Paganism in modern Russia. Modern pagan religions of Eurasia What is left of paganism in the modern world

On this moment on the territory of our country, in almost all its subjects, one can meet communities and groups professing modern, or, as it is also called, neo-paganism. The second name, as a rule, is more often used in a negative context, and there are reasons for this, because not everything is faith that promises you redemption.

According to research papers looking at the history modern Russia, modern Slavic paganism began to emerge in the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, and by the beginning of the century, many smaller organizations united into single confessions. It makes no sense to dispute the fact that in those years, in view of the ideological crisis not only in Russia, but throughout the world, a wave of new religious teachings was born, including neo-paganism in Russia. But all these communities and their other forms had nothing to do with the cults of our ancestors, their views and customs.

Modern paganism and neo-paganism, and from now on we propose to draw a dividing line between these concepts, are completely different things. Not for nothing was attached to the latter not at all ours, alien, the prefix “neo”. Neo-paganism in all its diversity is socio-political organizations, secular communities and, even more than that, sects. They have their own policies and statutes, which do not coincide with what should be called "Modern paganism" in Russia.

Characteristic differences of neopaganism.

The characteristic differences of neo-paganism are that in these organizations there is a cult of personality, in other words, the leader of the movement is placed one step above his subjects. This has at least two reasons: firstly, if the organization has a political background, and secondly, if the organization is a sect. The motives for such decisions are certainly not worth explaining. In modern paganism there is no and cannot be a place for the cult of personality, which is openly promoted by false pagans.

This state of affairs is actively used by various extremist movements whose goal is to undermine faith in Russia from within, because, according to their slogans, the Russian world as such does not exist today. Recruits are recruited through small cells of their organizations, where supposedly pagan ideology is instilled in them, but in reality anti-state trends are planted. Propaganda is carried out very actively, because, in addition to seminars and lectures, it is supported by a cycle of literary publications. For example, the book “Blow of the Russian Gods”, written by a certain V. Istarkhov.

In addition to many books, there are also regular publications, such as the Slavyanin newspaper. On the pages of these works, hatred for everything other than the statutes of neo-paganism is actively planted. This brings us smoothly to the second characteristic of neo-paganism - opposition.

According to the principles and laws of neo-paganism, Orthodoxy is an absolute evil that must be destroyed using any, even radical, methods for this. Such judgments have no place in true Slavic paganism. After all, like any other religion, it is never opposed to other religious movements. Isn't it opposed to Christianity and Buddhism? No, because these are currents that follow parallel to each other, and never intersect, and, even more so, they never require their followers to destroy the ideas and foundations of a different faith. We see the open exploitation of religious teachings for political and mercenary purposes.

In particular, such publications as “Russian Partisan” and “Tsarsky Oprichnik” call for radicalism. Hiding behind the faith of our ancestors, such organizations wrap their own greed in the rituals of our fathers, seeking to pass off wishful thinking. These trends have nothing in common with paganism in modern world, and in order to understand it, this is the first thing you need to understand.

In addition to the characteristics already given that distinguish the true from the false, it should also be remembered that, in contrast to the political surrogate of faith, modern paganism is not at all a religion of permissiveness, but quite the opposite - it is a responsibility that is placed on the shoulders of a Russian person. Responsibility for oneself and one's actions, for views and judgments, for the upbringing of one's children and the future, for the memory of one's ancestors, and, of course, for the future of one's native lands.

Paganism in Russia can exist even without auxiliary organizations, communities and political associations, which, under the guise of popular beliefs, seek to achieve their own mercantile goals.

This issue is precisely why it causes so much controversy and debate, because people who are unable to distinguish the real Slavic faith from the sprouts of neo-paganism take it all for a single beginning. That is why in modern Russia you can often meet people who are extremely categorically opposed to Slavic holidays, traditions and rituals. It is this circumstance that can be considered the main problem of modern paganism in Russia, which does not allow the cult of our ancestors to fully return to their native lands, to every home.

On the destructive influence of neo-paganism

Political trends are not the worst thing that can be fraught with the snakes of neo-paganism, which many unknowingly warm on their chests. Political agitation, slogans, meetings - these are all purely commercial manifestations of greed, far more terrible is an attempt to stupefy and denigrate the human soul.

An example of this is, in particular, A. Dugin, who easily and simply among the stories about Slavic culture and rituals dissolves the texts of Aleister Crowley, the famous warlock of the 20th century, sorcerer and occultist.

There are a number of communities that do not seek to attract attention to themselves, but are actively recruiting new parishioners into their ranks. The spread of such denigrated knowledge, based on our Slavic foundations, forms an ideological sect, the purpose of which is not only to rob its listeners, but also to enslave their mind and will. Next to Slavic paganism, the main principle of which is a pure and free soul, living in harmony with all living things, in harmony with nature, this is a terrible crime. Therefore, we can safely conclude that far from everything is the culture of our ancestors that calls itself paganism.

Such trends have extremely critical consequences for true modern paganism, which is based on the reverence for the memory of ancestors, their covenants and foundations. People who have fallen under the influence of non-pagan organizations have false ideas about the nature of the Slavic faith. The radicalism, categoricalness and borrowings from the occult, which are inherent in this trend, defile the faith of the Slavs and set people who are inexperienced in this matter against it.

Remember that the main principles of modern paganism in Russia are love for all things, honoring the fathers and their testaments, caring for children. In Slavic culture, there is a priori no place for hatred and denial, and even more so, calls for radical action. The culture of neo-paganism originated in our country only in the last century, while Slavic paganism has been unshakable for thousands of years.

Often Orthodox Christians have to deal with so-called pagans. What is this? Who are modern pagans in practice? On what do they base their faith? Let's try to reflect on these topics with a famous athlete, Orthodox ChristianAndrey Kochergin, President of the IUKKK Combat Karate Union.
The interview is being conducted by an employee of the Orthodox Missionary and Apologetic Center "Stavros" Pitanov V.Yu.

1. Andrey, how did your first acquaintance with modern pagans happen?
- it’s extremely funny, I’m walking along the embankment opposite Petropavlovka and suddenly I come across a densely built man in some kind of leatherette boots, with a tambourine and with a dog skin on his head, behind there was a flock of obvious students with important faces ... Tolkienists, - I thought, interesting , and the pot-bellied one sticks out on what that stomps him so much? A couple of years later, at the beginning of the 2000s, I suddenly heard seriously that these “amateur artists” were no longer clowns, but tragedians, they had already revived something and were actively tuning what they had exhumed. He smiled again and thought: “Whatever the child amuses himself with, if only he doesn’t tear it off.”

2. What is your impression of today's pagans after interacting with them? Do they sincerely believe in what they say or is it all a form of publicity?
- should be determined: believe in what? Because I have not achieved in numerous dialogues and disputes - what is the content of the "faith" of modern pseudo-pagans, they mumble inconsistently, something there, about the "clan", not knowing the name of their great-grandfather, about wildlife and not a word, how exactly to offer sacrifices to idols, which gods and for what they are responsible in their view, they differ even in the number of so-called gods and do not differ only in one thing, in animal hatred of Orthodoxy. There are two very important notes here:
a) in a striking way, pseudo-pagans cite scandalous passages from the Old Testament, quoting them in modern Russian, and the set for quoting is strikingly typical. That is, taking into account the operational data, the financing of the “neopagan wave” comes from a certain foreign center for the fight against Russian self-consciousness, where, in addition to the financial content, precisely theses materials based on Protestant literature are being prepared, which is quite understandable, due to the dense spiritual illiteracy of the alleged “raw materials for processing ". That is, seekers of ancient roots disdain the ancient, Church Slavonic language and do not disdain data from totalitarian sects.
... It is useless to fight the Russians, we have understood this over hundreds of years of history, but once they instill false values, they will destroy themselves! (c) Bismarck
b) not having their own canonical idea of ​​their beliefs, they shyly replace them in disputes with faith in the forces of nature and some kind of generic worldview, replacing the religious component with environmental protection, turning into an analogue of the "green patrol" attending gatherings of militant atheists (there were such during the USSR)
Pseudo-pagans have nothing uniting, except for criticism and hatred of Orthodoxy, I am absolutely sure of this. Each neo-sorcerer, tightens his bagpipes and sculpts such pearls that for an educated person it is somehow awkward to even listen to this, just some kind of “childish ass” ...
Total: modern pseudo-paganism is a new formation of militant atheism, disguised as sectarian formations of various directions.

3. How critical are neopagans to the sources on which they build their worldview? How serious are these sources in your opinion?
- pseudo-pagans do not have sources older than 10 years old. All references to some mysterious Vedas, Chronicles and the Book of Veles do not stand up to criticism due to the actual absence of the latter in nature, moreover, it is not even the mention of these mythical sources that is striking, but the exact information about the translator and their interpreters. Question: Who translated them, from what language, from what script, and who exactly interpreted their content? Puts pseudo-pagans in a total dead end ...

4. Who do neo-pagans think they are and who do you think they are in practice? Draw psychological, intellectual, moral portraits of the average neopagan.
- pseudo-pagans are representatives of the most mobile part of society, the very "masses" who consider the street their territory - earlier it was called the lumpen proletariat. It is from their midst that football fans and street crime come out, but if we talk specifically about pagan obsessions, then this is the ideological basis for the Russian Hitler Youth, that is, neo-fascist groups for which Orthodoxy and Zionism are one and the same.
Once again, I will clarify that, apart from hatred of Orthodoxy, there is nothing in these views, which means that the bearers of these views profess a religion of hatred.

5. How do neo-pagans relate to Christianity, do they know it?
As an object of total criticism, I have already spoken about this above. Their knowledge is reduced to a set of formulations chosen by someone, taken out of context, and a set of provocative questions about these formulations. That is, this is how charismatic Protestants zombify the "flock" ... So the source of "knowledge" is understandable. Anything to kill Orthodoxy in Russia

6. What accusations against Christianity have you heard from neo-pagans, and how did you respond to these accusations?
- as I already said, all accusations against Orthodoxy are extremely typical, namely:
a) "Christianity was invented by the Jews to take over the world and rule it from behind the scenes" (c)
Excuse me, but it was the Jews who crucified Christ and it was to them that he said: ... Forgive them Heavenly Father, for they do not know what they are doing! (c) After which Judea was scattered by God around the world for this crime against God, it was the Jews who took power in October On the 17th, the first thing they did was to blow up churches, physically destroying the clergy, or is someone not aware of the ethnic and religious affiliation of the top of Bolshevism?
Perhaps someone is not aware of the decisions of the First Ecumenical Councils related to the attitude towards the Jews? Someone does not know what the Inquisition did in Europe to a greater extent and why was there a Pale of Settlement in Orthodox Russia?
I am not ready to comment on these measures, I am just clarifying the centuries-old struggle of the people who killed our God with His Church and the reaction of Orthodoxy to this struggle!
c) “... if the Old Testament is an integral part of Holy Scripture, then it is written in black and white and it is repeatedly said that it was written for the sons of Israel, that is, the Jews ... But not for the Slavs” (c)
Yes, that's exactly what it says. Now find the word "Christian" in the Holy Scriptures?
Didn't find it? How strange... The Savior apparently did not introduce this term during his lifetime and operated with a general concept, nevertheless speaking of the New Testament as the pinnacle of all Holy Scripture, and it was we, the children of the New Testament, Orthodox, who accepted the picture of the construction of the world from the Old Testament and who accepted the religion of Love from the New Testament. In the Old Testament, God “puts things in order in the universe”, in the New Testament he gives us the source of eternal life and precisely sacrificial Love, when life given for people who hate you is not too high a price, for true Faith!
What and where in the New Testament can cause discrepancies or misunderstandings, maybe I'm stupid, but I did not find such places, smarter and more crafty, and in the coming rain I see a conspiracy of world Zionism.
c) “... what about the cheeks? Isn't this the religion of sluts and slaves? (C)
All Holy Scripture is written about the main battle in a person's life - the battle with sin on the battlefield of your own Soul, when your will either pulls you into the abyss of vice and sin or unites with the Will of God, making you a god ...
So, the readiness to turn one cheek to the blow of fate is the courage to accept the blows of the vicious world on your chest! Moreover, this phrase is a complete analogue of the Jewish “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” that migrated to the Koran. What is not the brightest difference from the Jewish atrocities? We are the soldiers of Christ, killing the enemy on the battlefield does not experience hatred and voluptuousness, cutting off the ears of a corpse, worshiping Satan ... We mourn the fate of our enemies, but we will never become like animals with weapons in their hands and the satanic gleam of eyes and fangs. Let's not be like! But remember the words of Athanasius the Great: ... Killing an enemy on the battlefield is a manifestation of valor and honor! (c)
d) “... but you are slaves, you yourself say this, but our gods do not have slaves and they did not take me into slavery” (c)
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7. How do neo-pagans view sports? Can it be argued that neo-paganism contributes to the development of sports achievements?
- if we consider that neo-pagans are usually right-wing radicals, then they cannot do without a good physical shape, these guys are really busy with contact sports, strength training, but you just can’t live with hatred in your heart, it will devour him. For this we say - strong people, - good people! People who seek to show their strength like a fig under the nose of the whole world are weak ... And there's nothing to be done about it. The same Islamic Mujahideen contemptuously throw in the direction of the Russians:
- we fight for Allah, and you fight for fallen women, vodka and money (c)
Without a true, sincere Faith in the heart, and having only some worldview fragments in the head, it will be extremely difficult to give one's life for one's beliefs. And Yevgeny Radionov has already shone like a Warrior of Christ, as an example of a Russian Soldier who did not kneel before the enemy! Hallelujah!

8. How would you recommend that Orthodox Christians communicate with neo-pagans?
... Orthodoxy does not fight other beliefs, that is, we are not interested in what and how sectarians, pseudo-pagans or Jews believe, we categorically do not accept sin or blasphemy against God ... If this is not the case, then I do not see any restrictions in communicating with anyone, why not?

9. What, in your opinion, is the neo-pagan movement, what are the reasons for its appearance, what prospects for its development in Russia do you see?
- slightly different.
The emergence of the phenomenon of Hitlerism in Russia is explained very simply. This is an extremely attractive form of social protest of the indigenous population against aggressive migrants for young people, which means that any neo-pagan neo-Nazi is a person who does not need to be called out into the street to express his protest, he will jump out there at the first opportunity and ... will color with his presence and “ridges "everything is brown... What will give the Western media the right to squeal about the humanitarian catastrophe and the brown mark in Russia... We are bringing in NATO troops,... As they were brought into Kosovo. So there is no need to fight with us, we will divide the country into protectorates, plant puppets and neo-colonialism is ready in action, and we are slaves of the winners, thanks to unwitting provocateurs with swastikas

10. What would you like to say to the pagans in the end?
- I have not seen people who themselves learned to read and write, and after that they managed to read books in an unfamiliar language. If you really want to understand Holy Scripture, then find an elder-confessor who will fatherly explain to you all positions that are difficult to understand, therefore, for the interpretation of Holy Scripture, a whole science of Theology has been created, which soon studies a small book for 2000 years and finds such amazing revelations that you marvel at the depth of this source.
- I have not seen people who themselves learned to read and write, and after that they managed to write some books ... So why did you decide that without even microscopic sources on hand, you have the right to invent paganism itself? Why do you avoid talking about the process of sacrifices and the "canonical form" of dummies dug in for worship? Why is each of your "sorcerers" either a former KGB officer or a secretary of a Komsomol organization? Check me, be surprised to check... There are no pagans, there is a well-thought-out provocation of militant atheists who want to discredit the very concept of Patriotism!
P.S. How exactly do I feel about neo-fascists? …I treat them better than the beer drinkers and slobbers from the “internet noobs”, because the so-called pagans are obviously wrong in many things, but they do it sincerely and really try to do at least something, any mistake will eventually be revealed and I'm sure the position will change! But these guys are not indifferent! They are already capable, which means they are still going the wrong way, but they are going! And they don’t drown in the swamp of laziness, drunkenness and inferiority of the new world ... I believe that the Lord will correct and direct. We are Russians, which means we will win! (With)

It's hard to be Russian

Do you know what a high school student does when he finds out that great writers have authorial punctuation and spelling? - He immediately considers himself to be one of them and begins to explain the omission of commas by the fact that this is how he hears this phrase. Most easy way avoiding the implementation of the rules is to declare that these rules are not for me, they say, they are written. In my universe, I myself create laws for myself. “We are free to execute our lackeys, we are free to pardon.”

