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Three bogatyrs: Gorynya, Dubynya and Usynya
Bogatyr Svyatogor

The mighty Bogatyrs were great Slavic warriors
Dobrynya Nikitich
Alesha Popovich
By artist Vasily Buslaev
Volga Vseslavevich is a Kiev bogatyr. It is said that he is the son of a dragon and Princess Martha, and it is believed that he comes from the Kiev princely family. He lives in Kiev. He is priest and wizard, werewolf (can turn into animals and birds, and turn his warriors from the squad into ants). He has a series of military feats. His main achievement is the defeat of the troops of the Turkish Sultan. Hi is the king of hunting. Favorite weapon: bow and arrows, but also he adores the ax as a pair with a shield, and separate to practice. More often he uses the logical model of a “gray wolf”.
Bogatyr is a famous Slavic folkloric warrior character. Bogatyrs appear mainly in Rus’ epic poems—bylinas. Bogatyrs are akin to Western European knight-errant. Bogatyrs are also connected to the reign of Vladimir the Great (Grand Prince of Kiev from 980 to 1015) as part of his elite warriors (druzhina akin to Knights of the Round table. Bogatyrs were not like regular men according Slavic epic poems Bylinas. It is written in bylinas that Bogatyr Volga Vseslavevich after birth started growing not by months, weeks, or hours, but by minutes. It’s says his crib broke apart, because he got too big too fast. His mother was frightened of how fast he was growing. By age 6 he went away to wander the land of Rus. All living things, the animals, the birds, the fish were frightened of him when they heard his loud footsteps, which made the earth shake. Of course it’s understandable that the mythological poems Bylinas are not exactly describing bogatyrs in a literal sense, but still, these texts are trying to explain in poetic form that bogatyrs were different from ordinary humans.

Bylinas say that by 15 Volga Vseslavevich was putting together his crew of warriors. It clearly says he was not like a regular human. His had immense strength, fighting skills, and courage. She also had supernatural abilities and possessed knowledge of magic. He can fly through the sky as a falcon, and run through the forest as a grey wolf. So Slavic bogatyrs were no ordinary men.

Description of Slavic bogatyr (Volga Vseslavevich somewhat reminds me of Slavic god Veles. Bogatyr Volga Vseslavevich was a son of a dragon and Slavic princes Martha. God Veles is also associated with dragons/serpent. Volga Vseslavevich wasn’t just a great warrior, but also a priest and a wizard. God Veles is associated with magic, knowledge, wisdom. Volga Vseslavevich was king of hunting, and although god Veles was not known as king of hunting, he was king of the forest, king of wild beasts. Another parallel between them is that both God Veles, and Volga Vseslavevich could both take the form of large grey wolf.
S.S. Solomko. Russian bogatyr, Nastasya Korolevichna. There were also Slavic female bogatyrs
Female bogatyr Nastasya Mikulichna, daughter of Mikula Selyaninovich (art by A. Ryabushkin,1898)
Though not as heavily researched, the female bogatyr or polianitsa (Поленица [ru]) is a female warrior akin to the Amazons. Many of the more well-known polianitsas are wives to the famous male bogatyrs, such as Nastas'ya Nikulichna,[12] the wife of Dobrynya Nikitich. The female bogatyr matches the men in strength and bravery with stories detailing instances where they save their husbands and outwit the enemy.[12] They are often seen working with the heroes in tales that mention their presence.
Many burials of female warriors were discovered in my birthplace Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The buried warriors are identified as Scythians. I’m having a very hard time accepting the official history on Scythians. I don’t accept that Scythians were some primitive nomads. It’s ridiculous to think this of them. Just check out their incredible jewellery. A few years ago I read something about several sets of Scythian jewellery that are kept in some museum the name of which I can’t remember at the time. Mainly they were talking about Scythian earrings. Well, these Scythian earrings were no ordinary earrings. The intricate details were so tiny, that you had to have special equipment to observe it. Modern experts on jewellery could not recreate these Scythian earrings. I think there is a lot of hidden history on Scythians still waiting to be uncovered
An Armenian tribute bearer carrying a metal vessel with griffin handles. 6th century BC
Forwarded from Easter Tidings
Individual ice blades on individual blades of grass. Fractal pattern repeat repeat. They pathologize anyone who thinks differently than a corporate slave drone. But my “attention deficit” lets me see what drones miss. “Sorry I zoned out from your mindless twattle, teacher, I was gazing at the beauty of nature out the window” 😆 that was me in school. “Off with the fairies” as they say 🧚
Forwarded from Celtic Esotericism
Rowan-Part 4
Ancient Druids used to burn Rowan wood in order to receive shamanic messages of warning and danger, especially before battle. Its red berries are considered the blood of the Gods.
Druids made platforms of woven Rowan known as "wattles of knowledge" used as a bed during the ritual known as tarbh fheis, seeking a trans state to gain hidden magical knowledge. While little is known of the ritual today, the wattles of knowledge may have been used as a visionary power plant as well as a practical resource.
The protective attributes of the Rowan have been used for millenia, and a slip of Rowan clearly intended for ritual use was even found in a Bronze Age burial mound in Denmark. Rowan trees growing in inaccessible places such as the cleft in a rock face or within another tree are thought to be especially powerful.
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This is disgusting. Isn’t it true that the non Jew is sort of serving the Jew by rejecting his/her own native gods of their ethnic pagan ancestors, and worshiping the god of the Jewish people? Is it not true that the whole of humanity is on their knees to them? Even if they don’t realize it when they follow the religions of Abraham