Trojan: a secret pagan god in whom buffoons believed. The legacy of the Troyan ancestors in the northern tradition of fortune telling and magic

The sign of Troyan resembles the figure of a standing man with three faces, because Troyan is the third son in the family and three faces are united in him, and also merges into one divine and human. The father of the Slavic God Troyan Veles, Troyan combines many natural qualities and is revered as the God of witchcraft and healing.

The Slavic God Troyan originated from matter and the divine, these qualities are combined in him and his father, the God of Wisdom Veles, when he descended into the world of Reality, people say that Troyan is the son of a simple mother and not a simple father. From his birth, Troyan grew quickly, gained intelligence, and when the time came for Veles to leave the world of Reveal, Troyan began to gain wisdom from the wise Kitovras, who had learned many secrets.
God Trojan adopted these secrets and became a great healer. He found a remedy for the fierce enemy who would stab without a knife and kill without an ax, that is, earthly death. Through Trojan you can resurrect the people of God, but there are restrictions for ordinary people so that they can gain their wisdom; not everyone can be resurrected by Trojan. There will be no order in the world if not everything is in its place, because in truth, resurrection comes only with the wisdom and grace of God, and before that life will not begin again. Therefore, God Trojan became a healer, helping to fight all sorts of illnesses, so that death would not come prematurely for people accumulating their wisdom.

God Troyan has rightfully become the patron saint of difficult people, striving for intelligence and strength of spirit, and Troyan also teaches to act as reason dictates, and quickly make the right decisions for the benefit of everyone. Violation of the way of life is also unhealthy, and the disease does not knock when it comes, this is where a healer is needed, always ready to help, so Troyan helps in matters of vital health, but you can also turn to him in other matters.

In general, Troyan is the Guardian of the Righteous Paths leading to Svarga, controls Time and Space. Troyan is one of the incarnations of the god Veles. The elements with which Troyan is primarily associated are water and fire. These elements in their complex combination provide healing. It would seem that the unity of these two elements is impossible, because water extinguishes fire. However, we are not talking about whether the unity of these two elements is observed when a person heats water on a fire. Water, heating up and reaching a high temperature, then embodies the integrity for which Troyan is responsible. And it is no coincidence that heated water is used as a basis in the preparation of various healing potions and decoctions for a variety of ailments. All this is Troyan’s sphere of activity. The unity of time and space also obeys Trojan. Troyan is such a revered god in this very incarnation that he even received several mentions in the “Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: “O Boyana, the nightingale of old times! If only you had tickled these regiments, galloping, glory, along the mental tree, flying ummah under the clouds, twisting the glory of both sexes of this time, following the path of Trojan through the fields to the mountains!

Trojan's amulet

For those who are ready to accept the wise advice of God Trojan and follow it, the Trojan sign will help with this!
Since ancient times, the three-faced sign of the Trojan God protects against:
from any illness: mental, physical,
from the “blindness” of the spirit, the inability to see a mistake, the beginning of a “disease” and take action in time.
And gives people:
health, increased strength,
choosing the right decision, the ability to quickly navigate the situation.

The Trojan God amulet is suitable for people with a difficult character. This God doesn’t like to talk a lot about himself, he does more, makes the right decisions and always helps his neighbor. Good and someone else's disease is at heart, Troyan helps those who turn to him. He is ready to teach people not only how to heal from illness, but also how to avoid illness, how to keep it out of the body. You just need to be able to listen to Trojan’s advice, which can be found in the revelations of this god.

In one of the lists of the apocryphal “Walk of the Virgin Mary” already mentioned above, presumably dating back to the 12th century, we find the name of Troyan: “Believe, God created the creature in the south to work, then they called all the gods the sun and the month, the earth and the waters, beasts and reptiles, then the network and chlchch okamenta outria Trojan Khrsa Veles Perowna on the Gods turned into an evil demon of faith, hitherto the darkness of the evil is possessed by the essence, for the sake of food such a pain" (Milkov, 1999, pp. 582-626).

Perhaps, in the series of names of deities of the Slavic pantheon, there is no more dubious and controversial than this Trojan.

D. S. Likhachev, who repeatedly turned in his works to understanding the text of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” an epic work that was created shortly after the memorable campaign of 1185, especially focused on the fourfold use of the word Troyan in the mentioned literary monument. Likhachev believed that “in all these meanings the word Troyan can be satisfactorily explained only if we assume that by Troyan we should mean some kind of Russian pagan deity” (Likhachev, 1950, pp. 5–52). The opinion is authoritative, but, as you understand, not the only one.

The spectrum of numerous interpretations from historical to mythological and others is considered by Konstantin Yudin in the article “Trojan in the Tale of Igor’s Campaign (to the problem of interpretation).” Today this is the most complete list of opinions (Yudin, 2004).

Let us turn to these memorable lines:

O Boyana, the nightingale of old times!

If only you had tickled her cheeks,

galloping, glory, along the mental tree,

flying with my mind under the clouds,

creating glory for both sexes of this time,

risha on Troyan's path

through the fields to the mountains.

In other words, using the “Troyan path” and at the same time flying “with his mind under the clouds,” Boyan is able to find the right path in both space and time.

There were evenings (67) of Trojans,

The summer of Yaroslavl has passed;

there were Olgova's plazas,

Olga Svyatslavlicha.

That is, once upon a time, “during this time,” there were the long-standing and already legendary “age of Trojan,” uncertain, but very extended times that preceded the short years and deeds of the historical princes of Rus' - the years of Yaroslav the Wise (died in 1054) and the wars of Oleg , Prince of Chernigov and Tmutarakan (d. 1115), memorable contemporaries of the author of “The Lay...” according to the stories of previous generations.

Now, brothers, this is not a happy time,

The desert has already covered its strength.

Resentment arose in the forces of Dazhdbozh’s grandson,

a virgin entered the land of Trojan,

splashed her swan wings

on the blue sea near the Don;

splash, let go of fatty times.

There is a certain “Trojan’s land”, bounded by the Don River or located on the other edge from the blue sea and the Don River (also called the sea in ancient times) - in a word, it is as distant a land in space as the centuries of Trojan themselves are in time.

On the seventh century of Troyani

Vseslav is the enemy's lot

Oh, I love the girl.

You lean on your horses with your sticks

and ride to the city of Kiev

and finished off with shavings

gold of the Kiev table.

This is the second time that the name of Troyan is used in the context of time, almost an era, as indicated by the symbolism of the number “seven”. We are talking about the sorcerer Vseslav of Polotsk (c. 1029–1101) - the werewolf prince (Yugov, 1955, pp. 14–21). If we still understand this metaphor in the literal sense, then the seventh century of the Trojans is the 11th century, i.e. the first century of the Trojans is at least the 5th century AD.

F. Buslaev already in 1861, in his outstanding work at that time “Historical Sketches of Russian Folk Literature and Art” (Vol. I. Folk Poetry, XIII. The Ancient Epic Traditions of the Slavic Tribes) noted:

“Especially in songs about Vseslav of Polotsk (68), Boyan knew how to skillfully merge the historical and mythical elements into one artistic whole. Boyan Vseslav not only has a historical face. Almost the same thing is said in our old tales about Tsar Kitovras(t)e: “The king has that custom; in the days he reigns over people, and in the night, turning into a whale-race beast, he reigns over the beasts... “The similarity of our Vseslav with the Serbian Trojan extends to the fact that both of them overtook the path of the sun. Like Trojan, along with the crowing of roosters, hurried away from his beloved to escape from the sun; so is Vseslav to the tabernacles“That is, before the roosters he made it from Kyiv to Tmutorokan, running like a wolf across the path of the great sun.”