And the universe of Orthodoxy is so bad for the anarchists that it has already been inhabited. Orthodoxy is not necessary and it is not possible to invent. It didn't start with us. It articulates its "yes" and its "no" clearly. And, what is even less pleasant, it formulates its “shoulds” no less distinctly. Even non-church people imagine what exactly Christianity evaluates as sin. And in response they say (through the mouth of a certain singer) - “It’s so hard for me! After all, in this life everything that is pleasant, or sinful, or spoils the figure!

Where, then, should a “free-thinking person” go? It is not interesting to go into atheism. In others religious traditions there will be a similar situation: they have their own and also long-established rules of "spelling". To frankly declare that you are creating something completely authorial is the risk of remaining a general without an army: others may say, well, author’s, so author’s, you believe it, but we don’t care about your laws, don’t extend them to us. “The faith of Mr. Puzikov” is not something that can attract supporters and on what you can create your own hierarchy.

So what to do? The answer to this question has long been known. It is necessary to find a tradition so ancient that its name inspires respect, and so unknown that anything can be carried in its name. In order for the newly-minted “son of Lieutenant Schmidt” not to be exposed, it is advisable to first make sure that the real heirs and bearers of the tradition you claim to inherit are not left alive. And so that meticulous critics do not begin to compare your rantings with albeit not living, but still quite real historical texts, it is better to find a tradition that was, due to its antiquity, unwritten, pre-written. It is ideal to speak on behalf of "initiated Neanderthals". Here certainly no "evidence of contemporaries" will emerge. But since modern people don’t really want to be like Neanderthals, that’s why we need to look for something more “civilized”. But still, it's unwritten.

And here you can’t imagine anything better than the “ancient Rus”. They were once afraid of Europe (not like us). Soviet history textbooks spoke only good things about them (they say they didn’t even have slavery). They did not leave any texts outlining their views. So grow your hair, dye it blond, tie it with a ribbon - and carry whatever you want on behalf of Svarog and Perun. This is an unknown world in which you can approve your own laws. The world is dead, and therefore unable to resist the conqueror. And you can decide for yourself what the “symbol” of which will be “Dazhdbog”, what sacrifices should be made to the mermaids and how many wives you can bring into your house.

This is the main reason why people who are unable to discipline their thoughts and their hearts suddenly declare themselves "Russian pagans." The trouble is that they pass off their own impotence as a manifestation of "masculinity"; they pass off their inability to live in real Russia, a Russia whose history is permeated with Orthodoxy, as some kind of advantage that they supposedly have over Christians. In fact, they are ordinary immigrants. It's just that someone leaves Russia for Israel, and someone - to the "Krivichi".

And it's not so different directions. Western (and "pro-Western") "common people" very much welcome the growth of any paganism. Anything, if only without Christ. Here the "civil religion" of the United States is quite consonant with the aspirations of the pagan Russian "nationalists". The difference is only in their argumentation. From the point of view of the “general people” who are building the “new world order”, Orthodoxy should be eliminated because it is too aggressive, too rooted in the past and too resistant to the norms of “political correctness”. And from the point of view of neo-pagans, Orthodoxy should be eliminated because it is too peaceful, too passive, non-aggressive and not sufficiently rooted in the past.

"Neo-pagans", who swear their love for the Russian people, actually despise this people. Not from folk tales and not lullabies, they began their journey to pagan fires, but from Masonic-occult waste paper (Blavatsky, Steiner, the Roerichs, etc.). If they loved the Russian people and were brought up on its traditions, then they would fall in love with Orthodoxy. And they, you see, refuse to trust the people. Like, the people betrayed the "faith of their grandfathers" and for a thousand years went in the wrong direction. Well, gentlemen nationalists, if you please learn the English (excuse me) proverb: "Love me - love my dog!". Do you love the Russian people? “Then please also love what this people has loved with all its heart. Understand and love what this people laid down their lives for. Tell me, gentlemen “nationalists,” did St. Prince Mikhail of Chernigov, refusing to go through the pagan "cleansing fire" at the headquarters of the Tatar Khan and accepting death with the name of Christ on his lips?

To love a person means to accept what is dear to that person and is appreciated by him. So to love the Russian people means to accept what this people themselves considered their highest value. And what exactly the Russians considered their highest value was clearly visible in any village: a bell tower with a golden cross raised its head above the impoverished huts with earthen floors. And this was by no means the result of “oppression” and “exploitation”. Here is a scene from the 19th century. In a rural church, the liturgical gospel was dilapidated: the binding was disheveled and the pages frayed_ The parishioners decided to buy a new one. According to the "peace" they collected pennies and sent them to the city, to the diocese to buy a priest and a trustee from the community. Upon returning with the newly acquired Gospel, the village is going to serve a thanksgiving service. And so, when in the course of the prayer service the priest pronounces the statutory pronouncement: “Reading the holy Gospel from Luke!”, the temple is suddenly filled with murmuring: “For some reason, from Luke ?! Why is it only Luke?! We gave everything! This is our gospel too!”

Yes, there was duality. In the same villages there were fortune-tellers and healers... People used to use these pagan "specialists". But they didn't serve. They went to a Christian monastery to serve God. The words “about the soul” and “about God” were expected from a Christian monk.

Not understanding the internal structure of the Russian soul, the neopagans do not understand the whole course of Russian history. They are in no way able to reconcile their accusation of Christianity in "pacifism" with the rather considerable circumstance that Rus' became a world power, an Empire precisely in the Christian period of its history. Liberals ridicule “Russian laziness” (they say that in Russian fairy tales all dreams about a self-assembly tablecloth and a self-propelled stove - as if in German fairy tales all dreams are about a twelve-hour working day!), - not noticing that this is obviously Russia from laziness " swollen" to a sixth of the land. The neo-pagans also do not know how to cope with this very inconvenient circumstance for them.

Compare plus to this a few more historical facts. Are Slavs considered Aryans? - Yes. Where is the ancestral home of the Aryans? - Eurasian steppe. The Aryans were nomadic pastoralists? - Yes. But where did the first Russian state formations end up? - In the forest zone between the Carpathians and Okoyu. What does it mean? Yes, the fact that the pagan Slavs were squeezed out of their native steppes into the forests by stronger Eurasian tribes. And only the Orthodox Slavs were able to regain control over the "Wild Steppe" and over the land of the common Aryan ancestral home.

However, for one thing we can be grateful to the neo-pagans. For their honesty. They openly share their dreams of what kind of genocide they will inflict on Christians. They openly write about what bloody sacrifices they will bring to their old-new gods. Thanks to their frankness, it becomes clear again what exactly Christianity saved the world from.

Deacon Andrei Kuraev

Russia and new paganism

I. Pagan dead end (instead of preface)

I was prompted to start working on this topic by the book of the Tomsk author I.V. It's called " Ancient Egypt and Rus': questions of history, mythology and linguistics. .

The official history is falsified and subject to revision. This is the main thesis of I.V. Tashkinov. He believes that Egyptian culture is Slavic culture. Egyptian civilization, familiar to us from school textbooks, was created by our ancestors.

Tashkinov's work reminded me of the books of another author who gained all-Russian fame - A.T. Fomenko. They are literally littered with the largest Moscow bookstores. The main idea of ​​this author is the same as that of Tashkinov: the whole history is falsified, and it must be rewritten. Fomenko, for example, is convinced that there was no Tatar-Mongol invasion. It is de, an invention of the later Moscow chroniclers.

“Well, what is it about the free creative search of scientists?” someone will ask. The more points of view, the more different opinions, the better. In a dispute, as you know, truth is born ... "

Everything seems to be correct. But the books of the same Fomenko are published too luxuriously. Too large circulations for our impoverished times. It means that it is beneficial for someone to “revise history”. To whom?

Here is how one of the modern Russian historians, academician, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. L. Yanin, thinks about this: “I consider it appropriate to ask the question: whose social order is fulfilled by A. T. Fomenko? Naturally, only he can answer this question. In anticipation of such an answer, I recall the first post-war years of Novgorod. The thousand-year-old city lies in ruins. His monuments with ripped off roofs are gaping with holes. Rain streams down the vandalized frescoes. The Mikeshinsky monument to the "Millennium of Russia" was dismantled, and the blocks with the figures of the heroes of Russian history were thrown into the mud in disorder. The Sonderkommando SS did a good job, pursuing one goal - to deprive our people of historical memory and turn them into a herd of senseless cattle ... "

A people deprived of historical memory and turned into a herd. This is the goal for those who, at the current historical turning point, want to wipe my country, Russia, from the face of the earth.

“After all, a people who do not know their history and culture can be instilled with their superiority and achieve voluntary obedience, humility, especially if this people, like Russians, cannot be defeated in open battle.” A very true thought. It is only striking that the above quote belongs to a person who, like Tashkinov, like Fomenko, is doing everything to destroy the people's historical memory, completely falsifying the past. The author of this statement is A. N. Alekseeva, associate professor of the Radio Engineering Academy of the city of Ryazan. Not a historian. Just like Fomenko. The quote is taken from the collection "The World of the Russian Soul", published in 1998 by the same publishing house of the Ryazan Writers' Organization "Uzorochye" as Tashkinov's book. The publication of the collection was financed by the Department of Culture and Art of the city of Ryazan.

In the book "The World of the Russian Soul" an attempt is made to prove that Orthodox Christianity, having come to the Russian land, destroyed the developed spiritual culture of our ancestors and enslaved the Russian people that existed from ancient times to a foreign principle. And Russians are the core of world civilization. The Russian language is the basis for many languages ​​of the world. It is necessary to abandon Christianity, return to Russian paganism, create a new culture and a new society. All activities of the scientific-practical seminar "Russian Enlightenment" are aimed at substantiating these theses, at popularizing them in the minds of Russians.

Pagan holidays are held in the city, for example, Yarilin Day. Pagan organizations openly operate in Ryazan - the Union of Slavs, led by V.V. Kostylev (part of the All-Russian association "Soyuz Slavic communities Slavic Native Faith”, leader – V.S. Kazakov) and the Ryazan Slavic Pagan Community (headed by M.A. Kachalova (Dobroslav). They have strong friends and high patrons.

To destroy the existing Russia and create a new society is what modern neo-pagans want. There will be no place for Orthodox Christianity in this new society. It won't because the reality they're building has nothing to do with historical Russia.

They deny this historical Russia, calling themselves "Russian patriots". For themselves, they created another "homeland" - a kind of virtual image of "Light Rus'" or "Light Russia". Actually, they are patriots of this particular virtual country, and not true Russia.

To slander the past, to slander the mother of the Russian people - the Russian Orthodox - this is how they see their task. To do this, they have quite decent informational forces. In Ryazan, the neo-pagan newspapers Russkaya Pravda, Aryan, and Lybidsky Boulevard are published or distributed.

And, finally, the ideological service of all these structures at a kind of scientific level is carried out by the seminar "Russian Enlightenment".

Let us ask ourselves again: who is behind these forces? I do not consider myself one of those who are looking for conspiracies everywhere, but this situation is too serious. I am deeply convinced that all these neo-pagan organizations, stubbornly calling themselves patriotic, are driven by those who want the death of Russia. For this, it is necessary to deprive people of the memory of their history, to slander the past.

But the Russian question is now a matter of the country's survival. Will we be able to become truly Russian? And what does it mean to be Russian?

Here is a political map of the world in front of me. Only the borders of states marked on it are very unusual. The United States of America and Japan are surrounded by a common dotted line. All of Europe is shown united. A huge spot stands out for the state that bears the name "Great China" on the map. It includes Mongolia, part of the Central Asian republics of the CIS, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indochina with part of Indonesia, Korea. But even more striking are the borders of our country. All of it is divided into three parts. The first is the "Far Eastern Republic". But it does not have a whole strip of southern regions, there is no Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. All this is given to "Great China". The other part is the Siberian Republic. It is deprived of the south of Siberia, also attached to China. And, finally, actually "Russia" to the Urals with the western border between Kursk and Petrozavodsk. This territory does not include Pskov and St. Petersburg. They are given to the united Europe. The southern border of this "Russia" runs between Rostov and the Caspian Sea. The entire North Caucasus, the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, are also given to Europe. Part of this Europe is on the map and Türkiye. Across all three parts, we read - Confederate Russia ("confederate (read - dismembered - I.V.) Russia." "Siberia" and "Far Eastern Republic", of course, are American protectorates ...

What is this? Ravings of a madman? Someone's abstract fantasies? Neither one nor the other. This map is part of American geopolitical planning. Such a future was prepared for our country by Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the most influential ideologist of the "New World Order" implanted by the USA. The map was published in the American edition of his book The Grand Chessboard (in the Russian translation it was shamefully omitted). The book has a dedication: "To my students - to help them shape the outlines of the world of tomorrow." The map was also reprinted in September 1997 in Foreign Affairs, an organ of the Council on Foreign Relations. And this “Council” is one of the most important structures of the same “new world order”.

Wait a bit. A few years will pass, our missiles will finally rust, and these plans will begin to be implemented.

US Department of State Advisor, Head of the Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University S. Huntington in his sensational book "Clash of Civilizations" writes that not all countries are inherently suitable for the "new world order". And first of all, from this point of view, our Russia is unsuitable. She's redundant. Such resources, such a territory, and here we have to reckon with some people. And in general, according to the same Mr. Brzezinski, we are a “black hole”. Hence the inevitability of civilizational conflicts.

But, besides the American map, there are others. According to Brzezinski's plan, the Muslim world gets nothing. Moreover, many of the Muslim world do not get anything. Moreover, many Muslim countries are being swallowed up by "Great China". It is understandable. 300 million Muslims are very frightening to Americans with their unpredictability.

But this world exists, and it has its own plans. A map prepared by a Muslim research center has recently been published. And it has a lot of interesting and surprising things for us. Not only Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan are shown here as independent Islamic states, but even Mordovia! And the compilers of this map are also waiting in the wings.

Sooner or later, this hour will come. It will come if everything in our country remains the same. If we don't know who we are and what we want. If, meeting with the civilizations around us - America, China, the Islamic world, we do not realize our own identity, do not merge with our past into one whole. If we are amoebas, then, faced with foreign national interests, we will cease to exist as a nation ourselves.

Perhaps some of us believe that states at the turn of the 21st century are guided by the norms of international law and sacredly observe the rights of all, even the smallest peoples? Don't we know anything about the war in Yugoslavia?

Do we want to live on a reservation from Kursk to the Urals? Without any access to the seas? Without all the natural resources to which you are so accustomed? To live trembling with fear of the Americans, Chinese, Muslims and hoping that someday they will quarrel among themselves because of our own wealth? Do we want our country to become the arena of the third world war? Then let's remain citizens of the universe. We do not want? Then we must finally become Russian.

But here it is, again this question: what does it mean to be Russian?

What is important to us in our own identity? What will help you stand in the face of the whole world?

A nation is not only an economic, cultural and ethnic community of people in some territory. A nation is primarily a spiritual community. To rebuild the economy, to achieve a demographic rise, to fix the political system, simply to establish, in the end, a normal life - all this can be achieved only with the will. Where can the nation get its will, where can it get its strength? Only in faith. The common faith is what serves as the foundation for the national life. Therefore, to be Russian means to have the Russian faith. But what is this faith?

All Russian history testifies that this faith is Orthodox Christianity.

Let's see who our enemies fear the most. Zbigniew Brzezinski says that "after the fall of communism, the main enemy of America is Russian Orthodoxy." Even our main strategic opponents recognize that Orthodoxy is the core and support of Russia.

As we saw above, too many think differently and choose paganism. I think that among them there are many sincerely mistaken people. It is for them that I am writing this.

II. Where to look for "Russian gods"?

Can paganism renew and resurrect our country? Christianity is called to bring all nations to Christ. The pagan cults that really existed in the past (and we will talk about the essence of the new paganism) are opposite to Christianity in this respect. They are not directed outside the people to which they belong. One had to be born a fire-worshipping Persian or a Hindu of the highest caste, but one could not become one. Each people has its own gods, and these gods patronize only specific peoples - this is the main postulate of historical paganism.

“So this is great! - someone will exclaim, - Now we need to isolate ourselves from the external spiritual threat! Let us pray to our gods!”

