The Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs arose long before the Baptism of Russia. It is believed that it developed in the system of pagan perception of the world, which became the basis of the communal-tribal system. This is a complex cultural process, consisting of beliefs, rituals, icon painting, costumes, musical and song creativity. All this was the basis of the spiritual heritage of the Slavs, which determined the rules of their behavior for every day. In this article, we will talk about this culture, which is still little studied.
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The Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs began to be forgotten after the Baptism of Russia. Government policy played a role in this. Some traces of this culture have survived to this day, and interest in it has only grown recently. Neo-pagans are even trying to find answers to pressing questions of our time.
It's worth knowing what's at the coreSlavic Vedic culture are the concepts of good and kindness. It is believed that the Aryans were among its founders. This is how our ancestors, who were descendants of the Scythians, called themselves in the ancient Slavic language. Everyone in this society, by his actions and behavior, had to bring good and good to his tribe, be useful to others.
From this came the word "noble", that is, bringing good to his relatives. This concept in the Vedic culture of the Slavs and Aryans was closely connected with the concepts of society, collective and catholicity. When making important decisions, it was important to take into account the opinion of the majority. At the general council, the answer was considered found if all participants in the meeting, without exception, agreed with it.
Great importance was attached to social change. In the Vedic culture of the Slavs and Aryans, only those changes that would be beneficial and beneficial to all members of the community were considered good.
Perception of the world
To understand the peculiarities of the worldview of the Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs, it is important to remember such concepts as soul, body and spirit. The Aryans have always sought to put into practice the knowledge gained from experience. At the same time, in the pagan model of the world, there were objects of three conceptually different properties.
It was a physical body, a soul (a receptacle for feelings, passions and experiences), as well as a spirit (an intangible component determined by conceptual settings). Transferring this sequence to modern reality, we can say that the Aryans learned from their own experience of communicating with naturethree main components:
- material component, that is, the physical body;
- soul, that is, the area of experiences and feelings;
- a set of attitudes, concepts and rules, that is, the spirit.
As a result, a few thousand years ago, an evolutionary statement was formulated in the culture of the Aryans. When choosing models of the real world, one should use a complex basis based on energy, mother and information. Today, this approach can be called complex realism.
Paganism
Closeness with nature was highly valued in the Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs. God was revered in it, and every person was considered the son of nature. For these reasons, the Slavs called themselves pagans.
Kinship with the outside world endowed them with a special understanding of the world. Comparing the power of nature with the actions of earthly rulers, the pagans came to the conclusion about the insignificance of worldly values.
In their own worldview, the Slavs practiced the principle of monotheism. It was believed that the world is open to the gaze of everyone who is ready to learn the truth. It was important to understand that the reality surrounding us is the source of all knowledge, the criterion for the truth of statements.
Determining the ultimate goal of life, in the Slavic Vedic culture, special attention was paid to acquisition. This was important to indicate the constant work required for spiritual growth.
Development and evolution
The Vedic culture of the ancients contained a deep understanding of the fundamental meaning of the change of generations inevolutionary development of society. At the same time, the Slavs came to the conclusion that eternal life can be achieved, but only by a group. In this case, the tribe, clan or society must comply with the key law of evolutionary development, which is the constant change of generations.
This fundamental provision about eternal life was included in the pagan canon of the trinity. The pagans were well aware that fertility alone would not ensure the eternal life of the social organism. It is important to transfer education and upbringing to the new generation.
Books on the Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs played a big role here. In pagan images, you can see them as symbols of education, upbringing, knowledge and literacy.
Naturally, the most productive was the creation of harmonious conditions for development among workers from their immediate environment, that is, in the family circle. They passed on culture through the example of their elders. The new and the old were supposed to create a single harmonious formation. In the modern world, there is also a similar concept, which is called the method of immersion in the environment of creativity and creation.
For thousands of years this method was used in the Vedic culture of the ancient Slavs. The existing focus on creativity and work became the basis of the world order and social well-being. The cult of the family patriarchal way of life was supported. Children addressed their parents with love, affection, dignity and respect.
Politics and life
It should be noted that the arias ledpredominantly sedentary lifestyle. They chose open and wide spaces for their settlements, which from time to time were intersected by forests.