We read the fragment in full: “On the seventh century of Troy, Vseslav made a lot for the maiden he loved (here the throne of Kiev is compared with the maiden who loved the hero. - Auto.). I propped myself up with those sticks, stood up and galloped off to the city of Kiev, and polished off the gold of the Kiev table with shavings. Ride away from them like a fierce beast at midnight from Belagrad, in the blue darkness; In the morning, lift up the strikuses, open the gates of Novugrad, destroy the glory of Yaroslav, and ride like a wolf to Nemiga village. Dudutok. On Nemiz, they lay sheaves on their heads, thresh the chapels with haraluzhny, lay the belly on the totse, and winnow the soul from the body. Nemize bloody breze not bolog byahut sow - sow with the bones of Russian sons. Prince Vseslav judged people, stood alongside the city as a prince, and prowled like a wolf at night; from Kiev you have crossed the path to the chickens of Tmutorokan, and the wolf has covered the path for the great Khorsovy. That one in Polotsk rang the morning bells early at St. Sophia's, and he heard the ringing in Kiev. Even though a thing has a soul in a bold body, it often suffers more troubles. To this things Boyan and the first refrain, meaningful, speech: “Neither trick, nor much, nor torture, do not endure the judgment of God for a minute.”

“Although a thing has a soul in a bold body, it often suffers more troubles.” Another body, according to F. Buslaev, does not mean another or any person at all, namely another body, not your own, but wolfish, which the hero put on himself while searching the path of the great Horse. Consequently, it was not anyone else who experienced troubles, but the same Vseslav, although his prophetic soul was in someone else’s body, that is, in a wolf’s.

Vseslav is brought closer to the epic Volkh, the chronicle Volkhov, and parallels are even found with the Prophetic Oleg. But these are just cultural heroes capable of magic. They are not gods. And this book of ours is not about them.

In the work of Romanian specialists, the hypothesis about the Balkan-Slavic roots of this character has traditionally been defended for decades. Despite the fact that we do not agree with many of the provisions of this trend of researchers, we must give them their due: at one time they collected and summarized significant material on this problem. And it would be a sin not to use it. However, the greater sin is to step on the same rake again.

As rightly noted, “very often researchers (we have omitted links - see in the work itself. - Auto.), defending the “Roman” point of view (it is that Trojan is the understanding of the Roman emperor Trajan, who fought with the Dacians. - Auto.), refer to Troyan toponymy and Troyan folklore. In fact, the toponymy of Troyan is very rich. In Bulgaria, the Trojan Way (“Troyanoviyat p’t”) connects Belgrade and Sofia with Constantinople. To the north of Philippopolis there are Roman ruins called Troyanovgrad. In the mountains, one of the gorges is called the Troyan Gate.

In the Serbo-Croatian regions the name of Troyan is also mentioned. In Romania there are toponymic names and ramparts of Troyan. In Valcea County, between Ramnic-Valcea and Ocnele Mari, at a distance of about a kilometer from the Olt River, there is an area called Troyan. At the foot of Mount Cozia in Argez county, not far from the Cozia monastery, there is a wide rock with a platform called “Troyan’s table” (masa lui Troian). The entrance of the Olta River into Romania through the mountain defile was called in ancient times “Troyan’s Gate” (poarta lui Troian). In Transylvania, near the city of Turda, there is a meadow called “pratul lui Traian”. The old highway passing in Oltenia through Turnul Rosu (Turnul Grove - red tower, fortress) is called calea Traianului, or, as A. Philippide thinks, calea Troianului. This is a road running along an ancient earthen rampart. One Romanian historical document from 1814 indicates the area of Bozyncesti near the Troian (river). In the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, on the left bank of the Prut River, near the mouth, there is a village called Troyan.

However, the abundance of toponymic indications can, at most, give rise to the idea of the possibility of the Roman origin of these names, but a simple possibility is unconvincing. The thesis of Roman origin is simply taken on faith. Where does the confidence come from that this toponymy is associated specifically with the emperor Trajan, and not, with a few exceptions, with the pagan god Trojan? (Boldur, 1958, pp. 7–35).

One way or another, the origins of this point of view go back to one of the late medieval teachings against paganism, namely “The Word and Revelation of the Holy Apostles” from the so-called Tolstoy manuscript of the 16th century, where a euhemeric analogy is drawn: “The supposed gods of many perowna will not enter into the delusion of the great and Horses and Trojans and many others, for these people were the elders of Perown in Elin, and Horse was in Cyprus, Trojan was king in Rome” (Galkovsky, 1913, vol. 2, pp. 49–54). In this case, it is worth assuming that confusion already existed during the period of the teaching in the 15th or 16th centuries. Apparently, it was then that the translated ancient Roman or Byzantine sources about the Emperor Trajan in the minds of the scribe were combined with ideas about the “god” Trojan. Emperor Trajan reigned in the 2nd century AD. e., which in no way correlates with the remembrance of the “Word ...” about the seventh century of Troya as the eleventh century (the life of Vseslav of Polotsk). The numerical error is significant.

If references to Trojan have a historical basis, then it should be said that in addition to those who consider the folklore Trojan to be the “heir” of the Roman emperor Trajan, and those who insist on his divinity, there are supporters of the opinion that we are talking about some three Russian prince-brothers . But this opinion comes up against the metaphor of the Trojan path; in this interpretation, it turns into the path of certain three brothers, which does not find an adequate explanation, as well as the very mention of certain three brothers who lived seven centuries before Vseslav of Polotsk (unless they mean Kiy, Shchek and Khoriv, but for some reason without their sister Lybid). Another completely fantastic point of view is that the name Troyan comes from the name of the city of Troy - Ilion (they say, if Snorri Sturlusson traced his aces to the Trojans, then why couldn’t the enlightened author of the word, who lived earlier, do the same?).

The original version was put forward by A.V. Tkachev, who, based on the significance of what was happening, found the starting point for the Trojan Ages in ancient history: “The event from which the Trojan Ages are counted should have taken place in the 4th–5th centuries. The ideal date seemed to be 467 or 468, since the literal and most precise meaning inherent in the expression “on the seventh century of Trojan” is the fixation of 1068 at the very beginning of the Trojan seventh century, i.e., six centuries have already passed. flowed away... My attention finally settled on the year 476, with which the fall of the Western Roman Empire is associated, which was always regarded as the end of ancient history... The year 476 is a seam that connected the history of the ancient world with the era of the early Middle Ages, its dark ages... Divergence dates of eight years is a fixed gap in the Byzantine (Greek) and Latin (Roman) chronicles... it follows that the year 476 from the Nativity of Christ in the Russian-Greek chronology absolutely exactly corresponds to the year 468 of the Roman Catholic account” (Tkachev, 2003, p. 71–72, 74).

It is easy to see that from 476 to 1068 six centuries and eight years passed. The fact is that in the summer of 1067 Vseslav Bryachislavich (appearing in the quoted passage) was captured by deceit under the pretext of peace negotiations and brought to Kiev, where he and his sons were thrown into a pit dungeon, like a well without windows or doors. But already in September, the townspeople who rebelled against Izyaslav Yaroslavich freed the prisoner and put him “in the kingdom.” Having reigned in Kyiv for about six months, that is, until half of 1068, Vseslav eventually disappeared from the city at night, because he did not feel confident in a foreign land (after all, he took the Kiev throne not by right of inheritance, but as a usurper Odoacer- Odoatzer, who deposed Romulus Augustulus, in this case Izyaslav). In addition, Izyaslav came to an agreement with the Poles and was already preparing to retake Kyiv by force. These events are mentioned in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.”

But A.V. Tkachev, it seems, is one of those “Perun admirers” whose sound and fresh thoughts are leveled by the obsession with inserting Perun into any consideration of Slavic paganism, even where there is no talk about him, that is, just in “ The Tale of Igor's Campaign." So in this author’s book, the phrase taken from the context of an ancient teaching that “Perun is many” was chosen as an epigraph. It turns out that where Perun is not mentioned, he must be found and inserted. The evidence of A.V. Tkachev boils down to the fact that Troyan, and Div, and Khors, and other gods mentioned in the “Word ...” are versions of Perun, and since Perun appears to him as the Slavic Mars-Ares, then and the other gods are all warriors, only each with its own shade. All this is very sad, because in the lists of teachings in the ranks of “Outria Trojan Chrea Veles Perowna” and “the supposed gods are many Perowna and Khorsa dyya and Trojan and ini many” the name of Troyan (and not only) is independent and separated from other gods, including the much-loved "many" Perun.