But wait. And what specific gods are you going to pray to? “So this is understandable,” they will answer us, “Russian, Slavic.”

Here in the first issue of the newspaper "Lybedsky Bulvar" for 2001, an article by V.I. Korchagin "What to do?", in which he writes: "We need to return to our Russian national religion, which existed before the adoption of Christianity in Rus', to our native Russian gods." Along the way, the newspaper once again pours out a stream of dirt and insults on Orthodox Christianity.

It should be noted, however, that the Russian nation as a historical phenomenon did not arise at all in pagan times. Russians are usually understood as three related nationalities - Great Russians, Little Russians (Ukrainians) and Belarusians. Any person who is more or less familiar with the history of the development of those vast expanses that these peoples occupy, with the history of their relationships, it is obvious that the period of formation of the Russian nation fits well into the past thousand years.

For example, V.O. Klyuchevsky and S.F. Platonov, one of the most significant domestic historians at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, attributed the formation of the Great Russian people (those whom we usually call Russians) to the 12th-13th centuries - the time of the colonization of Suzdal-Vladimir Rus'. If we talk about the Russian nation as a political and economic community, then it is obvious to any person who studied at a secondary school that it was formed no earlier than the 15th-17th centuries.

But what happened before?

There were, for example, Scythians-plowmen, otherwise called skolots. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that they came to the lands of the Middle Dnieper a thousand years before Darius, that is, one and a half thousand years before the birth of Christ. B.A. Rybakov dwells on the Skolot problem in sufficient detail in his books.

Skolots, as well as Wends and Antes, are all the ancestors of today's Russians. But the fact of the matter is that they, of course, are not Russian in our current understanding. Of course, they lived on the territory of our country, and we are their distant descendants. However, we are different - both in terms of the breadth of our geographical coverage, and economically, and culturally, and spiritually, and even already anthropologically. We are a little like them. We are not limited to them. History separates us. And their gods are precisely the gods of Skolots, Wends, Antes, and so on. But these are by no means Russian gods. And there is very little information about these gods. What gods did the Skolts believe in? They worshiped the Sun and honored the "sacred gifts" of the sky - a golden plow, a yoke, an ax and a bowl. That is all that is known about their religion.

Now a distorted idea of ​​the origin of the Russian people is being actively implanted in the mass consciousness. We have already talked about the book "The World of the Russian Soul". Its compilers are trying to prove that the Russians as a nation have existed for an incalculable number of years and in general are the original people of the earth, from which all other peoples come. At the same time, the concrete historical concept of “Russians” is replaced by a certain abstraction - “Russians”, “Rusichs”, etc. Particular attention is paid in the book to the hypothesis of G.S. Grinevich, styled only as "Russian scientist".

Grinevich made an attempt to decipher some signs on a clay pot found a hundred years ago in a pre-Christian burial near the village of Alekanovo, Ryazan province. Grinevich considered that he had read the inscription, which is translated into Russian as follows: "It is necessary to close it, planting it in the forehead (oven)." On the basis of his "discovery" Grinevich "deciphered" absolutely all the ancient inscriptions in the world. Of course, they are based on Russian speech.

And now let's imagine ourselves in the place of those who buried the deceased in that burial. They believed that magic signs, applied to clothes and objects, are able to protect their owner. They also believed in afterlife of their deceased relative, and therefore they placed a pot of ritual food at his feet. Would they write on this vessel the stupidity that Grinevich read? Would they just put a pot taken from the house in the grave? It can be assumed that they would have made a special vessel and put signs on it that served as a magical talisman. Well, what is the magic in banality? Is that the pot must be put in the oven?

Here is a recent example of "Grinevich's disease." The already mentioned "amateur historian" and associate professor of the Radio Engineering Academy of the city of Ryazan A.N. Alekseev, inspired by the "discovery" of G.S. Grinevich, traveled to the island of Crete. Grinevich deciphered the allegedly mysterious inscription on the famous Phaistos disc. From this decoding it seems to follow that the civilization on Crete was founded by the "pagan Rus" (the last point is certainly emphasized), having sailed there in the second millennium BC. And it is natural that after returning from the "Russian" Crete A.N. Alekseeva with great joy seeks to share her knowledge with the participants of the seminar "Russian Enlightenment". The report is called, neither more nor less. "Ancient Russian Civilization in Crete".

Did our ancestors know Crete? Yes, they knew. In 960, the Greeks, with the support of Slavic warriors and Varangians, landed on Crete, which had previously been the base of Arab pirates. This is a real story. But the "Russians" as the founders of the Cretan civilization 2 thousand years before our era - this is already a fantasy.

But what about Grinevich?

The workers of the "seminar" "Russian Enlightenment" are very fond of the works of A.I. Asov, an apologist for the so-called "Book of Veles". When the Ryazan pagans, in contrast to the official Days of Slavic writing and culture, held their “ scientific and practical conference”, then Asov was invited there.

Here is what Asov writes about Grinevich: “The very idea of ​​​​G.S. Grinevich about the existence of a Slavic syllabary and that the ancestors of the Slavs wrote with this letter continuously from the 6th millennium BC. and up until recently, is more than controversial. As for his reading of the Etruscan, Cretan, Proto-Indian inscriptions in the same way, this is an unfounded fantasy. With the same success, in Slavonic one can read Chinese and Egyptian hieroglyphs, or letters from Easter Island ... The work of Gennady Stanislavovich itself shows only some, very superficial, acquaintance with Slavic phonetics, as well as a complete lack of knowledge of the Old Slavonic language, problems of the history of the language. Not once in his book did he use a single language term, did not evaluate the form of the word, did not try to determine the declension.

On the Internet, on several pagan sites at once (and there are, unfortunately, plenty of them), the material “Russian Runology in a Flower: A. Platov vs. G. Grinevich” is distributed. The original of this material is located on the website of the writer Yuri Nikitin * in the "Korchma" section.

Anton Platov is an extraordinary figure in modern "Slavic" neo-paganism. He, together with Dmitry Gavrilov, heads the "analytical group" "Northern Wind" in Moscow, which is one of the leading philosophical and literary heralds of neo-pagan ideas. Platov himself, unlike his colleagues in " north wind”, adheres not to the Slavic, but to the Scandinavian pagan tradition. By education, not a humanist, but a theoretical physicist. His developments in runology "Runes and their magical meaning”, “Slavic runes” can (but not necessary) be seen on the satanic site “Black Light”. What is the connection between neo-pagans and Satanists, I will try to show below.

And the story between Grinevich and Platov was very revealing.

In 1994, the publishing house "Manager" published Platov's book " runic magic". On the cover of the book, he placed his own runic inscription, or rather two. The first of them, according to Platov himself, has the meaning of "rune". The second, transmitted by the classic Elder runes, means "I, such and such, wrote this." The second inscription is organically included in the composition of the picture, which is a personal "banner", or rather the brand of Anton Platov, which he puts on his books and author's works.

And in 1999, the Moscow publishing house "Letopis" published the second volume of Grinevich's work "Proto-Slavic Writing". In it, he "read" in the "proto-Slavic" language countless mysterious inscriptions, including ... and the personal brand of Anton Platov.

And here's what happened:

YALONAICHAE

MOCHAMOYAIGISEENOEKORYSENOBEYAMOKO.

Not really funny, but very indecent. To be brief, the inscription, according to Mr. Grinevich, tells of a certain person whose seminal fluid is "an object of love passion", and whose descendants "were in the distant past a protein substance."

The drawing on Platov's stamp, according to the author himself, means the "world tree", the most important pagan symbol.

However, Grinevich, of course, knows better. He states: “As for the image that accompanies the inscription, it exactly corresponds to the content of the inscription: before us is an elegant, I would even say ornate, written out male genital organ against the background of the female genital organ.”

It is clear that Platov was very offended and in his article “Russian Runology in a Flower” strongly scolds Grinevich, saying that his work is not just ignorance, but “rudeness that offends anyone who considers himself Russian.”

Platov is convinced that Grinevich “should at least get acquainted with popular books for senior school age. Then he would know, for example, that the elementary laws of combinatorics and mathematical linguistics lead to the conclusion that it is impossible to correctly decipher single inscriptions made in syllabic writing. In other words, such inscriptions allow any decipherment in any predetermined language. The famous Phaistos disc, of which Mr. Grinevich is so proud of “reading”, is an excellent example of this. It has long been established that the text of the disc will not be reliably translated until circumstantial evidence makes it possible to establish that the language of the text belongs to any group. Grinevich should also learn that, "to put it mildly, it is incorrect to make changes to the drawing of inscriptions on archaeological sites, adjusting ancient texts to fit their own deciphering systems." Here's an Alekanovsky pot for you ...

It is difficult to assume that A.N. Alekseeva, with her love for paganism, does not know the last book of Asov. And it is absolutely impossible to think that the associate professor of the Radio Engineering Academy is unfamiliar with pagan resources on the Internet. Therefore, it remains to be assumed that the “amateur historian” is not interested in scientific truth but ideology. The “necessary” decryption is important to her ...

Everything that the "seminar" "Russian Enlightenment" does has nothing to do with science. This is the ideological service of those socio-political circles that seek to cross out real story Russia, passing off a deliberate fake for her.

The monumental canvas of the formation of the Russian nation opens before us in the works of prominent Russian historians, such as, for example, N.M. Karamzin, S.M. Solovyov, V.O. Klyuchevsky. This history is worthy of love and reverence not only because it is ours. This is the path of perhaps the greatest people on earth. However, this people was born as one great whole in the font of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. Before that, we know "one Slavic people." But it is represented by very different tribes, or rather, unions of tribes. In the "Tale of Bygone Years" we find their enumeration: these are the meadows and the Drevlyans, the Dregovichi and the Radimichi, the northerners and the Vyatichi, the Slovenians and many others. And for our theme with you, it is important that these tribal unions are very different. As the "Tale of Bygone Years" testifies, they all "had their own customs, and the laws of their fathers, and traditions, each - his own temper." Modern researchers have collected a lot of evidence that the "traditions", that is, religious ideas, differed greatly among these tribal unions. Attempts by a number of authors, such as Asov, who was so beloved by the figures of the Ryazan “seminar” “Russian Enlightenment”, to recreate a certain unified ancient Russian pantheon turn out to be untenable.

People who grew up in a traditional environment are well aware of the children's game of "Yasha" waiting for his bride. This game goes back to very distant times. And "Yasha" was actually called the Lizard. Northern Slavs worshiped the Serpent - the Lizard, the lord of underground waters. This cult is described in great detail in his book "Paganism of Ancient Rus'" by one of the most famous historians, Academician Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov.

Sanctuaries of the Lizard were located on the swamps, the banks of lakes and rivers. The main temple was located not far from Novgorod, in the place where the Volkhov River flows out of Lake Ilmen. The Old Russian chronicler calls the Lizard "prince of Volkhov". He, de, “blocked the waterway in that Volkhov River. And he devoured those who did not worship him, drowned others. Therefore, people, then ignorant, called that accursed god the real god. As victims, the Lizard was thrown into the water with black chickens, as well as young girls. That is why "Yasha" in a child's game is waiting for his betrothed.

One of the most detailed expositions of the myth about the Lizard is the epic about Sadko, the harpman who delighted the underwater ruler with his game. The second part of the epic tells that Sadko went to the bottom of the sea as a sacrifice to the Lizard Tsar.

“Oh, you, fellow shipbuilders, brothers,

It is true that the pallet king requires no duties,

And he demands a human head!”

However, in the epic everything ends happily. Sadko, with the help of the daughter of the underwater king, gets to the surface.

The cult of the Lizard is exclusively northern. This is extremely important for us. Other Slavic tribes have other gods. The Baltic deity Perkunas (Perun), having strengthened first in the middle Dnieper, came to the north with fire and a sword. The temple at the mouth of the Volkhov was destroyed by order of the young Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Then, even before his conversion to Christ, he tried to bring all the pagan gods of different Slavic tribes to the same denominator. On the site of the sanctuary of the Lizard, an idol of Perun was erected, and the place itself was called "Peryn". However, this "god" did not differ in kindness and also demanded "a human head."

Fans of paganism cannot choose either Russians or Slavic gods"at all". One has to choose between the deities of individual Slavic tribal unions.

“Well, then,” someone will say. - We are Ryazan, and Ryazan was founded by the Vyatichi. Let's find out how they believed, and we will believe the same way.

First, about the Vyatichi. Here in the Bulletin of the Union of Slavic Communities “Vyatich” No. 6 (8) for 1998, the leader of this pagan association, Vadim Stanislavovich Kazakov, writes about the formation of a pagan community in Kaluga: “1994 can rightly be considered the year of the restoration of the Slavic faith in Russia. ancient land Vyatichi resisted Christianity the longest (until the 12th century), and it also became the first land that began the path to liberation from Christian foreignness. Vyatichi turned out to be worthy of their ancestors.

I very much doubt that the modern industrial city of Kaluga is inhabited by the direct descendants of the ancient Vyatichi people. To substantiate this statement, a serious scientific anthropological examination would have to be carried out (measurement of skulls, genetic studies) and the continuity from the 12th century of the majority of the clans inhabiting the city should be proved. Are you convinced that the inhabitants of Kaluga are generally aware of what it is - a "clan"? At best, they only know the names of their great-grandfathers. Even in the 20th century, there were so many events that completely mixed up the population of our country that there is no need to talk about any continuity. Judge for yourself - civil war, industrialization, collectivization, repression, the Great Patriotic War, evacuation, Komsomol construction, urbanization and so on. Where to look for Vyatichi now?

In general, Russia as a spiritual and historical phenomenon cannot be reduced to those tribes that inhabited its territory before the miracle of the birth of the Russian nation. “The history of Russia,” wrote Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, “is the history of a country that is being colonized.” Huge spaces were explored. And these expanses became a melting pot in which Vyatichi, Krivichi, glade and others Slavic tribes became one Russian people. This people, having come to new lands, was already Christian.

Ryazan is a vivid example of this. Materials of archaeological excavations show that the people who settled on the banks of the Oka on the site of a former small Mordovian town came from various directions. Here are Vyatichi, and Krivichi, and Radimichi, and glade. And they all became Ryazanians simultaneously with the preaching of Christ in these places. Ryazan is not a city of Vyatichi, although they made up the majority of the colonists who settled it. And what is this city? Russian.

You can search as much as you like among the archaeological finds in Staraya Ryazan for material traces of remnants of pagan times. But it is impossible to raise them on a shield and shout that the city was pagan or, at best, that the Ryazan people were two-believers. It is not true. Old Ryazan was originally built up, like all ancient Russian cities, according to a plan based on christian symbolism. The earthly city was comprehended as an icon of Heavenly Jerusalem. Each of its elements, and Cathedral Square, and at the Spassky (or rather, Golden) Gates, and at the Annunciation Monastery at the entrance to the city - had their own sacred Christian justification. So the Ryazan, Russian faith is Christianity. And lizards, peruns and others are the gods of tribes that have long sunk into oblivion. And no more.

III. abomination

“The highest law of nature says: “Let life bloom everywhere!”. Hence the Rusal rites, games around a huge, roughly carved standing pillar, personifying the Furious Force, and therefore called Kher. The common Indo-European root Yar - Er denoted a force irresistibly striving upwards, like the rising Yarila-sun. Round dance and erotic games around Hera - an emphatically masculine symbol of the solar principle - encouraged a man and a woman to copulate, to perform sacred rites for the glory of the Family. Agree, strange text. You can consider it a gross parody. But this is not a quote from some tabloid erotic newspaper. So the “Supreme Magus” of the Union of Slavic Communities, Dobroslav, explains to his followers the essence of pagan rites.

Who is this Dobroslav? The pagans themselves call him their "leading ideologue". Real name - Dobrovolsky Alexey Alexandrovich. 1938 year of birth. Under the influence of the Hungarian events, in 1957 he created a small anti-Soviet circle, loudly called the Russian National Socialist Party. They pasted leaflets on poles or threw them into mailboxes in different parts of Moscow.

The "underground workers" were arrested in May 1958 after they, being drunk, boasted to the girls that they would soon "cut the Bolsheviks." Almost everyone was soon released, but Dobrovolsky himself was sentenced to 3 years.

Released in May 1961. In order to get a residence permit in Moscow after his release, Dobrovolsky agreed to secret cooperation with the KGB (“foolishly, in my youth I thought of outwitting the Chekists. I thought I would work as an intelligence officer on two fronts, pretend that I was them. Something happened, something didn’t work out, but I was a scout, and not just a snitch for the sake of a residence permit”).

