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Fairy tale Lies, but in it - a Hint, Who knows - the Lesson.

The Slavs called “a lie” an incomplete, superficial Truth. For example, you can say: "Here is a whole puddle of gasoline", or you can say that it is a puddle of dirty water, covered from above with a film of gasoline. In the second statement - Truth, in the first statement, not quite Truth is said, i.e. Lie. "Lies" and "lodge", "lodge" - are of the same root origin. Those. what lies on the surface, or on the surface of which you can lie, or - a superficial judgment about the subject.
And yet, why is the word “lie” applied to Tales, in the sense of superficial truth, incomplete truth? The fact is that the Fairy Tale is really a Lie, but only for the Explicit World, manifested, in which our consciousness now resides. For other Worlds: Navi, Slavi, Pravi, the same fairy-tale characters, their interaction, are the true Truth. Thus, we can say that the Fairy Tale is all the same Fairy, but for a certain World, for a certain Reality. If the Fairy Tale conjures up some Images in your imagination, it means that somewhere these Images came from before your imagination gave them to you. There is no fiction divorced from reality. Any fantasy is as real as our explicit life. Our subconscious, reacting to the signals of the second signaling system (to the word), “pulls out” Images from the collective field - one of the billions of realities among which we live. In the imagination, there is only one thing around which there are so many fairy-tale plots: "Go There, you don't know Where, Bring That, you don't know What." Can your fantasy imagine something like this? - For the time being, no. Although, our Many-Wise Ancestors also had a completely adequate answer to this question.
"Lesson" among the Slavs means something that stands at Rock, that is, some fatality of Being, Destiny, Mission that any person embodied on Earth has. The lesson is what needs to be learned before your evolutionary Path continues further and higher. Thus, a Tale is a Lie, but it always contains a Hint of the Lesson that each of the people will have to learn during their Life.

KOLOBOK

Ras Deva asked: - Bake me a gingerbread man. The Virgin swept over the Svarog barns, scraped and baked the Kolobok along the Devil's bottom. The Kolobok rolled along the Track. Rolling and rolling, and towards him - Swan: - Gingerbread man-Gingerbread man, I'll eat you! And he nipped off a piece from Kolobok with his beak. The Kolobok rolls on. Towards him - Raven: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! He pecked Kolobok by the barrel and ate another piece. The Kolobok rolled further along the Track. Then the Bear met him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! He grabbed Kolobok across the stomach, and squeezed his sides, forcibly Kolobok took his legs away from the Bear. Rolling Kolobok, rolling along the Svarog Way, and then towards him - Wolf: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! Gripped the Kolobok with his teeth, so the Kolobok barely rolled away from the Wolf. But his Path is not over yet. It rolls on: a very small piece of Kolobok remains. And here the Fox comes out to meet Kolobok: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! - Don't eat me, Fox, - only Kolobok managed to say, and the Fox - "am", and ate it whole.
The tale, familiar to everyone from childhood, takes on a completely different meaning and a much deeper essence when we discover the Wisdom of the Ancestors. The Slavs have never had a gingerbread man, nor a bun, nor "almost a cheesecake", as the most variegated bakery products, which are given to us as Kolobok, are sung in modern fairy tales and cartoons. The idea of ​​the people is much more figurative and sacred than they are trying to imagine. Kolobok is a metaphor, like almost all Images of the heroes of Russian fairy tales. It is not for nothing that the Russian people were famous everywhere for their figurative thinking.
The Tale of Kolobok is an astronomical observation of the Ancestors over the movement of the Moon across the sky: from the full moon (in the Palace of Race) to the new moon (the Hall of the Fox). Kolobok's “kneading” - the full moon, in this tale, takes place in the Hall of Virgo and Race (roughly corresponds to the modern constellations of Virgo and Leo). Further, starting from the Hall of the Boar, the Month begins to wane, i.e. each of the meeting Halls (Swan, Raven, Bear, Wolf) - "eat" part of the Month. Nothing remains from Kolobok to the Hall of the Fox - Midgard-Earth (in modern terms - the planet Earth) completely closes the Moon from the Sun.
We find confirmation of just such an interpretation of Kolobok in Russian folk riddles (from the collection of V. Dahl): A blue scarf, a red bun: rolling on a scarf, grinning at people. - This is about Heaven and Yarilo-Sun. I wonder how modern fairy-tale remakes would depict the red Kolobok? Blush in the dough?
There are a couple of other mysteries for the kids: A white-headed cow looks into the driveway. (Month) He was young - he looked good, when he was old he was tired - he began to fade, a new one was born - he was amused again. (Month) A turntable is turning, a golden bobbin, no one will get it: neither the king, nor the queen, nor the red maiden. (Sun) Who is richest in the world? (Earth)
It should be borne in mind that the Slavic constellations do not correspond exactly to the modern constellations. In Slavic Krugolet there are 16 Halls (constellations), and they had different configurations than the modern 12 Signs of the Zodiac. Hall Race (the Feline family) can be roughly correlated with the zodiac sign of Leo.

REPKA

Everyone probably remembers the text of the tale from childhood. Let us analyze the esotericism of the tale and those gross distortions of imagery and logic that were imposed on us.
Reading this, like most other supposedly “folk” (ie, pagan: “language” - “people”) fairy tales, we draw attention to the obsessive absence of parents. That is, children are presented entirely with incomplete families, which instills the idea from childhood that an incomplete family is normal, “everyone lives like this”. Only grandparents raise children. Even in a complete family, it has become a tradition to “hand over” a child to the elderly for upbringing. Perhaps this tradition took root in the days of serfdom as a necessity. Many will tell me that the times are no better, too. democracy is the same slave system. “Demos”, in Greek, is not just a “people”, but a well-to-do people, the “top” of society, “kratos” means “power”. So it turns out that democracy is the power of the ruling elite, i.e. the same slaveholding, only having an erased manifestation in the modern political system. In addition, religion is also the power of the elite for the people, and is also actively involved in the upbringing of the flock (that is, the herd), for its own and the state elite. What do we bring up in children, telling them fairy tales to someone else's tune? Do we continue to “prepare” more and more serfs for demos? Or servants of God?
From an esoteric point of view, what kind of picture appears in the modern "Turnip"? - The line of generations is interrupted, joint good work is broken, there is a total destruction of the harmony of the Clan, Family, well-being and joy of family relationships. What kind of people grow up in dysfunctional families? .. And this is what the newly appeared fairy tales teach us.
Specifically, according to “REPK”. Two of the main heroes for the child, the father and the mother, are absent. Let us consider which Images make up the essence of the tale, and what exactly was removed from the tale on the symbolic plane. So, the characters: 1) Turnip - symbolizes the Roots of the Family. It was planted by the Ancestor, the Most Ancient and Wise. Without him, Repka would not have been, and joint, joyful work for the Good of the Family. 2) Grandfather - symbolizes Ancient Wisdom 3) Grandma - Tradition, House 4) Father - protection and support of the Family - removed from the tale along with figurative meaning 5) Mother - Love and Care - removed from the tale 6) Granddaughter (daughter) - Offspring, continuation of the Family 7) Beetle - the protection of prosperity in the Family 8) Cat - the blissful atmosphere of the House 9) Mouse - symbolizes the well-being of the House. Mice are turned on only where there is an excess, where every crumb is not counted. These figurative meanings are interconnected like a nesting doll - one without the other no longer makes sense and completeness.
So think later, knowingly or not knowingly, Russian fairy tales have been changed, and for whom they are “working” now.