But let’s return to the opinion of Romanian experts. “Of course, it’s no secret,” continues A. Boldur, “that place names with the root “Trojan”” are found not only in Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, but also in former Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. So, for example, in former Russia there were : Troyan in the Tauride province, Troyan, Troyanka, Troyanovo, in the Kherson province, Troy and Troyanovka in the Poltava province, Troyanovka in the Volyn province, Troyanovo in the Oryol province and Troyanovka in the Kaluga province. We note that all names have at their root " o ", not "a". There are also several names for Troyan in Russian historical acts. In Galicia in the Dniester basin there is the Troyan stream, in Moravia - the Troyan stream and Trojanowice. In the Czech Republic and Poland, villages are called Troyan, Trojanek, Troyan. In In Poland there are also Troyanovice, Troyanov.Near Korostyshev in the Kiev province there is Troyanov meadow, in the area of Bila Tserkva there is Troyanov Yar, in the Smolensk province there is the village of Troyan.

As you can see, there are a number of names to which the historical emperor Trajan could not have had anything to do with. Therefore, we must admit that the toponymy of Troyan only indicates the extreme popularity of this name, but does not at all prove that it is based on the name of Emperor Trajan.

Folklore mentioning Trajan is also not conclusive. The fact that Emperor Trajan is known to Russian folklore and even more to Balkan folklore does not prove anything. Naturally, such a major historical figure as Emperor Trajan, who left huge traces of his activities in the Danube territory, could not remain alien to Balkan and even Russian folklore.

In the Middle Ages, both in the West and in the East, the story of Alexander the Great called “Alexandria” was extremely popular. It was then considered an entertaining read for all lovers of history and science fiction. It has traveled around Europe in different editions. However, it would not have occurred to anyone to refer to “Alexandria,” which reflects the popularity of this great emperor and commander, to resolve any controversial issue.

By analogy, it can be argued that the popularity of the Roman emperor Trajan, reflected in folklore, does not give the right to draw conclusions on such a highly controversial issue as Trojan’s “Tales of Igor’s Campaign.” In this case, another popularity competes with the popularity of the emperor - the popularity of the pagan god...” wrote A. Boldur (Boldur, 1958, pp. 7–9).

It should be noted that the numeral three probably more popular than the name of a forgotten pagan deity. Not only the numeral “three”, but also its derivatives “troyak”, “tretyak”, i.e. third or ternary, triple, “tretina”, “tertiary”, “triple”.

For our part, we do not see any convincing grounds to confidently link the mentioned toponymy, which is almost contemporary to us, to the character of the 12th century work. - without researching the origin of toponyms and additional arguments, and certainly - to the Roman emperor, if only because the Dacians themselves, the future Romanians, did not deify this worst enemy, and if we allow such a Dacian-proto-Slavic community, then it is extremely doubtful that the proto-Slavs were hardly enthusiastic about this.

It is also worth recalling, perhaps, the fact that the Christian Trinity is a very popular image among the people, that there are a considerable number of settlements that are named after the corresponding patronal feast day, for example. How could the “Troets” names have changed over the years? Taking into account local speech characteristics? These issues are not discussed in any way in any study.

According to Nikos Chausidis, among the southern Slavs, “the face of King Troyan especially attracts attention: he is represented as a man with three heads, one of which feeds on fish, the other on cattle, and the third on people. His home is often associated with destroyed strongholds. He was afraid of the Sun and therefore moved only at night, when he put on a black cloak, riding a black horse... Among the folk songs of the Petranovich and Miladinovtsy collections there are also those in which the city of Troyan (or Troy) is mentioned, a cursed city in which lawlessness reigns, whose inhabitants are vile Christians, which is why they suffer various punishments. Nodilo believes that this ancient city received this crossed meaning due to its ancient properties of the underground, darkness and punishment...” (Chausidis, 1994). This author is also convinced that “the identification of the Slavic God and the Roman king happened only on the basis of the similarity of their names.” At the same time, he compares the Western Slavic Triglav, finding an analogy in the fact that “he owns three layers of the Universe: Heaven, Earth and Under(beyond) the earth. These destinies were once answered by the ancient interpretation of the three-headedness of the South Slavic Trojan, who feeds one head with people (Sky), another with animals (Earth), and the third with fish (Underground)..." ( Ibid.).

But the logic here is quite obviously lame. Why would people suddenly associate themselves with Heaven? Both cattle and people walk on the same sinful earth. We will not find this in any traditional symbolism.

However, A. N. Afanasyev retells the Serbian legend about King Troyan, partly confirming the opinion of Romanian researchers: “In Troyan’s city (now ruins on Mount Tsere) King Troyan once lived; Every night he went to Srem on a date with his sweetheart. Troyan traveled at night, because during the day he did not dare to show himself anywhere, fearing that the clear sun would melt him. Appearing in Srem, he gave the horses oats, and as soon as the horses ate the food and the roosters crowed the pre-dawn song, he immediately went home to make it to his city before sunrise. The husband or brother of his mistress found out about this, pulled out the tongues of all the roosters, and poured sand on the horses instead of oats. This trick slowed down Troyan's departure; Just before dawn, he jumped on his horse and rode to his city, but the sun overtook him on the way. Troyan jumped off his horse and hid in a haystack; Cows passing by tousled the stack, and the sun's rays melted the unfortunate king. The same legend is also included in the Serbian fairy tale, where a serpent takes the place of Trojan.

One of the Scandinavian fairy tales tells about a giant who was not allowed into his castle until dawn, and so - when the beautiful maiden Dawn rode out into the sky - the giant looked back to the east, saw the sun and immediately fell to the ground and burst. These replacements directly indicate the identity of Trojan with giants and dragons...

The demonic character was assigned to giants on the same grounds as dragons. Just as the serpent Vritra builds an icy, cloudy city in winter, where he hides the warm clouds of the sun and the water wife (rain), so the giants, as lords of winter fogs and snow clouds, build their cloudy cities to hide behind their walls the gold of the sun's rays and the blessed the moisture of the rains..." (Afanasyev, 1982, p. 293).

The name Vritra means obstacle and resistance in Vedism. This is a serpent or dragon resting on a mountain. The mountain is not understood as the firmament of the earth, but as the peaks of heaven, from which no life-giving rain will flow. Having defeated Vritra, Indra frees the waters bound by the dragon (perhaps, which were imprisoned in the form of snow or hail). By the way, Vritra either merges or is in a family relationship with Vishvirupa, “possessing all forms,” a three-headed “demon,” the son of Tvashtara, who stole cows (i.e., heavenly waters) and for this was struck by Indra (RV, X, 8, 8–9). Could Troyan be the son of Svarog, just as Vritra/Vishvarupa is the son of Tvashtar, sent by him as punishment to his other son Indra/Perun?

By the way, metaphorically, not only snow melts from sunlight, but also darkness. Winter and darkness are related to each other. Winter is definitely a dark time of year, when the bright days are short, just as in the era of darkness the centuries of the living are short.

It turns out that Troyan is a night or winter deity to whom the sun and light bring harm?

In conspiracy No. 248 (“To those who go to sleep”) from the collection of “Great Russian Spells” by L. Maikov, some authors tend to see a hint of the same Trojan or even Triglav. But it is somewhat strange to expect the Christian god to own the underwater world and the “earthly” world, and even the earthly - underground or forest. In Orthodoxy (and in folk tradition) this god is associated with the heavenly father.

King of the water, king of the earth, king of heaven,

Forgive my sinful darling!

The moon and the red sun are shining,

and all the frequent stars, little white pebbles,

and distant, and near, and family,

forgive my sinful darling!

We think that everything could be much more trivial, and we are talking about a water-whirlwind, a forest-goblin or already-Zmiulan (69) (all of them are mentioned in conspiracies), and finally, about the wind, which is powerful and drives flocks of clouds. It is no less likely that this is a bizarre mixture of dual faith, and the heavenly king is a natural Savior...

The point of view of Romanian researchers is expressed in the fact that “the key to resolving the issue of Trojan should be the relations between the Dacians and the southern Slavs of the 6th–7th centuries. n. e. on the Danube, as well as data from Romanian philology and vocabulary” (Boldur, 1958, p. 10). With reference to the predecessors of the late XIX - early XX centuries. the idea is expressed about the mutual lexical enrichment of the Romanian and ancient South Slavic languages, as a result of which the idea of the Milky Way as Trojan’s Path passed into Romanian; of course, it is precisely by this sign that one can navigate when crossing mountains and forests.