In 1961, Dobrovolsky was baptized, believing that a Russian should be Orthodox. Baptized the future neo-pagan "sorcerer" Gleb Yakunin, he also became in 1963 the godfather of his eldest son Sergei (later the "sorcerer" of the Moscow pagan community)

Dobrovolsky joins the underground group of the People's Labor Union (NTS). Again arrested. I ended up in a special psychiatric hospital in the city of Leningrad. Released in August 1965. He rejoined the NTS and continued to fight against the "communist regime". Subsequently, he was repeatedly arrested by the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He spent several years in prisons, camps and exile.

Since the end of 1969, Dobrovolsky has been fascinated by the esoteric teachings of Helena Blavatsky. Then comes the turn of parapsychology. The origins of his teachings, as we see, are quite occult, and this occultism is the latest, dating back to the 19th-20th centuries. Dobrovolsky was also fond of fasting, which was fashionable in those years. He developed his own healing system “by inhaling flower aromas” and even published a book on this topic, Aroma Yoga, in samizdat.

He was last arrested in 1982 on charges of soldering minors. He spent four months at the Serbsky Institute and about a year in a general mental hospital.

In 1989, his book Arrows of Yarila appeared in samizdat. In the same year, he takes the name Dobroslav. With the assistance of Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili, he begins to give lectures on pagan topics. Holds crowded pagan holidays.

In 1990, together with his adult sons (he named one son Rodoslav, and the other Vyatich), he settled in the forest village of Vesenevo, Shabalinsky district, Kirov region. Dobroslav compiles the first short pagan names and a calendar.

On June 22, 1997, representatives of several pagan communities held a uniting congress in Vesenevo - "Veche". On it, Dobroslav was proclaimed the leader of the "Russian liberation movement", called upon "to save the People - Motherland - Nature from alien bondage." But which side do you need to go to?

This question is not random and very interesting. Almost immediately after Dobroslav launched an active activity in the wilderness of the Shabalin forests, he was visited by a certain Carey Goldberg. As a result, a very positive article about Dobroslav appeared in the Los Angeles Times on November 28, 1992 ...

Dobroslav calls his ideology "Russian National Socialism". He considers the main provisions of his teaching to be the acceptance of paganism as a “natural Slavic worldview”, the recognition of Christianity, or, as Dobroslav calls it, “Jewish Christianity”, for an “alien, forcibly introduced religion”.

In July 1999, Dobroslav was elected "Supreme Magus" of the "Union of Slavic Communities". His political ideal is the coming to power of the National Socialists, brought up on the work of Dobroslav "The Natural Roots of Russian National Socialism." Vadim Kazakov, leader of the Union of Slavic Communities, sees his task as the restoration of paganism as a religion on a national scale. Moreover, paganism should become the only state religion in Russia. The Statute of the Union of Slavic Communities of the Slavic Native Faith speaks of this as follows: “The Union is the legal successor of the state confession of Russia, which was banned as a result of the government coup of 988-990. The Slavic Native Faith is the only original faith of the Slavs"

Almost everything that is politically radical in modern Russian neo-paganism is grouped around Dobroslav and his teachings.

On January 7, 2001, a criminal case was again initiated against Aleksey Aleksandrovich Dobrovolsky (Dobroslav). "For what?" - the answer to this question can be found in an article written according to the words of a participant in the holiday of Ivan Kupala at Dobroslav and published on the Internet by the Orthodox news agency "Russian Line"

“The organizer and ideological leader of the holiday was, of course, Dobroslav in an ironed ... shirt. It all started at dawn. A huge drum was carried out into the clearing, they gave me a jug, someone was carrying a wooden "brother" - a ladle of three liters.

... For the holiday, they cut down a large Christmas tree, removed the bark from it, trimmed the log in the form of a phallus and for some reason did not begin to paint it right away, but carried it to the hill, dug a hole there, put this "phallus", climbed into each other in three tiers and began paint him. Then they stood around him and started shouting: “Glory to the Russian dick!”…

In a nearby clearing, a huge bonfire and two smaller bonfires were already built. They dragged the drum. "Bang bang!" - a signal for everyone to shut up and line up ... Dobroslav said: "Those who are baptized will go first of all, because this faith must be removed from them and transferred to another" ... "They removed faith" like this: Dobroslav wetted his hand with water, ran it over the top of the newcomer's head, and then splashed this water on his eyes, on his soul - so that they were clean, and asked for his name. In paganism, one must take a Slavic pagan name. There was a little book, people were looking for names for themselves... Then a strand of hair was cut off from the initiates and thrown into the fire - as if to communicate with their ancestors...

... Everyone stood in a round dance and let the brother with water go around, and some began to shout: "Death to the Jewish Christians!", "Death to the Jewish Christian mothers!", "Death to their children!" ... And all those present in unison, to the whole forest repeated these words ...

They drank homemade beer, which was brought by local boys in a huge bottle. By the way, local guys took all these rituals very seriously. It seems that there are not enough other entertainments in the outback today ... The "uninitiated" were not treated to beer ... Then they dragged a real coffin, I don’t remember exactly what it symbolized - it seems that it was supposed to be the coffin of the Christian Mother of God - and they began to chop it with an ax. They cut it into pieces, made a fire out of the coffin. In the end, they walked on the coals. Water, by the way, is not supposed to extinguish a fire among the pagans - the god of Fire will be angry. We met the sun. Although it was night on Ivan Kupala, no one swam in the water, except for us, the “uninitiated” ... "

Dobroslav sent a letter to the prosecutor of the Shabalinsky district of the Kirov region, which was distributed on the Internet. In the letter, he writes: “I have a certificate of a victim of political repression. I went through the Lubyanka, Lefortovo and the special regime of the Gulag. Agree that it is very strange for a person fighting against the “pro-Zionist Kremlin government” to boast of his participation in the activities that led to the events of the last decade. Something is clearly wrong here.

The magazines Ogonyok (July 2000) and Vremechko (No. 6, 2000) spoke very positively about the Kupala holiday, for which a criminal case was initiated against Dobroslav.

But let's go back to the quote from the beginning of this chapter. Maybe this Dobroslav is just mentally ill? Pagans claim that the asylum cases were the result of a "feigning illness." Most likely, the Kirov "sorcerer", talking about Yaril, quite in his right mind expresses the essence of his views. And, alas, he is not alone in this.

Before me lies the book “Kolo Glory!”, published in 1999 in Moscow by the Institute for General Humanitarian Research (the publishing house has just released a book about the “spiritual science” of the famous occultist of the 20th century, the founder of the infamous Waldorf pedagogy Rudolf Steiner). The book was prepared by the pagan community "Rodolyubie" (association "Veles circle"). It contains both the materials of this community itself and the developments of another pagan community "Kolyada Vyatichi".

Here on page 157 is the following text:

“Like on a high hill stands a Stone Pillar, inexhaustible... Beneath it is a black, deep pit... It stands, leaning on four winds from four sides, white and black crows circling above it. No matter how you climb it up, no matter how you go down - you will not find either an end or a beginning. He is deeply immersed in Mother Earth, and as long as he stands, Life on Earth will not be interrupted, will not dry out.

This is from a newly composed "hymn" for the consecration of a pagan idol - the "Family Pillar". And next to him, he himself is depicted - in the form of a phallus, on the realistically traced tip of which a swastika shines.

Here are the "methodological developments" of one pagan community about the celebration of Kupala: "The participants in the holiday themselves - boys and girls - are also" living "symbols of male and feminine. Hence the certain frivolity in the behavior of the participants, characteristic of the Kupala holiday, and the corresponding motives in the folklore accompaniment. In ancient times, children conceived during the Kupala festivities were considered the most courageous and strong warriors.

In fact, in Orthodox Russia, this used to be called a dumping sin ...

It is fornication, sexual promiscuity that underlies all pagan cults. The Apostle Paul writes about the pagans: “And as they did not care to have God in their minds, God gave them over to a perverse mind to do indecent things, so that they are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, deceit, covetousness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife…” (). Indecency, which is based on fornication, gives rise to all kinds of evil. And this evil often ends in murder.

In the Bible, we see that the Old Testament prophets many times denounced their people for apostasy from the true God and worship of the deity of debauchery Baal. The cult of Baal consisted of wildly unbridled voluptuousness. He himself was depicted in exactly the same way as Dobroslav and "Rodolyubie" describe their deity. Almost all the idols of today's Russian neo-pagans are made in the form of a phallus.

For us, it is extremely interesting that in the image of Baal, the Israelites revered the Sun. It was the Sun among the ancient peoples that was a symbol of fertility and the beginning of life in general. It turned out, at first glance, a paradoxical thing: a seemingly bright, life-affirming, sunny cult turned into the most heinous debauchery. Moreover, in these "solar" cults, human sacrifice, murder was a normal phenomenon.

“The sun, whose magical symbol – Kolovrat – has been guarding Bright Rus' for thousands of years, has shone and will always shine,” exclaims the newspaper Aryan, published by the Union of Slavs. In the very heading of the "Aryan" there is an eight-pointed gyroscope - the "sign of resurgent paganism" developed by Dobroslav, a symbolic image of the sun.

Dobroslav with his companions "meets the sun".

I think about it, and I imagine fifteenth-century Mexico. Aztec Empire. They identified their god of war, Huitzilopochtli, with the Sun. So that God always has an abundance vitality, 5 thousand priests in 40 thousand temples, pyramids - teokalli, scattered throughout the country, nourished the heavenly body with fresh human blood. In one capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City), there were three hundred teocalli.

In the 70s - 80s of the 15th century, the Aztecs won a number of brilliant military victories. Many prisoners appeared. Emperor Tisok Calchiutlatonac (meaning "perforated with emeralds") decided to rebuild the teocalli, dedicated to the god of the sun and war. By February 19, 1487, the leaders of all the tribes that were part of the empire were invited to the grand opening of the temple. Each of them brought with him many subjects for sacrifice. A bloody orgy began, which lasted from morning until late evening. The next three days were also bloody human sacrifices. The hearts of the unfortunate were torn out ...

Researchers give different numbers of those sacrificed at the opening of this teocalli: from 4,000 to 80,600 people.

The prophet Jeremiah denounces the Israelites because they "arranged heights for Baal to burn their sons with fire as a burnt offering" to this deity of indecency ().

Were there human sacrifices in the cults of the Slavic tribes?

Remember the nursery rhyme:

Bonfires burn flammable,

Cauldrons boil seething,

Knives sharpen damask,

They want to kill me.

For a modern person, this is just the cry of brother Ivanushka, who turned into a kid. In fact, the above quatrain is the cry of a terrified man being sacrificed that has come down to us through the millennia.

And here is another rhyme from the Tales of the Russian People, collected by Ivan Petrovich Sakharov (1807 - 1863):

You, brother Ivanushko,

You get out, you get out!

- I'd love to jump

combustible stone

Draws to the boiler

yellow sands

The heart was sucked out.

And this is also not so much about brother Ivanushka, but about human sacrifice. The modern reader is unaware that the phrase "yellow sands" that suck out the heart is ritual sand, on which the blood of the victim is poured.

“Five priests approached the captives and pointed with their finger at the one who was standing in the first row ... Each of them was escorted to the place where the king stood, and they forced him to stand on a stone that looked like the sun. Then they rolled him over on his back. One of the priests held the prisoner by the right hand, the second by the left, the third by left leg, the fourth - for the right, and the fifth at that time deftly tied his neck to a stone with a rope. Now the unfortunate man could not move a finger. The king, waving a knife, plunged it into the chest of the prisoner. Cutting it wide, he tore out his heart and lifted it up with both hands, offering this gift to the Sun. When the heart in his hands cooled down, he poured a handful of blood from it and sprinkled it in the direction of the luminary. Then he threw the heart into a special circular recess in the stone.

It's the Aztecs again. But the poems cited earlier are our folklore...

In sufficient detail about the practice of pagan human sacrifice, including among the Slavs, writes a major apologist for modern paganism Demin.

On the cover of the magazine there is an inscription in large letters - "Perun" and a much-talking picture: a group of people in light shirts near an idol with a stern face. On the right is a high priest with a staff in his hands. Downstairs, two young men are blowing their horns. The mighty warrior swung his sword over the lowered head of the prisoner in monastic robes. The other prisoner is kneeling in a prayerful pose with his arms folded across his chest. A fire burns before the captives and the idol. Isn't this an image of a sacrifice before us?

All this is very reminiscent of the well-known documentary footage of prisoners in Chechnya. Orthodox Christians were also beheaded there.

The full name of the magazine is “Russian youth storyteller “Perun”. Pagan Herald Slavic culture and Stories with a section on the Russian musical underground. This magazine is advertised by the Ryazan newspaper Russkaya Pravda.

Remember, these people call to kill Christians. And not just kill, but sacrifice them to their gods.

The largest and most solid neo-pagan resource on the Internet is the site of Yaroslav Dobrolyubov "Slavic paganism". In it, under a link to "other materials and sites," there is a text that is absolutely amazing in its cynicism - "Slavic pagan calendar." The year according to this calendar begins with the Kolyada holiday (December 24-31). In the text we read: "Under New Year they sing ritual songs (carols) and sacrifice a goat.” And then the already familiar verse in a slightly different version:

“... the old man is sitting,

He sharpens his damask knife.

The boiler boils fuel

A goat stands near the boiler -

They want to kill a goat...

By analogy with all of the above, one willy-nilly think - is it about an animal, called a goat, we are talking here ...

But the main thing is not this. Listen, and don't say you haven't heard. In the indicated calendar we read: “Kupala. Sunday (June), 23. Today is the feast of the Summer Solstice and human sacrifice underwater master Lizard (Yasha). All night long people have fun, sing songs, dance, guess. Rites are also held near the water, fires are lit and drowned in the Kupala River. At a later time, they drowned a straw doll. But now, of course, is not "later". Now is the time for the revival of "ancient customs" ...

Is this not enough for you? Please, further in the text: “Perun's day. Cherven (July), 20. This is a holiday in honor of the Great Thunderer Perun. Today is a human sacrifice, chosen ahead of time (July 12). Bulls are also sacrificed and eaten at a feast. The prince and the Magi arrange huge feasts, games and dances.

Who to sacrifice?

A seemingly “dispassionate” quotation from The Tale of Bygone Years, cited here, will tell us about this: “In the summer of 6491. And the elders and the boyars said: “We will cast lots on the youth and the maiden; and on whom it falls, we will slaughter (as a sacrifice) to the gods. There was one Varangian, a Christian ... and he had a son ... on whom the devil's envy fell.

This is not just a quote. Before us is the desire that it be so. Why am I convinced of this? Because a few lines earlier comes the following text: “The Day of Remembrance of Prince the Great Svyatoslav. Cherven (July), 3. Svyatoslav, the greatest pagan prince of Russia, waged a grandiose war with Byzantium and despised Christianity ... The Pechenegs were broken and driven back, and the penetration of Christianity that had begun was stopped. During the siege of Constantinople, he fails because of the presence of Christians in the army, and Svyatoslav subjected them to persecution: “He, seeing their disobedience, became furious with the priests ... sent (an army) to Kiev, commanding the Christian churches to destroy and burn. And he himself soon went, although to destroy all Christians.

Historically, much here is incorrect, but the wish itself is characteristic - the author of the calendar writes: “Let it be so: “... the pedestal of the Idols of the Kiev Pagan Gods, set in the very center of Kiev, was paved with plinth and frescoes of a Christian church, destroyed before 980.”

The signature under all this is as follows: “The calendar was compiled on the eve of the Winter Solstice by Slovish the Guardian and dedicated to the Moon, Wind, Forest and Stars. Design - Sergey Shandin. Where did this Slovisha get his pseudonym from?

Modern Russian neo-pagans widely use the books of Academician Rybakov. One of them, which is called "Paganism of Ancient Rus'", tells about the harp found during archaeological excavations in Novgorod in the layers of the 11th century. A harp was found near the ancient Volosova Street, where, no doubt, in pagan times there was a temple of the god Volos - Veles. The harp has the signature of the owner - "Slovisha", which means "nightingale". Rybakov suggests that these harp could have belonged to a sorcerer who led the resistance of part of the townspeople to baptism in 988 in Novgorod. He quotes the Russian historian V.N. Tatishcheva: “The highest above the priests of the Slavs, Bogomil, for the sake of sweetness, he was named the Nightingale, the grandeur to submit to the people.” As a result of the rebellion, the houses of Christians were plundered, some of them were killed and the Transfiguration of the Lord was destroyed. Most likely, the "Keeper" borrowed his pseudonym from this story. Well - a worthy example to follow, you will not say anything ...