CHICKEN RYABA

It seems - well, what nonsense: beat, beat, and then a mouse, bang - and the fairy tale is over. What is this all for? Indeed, only to children who are unintelligent to tell ...
This tale is about Wisdom, about the Image of the Universal Wisdom, contained in the Golden Egg. Not everyone and not at any time is given to cognize this Wisdom. Not everyone can handle it. Sometimes you have to settle for the simple wisdom contained in the Simple Egg.
When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing its hidden meaning, the Ancient Wisdom contained in this fairy tale is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on the subtle plane, on the subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmation, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.

ABOUT Kaschey and Baba Yaga

In the book written on the basis of PP Globa's lectures, we find interesting information about the classic heroes of Russian fairy tales: “The name“ Koschey ”comes from the name of the sacred books of the ancient Slavs“ blasphemer ”. These were tied wooden plaques with unique knowledge written on them. The guardian of this immortal inheritance was called “koshchei”. His books were passed down from generation to generation, but it is unlikely that he was truly immortal, as in a fairy tale. (...) And into a terrible villain, a sorcerer, heartless, cruel, but powerful, ... Koschey turned relatively recently - during the introduction of Orthodoxy, when all the positive characters of the Slavic pantheon were turned into negative ones. At the same time, the word "blasphemy" arose, that is, adherence to ancient, non-Christian customs. (...) And Baba Yaga is a popular person in our country ... But they could not completely denigrate her in fairy tales. Not just anywhere, but it was to her that all the Ivans-tsarevichs and Ivans-fools came in difficult times. And she fed them, watered them, heated the bathhouse for them and put them to sleep on the stove in order to show the right path in the morning, helped to unravel their most difficult problems, gave a magic ball, which itself leads to the desired goal. The role of “Russian Ariadne” makes our grandmother surprisingly similar to one Avestan deity, ... I am clean. This woman-purifier, sweeping the road with her hair, driving away the beast and all evil spirits from her, clearing the road of fate from stones and debris, was depicted with a broom in one hand and a ball in the other. ... It is clear that with such a position, she cannot be torn and dirty. Moreover, we have our own bathhouse ”. (Man - the Tree of Life. Avestan tradition. Mn.: Arctida, 1996)
This knowledge partly confirms the Slavic concept of Kashchey and Baba Yaga. But let us draw the reader's attention to a significant difference in the spelling of the names “Koschey” and “Kaschey”. These are two fundamentally different heroes. The negative character that is used in fairy tales, with whom all the characters are fighting, led by Baba Yaga, and whose death is "in the egg", this is KASHCHA. The first rune in writing this ancient Slavic word-image is “Ka”, meaning “gathering inside oneself, union, unification”. For example, the runic word-image “KARA” does not mean punishment as such, but means something that does not radiate, ceases to shine, blackened, because it has collected all the radiance (“RA”) inside itself. Hence, the word KARAKUM - “KUM” - is a relative or a set of something related (grains of sand, for example), and “KARA” - who have gathered radiance: “a collection of shining particles”. This already has a slightly different meaning than the previous word "punishment".
Slavic runic images are unusually deep and capacious, ambiguous and difficult for an ordinary reader. Only the Priests possessed these images in their entirety, since writing and reading a runic image is a serious and very responsible matter, it requires great accuracy, absolute purity of thought and heart.
Baba Yoga (Yogini-Mother) - Ever-beautiful, Loving, Kind-hearted Goddess-Patroness of orphans and children in general. She wandered across Midgard-Earth either on the Fiery Heavenly Chariot, then on horseback through the lands where the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan lived, gathering homeless orphans from cities and towns. In every Slavic-Aryan Vesi, even in every populous city or settlement, the Patron Goddess was recognized by the radiating kindness, tenderness, meekness, love and her elegant boots, decorated with golden patterns, and she was shown where the orphans live. Ordinary people called the Goddess in different ways, but always with tenderness. Some - by Grandmother Yoga with Golden Foot, and who, quite simply - by the Yogini-Mother.
The Yogini delivered orphaned children to her foothill Skete, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian mountains (Altai). She did this in order to save the last representatives of the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans from inevitable death. In the foothill Skete, where the Yogini-Mother led the children through the Fiery rite of dedication to the Ancient Highest Gods, there was a Temple of God Kin, carved inside the mountain. Near the mountain Temple of the Roda, in the rock there was a special depression, which the Priests called the Cave of Ra. From it protruded a stone platform, divided by a ledge into two equal depressions, called Lapata. In one recess, which was closer to the Cave of Ra, the Yogini-Mother laid sleeping children in white clothes. Dry brushwood was put into the second depression, after which LapatA moved back into the Cave of Ra, and the Yogini set fire to the brushwood. For all those present at the Fiery Rite, this meant that orphans were dedicated to the Ancient Highest Gods and no one would see them in the mundane life of the Clans. Strangers, who sometimes attended the Fire Rites, very colorfully told in their area that they watched with their own eyes how little children were sacrificed to the Old Gods, thrown alive into the Fiery Furnace, and Baba Yoga did this. The strangers did not know that when the paw-platform moved into the Ra Cavern, a special mechanism lowered the stone slab onto the paw ledge and separated the depression with the children from the Fire. When the Fire lit up in the Cave of Ra, the Priests of the Sort carried the children from the paws to the premises of the Temple of the Sort. Subsequently, Priests and Priestesses were raised from orphans, and when they became adults, young men and women created families and continued their lineage. The strangers did not know any of this and continued to spread tales that the wild Priests of the Slavic and Aryan peoples, and especially the bloodthirsty Baba Yoga, sacrifice orphans to the Gods. These foreign tales influenced the Image of the Yogini-Mother, especially after the Christianization of Russia, when the Image of a beautiful young Goddess was replaced by the Image of an old, angry and hunchbacked old woman with matted hair who steals children. roasts them in an oven in a forest hut, and then eats them. Even the Name of the Yogini-Mother was distorted and began to frighten the Goddess of all children.
Very interesting, from an esoteric point of view, is the fabulous Instruction-Lesson accompanying more than one Russian folk tale:
Go There, you don't know Where, Bring That, you don't know What.
It turns out that not only fabulous fellows were given such a Lesson. This instruction was received by each descendant from the Clans of the Holy Race, who ascended along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development (in particular, mastering the Steps of Faith - “the science of imagery”). A person begins the Second Lesson of the First Step of Faith by looking inside himself in order to see all the variety of colors and sounds within himself, as well as to experience that Ancient Ancestral Wisdom, which he received at his birth on Midgard-Earth. The key to this great storehouse of Wisdom is known to every person from the Clans of the Great Race, it is contained in the ancient instruction: Go There, not knowing Where, Know That, you do not know What.
This Slavic Lesson is echoed by more than one popular wisdom of the world: To seek wisdom outside of oneself is the height of stupidity. (Ch'an dictum) Look inside yourself and you will discover the whole world. (Indian wisdom)
Russian fairy tales have undergone many distortions, but, nevertheless, in many of them the essence of the Lesson, laid down in the fable, remained. It is a fiction in our reality, but reality is in another reality, no less real than the one in which we live. For a child, the concept of reality is expanded. Children see and feel much more energy fields and currents than adults. It is necessary to respect each other's realities. What is Fiction for us is Real Life for the kid. That is why it is so important to initiate the child into “correct” fairy tales, with truthful, original Images, without layers of politics and history.
The most truthful, relatively free from distortions, in my opinion, are some of Bazhov's tales, the tales of Pushkin's nanny - Arina Rodionovna, written by the poet almost word for word, the tales of Ershov, Aristov, Ivanov, Lomonosov, Afanasyev ... Seems like Tales from the 4th book of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas: “The Tale of Ratibor”, “The Tale of the Clear Falcon”, given with comments and explanations according to words that came out of Russian everyday use, but remained unchanged in fairy tales.