The Milky Way is called Troian or Troianul cerului (Troyan of the sky), Troianul ceresc (Heavenly Trojan). The Milky Way is compared to spilled snow and a pile of snowdrifts, likened to the ramparts of Trojan: “In Romanian, the transitive verbs “a troieni” and “a introieni” mean “to bring in,” “to cover with snow,” “to form, to pile up heaps of snow.” These shades of “clouding”, “covering”, “whitening with gray hair”, “covering with snow” are preserved in expressions used metaphorically and figuratively. Three main meanings of words with a similar root basis have been identified - snow mass, road and whiteness" ( Ibid.).

These considerations may shed some light on the functions of Trojan and his sacred purpose, if, of course, this is a god or a nickname for some other deity.

In this case, the “land of Troyanov” is the night sky, a dark sky, not a light one, in which Troyanov’s Path is visible, laid out like a starry Road, the visible embodiment of the World Tree - the Milky Way, along which Boyan can jump and jump with his thoughts.

Let us remember again: “Resentment arose in the forces of Dazhdbozh’s grandson, a virgin entered the land of Troyan, splashed her swan wings on the blue sea near the Don: splash, let go of the fat times. Strife by the prince to a filthy death, brother reproached brother: “This is mine, and that is mine.” And the princes began to talk about small “all this great” things, but they started sedition on themselves. And trash from all countries comes with victories to the Russian land.”

The Russian land is not the land of Troyanov. Troyanov's Land is a metaphor. This is a space subject to Trojan. Bird-Virgo-Resentment - a swan in the black sky devoid of light, since the heir of the solar Dazhdbog lost the battle, as the princes squabbled among themselves. And darkness took the place of light.

In this case, the conclusion suggests itself that Troyan is the god of dark, unknown time, twilight, night, winter (?), retreating before the sunlight. And the land of Troyan is the darkness of heaven, which the heir of the solar Dazhdbog can illuminate, if only there was strength. But she is no longer there.

In other words, the fairly widespread opinion that the author of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” mentions the “Trojan Ages” as a happy time for the ancestors of the Russians turns out to be incorrect. On the contrary, we are talking about the darkness of centuries, the abyss of time, in comparison with which the time of Yaroslav and all others are summers, moments. The author speaks simply about the past, the past.

There were centuries of Trojans - there were old times (and there were people, “not like the current tribe”). Vseslavov’s grandchildren have already fallen from their grandfather’s glory - “to groan for the Russian land, remembering the former time and the former princes.”

D. S. Likhachev’s opinion that Vseslav is the sorcerer, the last pagan prince, who “acts at the end of pagan times, when the power of paganism has dried up, is not without foundation. He is a representative of surviving paganism (the meaning of the “seventh” as the last is determined by medieval ideas about the number “seven”: seven days of creation, seven thousand years of the existence of the world, seven days of the week, seven human ages, etc.)” ( Tvorogov, 1995, p. 184–185).

Since Vseslav of Polotsk Bryachislavich, new people have come along, and the times are different. Vseslav still succeeded in miracles (“cunning”), but he, even many of them, not to mention the descendants of Vseslav (and the old princes of the past unity of Rus'), who now (i.e. in the 1180s) fell into civil strife, God's judgment cannot be avoided. A separate question is whose court exactly, and a completely different one - which god. But they are beyond the scope of our book.

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The Slavs had an ancient pagan deity called Troyan (Trajan), and sometimes Triglav or Troyak. The root “three” in this name sometimes prompted the depiction of a deity with three heads on one body. This was the case among the Western Slavs.
Trojan was a warrior god, a horse god. His popularity, prevalence and connection with the army were so wide that military installations and geographical points were named after the warrior god. Perhaps this name is also related to the name of a real historical person - the Roman emperor Trajan, with whom the construction of the ramparts that protected the borders of the Roman Empire is associated. However, the number of Trojan ramparts goes far beyond the boundaries of the emperor’s campaigns, and only on the territory of our country the total length of such ramparts reaches 400 km. In addition, the shafts are often called “Serpent shafts,” which is directly related to mythology. Today it is extremely difficult to establish what forms and in what eras the mythological Trojan took among the Indo-European peoples and what exactly his name meant. It is only known that the ancient Russian word “third” meant “court”, “judge”; Lithuanian "tretias" - "court of arbitration". In the Vedas, Trita is the god of justice, in the Avesta, Traitayon, the god of truth, truth.

Probably, the correlation of the name Troyan with the number “three” and with such important concepts as justice and truth contributed to its especially wide distribution in ancient times.
In general, in a number of mythopoetic traditions, the number “three” is the first; it opens the number series and is qualified as a perfect divine number. Formed by connecting three points, the triangle served as a hieroglyph (here: sign, symbol) of the divine triad among all peoples of antiquity.
The sacred triad is found in all religions of the world as an image of absolute perfection, superiority (“three-bright”, “trisagion”) - let’s remember the “bright, three-bright sun” in “The Tale of Igor’s Host”. In addition, the triad is the main structure of the mythopoetic macrocosm, as well as social organization (for comparison: three spheres of the Universe, three highest values, divine trinities, etc.).
The number “three” serves as a symbolic expression of the triads: Heaven, Earth, Hell; past, present, future; father, mother, son. In the mythologies of many peoples, the beginning of their existence is traced back to three brothers. Herodotus tells about the three sons of the Scythian Targitai, Russian chronicles - about the three brothers Kie, Shchek and Horeb; three brothers are constantly present in Russian fairy tales. Everywhere, the third person of the triad, as a result of the first two, has superiority over them, which is why in fairy tales the younger brother always turns out to be a hero. In addition, any task is completed only as a result of three repetitions. The custom of counting to three to perform any action is still preserved in the lives of many peoples of the world.
During times of wanderings, wars, and campaigns, the Slavs turned their gaze to the eternal vault of heaven above them, on which the white road, the Milky Way, showed them the way. It is not known when this name came to the Slavs, but it is known that different Slavic tribes called this silvery foggy strip differently, including “Trajan’s Way”.
The Milky Way encircles the celestial sphere and is clearly visible on moonless nights. Man noticed this stripe in ancient times. And each nation came up with its own name for it and gave it its own interpretation not at all by chance; it connected them with some specific earthly reality that was significant to them and a characteristic feature of the Milky Way itself.
One of the myths of Ancient Greece described the appearance of this stripe in the sky.
By order of Zeus, his son Hercules, born of a mortal woman, was brought to the breast of the sleeping supreme Olympian goddess Hera, the sister and wife of Zeus, so that the goddess's milk would make the baby immortal. However, the awakened Hera sharply pushed the baby away, and the milk splashing from her breast left a bright white (eternal, immortal) mark in the sky - the Milky Way.
The Romans took the name of the Milky Way from the Greeks, but they also had their own name - “The Royal Road of Heaven”. The name could have come from the East, so

how in ancient Sumer the Milky Way was associated with the goddess Nana, wife of the Sky god. In Sanskrit, the Milky Way was called “divine”, in Iran it was known as the “Path of Ahriman” - the lord of evil deities, in Scandinavia - as the “Road of Odin”, the supreme god of Scandinavian mythology, in Moldova - “The Path of Trajan”, in Wallachia - “ Heavenly Trajan."
The southern Slavs, primarily the Serbs and Bulgarians, as well as the Slavs living in the lands of Romania and Moldova, have numerous fabulous legends and beliefs about a certain king Troyan. For the Serbs and Bulgarians, King Troyan was a mythical creature, one of the spirits of darkness who did not tolerate the sun's rays. Fearing the sun, he traveled at night, and one day the sun melted Troyan. The Bulgarian Trojan-Trajan was also the custodian of gold and silver, had his own wonderful kingdom, and built cities.
The Romanian pagan Trojan was the god of snowfall and roads, and his name combined the two main meanings of the Milky Way: the element of whiteness and the road.
In “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” there are many mythological images, and their connection with folk traditions, legends, and pagan deities is not difficult to trace: these are the mentioned Stribog and Khora, Veles and Dazhdbog, with whom people are related, or rather, they are the grandchildren of the gods ( the rusichs are Dazhdbozh's grandchildren, the winds are Stribozh's grandchildren, Boyan is the grandson of Veles). Like Boyan, the author of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” turned to the ancient era: “There were

Trojan's Eve...", and names associated with the name of Troyan are mentioned three more times in the "Word...": "on the path of Troyan...", "on the seventh century of Troyan", "to the land of Troyan..." .
What could these mentions of Troyan mean, how can they be correlated with the land of the Rus, with the land of the Slavs, how far could the Trojan paths go along the Trojan land in Trojan times? Knowledge about the distribution area of Slavic-Russian roots in time and space, as well as information about the genealogy of the Slavic peoples (i.e., about their gender and word), and about their history can help answer these questions.
There is much evidence of the scale and all-embracing thinking of the ancient Slav, who sought to hold in his imagination the huge spatial and temporal world that appeared before him. For millennia, some stable images have been imprinted in the people's memory, creating from them either mythological legends or poetic traditions.

