors said that the Earth is flat, rests on three elephants, the elephants stand on a turtle that swims in the boundless ocean. And remember the first grade, you were told that the ancients were wrong, the Earth is round. Those. everything that was invested, all the Imagery was removed.
Education is primary, Education is secondary
Previously, starting with fairy tales, children were raised by their father, and their grandfathers and great-grandfathers helped him. They did not teach, but rather educated and taught to create Images (education). And now, in the Soviet system, the main thing is to educate. Parents think that the school will educate them, but the school says: let the parents educate, as a result, no one is involved in raising the child. They grow up, I apologize, educated bastards for whom the concepts: Conscience, Respect - do not exist, because they were not instilled in them from childhood, they were not brought up in it.
The Slavs have always had the main thing - education. Learning is secondary, knowledge will always come. The main thing is in what soil the seeds of knowledge will be sown. Even in the Jewish source - in the Bible, Jesus gave an example: some grains fell into fertile soil and sprouted, others fell into dry soil, sprouted and dried up, others fell on a stone and did not germinate at all. And here it’s the same, it’s important what kind of soil the seeds fall into.
For a thousand years, the images of fairy tales have been distorted.
For the last thousand years, Slavic images in fairy tales have been distorted, one such example is the Mermaid. Everyone refers to the work of Hans Christian Andersen “The Little Mermaid”, in this work it is about a girl with a fish tail. But has anyone seen this work in the original, where it is written that it is about the Mermaid? There is a completely different word there, it’s just that “our” translators decided to call the girl with a fish tail a mermaid. But in fact, the Mermaid is a maiden bird (or, as Christians draw it, a female angel with wings). Even Pushkin wrote: “A mermaid sits on the branches,” not on rocks near the shore, but on branches, and her hair is light brown, not green, as in Andersen’s work.
A mermaid is a fair-haired, wise bird maiden. The concept of "AL" has been preserved in English“all” means “everything”, i.e. “al” is completeness, everything that is taken into oneself, i.e. Wisdom. Therefore, Mermaids are wise maidens who fly in to suggest something, advise, and tell the wisdom of the Ancestors.
Mavkas - maidens with a fish tail
Andersen did not describe the Mermaid, but Mavka, a green-haired maiden with a fish tail. Mavka, according to some legends, is the daughters of Vodyanoy, according to others, Vodyanoy’s assistants are the guardian of reservoirs, rivers, lakes and swamps (although the swamp also had its own Bolotnik, and Kikimora in the forest swamps).
So, Mavkas - according to some legends, are Vodyanoy’s assistants, and their father Niy is the God of the seas and oceans. Otherwise, he was also called the “Sea King,” later, when the expression “Ny” was removed, let’s say: “Ny comes out of the sea in tuna,” so the Latins translated “Ny in tuna” as “Neptunius.” And since the oceans gave life to rivers, and “river” in Greek, one of the forms was “Don” - “Posey-Don,” that is, “sowed the rivers.” There were many Mavkas, but eight of them were the most important Mavkas - these are the daughters of God Nya, they kept order in the seas and oceans.
Many Slavic fairy tales ended with the phrase:
“A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it; whoever knows it will learn a lesson.”
Those. among the Slavs, U-Rok (knowledge of fate) was perceived by both boys and girls. And then Christians came and said that there is no need to teach girls at all, a woman is a vessel of the devil, a fiend of Satan, and so on. Therefore the phrase was changed:
“The fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it! Good fellows lesson" - Christian version.
A lesson is the knowledge of Fate, and fairy tales are Images, i.e. whoever learns a fairy tale, a hint, will begin to understand the essence of their destiny, will look at the World from the point of view of their inner world, and looking at the inner one, they will understand the surrounding one.
Examples of Images in Fairy Tales
* The knowledge of our Ancestors is hidden in Slavic fairy tales, for example: “The Tale of the Clear Falcon”, where “far away Lands” are 27 Lands in the Yarila-Sun system.
* The “Epic of Sadko” says that sea king(Neptune) invited Sadko to choose any of his 8 daughters. And what kind of daughters are these? These are 8 satellites of Neptune. But modern scientists discovered them only at the end of the twentieth century, and our Ancestors knew about this a long time ago, and preserved the information in a fairy tale, in the images of the king and daughters.
* “The Tale of the Dead Princess...”, where the 7 heroes are the 7 stars of the Big Dipper.