So, the author of the site "Slavic paganism" Yaroslav Dobrolyubov (but who is behind this pseudonym?) Refers site visitors to the "Slavic pagan calendar" quoted by us. With this, he seems to be saying this: “The Slavs not only had human sacrifices, but should continue to do so. Christian temples are to be destroyed, and temples of pagan gods must be erected in their place. No matter how much later on his website he tried to claim the opposite.

The pagans (Slovisha the Guardian) claim that they bring human sacrifices. When? According to the above calendar - June 23 and July 20. Selection of victims to Perun - July 12.

In another version of the pagan calendar, the "holiday" of Kupala is indicated under July 7th. Perunov day - August 2. Selection of victims to Perun - July 27 ...

So, if a person disappears in the last ten days of June or July, then relatives and law enforcement agencies still have a chance to find him before August 2 ...

For comparison, I will give the dates of "criminal activity", or rather, human sacrifices by Satanists. This is the 13th number, which fell on Friday of any month, full moon nights, winter and summer solstice, autumn and spring equinoxes, February 2, May 1 - Walpurgis Night, July 6 - Ivan Kupala, August 1 - Lames ("harvest festival ), October 31 - Halloween.

At least one day of human sacrifice is the same for Satanists and neo-pagans. This is the "Ivan Kupala holiday" - July 6 or 7 of the new style. Remember - "Death to Jewish Christian mothers!"?...

New Russian pagans begin their chronology "from the fall of Arkona." So they write: “January 7, 833 from the fall of Arkona - disturbing news! A case has been initiated against a well-known figure in modern Russian Paganism - Dobroslav!!!" What is it - Arkona?

Arkona is a city of the Baltic Slavs. It was located on the extreme northeastern tip of the island of Ruyan (Rügen). Arkona was built on a steep rock, hanging over the sea, and surrounded by a powerful fortress wall. Modern neo-pagans consider this city a pan-Slavic cult center. Arkona was inhabited by a greedy and desperate tribe of pirates. The rulers of the city strongly encouraged this piracy.

In Arkona there was a wooden temple of the god Sventovit (Svetovid, Svyatovid, Svyatovit or Svetozar). This is the deity of some tribal groups of the Slavs Central Europe, revered by them as the ruler of heaven, the creator of thunderstorms and rain. Sventovit was revered as the supreme god of war and victory.

Arkona was destroyed by the Danish king Valdemar I the Great, a warlike great-grandson. It happened in 1168. Soon after the campaign of the Danes, the ruins of Arkona, together with the land, sank to the bottom of the sea. There is a legend that from time to time a foggy image of Arkona arises from the Baltic waters.

Arkona is a kind of symbolic ghost town. Modern Russian neo-pagans revere this virtual city more than our ancient capitals - Kyiv, Vladimir, Moscow. The real historical centers of the Russian Land mean much less to them than the last stronghold of paganism in Eastern Europe, a small town-fortress of a small Baltic tribe, which disappeared without a trace more than eight centuries ago. The situation is very revealing.

There is such a concept - "escapism" (from to escape (English) - to run, escape, get off, withdraw into oneself) - an escape into the world of play and dreams from reality.

A classic example of escapism is the Tolkienists, followers of a movement that arose on the basis of the books of J. R. Tolkien, which tells about a certain fantasy world. This world, created by an English writer, has captured the imagination of thousands of teenagers and young people, for whom he has replaced reality. Numerous clubs of Tolkienists appeared, their own environment of communication, their own musical culture. A special language was even developed - "Elven", or "Quendi".

New pagans, creating their own world, their own special environment of communication, are very close in spirit to the Tolkienists. The latter, having matured, fill up the pagan communities. However, they prefer, as a rule, not the Slavic, but the Scandinavian tradition.

In the neo-pagan movement, there are many military historical clubs, which are mainly engaged in the reconstruction of costumes and weapons of bygone eras. In Moscow, for example, among the clubs of a pagan orientation there is also the club "Druzhina" Arkona "" (the head is a certain Budimir). A kind of earthly army of a virtual city!

Such clubs often hold joint tournaments and festivals together with Tolkienists. At present, the so-called "historical fencing tournaments" are especially popular.

All this is the first step. Next - entry into serious neo-pagan communities with a very specific magical practice. The basis of a smooth transition here is precisely escapism, going into fiction. Teenagers and young people spend years accustomed to living in a fictional world. Real Russia, real faith - Orthodox Christianity, calling for sobriety, that is, a very attentive attitude to one's thoughts, feelings and actions, they do not understand and do not need. They are unable to take responsibility for their own lives and for the life of their country.

The tragedy of such people is that the spiritual life is not a game. An Orthodox child from an early age in a family, in a church, in Sunday school, in an Orthodox gymnasium, in an Orthodox military-patriotic association, is taught that life must be taken very seriously, especially spiritual life. For a Tolkienist or a follower of some "Budimir" this is an inaccessible concept. So he gets from Budimir to Dobroslav. More precisely to the demons, the spirits of evil. For under the name of Perun, Sventovit, or some other pagan deity, he worships the real spiritual forces of hell and serves them. "All the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord created the heavens." This is written in the Psalter () - the favorite book of the real Russian people who lived in real history.

In an article about the Arkon squad, Budimir writes that she "gathered good fellows under the banner of Sventovit, who care for the fate of Russia."

Sventovit used to be sacrificed people. “On the eve of any great undertakings, human sacrifices were made to Sventovit, which was a widespread tradition among the northern and Slavic tribes,” writes one of the well-known researchers of pagan cults.

In Arkona, in addition to Sventovit, they also revered pagan god Radegast. And he was considered the deity of martial glory and war. The idol of Radegast appears in the form of a warrior, armed from head to toe, with a battle ax, in a helmet on which an eagle spread its wings - a symbol of glory. A bull's head was depicted on his shield - a sign of courage. This idol stood in the Slavic city of Retra, which was located near the Baltic coast.

Radegast, as the god of war, was offered human sacrifices, most often captives. The victim was put on a horse, tightly tied to it, the horse's legs were also tied to four piles and two fires were lit - one for each pair of piles. Chronicles tell us about the death in Retra in 1066 of the Bishop of the Mecklenburg fortress John. He was captured, refused the demand of the pagans to renounce Christ, and was sacrificed to Radegast in the manner indicated above.

Here is a picture of the artist Konstantin Vasiliev, a conversation about which we have yet to discuss. It is called - "Sventovit". A warrior in a helmet crowned with an eagle with outstretched wings, a bull's head on his chest, a sword in his hand.

And here is a collage in the Ryazan newspaper Lybidsky Boulevard. Against the background of K. Vasiliev's painting "Sventovit" is another of his paintings - "Farewell of the Slav". Behind the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War is a terrible bloodthirsty deity. All together is called - "The Russians are coming!". Where are they going? And which "Russians"?

IV. bone kingdom

“Near the grave, everything was in the way, some half-drunk peasant was fussing, rushing everything, the first one grabbed the coffin, dragged him to the grave, stumbled and flew headlong there, almost dropping the dead man, - they barely kept him ... And here, I confess to you, Sasha , right here, when I held the coffin with all my might to prevent this wild fall, then laughter attacked me - and it beats me from the inside, and writhing ... "

This is not The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This is a letter from a participant in the funeral of Konstantin Vasiliev, one of the most popular domestic artists of the 70s. ... ”An Orthodox Christian will call the state described above nothing more than demonic possession.

Here is what Anton Prokofiev writes, the author of the article “Modern Slavic neo-paganism (review)”, posted on Yaroslav Dobrolyubov’s website “Slavic paganism”: “The circles in which the first small communities formed were, first of all, researchers of Russian folklore and crafts, ethnographers, artists and historians: V. Butrov, N. Speransky, K. Yakutovsky, A. Ryadinsky, A. Belov, K.Vasiliev(highlighted by me. - I.V.) It was they who formed the backbone of the ideologists of modern Slavic neo-paganism. As you can see, the pagans themselves call Konstantin Vasiliev one of the first "ideologists" of modern neo-paganism in our country. And this is no coincidence.

In Moscow, I visited the museum of this artist. One of the paintings made a particularly strong impression on me.

Against the backdrop of a deadly blue forest, the figure of a man rises. He is dressed in a sheepskin coat, as if framed by emphatically written out fur. At his feet is a burning manuscript. From the flame of the manuscript grows, as it were, a dead-looking tree in the form of shamrocks strung one on top of the other. The line of this tree passes into the line of a burning candle, which a person holds in right hand. In his left hand he has a whip. An owl sits on a whip. On the burning manuscript there is an inscription - "ss.1976."

"A man with an owl. (The Wisdom of the Great Russian)” – this is the name of this painting by K. Vasiliev. It was written in 1976.

It is customary to write about the mystery of this canvas. In fact, there is nothing mysterious here. Most of the paintings by K. Vasiliev consist of quite readable pagan images. A man with an owl is Veles. Many people think so, including Slovisha the Keeper.

The Novgorod Sophia Chronicle, telling about the overthrow of the idol of Perun, thrown into the river, contains a very interesting phrase:

“And (the idol) floated from the light into the koshnoe, that is, into the outer darkness.”

According to many modern researchers, primarily Academician Rybakov, the cult of Veles is associated with this koshchey (remember Koshchei the Immortal). Veles is the lord of the pitch darkness, the underworld, the infernal kingdom of darkness.

The site "Slavic paganism" has a material "Gods of the ancient Slavs", prepared by Yaroslav Dobrolyubov and Dmitry Gavrilov. Here, in particular, is what is written there about Veles: “In Slavic pagan mythology, Veles, the hypostasis of Chernobog, embodies the forces of primitive Chaos, violent, disordered, uninhabited nature, often hostile to man.

The opponent of Chernobog is Belobog, they are always fighting, and not one of them can win a decisive victory. But once a year, Chernobog turns into a shining golden-haired Belobog and wages a fierce struggle with the god of Darkness (with himself).

The fact that modern paganism closely merges with conscious Satanism, we will see below. Now I will only note that the essence here is the denial of any distinction between good and evil. For the Gentiles, Satan is the ruler of the world. In their ideas, this is Belobog and Chernobog, merged into one.

Veles is the ruler of the world of death. This world, according to neo-pagans, gives birth to new life.

Konstantin Vasiliev died on October 29, 1976 under the wheels of a train. "Man with an Owl" is his last painting. After Vasiliev wrote it, he and a friend went to the Mari forests. It is believed to be hunting. In the biography of the artist, we read: “The first person they met upon returning from hunting was Anatoly Kuznetsov. Konstantin answered all his questions in monosyllables and looked over his head, renouncing everything ... Only the next day the artist said to a friend and mother who came to visit him: “Now I understand what I need to write and how to write” ... This happened a few days before death of the artist...

On the evening of October 29, a discussion of the works at the exhibition was to take place, where, among others, Vasiliev's works were also presented. “When everything was ready, and Konstantin was already heading for the exit, his Kazan acquaintance Arkady Popov unexpectedly came to him. Having learned that Kostya was going to the exhibition, he wanted to join him. Suddenly he saw the "Man with an Owl" and stopped, as if spellbound. Then Konstantin returned, put on the player a record with the introduction to the third act of Wagner's "Parsifal" ... That evening, at the railway crossing, both friends were found with broken heads ... ".

The word "bewitched" is used very well here. I think that the whole picture “The Man with the Owl” is a conscious sacrifice by the artist of himself to Veles. Rather, it is a descent into the world of the dead, for the sake of gaining wisdom and an artistic gift. In the picture, Vasiliev himself, as it were, marks the moment of his death - along with the words “ss”, the date “1976” burns down. From this fire, a tree is born, consisting of shamrocks - symbols of wisdom. But how dead this tree is! What a terribly dead look the figure itself has! Death, death emanates from all this.

Maybe Vasiliev wanted to become a powerful sorcerer, a sorcerer in this way? Why did he go to the Mari forests? What did he learn there?

Veles, he is Satan, took away those who bewitchedly obeyed him. The driver did not have time to stop the rushing train ... And then there was wild guttural laughter as the coffin was lowered into the grave ...

Power and wealth based on witchcraft is the goal and meaning of paganism. All talk about folk culture, about Russian folklore, about fatherly traditions is just a verbal screen on the way to this goal. The pagan is ready to serve the world of death in order to rule in this life.

“You exaggerate,” someone will say. – Let the cult of Veles be the power of death. But is this a reason for sweeping generalizations? You yourself say that the gods were different, each tribal union had its own. Did all the Slavic tribes imagine the spiritual essence of power so terribly?

The cult of Veles is the most common among the Slavs. Is everything limited only to Veles? What, Perun or Yarilo, who needed human sacrifices, is better? Perun is a military deity, a symbol of princely power, Yarilo is a harvester, a symbol of wealth. Power and wealth under the yoke of a terrible infernal world. Horror elevated to the principle of the life of society.

Maybe the Slavs are alone here? Maybe other pagan peoples built their world differently? Maybe this world was sunny and beautiful?

... A rider rides along a narrow road in a gloomy forest. He is wearing a blue cloak, a wide-brimmed blue hat pulled down over his forehead. In the hands of the rider is a heavy spear. One-eyed rider. But the most unusual thing is his horse. The horse has eight legs. Two wolves run after the rider. Two crows are flying above them...

Tell me, dear reader, would you like to be here on this forest road?

You're right. It's probably not worth it to deal with this company. Then let's get acquainted with these creatures in absentia.

The name of the rider is Odin or Wotan. As you like. The Scandinavians know him by his first name, the Germans by his second.

In Germanic mythology, Wotan acts as the main figure, as the bearer magical power. He personifies fertility and wealth, military strength, spiritual power and wisdom. Where does this power and wisdom come from? You, of course, have already guessed. Everything is from the same place - from the realm of the dead.

There is a website on the Internet called "Devil". Its author signs - Olegern. By his own admission, this very Olegern, one of his most beloved "gods" is Odin ...

Wotan-Odin was depicted in one of his paintings by Konstantin Vasiliev.

The Obninsk pagan community "Triglav" has its own website "Paganism in Rus'" on the Internet. The site contains the material "Gods of the Slavs". This material states that Veles and Odin are one and the same.

However, many believe that this is not the case. But why are there so many similarities? It turns out that the pagan Germans, like the pagan Slavs, have the same source of power. This is the realm of death. And the power itself is insidious, cruel and self-sufficient. Despite the fact that the gods of the Germans and Slavs are different, despite the fact that they themselves are at war with each other, in depth, on a spiritual level, they are similar. Why? Because the evil is similar, the passions that feed and determine their lives.

But, perhaps, in general, any power is the same as it appears to us in the cults of Veles and Odin? Complete adherence to passions, absolute subjugation of other people and wealth, wealth, wealth ... The source of power is in the world of death, and every successful ruler is a sorcerer. Is all this really true?

Orthodox Christianity gives us a completely different idea of ​​the nature of power.

What kind of kingdom of the dead is this, where does Veles and Odin draw their strength from? It is, of course, hell. Demons rule here. In Christianity, power comes from God. Power is needed because evil and death entered the world along with the fall. And Christian power is not following this evil. It is designed to resist evil, to restrain it as much as possible. Of course, the authorities cannot arrange here, on earth, the Kingdom of God. But she, fighting evil, does not allow the earth to turn into hell. Power meets its purpose only when it arranges society in accordance with the will of God, with the commandments of the Gospel. She is above human passions, she should not submit to them. Because of this, the authorities unite people on the principles of good, educate them, and promote their salvation, which is carried out in the Church of Christ.

Passions are shared. Divided people who are immersed in evil are easy to manipulate. They are very easy to subdue. Yes, they are slaves by definition. First of all, slaves of demons. With extreme ease, they become slaves to earthly demonic servants.

People who build their lives according to the commandments of God are not like that. Struggling with passions, with the evil that is rooted in man, they gain freedom in God. They rise above the world lying in evil, and it is extremely difficult for this world to defeat them. It is difficult because these people are united. In God they are one. This whole is the Church of Christ.

