The continuance of the original text about Baba Yaga and her association with orphan children & fire ritual
Back to the original discussion about Matushka/Mother Yoginya. I stopped at the part where orphan children & brushwood were placed on lapata , and pushed back inside Pesh Ra. After this Yoginya would light the brushwood. As Lopata was pushed back inside the Pesh-Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone-slab on ledge of lopata, and would separate the deepening with the children in it from the fire. The children were unharmed during this fire ritual
As the fire was lit inside of Pesh Ra, the Volkhvs/slavic wizards/Priests would transport the children from Lapata/Peel to a room of the temple. These children were raised in Temple to become priests and priestesses: As the children got older, they’d marry, start families & continue their kin.
It was easy for Christian church to demonize Slavic faith & traditions, especially Slavic goddess Yaga, because when the foreigners witnessed this fire ritual, initiating orphan children, to them it looked as if barbaric, pagan Slavs put living children into oven to offer them up as a burnt sacrifice to their evil, bloodthirsty pagan gods. They had no idea that this fire ritual brought absolutely no harm to children. It brought nothing but good benefit to the participants.
Of course the foreigners who witnessed this ritual didn’t know any of this, and continued spreading their fairytales about evil Slavic pagans sacrificing children to their gods. Christianity demonized goddess Yaga, and turned her into an evil, old hag that cooks children and eats them.
Another thing that was completely misrepresented is that Yaga’s hut was walking on chicken legs. Researcher points out in this video that the misunderstanding was in the words used to describe the hut. To properly say that her hut was walking on chicken legs, it would need to be: Избушка/hut на/on куриных/chicken ножках/legs. However, it’s important to pay attention that her hut is not on куриных/chicken legs, but on курьих/smoke legs. The way you say “to smoke” in Russian language is «курить» (kurit). Researcher points out that possibly this may have been some sort of flying apparatus, or technology of some sort. In fairytales, Yaga’s hut is like a portal to different worlds, and is described to always be lit up day and night. It was almost like a lighthouse, but instead of being in an ocean, it’s in a forest.
Goddess Yoga/Yaga was always associated with swans, and swans are holy birds in Slavic & Hyperborean mythology... Apart from Yoga/Yaga being associated with orphan children, she also is said to help the heroes in fairytales, but not just any heroes, but the worthy ones. Goddess Yoginya/Yaga is not only related to dedication, but also to initiation...
Back to the original discussion about Matushka/Mother Yoginya. I stopped at the part where orphan children & brushwood were placed on lapata , and pushed back inside Pesh Ra. After this Yoginya would light the brushwood. As Lopata was pushed back inside the Pesh-Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone-slab on ledge of lopata, and would separate the deepening with the children in it from the fire. The children were unharmed during this fire ritual
As the fire was lit inside of Pesh Ra, the Volkhvs/slavic wizards/Priests would transport the children from Lapata/Peel to a room of the temple. These children were raised in Temple to become priests and priestesses: As the children got older, they’d marry, start families & continue their kin.
It was easy for Christian church to demonize Slavic faith & traditions, especially Slavic goddess Yaga, because when the foreigners witnessed this fire ritual, initiating orphan children, to them it looked as if barbaric, pagan Slavs put living children into oven to offer them up as a burnt sacrifice to their evil, bloodthirsty pagan gods. They had no idea that this fire ritual brought absolutely no harm to children. It brought nothing but good benefit to the participants.
Of course the foreigners who witnessed this ritual didn’t know any of this, and continued spreading their fairytales about evil Slavic pagans sacrificing children to their gods. Christianity demonized goddess Yaga, and turned her into an evil, old hag that cooks children and eats them.
Another thing that was completely misrepresented is that Yaga’s hut was walking on chicken legs. Researcher points out in this video that the misunderstanding was in the words used to describe the hut. To properly say that her hut was walking on chicken legs, it would need to be: Избушка/hut на/on куриных/chicken ножках/legs. However, it’s important to pay attention that her hut is not on куриных/chicken legs, but on курьих/smoke legs. The way you say “to smoke” in Russian language is «курить» (kurit). Researcher points out that possibly this may have been some sort of flying apparatus, or technology of some sort. In fairytales, Yaga’s hut is like a portal to different worlds, and is described to always be lit up day and night. It was almost like a lighthouse, but instead of being in an ocean, it’s in a forest.