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Hello, my dear relatives!

I make my low bow to you, bowing to the dear Earth! If you went to this page, then listen, listen, do not rush anywhere. My speech will flow, that the river, turning into a kind tale, which will connect heaven and earth with solar threads-rays.
And I will tell you about our distant ancestors, great-grandfathers. They once lived in our native land, which was called Rus-Swan or the country of Russia is bright. They lived well, but in love: they respected the elders, did not offend the little ones, they helped the weak, they took over from the strong and transformed it into good deeds.

And they learned how to live like this with Father-heaven and Mother-earth, with the Clear Sun and with a light-jet stream, with trees, and with flowers, with good-natured elders, and with small children with clear, radiant eyes and ringing laughter.

But those days have passed when the snow melted in the spring. Our modern time has come. But the ancient great-grandfathers sowed good seeds into the soul of every living person. Each such seed contains all the knowledge, or veda, that helped the ancient relatives: great-great-grandmothers and great-great-grandfathers to live in harmony with nature and themselves.

The seeds of that solar Veda lie in our souls, but they just cannot germinate. Do you want to help them become good seedlings in order to learn how to create harmony and love on Earth? If you, my dear friends, answered "yes", then get ready, get ready, set off on the path. No, no ... you don't have to go far. The Veda of great-grandfathers in fairy tales and good fairy tales was once intertwined with a solar thread. Read these sunny fairy tales ... feel it! May you transform your souls, making them purer and brighter. And then you will certainly see the sprouts of the ancient glorious Veda in your souls.

And I - the storyteller of Ladoleya - pouring out the harmony, I take these tales and fairy tales from the source that flows like a river from the very antiquity, but weave them from meadow flowers and honey grasses, from the sun's rays and pure spring water. And I do not forget to thank our light Rod for this gift, which once created the space of Light, Good and Love on Earth.

With Good,

Ladoleya

Vice-Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of Slavic Thinking, St. Petersburg.

The Russian fairy tale contains the wisdom of the people and the knowledge of the ancient Priests - its creators. Each tale has several deep meanings at once. Each of them is a separate big topic, but they are all interconnected. The first, well-known meaning to us - moral . Good is stronger than evil. For our ancient Ancestors, this was the main law of life. This is the spiritual content of the tale.

The second meaning of the tale lies in reflection of the annual cycle of natural phenomena . We owe the work of Academician B. A. Rybakov to elucidating the similarity of the Russian fairy tale with the ancient Greek myths about Demeter and Persephone. Let us also compare: Ivan Tsarevich and the Frog Princess on the one hand and Orpheus and Eurydice on the other; Koschey and Hades, Vasilisa and Persephone. As the heroine of the Russian fairy tale ends up in the kingdom of Koshchei, Eurydice ends up in the underground kingdom of Hades. And as Ivan Tsarevich goes to rescue his bride, so Orpheus goes in search of Eurydice. In Russian fairy tales, as in the Greek myth of Orpheus, a very important place is given to the ability of the protagonist to play musical instruments. For example, when he makes the kidnapper of his bride (often this is the Sea King, which is close in meaning to the underwater world) to dance until he drops, after which he returns the kidnapped girl to the hero. But the Greeks, unlike the Slavs, treat Hades with reverence and fear. Moreover, they do not think about the victory over Hades. Orpheus, as you know, returns home with nothing, and Eurydice remains in the kingdom of death.

The Slavs have a completely different ending to a similar tale. They believe without a doubt that Goodness and Love conquer death itself. Therefore, Ivan Tsarevich rescues his Frog Princess, Ruslan rescues Lyudmila, Korolevich Elisey resurrects a dead princess. This is how the tales of other Slavic peoples end, as well as the tales of the Baltic peoples, which are similar in content and meaning.

We find much in common in Russian fairy tales with the Greek myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades (the Goddess of Nature, daughter of Demeter - the Goddess of the Earth). Persephone lives for six months in the gloomy underground kingdom of Hades, the other six months - on the beautiful Earth, under the Sun. And when she returns to Earth, then spring comes, flowers and vineyards bloom, bread ascends. Returns Persephone to Earth from the dark kingdom of Hades, according to some myths, her mother (she puts on beggarly rags and walks, wandering, refusing to grow bread and grapes so that people begin to starve, then Zeus gives in to Demeter's requests and every spring tells Hades to let go of land to Persephone). According to other myths, Persephone is saved from the kingdom of death by the God of the winter (dying and resurrected during the winter solstice) Sun - Dionysus.

The same theme is remarkably reflected in the fairy tale "About the Dead Princess", retold in verse by A. Pushkin. Here the princess is Nature, the seven heroes are seven cold months, when Nature is forced to live in separation from her fiancé, the prince Elisha - the Sun. The evil stepmother who kills the princess is winter. And the crystal coffin is the ice and snow cover that covers the Earth and rivers in winter. In the spring the sun strikes with its ray on the ice cover, the crystal coffin is destroyed, and Nature is resurrected. So Elisha revives his bride and leads her out of the underground grotto. We find the same motive in the epic about Svyatogor (the epic "Svyatogor and the earthly craving").

The next meaning found in the tale is initiatory . In ancient times, every young man went through a school of training in the art of war. Experienced relatives taught him archery, javelin throwing, and wrestling techniques. The old people passed on to him the knowledge of military science, the tricks of the enemy, the ability to disguise, to survive in Nature. Before going through the rite of passage into men, the young man went through various tests. This is reflected, as V. Ya. Propp has shown, in most Russian fairy tales.

The oldest woman of the Roda (who entered the fairy tale in the form of first a kind, and then a terrifying Baba Yaga) revealed ancient wisdom to the young man. He was initiated into Spiritual Knowledge, including about posthumous existence. For belief in life after death was widespread and understanding what happens to a person after death (after all, the Warriors always had to be ready for this) was necessary and paramount. According to the ideas of the Slavs, the soul after death falls into the world of the Ancestors, into the kingdom of the Foremother of the Elk, the Bear or Turitsa (depending on which animal was the totemic patron of the given Clan). As a result of this, the moral side of initiation was very important, for our Ancestors revered Mother Nature. They considered animals to be their children and their distant ancestors. They believed that the souls of animals also go to Heaven. If there was a failure in the hunt, they believed that the Great Mother Dipper sacrificed her children too much, and it was time for them to bring gifts to her, they imposed a fast on themselves.

There was also a female initiation, as ancient as the male ("Finist-Clear Falcon", "Vasilisa the Beautiful"). In fairy tales, there are often animals that the hero keeps alive and who subsequently help him ("magic helpers" according to V. Ya. Propp). These are animal helpers: Bear, Bull, Dog Wolf, Eagle, Raven, Drake, Pike. Animals, whose son in one or another fairy tale is the main character: Ivan Bykovich, Ivan Medvedkin, Ivan Suchich, Ivan Cow's son (BA Rybakov "Paganism of the Ancient Slavs". M., 1994).