Trojan(sometimes the spelling of the name Trajan is found) is the Slavic God of Witchcraft and Herbal Medicine, however, sometimes people turn to him not only for recovery. The Trojan is revered as God, who can help find an unexpected solution to a situation, but to turn to him, a person will also need to be ready for bold action. It turns out that one can turn to the Slavic God of Healing to “heal” a situation, but most often they turn to Troyan specifically to restore health.

Trojan is an ambiguous God. His character showed some features of Veles, the God of the Three Worlds, because, according to Slavic myths, Veles is the father of Troyan.

Slavic legends say that Troyan was born by an earthly woman, and his father was God Veles. Veles wandered around the world of Yavi for a long time, meeting people, learning their needs, and in one village he stopped in a house where seven brothers and one sister lived. Veles liked the girl and she liked the guest, so they got married. After some time, three children were born at once: two girls and a boy. The boy was named Troyan, which means born third. Trojan was born a man, albeit a son of God.

Like other Gods, Troyan helps those who are similar in character to him. Because, first of all, Trojan patron of doctors, healers striving for knowledge, looking for ways to cure diseases, striving to help people. But the one who chose Troyan as a patron may be busy with other things, if such a person values knowledge and strives to achieve a lot through his own efforts.

Those who are close to the Trojan God often taciturn, does not like to explain his decisions, acts quickly, even if others do not agree with his way of acting. Thanks to his knowledge and skills, such a person makes surprisingly correct decisions, but his complex character prevents him from working together with other people. At the same time, a person is very reliable, modest, does not like to talk much about himself, but is famous for his deeds. Those who are close to God Trojan value friendship and are always ready to help loved ones. Such a person is often approached for advice, knowing that he knows how to see all the details of a situation and can make the right decision.

If the Slavic God Trojan is close to you, in your character there are such quality:

tenacious mind;
modesty;
perseverance;
love for the practical, visible result of actions;
loyalty;
secrecy.

Trojan in the northern tradition of fortune telling and magic

The Rez of the Trojan God depicts the Healer symbol described above.

Reza number – 31.

Reza of the Trojan God appears in the layout to warn about the beginning of the “disease”. It is not necessarily a physical illness. The Reza of God Trojan can also indicate that a person has committed wrong actions that can harm his body and spirit. Troyan advises assessing your capabilities and comparing them with your goals; perhaps you should seek advice from a specialist and not try to do everything on your own.

Trojan is addressed in Slavic magic for healing from illnesses and restoring health. In rituals, the sign of Trojan can also be used to find the right solution to a problem.

Read more about the meaning of the Reza of the Trojan God in fortune telling in the article “

We celebrate Russian Slavic holidays of Spring May holidays of the Slavs

19 Elet (May 1) - Zhivin Day!

Alive(short form of the name Zhivena, which means life-giving) - Russian Slavic goddess of Life.

Goddess Alive

The Goddess Zhiva is the daughter of the Mother of God Lada, the wife of Dazhdbog, and also like the goddess Vesta - they together personify the women's holidays of Life, Birth, Spring, Nature, Fertility, Zhita-grain!
This is a wonderful Russian Slavic women's holiday, and we men gladly join in congratulating our beautiful women.
Happy holiday of Alive - the Life Force of the Family!
Zhiva is the goddess of the Life-giving Forces of Nature, spring seething waters, the first green shoots, the patroness of young girls and young wives.
After the Christianization of Rus', the cult of the goddess Zhiva was replaced by the cult of Paraskeva Friday...
Women, taking brooms, perform a ritual dance around the fire on this day, cleansing the place of evil spirits. They glorify Zhiva, who revives Nature, sending Spring to Earth. Everyone jumps over the Fire, cleansing themselves of obsessions and the forces of Navi after a long winter:
"Who will jump high
Death is far away from him.”

On a high hill there are funny games and round dances around the fire:
“Kolo Yari I will dawn with Light
We fight Maru, thank you
Yarilo, Yarilo, show your Strength!

They play a fairy tale about a journey to the world of Navi and return to Yav. When morning comes, they treat themselves to cookies in the shape of larks, and release live birds from their cages into the wild, calling on Spring:
“Larks, fly!
We're tired of winter
I ate a lot of bread!
You fly and carry
Red spring, hot summer!

The entire coming day, 19 Elet, is devoted to rest.
On this day, in the evening, ritual fires are lit along the banks of the rivers, they bathe, cleansing themselves with cold spring water.
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24 Elet (May 6) comes the Day of Dazhdbog - the God of Fertility and Sunlight, Life-Life Power.

Dazhbog

Dazhdbog- The first ancestor of the Rus-Slavs!
The Rus-Slavs according to the text of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” are Dazhdboz’s grandchildren!
And our genius Fyodor Dostoevsky, truly feeling the pulse of his Russian people, wrote:
“... Slavic paganism is our Faith, the Faith of the entire Slavic people. One of the most ancient peoples, which today includes: Russians and Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, Bulgarians and Macedonians, Serbs and Montenegrins, Slovenes and Croats. We all understand each other without much difficulty because we have a common language. We bake pancakes, saying goodbye to Maslenitsa - Morena and telling ancient tales about Baba Yaga. We still have bread at the heart of everything, and hospitality is an honor. On Kupala we jump over bonfires and look for blooming ferns. Brownies live with us in our houses, and mermaids swim in rivers and lakes. We tell fortunes using Kolyada, and sometimes we just toss a coin. We honor our Ancestors and leave offerings to them on Remembrance Day. We treat illnesses and illnesses with herbs, and for ghouls and vampires we use garlic and aspen stakes. We make a wish while sitting between the cleats and spit over our left shoulder when we meet a black cat. Groves and oak forests are sacred to us, and we drink healing water from springs. We cast spells, fishing gear and read amulets against the evil eye. The brave bravery finds itself in fist fights, and in case of trouble, our brave warriors will take it away from the Slavic Land. And this will always be the case from century to century, for we are the grandchildren of Dazhdbozhia” (Collection “Diary of a Writer”, magazine of Prince Vladimir Meshchersky “Citizen”, 1876-1877).
According to Old Russian legends, Dazhdbog and Zhiva together revived the world after the Flood. Lada, Zhiva’s mother, united Dazhdbog and Zhiva in marriage. Then the betrothed gods gave birth to Arius, according to legend the ancestor of many Slavic peoples.
Yarilo-Sun is also revered on this day - the face of Dazhdbog, the revival of Nature, the first plowing.
God Yar was often compared to the plowman and warrior Arius, the son of Dazhdbog.
Arius was revered, like Yar, as the embodiment of the Family (either Veles or Dazhdbog).

On Dazhdbog Day, people rejoiced that he became engaged to Zhivaya. This meant the end of Winter, the beginning of Spring and Summer.
At this time, Dazhdbog was glorified in Vedic temples and in plowed fields.
“We praise Dazhdbog. May he be our patron and protector from Kolyada to Kolyada! And the patron of fruits in the fields. He gives grass to our cattle all the days. And the cows multiply, and the grains multiply in the barns. And it does not allow honey to ferment. He is the God of Light. Glory to Svarozhich, who renounces Winter and flows towards Summer. And we sing glory to him in the fields, since he is our father” (Veles’s book).
Dazhdbog Day is also the time for the first cattle drive to pasture. That’s why they lit fires for Dazhdbog and asked him to protect the cattle:
“You, Dazhdbozh, are brave!
Save the cattle, protect them from kidnappers!
Protect from the fierce bear,
Save yourself from the predatory wolf!”

