In The Tale of Bygone Years, the chronicler Nestor calls Veles a "cattle god", the patron saint of domestic animals. Perhaps this monk did not know the pre-Christian mythology of Russia well or tried to downplay the importance of the son of Rod, brother of Svarog.
Veles is one of the greatest gods of the ancient world.
His main act was that Veles set the world created by Rod and Svarog in motion. Day began to replace night; winter was inevitably followed by spring, summer and autumn; after exhalation - inhale, after sadness - joy. It was not a monotonous repetition of the same cycles, but learning the basics of life. People learned to overcome difficulties and appreciate happiness. Rotation occurs according to the highest law of the Rule following the movement of the Sun across the sky - Salting. The guiding force is Great Love, which helps in trials.
It was about this power that the Italian poet Dante wrote in The Divine Comedy: "Love that moves the Sun and the luminaries." The symbol of this movement from Darkness to Light, from Navi through Reality to Rule, is the sign of the solstice, or in Sanskrit - the swastika. At the same time, it is very important to know where the curved rays of the solstice are directed: if the upper beam looks to the left, then the movement will go “clockwise” - Salting - from left to right, towards the Right.
If the upper end of the swastika is turned to the right, then the movement of life will go back - Osolon, "counterclockwise", from the world of the gods - Rule, to the black Navi, the abode of Chernobog, Seduni and Dyya. Such a symbol is the "coat of arms" of the forces of Darkness. A person moving from Good to Evil will become more and more embittered, his soul blackened. It is not for nothing that in our days, we spit three times over the left shoulder, behind which there is an evil force, and we say about a good deed that it is right, that is, right.
Veles gave this law of correct movement to the world. It is recorded in the sacred "Book of Veles" ("Book of Veles"). And the sorcerers, the servants of the great (this word is formed on behalf of Veles) god, reminded and interpreted him to people. Thus, Veles was not only an assistant in practical life, but also the original, ever-living sage, as well as a teacher of the Law.
Vast, richly decorated temples of Veles were in many places of the Russian land: near Novgorod, in other places of the Russian North, in Rostov and Kiev. In the Christian era, the cult of Veles was replaced by the veneration of the patron saint of cattle, St. Blaise. In Novgorod, on the site of the former temple, Volosovaya Street was laid. The church of St. Blaise was erected in Rostov. In Ukraine, on winter Christmas time and Maslenitsa, you can meet mummers - people in "hairy", fur outside, sheepskin coats and horned masks. This is all that remains of the Veles holidays.
Russian chronicles according to the treaties of Oleg and Svyatoslav with the Greeks: In the summer of 6415 (911): "Caesar Leon and Alexander made peace with Olgm, imishesya by tribute and company went between themselves, kissing themselves cross, and Olga led the company and his husband along Russian law and swearing by their weapons and Perunm, God by their own and Volosm cattle God and affirming the world. In the summer of 6479 (971). "... Yes, we have an oath from God, but we believe in him both from Perun and from Volos, the cattle of God."
The Volkhov Princess.Mikhail Vrubel 1898
Probably Veles and the giver of wealth (through cattle, the main wealth of nomadic tribes is the "god of cattle" ("On the idols of Vladimirov"), and later simply the god of wealth, who is earned by labor throughout his life. There is every reason to believe that it was Veles monitors the execution of laws and treaties, he is the father and judge of truth, similar to Hermes and Odin. Therefore, "the Second (idol) Volos, the god of cattle, was with them (pagans) in great honor" ("Gustin Chronicle").
The mention of Veles in the contract, next to Perun, the patron of the prince and the squad, is not accidental. Mercury was also invoked by the Germans in tandem with the warlike Mars. And the sacred couple here is not accidental - a wise, old, not quite positive in the Christian sense of the word "cattle god" and a strong, young warrior-ruler. Despite the obvious attributes of blackness, Veles, like Odin, Mercury and Hermes, is the god of science and wisdom. In "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" we find "Whether it was sung, prophetic Boyane, Velesov's granddaughter ...". His name is also found in the late recorded ritual text of the Macedonian Bulgarians, the so-called "Veda of the Slavs" in ed. Verkovich (IV, 5.5-13).
And in the mythology of the Balts, the black god is called Vielona, Wellns or Vels, which actually means "devil", "devil" is a constant opponent of the Thunderer and the owner of the world of the dead, a jester and a trickster. The identity of this name and the similarity of this image with the Slavic Veles is quite noticeable.
In the Christian apocryphal "Walking of the Virgin through the torments" Veles is directly called a demon, but he is also called an "evil god", almost like Helmold's Chernobog in the "Slavic Chronicle" (it is understood that there were good gods, pay attention to the plural): pagans "these are those who called gods; the sun and the moon, earth and water, animals and reptiles, who in their hardness of heart gave the gods names, like people, and those who revered Utrius, Troyan, Khors, Veles, turning demons into gods. And people believed in these evil gods."
God le Vlas le
Alive ma Yuda taught
Yes, this is a Clear Book,
yes, sit down and write.
Taught ma, God, taught.
And you, God, yes ma teach
Yes, right, kusher-ta.
Yes, you will give me three hundred oxen,
Three hundred oxen, three hundred blood
Literally, according to another list: "God created a creature of faith, south of us, to work, then they all the gods called the sun and the month the earth and water, animals and reptiles, then it is more net and a member of the documentary of the trojan of chrs veles peroun to the Gods, turning the evil demon to faith , hitherto obsessed with darkness by evil, for the sake of this, tacos to urinate.
Next to him, Veles, on the list are Troyan, according to Serbian legends, a giant who is afraid of sunlight and has goat ears, as well as Khors. "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" testifies to a certain night path of Khors, for Vseslav prowled in the form of a wolf precisely at night: "Vseslav prince judging by the people, the prince of the city is standing next to him, and he himself roams like a wolf in the night; from Kiev doriskashe to the chickens of Tmutorokan, the great Khorsov and the wolf are the way break up."
The Czechs, even after adopting Christianity, remembered Veles as one of the most powerful "demons", sacrificing black chickens and pigeons to him. In the "Word of St. Gregory" it is said about the worship of the Slavs "to the cattle god and companion and forest god." Those. Veles - the god of cattle, the patron saint of travelers, the god of forests.
The blackness of Veles is evidenced by the absence of his pillar in the pantheon of Prince Vladimir, the pillar of Veles stood separately, not on a hill, but on Podil. Meanwhile, they deal with Veles in Kiev under Vladimir, sending them to the afterlife along the river, i.e. do not mutilate, but bury the old god. The "Life of Vladimir" says: "And the Hair of the idol ... led the Pochaina river into the river." By this, allegedly, Vladimir sent Veles, as hitherto Perun, on a voyage to the kingdom of the dead. He put to rest, therefore, the two most famous Slavic gods. However, in Rostov, much later, the stone idol of Veles was destroyed. In the life of Avraamy of Rostov it is said: "The end of Chud worshiped the stone idol, Veles." We pay attention to the sacred location of the idol - the Chudsky end. With Veles, a demon is directly compared, possessing knowledge of hidden treasures. And Abraham, who destroyed the “idol stone” of Volos in Rostov, “almost became a victim of a demon”, which was transformed into its opposite - “in the image of a warrior who slandered him to “king” Vladimir ..”. The demon "accused Abraham of being engaged in sorcery, that he hid from the prince a copper cauldron with money he had found in the ground." This is truly a diabolical mockery worthy of the trickster Loki and the Navi god - Odin.