The initiatory meaning of the tale is inextricably linked with the even more ancient Vedic meaning . A fairy tale is the Slavic Veda. More precisely, the part of the Vedas that remained in the Slavic lands, despite Christianization, during which, as you know, there was a struggle with the Magi and their teachings. Before the adoption of Christianity in Russia and in other Slavic lands, Ancient Vedic Knowledge existed in two complementary directions. Let's call them conditionally: male tradition and female tradition.

The keepers of masculine knowledge were the Priests, Vedunas, Magi, who passed on martial arts to the youth (in India, "Dhanurveda" - "Military Veda"), the cunning of the enemy, as well as animal habits, knowledge of the basics of treatment (in India, "Ayurveda"), tales and hymns , knowledge about the origin and structure of the Universe (in India "Rig Veda"). This Vedic Knowledge was brought to India during the Aryan campaign. We find an echo of this event in the epic "The Campaign of Dobrynya Nikitich to India". In India, this Knowledge has been pretty well preserved up to the present day. In the Slavic lands, they were subject to destruction by representatives of Christianity (who, for the most part, had a superficial understanding of the essence of Slavic Venture).

The other half of the Ancient Vedic Wisdom of the Slavs was preserved in the female tradition, and it did not make it to India, since the movement of the Aryan tribes took place with a significant predominance of men. This female branch is very well preserved in Russia, despite the severe persecution that befell her. It survived because, unlike men, it had nothing to do with public policy, being domestic and communal. The keepers of this tradition were not only the Priestesses, Vedunya and Volkhvini, but every woman in her house, in her family kept the Ancestral Knowledge of her great-grandmothers. A Slavic woman, like the entire village world, went to a Christian church on Sundays, but at home neither a priest, no one else could forbid her to embroider patterns that reflect the idea of ​​our Ancestors about the Universe, to wear ancient clothes on holidays, depicting a microcosm , sing the songs of Lada and Lele and celebrate ancient holidays on the banks of rivers and lakes, in groves and on the mountains, heal yourself and your loved ones with conspiracies and herbs.

Fairy tales, epics, songs represent a significant part of the Slavic Veda. Of course, fairy tales and epics were passed on not only through the female line, they were also told by grandfathers to their grandchildren and granddaughters. In many fairy tales, and especially in the epics inherited by them, it is the male tradition that can be traced. But still, to a greater extent, the Ancient Vedic Knowledge was preserved precisely by women and old people (in contrast to the Vedas that came to India), because it was secretly passed on to children than to young men and young people.

Consider an epic and a ritual song, reflecting in their content the knowledge of the birth of the World. This is an epic about Dunaj Ivanovich. Let us recall its summary. Danube Ivanovich gets a bride for Prince Vladimir, and he himself marries her hero-sister. At a feast at Prince Vladimir, being drunk, Danube Ivanovich boasted that he shoots very well from a bow. To which his wife, a hero, who was with him at the feast, noticed that she was shooting much better than him.

Danube Ivanovich began to bet with her: they would go out into an open field, put a silver ring on their heads, and whoever of them gets into the ring shoots better. And so they did. They drove out into an open field, put the Danube on his head with a "silver ring", took aim Nastasya the royal and hit the ring with an arrow. Then Danube puts a silver ring on his wife's head, moves away and begins to aim. Then his wife said to him: “Danube Ivanovich, you are now intoxicated, you will not fall into a ring, but you will fall into my zealous heart, and your child is beating under my heart. Wait, when it is born, then we will go to the field and then shoot. " Such words of his wife seemed insulting to the husband. How could she doubt his accuracy? The Danube fired a red-hot arrow from a tight bow, and hit his sweet one right in the heart. Blood poured in a stream from the white chest. And then Danube Ivanovich thrust his sword - a turn into his chest. And two streams merged into one big river Danube.

So in the epic a river is born, and the river for the ancient Slav was the whole World, the whole Universe - the River of Life. And she is born from a married couple who sacrificed themselves for her sake, but not ordinary people, but heroes.

A hero in a fairy tale is often an allegorical designation of a hero or Deity. We also find the plot of sacrificing oneself for the creation of the World in India, where Purusha, the "giant from the fog", turns out to be such a God-hero. This is how our Ancestors imagined the birth of the World, Life, Space. The world was born from the Divine, which contains masculine and feminine principles. But the Deity, and dying, remains immortal - it continues to live, or rather, resurrects in the world He gave birth to: in plants, rivers, trees, birds, fish, animals, insects, stones, rainbows, clouds, rain, and finally in people - His descendants. And people, constantly improving, having gone through many human lives, become Gods, and from them new Worlds, new Universes are born. Well, if they lived unrighteously, they became restless after death or began a new long evolutionary path from a simple grain of sand. Therefore, our Ancestors looked at all of Nature as the body of the Divine. Hence the veneration of groves, forests, mountains, the Sun, Heaven, lakes and many animals. Death was perceived by the ancients not as the end of life and something hopeless, but as a transition from one state to another, as a difficult test associated with pain, fear, uncertainty, contributing to the spiritual growth of a person, as purification and renewal. People are forced to pass this test. The deity, according to the beliefs of the Slavs and other peoples, voluntarily accepts death and is resurrected. This motif is clearly visible in the Egyptian legends about Osiris, in the Greek myths about Dionysus, in the legends about the Phoenix, who burns himself to rise from the ashes.

The everyday details with which the fairy tale about Duna Ivanovich is richly decorated, again show the multi-layered nature of this genre, the multi-layered understanding of it. In this sense, the epic resembles a parable, in which it is very well shown what pride and intransigence of a husband and wife towards each other can lead to.

Close in meaning to this epic is the song "Spilled, a fast river spilled." At the same time, the position remains in force that in ancient songs, as well as in ancient fairy tales, we are talking not so much about ordinary people as about Ancestors - heroes and Deities. Also, the river with its banks, stones, fish is the River of Life, the Universe, the Cosmos, which is born from the body of a drowned (sacrificed) girl - the Virgin Goddess. Her chest becomes the shore, her hair becomes grass on the shore, her eyes become white pebbles, her blood becomes river water, tears become spring water, and her white body becomes white fish.

Ritual Russian songs, as well as the surviving songs of the southern and western Slavs, myths and hymns of other representatives of the Indo-European family, are very closely related to fairy tales and tales, reflecting some features of the primary consciousness of the Proto-Slavs.

In the Russian fairy tale "Copper, Silver and Golden Kingdoms", the kingdom arises from the egg. The wind in the fairy tale "About the dead princess and the seven heroes" has the divine property of omniscience. We find a direct connection with the Russian fairy tale "About the Dead Princess" in the Upanishads, where the soul of a person, going to another world, passes through the Sun and Wind Month (Upanishads, Br. V, 10).

Let us dwell on the proximity of the Slavic verbal tradition to other related cultures. The myths of Ancient Greece and the Indian Vedas help us better understand our own, largely unsolved culture. A. S. Famitsin and B. A. Rybakov in their works show the similarity of ancient Greek myths with Russian epics and fairy tales. No later works can compare in their depth with these beautiful monuments of folk wisdom.