The pagan power is truly a "bone kingdom".

The manuscript is on fire in K.Vasiliev's painting "A Man with an Owl". This burning manuscript with Slavic script is the only fragment of the painting that is emotionally close to a Russian Orthodox Christian. Everything else is dead and alien. The rest is an alien world, as I wrote above - the world of the dead. The manuscript says - "Konstantin Velikoross". I have already had to write about the fact that the Great Russian is a concrete historical concept. The Great Russians as a nationality (we usually call them Russians colloquially) are formed by Orthodoxy and are inseparable from it. However, like all Russians (Great Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians) in general. Therefore, it is quite possible to assert that Vasiliev, along with himself, as if sacrifices to Veles the cultural and social world in which the artist lived. A world shaped by Christian heritage.

Paganism reduces man to the animal level. It is not only incapable of making it moral, but it prevents it in every possible way. The complex world of Christian morality, social relations, culture is fundamentally unattainable for the paganism of the past. And if paganism is established in the present, then the entire Christian heritage must be destroyed. Otherwise, the triumph of paganism is impossible, for it and Christianity are opposites. This destruction of Christianity is expressed symbolically in the burning manuscript by Konstantin Vasiliev.

But do not think that Christianity is only temples, clergy, culture, in general - all sorts of "heritage". The Christian heritage is in the person himself. This is the voice of conscience, the voice moral law. It can be destroyed only by turning a person into a beast. This is what modern pagans strive for.

... I left the Moscow Museum of Konstantin Vasiliev. On the way to the subway, I came across a noisy gang of children, who were led by two teachers to see the paintings of the “great Russian artist”. Standing on the escalator, I turned over in my hands the books bought in the all-pagan kiosk of the museum - "The Russian Pagan Manifesto" and "The Pagans Answer" - and thought: "Do the teachers know where they are taking their children?"...

V. So who is Russian?

“I try to awaken national pride and freedom-loving Russian Spirit. We are Russians! Other countries are created for those who cannot be Russian! Only a bullet will stop me in my struggle for the liberation of the Motherland from the Judeo-Christian yoke.”

All this pathos comes from Dobroslav's letter to the prosecutor.

New pagans are very fond of talking about the revival of Russia in the periodical press and in public. They are very fond of calling themselves patriots and stigmatizing the enemies of "Light Rus'", by which they primarily mean Christians. They shout about "Russian paganism", about "primordial Russian roots".

But do they really want to see an independent, free and powerful Russia?

For an Orthodox Christian, Russia is the House of the Most Holy Theotokos. So the Russian people called her for a thousand years. The holy righteous John of Kronstadt spoke about the fact that Russia is the foot of the Throne of God. Russians Orthodox people they built their cities and monasteries as an earthly icon of Heavenly Jerusalem, and arranged villages as a model of the world, where a temple would certainly rise on a high hillock - the embodiment of the reality of the presence of the Kingdom of God on earth.

The battle cry of the Novgorodians for centuries was - "For Hagia Sophia!". Pskovians went into battle with the words - "For the Holy Trinity!". And that's because main temple Veliky Novgorod - St. Sophia Cathedral, and the main temple of Pskov - the Cathedral in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity.

Remember? - “O bright and red decorated Russian land! You amaze with many beauties ... - you are full of everything, Russian land, about the orthodox Christian faith! In the mind of the ancient Russian scribe, the native land is inseparable from the native faith - Orthodox Christianity.

Since ancient times, Russian people have perceived their Fatherland and their statehood as a God-given vessel, which is called upon to preserve the Orthodox faith until the Second Coming of Christ. "Moscow is the Third Rome, and there will be no fourth."

In the West, Christianity was first corrupted into Catholicism and Protestantism. Then the Western world in general began to rapidly move away from the foundations of Christian civilization, placing human egoism and pride at the center of all social relations. Hence the distrust of the Orthodox Christian in globalization, in the erasure of civilizational boundaries in modern international relations. Hence, the desire to organize their native land in their own way - in Russian, in the Orthodox way. An Orthodox Christian believes: “We are Russians. We have our own Orthodox civilization.” The world alien to our civilization is aggressive and warlike. Therefore, we need a strong independent economy and a powerful modern military capable of deterring those who today claim to rule the entire globe. Russia must be strong, powerful and free, but it will be so only if it finally returns to its original Orthodox roots.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II put it this way: “We want to preserve our national culture, our historical existence and our faith. It is no coincidence that many people who think deeply about the fate of the world study the phenomenon of the preservation of faith in the Russian people under the most difficult trials. Therefore, we do not agree to dissolve in the European cauldron or the new world order. Russia was a great power and should be a great power. But this is possible only under the condition of the spiritual revival of our country. We do not set ourselves the task of a global reorganization of the world on an Orthodox basis, but we must restore Orthodoxy in Russia.”

For an Orthodox Christian, betrayal of Russia is a betrayal of Orthodoxy, and betrayal of Orthodoxy is a betrayal of Russia. Such betrayal is possible only when serving the forces of evil.

And what about the new pagans?

Whom does the "Union of Slavic Communities" thank for the help (financial?) Laimutis Vasilyavichus (Lithuania), Giuseppe Maello (Naples), Radek Mikula (Prague), Stanislav Potshebovsky (Wroclaw). (Ibid.) As you can see, citizens of either current or future NATO members are represented ...

Russia waged a hard struggle in Chechnya in order to preserve its territorial integrity, in order to prevent terrorism from spreading across the country. Thousands of our soldiers gave their lives for this.

But material is being circulated on the Internet in which several neo-pagan leaders (acting head of the Voskhod Interregional Public Organization Svetoyar, head of the Perun Community Svetislav and leader of the Veles Community Velemir) declare: “If a thought comes into someone’s stupid head try to forcibly baptize Russia again, we will arrange such a massacre in the center of Moscow that Chechnya will seem to the “baptizers” a “heavenly paradise”. Please note: the pagan leaders opposed themselves to what they called the “baptists” who fought in Chechnya. It is quite obvious that only people who are completely alienated from Russian state and the Russian people. Chechen terrorism was an important tool of the well-known world forces in their struggle for the dismemberment and destruction of Russia. So who are the people who threaten to turn Moscow into Chechnya serving?

The analytical center of the Union of Orthodox Citizens, which prepared the material “Who is behind the “Russian” neo-pagans,” emphasizes: “Whoever has been to Kiev, to the book collapse of Ukrainian nationalists, to Independence Square, has seen that among the huge amount of anti-Russian literature, fables about the “atrocities of Muscovites ", agitation UNA-UNSO, in a conspicuous place flaunts" Blow Russian Gods ". Such like-minded people!” (Ibid.) "Strike of the Russian Gods" - Russian neo-pagans now have the most fashionable book ...

In connection with everything said above, the slogan “Nationalists of all countries, unite!”, proposed by K.K. Klimovich, the author of an editorial in the January issue of the Ryazan neo-pagan newspaper Lybidsky Bulvar. Baltic, Chechen, Ukrainian, Kazakh and other nationalists, unite against Russia and the Russian people - is that how it works?

It is curious that the Voskhod Interregional Public Organization, the head of which signed a promise to arrange a massacre in the center of Moscow, recently invited Dobroslav, whom we mentioned many times, to the same Moscow, paid for his travel back and forth, arranged for Dobroslav a visit to the State Duma, a trip to Kaluga (to colleagues in the "Union of Slavic Communities"?) and two lectures at the Museum of Konstantin Vasiliev. Members of the Moscow Veles Community and the Moscow Slavic Pagan Community of Perun (the latter is officially registered) gathered in the museum hall. Random people were not allowed into the hall by the “security service”, organized by the neo-pagans themselves.

Still, interesting events are held in Moscow museums.

VI. Antichrist

The world today is experiencing a general global crisis. And it is expressed not in economic upheavals, as it happened before. The main thing is “the crisis of morality and irreligiousness of the vast majority of modern society. At the same time, the accumulation of gigantic arrays of knowledge and material tools for their use does not at all correspond to the level of morality of the people who use them,” writes Mikhail Gelvanovsky, Doctor of Economics. He notes that one of the features of the modern world is "a powerful influence on the consciousness of people of virtual and information systems." (Ibid.)

In general, "the world is becoming more and more manageable." But the administration is not in the interests of the majority of the people, and the headquarters of this administration is hidden from most of the world community.

Thus, as a result of the development of the world economy over the past quarter of a century, a new global management structure has emerged in it, represented by transnational corporations ... technologies and 9/10 capital outflow. Management of world economic processes is carried out, as a rule ... in the interests of transnational corporations, which practically do not bear any social responsibility to anyone in the world, while controlling and disposing of ... most of the material wealth on the planet ...

The sharply increased possibilities of influencing individuals and entire communities ... lead to terrible consequences for their consciousness and a decline in morals. In the modern world, such vices as drug addiction, global crime, arms trafficking, human trafficking (children and adults), trafficking in living organs of people, corruption at all levels are developing on a huge scale ... global financial crime, the active planting of mass culture that turns people into animals. Moreover, in Lately there is an unprecedented flourishing of the occult, magic, mysticism, witchcraft, as well as other methods of mind-blowing, informational, violent influence on the consciousness and subconscious of people ... ". (Ibid.) A distorted perception of the world is formed, a transformation of the personality takes place, depriving a person of independence in assessing the situation, low instincts are strengthened, and ultimately consciousness is encoded. “All this creates the conditions for a person to fall even below the animal state” (Ibid.)

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II characterizes the impact of modern “civilized society” on a person in this way: “The population is purposefully organized on the satanic principles of lies, forgery, deceit, and worship of external brute force. Greed, selfishness, ambition, debauchery, drug addiction, love for pleasure and entertainment at any cost are introduced as the beginnings of a “normal” life.

The most important role in making the world more manageable belongs to new religious movements. They received the group name "New Age" - New Age. Destroying traditional religious beliefs, these currents amaze the mind, disorientate a person, make him an obedient slave. Modern Russian paganism belongs precisely to this pseudo-religious trend. Calling themselves traditionalists in words, they are actually super-liberals. Closely merging with the “values” of the modern godless civilization, the new pagans follow it in an effort to destroy the foundations of traditional societies and national states, to establish a “new world order” on earth, that is, in Orthodox terms, the kingdom of Antichrist. All this we will try to show below.

For this, let's turn to the materials of Yaroslav Dobrolyubov's site "Slavic paganism". Here is a certain gentleman who signs the characteristic word "POISON" (Yaroslav Dobrolyubov himself?) offers us his vision of the foundations of the pagan worldview. He writes: “Paganism is love of life, peacefulness… Everything tangible, real, carnal, earthly, alive – these are quite worthy objects of love. This is what many pagans love more than gods… Paganism is a cheerful, optimistic outlook. There are no obligatory fasts, no abstinence, no rigid prescriptions. It calls not to suffer, humble yourself and be limited, but to enjoy, act, develop. Paganism does not force and does not frighten, it is comfortable, like individual apartments. (Ibid.)

The words about the revival of the “native faith” by the new pagans are just a lie. We read further: “We modern-day pagans already have a New Idea. The idea of ​​real paganism, that ancient one that arose as the deification of natural phenomena, could differ a lot from the ideas that we put into it now. But what if a lot of things in paganism are thought out and not always correctly recreated? Well, so what?"

And here's another: “For himself personally, each pagan builds his own personal pagan concept. For paganism is a constructor from which you can assemble a variety of designs at your own discretion. (Ibid.)

Like liberalism, paganism calls to live here, now. “There is no other place and time, be glorified, This World!” …In the “other World” there are other rules and laws. That's when we find ourselves in the "other World" - then we will live according to the rules of That World. But here, now, while no one knows for sure, “what is there?” - what is the point of planting a garden? Will we live? Or will we think, "how to live there"? We'll figure it out on the spot!" (Ibid.)

Rejecting eternal life, not wanting to know anything about retribution beyond the grave, the pagans reject the most important component in a person - his immortal soul. They deny the responsibility of a person in the face of the Eternal Truth, thereby destroying all the foundations of human morality. They use the word "truth" but put a completely different meaning into it. “Truth,” or rather “rule,” is, according to the new pagans, the laws supposedly governing the universe. These "laws" are indifferent to good or evil, because according to neo-pagans, neither good nor evil as such exist.

“The so-called “good” or “evil” are categories ... that are generated by the mind and do not exist outside the mind,” writes YaD, “There is no “good” and “evil” in nature ... The so-called “good” and “evil” are concepts ... outside not existing for a person, and therefore, even for a person, they are not uniquely black and white, but constantly intertwined and, thus, inextricably merged into the Mutual Cause of each other. (Ibid.)

Since there are no separate good and evil, there are no correspondingly separate God and Satan. This is what the new pagans think. There is only "God-Satan", "who is not at enmity with himself."

In the new paganism, under the guise of "traditional Russian religion", a terrible substitution is being made, when God - the Absolute Good and Good - is replaced by the spirit of malice. Moreover, it is argued that God and the fallen angel who rebelled against Him and His creation are one. This lie is much more terrible than the lie that under the name "atheism" has blossomed on our earth for many decades. Atheism denied the spiritual world completely. Neo-paganism replaces the Absolute spiritual Good with absolute spiritual evil and in fact does not hide it. So the new paganism merges with Satanism and passes into it. Another material is devoted to this, located on the website of Yaroslav Dobrolyubov - the article "Monotheism, Paganism, Satanism and the Logic of History", signed by the same Poison. We will now turn to her.

“Dark forces,” the article says, “often shed light on the essence of the matter - for this they are not loved ... Satan is a symbol of Change, Renewal. A symbol that personifies pride, independence, strength, Reason. Satan is a challenge to outdated points of view and hackneyed concepts. Change is the Force that has always been feared and has always been associated with the manifestation of Satan, with “evil”, with “destruction”, but Change is the same Force that at all times provided movement, development, the emergence of the new and creation, this is the most " evil force", which, eternally desiring "evil", eternally creates "good". (Ibid.)

So change is the engine of society. It is necessary to discard outdated points of view and hackneyed concepts. Only change and development, no tradition. The way forward lies only through Lucifer. Any “evil” is possible, because there is no evil in the world. Everything is written openly and clearly. This is the meaning of all modern paganism. What does this have to do with talk about traditionalism, about “restoring the ancient primordial faith of the Slavs, the Native Faith”? The native faith of the new pagans is Satanism. In order to prove the opposite, neo-pagans, say, followers of V. Kazakov, need to publicly renounce Yaroslav Dobrolyubov. But it is enough to look at the "Links" section on all the main neo-pagan sites, and we will see that this is no longer possible for new pagans. The doctrine of any neo-pagan community rests precisely on Satanism. The purpose of the destruction of tradition is the destruction of Orthodox Christianity as the basis public life, the establishment of a new statehood, the construction of a new society - satanic. This is the "new order". The order is frankly "worldwide". For western civilization irreversibly moving in the same direction - to Satanism. And she, this Western civilization, screams about progress, about changes, about the conventions of the concepts of good and evil, about the need to discard outdated concepts, about strength, pride and independence, about the fact that the individual is above all. We have found all this in Western liberalism for two hundred years now. What does "Russianness" have to do with it?

But maybe there is still some difference between Satanism and the new paganism? To this question, YD answers this way: “The difference between Satanism and paganism is that what Satanists consider as the faces of a single Satan, the pagans consider as independent gods. By and large, there are no other significant differences.” (Ibid.)

Are you still talking about Russia, about the Russian people? Stop it. Here YaD will explain everything to you now: “In short, it is required to honestly explain some things: the term “New Paganism” should be understood not as “paganism of a particular people”, but as a multifaceted Pagan Philosophy, which has no state borders because it comes from the rational and sensual nature of the Man himself. (Ibid.) "Not the paganism of a particular people will win all over the world, but the Pagan Worldview in the broadest sense - it will consolidate its victory in the future." (Ibid.) It is clear now why our neo-pagans go to the World Pagan Congress? By the way, in 2001 this congress will be held in St. Petersburg…

Why are the neo-pagans so sure of their triumph? Because the world is literally before our very eyes moving further and further away from Christ. Because even many Orthodox Christians are like that only in appearance. We don't want to work on ourselves. We forget that only our faith, only our desire to live according to the commandments of the Gospel, can prevent the world from sliding into the abyss of evil, the death of Russia, the death of everything that is dear to us, the death of our own soul and the souls of our loved ones. Behold, our enemies testify to us of this. Consider this evidence:

“New Paganism is viable and active... The Pagan worldview in most citizens is already firmly seated. First of all, this is Peace-Love – love for this World, pleasures, “sins”, temptations of this World, love for the so-called “creature”. And, accordingly, subconscious love for the creator of this World - its permanent Prince, whom some call "Satan". People no longer want to torture themselves physically and spiritually. People ALREADY (highlighted by POISON - V.) are pagans in their inner basis, albeit unconscious. They ALREADY ... sincerely believe that Pleasure in every sense is not a sin at all, and that it will not have to "pay there"; and if it is necessary, then only here and now. Completely pagan. People are ALREADY turned to this World, and the gods of this, carnal World, albeit unconsciously, but ALREADY believe.