In the "Tale of the Construction of the City of Yaroslavl", an 18th-century source dating back to an ancient record, "which, although updated later, nevertheless adequately reflected the true course of events," it is directly stated that the Magi were priests of the "cattle god": "To this same multi-executed idol and kermet (temple) was created the life and Volkhov vdan, and holding this unquenchable fire to Volos and sacrificial smoke to him." The priest guessed by the smoke of the fire, and if he guessed badly, and the fire died out, then the priest was executed. “And these people, by an oath at Volos, promised the prince to live in harmony and give him dues, but they just did not want to be baptized… the harp, and singing, resounded many times, and some dancing was visible.Cattle, when walking in this place, were subjected to unusual thinness and illness ... They said that all this attack was the wrath of Volos, that he turned into an evil spirit in order to crush people, how they crushed him and kermet ".
Most often he was portrayed as a wise old man,
protector of plants and animals
N.M. Karamzin retells (without reference to the source, but this is essentially one of the variants of the "Greater Poland Chronicle") "for the curious" "fables", in one of which we find: "The Slovene-Russian princes, delighted with such a letter (from Alexander the Great), hung this in his temple on the right side of the idol of Veles ... After a while, two princes Lyakh (Mamokh, Lalokh) and Lachern rebelled from their family, fought the Greek land and went under the most reigning city: there, near the sea, Prince Lachern laid his head (where Blachernae Monastery was created after...)"
With a high degree of probability, we can say that Veles is a vodka and shepherd of the dead, like his Baltic counterparts, like St. Nikolay. “The fiery river runs, across the fiery river the viburnum bridge, along that viburnum bridge there is an old mater man; he carries in his hands a golden saucer, a silver feather ... relieves seventy diseases from the servant of God.”
The werewolf god, the master of magic and the secret, the ruler of the crossroads, the Navi god, as we showed in our previous book, where a functional analysis of the images of Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, Veles was carried out. One of his names is Mokos - the husband of Mokosh, the goddess of fate (we know at least four mentions of Mokosh-Mokos in the masculine gender) - thus Veles himself, who appears in fairy tales as an old man with a guiding ball - the god of Luck. Note that in the Indo-European tradition, gods with similar names also had similar functions. For example, Roman Lares, Russian Mavkas, mermaids, Roman Fauns and Fauns, Indian Adityas, etc.
Among the Slovenes of the Priilmensky, Volos-Veles, probably also acted under the name of the Lizard or Volkhov. The veneration fell on December 19 - Nikola the Water Volkh, Volkhov, Volkhovets - also the son of the Lizard, the werewolf god, the god of hunting and prey similar to Veles, probably the owner of the waters and, possibly, the patron saint of warriors, there are indications of him in the "Word of the Regiment Igor", epics about Volkh Vseslavich and Sadko, the First Novgorod Chronicles, as Vuk the Fire Serpent is described by the Serbs. Ancestor - Gray prophetic Wolf from Russian fairy tales. Hypostasis of Veles. His day is celebrated in central Russia on October 2, this is the beginning of the hunting season. Volosyns are the wives of Veles, the constellation Pleiades according to I.I. Sreznevsky (they are Vlasozhelishchi, Baba) with reference to his work by Afanasy Nikitin "Journey beyond three seas": "Hair and stake entered the dawn, and the elk stands with its head to the east". Volosozhary - Milky Way - "Veles scratched and scattered his hair." According to ancient ideas (Egyptians, Germans, Slavs), the Universe appeared from a heavenly cow. The Milky Way is her milk. Veles is the son of the Cow of the Universe. Elk - Constellation Ursa Major - the palaces of Velesov.
Veles. Andrey Klimenko
So Veles:
1. "Cattle God" - the owner of the Wild.
2. Vodchiy on all Roads, Lord of the Ways, patron of all travelers
3. Master of Navi, ruler of the Unknown, Black God
4. Posthumous judge and lifetime tester.
5. Mighty wizard and lord of magic, werewolf.
6. The patron of trade, mediator in contracts and interpreter of laws.
7. Giver of wealth.
8. Patron of those who know and seek, teacher of arts, including skaldic
9. God of luck.
Veles Day - Wednesday, stone - opal or obsidian, metal - lead or mercury, wood - spruce, pine, walnut or ash (yew), it is from them that amulets, staves, idols and other items associated with the cult of Veles should be made. The myth of the northern sorcerer-god is, of course, somewhat different from that of the Southern Tradition. Places for the device of victims to Veles and dedications to him are dense coniferous forests. Often impassable with ugly trees and deadwood, Veles is volohat and loves mosses and lichens, as well as mushrooms, perhaps they set an idol for him or laid trebs at the fork and crossroads of three forest roads. Three evergreen trees (often pines - hence the "get lost in three pines") and anthills are also signs of Velesov. If on flat terrain - then the same intersections, but with a lone tree or stone on them.
On the temples of Veles could hang not only letters with letters, as in the legend, but also cattle skulls or horns. Probably, the idol Veles himself was crowned with horns - hence his identification with Satan, or a crooked stick.
Veles was sacrificed with copper, for he is the god of well-being and prosperity, wool and fur, and they also poured beer and kvass - those drinks that he taught people to prepare according to one of the legends. Images of Veles' idols may contain images of the same horn (or be horned), as well as a dead human head in the hand of a god. The idols of Veles, according to the reconstruction of D. Gromov, were placed not on the top of the hills, but on a slope or in a lowland, closer to the waters. His days, Velesov, were celebrated especially solemnly on December 22-24, December 31, January 2 and 6 - in the days of St. Nicholas the Winter, on February 24 they asked the "cattle god" to knock the horns off Winter. And they also honored him on the days of honoring St. Nicholas Veshny - May 22 (Yarilin Day, Semik). July 12 - when they put the first sheaf and begin to mow, harvesting hay for livestock. Between August 18 and 20, Veles was curled in a tuft on a harvested field "on a beard" - Nikolina's beard.
Throughout the centuries, the pagan tradition of confrontation between the Black and the White God continues and manifests itself at all levels. The first - Old - pacifies nature, the second - Young - revives it, and with it he rises himself, full of strength. In the spring, the young replaces the old, and the New replaces the Old. Then the cycle repeats, and so it will be forever.
“Veles book” (“Vles book”, “Book of Veles”) is a translation of the sacred texts of the Novgorod Magi of the 9th century, which tells the most ancient history of the Slavs and other peoples from the end of the 2nd millennium BC. until the end of the 1st millennium AD. (IX century).
Let's start with the fact that none of the Jews and none of the Christians, no matter how carefully he studied the Torah, the Talmud, the Bible, will never give you an answer to the question - what is the name of the Judeo-Christian god?
1. The Mysterious Jewish Yahweh Is Not God
Yahweh or aka Jehovah is not the name of God. This is the designation of a creature whose name is forbidden to be spoken. For example, just like the Russians have a "bear" - "knowing where the honey is." But this is not the name of the animal itself. This is an allegory. The bear's name is Ber, hence the lair went - Ber's lair. Ber among Russians, like Jehovah among Jews and Christians, is a sacred deity.