Consider the myths about the three sons of Zeus: about Apollo, Ares and Dionysus. Three Gods, so different, even opposite in many respects to each other, and, nevertheless, representing a certain unity. Apollo is the beautiful God of the Sun, Light, the patron saint of muses, travelers and sailors, the patron saint of bees, herds and wild animals (even wolves were considered Apollo's animals, and the Greeks did not dare to kill them). Apollo is a healer, a healer. At the same time, he punishes the disobedient and sends his arrows at them. Apollo was born from Zeus and the Goddess Latona (Leto) and already in childhood he defeated the snake Python, and thereby saved his mother, as well as his sister Artemis. A similar plot is present in Russian fairy tales, Orthodox apocrypha and ancient Indian myths about Krishna and Varuna.

Another son of Zeus from Hera is Ares (from the Romans, Mars). A formidable and proud young man - this is how the Greeks portrayed him. His name is consonant with the Slavic Yaril. But at the same time, Ares is a fierce God of battle. "Ares!" - shouted the Amazons before the battle, terrifying their opponents. This is the God of a fierce and brutal battle, in contrast to Athena - the Goddess of military science.

The third son of Zeus, born twice, born in fire, Dionysus, is completely different from him. A beautiful, slender and gentle young man holding a bunch of grapes in his hands - this is how he is depicted in Greek sculpture. Dionysus - God of cereals, green shoots, life-giving sap of trees, wine, vines, God-healer, comforter of the suffering. A drink made from grape juice - light dry wine - that gives a person health and joy was called the blood of Dionysus, because when a person drinks this sparkling drink, and he begins to play in his veins, a person experiences that joyful and peaceful state inherent to the Gods, as if the blood of the Gods flows in his veins.

Another meaning of the tale is its connection with yoga . In this respect, the fairy tale "Ivan Beztalanny" is interesting. In its final part, it directly talks about the purpose of magical things: mirrors, books and dresses. “There was charm in the cherished dress, in the book - wisdom, and in the mirror - all the semblance of the world.” And then it is said about the main gift for the daughter, the meaning of which is not revealed, but becomes clear from the fairy tale itself. The tale "Finist - the Clear Falcon" is also close in meaning, although in terms of its plot, at first glance, it is directly opposite to the first. A girl in search of Finist who flew away goes a difficult and long way: she broke three cast-iron staffs, trampled three pairs of iron boots, devoured three stone breads until she came to Baba Yaga, who gave her magical things: a golden saucer and a silver apple, a silver frame with a gold needle, crystal hammer and diamond carnations. And the girl gave all these magical things to return Finist Jasn Sokol.

What were these magical things? A golden saucer with a silver apple is a gift, the ability to understand, see the world, comprehend the essence of things and the causes of phenomena and events. This corresponds to the yogic faculty of clairvoyance. The crystal gavel and diamond carnations are a musical instrument. Possession of a musical instrument means power over people (remember that in many fairy tales the main character makes the tsar and his entire retinue dance with the help of musical instruments) and even over the elements of Nature (in other fairy tales and epic "Sadko" the main character, playing the harp, makes him dance Sea king). We find a similar plot in the myth of Orpheus. The weaving and embroidery of carpets and towels by the main character in fairy tales and myths (Athena, the Frog Princess), as well as the spinning of the thread of fate by Moirami among the Greeks and Makosh among the Slavs, reflects, as a rule, the creation by the Goddess of the pattern of the Universe (remember that the carpet usually depicts all forests, seas, all animals, birds, fish, cities and countries, people and the royal palace). We can say that the hoop and the needle are associated with the ability to create and transform, both the explicit world, the human body, and his subtle bodies, his destiny. Embroidered shirts, according to ancient beliefs, contribute to the preservation of human health and life, and the belt is associated with his destiny. Baba Yaga gives all these gifts to the heroine, since she transmitted Spiritual Knowledge among the ancient Proto-Slavs, as the oldest woman of the Family.

Yoga is a person's spiritual, mental and physical perfection. A person reveals tremendous psychophysical possibilities. But the main goal of the highest yoga is communion with the Almighty, merging with Him.

It is very likely that the degrees of initiations were carried out in accordance with the zodiacal calendar. This is supported by the fact that some of the Russian fairy tales are timed to the annual folk holidays, the connection of which with the starry sky and with the position of the Sun on it is unconditional.

Concerning the topic of initiations, it should be noted that fairy tales retained the memory of the ancient female initiation. Such is, for example, the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful". When the fire in the house is extinguished, the stepmother's daughters send Vasilisa to Baba Yaga for fire. To go to Baba Yaga means to go to That Light, to come into contact with the world of death (“yaga” - “sacrifice”, Sanskrit). The girl, both in earthly affairs, and in this difficult journey, from which few returned, is helped by a doll, which her mother gave her before her death. This doll - a maternal blessing (an obligatory part of a dowry in the old days) was not a toy, but a special spiritualized thing among the ancient Slavs and personified the patronage of the Ancestors on the maternal side.

Wooden dolls - "punks" are still preserved in the Arkhangelsk region. In ancient times, such dolls stood in the red corner, in the same place where the embroidered towels with the image of Rozhanitsy hung, and on special days of holidays and commemoration sacrifices were made to them in the form of kutia, porridge, bread, eggs, and ceremonial food. This fairy tale reflects the belief that the girl's happiness and women's happiness depend, first of all, on the mother's patronage and on the desire to live in harmony with the world around her: she feeds the cat and the dog from Baba Yaga, asks the little girl to rid her of the fiery furnace, and she agrees, ties the birch with a ribbon, and the birch releases it (a version of the tale as presented by I.V. Karnaukhova). Tying a birch with a ribbon reflects the Green Christmastide rite - decorating birches with ribbons and curling birches. These are now celebrated by Christians Semik and Trinity, one of the biggest holidays of the year associated with the veneration of the Ancestors and the spring-summer revival of life. "Whoever does not twist wreaths, the womb will die," is sung in one of the songs of this holiday. The wreath gives longevity to the mother. A wreath thrown into the water signifies the connection of the young with each other and with Heaven.

The second part of this tale is devoted to those events when a girl, returning from Baba Yaga, that is, as if from the other world, spins, weaves and embroiders a beautiful shirt for the groom, after which she marries the prince. This part reflects the idea of ​​the ancients that one of the most important foundations of the strength of family life is the bride's dowry, which includes: clothes for her, clothes (shirt and belts) for the future husband, gifts to the groom's family in the form of shirts, towels, belts. This dowry was to be made by the girl herself. Girls did it, from childhood to marriage, that is, all their youth and youth. And a person has only one youth, and therefore she cherished the union with the one to whom the girl gave the work of her whole life. It goes without saying that the dowry was of great importance for the well-being of the family, since in marriage, women had many new worries, and she did not have time to make clothes in such quantities.

The creation of a dowry by the future bride meant the creation of a microcosm, and patterned towels and shirts carried a cosmogonic imagery.

Male and female initiation, in spite of all their differences, contributed to the preservation of the tribal order of the family and community, as the main units of society.

The endless world of the fairy tale gives us a reflection of many of the most important events of the past. The fairy tale "Dmitry the Tsarevich and Udal the Good fellow" reflects the ideas of the Proto-Slavs about the Divine. And again in this fairy tale we are faced with manifestations of yoga. A good-looking fellow saves Ivan Tsarevich from a six-headed snake. The magic assistant Udal-good fellow is an image of the victory of the spiritual principle in a person over his base instincts.