Goddess Yoga/Yaga was always associated with swans, and swans are holy birds in Slavic & Hyperborean mythology... Apart from Yoga/Yaga being associated with orphan children, she also is said to help the heroes in fairytales, but not just any heroes, but the worthy ones. Goddess Yoginya/Yaga is not only related to dedication, but also to initiation...
This is a witness account of one Russian soldier who served in army in Ural region in the 70s:
Soldier’s story about Pesh Ra/ or how he participated in “Hleba” fire cleansing ritual
From point to village is 8 kilometers. We soldiers often found work in the village. When finished with work, locals prepared for us delicious soups, freshly baked pirogi, and even put on Samovar with hot tea, honey and jams. This is no Army rations for you...
Sometimes locals would prepare the traditional “banya” steam-bath/sauna for the soldiers, but if you make it to “hleba” on a Friday, this kind of hleba I’ve never seen anywhere else ever again. I wish to repeat the entire process and everything I was taught by the locals in my own datcha (Russian summer vacation home).
this particular soldier was describing his experience of traditional folk practice, a fire ritual that the locals organized for him. It was a total of two sessions.
This fire ritual relates to renewal, cleansing/purification, obtaining new powers, and shedding of old skins. For Hleba rite just any stove won’t do. It requires a specific stove designed for this. Big enough to wash & steam in it, and for an adult to fit in it.
First the stove must be heated for a while. Only Birch tree logs must be used here. Other kind of logs were used on different days. After the charcoal is cleared from halls, comes the breads, for family and guests. After breads are baked and removed is when the stove is prepared for the participant to get inside.
A wide boards is pulled out for participant to sit on to avoid getting burnt. In special cases the participant is covered in dough. This first session the soldier completed without dough. The head gets covered, so that the hair don’t get burnt. Soldier got inside of stove with difficulty getting burned a little here & there. There wasn’t enough space to freely use the banya broom/sauna besom like in a regular banya/steam bath, but enough space for him to wash up. There was a bucket with clear water, and another one filled with honey & herb water.
He got out pink skinned, and very thirsty. They wrapped him in a sheet, and gave him raspberry hot tea until all of his sweat came out. He drank 2 whole Samovars/Metal heated tea container. Each time ringing out the sheet full of his sweat. Sweat was just pouring from him. Until suddenly it’s like someone turned off the faucet. No more sweat left. He was completely dry.
He then got dressed, and stopped to talk to the elder on his way out. The elder told soldier that he was holding up good so far, and that he must return to complete this fire ritual . Elder told the soldier that next session they were going to cover him with a special dough, and bake him. Soldier was confused by this statement. What do you mean by bake me, soldier asked...The elder said, yes, we will cover you with dough, bake you, and then remove the dough shell from you, and pour water from natural springs, or better yet collected morning dew over you. Then burry dough pieces under oak tree. Afterward a ceremonial/communal meal, and it will be as if you are reborn. The elder said that once in three years even the healthiest people need to do this ritual.
Soldier comes back to complete the fire ritual. The elder man & his wife had the soldier chop some wood, and then they took him up to a natural spring up on the hill beneath big oak tree to collect some water. While they were up on the hill, the old couple asked the soldier to sit still so that they can look him in his eyes for a little while. I’m assuming this was part of the process.
It was time to complete the fire ritual The female elder covered him with dough from head to toe, even his face, and the soldier went inside the oven. Dough began to dry, tighten on his skin, and suck all of the moisture out of him.
Meanwhile, outside of oven room the elders were chanting strange ritualistic songs.
Soldier’s story about Pesh Ra/ or how he participated in “Hleba” fire cleansing ritual
From point to village is 8 kilometers. We soldiers often found work in the village. When finished with work, locals prepared for us delicious soups, freshly baked pirogi, and even put on Samovar with hot tea, honey and jams. This is no Army rations for you...