So what is the name of the Judeo-Christian god? After all, you need to know your God! It is not easy to send your prayers into the void of time. By the way, Muslims, for example, pray simply to the east. And what about Judeo-Christians? Of course not. They have icons.
Russians know their One God - his name is Rod. Why is it not given to Judeo-Christians to know the name of the one in whom they believe?
2. The Jewish Jesus is “the son of the regiment”, but not God
Jesus is not God.
The Lord once said to the Jewish Christians:
“(18:18) I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them whatever I command him…” [Deuteronomy]
And - everything. He will only put words into the Prophet! No spirit of God! And the Prophet himself will be exclusively human!
Opening the Genealogy of Jesus Christ. Reading:
"(1:1) Genealogy of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham." [Matt.]
Two fathers for one son, and even God the father is provided - an extremely mixed fornication on the part of the alleged mother.
Moreover, the Torah-Bible also indicates the “fertilizers” involved in the conception of Christ:
"(1:15-16) ... Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, called Christ."
“(3:23-38) Jesus, starting His ministry, was about thirty years old, and was, as they thought, the son of Joseph, Iliev, Matfonov, Levin, Melchiev, Iannaev, Mattafiev, Amosov, Naumov, Eslimov, Naggeev, Maafov, Semeiev , Judin, Ioannanov, Risaev, Zorovavelev, Sa-Irov, Iosiev, Eliezerov, Jorimov, Matfatov, Simenov, Ionanov, Eliakimov, Meleaev, Mainaozov, Mattafaev, Nafanov, Davidov, Jesseev, Ovidov, Vozov, Salmonov, Naassonov, Aminadavov, Aramov , Yesromov, Faresov, Jacoblev, Isaac, Avramov, Farrin, Naforov, Serukhov, Ragavov, Falekov, Everov, Salin, Cainanov, Arfaksadov, Simov, Noah, Lamech, Methuselah, Enoch, Jared, Maleleid, Cainan, Enos, Sifov, Adamov , God's. [Luke]
Yes, Christ has many fathers.
3. Master is the name of the Judeo-Christian God
Let's pay attention to how the Jews in the Torah Bible refer to "their" god, and the "Jewish" god himself calls himself very specifically and very unambiguously:
(15:14) Remember that you also were a slave in the land of Egypt, and delivered you Lord your God."
“(15:18) Do not consider this difficult for yourself, ... and bless you Lord your God is in everything…”
“(15:19) ... from your flocks, dedicate Lord your God…”
"(15:20) Before Lord by thy God, thou shalt eat this every year…” [Deuteronomy].
It is obvious that the Lord calls himself just the Lord - with a capital letter, that is, this is his name. In addition, the Lord specifies about himself that he is “your God.” That is, the Lord is the name of the Judeo-Christian God.
“(10:17) For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, a great God, strong and terrible, who does not look at faces and does not take gifts,
"(10:18) Who gives judgment to the orphan and the widow, and loves the stranger, and gives him bread and clothing" [Deuteronomy].
4. Lord is called the Russian god Veles
The main appeal of the Judeo-Christians to their "god" is the Lord, Master.
And when they talk, they don't know what they're talking about. And they will probably be very surprised if they open their eyes.
Lord (master) - literally " cow owner”, gopatin (Skt.), beef - a cow, from the common European go - a cow (wandering, moving).
And the owner of cows (cattle) since ancient times is the Russian god Veles - "the cow god". That's what they called him in Russia!
Veles is also a god wealth [!], tricks [!], bookishness [!], trade [!], sorcery [!], divination [!], the owner of demons, the guide of dead souls to the Other World. Agree, much of what Veles patronizes embodies the Jewish principle of life.
5. Veles - Cow's son
Veles - a son Rod and Cow Zemun; cousin brother- Alive, Madder, Perun, Poel, Kolyada, Kashchei, Indrik the Beast, Black Snake, Khors, Azovushka, Shroud, Semargl; father- Anta, Asil, Frost, Sleep, Tour, Yarila; ancestor- Cossacks, Circassians, Belarusians, Poles, Celts, cousin ancestor - Kievans, residents of Krakow, Lyashsky glades, Sorbo-Croats, Czechs, West and East Germans, Drevlyans, Glades, Russians, Scythians, Krivichi, Khazars, etc.
Veles (from the word "hairy" - hairy) - the patron of livestock and wealth, the embodiment gold, trustee of merchants, all lower spirits obeyed him.
Veles - was lunar god and great Keeper of the Rule.
6. Lord, the God of the Judeo-Christians, had Russian brothers and children
In the Torah-Bible from its third page, the Lord, their God, our Veles, immediately admitted that He is one of many gods, moreover, respected, honored, equal to Him. About whom He cares extremely much - more than about the main ancestor of the Jews - Adam. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in Paradise, the Lord said in horror:
"(3:22) And the Lord God said, Behold, Adam has become like ONE OF US..." [Genesis]
After that, the Lord, our Veles, expelled the first Jews from Paradise - Adam and Eve. Who began to give birth and give birth, and gave birth to many Cains and Enochs, who, in turn, gave birth to daughters. And here the Lord, our Veles, again let slip about the plurality of his, God's, tribe, of course, caring for the purity of God's blood:
“(6:2) Then the SONS OF GOD saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and took them for their wives, which one they chose” [Deuteronomy].
The sons of God, as you see, were many. While Veles, the Lord of the Judeo-Christians, set up his experiments on growing a certain ingenious (?) now tribe from soulless people, the sons of God already existed and frolicked with young monkeys (according to Darwin) - the daughters of men. We Russians, the descendants of those gods, can also condemn our ancestors: you suffered bestiality - in vain, relatives! We now disentangle the dominance of the results of such incidents.
But what was born? When such unequal partners: the son of God and soulless clay (“Adam” in translation “clay”);
“And then Svarog began to create people
Together with the gracious mother Lada.
With Lada Svarog they took pebbles
And they threw them behind their backs.Svarog will throw a stone - he says:
- Where there was a white combustible stone -
Stay where you are, good fellow.
Lada will throw a stone, saying:Where there was a white combustible stone -
Stand in place, that red girl.
So the tribe of the first people appeared -
Strong, proud and Those who do not know the truth.
Svarog failed to breathe soul into them.,
He could not warm the cold stones.")
(PPG 3.47.-3.50.)
everything worked out. For example, the Arab diplomat and respected land surveyor Ibn Fadlan, who visited the upper reaches of the Volga, saw the remains of a just killed cannibal at the court of the Bulgarian Khan.
“And I saw that his head was like a large tub, and behold, his ribs were like the largest dry fruit branches of palm trees, and in the same way the bones of his legs and both of his ulna bones. I was amazed at this and left.
This giant was caught in the forests of the Vesi tribe (that is, in the Murom forests). He had a violent temper, because he was kept on a chain, and strangled because of the fact that women had miscarriages from his cry.
And the Slavs, as you know, had the One God Rod, who had sons and daughters of divine origin. One of the sons was Veles - the owner of the cows - the Lord. And, obviously, he said what was recorded in the Torah-Bible.