Dazhdbog is one of the main deities of the ancient Rus-Slavs - the patron saint of Rus', the son of the supreme god and ruler of the Universe Svarog. This is a kind, “own” god, protector and patron of Rus'.
His name does not come from the word “rain,” as is sometimes mistakenly thought, it means the Giving God, the giver of all blessings, giving the light and warmth of the Sun and moving the celestial bodies, marking the change of day and night.
Dazhdbog gave people the Truth, the definition of which is the desire for harmony, for balance, which is the basis of the world order. The concept of Truth among the Rus-Slavs is opposed to the concept of Krivda. And every time Krivda triumphs, she remains on earth, but the Truth ends up in SVA (heaven).

According to “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” the Rus - Rusichi - are the grandchildren of Dazhdbog.
Dazhdbog of Rus' corresponds to Dacbog of the Western Slavs and Dabog of the Southern Slavs.
The Rus-Slavs imagined Dazhdbog flying across the sky in a beautiful chariot drawn by four white fire-maned horses with golden wings. And from the fiery shield that Dazhdbog carries with him, sunlight pours onto Midgard-Earth. In the morning and evening he crosses the Sea-Ocean on a boat pulled by ducks, geese and swans.
Therefore, in the Vedic culture of the Rus-Slavs, special powers are attributed to talismanic amulets in the form of a duck with a horse’s head.
Dazhdbog among the Rus-Slavs is the patron saint of weddings; he met the groom at dawn on the wedding day. The spring celebration of Dazhdbog opened the summer and the beginning of agricultural work, the autumn celebration marked the end of summer and completed the summer work cycle.
Dazhdbog has a majestic gait and a direct gaze that knows no lies. And also wonderful hair, sunny-gold, easily flying in the wind.
The son of SVA carries a wonderful shield on a light chariot drawn by four snow-white horses, the beauty and wondrous wonder of Midgard-Earth began to illuminate: fields and hills, high oak groves and resinous pine forests, wide lakes, free rivers, ringing brooks and cheerful student springs.
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25 Elet (May 7) - Proletye.

Winter has finally come to an end!
Many have heard that the end of winter is called Proletya. On this day, the Rus-Slavs perform protective rituals of awakening the Earth, bringing strength and health.

Maya Goldilocks

Famous Maya Goldilocks!
According to Old Russian legends, Maya was the Mother of three Gods - Triglav. She was the wife of the Sun, the true divine mother of earthlings. Maya came to Mother Earth in many guises, symbolizing eternal rebirth, fertility, femininity, beauty and love itself.
She had, has, and will have great power to transform obstacles, remove them, helping her daughters decorate our world with the radiance of true Wealth. Spiritual and creative wealth.
This energy is the power of Nature itself!
Our Ancestors always knew when to ask and when to command the Gods to help people.
And now, in the streams of new times, many Vedas are returning, opening, and being remembered. There are a great many of them.
Vedas from the word know!
We have already stopped being afraid of the word. After all, Ma is the Knowing Mother. We understand how funny many of the scarecrows of the past were...
The power of Maya, like the power of Spring, helps us to always see the Light of the Sun, even if there are clouds in the SVA (sky).
What can a woman who owns the energy of Maya do?
Ask yourself, if your mother loves you and holds the secrets of the world, what can she do for you?
Ask yourself, what will you do for your children?
The energy of Maya can help, if not in all situations, then in many!
In her honor, the sacred Fire is lit, marking the beginning of summer. Rotation of the white Solstice. A rite of plowing that brings health and good luck.
Fun, games, songs and round dances. Dances and songs to traditional Russian instruments: tambourines, gusli, pipes, pipes. Flutes. Glorification of Maya Goldilocks at the Makosh Temple. A magical sorcery from Triglav that helps a woman maintain harmony in her family.
In Proletye, Maya Goldilocks and Zhiva, the wife of Dazhdbog, who gives the Life Force of the Family, are famous.
When Rod created the first people, he instructed the goddess Zhiva to fan the Fire of Life and put living sparks into the chest of every person. Zhiva began to carry out Rod’s order, but she really didn’t like the faces that Rod endowed people with. And she changed them, making the woman look like herself, and the man like Dazhdbog, her husband. Since then, all Rus-Slavs have been unusually beautiful, but indistinguishably similar to each other. Zhiva gave them names: Husband and Wife.
Proletye is also called Holy Day - on this day Maya Goldilocks is resurrected and honored as the birthday girl.
Golden Goddess from Atlantis. From the depths of ancestral memory rises the image of the Golden Mother, the mistress and mistress of the sacred ancestral home, the lost paradise from where our distant Ancestors left - Atlantis.
Now little is known about the fate of the Golden Statue, which was worshiped by the Siberian and Ural peoples. And we find the oldest mention of the statue already in the Novgorod Chronicle of 1398. It was recorded after the missionary activity of Stephen of Perm. Stefan walked around the Perm land, arguing with the wise men and priests in the sanctuaries of the Perm people. The archers followed Stephen and destroyed these Vedic sanctuaries, and Christian churches were erected in their place.

The chronicle says:
“Teach the Perm land the faith of Christ, but before they bowed to beasts and trees, water, fire and the Golden Woman.”
The main thing that makes serious scientists study history is the influence of a forgotten myth through the ancestral memory, because the Golden Mother, Zlatogorka, according to the Vedas, is the daughter of Svyatogor, and he was the king of Atlantis.
That is, if we were to be consistent, we should talk about the bringing of the cult of the Golden Goddess from Atlantis, but what scientist would risk making such a statement?
The kinship of the cults of the Great Mother on all continents of the Earth really exists!

To understand who the Golden Baba really is, you need to turn to the legends of the local Ural and Altai peoples, who not so long ago worshiped her.
It is not difficult to recognize in the Golden Baba both the Mansi Sorni-Ekva “Golden Woman”, and the Yakut Copper statue (copper has always been a substitute for gold), and, for example, the Golden Goddess of the Altai, bearing the name Altyn-Aryg (“Altyn” means “golden”).
In the tales of the Ural people, she became, firstly, the heroic Azovka, and secondly, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Tales separate these two images, but they are certainly united. Both Azovka and Khozyayka live in the depths of the same mountain (or nearby mountains at the sources of Chusovaya and Iset), both of them store gold and copper. Only the Mistress is an underground goddess, and Azovka is at first an ordinary woman, albeit possessing mysterious power, who then hides in the depths of the Azov Mountain.
Zlatogorka- incarnation of Zlata Maya, daughter of Svyatogor. ... In the 14th millennium BC, according to the Kolyada Star Book, Zlata Maya, or Zlatogorka, the daughter of Svyatogor, was born in Atlantis.
In ancient times, the cult of the Golden Mother could move to Ripea (Ural) from the west: from Atlantis, Africa and Western Asia. The most ancient connections between the Atlantic and Hyperborean civilizations are confirmed by the common cult of the Mother of the World.
The name of the country where the Golden Baba was revered - Permia, or, in more ancient pronunciation, Bjarmiya - goes back to the name of the god Barma - Vedic Brahma, which speaks of the Vedic faith of the ancient Urals.
... And there, in the sacred Belovodye, lives Golden Maya - the Great Mother of the World. Only there it should be sought, and ascent to these mountains is an ascent in the spirit.
In the Russian Vedas, the images of Golden Maya and Golden Baba are different. Golden Maya, the daughter of Rod, who appeared at the Creation of the World, comes one more time in the form of Maya Zlatogorka, daughter of Svyatogor, and then leaves for Nav.
At the beginning of time, Maya and the Vyshny give birth to Kryshnya; in another era, Maya and Dazhdbog give birth to Kolyada.
And the Golden Baba is the wife of Veles, who also comes into the world many times, and her story, repeated in different eras, is different from the story of Golden Maya.
However, Vedic and Ural legends claim that Dazhdbog, the grandson of Veles, is the face of the Almighty. And in the same way, Golden Maya and Golden Baba are one. The Mother of the World has two kinds of hypostases and lives two kinds of similar earthly lives. Her descents to people, magical peoples and animals are many different.
But for everyone she is the One Mother!
28 Elet (May 10) - Veshnee Makoshye - Earth Day.