The fairy tale “Kolobok” is the Moon
The fairy tale "Kolobok" tells about natural phenomenon, as the Moon rolls through the Constellations (in the Slavic “zodiac” the names are: Boar, Raven, Bear, Wolf, Fox, etc. - Svarog Circle). In each constellation (Chamber) the Moon becomes smaller, i.e. The Boar took a bite, the Raven pecked it off, the Bear crushed it, and when the sickle remains, the Fox eats it and the new moon comes. Using the fairy tale “Kolobok”, children were shown the constellations, watched as the Moon (kolobok - “kolo” - round side) rolls through these constellations, and its side is figuratively bitten off. So the children studied the star map of the sky. Convenient and clear.
Slavic fairy tale "Kolobok"
Grandfather Tarkh Jiva asked him to bake a Kolobok.
She swept brooms across the barns of Svarog,
I scraped the bottom of the barrel along the Chertozhye,
She made a Kolobok, baked it and put it on Rada’s window to cool.
Star rain began to fall, knocked over Kolobok,
He rolled along Perunov’s path, and along the ancient path:
The boar took a bite, the raven pecked it off,
The bear crushed the side, the wolf ate part of it,
So far the Fox hasn't eaten at all.
Then the cycle repeats, again Jiva baked the Gingerbread Man and placed it in the Hall of Rada - the full moon, the Gingerbread Man rolled along the ancient path (along the Svarog Circle), and as soon as the Gingerbread Man entered the Boar's Hall, a piece was bitten off from him, then the Raven pecked off, etc.
Fairy tale "Turnip" (Slavic meaning)
“The Tale of the Turnip” indicates the relationship between generations, indicates the interaction of temporary structures, forms of life and forms of existence.
The turnip seems to unite the earthly, underground and aboveground - three forms of life, three structures. Those. the earth gave its strength, through the tops the turnip receives solar energy, and the grandfather comes up and begins to pull the turnip (Rod’s property, which he planted). But he didn’t plant it for himself, but for his Family, so he starts calling his grandmother, but they can’t pull it out, they call (father, mother) his granddaughter, again it doesn’t work, the granddaughter calls the bug, the bug the cat, the cat the mouse, and only then they pulled the turnip out .
Father and mother
The tale is missing two characters - father and mother. Why did Christians trim the tale and leave 7 elements?
Firstly, in Christianity everything is built on the number of seven (7 is a sacred number in Christianity). In the same way, Christians shortened the Slavic week: it was 9 days, it became 7. The Slavs have a circular or nine-fold system, Christians have a seven-fold system.
Secondly, for Christians, protection and support is the Church, and love and care is Christ, i.e. as if instead of father and mother, because the rite of baptism washes away the connection with father and mother, and establishes a connection between the child and the Christian god. Those. father and mother are revered only for what they gave birth to, and that’s all!
1. Grandfather - wisdom (the eldest, he planted and grew a turnip, i.e. the property of the Family, and planted it not for himself, but for his Family).
2. Grandmother - traditions, housekeeping.
3. Father - protection and support.
4. Mother - love and care.
5. Granddaughter - offspring.
6. Zhuchka - prosperity in the Family (a dog was bred to protect prosperity).
7. Cat - a blissful environment.
8. Mouse - welfare (i.e. there is food in the house, etc., otherwise as they say now: “the mouse hanged itself in the refrigerator”).
9. The turnip is the hidden wisdom of the Family, the property of the Family. A turnip in the ground is a hint of a connection with the Ancestors, and the property of the Family is stored, Wisdom, as a rule, in the head, hence the expression “give a turnip” so that the brain works, wisdom is remembered and does not harm others.
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (philosophy)
Philosophical meaning“Tales of the Fisherman and the Little Fish” can be summed up by the ancient wisdom: “Whoever desires the least will gain the most. And the one who wants the least will get as much as he wants. And therefore, it is better to calculate wealth not by the measure of estates and profits, but by the measure of the human Soul” - Apuleius.
According to the plot of the fairy tale, we get a star, this symbol is human life, i.e. nothing is given for free, you have to achieve everything with your own work, or you will be left with nothing.
RK - a broken trough
NK - new trough
ND - new home
SD - pillar noblewoman
VC - free queen
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
1. There lived an old man and an old woman who were 30 and 3 years old. We express a lot of things through the image of the number 33 - this includes Wisdom and Commandments, etc. (see Sacred Numbers).