"(11:7) Let us come down and confuse their language there, so that one does not understand the speech of the other" [Deuteronomy]
7. Russian god Veles - the biblical god to whom the Judeo-Christians make sacrifices
According to the ancient custom, the Russian god Veles was sacrificed bulls and sheep. However, in Russia, the country of the descendants of the gods, bloody sacrifices were not practiced.
But they were practiced among a human tribe, later called the Jews, who professed Judaism and planted servile Christianity on other peoples.
Judeo-Christians with rapture and extremely often described in their Torah-Bible about the bloody sacrifices brought to the Jewish gods (note that there are a great many gods in the Torah-Bible!) and the method of killing these victims.
So did Noah:
“(8:20) ... and he arranged from every clean cattle, and from every clean bird, and offered them for burnt offerings on the altar. (8:21) And the Lord smelled a sweet savor” [Genesis].
So did Abram, wandering around the lands inhabited by normal people:
“(11:7) ... And he built there (Shechem) an altar to the Lord, who appeared to him.
(11:8) And he built there (between Bethel and Ai) an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
(11:18) …in Hebron; and built there an altar to the Lord” [Genesis].
This is what Abraham did after he wandered around foreign lands to his heart's content and built altars that smelled of stench in them:
“(15:9) The Lord said to him: Take me a three-year heifer, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old ram, turtledove and young pigeon.
(15:10) He took them all, cut them in half, and laid one part against the other ...
(15:11) And birds of prey flew over the corpses; but Abraham drove them away.(15:17) When the sun had set and darkness came, behold, the smoke, as it were, from a furnace, and the flames of fire passed between the dissected animals” [Genesis].
The “Jewish” god is very selective in the quality of the sacrifices brought to him by the Judeo-Christians, he does not want sacrifices from vicious animals:
“(15:22) If there is a vice on him ... then do not offer him as a sacrifice to the Lord your God” [Deuteronomy].
The same bloody sacrifices at Easter:
“(16:2) And burn the Passover to the Lord ...
(16:4) You must not have anything ... of the meat that you offered as a sacrifice on the evening of the first day ”[Deuteronomy].
Moreover, the Lord - the Owner of cows speaks of altars at every house!:
"(16:21) Do not plant for yourself a grove of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God, which you have made for yourself" [Deuteronomy].
The Lord - the Owner of the cows - Veles teaches the Judeo-Christians the correct division of the carcasses of sacrificial animals:
“(18:3) This is what should be due to the priests from the people, from those who sacrifice oxen and sheep: they must give the priest the shoulder, jaws and stomach” [Deuteronomy].
Bloody sacrifices and the burnt-offering stench from the burning corpses of animals are pleasing to the Lord:
“(12:27) And offer your burnt offerings, meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; but the blood of your other sacrifices must be shed at the altar of the Lord your God…” [Deuteronomy]
8. The Russian god Veles, after his overthrow, hated the pillars in his honor
When the Lord - the Master of the cows - Veles teaches his Judeo-Christian "herd" life-existence, it is clearly seen how his words and the actions they cause are permeated with hatred for the native Russian faith:
(16:21) "Don't plant for yourselves groves of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God which you have made for yourself."
Groves and trees grew near Russian sacred places.
(16:22) "And do not set up a pillar for yourself, which the Lord your God hates" [Deuteronomy].
Pillars here are called ritual pillars dedicated to Russian gods.
There was a time when Veles got along with the god brothers, and everything was fine with them (and with us now). Even Perun invited him to his wedding, but not by anyone, but ...:
“Perun called on a friend of Veles,
For Veles to become a matchmaker,
To lead the chariot through the sky he.
(PPG 7.71.)
But Diva, Perun's wife, Veles was beautiful ...:
“Everyone at Perun’s wedding is cheerful,
They drink, eat, sit merrily.
Only one saddened the matchmaker,
He hung his exuberant head.
This is a friend of the mighty Perun -Veles, son of the Heavenly Cow.
He envied the Thunderer,
As I saw the beautiful bride -
Young Diva-Dodolushka.At that moment he forgot everything in the world,
I immediately forgot my former friendship -
He wanted to steal the dear Diva.
And when the matchmakers wentFrom Dodola's palace to Perun's palace,
He drove Dodolushka's chariot,
He spoke these words to her:
- I'll take you away, dear Diva,Far to the end of the white world!
Become, Diva-soul, you are my wife!
Here's a golden ring for you
You put a ring on your finger!I will not, Veles, yours!
Do not be angry, Veles, Kind of heaven!
He held out his white hands to her -
At the behest of the Heavenly FamilyVeles' hands did not rise,
The gold of the ring in the hand was unsoldered.
The punishment came for Veles quickly:
Thunder immediately roared in the sky.
Singe then Diva VelesBurning fire in the clouds.
And fell from the chariot, rejected,
Down flew from the vault of heaven.
And Perun the Thunderer in angerturned the chariot after him,
Throwing thunder arrows
Shaking the entire universe."
And if the mother of Veles Cow Zemun did not intercede for her son,
“I went out here to meet Perun
Mother Zemun Heavenly Cow.
He whipped that Cow with a whip.
But Zemun Perun said:
- Do not whip, Perun, me with a whip,Don't shoot me with a thunderbolt!
And don't touch it, Perun, my dear child,
My foolish Veles!
You will burn the whole world, the whole Universe ... ".
(PPG 7.91.-102.)
So Veles was thrown from Heaven to Earth. For this, now he is angry and angry at his brother Russian gods. Is he right? Is Veles right in picking up soulless people - the Jews of Adam and Eve:
“... Those who do not know the truth.
Svarog failed to breathe a soul into them,
He could not warm the cold stones?
(PPG 3.49.-3.50.)
9. Veles got angry at his brothers - Russian gods
Everything is written in the Torah-Bible, you just need to be able to read THAT letters and THAT words from them.
The Lord - the Master of the cows - the Russian god Veles, was offended by his relatives for depriving him of his former power. Biblical Veles was offended greatly, for many centuries.
That is why he says to the Jewish Christians the following:
“(17:2) If there is among you, ... a man or a woman, ...
(17:3) and go and serve other (!) gods,… or the sun(!), or the moon, or to all (!) HEAVENLY ARMY (!),…
(17:4) and if this abomination is done, ...
(17:5) Stone them to death.(18:10) You should not have a soothsayer, soothsayer, sorcerer leading his son or daughter through the fire ”[Deuteronomy].
So you see that the Heavenly Host existed at the time of the birth of the Jewish people, and this host was Russian, and they fought gloriously with various evil spirits:
Only now, when Biblicalism won not only in a single country, but also in most countries of the world, Russians (and they are all the white peoples of the world), these Egyptian slaves and their Russian traitors forced to forget their native faith and native gods - the Host of Heaven.
And Veles got angry with his brothers - Russian gods because he said the wrong word at Perun's wedding, for which he was demoted, expelled from his tribe from the mountain, across the Smorodina River - that is, to the Middle East:
“I won’t hide anything that I know…
Veles used to have time,
Honor was to him and praise was!
Well, now timelessness has come -And dishonor, and dishonor ...
And the reason for this - the word is superfluous,
What is said at the wedding of Perun.