Sometimes locals would prepare the traditional “banya” steam-bath/sauna for the soldiers, but if you make it to “hleba” on a Friday, this kind of hleba I’ve never seen anywhere else ever again. I wish to repeat the entire process and everything I was taught by the locals in my own datcha (Russian summer vacation home).
this particular soldier was describing his experience of traditional folk practice, a fire ritual that the locals organized for him. It was a total of two sessions.
This fire ritual relates to renewal, cleansing/purification, obtaining new powers, and shedding of old skins. For Hleba rite just any stove won’t do. It requires a specific stove designed for this. Big enough to wash & steam in it, and for an adult to fit in it.
First the stove must be heated for a while. Only Birch tree logs must be used here. Other kind of logs were used on different days. After the charcoal is cleared from halls, comes the breads, for family and guests. After breads are baked and removed is when the stove is prepared for the participant to get inside.
A wide boards is pulled out for participant to sit on to avoid getting burnt. In special cases the participant is covered in dough. This first session the soldier completed without dough. The head gets covered, so that the hair don’t get burnt. Soldier got inside of stove with difficulty getting burned a little here & there. There wasn’t enough space to freely use the banya broom/sauna besom like in a regular banya/steam bath, but enough space for him to wash up. There was a bucket with clear water, and another one filled with honey & herb water.
He got out pink skinned, and very thirsty. They wrapped him in a sheet, and gave him raspberry hot tea until all of his sweat came out. He drank 2 whole Samovars/Metal heated tea container. Each time ringing out the sheet full of his sweat. Sweat was just pouring from him. Until suddenly it’s like someone turned off the faucet. No more sweat left. He was completely dry.
He then got dressed, and stopped to talk to the elder on his way out. The elder told soldier that he was holding up good so far, and that he must return to complete this fire ritual . Elder told the soldier that next session they were going to cover him with a special dough, and bake him. Soldier was confused by this statement. What do you mean by bake me, soldier asked...The elder said, yes, we will cover you with dough, bake you, and then remove the dough shell from you, and pour water from natural springs, or better yet collected morning dew over you. Then burry dough pieces under oak tree. Afterward a ceremonial/communal meal, and it will be as if you are reborn. The elder said that once in three years even the healthiest people need to do this ritual.
Soldier comes back to complete the fire ritual. The elder man & his wife had the soldier chop some wood, and then they took him up to a natural spring up on the hill beneath big oak tree to collect some water. While they were up on the hill, the old couple asked the soldier to sit still so that they can look him in his eyes for a little while. I’m assuming this was part of the process.
It was time to complete the fire ritual The female elder covered him with dough from head to toe, even his face, and the soldier went inside the oven. Dough began to dry, tighten on his skin, and suck all of the moisture out of him.
Meanwhile, outside of oven room the elders were chanting strange ritualistic songs.
What a wonderful Russian/Slavic brotherhood. So nice to see all men singing both young & old, fathers & sons singing together a traditional song.
I usually viewed stag with antlers as a masculine, male God symbol, but just recently I’ve been learning about antlered female deer in different ancient myths. And no, this is not me promoting some feminist ideas. Deer mythology pertains to both masculine & feminine.
I was watching a Russian documentary the other day, and they were talking about a myth of Karelian people. According to this myth, the birthplace of the Slavonic people was on the horns/antlers of a fawn, and her name is Mirtsana. I know it doesn’t make sense for female deer to have antlers, supposedly Doe with anthers is rare event, but it exists.
Some people say that there’s truth encoded in this myth, because the Big Dipper has a star in it that today the scientists call by the name Mitsar/Mizar, and it does resemble something like a deer.
I was watching a Russian documentary the other day, and they were talking about a myth of Karelian people. According to this myth, the birthplace of the Slavonic people was on the horns/antlers of a fawn, and her name is Mirtsana. I know it doesn’t make sense for female deer to have antlers, supposedly Doe with anthers is rare event, but it exists.