2. The old man threw the net three times, and the third one pulled out with a goldfish, she begged, asked the old man to let her go, then she would get everything she wanted. But the old man simply released the goldfish without asking for a reward. Returning home, the old man told the old woman about what had happened, she was surprised and scolded the old man, forcing him to return to the sea and demand a new trough from the goldfish.
3. When a person receives something without putting his Soul or his work into it, this freebie begins to spoil the person. Then the old woman began to demand a new house. But this is not enough for her, she is tired of being a free peasant woman, she wants to be a pillar noblewoman. Then as a free queen, i.e. received power, she chases servants, she has security, etc. And she generally sent the source of her enrichment (an old man) to serve in the stables.
4. Then the old woman wanted to become the mistress of the sea, and so that goldfish was on her errands. As a result, the old woman was left with nothing.
Moral: whoever wants to get everything for free will return to the starting point, i.e. will sit by the broken trough.
Ryaba hen (the meaning of the fairy tale)
Once upon a time there lived a grandfather and a woman, and they had a chicken, Ryaba.
One day a chicken laid an egg, not an ordinary one, but a golden one.
Grandfather beat and beat, but did not break. The woman beat and beat, but did not break.
The mouse was running, its tail touched it, the egg fell and broke.
The grandfather is crying, the woman is crying, and the chicken is clucking:
- Don’t cry, grandfather, don’t cry, woman: I will lay you not a golden egg, but a simple one.
The meaning of the fairy tale
Life has always been compared to an egg, and Wisdom too, which is why the saying has survived to this day: “This information is not worth a damn.”
The Golden Egg is the hidden Ancestral Wisdom, which no matter how much you hit, you cannot take it in a swoop. And if you accidentally touch, this integral system can be destroyed, broken into small fragments, and then there will be no integrity. The Golden Egg is information, wisdom that concerned the Soul, you need to study it little by little, you can’t take it rudely.
A simple testicle is simple information. Those. since the grandfather and woman had not yet reached this level, were not ready for golden (deep) Wisdom, the chicken told them that she would lay a simple egg, i.e. will give them simple information.
It seems like a little fairy tale, but how much deep meaning laid down - whoever cannot touch the Golden Egg, start learning with simple, superficial information. And then some immediately: “give me sacred Wisdom, I’ll figure it out now”... and to a psychiatric hospital with the “greats”. Because you cannot suddenly approach the knowledge of Wisdom; everything is given gradually, starting with a simple testicle. Because the World is diverse, multi-structured, but at the same time it is brilliant and simple. Therefore, even hundreds of human lives may not be enough to know the small and the great.
Zmey Gorynych is a tornado
The fight of Dobrynya Nikitich with the seven-headed Serpent Gorynych. There are many fairy tales about the Serpent Gorynych, based on some, others were remade, the characters changed (Ivan the Tsarevich, Ivan the Fool, Nikita Kozhemyaka, etc.), there are many options, but the picture is described the same :
“A black cloud came and hid Yarilo-Krasnoye, a strong wind rose, it came as a cloud black snake Gorynych, Viev's son. He swept away the haystacks, tore off the roofs from the huts, and took away people and livestock.
The fight with the Serpent Gorynych - no one could defeat Gorynych with a weapon. And what did the heroes do? They threw a shield or a mitten, a hat—everything heroic forged. These things fell into the trunk of the tornado and destroyed the system of ascending and descending flows, the Serpent died, and his death (destruction of the whirlwind) was accompanied by a sound reminiscent of a heavy sigh: “and gave up his spirit.” Those. was folk remedy fighting a tornado.
* In 1406, near Nizhny Novgorod, a tornado lifted a team into the air along with a horse and a man and carried it so far that they were no longer visible. The next day, the cart and dead horse were found hanging on a tree on the other side of the Volga, and the man was missing. (This true story, how the Serpent Gorynych led people and cattle away).
It is with such fairy tales that we can prepare our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to learn the Wisdom of our Ancestors, which is truthful, because there is no point in deceiving your children. Maybe it’s worth revealing the image of a fairy tale when re-reading it to a child, and especially before bedtime, so that he can understand what he has read. After all, at school we were first given a preliminary explanation, and then we studied the material thoroughly. No matter what, it went in one ear and out the other.