He twisted, saddened,And with that sadness he saddled a horse,
And drove away from the Riphean mountains
To a foreign land, the kingdom of the serpent."
(PPG 8.2.-8.4.)
There he descended into hell, where he met Burya Vievna, whom, after a short battle, he took as his wife:
“Here Veles Vievna spoke:
- Hey you, violent Veles - a mighty god,
Son of Zemun the Heavenly Cow!
Apparently Rod decided to reconcile us with you,
You take me, Veles, in marriage!
(PPG 8.65.-8.66.)
After that, Veles turned to his new brothers, natives of the local mountain peoples, Usynya, Goryn, Dubyna, so that they raised Veles with his new wife to the surface of the Earth, pulled her out, and Veles, as it should be for proud mountaineers, to betray, left in hell, underground:
“Veles shouted to his comrades:
- Hey you, brothers, drag Storm Yaga -That is my dear wife!
The Vievna brothers then pulled,
And as soon as Yaga came out of the ground -
They dropped the rope in the failureAnd they fled in terror.
So Veles remained in the Raw Land.
(PPG 8.69.-8.71)
We see that Veles cannot be offended by the Russian people for these hardships he has experienced - the highlanders betrayed him.
Then, in those days, wandering in Hell, Veles had not yet forgotten his proud divine origin and was confused with all sorts of snakes and reptiles, as he began to do in our time. For example, looking for a way out, he simultaneously saved the bird's chicks Mogul:
“The serpent crawls towards the defenseless nest.
Veles came up here, knocked down the creeping Serpent
And he killed him with his mace."
(PPG 8.73.)
For this kind act, Veles received an adequate reward - Mogul carried him up to the Red Sun, where he celebrated his wedding with his Storm Vievna:
“- If so, whatever you want, ask me.
- Take me, bird, to the white light,
I want to see the red sun
I want to walk on the Raw Earth ...
(PPG 8.78.)... Then the violent Veles found his young wife -
Remove Usonsha Vievna
And he celebrated his wedding with her.
(PPG 8.85.)
And now they live happily ever after in a hut on chicken legs where the border between Yavu and Navu passes.
10. Veles - was a moon god
The Russian god Veles was a moon god. And this again indicates that the Jews, who honor the first books from the Torah-Bible, live exactly according to the lunar calendar.
11. The blue color of the Jewish flag is the color of the Russian god Veles
In Russia, the Russian god Veles always corresponded to the blue color. However, the Russians and other white peoples did not consider Veles the main god. For the main god has always been one - Rod. Veles dominated only over certain elements and sectors of life. But he did not become the main one, as he might have wanted.
The blue color on the flag of Israel is the color of the Russian god Veles.
12. Veles numbers - 666
Veles numbers are "6" and "12", that is, two times six. There are three sixes in total.
Recall that the Jewish star is six-pointed. And the so-called Judeo-Christian Beast has the same number - "666".
In the exaltation of the number "6" by the Judeo-Christians, extremely many connections of the Lord with Veles are traced.
In addition, many Judeo-Christian churches have six domes, such as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Kaliningrad.
In Russian tradition, the days of the week are revered - Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And the ban on the production of any work applies only to Sunday - the seventh day. That is why the week is called "week" from the Russian words "do not".
Judeo-Christians revere the day on which one cannot work, Saturday (we will leave here the biblical justification for this). Note that the ordinal number of Saturday in the seven-day week is "6".
Moreover, the days of the week (week) are counted from Monday “to” - (surface) - “on top of the week”; after Tuesday - from the word "second", etc. Saturday is the sixth day. We again return to the number of Veles - the six beloved by the Judeo-Christians.
In addition, in Russia it is Saturday that is revered as the day of the Russian god Veles. The same Saturday is revered by the Judeo-Christians.
However, Veles himself, apparently, does not really like having his flock over his head - therefore, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is either destroyed or rebuilt.
Veles is the god of wealth and harvest. The guardian of all living things, the patron of clairvoyants, prophets. He was revered and brought gifts to him by people of different crafts.
In the article:
The meaning of Veles among the Slavs
In the Rigveda, the Sacred Books of Knowledge, the sung Volos is the guardian of lovers, the sower of well-being, the connoisseur of talent. From the beginning of the World, Volos-Veles gave animals to man, taught him to feed, take milk from them, grow them for meat, skin and wool.
He presented the flute to the shepherds and herdsmen and became their guard against wild animals. Having taught a man to harness animals to a plow and carts, Volos became a real mentor for the farmer. He is not only the guardian of a succession of cattle on earth, but also the shepherd of the heavenly flock of clouds-cows with his brother.
God Veles
The confrontation between Perun and Veles is told in the myth: who lives on the top of the mountain, in the sky, pursues his snake-like enemy, who lives below, on earth. The reasons for their discord are called different - the abduction by Veles of cattle, people, and in some versions of the legend and the wife of the Thunderer.
The significance of the god of the harvest in Slavic mythology is evidenced by the fact that, for example, when concluding an agreement, the princely squad swears by weapons and Perun, and ordinary people by Veles. It was believed that the first ruled in heaven, and the second ruled in the lower part of the world and in the underworld.
The image of Veles has undergone significant changes. He was considered the god of fertility, wealth and cattle breeding. Found in chronicles as the ruler of the underworld. Later mentioned as the patron of magicians, singers and art in general.
In Slavic pagan mythology, the deity appears in the form of the Serpent, the enemy of Perun. Veles-serpent, as a hypostasis of a broader archetype - Chernobog, embodies the forces of primitive Chaos, violent, uncomfortable, uninhabited nature, hostile to man.
Veles-Chernobog, possessing such a powerful destructive force, but being also the god of wisdom, knows how to keep Chaos in obedience and direct it in the right direction. But the evil beginning of Veles began to dominate in the human mind after the adoption of Christianity. Over time, having transferred his good features to the Christian saints Nikola and Blasius, Veles, like his animal forms - a snake, a goat, turned into the lord of dark forces.
Researchers still do not know if Volos is a form of the name Veles, or if these are two different gods. Mansika claims that the first form is northern, and the second is southern, although no documentary evidence has been found for this.
The word Veles comes from the Indo-European word *wel, which means"to die", or the Sanskrit v'elaa- time, from which it follows that this is the spirit of the ancestors, the ruler of the other world.
Hair is the name, of course, Slavic. There is a theory that it comes from the ancient Slavic word "vol", that is, an ox, but there is no exact data. G. M. Baratz argued that Volos is the Semitic Baal, the god of fertility, water, sky and sun. With Baal he identifies Veles and Mansik. This is primarily a "cattle god", the patron of animals and wealth. Most likely, Volos and Veles were originally two different spirits, but over time they merged into one person.
Veles protects and replenishes the acquisition inherited by the ancestors - land, livestock, house, wealth. The good god taught man not to kill animals, but to look after and use them. He patronizes them in forests and meadows. With its all-seeing eye, the spirit closely monitors the well-being of animals and birds.
The good owner Veles contributed to the increase of wealth and harvest. Our ancestors believed that with a beard Volos reaches the earth, and in it, entwined with silk and silver-gold, "earthly draft", a source of vegetation, life and all kinds of forces. For this, each owner revered him, leaving during the roasting at the end of the field a pinch of ears of corn - "Veles on the beard."