Addressing us Orthodox Christians, YaD writes: “The new paganism brings your “apocalypse” closer. The new paganism is your destroyer from a historical perspective. So it will be. You can be sure. The future starts today." (Ibid.)

Do we really agree with this and lower our hands helplessly?

Speaking about his opponents, about all those who uphold traditional spiritual, national values, YaD calls them "stubborn rednecks who interfere with integration processes that have as their goal the United State called Planet Earth (Planet Earth) ". (Ibid.)

Neo-pagan priests, as a rule, are "dark gods", that is, conscious internationalists-Satanists, only hiding behind pseudo-Russian phraseology. YaD writes about it. (Ibid.) But among the rank-and-file members of the neo-pagan communities, there are still enough people who think that they love Russia, that they are reviving the “Russian spirit”. These people are simply used by Satanists and then discarded as useless. We will see that in the end, according to the author of the site "Slavic paganism", all national states must be destroyed, most people will die, and on the planet under the "new world order" (ONE WORLD - "One World" - according to terminology of Yad), only a very limited number of "intelligent beings" should remain.

So what is next? And then YaD offers his “Logic of History”: “The historical process from the past to the future is super-compressed: the old paganism is a dead “faith for the day before yesterday”, the current monotheisms (world religions that believe in the One God - I.V.) are already the dying “faith for Yesterday”, the resurgent new paganism is “faith for Tomorrow”, and the one that is now in its embryonic “philosophical state” Satanism - "Faith for the After-Tomorrow". (Ibid.)

“New-Paganism,” writes YD, “is an inevitable stage in the near future, preparing the next stage in the development of Civilization – New Satanism.” (Ibid.)

But why not immediately Satanism? POISON answers this question as follows: “Because humanity needs a “warm transition” from one state to another; from the fever of influenza plus 40” and so they are not immediately and instantly cured, especially since today many citizens who consider this very “fever of monotheism” (that is, faith in God - I.V.) the norm are still psychologically not quite ready to consciously accept "warmth" of New Paganism. It takes time to recover... Only... after mankind consciously consolidates the "warm norm" of New-Paganism... the satanic "super-rational-cooling" will also become possible.

Do you think Satanism is a "philosophy"? Nothing like this. YaD writes that the new Satanism will be "far from the purely philosophical Satanism that we know today." (Ibid.) In fact, even today Satanism is not a philosophy. A whole volume could be written about ritual murders in Russia. And in the future, Satanism is going to be a very practical thing.

Only Satanism, as a single ideology, according to POISON, is able to unite humanity into the "One World" (ONE WORLD). This world will be absolutely totalitarian: "From the conditional "democracy" of today and tomorrow, the World will have to return to the conditional" totalitarianism "in the After-Tomorrow." (Ibid.)

Who will stand at the head of this totalitarian world?

“Believe me,” writes YD, “everyone will certainly consider that “Satan” of the distant future as a “savior” (from what? - from wars, poverty, from ecological and demographic catastrophe), and "bright deity" they will also unconditionally consider whatever “bad totalitarianisms” are created under his “sacred banners”. (Ibid.)

So, neo-paganism is a preparation for the coming of the Antichrist. And nothing else.

Do you, reader, have a feeling that something terrible is coming to all of us, to the Russian home, to the Russian land?

On the website of the "Veles community", in the "Magician" section, materials are placed about the rites that this community applies or approves. There is also a brief explanation of "baptism" here. Baptism is when people consciously give up their Christian Baptism. “The rite of removing the Christian spell,” we read here, “is carried out by the Magi, as a rule, immediately before the naming. The forms of the ceremony vary greatly from community to community, but its magical essence remains unchanged. The seal of the Christian curse is removed from the baptized, which does not allow resurrecting, that is, igniting the spark of God, which is in us from the Family.

In fact, a person who renounces Christ in “baptism” renounces his Native Land and its history, renounces his ancestors. Such a person can no longer serve the forces of evil. No matter how “beautifully” the pagans called him - Yaroslav, Veleslav, Dobroslav. What other names do they have? To “unbaptize” a person means to make him a hostage of hell. To “unbaptize” Russia means to destroy it.

Remember? “Dobroslav wetted his hand with water, ran it over the top of the newcomer, and then splashed this water over his eyes ... and asked for a name ... Then a lock of hair was cut off from the initiates and thrown into the fire ...”

And I involuntarily remember something else. On May 23, 1996, after a three-month captivity in Chechnya, Russian soldier Yevgeny Rodionov was beheaded. The bandits cut off his head because he refused to take off his Orthodox pectoral cross and accept Mohammedanism. The feat of the warrior Eugene stirred up the whole country. The Russian people understood that not everything is lost, that Russia is alive.

Let's raise Russian children like Evgeny Rodionov...

VII. Will to win (instead of an afterword)

It's time to sum up. We have to answer two closely related questions: “Would paganism bring happiness to Russia today?” and “What needs to be done to make Russia powerful and happy?”

The Russian nation was built on a vast geographical area. Many Slavic tribes, very different in their way of life, in their customs, in their religious ideas, were involved in this process. Slavic tribes spread to the northeast and east simultaneously with the arrival of Christianity in these lands. Two factors - faith in Christ and geographical immensity - created the Russian nation. To deprive our country of its open spaces and its Orthodox Christian soul means to erase the Russian people from world history. For us, it means giving up on ourselves.

Our enemies, that is, those people who would not like to see a state called Russia on the world map, all understand this very well. Their desire to take away our land from us is obvious to everyone. But many people who consider themselves patriots of Russia do not realize that with the same frenzied energy the enemies of Russia are working to destroy the Orthodox Church in our country. There will be no faith in Christ - the bonds that unite the Russians will disappear, and they will crumble. After all, it is impossible to recreate the glades, the Drevlyans, the Vyatichi and others like them. Everything has long been mixed up. Is it necessary to restore the temple of the Lizard in Novgorod, or to put up the idol of Perun? You will have to constantly give answers to such questions, and still nothing will come of it. But it is possible to release the forces of evil, destruction, to give them the opportunity to completely flood our land. But it will be a terrible national catastrophe.

It's not even that Orthodox Church subjected to bloody persecution. There have been many persecutions in its history, and Christianity is tempered in them. The point is, first of all, that it will be necessary to destroy the entire Russian culture, the entire Russian statehood, to cross out the entire history of the country, without creating anything in return.

They say you can go back to pre-Christian times, because Russia is there too. Yes, there was no Russia. There were Slavic tribes. They have their own past. But this is not Russia, you can't go back there. Everything has changed in the last thousand years.

Remember the words of Zbigniew Brzezinski at the beginning of this book? He says, "After the fall of communism, America's main enemy is Russian Orthodoxy."

Remember his plan - to drive Russia into the space between Kursk and the Urals? I have no doubt that these plans include the triumph of paganism on this reservation. Then America, and not only America, can sleep peacefully - Russia would be finished. Modern pagans in our country are working, often involuntarily, to implement these plans.

They created their own image of Christianity. It seems to them a religion of obedient slaves alien to the Russian spirit.

But is Orthodox Christianity really a religion of slavery, a religion of non-resistance to evil by force? This view of Christianity is completely wrong.

The new pagans reproach us that we are “God's servants”, that we are “humble”, that we are “turning the cheek”.

In fact, there is nothing more alien to Orthodox Christianity than the assertion that no evil can be resisted.

The gospel only talks about one's own cheek. “But whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also” (). It means forgive your personal enemy, do not take revenge on him and do not multiply evil, but in no case do not turn the “cheek” of your neighbor to the enemy. You must protect your neighbor even at the cost of your life! And he will protect you the same way. About this in the Gospel it is written as follows: “There is no greater love than if someone lays down his life for his friends.” () Christian humility is humility not before evil, but before God. The expression "servant of God" means both the recognition of God's omnipotence and the readiness to defend His plan for the world - and here the "slave" must turn into a courageous warrior in the battle against the forces of evil.

The great Russian saint (XI century) in this connection said: "Live peacefully not only with friends, but also with enemies, but only with your enemies, and not with the enemies of God." And here is what St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, who lived in the middle of the 19th century, said: “Love your enemies, crush the enemies of the Fatherland, abhor the enemies of God.” So the defense of the Fatherland from enemies at all times was the religious duty of an Orthodox Christian.

Thus, Christianity is not a weak religion at all. It is enough to look at Russian history to see what our “Christian weakness” was: they united a sixth of the land into one state. And not so much by force as by goodness, bringing the faith of Christ to the pagans...

Christianity is better than paganism, not because it created such an Empire, and not because we have become accustomed to it for a thousand years. Only Christianity explains the meaning of human life and the meaning of history.

This religion is extremely personal, for it preaches the path of personal salvation of a person through the striving for perfection, for revealing in oneself the image and likeness of God.

Orthodox Christianity indicates the main means of this salvation and perfection - through love for other people, up to self-sacrifice.

This religion is extremely free, because it is conceivable only as a free service of a person to these values. A person is called to be born again spiritually, which requires a huge effort on oneself. Defeating oneself and embarking on the path of good is much more difficult than knocking out an “eye” or “tooth” from an enemy.

"Orthodoxy is a religion that respects man to the utmost and reveals his greatness as an immortal being." Christianity pushes the boundaries of the human personality beyond the temporal limits of life and beyond the line of the material world - to the Kingdom of God.

And, finally, this religion is extremely just, for the world is arranged by God in such a way that in the end, goodness and the Kingdom of God will win. Our task is to understand the meaning of the battle going on in the world between good and evil and to take an appropriate place in it. Ours depends on it posthumous fate. This is what we've been going through all our lives. It is never too late to take a step towards Christ - through the second birth (baptism) to become a "servant of God", a courageous warrior in the battle against the forces of evil.

Russia, according to the righteous saint, “is the foot of the Throne of God, and you should be proud that you are Russian.” And Russian means Orthodox Christian. The pagan is not Russian. He is a miserable, free or involuntary slave dark forces evil, fighting against the Kingdom of God and against my country - Russia.

Russkaya Pravda, 1999, No. 1 (9) Review-commentary on No. 8 of the Heritage of Ancestors magazine
Lybidsky Boulevard, 2001, No. 1(13)
Gelvanovsky M. The turn of the millennium: religious and social understanding // Orthodox conversation, 2000, No. 6 - p. 28
From the speech His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' at the annual Diocesan meeting of Moscow on December 23, 1998
site of Yaroslav Dobrolyubov "Slavic paganism"
POISON (Yaroslav Dobrolyubov). Monotheism, Paganism, Satanism and the Logic of History. – Site “Slavic paganism”
See: Nazarov M.V. Mystery Russia. M.: "Russian idea", 1999, S. 574 - 575

Talking about Perun, "Russian gods", "Book of Veles" and "pre-Christian Orthodoxy" with a serious face makes you want to pinch yourself ... or whoever says it. What is behind modern paganism, native faith? Neo-pagans”, who swear their love for the Russian people, in fact, they despise this people. It is more correct to call pagans "neopagans" - as they are usually called by religious scholars and ethnographers. All pagan peoples widely and constantly borrowed rituals, cults, and beliefs from each other. In Ukraine, Slavic paganism is represented by "RUNVera" and the Union of co-religionists of Ukraine and the Diaspora, known as "Ukrainian Pagans".

Russia and new paganism

Truth, or rather “rule,” are, in the opinion of the new pagans, the laws supposedly governing the universe. These "laws" are indifferent to good or evil, because according to neo-pagans, neither good nor evil as such exist. This is what the new pagans think. What does this have to do with talk about traditionalism, about “restoring the ancient primordial faith of the Slavs, the Native Faith”? The native faith of the new pagans is Satanism. Because even many Orthodox Christians are like that only in appearance. YaD writes that the new Satanism will be "far from the purely philosophical Satanism that we know today." Baptism is when people knowingly refuse their Christian baptism.

II. Where to look for "Russian gods"?

The pagans themselves abandoned paganism. 5. If Slavic paganism is the religion of the strong, then why did it lose to Christianity, the religion of the weak? The conclusion is unequivocal - since Jesus Christ himself said that the pagans of the north do not need to carry Christianity, then the Slavs do not need this religion. After all, Christ himself said ... This quote directly contradicts the second most popular statement of neo-pagans that "we are not servants of God, we are children of the gods." See? Before the Baptism of Rus', there is still a lot, and the Slavs are already called Orthodox, which means that Orthodoxy is the name of the original, pre-Christian faith of the Slavs! He defended Rus' from the filthy (pagans), prayed for icons (in the epic "At the outpost of the heroic"), which also does not fit with the image of a fighter against Christianity. In fact, Ivan Sergeevich wrote about one particular village where a sect spread about the next coming of the "Antichrist" and the sectarians often called themselves "perfect Christians."

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that they came to the lands of the Middle Dnieper a thousand years before Darius, that is, one and a half thousand years before the birth of Christ. And their gods are precisely the gods of Skolots, Wends, Antes, and so on. But these are by no means Russian gods. And there is very little information about these gods. Then, even before his conversion to Christ, he tried to bring all the pagan gods of different Slavic tribes to the same denominator. Fans of paganism cannot choose either Russian or Slavic gods "in general." The ancient land of the Vyatichi resisted Christianity for the longest time (until the 12th century), and it also became the first land that began the path to liberation from Christian foreignness. This people, having come to new lands, was already Christian. Were there human sacrifices in the cults of the Slavic tribes? There was one Varangian, a Christian ... and he had a son ... on whom the devil's envy fell. Arkona is a city of the Baltic Slavs. In Arkona, in addition to Sventovit, the pagan god Radegast was also revered.

See what "Paganism in Russia" is in other dictionaries:

All other so-called. “Russian pagans” or “neopagans” are nothing more than charlatans or simply outright sectarians who pulled knowledge and gods from a pine forest for their “religions”. The fact that they celebrated Easter means nothing. There is nothing similar to Orthodoxy. That's just the fact that they celebrated Easter for the sake of appearance, while worshiping their gods, and is called "external Orthodoxy." They believe that they support the real traditions of Rus', but in fact they will come up with something that they like. Because all official churches are for non-resistance to evil by violence.

Paganism is a term denoting forms of religions of polytheism that preceded theism. It is believed that it comes from fame. "tongues" are non-Christian "peoples" hostile to Orthodoxy. Paganism - (from the Church Slavonic languages ​​peoples, foreigners), the designation of non-Christian religions, in a broad sense, polytheistic.

However, any action of a pagan should also be based on his personal spiritual experience, while not entering into an imbalance with World Harmony. It is worth noting that paganism in Russia today is not some kind of cult, but a unique and all-encompassing philosophy, which continues to be a national phenomenon. This difference is especially pronounced when comparing the program principles that pagans profess in large cities, as well as pagans in rural pagan associations.

Ardent animal rights activists, they all put animals above humans and do not allow them to be killed just because, in their opinion, it is “wrong”. This is nothing but animal worship.

After the removal of the ban on religiosity, people got the opportunity to believe in anything or not to believe at all. Someone discovered Orthodoxy, someone - other religious confessions and cults, but many decided to start looking for pre-Christian beliefs. If Rodnoverie is a subculture built on pagan beliefs, then in addition to it there is still a huge number of pagans who do not belong to Rodnovery. I have already spoken above about astrology and various superstitions, which are also a manifestation of paganism. In Christianity, as in Islam and Buddhism, in order to change your future, you must change yourself, but in paganism it is different. In this regard, a huge number of Christians do not really understand what Christianity is, and treat it as paganism.