The manifestations of the basic laws of yoga can be seen in the legend of the Prophetic Oleg, in its content, reminiscent of an epic and a fairy tale. The horse here conventionally denotes those principles in a person that helped to survive on Earth for the time being (a horse in battle is the personification of rage in battle). But at a certain level of his development, a person must be able to win, curb base instincts (this corresponds to the circling of a wild horse in many fairy tales) or completely abandon some of them (as in the legend about the Prophetic Oleg). And if a person returns to the predominance of lower bodily desires over higher ones, then this will be the snake that will destroy him.

In the above example, the interpenetration of different semantic levels inherent in an epic, fairy tale, ritual song is clearly visible. Oleg reigned in Novgorod, then in Kiev, conquered Constantinople, and died in Staraya Ladoga, where his grave mound is now shown. In a similar way, the arrival of the ancient ancestors of the Slavs in India is reflected in the epic about Dobrynya's campaign to India. Even more ancient events associated with Palestine and Asia Minor (evidence of the presence of the Proto-Slavs there), we find in the tales of Tarkh Tarakhovich on Siyan Mountain, the Sunflower Kingdom and others.

It is difficult for a modern person, educated and educated in the concepts and concepts of modern science, to imagine that until recently our Ancestors had a completely different picture of the world and a different worldview, and, even more importantly, had a universal connection with Nature and the Universe. Fairy tales, epics, ritual songs help to realize this connection. The key is the image of the Bogatyr (Good fellow). The image of the Hero in fairy tales and epics very often denotes the Sun. Such is the prince Elisha, breaking the crystal coffin of his bride, Svyatogor the hero, cutting the bark that covers his future bride with a sword. All these are images of the spring Sun, cutting the ice crust that covers the Earth with rays.

It is possible that the twelve labors of Hercules reflect the movement of the Sun in the zodiacal circle. At the same time, the victory over the Hydra can be considered as the victory of the Sun over the cold, darkness, dampness, and the cleansing of the Augean stables - as the cleansing power of the Sun. The very name Hercules contains the obvious root "Yar". Solar images are the images of Yegor the Brave, conquering the serpent, the hero Eruslan Lazorevich, the Greek hero Perseus, the God Apollo. Such a striving for the Luminary is not accidental. It itself is a mystery even for modern science.

For the sake of completeness, consider some more Cossack songs. In the Cossacks, it was the male tradition of singing that was preserved, as well as certain rituals that apparently existed in the princely squads of ancient Russia. This is, for example, bringing a strand of hair to the native river before going to fight. This is an appeal to the river upon returning from the battlefield: “Hello Don, you are our Donets, hello, our dear father,” - is sung in a marching Cossack song. One Belarusian song speaks of a young guy leaving for the army and asking his bride to take his hair to the Danube, which she does: “She wrapped her yellow curls and took it to the Danube River”. There is a clear trace of the presence of the Slavs on the Danube, perhaps during the time of Svyatoslav Khorobry, or even in more ancient times, when the Slavs lived in great numbers along the Danube. How ancient these customs are, as well as how they are inherent in related Slavic peoples, can be judged from the texts of the famous Iliad, where the hero Achilles, before leaving for the war, brings a lock of hair to his native river.

The ritual character of many songs, which are now conventionally called recruits, is also undoubted. Let's take the song "As in our pole". In the literal sense, it sings about what often happened to people who stood up to defend their Fatherland. But it also has a ritual meaning. A soldier, and in the ancient images of these songs - a good fellow, a hero - this is the Sun, which goes into a foreign, distant country in winter, and there it goes out, dies (this is how people who lived in the north perceived the winter solstice, especially beyond the Arctic circle, where the Sun really did not rise above the horizon anymore). But people believed that the Sun would surely rise again, one had to wait for this, as they expect a warrior from the war, and this expectation helps him to return alive. The same expectation helps the Sun to pass the point of dying, the winter solstice.

However, this does not exhaust the meaning of the fairy tale.

The Slavs called “a lie” an incomplete, superficial Truth. For example, you can say: "Here is a whole puddle of gasoline", or you can say that it is a puddle of dirty water, covered from above with a film of gasoline. In the second statement - Truth, in the first statement, not quite Truth is said, i.e. Lie. "Lies" and "lodge", "lodge" - are of the same root origin. Those. what lies on the surface, or on the surface of which you can lie, or - a superficial judgment about the subject.

And yet, why is the word “lie” applied to Tales, in the sense of superficial truth, incomplete truth? The fact is that the Fairy Tale is really a Lie, but only for the Explicit World, manifested, in which our consciousness now resides. For other Worlds: Navi, Slavi, Pravi, the same fairy-tale characters, their interaction, are the true Truth. Thus, we can say that the Fairy Tale is all the same Fairy, but for a certain World, for a certain Reality. If the Fairy Tale conjures up some Images in your imagination, it means that somewhere these Images came from before your imagination gave them to you. There is no fiction divorced from reality. Any fantasy is as real as our explicit life. Our subconscious, reacting to the signals of the second signaling system (to the word), “pulls out” Images from the collective field - one of the billions of realities among which we live. In the imagination, there is only one thing around which there are so many fairy-tale plots: "Go There, you don't know Where, Bring That, you don't know What." Can your fantasy imagine something like this? - For the time being, no. Although, our Many-Wise Ancestors also had a completely adequate answer to this question.

"Lesson" among the Slavs means something that stands at Rock, that is, some fatality of Being, Destiny, Mission that any person embodied on Earth has. The lesson is what needs to be learned before your evolutionary Path continues further and higher. Thus, a Tale is a Lie, but it always contains a Hint of the Lesson that each of the people will have to learn during their Life.

KOLOBOK

Ras Deva asked: - Bake me a gingerbread man. The Virgin swept over the Svarog barns, scraped and baked the Kolobok along the Devil's bottom. The Kolobok rolled along the Track. Rolling and rolling, and towards him - Swan: - Gingerbread man-Gingerbread man, I'll eat you! And he nipped off a piece from Kolobok with his beak. The Kolobok rolls on. Towards him - Raven: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! He pecked Kolobok by the barrel and ate another piece. The Kolobok rolled further along the Track. Then the Bear met him: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! He grabbed Kolobok across the stomach, and squeezed his sides, forcibly Kolobok took his legs away from the Bear. Rolling Kolobok, rolling along the Svarog Way, and then towards him - Wolf: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! Gripped the Kolobok with his teeth, so the Kolobok barely rolled away from the Wolf. But his Path is not over yet. It rolls on: a very small piece of Kolobok remains. And here the Fox comes out to meet Kolobok: - Kolobok-Kolobok, I'll eat you! - Don't eat me, Fox, - only Kolobok managed to say, and the Fox - "am", and ate it whole.

The tale, familiar to everyone from childhood, takes on a completely different meaning and a much deeper essence when we discover the Wisdom of the Ancestors. The Slavs have never had a gingerbread man, nor a bun, nor "almost a cheesecake", as the most variegated bakery products, which are given to us as Kolobok, are sung in modern fairy tales and cartoons. The idea of ​​the people is much more figurative and sacred than they are trying to imagine. Kolobok is a metaphor, like almost all Images of the heroes of Russian fairy tales. It is not for nothing that the Russian people were famous everywhere for their figurative thinking.

The Tale of Kolobok is an astronomical observation of the Ancestors over the movement of the Moon across the sky: from the full moon (in the Palace of Race) to the new moon (the Hall of the Fox). Kolobok's “kneading” - the full moon, in this tale, takes place in the Hall of Virgo and Race (roughly corresponds to the modern constellations of Virgo and Leo). Further, starting from the Hall of the Boar, the Month begins to wane, i.e. each of the meeting Halls (Swan, Raven, Bear, Wolf) - "eat" part of the Month. Nothing remains from Kolobok to the Hall of the Fox - Midgard-Earth (in modern terms - the planet Earth) completely closes the Moon from the Sun.