And when the time came for the cattle to pasture, people from everywhere went along different paths to the abode of the deity, along with herds of cattle, to sanctify them and bring generous gifts. Veles is the patron saint of the Magi, poets who inspire with their power. The one who knew how to compose songs and retell them to people was already a sorcerer. In a word, the ancient clairvoyants and prophets were able to express the will, passion and desires dictated to them by the starry sky of their ancestors.
In the songs, the wise men told about the glorious grandchildren of Veles, about their exploits, rituals and customs, taught people to live righteously, praise God, respect the family, improve the soul with prayers and work. For their skills in the construction of temples, buildings, fortress walls, they thank Veles. Songs, translations, rituals, holidays, dances that were born by the good soul of our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, sent to them from heaven by Veles.
All the poets, along with the glorious singer of the Russian land Boyan, about whom it is written in the Tale of Igor's Campaign: "Prophetic Boyane, Volos' granddaughter," are the grandchildren of Veles. All of them were bearers and creators of the heroic epic of their native land.
Who and how revered the god Veles
This spirit gained the greatest honor from the people of Trypillia, when the earth was under the constellation Taurus. Sometimes his pedigree is derived from a shaggy bear, which, according to legend, affects a successful hunt. In ancient times, there was a cult of the paw of a bear, half-man, half-bear. Therefore, for hunters and catchers, the bear was a totem animal, it was cajoled by solemn sacrifices.
For the warriors, Volos, together with Perun, is the main among the gods. Becoming to protect the land of their parents, the Veles grandchildren took an oath:
We swear to the gods we believe in, Perun and Veles.
Idol of Veles
In agreements with the Greeks, Perun is perceived as a deity of weapons, and Volos - of gold. Carriers of various crafts also considered him their god: blacksmiths, potters, candle makers, mead makers, leather makers. He taught people to make musical instruments: domras, horns, horns, pipes, psaltery, and endowed them with a good body, tall stature, voice and hearing.
Volos himself plays wonderfully on all musical instruments. Once, when a bloody slaughter rose beyond the “limit” between the glades and the Drevlyans, which even Perun with his lightning could not stop, Veles appeared with a flute in his hands and played it so, so enchanted the soldiers of both sides with heartfelt sadness that they lowered their swords and fraternized.
Since Veles was the deity of animals, prayers were raised to him for the protection of livestock. Therefore, the shepherds were sometimes called "veles". He was also considered the guardian of hunters because of his ability to turn into a bear. Sometimes his name was given to the spirit of an animal killed during a hunt. In addition to the protector of animals, this deity had several other important functions. So, he "grazed" souls in the afterlife. In the sources, the name of the day of remembrance of the dead is found as the time of Veles. According to legend, then a ritual of setting fire to the bones of animals was carried out.
Volos was revered in many places, but he was especially revered in the Novgorod, Kiev and Rostov lands. The chronicles say that earlier his idol was erected on Podil. When the ancient Slavs entered into important deals, they called for confirmation of their words not only Perun, but also Volos. Previously, wealth was calculated in the number of livestock, so it is not surprising that he was so popular.
Tsaritsyno pagan temple
Our ancestors celebrated the days of Veles, the time of which coincides with the modern holidays of Christmas time and Shrovetide. People dressed up in casings and turned their clothes inside out. Shrovetide was considered an important holiday, which marked the spring equinox. It's funny, but it is to this day that the saying “The first pancake is lumpy” owes its appearance. At first, this phrase sounded differently: "The first pancakes to komam." It was believed that it was on this day that bears (comas) first came out of their caves.
The birth of Veles
The legend about the appearance of Veles is associated with the name of the ancient goddess Lada, the wife of Svarog, who could not give birth to a child. Then she asked the wise goddess of the Ta clan for help and advised Lada to go to the Sour Cream Lake, which is located in Iria, catch a magic fish, cook it in a special way and eat it. This was supposed to help Lada with her trouble.
And Veles' wife Azovushka weaves a flying carpet for her husband.
Lada listened to Beregini's advice. Having completed all the actions, she took the fish bones and carried them away from the house. Some time later, in the meadow where the leftovers were left, the Divine cow caught and accidentally ate them. A little time later, Lada delighted her husband with three daughters, future goddesses, and Volos was born to Zemun. He had the strange appearance of a half-man, half-bull, but from birth he owned magic and knew how to give himself any appearance.
The deity is depicted in different ways, but still there is a certain well-established image. He usually appears as a handsome man with a long gray beard and hair. An owl always sits on his shoulder as a symbol of wisdom and peace. In the right hand there is a wooden staff, on the top of which the figure of a bear or the Belobog rune is carved.
Attributes and symbols of Veles
Like all deities, u and. His number is considered to be six, and his attribute is a bear's paw and a hexagonal star, whose name otherwise sounds like "Veles Shield". Also, the rune of the Wind is considered as one of its attributes.
Bear paw symbol
The animals that accompany him are the bear and the bull. Often he takes their form. The bull is also a symbol of the birth of a deity from a sacred cow. The ancient Slavs revered yew, ash, spruce, pine and walnut as sacred trees of Volos. If you decide to do it, choose the wood of these types. Of course, you must first ask permission from the tree and from God.
The temple of Volos was built in a lowland, in a damp and quiet place, or in a spruce forest on a hill. Oddly enough, an important condition was the presence of a crow's nest near the temple. The temple should resemble in its shape a cross or a tetrahedron.
The cult of Volos is now being revived in the Rodnover tradition. This is a neo-pagan religious movement whose members are trying to give new life to ancient Slavic rituals. According to Rodnovers, the beliefs and rituals of our ancestors are sacred knowledge. That is why they are trying to revive and recreate them.
V ELES (VOLOS) - one of the oldest and most revered gods of the ancient Russian mythological pantheon. The degree of his veneration is evidenced by the fact that, as historical sources testify, both Prince Oleg and Prince Svyatoslav, when concluding agreements with the Greeks, swore by both Perun and Veles. Veles was placed next to Perun:
“... Yes, we have an oath from God, we believe in him, in Perun and in Volos, the cattle of God…»
I am Veles, a peaceful god. Between the sleeping herds patrol
Invisible I walk to ward off illness
And the spell of cunning witches while the meadow smokes
And the stars at night are full of silver patterns.
P.D. Buturlin
The cult of Veles is associated with the veneration of the bear in Russia as the owner of the forest, taiga. This is probably inherited from that period (and still is) when hunting was the most important source of human livelihood.
Veles all reverence was given as a giver of great benefits and blessings for people. He patronized hunters, was a symbol of successful hunting for large (hairy) animals. He also becomes the god of domestic animals, especially cattle. In turn, hunting prey and cattle formed the basis of all the well-being of the clan and family. Hence Veles acts as a patron and giver (remember: “ hairy arm”) of all and every blessing and is revered as the god of wealth. With the development of agriculture, which also brought considerable benefits, Veles is also regarded as the god of fertility. He gave people a plow, taught them agricultural work and other wisdom.
Veles associated with animals ("hairy" - hairy), with vegetation - "hair of the earth", with the possession of wealth (volody - to own), with possession. At the same time, the name itself means great, honored. Veles was considered subordinate to all forest, water and house spirits.