In everyday life they had a reasonable community in everything. This also applied to the policy supported in relations with neighbors, including nomadic tribes. Everything was based on the principles of exchange. Settled tribes received meat and skins from nomads, and in return they provided canvas, honey, hemp, pottery and birch bark.
This reasonable practice of mutually beneficial exchange existed in the Slavic-Vedic culture in everything. Destructive wars were contrary to their spirit. In the chronicles, they remained as tribes that did not wage aggressive offensives. They did the same in everything. Even with animals they lived in harmony, without interfering with each other.
Among researchers of the Slavic-Aryan Vedic culture, there is an opinion that the conquest of Russia by the Tatar-Mongols is nothing more than a myth, an invention. Allegedly, this was in the hands of the Romanov dynasty, thanks to which he appeared. Supporters of this version consider the Tatar-Mongol yoke a political trick, with the help of which it became possible to justify the seizure of power as a result of a palace coup, when the throne passed from the Ruriks to the Romanovs.
During the years of the existence of specific principalities, skirmishes between princes regularly took place. They continued at the time when the formation of Russian statehood began. On both sides in the opposing armies, which were at enmity with each other, both foot warriors and the Tatar cavalry participated. Greedy princes lasthas always been valued an order of magnitude higher, as it was the most maneuverable part of the army.
Trying in our time to understand the reasons that led to the systemic crisis of civilization, it is important to realize that the image of unity between people and power is nothing more than fiction. In most cases, the rulers have no concept of nobility at all. Moreover, the higher a person climbs the career ladder, the more immoral he becomes, as well as his environment and the environment itself. In this, the times of Kievan Rus and developed socialism in the Soviet Union are very similar.
For our ancestors, it was obvious that the true face of power is not at all the one that it shows to everyone around, but the one that carefully hides. At the same time, it would be a big mistake to assume that the existing pagan life of the Slavs was ideal. Passions were seething here, there was a struggle for leadership and life. But all this was carried out exclusively within the framework of churches and monasteries. It was the cruelest way of tonsure, asceticism and penance.
Of course, the creators of the Vedic culture of Russia were not ordinary peasants. They lived by rules that had their roots in the centers of pagan Orthodoxy. Therefore, this concept is suitable for monastic cloisters and their novices, and not for ordinary villagers who lived on earth.
It was to such provincial monasteries from the surrounding villages that people came as yellow-mouthed babies, and returned as wise men. These were the harsh schools of learning the Holy Spirit. It is worth noting that in some monasteries such a pagan practicestill exists today.
In Russian Vedic culture, baths have always occupied a special place. This tradition has been preserved in our time. Thanks to its presence, the Slavs sought to get rid of the dominance of insects and diseases. At the same time, the bathhouse was considered an ideal place for relaxation and leisure at the end of a busy and difficult working day. People here dressed up in clean undershirts, spent time eating hearty meals with family and closest friends.
The concept of beauty
Later, the Silk Road passed through the places where the settlements of the Slavs were located, which became a source of cash receipts. Coin burials of various sizes are still found on the territory of modern Belarus and western Ukraine. On the world market, foreigners valued silk much more than gold, but among the Slavs it was not in special demand. Moreover, they considered it a waste product, preferring fabrics from the natural herbs of their region.
At the same time, the Slavs were endowed with a sense of beauty, appreciated unusual costumes, decorated with embroidery or original trim. Freshwater pearls were very popular. The costume of the simplest peasant woman took up to 200 pearls. Jewelery was mass-produced. These were rings, pendants, chains.
As the statehood developed and under the influence of Byzantium, the impoverishment of the Slavs who lived on earth began. Since then, only the costume of the first persons of the state has remained chic and rich. In terms of components and its cut, he continued to copy the original pagan attire.simple Aryans (although it was made from more expensive materials).
The Slavs transferred their reverent attitude to nature to later times, when cities were already being created. In Slavic culture, the concept of "garden city" appears. They were considered Putivl, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kyiv, Nizhny Novgorod, Murom, Vladimir. The peculiarity of these settlements was that each individual building was surrounded by a personal plot with a bathhouse and a separate well.