This Holy Day, when Mother Cheese-Earth, awakening from her winter sleep, is honored as a birthday girl. It is believed that on this day the Earth “rests”, so it cannot be plowed, dug, harrowed, stakes cannot be stuck into it and knives cannot be thrown into it.

Goddess Makosh

Veles and Makosh, the Earthly Intercessors, are especially honored on this day.
The Magi go out into the field, lie down on the grass - listen to the Earth.
At the beginning, grain is placed in the furrow plowed ahead of time and kvass is poured, saying, facing the east:
“Mother Cheese Earth! Quiet all unclean reptiles from love spells, trafficking and dashing deeds.”
Turning to the west, they continue:
“Mother Cheese Earth! Absorb the evil spirits into seething abysses, into flammable resin.”
Turning to noon, they say:
“Mother Cheese Earth! Quench all the midday winds with bad weather, calm the shifting sands with the blizzard.”
At midnight they say:
“Mother Cheese Earth! Calm the midnight winds with the clouds, hold back the frosts and blizzards.”
After each appeal, kvass is poured into the furrow, and then the jug in which it was brought is broken.
Once upon a time in the old days there was another ritual with a furrow and grain, after which children were born, but now, due to changes in morals, the ritual is limited to appeals to the cardinal directions...
After the spells, the Magi dig up the earth with their fingers and whisper:
“Mother Cheese-Earth, tell me, tell me the whole truth, show me the name of the river.”
Magi tell fortunes about the future based on signs found in the earth.
The warriors, putting aside their weapons and placing a piece of turf on their heads, swear allegiance to Mother Raw Earth, pledging to protect her from enemies.
The opening ends with glorification:
“Goy, you are a damp earth,
The earth is hardened,
You are our dear mother,
She gave birth to us all,
Gave me water, fed me
And she gave her land.
For the sake of us, your children,
You gave birth to potions
And she gave every grain to drink...”

After conception, the consecrated handful of Earth is collected in bags and stored as amulets.
A dinner feast and games complete the celebration.
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40 Elet (May 22) - Yarilo Mokry, Troyan. To be tonsured into Warriors is one of the main rites of the Rus-Slavs.

Troyan - Trigods Day- a holiday of the end of Spring and the beginning of Summer, when the Trisvetny Dazhdbog replaces the young Yaril-Spring. The sanctuary dedicated to the victory of the Trojan God over the Black Serpent is also the Day of the Spirits.

God Trojan

God Troyan - Guardian God of the Righteous Paths leading to Svarga, rules Time and Space.
From Slavic mythology: The worship of Troyan-Father is reported in ancient Slavic legends (later, however, records), in medieval Russian chronicles, in the legends and literature of peoples related to us. The name of Troyan in Russian literature is given next to the names of the Great Deities, which also speaks of the Greatness of Troyan.

In “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” the name of Troyan is given in combination with concepts that reflect certain mythical postulates or ideas of his cult. “Rishcha Boyan on Troyan’s path through the fields to the mountains” - “Boyan is searching along Troyan’s path, through the fields to the mountains”; “there were the Trojan centuries” - “There were the Troyan centuries”; “in the seventh century of Trojan, Vseslav drew a lot for a girl to love himself” - “In the seventh century of Trojan, Vseslav cut out a lot for a girl, any one for himself”; "The maiden's offense entered the land of Trojan."
The same in the “Veles Book”: “And we did not dare to smite our land like a snake; we did not smite the Trojans with Saint Romien” - “And they did not give up our land, just as (our ancestors) did not give the land of Troyan to the Romans” (VK 2, 7b, 8 ), “And Intra the idea for not following our father on the Romans to the Trojan land” - “And Indra followed us, as he followed our fathers on the Romans to the Trojan land (or “through the Trojan land”)” (VK 2, 7c, 5-6).
“Attempts to interpret all these “dark places” - respectively, Trojan’s path, as Trajan’s road, stretching from the Danube to the Prut and further east along southern Rus', and walking along it means “performing glorious deeds,” - made N.M. Galkovsky in the book “The Struggle of Christianity against the Remnants of Paganism in Ancient Rus'.” The Age of Trojan - a time of glory and power - is the only thing in which the interpreters almost did not make a mistake! And the land of Trojan - the territories conquered by Rome and paying tribute to it - is fundamentally wrong. The entire enormity of the construction is broken by their own postulate, according to which the Slavs appeared on the historical arena, God willing, somewhere in the sixth century. In this case, they did not have the chance to fight with Trajan, who died at the beginning of the second century. So why would the Slavs remember Trajan, and not Nero, Caligula or, for example, Diocletian? Since the adoption of Christianity in the Roman Empire, the cult of emperors has ceased and it is unlikely to be revived in Rus'. These questions have already been posed by commentators on the name of Troyan, but to this day there are no sensible answers.
According to Slavic mythological positions, Troyan is also the first prince. He is the only one of the Gods who ruled on the land of Rus', in the world of people. All the princely dynasties descended from him - it is not without reason that the Rurik family sign depicts the trident of Troyan. That ancient, mythical prehistoric time when Trojan ruled the world, in fact, is the notorious “Golden Age”, for then there was prosperity, prosperity and justice reigned on earth, and the world was intact. These were the “Ages of Troyan,” the times of epics and fairy tales. We will consider the concept of “Trojan's Path” in a different presentation, since this saying is mystical and requires special research. However, it is worth mentioning that one of the names of the Milky Way is “Trojan’s Road.” The land of Troyan is the whole world, all inhabited civilized space, the territory of the Dominion of the Slavic-Aryan peoples.

During the period of Russian rule: Vladimir the Holy - Gostomysl, Rurik - Vladimir the Accursed, Yaroslav the Wise - Vladimir Monomakh, a narrower perception of the “Land of Troyan” as the territory of Rus' is characteristic. A number of scientists note that the name “Land of Troyan” could only arise if this Deity was revered as the founder - ancestor of the princely rule, as the “first prince”. There is confirmation of this in the lines of the “Book of Veles”, which speaks of Troyan placing his sons and grandsons on the princely thrones: “Otherwise, the damned sutratikh from the Khzyarou, for the first time, planted this with the sons of Sva and granddaughters” - “And we lost that benefit from -for the Khazars... after the century of Troyanov, who was the first to reign with his sons and grandsons”, “Grandson Trayaemya bya self-oten se drusi menogaya and bya utschen” - “The grandson of Troyan was self-otent, with many friends, and was killed” (VK 3 A). The princes, in fact, are called by His proud name - the grandchildren of Troyanov.