Veles was depicted in simple clothes, with bull horns on his head and with a bowl of milk or with a huge turian horn - a cornucopia - in his hands. Prayers addressed to Veles, and cult actions specially dedicated to him, were timed to coincide with winter Christmas time - the first week of January, Shrovetide, the first pasture of cattle after winter to pastures and the harvest of bread. He was sacrificed by bulls and cows.
During Christmas time and Shrovetide in his honor, they dressed up in fur coats or sheepskin coats turned inside out with wool (hair) up, put on masks with horns (image of cattle). Magical rites were performed to protect livestock from all sorts of misfortunes (for example, throwing an ax crosswise over livestock). Symbolic cows were molded and baked from tough dough (the baking of animal figurines was intended to have a magical effect on the fertility of livestock). On the night of Velesov day, cattle were supposed to be given abundant food, and sheep - the first pancake. Dances, songs were dedicated to Veles, and frankly loving actions were not forbidden, as they were associated with fertility, fertility and the revival of all living things.
During the stubble, a bunch of ears of corn was left uncompressed on the last strip - Veles on the beard. At the end of the harvest, on the last stubble, the last sheaf was usually reaped by the whole family in silence, leaving a bunch of stems uncompressed. The eldest at the stubble curled a beard out of them, rotating the stems in the sun. The beard was decorated, tied with a ribbon, left to Veles for the gift of bread with the hope of his help in the next summer.
In The Tale of Bygone Years, the chronicler Nestor calls Veles a "cattle god", the patron saint of domestic animals. Perhaps this monk did not know the pre-Christian mythology of Russia well, or tried to downplay the importance of the son of Rod, brother of Svarog.
Veles is one of the greatest gods of the ancient world. His main act was that he set the world created by Rod and Svarog in motion. Day began to replace night; winter was inevitably followed by spring, summer and autumn; after exhalation - inhale, after sadness - joy. It was not a monotonous repetition of the same cycles, but learning the basics of life. People learned to overcome difficulties and appreciate happiness. Rotation occurs according to the highest law of the Rule following the movement of the Sun across the sky - Salting. The guiding force is Great Love, which helps in trials. It was about this power that the Italian poet Dante wrote in The Divine Comedy: "Love that moves the Sun and the luminaries." 
The symbol of this movement from Darkness to Light, from Navi through Reality to Rule, is the sign of the solstice, or in Sanskrit - the swastika. At the same time, it is very important to know where the curved rays of the solstice are directed: if the upper beam looks to the left, then the movement will go “clockwise” - Salting - from left to right, towards the Right. If the upper end of the swastika is turned to the right, then the movement of life will go back - Osolon, "counterclockwise", from the world of the gods - Rule, to black Navi, the abode of Chernobog, Seduni and Dyya. Such a symbol is the "coat of arms" of the forces of Darkness. A person moving from Good to Evil will become more and more embittered, his soul blackened. It is not for nothing that in our days, we spit three times over the left shoulder, behind which there is an evil force, and we say about a good deed that it is right, that is, right.
Veles gave this law of correct movement to the world. It is recorded in the sacred "Book of Veles" ("Book of Veles"). And the magicians, the servants of the great (this word is formed on behalf of Veles) god, reminded of him and interpreted to people. Thus, Veles was not only an assistant in practical life, but also the original, ever-living sage, as well as a teacher of the Law.
Vast, richly decorated temples of Veles were in many places of the Russian land: near Novgorod, in other places of the Russian North, in Rostov and Kiev. In the Christian era, the cult of Veles was replaced by the veneration of the patron saint of cattle, St. Blaise. In Novgorod, on the site of the former temple, Volosovaya Street was laid. The church of St. Blaise was erected in Rostov. In Ukraine, on winter Christmas time and Maslenitsa, you can meet mummers - people in "hairy", fur outside, sheepskin coats and horned masks. This is all that remains of the Veles holidays.
Russian chronicles according to the treaties of Oleg and Svyatoslav with the Greeks: In the summer of 6415 (911): “Caesar Leon and Alexandria made peace with Olgm, imishing on a tribute and a company that came between them, kissing themselves crest, and Olga led his company and her husband along Russian law and swearing by their weapons and Perunm, their gods and Volos cattle God and affirming the world. In the summer of 6479 (971).
"... Yes, we have an oath from God, but we believe in him from both Perun and Volos, the cattle of God."
His name is also found in the late recorded ritual text of the Macedonian Bulgarians, the so-called "Veda of the Slavs" in ed. Verkovich (IV, 5.5-13). And in the mythology of the Balts, the black god is called Vielona, Wellns or Vels, which actually means “devil”, “devil” is the constant enemy of the Thunderer and the owner of the world of the dead, a jester and a trickster. The identity of this name and the similarity of this image with the Slavic Veles is quite noticeable. In the Christian apocryphal “Walking of the Virgin through the torments”, Veles is directly called a demon, but he is also called an “evil god”, almost like Helmold’s Chernobog in the “Slavic Chronicle” (it is understood that there were good gods, pay attention to the plural): pagans “are those who called gods; the sun and the moon, earth and water, beasts and reptiles, who in their hardness of heart gave names to the gods, as to people, and those who revered Utrius, Troyan, Khors, Veles, turning demons into gods. And people believed in these evil gods.”
God le Vlas le
Alive ma Yuda taught
Yes, this is a Clear Book,
yes, sit down and write.
Taught ma, God, taught.
And you, God, yes ma teach
Yes, right, kusher-ta.
Yes, you will give me three hundred oxen,
Three hundred oxen, three hundred blood
Literally from another list:
“God made a believer, a creature of the south, to work, then they all the gods called the sun and the month the earth and the water, animals and reptiles, then the network and the man of the trojan chrsa veles peroun to the Gods, turning the evil demon into believing, hitherto obsessed with evil darkness sut, for the sake of doing tacos to urinate.
Next to him, Veles, on the list are Troyan, according to Serbian legends, a giant who is afraid of sunlight and has goat ears, as well as Khors. "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" testifies to a certain night path of Khors, for Vseslav prowled in the form of a wolf at night:
“Vseslav the prince judging by the people, the prince of the city is standing next to him, and he himself prowls like a wolf in the night; from Kiev doriskashe to the chickens of Tmutorokan, the path of the great Khorsov and the wolf is broken by a wolf.
The Czechs, even after adopting Christianity, remembered Veles as one of the most powerful "demons", sacrificing black chickens and pigeons to him. In the "Word of St. Gregory" it is said about the worship of the Slavs "to the cattle god and companion and forest god." That is, Veles - the god of cattle, the patron saint of travelers, the god of forests.
Veles God of wisdom and good luck could take on any guise.
Most often, Veles was portrayed as a wise old man, a protector of plants and animals.
The blackness of Veles is evidenced by the absence of his pillar in the pantheon of Prince Vladimir, the pillar of Veles stood separately, not on a hill, but on Podil. Meanwhile, they deal with Veles in Kiev under Vladimir, sending them to the afterlife along the river, that is, they do not disfigure, but bury the old god. The Life of Vladimir says:
“And the Hair of the idol ... lead the river into Pochaina”
With this, supposedly Vladimir sent Veles, as hitherto Perun, on a voyage to the kingdom of the dead. He put to rest, therefore, the two most famous Slavic gods. However, in Rostov, much later, the stone idol of Veles was destroyed. In the life of Avraamy of Rostov it is said: "The end of Chud worshiped the stone idol, Veles."