In the Vedic culture in Russia, the environment of the dwelling with primeval forest, clean air and fragrant fields was highly valued. The Slavs initially sought to turn any of their communication with nature into a kind of aromatherapy course, enjoying healing herbs and infusions, juice collected from trees. Wormwood, nettle, flax, hemp were widely used in everyday life. Often they served as raw materials for the manufacture of all kinds of healing and odorous fees, infusions.
Abundance and prosperity, which were especially evident in everyday life, were the result of high diligence and reasonable organization. All members of society, without exception, lived in constant work and care. To do this, a spindle or a spinning wheel, combs for combing the tow were installed in each chamber. Everywhere there were traces of tireless and constant work.
The nomads who lived next door to the Slavs considered them real magicians in terms of diligence. The villagers transferred their relationship with nature, which they considered their patroness, to prayer temples. Because of this, the carriers of pagan Orthodoxy were repeatedly subjected topersecution and harassment.
At the same time, they continued to relate to the rites performed by sorcerers with superstitious fear. The same marveled at the new generations of people who were becoming too mercenary.
Current State
After the Baptism of Russia, the situation changed dramatically. The influence of Byzantium and Christianity increased significantly. The pagan culture of the Aryan Slavs began to be systematically destroyed.
Pagan Orthodoxy has a powerful and dangerous enemy. They became an army of greedy priests and priests who began to preach under the banner of Christianity, introducing a virtual monopoly on religion and worldview.
An important role was played by the fact that from the position of the Russian Sovereign, as the current government, Byzantine Christianity acted as a more convenient and understandable religion. So it was easier to build political systems, unite the princes, begin centralization, lay the foundations of statehood, and finally control the masses.
By the 15th-17th centuries, only minor traces and vague memories remained of the Vedic culture. But even at that time, the peasant community still continued to live in abundance.
Veles book
It is believed that this is one of the first sources about the Slavs and Aryans that has come down to us. In this book, the Vedic culture of the Slavs is described as fully and in detail as possible.
At the same time, today we can say with certainty that this work was falsified in the 19th or 20th century. But that doesn't stop it from being widely used.modern neo-pagans as evidence of modern forms of their religiosity.
In fact, the Proto-Slavic language is reproduced quite roughly and primitively in the Veles Book. This work was first published by Russian emigrants in the 1950s. The Russian writer Yuri Petrovich Mirolyubov, who first published it, is considered its most likely author. Today, the name of Mirolyubov is well known in scientific circles, he is considered one of the most famous falsifiers of the history of Ancient Russia.
At the same time, Mirolyubov himself claimed that he wrote off the Book of Veles from wooden planks that he had lost during the war. He said that this work was created around the 9th century. It contains numerous prayers, traditions, legends and stories about the history of the ancient Slavs, starting approximately from the 7th century BC.
Most researchers are convinced of its forgery. They do not consider it to be any reliable historical source. However, this work is still being studied. For example, in the centers of Slavic Vedic culture, open throughout the country. In the mass consciousness, the "Book of Veles" is considered a fake, but still continues to attract a lot of attention from readers.
Pantheon of Gods
It's no secret that the divine essence underlies any culture. It consists in understanding and realizing that a person is not alone on this earth, but there is a certain higher being that plays a decisive role.
Modern neo-pagans claim that the gods of the Vediccultures were common to the Aryan and Old Russian peoples. For example, Triglav was revered in Russia. These are the names of the three main Slavic gods. The first of them was called the Most High, that is, the god who was at the top of the hierarchy. The second was Svarog, who created the universe, and Siva. The same trinity occupied the highest levels in the hierarchy of the ancient Indian gods.
Supporters of the Vedic culture claim that the Slavic god the Supreme corresponded to the ancient Indian Vishnu, and Shiva was transformed into Siva. He represented the process of destruction.
Thus, this trinity maintained a balance in the world, personifying the three most important stages in the life of every person (birth, development and death). The names of many other gods for India and Russia are similar. The goddess Mara was the personification of the underworld. Everything associated with death is associated with her name.
Instead of a conclusion
Summing up, it is worth noting that acquaintance with the ancient and rich culture of the Aryan Slavs leaves an ambiguous impression.
On the one hand, this is a primitive and sufficient rude culture, reborn from the Stone Age. On the other hand, a powerful life-giving force comes from it. In this culture, everything is extremely clear and understandable. Everything is subordinated to the ideas of universal development and collective creation.