We find confirmation of just such an interpretation of Kolobok in Russian folk riddles (from the collection of V. Dahl): A blue scarf, a red bun: rolling on a scarf, grinning at people. - This is about Heaven and Yarilo-Sun. I wonder how modern fairy-tale remakes would depict the red Kolobok? Blush in the dough?

There are a couple of other mysteries for the kids: A white-headed cow looks into the driveway. (Month) He was young - he looked good, when he was old he was tired - he began to fade, a new one was born - he was amused again. (Month) A turntable is turning, a golden bobbin, no one will get it: neither the king, nor the queen, nor the red maiden. (Sun) Who is richest in the world? (Earth)

It should be borne in mind that the Slavic constellations do not correspond exactly to the modern constellations. In Slavic Krugolet there are 16 Halls (constellations), and they had different configurations than the modern 12 Signs of the Zodiac. Hall Race (Feline family) can be roughly correlated with
zodiac sign Leo.

REPKA

Everyone probably remembers the text of the tale from childhood. Let us analyze the esotericism of the tale and those gross distortions of imagery and logic that were imposed on us.

Reading this, like most other supposedly “folk” (ie, pagan: “language” - “people”) fairy tales, we draw attention to the obsessive absence of parents. That is, children are presented entirely with incomplete families, which instills the idea from childhood that an incomplete family is normal, “everyone lives like this”. Only grandparents raise children. Even in a complete family, it has become a tradition to “hand over” a child to the elderly for upbringing. Perhaps this tradition took root in the days of serfdom as a necessity. Many will tell me that the times are no better, too. democracy is the same slave system. “Demos”, in Greek, is not just a “people”, but a well-to-do people, the “top” of society, “kratos” means “power”. So it turns out that democracy is the power of the ruling elite, i.e. the same slaveholding, only having an erased manifestation in the modern political system. In addition, religion is also the power of the elite for the people, and is also actively involved in the upbringing of the flock (that is, the herd), for its own and the state elite. What do we bring up in children, telling them fairy tales to someone else's tune? Do we continue to “prepare” more and more serfs for demos? Or servants of God?

From an esoteric point of view, what kind of picture appears in the modern "Turnip"? - The line of generations is interrupted, joint good work is broken, there is a total destruction of the harmony of the Clan, Family,
well-being and joy of family relationships. What kind of people grow up in dysfunctional families? .. And this is what the newly appeared fairy tales teach us.

Specifically, according to “REPK”. Two of the main heroes for the child, the father and the mother, are absent. Let us consider which Images make up the essence of the tale, and what exactly was removed from the tale on the symbolic plane. So, the characters: 1) Turnip - symbolizes the Roots of the Family. She is planted
Ancestor, the Most Ancient and Wise. Without him, Repka would not have been, and joint, joyful work for the Good of the Family. 2) Grandfather - symbolizes Ancient Wisdom 3) Grandma - Tradition, House 4) Father - protection and support of the Family - removed from the tale along with figurative meaning 5) Mother - Love and Care - removed from the tale 6) Granddaughter (daughter) - Offspring, continuation of the Family 7) Beetle - the protection of prosperity in the Family 8) Cat - the blissful atmosphere of the House 9) Mouse - symbolizes the well-being of the House. Mice are turned on only where there is an excess, where every crumb is not counted. These figurative meanings are interconnected like a nesting doll - one without the other no longer makes sense and completeness.

So think later, knowingly or not knowingly, Russian fairy tales have been changed, and for whom they are “working” now.

CHICKEN RYABA

It seems - well, what nonsense: beat, beat, and then a mouse, bang - and the fairy tale is over. What is this all for? Indeed, only to children who are unintelligent to tell ...

This tale is about Wisdom, about the Image of the Universal Wisdom, contained in the Golden Egg. Not everyone and not at any time is given to cognize this Wisdom. Not everyone can handle it. Sometimes you have to settle for the simple wisdom contained in the Simple Egg.

When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing its hidden meaning, the Ancient Wisdom contained in this fairy tale is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on the subtle plane, on the subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmation, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.

ABOUT Kaschey and Baba Yaga

In the book written on the basis of PP Globa's lectures, we find interesting information about the classic heroes of Russian fairy tales: “The name“ Koschey ”comes from the name of the sacred books of the ancient Slavs“ blasphemer ”. These were tied wooden plaques with unique knowledge written on them. The guardian of this immortal inheritance was called “koshchei”. His books were passed down from generation to generation, but it is unlikely that he was truly immortal, as in a fairy tale. (...) And into a terrible villain, a sorcerer, heartless, cruel, but powerful, ... Koschey turned relatively recently - during the introduction of Orthodoxy, when all the positive characters of the Slavic pantheon were turned into negative ones. At the same time, the word "blasphemy" arose, that is, adherence to ancient, non-Christian customs. (...) And Baba Yaga is a popular person in our country ... But they could not completely denigrate her in fairy tales. Not just anywhere, but it was to her that all the Ivans-tsarevichs and Ivans-fools came in difficult times. And she fed them, watered them, heated the bathhouse for them and put them to sleep on the stove in order to show the right path in the morning, helped to unravel their most difficult problems, gave a magic ball, which itself leads to the desired goal. The role of “Russian Ariadne” makes our grandmother surprisingly similar to one Avestan deity, ... I am clean. This woman-purifier, sweeping the road with her hair, driving away the beast and all evil spirits from her, clearing the road of fate from stones and debris, was depicted with a broom in one hand and a ball in the other. ... It is clear that with such a position, she cannot be torn and dirty. Moreover, we have our own bathhouse ”. (Man - the Tree of Life. Avestan tradition. Mn.: Arctida, 1996)

This knowledge partly confirms the Slavic concept of Kashchey and Baba Yaga. But let us draw the reader's attention to a significant difference in the spelling of the names “Koschey” and “Kaschey”. These are two fundamentally different heroes. The negative character that is used in fairy tales, with whom all the characters are fighting, led by Baba Yaga, and whose death is "in the egg", this is KASHCHA. The first rune in writing this ancient Slavic word-image is “Ka”, meaning “gathering inside oneself, union, unification”. For example, the runic word-image “KARA” does not mean punishment as such, but means something that does not radiate, ceases to shine, blackened, because it has collected all the radiance (“RA”) inside itself. Hence, the word KARAKUM - “KUM” - is a relative or a set of something related (grains of sand, for example), and “KARA” - who have gathered radiance: “a collection of shining particles”. This already has a slightly different meaning than the previous word "punishment".

Slavic runic images are unusually deep and capacious, ambiguous and difficult for an ordinary reader. Only the Priests possessed these images in their entirety, since writing and reading a runic image is a serious and very responsible matter, it requires great accuracy, absolute purity of thought and heart.

Baba Yoga (Yogini-Mother) - Ever-beautiful, Loving, Kind-hearted Goddess-Patroness of orphans and children in general. She wandered across Midgard-Earth either on the Fiery Heavenly Chariot, then on horseback through the lands where the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clan lived, gathering homeless orphans from cities and towns. In every Slavic-Aryan Vesi, even in every populous city or settlement, the Patron Goddess was recognized by the radiating kindness, tenderness, meekness, love and her elegant boots, decorated with golden patterns, and she was shown where the orphans live. Ordinary people called the Goddess in different ways, but always with tenderness. Some - by Grandmother Yoga with Golden Foot, and who, quite simply - by the Yogini-Mother.