We pay attention to the sacred location of the idol - the Chudsky end. With Veles, a demon is directly compared, possessing knowledge of hidden treasures. And Abraham, who destroyed the “idol stone” of Volos in Rostov, “almost became a victim of a demon”, which was transformed into its opposite - “into the image of a warrior who slandered him to the“ tsar ”Vladimir ...”.
The demon "accused Abraham of being engaged in sorcery, that he hid from the prince a copper cauldron with money he had found in the ground." This is truly a diabolical mockery worthy of the trickster Loki and the Navi god - Odin. In the “Tale of the Construction of the City of Yaroslavl”, an 18th-century source dating back to an ancient record, “which, although updated later, nevertheless adequately reflected the true course of events,” it is directly stated that the Magi were priests of the “cattle god”: “To this same multi-executed idol and kermet (temple) was created the life and the Magi vdan, and this unquenchable fire Volos holding and sacrificial smoke to him.” The priest guessed by the smoke of the fire, and if he guessed badly, and the fire died out, then the priest was executed. And these people, by an oath at Volos, promised the prince to live in harmony and give him dues, but they just did not want to be baptized ... During the drought, the pagans tearfully prayed to their Volos to bring rain to the ground ... In the place where Volos once stood, there are both pipes and a harp , and singing, heard many times, and some dancing was visible. Cattle, when walking in this place, were subjected to unusual thinness and illness. They said that all this misfortune was the wrath of Volos, that he turned into an evil spirit in order to crush people, as they crushed him and kermet.
Nikolai Karamzin retells (without reference to the source, but this is essentially one of the variants of the Greater Poland Chronicle) “for the curious” “fables”, in one of which we find: “Slovene-Russian princes, delighted with such a letter (from Alexander the Great), they hung it in their temple on the right side of the idol of Veles ... After some time, two princes Lyakh (Mamokh, Lalokh) and Lachern rebelled from their family, fought the Greek land and went under the most reigning city: there, near the sea, Prince Lachern laid his head ( where the Blachernae monastery was created after ...)”.
With a high degree of probability, we can say that Veles is a vodka and shepherd of the dead, like his Baltic counterparts, like St. Nicholas.
“The fiery river runs, across the fiery river the viburnum bridge, along that viburnum bridge there is an old mater man; carries in his hands a golden saucer, a silver feather ... relieves seventy diseases from the servant of God.
The werewolf god, the master of magic and the secret, the ruler of the crossroads, the Navi god, as we showed in our previous book, where a functional analysis of the images of Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Odin, Veles was carried out. One of his names Mokos is the husband of Mokosh, the goddess of fate (we know at least four mentions of Mokosh-Mokos in the masculine gender) - thus Veles himself, who appears in fairy tales as an old man with a guiding ball - the god of Luck. Note that in the Indo-European tradition, gods with similar names also had similar functions. For example, Roman Lares, Russian Mavkas, mermaids, Roman Fauns and Fauns, Indian Adityas, etc.
Among the Slovenes of the Priilmensky, Volos-Veles, probably also acted under the name of the Lizard or Volkhov. Veneration fell on December 19 - Nikola Vodyany
Volkh, Volkhov, Volkhovets - also the son of the Lizard, a werewolf god, a god of hunting and prey similar to Veles, probably the owner of the waters and, possibly, the patron of warriors, there are indications of him in the "Word of Igor's Campaign", epics about Volkh Vseslavich and Sadko, the First Novgorod Chronicles, how the Vuk-Fire Serpent is described among the Serbs. Ancestor - Gray prophetic Wolf from Russian fairy tales. Hypostasis of Veles. His day is celebrated in central Russia on October 2, this is the beginning of the hunting season. Volosins are the wives of Veles, the constellation Pleiades according to I.I. Sreznevsky (they are Vlasozhelishchi, Baba) with reference to his work by Afanasy Nikitin “Journey beyond three seas”: “Hairs and a stake entered the dawn, and the elk stands with its head to the east”. Volosozhary - Milky Way - "Veles scratched and scattered his hair." According to ancient ideas (Egyptians, Germans, Slavs), the Universe appeared from a heavenly cow. The Milky Way is her milk. Veles is the son of the Cow of the Universe. Elk - Constellation Ursa Major - the palaces of Velesov.
So Veles:
- The "cattle god" is the master of the Wild.
- Vodchiy on all Roads, Mr. Ways, patron of all wanderers.
- The owner of Navi, the ruler of the Unknown, the Black God.
- Posthumous judge and lifetime tester.
- A powerful wizard and lord of magic, a werewolf.
- The patron of trade, mediator in contracts and interpreter of laws.
- Giver of wealth.
- The patron of those who know, a teacher of the arts, including the skaldic.
- God of luck.
Veles Day is Wednesday, stone is opal or obsidian, metal is lead or mercury, wood is spruce, pine, walnut or ash (yew), it is from them that amulets, staves, idols and other items associated with the cult of Veles should be made. The myth of the northern sorcerer-god is, of course, somewhat different from that of the Southern Tradition. Places for the device of victims to Veles and dedications to him are dense coniferous forests. Often impassable with ugly trees and deadwood, Veles is volohat and loves mosses and lichens, as well as mushrooms, perhaps they set an idol for him or laid trebs at the fork and crossroads of three forest roads. Three evergreen trees (often pines - hence the “get lost in three pines”) and anthills are also signs of Velesov. If on flat terrain - then the same intersections, but with a lone tree or stone on them.
On the temples of Veles could hang not only letters with letters, as in the legend, but also cattle skulls or horns. Probably, the idol Veles himself was crowned with horns - hence his identification with Satan, or a crooked stick. Veles was sacrificed with copper, for he is the god of well-being and prosperity, wool and fur, and they also poured beer and kvass - the drinks that he taught people to prepare according to one of the legends. Images of Veles' idols may contain images of the same horn (or be horned), as well as a dead human head in the hand of a god. The idols of Veles, according to the reconstruction of D. Gromov, were placed not on the top of the hills, but on a slope or in a lowland, closer to the waters. His days, Velesov, were celebrated especially solemnly on December 22-24, December 31, January 2 and 6 - on the days of St. Nicholas the Winter, on February 24 they asked the "cattle god" to knock the horns off Winter. And they also honored him on the days of honoring St. Nicholas Veshny - May 22 (Yarilin Day, Semik). July 12 - when they put the first sheaf and begin to mow, harvesting hay for livestock. Between August 18 and 20, Veles was curled in a tuft on a harvested field "on a beard" - Nikolina's beard.
Throughout the centuries, the pagan tradition of confrontation between the Black and the White God continues and manifests itself at all levels. The first - Old - pacifies nature, the second - Young - revives it, and with it he rises himself, full of strength. In the spring, the young replaces the old, and the New replaces the Old. Then the cycle repeats, and so it will be forever.
“Veles book” (“Vles book”, “Book of Veles”) - a translation of the sacred texts of the Novgorod Magi of the 9th century, which tells the ancient history of the Slavs and other peoples from the end of the 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 1st millennium AD (IX century) .