Orthodoxy is not necessary and it is not possible to invent. Even non-church people imagine what exactly Christianity evaluates as sin. And in response they say (through the mouth of a certain singer) - “It’s so hard for me! And here you can’t imagine anything better than the “ancient Rus”. This is our gospel too!” Yes, there was duality.

Some Rodnovers call themselves "Orthodox". In their opinion, the concept of “Orthodoxy” arose from the “Vles-Knigovoi triad: Yavo, Pravo, Navo” and the phrase “Right to praise”.

They say you can go back to pre-Christian times, because Russia is there too. But is Orthodox Christianity really a religion of slavery, a religion of non-resistance to evil by force? This view of Christianity is completely wrong. Christianity is better than paganism, not because it created such an Empire, and not because we have become accustomed to it for a thousand years. Only Christianity explains the meaning of human life and the meaning of history.

It turns out that the pagan Germans, like the pagan Slavs, have the same source of power. This is the realm of death. Everything else is dead and alien. The rest is an alien world, as I wrote above - the world of the dead. And if paganism is established in the present, then the entire Christian heritage must be destroyed. Otherwise, the triumph of paganism is impossible, for it and Christianity are opposites. But do not think that Christianity is only temples, clergy, culture, in general - all sorts of "heritage".

There will be no place for Orthodox Christianity in this new society. It won't because the reality they are building has nothing to do with historical Russia. And in general, according to the same Mr. Brzezinski, we are a “black hole”. Hence the inevitability of civilizational conflicts. Perhaps some of us believe that states at the turn of the 21st century are guided by the norms of international law and sacredly observe the rights of all, even the smallest peoples? All Russian history testifies that this faith is Orthodox Christianity.

They are very fond of calling themselves patriots and stigmatizing the enemies of "Light Rus'", by which they primarily mean Christians. Since ancient times, Russian people have perceived their Fatherland and their statehood as a God-given vessel, which is called upon to preserve the Orthodox faith until the Second Coming of Christ. In the West, Christianity was first corrupted into Catholicism and Protestantism. And what about the new pagans?

What is modern paganism

The self, without sufficient grounds, is identified only with polytheism. An optimistic, life-affirming type of pantheistic worldview has developed from the realization of man's kinship with the ever-reviving deified nature.

Report by Alexander Dvorkin at the Eighth Meeting of the Inter-Orthodox Meeting of Centers for the Study of New Religious Movements and Totalitarian Sects", September 17 - 20, 2015, Otočec, Slovenia...

General information

Neo-paganism is what we call new or reconstructed pagan teachings and pseudo-spiritual practices, a type of new religious movement. Ideologists and followers of neo-paganism, as a rule, do not hide the modern nature of their teachings, although they build their foundations on traditions, the roots of which supposedly go back to ancient times. Most of the pagan neoplasms arise on the basis of the ideology of the modern neo-pagan occult movement “New Age” (“New Era”).

Neopaganism can manifest itself in various forms - for example, pseudo-Hindu or pseudo-Buddhist neoplasms; occult systems built on the belief in a variety of personified or at least self-acting natural forces; neo-shamanism; cults of pseudo-folk healers, etc. It is possible and necessary to talk about the pagan basis of such numerous and well-known totalitarian sects as Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.

But, probably, the most popular types of neo-paganism in Russia are Slavic nativism (rodnovery) - attempts to reconstruct pre-Christian pagan beliefs ancient Slavs based on a few historical information and their own ideas, borrowing from the teachings and rituals of the polytheistic beliefs of other peoples and modern occultism. In parallel with Slavic nativism in Russia, there exists with great (although not with absolute) grounds a pagan tradition that claims continuity among some representatives of the peoples of Siberia and the Volga region (Udmurt mythology, Mari traditional religion, Yakut paganism, etc.).

The revived ethnic religions also include Asatru (Germanic neo-paganism), Wicca, positioning itself as having Celtic roots (Western neo-pagan religion based on witchcraft along with the veneration of nature), Baltic neo-paganism, Greek nativism, religion of sun worshipers. Altai Burkhanism can also be included here.

In Ukraine, the neo-pagan movement "Run-vira" has gained particular popularity. In fact, it is the ideological banner of the new Ukrainian nationalism. In the same way, at one time, Aryan neo-paganism was used in Nazi Germany. The movement originated in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States. The first community was registered in 1966 in Chicago. The headquarters of the movement and today is by no means in Ukraine, but in the city of Spring Glen, New York State. The daughter of one of the leading activists of the movement was, in particular, Kateryna Chumachenko, born in the USA, the future wife of the first Maidan leader Viktor Yushchenko.

Types of neopaganism

1) Folk-domestic paganism. It prevails in rural areas and constitutes a set of superstitions (belief in omens, divination and occult-magical effects (evil eye, corruption, sentence) and a simplified set of ideas about the other world. It is often intertwined with the worldview of the religion that is traditional for a given area, whether it is Islam or Orthodoxy, but it can also be included as an organic component in the local ethnic cult.

2) Ethnic paganism. Polytheistic cults with deep historical roots. Their distinctive feature is the autochthonous and wholeness of the worldview. Such, for example, were the shamanistic cults of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East. The representatives of these peoples who practice them today undoubtedly include elements of reconstruction in them, but, apparently, to a lesser extent than the Slavic nativists.

3) Ecological pagan current. Organizations belonging to this branch have an occult, syncretic, quasi-ethnic polytheistic worldview with an ecological ideology. These include the communities included in the "Circle of Pagan Tradition".

4) Nationalist movement. Includes religious and political organizations that have a syncretic, quasi-ethnic polytheistic worldview with the ideology of nationalism: the Union of Slavic Communities, the Old Orthodox Church of the Ynglings, the Party of Spiritual Vedic Socialism, the Russian National Liberation Movement, the Russian Labor Party of Russia, "Movement" Toward the Divine Power "" by General Petrov, "Union of Co-Creators of Holy Russia" by Leonid Maslov, etc.

5) Youth mass culture. The conductor of neo-paganism is rock music that promotes nationalism, racism, the cult of power and outright Satanism. Styles originally associated with the occult appear, such as ambient, dark wave electronic, trance music.

6) "Author's" neo-pagan cults, such as "The Ringing Cedars of Russia" (Anastasia), "Troyanov's Path" (aka the "Academy of Self-Knowledge") Alexandra Shevtsova, which attracts people with the "revival" of folk crafts, the pedagogical cult "Shchetinin's School", "Bazhovtsy", "DEIR", etc.

7) "Healing" neo-pagan cults, the most famous (but far from the only) of which is the cult of Porfiry Ivanov.

8) Pseudo-Hindu and pseudo-Buddhist cults.

Statistics

According to the statistics collected by the Public Opinion Foundation together with the research service Sreda within the framework of the Arena project (Atlas of Religions and Nationalities of Russia), presented on January 16, 2013, pagans ("I Confess traditional religion ancestors, I worship the gods and forces of nature"), 1.5% of Russians named themselves. But it must be emphasized that this number included only representatives of the nativist wing of neo-paganism, with whom the whole phenomenon of neo-paganism is far from being exhausted.

There are relatively few people actively participating in groups and rituals - several thousand people. However, there are significantly more people who sympathize with neo-pagan cults, those who, without a serious ideological position, identify themselves with paganism and sometimes use the corresponding paraphernalia (at least hundreds of thousands of people).

The main reasons for the spread of neo-paganism

1) Interest in the national culture, combined with a superficial education. Against the background of the tendency to erase national differences and the formation of a cosmopolitan mass culture, a return movement arises, a sign of which is an interest in "ethnic", in "national motives". Contributes to the spread of such views and the appearance on the television screen of historically dubious feature films and programs ("Childhood of Ratibor", "Primordial Rus'" and others). A vivid example of neo-paganism propaganda on the big screen is the modern feature film Evpaty Kolovrat. This is a de-Christianized retelling of "The Tale of the Devastation of Ryazan by Batu" about the events of 1237. According to the director's idea, the voivode Yevpaty, who died in an unequal battle with the Mongols, appears in the heroic image of a mighty pagan (in fact, he was an Orthodox Christian). The formation of Evpaty's personality is directly connected with the pagan zeal of Perun, with a detailed description of which the film begins.

2) The politicization of neo-paganism. The failure to create an influential social force on the basis of Orthodoxy forces nationalist-minded people to look for a basis for political activity in other ideas. Their interest in neo-paganism is based on the thesis that Christianity is a borrowed and, moreover, "Jewish" religion that dealt a blow to the spiritual culture of Ancient Rus'. Many prefer paganism to Orthodoxy because they are consistent nationalists and anti-Semites.

3) The close connection of neo-paganism with the occult, magic and "folk healing". The messages of astrologers, the advice of "Russian sorcerers", "Russian folk healers" are extremely popular among the broad masses of the people.

4) Contrasting the ethics of neo-paganism with Christian commandments. The denunciation of Christianity as supposedly a religion of slaves, the essence of which is "in the doctrine of the sinfulness of man, the need for humility and the fear of God." The very expression "God's servant", according to nativists, humiliates a person; they call themselves "grandchildren of God."

5) The growing cult of physical strength and beauty of the human body also contributes to the growth of interest in neo-paganism. As a result - the invention of "Old Russian fighting". The creator of the ancient, but forgotten "Slavic-Goritsa wrestling" allegedly discovered by him, Alexander Belov (Selidor) is not only a coach, but also the author of a number of policy articles on Russian neo-paganism, he is the leader of the Russian military class organization.

6) Environmental problems. According to the ideologists of neo-paganism, the causes of the ecological crisis are connected with the Christian idea of ​​domination over nature. In this regard, it is proposed to revise Christian beliefs and replace them with paganism, which is based on the worship of nature.

Spheres of influence

Neo-pagan sentiments are widespread among sports fans, middle-level employees of law enforcement agencies. There is evidence of the presence of groups of neo-pagans in the special forces "Alpha" and "Vympel".

Neo-pagans in the security forces sway hesitant military personnel to join their communities. The latter is possible, among other things, against the background of the national unity of certain groups (Caucasians) within the armed forces and law enforcement agencies. There are also neo-pagan groups among the prisoners. The pagan movement in Russia is organized, among other things, around martial arts sports clubs.

The neo-pagan movement is replenished by patriotic people in the conditions of their search for their identity in the conditions of a moral and economic crisis. At the same time, both people with a floating identity and passionaries who are looking for their roots are interested in paganism, and besides that people concerned about the problem of ecology and "natural" ways of maintaining health.

Neopaganism through the Eyes of Secular Opinion Leaders

Some media characters speak positively about paganism or even claim to have become pagans:

The famous director Andrei Konchalovsky writes in an article published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta in April 2013: “This pagan “passionarity” of the Russian people was especially pronounced in October 1917. The “big” Russian people entered the historical stage and immediately demonstrated a return to the barbarian civilization. Bolshevism flourished as a revenge of the Russian "big" pagan people against the "small" European, in power."

One of the recent books by the famous satirist writer Mikhail Zadornov is called "The Pagan of the Age of Aquarius" (the Age of Aquarius is "the time when humanity will return its sacred knowledge, acquire higher teachers and rise to a new step in spiritual development, and each representative of it will become like a god"). In addition to constantly referring to the fictional history of the ancient Slavs in his stage performances, M.N. Zadornov stated that he wanted to leave the stage and become a priest. Zadornov's programs are regularly broadcast by some "second plan" TV channels and have a mass audience.

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• Prophetic Oleg. Lost Zadornov- Priest Nikolai Sushkov
• "Prophetic Oleg" by Mikhail Zadornov - two hours of lies and obscurantism. Part one- old botanik
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Honored Master of Sports of Russia, regular world heavyweight boxing champion Alexander Povetkin is fond of paganism. He said: "One morning I woke up, turned on the TV, and there was a cartoon" Ratibor's Childhood ". It hooked me very much. After that I watched the film" Primordial Rus' ".<…>Both in conscience and in spirit, what was before Christianity is closer to me. What was in Kievan Rus. Therefore I am a pagan. I am a Russian Slav. I am a warrior - my god Perun. Nature is our temple. Not the one people created. And what is created by nature. The most important thing for a pagan is to live in harmony with nature. Therefore, it is especially unpleasant for me to watch how it is being destroyed now. I just stick to the lifestyle that our ancestors had. On the left shoulder is the star of Rus'. And on the palm of the hand is written in runes "For Rus'". I also wear the Ax of Perun on my chest. I don't wear a cross" (from an extended interview with the Sports.ru online magazine on January 29, 2014).

The former governor of the Altai Territory (now deceased), the famous satirist Mikhail Evdokimov and the popular actor Alexander Mikhailov, openly promoted the neo-pagan sect of Anastasia.

The position of the government in relation to representatives of neo-pagan cults can be characterized as conciliatory. Behind-the-scenes calls are made for coexistence with the adherents of these cults, statements that it is impossible to create "the image of the enemy from the pagans." Some regional politicians and administrative structures in their regions provide covert or even overt support to neo-pagans.

Theological polemics with paganism are not yet sufficiently developed, while most of the arguments of those who sympathize with pagans are refuted by referring to church dogmas and historical facts, or even simply to common sense.

Arguments in the controversy with neo-paganism

1. Nativism originated in the 60s of the twentieth century in England and France - this is not at all an ancient tradition of the Slavs. This is a Western project that leads to the destruction of social ties from the inside, opposing some subgroups of "Magi" to others.

2. Paganism never existed as a cohesive community. Pagan communities have always been fragmented into smaller parts due to the ambitions of the leaders. In history, one can see a number of attempts to create a cohesive state based on revived or reformed and unified pagan beliefs - all of them were unsuccessful (examples are the Byzantine emperor Julian the Apostate, Prince Vladimir before the adoption of Orthodoxy). Anarchy and moral indifference are the final stages of development in the society of pagan currents.

3. Many popular pagan symbols are not rooted in antiquity., but are either tracing paper from popular Hindu images, or generally an invention of artists of the 19th-20th centuries (for example, "Kolovrat" appeared in 1923 thanks to an engraving by the Polish artist Stanislav Yakubovsky).

4. Neo-paganism is fertile ground for "Maidan" sentiments. A clash of pagan nationalists with Muslims and Caucasians can become an effective detonator for destabilizing society and revolution. "Russian march" in some variants is already controlled by neo-pagans. The idol of Perun now stands on the site of the Pokloniye Cross cut down by the Femen activist in Kyiv.

5. Active representatives of neo-paganism are taking steps to acquire firearms. Smuggling comes from Ukraine, the Caucasus. Also among neo-pagans there are a large number of facts of betrayal of their country. For example, many of them go over to the side of radical fascist Ukrainian nationalists. Moreover, any of the foreign nativists is much closer to domestic nativists than their Orthodox compatriot.

6. The development of neo-paganism in Russian society is actually aimed at fulfilling the directive of Adolf Hitler to destroy Russia, given to Heinrich Himmler regarding the implementation of the General Plan "Ost": "Each Russian village, city, town should have its own cult, its own deity, its own faith. ... We must not allow them to study philosophy and their history, Christianity, chronicles."

7. The official ideology of Nazi Germany was openly based on the occult and neo-pagan cults. The Treaty of Versailles concluded on June 28, 1919 as a result of the First World War, which determined the political and economic defeat of Germany, brought the German people into an unprecedentedly humiliating position. In the oppressed consciousness of the Germans, the oppositionists planted the dream of a national revival in a new way. Traditional Christian institutions were identified with the surrender in the First World War. The conversion of Germany to neo-paganism was recognized as the decisive factor in the revival of power. The swastika, as a different, pagan cross, a sign of victory and good luck, associated with the cult of the sun and fire, was opposed to the Christian cross as a symbol of humiliation worthy of "subhumans." At the end of the Hitler regime, attempts were made from above to replace and supplant the Christian Sacraments with neo-pagan rituals, the feast of the Nativity of Christ with the feast of the winter solstice.

There was always a pagan context in the mass events and closed celebrations of the Nazis. In Germany, in 1935-1945, the organization "Ahnenerbe" ("German Society for the Study of Ancient German History and Heritage of Ancestors") was actively operating, created to study the traditions, history and heritage of the German race with the aim of occult and ideological support for the functioning of the state apparatus of the Third Reich. It was from the pagan foundation of Hitler's Germany that the theme of national humiliation of the non-Aryan population of the Earth grew.

Thus, we can conclude that modern Russian nativism follows in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler.

Alexander Dvorkin