Some people say that there’s truth encoded in this myth, because the Big Dipper has a star in it that today the scientists call by the name Mitsar/Mizar, and it does resemble something like a deer.
Chachapoyas (Cloud People) were a caucasian race of people living in Peru before the Incas. The cloud people began carving settlements out of extremely dense mountain forests situated between the Maranon, and Huallaga rivers, and eventually established an impressive kingdom that spread through the northern Andes of Peru.
They are mentioned in the chronicles, and books written by Spanish priests based on stories told to them by the Inca. Books speak of an Inca emperor who marched his army to the cloud forest in 1480. He was astonished to find a great civilization there.
The stories were dismissed as legends, but an explorer name Gene Savoy took them more seriously. Savoy took a team, and for six years him and his team were exploring the hostile jungle of the Cloud Forest.
Eventually deep in the cloud forest his team came up on the hidden ruins of great stone buildings buried under centuries of jungle growth. The Incas knew about these ruins, but they were a very superstitious people, and they were afraid to come near them.
The stone round structures of the cloud people were completely different from the Inca buildings. The Incas build in rectangular linear style. Decorations on the buildings were also very different from what the Incas had. Cloud people also had cliff tombs... These cliff tombs were exactly like the ones described by the Incas legends about the cloud people.
Caucasian mummies were discovered in the Northeast of Peru. They were very tall, and appeared European. Everything that came with them, their pottery, art, clothing was different from Incas. Unfortunately, the tombs where the mummies were found have already been visited by looters, and robbed.
The fact that the mummies were tall is significant. Buried in the Spanish Chronicles, a fascinating passages describing the cloud people as tall and beautiful with fair skin and light hair. That is a very different appearance from the Inca.
Near the lake where the mummies were found, is the great fortress of Kuélap. This fortress is considered the largest stone ruins in the New World, and is made out of massive limestone blocks bigger than those used in the Egyptian Pyramids. It’s incredible walls are over 60 feet high, and stretch for more than 2/3 of a mile. This fortress is almost certainly believed to be built by the cloud people. It was built from 2 1/2 times as much granite than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. All of which was carried to a mountaintop over 9000 feet above sea level.
So the cloud people who lived in Peru over 500 years ago knew the secrets of using herbs and chemicals to preserve the human body
They are mentioned in the chronicles, and books written by Spanish priests based on stories told to them by the Inca. Books speak of an Inca emperor who marched his army to the cloud forest in 1480. He was astonished to find a great civilization there.
The stories were dismissed as legends, but an explorer name Gene Savoy took them more seriously. Savoy took a team, and for six years him and his team were exploring the hostile jungle of the Cloud Forest.
Eventually deep in the cloud forest his team came up on the hidden ruins of great stone buildings buried under centuries of jungle growth. The Incas knew about these ruins, but they were a very superstitious people, and they were afraid to come near them.
The stone round structures of the cloud people were completely different from the Inca buildings. The Incas build in rectangular linear style. Decorations on the buildings were also very different from what the Incas had. Cloud people also had cliff tombs... These cliff tombs were exactly like the ones described by the Incas legends about the cloud people.
Caucasian mummies were discovered in the Northeast of Peru. They were very tall, and appeared European. Everything that came with them, their pottery, art, clothing was different from Incas. Unfortunately, the tombs where the mummies were found have already been visited by looters, and robbed.
The fact that the mummies were tall is significant. Buried in the Spanish Chronicles, a fascinating passages describing the cloud people as tall and beautiful with fair skin and light hair. That is a very different appearance from the Inca.
Near the lake where the mummies were found, is the great fortress of Kuélap. This fortress is considered the largest stone ruins in the New World, and is made out of massive limestone blocks bigger than those used in the Egyptian Pyramids. It’s incredible walls are over 60 feet high, and stretch for more than 2/3 of a mile. This fortress is almost certainly believed to be built by the cloud people. It was built from 2 1/2 times as much granite than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. All of which was carried to a mountaintop over 9000 feet above sea level.
So the cloud people who lived in Peru over 500 years ago knew the secrets of using herbs and chemicals to preserve the human body