Troyan is the first prince, the mythical founder of the princely dynasty. So, for example, it is no wonder that to justify the original greatness of Moscow as a throne city in the chronicles, the scribe used the tales that existed at that time about the beginning of the reign or about the beginning of the city, the earth, predicted by Trojan, and, accordingly, transferred the whole action to the time of it's almost fabulous. Trojan is described here as a three-headed beast, which is understandable, because there was no need to speak directly about Trojan or any other Vedic Deity in these years - the 1600s AD. The scribe also could not write about the three-headed man, since it has been known since ancient times that such creatures are found somewhere far away, in foreign lands. And if, under the guise of the fabulousness of the plot, it had been possible to introduce it, then it would have been necessary to develop the theme further, also inventing a conversation between the prince and the Three-Headed Man. A simpler option was chosen - the prince sees a three-headed beast. The following indicative points are curious: the vision is not specified, it is simply a kind of “beast”; For some reason the prince doesn’t even try to hunt him; Nowhere in the text does it say that this beast was revealed by God as a sign. The scribe deliberately avoids discussing this topic; it was only important for him to set one single condition - three-headedness. This three-headedness is interpreted as a symbol of the “triangular kingdom.” Scientists propose to understand this as a unification: Great Rus', Little Russia and White Rus'. In fact, this is the same as the “land of Trojan” - the same Rus' (that is, essentially and literally, “triple land”. The scribe, however, also says that the three heads represent different population groups in that city. This is easier to understand in the light of the caste three-part structure of the ancient Aryan society: clergy and scientists (brahmans - magi), warriors and rulers (kshatriyas - princes and warriors), traders and working people (vaishyas - firemen).
Among the Baltic Slavs, Troyan was revered under the name Triglav (Triglavus, Tryglav). Triglav-Troyan should not be confused with the concept of Triglav, which denotes the totality of three Gods (“Trinity”): Svarog, Perun and Veles or Svarog, Perun and Svetovit (Did-Oak-Sheaf of the “Veles Book”). Similar trinities-triple powers are known among other Indo-Aryans: Zeus - Poseidon - Hades, Brahma - Vishnu - Shiva ("Trimurti"), Odin - Thor - Freyr.
The “Book of Veles” separates both Triglavs quite simply: “Behold Triglav prayed in the face and small” - “And they prayed to Triglav, the Great and the Small” (VK 3, 25, 13). Small Triglav is Trojan, small only in the face of the Triglav of the Gods.
The reason for the identity of the name of God and the designation of the triple power of the Gods is twofold. The totality of the three Gods ruling over the three worlds is precisely for this reason called “Triglav”, for there are three of them together, their three heads, the three main ones. And this is Triglav - “Three Heads”. And the Indian “Trimurti” - “Three Faces” (their “murti” is the same as our “muzzle” - “face, mask”) is precisely depicted as a Deity with a single body and with three different heads. Troyan-Triglav is also depicted as three-headed, but with three identical heads. According to medieval Western European chronicles (Ebbon, Gerberd), the three heads of Triglav symbolized His power over the three kingdoms (worlds) - earth, sky and underground. Hence the first reason for the identity of the Triglavs by their names. According to mythological postulates, Triglav is also the son of these three Gods. It is precisely in accordance with his three-part nature that Troyan appears into the world with three heads and three faces. Being the uniform embodiment of the essence of the Triglav of the Gods, Troyan is Triglav both by name, which describes Him, and by His nature, consistent with His three parents. This is the second reason.
The most famous temple of Triglav was located in Szczecin (German Stetten) at the mouth of the Oder. The temple stood on the main of the three sacred hills of the city and was visible from afar, the first to be illuminated by dawn. The holy temple was destroyed in 1127 by Jewish Christian blasphemers, led by Bishop Otto of Bamberg, who destroyed Szczecin. According to the chronicles, it is known that the sacred black horse Triglav was kept at the temple. During fortune-telling of national significance, the horse was led three times in front of the temple through nine spears lying on the ground. The prediction was given by the priests of the temple, who observed whether the horse would touch the spears or pass freely through them: “When they were going on a land campaign, against enemies or for the sake of prey, they used to predict the outcome of the matter through it (the horse) in this way. Nine spears were placed on the ground, one cubit apart from each other. Having saddled and bridled the horse, the priest, who was supposed to take care of it, led it back and forth through the lying spears three times. If a horse passed without stumbling or hitting the spears, it was considered a sign of good luck and they performed calmly; if, on the contrary, they remained” (Gerbord, “The Life of Bishop Otto” - 12th century. Translated by D. Dudko).
At this time, on Yarilo Wet, Troyan Day, from ancient times the Rus commemorated their ancestors and created amulets against atrocities committed by the restless souls of the “hostage” dead (who died “not their own” - that is, an unnatural death). On the night of Trojan, girls and women “plowed” the village in order to protect themselves from evil forces. The people said: “Since the Spiritual Day, not only from heaven, but warmth comes from under the ground,” “When the Holy Spirit comes, it will be in the yard, like on a stove.” According to popular beliefs, all evil spirits are afraid of this day like fire, and just before the sun rises on the Spirits, Mother Cheese-Earth reveals her secrets, and therefore healers go at this time to “listen to treasures.” As on Yaril Veshny, dew on this day is considered sacred and healing.
After the beginning, the rite of tonsure is carried out for young men, initiation into warriors. When a boy turns 3 years old, his hair is cut as a sign of his transition to a new stage of life. The person tonsured is given an adult Slavic name and mounted on a horse for the first time. The cut hair is collected into bundles and given to the mother. After the ceremony, everyone went to feast. During the feast, a birthday loaf was broken over the head of the tonsured person with wishes of happiness, health and prosperity. The next tonsure takes place at the age of 7.
Next they have a feast in the field. Ritual food: sweets, scrambled eggs, pies. When required, ritual beer is brought. Before the games, a fairy tale or an ancient legend is played out. Love games and dancing are required.

After Yarila's day, hot weather usually sets in for seven days. Svarog is Rule and Sob. Rule - That which keeps in balance Reality and Nav, the Visible and the Invisible, Day and Night, the Earthly Family (relatives in Reality) and the Heavenly Family (the Power of the Ancestors). Sob is the Spirit of the Family in all things, our True Self (I AM). Perun is Strength and Row. Power – That which is capable of changing the World, embodied will, purposefulness of action. Row – order, law, rule, agreement, cooperation. That without Which no one and nothing in the Revealed World can stand. Veles is Wisdom and Path. Wisdom is an insight into the True Nature of all things and one’s place in the World. The Path is That Which Unites the Three Worlds (Rule-Yav-Nav), Which Leads Us Following the Ancestors and Connects Us with the Gods. The Great Hidden, comprehensible by the Heart, but not visible with carnal eyes.
There are at least three different views on the Three Worlds. The first considers it as a Bundle of Steps of Spiritual Ascent from flesh to Spirit, arranging the Worlds in the following sequence: Reality (World of Dense Forms) / Nav (World of Subtle Forms or World of the Soul) / Rule (World of Spirit - Source of the Universe). The second view, following the shamanistic vision of the World, builds the Worlds in a slightly different sequence: Nav (the Lower World - the Abode of the Dark Gods, discredited Ancestors and evil spirits) / Reality (the Middle World - the Abode of man) / Rule (the Upper World - the Abode of the Light Gods, Glorious Ancestors and good spirits). The third view, in fact, represents the Bunch of Worlds in the form of the Two-World: Reality (the Visible World - the Abode of every life) / Nav (the Invisible World - the Abode of Gods, Ancestors and spirits), which are balanced by the Rule - the Power that preserves the Harmony of the World

Svarog Triglav – - -

Rus-Slavs glorify Svarog Triglav – Svarog-Perun-Veles, strong in Rule, Reveal and Navi.

God Troyan is the son of Veles and Marena. According to legends, Troyan was the embodiment of the power of Svarog, Perun and Veles, who joined forces in the fight against the Serpent, the offspring of Chernobog, who once threatened to destroy the entire Three Worlds.
At this time, since ancient times, they commemorated the Ancestors and made amulets against evil forces.
People said:
“Since the Spiritual Day, not only from heaven, but from under the earth, warmth comes,” The Holy Spirit will come - it will be in the yard, as on a stove.”
According to popular beliefs, all evil spirits fear this day like fire, and just before the sun rises on the Spirits, the Day reveals Mother Cheese-Earth her secrets, and therefore healers go at this time to “listen to treasures.”
Dew on this day is considered sacred and healing.
After the beginning, the young men are given the rite of tonsure - initiation into warriors.
Next, a festive dinner is held in the field. Ritual food: pies and sweets. When required, they bring ritual kvass or sbiten. Before the games, a fairy tale or an ancient legend is played out. Round dances and round dances are required.
After this holiday, hot weather usually sets in for seven days...
9 Veylet (May 31) - Cuckoo Festival - Kumlenie.

Cuckoo Festival - Kumlenie

Cuckoo- the main character of the holiday and this is the holiday of the Cuckoo. The main feature of this holiday is the establishment of a spiritual connection between girls who have not yet had children, for mutual help and support.
Young people, mostly girls, gathered in a clearing in the forest, danced in circles, sang funny songs about Spring and Life.
The cuckoo represents the link between Zhivaya and the young girls!
The girls jumped over the ritual fire and had a small symbolic feast.
On this holiday, the only time a year, it was possible to make love, that is, become related in soul with any close person. To do this, you had to kiss through a birch wreath and say the following words:
“Kumis, kumis, become dear, become dear, the two of us have a common life. Neither joy, nor tears, nor a word, nor an incident will separate us.”

Birch is a symbol of love and purity among the Rus-Slavs!
Then, it was necessary to exchange something for memory. At the same time, the girl, dressed up as Zhiva, was holding the figure of the Cuckoo in her hands: they believed that the forest bird would hear the oath and pass it on to Zhiva.
In different parts of Rus', the holiday had its own rituals and customs - but the idea of Kumleniya remained common to all.