The Yogini delivered orphaned children to her foothill Skete, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian mountains (Altai). She did this in order to save the last representatives of the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans from inevitable death. In the foothill Skete, where the Yogini-Mother led the children through the Fiery rite of dedication to the Ancient Highest Gods, there was a Temple of God Kin, carved inside the mountain. Near the mountain Temple of the Roda, in the rock there was a special depression, which the Priests called the Cave of Ra. From it protruded a stone platform, divided by a ledge into two equal depressions, called Lapata. In one recess, which was closer to the Cave of Ra, the Yogini-Mother laid sleeping children in white clothes. Dry brushwood was put into the second depression, after which LapatA moved back into the Cave of Ra, and the Yogini set fire to the brushwood. For all those present at the Fiery Rite, this meant that orphans were dedicated to the Ancient Highest Gods and no one would see them in the mundane life of the Clans. Strangers, who sometimes attended the Fire Rites, very colorfully told in their area that they watched with their own eyes how little children were sacrificed to the Old Gods, thrown alive into the Fiery Furnace, and Baba Yoga did this. The strangers did not know that when the paw-platform moved into the Ra Cavern, a special mechanism lowered the stone slab onto the paw ledge and separated the depression with the children from the Fire. When the Fire lit up in the Cave of Ra, the Priests of the Sort carried the children from the paws to the premises of the Temple of the Sort. Subsequently, Priests and Priestesses were raised from orphans, and when they became adults, young men and women created families and continued their lineage. The strangers did not know any of this and continued to spread tales that the wild Priests of the Slavic and Aryan peoples, and especially the bloodthirsty Baba Yoga, sacrifice orphans to the Gods. These foreign tales influenced the Image of the Yogini-Mother, especially after the Christianization of Russia, when the Image of a beautiful young Goddess was replaced by the Image of an old, angry and hunchbacked old woman with matted hair who steals children. roasts them in an oven in a forest hut, and then eats them. Even the Name of the Yogini-Mother was distorted and began to frighten the Goddess of all children.

Very interesting, from an esoteric point of view, is the fabulous Instruction-Lesson accompanying more than one Russian folk tale:

Go There, you don't know Where, Bring That, you don't know What.

It turns out that not only fabulous fellows were given such a Lesson. This instruction was received by each descendant from the Clans of the Holy Race, who ascended along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development (in particular, mastering the Stages of Faith - “the science of imagery”). A person begins the Second Lesson of the First Step of Faith by looking inside himself in order to see all the variety of colors and sounds within himself, as well as to experience that Ancient Ancestral Wisdom, which he received at his birth on Midgard-Earth. The key to this great storehouse of Wisdom is known to every person from the Clans of the Great Race, it is contained in the ancient instruction: Go There, not knowing Where, Know That, you do not know What.

This Slavic Lesson is echoed by more than one popular wisdom of the world: To seek wisdom outside of oneself is the height of stupidity. (Ch'an dictum) Look inside yourself and you will discover the whole world. (Indian wisdom)

Russian fairy tales have undergone many distortions, but, nevertheless, in many of them the essence of the Lesson, laid down in the fable, remained. It is a fiction in our reality, but reality is in another reality, no less real than the one in which we live. For a child, the concept of reality is expanded. Children see and feel much more energy fields and currents than adults. It is necessary to respect each other's realities. What is Fiction for us is Real Life for the kid. That is why it is so important to initiate the child into “correct” fairy tales, with truthful, original Images, without layers of politics and history.

The most truthful, relatively free from distortions, in my opinion, are some of Bazhov's tales, the tales of Pushkin's nanny - Arina Rodionovna, written by the poet almost word for word, the tales of Ershov, Aristov, Ivanov, Lomonosov, Afanasyev ... Seems like Tales from the 4th book of the Slavic-Aryan Vedas: “The Tale of Ratibor”, “The Tale of the Clear Falcon”, given with comments and explanations according to words that came out of Russian everyday use, but remained unchanged in fairy tales.

There are a lot of books and articles on raising children today. Teachers and psychologists offer a variety of methods, sometimes they contradict each other. But everyone agrees that spiritual and moral education is very important. Why don't we turn to the old method, tested by our great-grandmothers - folk tales? Previously, their old people told kids. These tales were distinguished not only by exciting plots, but were also told in a melodious, rich language, with many vivid images, and were remembered forever - grown-up children told legends to their children, passing on wisdom through generations ...

Are all Slavic fairy tales real?

Finding collections of fairy tales nowadays is not difficult - in every bookstore you will see a sea of ​​colorful books on glossy paper, with beautiful fonts. Including, you can find many collections of Russian folk tales. But out of all this abundance, it is not at all easy to choose a worthy publication. By no means always are the tales that the compilers of the books call "folk" are really genuine Slavic legends. Many of the original tales over the centuries have been mercilessly censored based on Christian ideas: thus, all knowledgeable, "knowledgeable" people have become negative heroes. In other fairy tales, the accents are incorrectly placed - the child is invited to admire those heroes or heroines to whom everything is given without difficulty. It is difficult, according to such tales, to teach a child eternal values: devotion, nobility, love for one's neighbor and the Motherland, the willingness to overcome one's shortcomings and develop, learn something new.

Where to look for Slavic tales?

In search of true, authentic fairy tales, we often turn to scientific sources, solid philological and ethnographic works, but they are often difficult for understanding even for adults, not to mention children. Other fairy tales are written in a deliberately dry language, or, on the contrary, too ornate, so that reading them becomes uninteresting. Book design also plays a role. It's no secret that nowadays book illustrations are often done somehow, tastelessly, primitively. And children in books are important not only the text itself, but also the "pictures". Bright, talented illustrations from books of fairy tales, which we read in deep childhood, are engraved in our memory, and are still remembered when we hear this or that fairy tale.

Where are they, beautiful books of children's Slavic fairy tales, where the heroes want to imitate, you follow the plot without taking your eyes off, and the illustrations are so good that the soul rejoices? The Northern Skazka Publishing House has already published many such wonderful books. Take a look at ourBooks of fairy tales

Their main characters are the Gods of Slavic mythology and people. They tell the stories of Gods and ordinary people, extraordinary adventures, in which there is a place for magic and amazing wanderings, exploits and courageous deeds. Such heroes set an excellent example for children - and they teach kindness without any boring teachings. The customs of Primordial Russia, the way of life of our distant ancestors are richly and figuratively represented in our northern fairy tales. The language is simple and comprehensible for both adults and children, but at the same time it is rich, in the best traditions of northern grandmothers-storytellers. Even adults will be interested in reading them! And the illustrations are beautiful and bright, in the old Slavic style.

Isn't it easier to download Slavic fairy tales in the form of an e-book?

Nowadays, many people find it more convenient to download books rather than read paper ones. But our books about Yarilo, God Veles are good in paper form! Beautiful illustrations, an unusual font, covers reminiscent of the covers of ancient chronicles and manuscripts ... Agree - such a book itself asks to be handled, you want to look through it, listen to the mysterious rustle of pages. And tactile sensations are also important for children - so with the help of paper, not electronic books, you can instill in them the habit of reading, help them discover the wonderful world of Slavic fairy tales!