Slavs or tartars? Who cares

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In the camp of adherents of academic science, the voices of those who, apart from the word "tartaria" have not heard anything about it, are often heard, but have a great desire to "guide the lost sheep on the true path," unaware that in fact tartare is such a "hell for ancient Greeks ". Truly, the one who said that the clever is trying to learn, and the fool is trying to teach everyone, was right. But this is an extreme degree of obscurantism. The overwhelming majority is trying to understand the flow of information, and separate speculation from reality. One of the most common questions for sane people is the existence of a cultural gap between Tatars and Russians.

In fact, the question is solved quite simply, but for this you need to learn a few simple rules.

Mobile phone rule

I gave this rule such a name, because one of the most striking examples helping to understand the essence of the phenomenon for oneself is just this device, the most familiar to us today. Today's young people, who were born at a time when cellular networks were firmly established in our life, cannot imagine how it was possible to live without them. It seems to them that mobile communications have always existed, or at least for a very long time. Hence the many funny mistakes that those who today are not more than twenty years old make.

For example, young people are surprised to hear the stories of the older generation about how, in childhood, their mothers shouted through the window that the lady should go to dinner or do their homework. "Why, they couldn't call on their mobile?" - young people are genuinely perplexed. And how can we explain to them that in our childhood even TVs were not in every home.

Therefore, they are not at all jarred when, in films about the civil war, the main character in breeches and with a "Mauser" on his belt walks along the sidewalk made of modern artificial stone and enters the building of the People's Commissariat through an anodized aluminum door with a double-glazed window.

Therefore, the Mobile Phone Rule can be formulated as follows:

Therefore, it is always necessary to be clearly aware that the Soviet Red Army soldier could not wear the Order of Courage on his chest, because it would be established only in 1994. And he also could not fight the White Guards, using a crossbow for shooting, this is obvious. This means that, speaking about the customs of peoples, which in the nineteenth century were distinguished from each other by belonging to a particular or ionic religious denomination, it is necessary to make an allowance precisely for the differences in the administration of cult rituals, but not for the shape of the nose, or the shape of the eyes.

Rule of Nagonia

Nagonia is a fictional country that was invented by the Soviet writer Yulian Semyonov in order to avoid the illusion of readers that the action of his political detective "TASS is authorized to declare" is somehow connected with some particular African state.

The essence of this rule lies in the fact that geographical names, and therefore events that occurred in the territories that had these names, were located in different parts of the world at different times, and it can be formulated as follows:

The action of this rule is clearly demonstrated by such geographical names as Katai-China and Tartary-Tataria. You should always remember that these are not equivalent concepts. We call China now the country that is called Tea (Chinoy) all over the world, and Katay was previously located on the territory of what is now central Siberia. Tartaria, generally not the self-name of some state, but a term adopted in Europe to designate territories inhabited by peoples, former parts of a large country united under the rule of the Great Khan. Including the Tartar tribe, which were part of the people who call themselves Mogulls.

In the west, the moguls were called moals, mungals, manguls, moguls, etc. They were the people of the Caucasian race, and had nothing to do with the modern Mongols. The tribes of the Huns, Akatsi, Oirats, Saragurs, etc. learned that they were a single Mongol people only from Soviet scientists in 1929. It was then that they first heard that the great "Genghis Khan" was the progenitor of their people.

It is absurd to talk about medieval Estonia and Latvia, because they appeared only in the twentieth century. And if we find in the text a mention of Albania of the twelfth century, then we must understand that we are not talking about a modern state in the Balkans, but about a country located on the territory of modern Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The Kalinka-Malinka rule

Most of the modern inhabitants of Russia do not doubt that songs such as "Kalinka" or "My Joy Lives" are originally Russian, folk songs. But this is a deep misconception. "Kalinka" was written by Ivan Petrovich Larionov in 1860, and "My Joy Lives" appeared as a result of the superposition of Sergei Fedorovich Ryskin's poem "Udalts" to the music of Mikhail Dmitrievich Shishkin in 1882. Without exception, all "Russian folk" songs have their own authors, were born not earlier than the second half of the nineteenth century, and have pronounced forms of a gypsy romance or an Odessa tavern song.

In fact, only epics, recited to the accompaniment of a guslar, ritual songs performed during ceremonies on folk holidays (Yarilu, Kupala, Perunov's day), carols, etc. can be considered genuine Russian folk songs. There is another wide layer of folk music, these are war songs, coachman, burlak, lullabies, etc. But who knows them today?

The situation is exactly the same with the folk songs of the Tatars, Mari, Bashkirs, and all other peoples of Russia. All of them appeared relatively recently, and no one already knows how the songs of our ancestors sounded in the days before the nineteenth century, when they learned to write songs using musical notation. Therefore, the third rule can be formulated as follows:

Musical creativity that is considered folk cannot be considered as a distinctive feature of this or that ethnic group throughout the history of its cultural development

A striking example of the validity of this rule is the fact that the komus and jew's harp, which today are considered traditional musical instruments of the peoples of the Far North, the Urals, Siberia and Altai, in fact, along with the gusli, are primordially Russian instruments. Old people still remember that in Karelia, the Arkhangelsk and Vologda provinces, half a century ago, the sounds of the jew's harp could be heard much more often than the accordion. And the assertion of culturologists about the origin of the name "komus" on behalf of the ancient Greek god Coma (Comus) can cause nothing but sarcasm. By the way, the Russians did not call this musical instrument a komus. We have this item called hole.

Karelia. Duet Authentica

The Russian jew's harp was mentioned by such researchers, musicologists and folklorists as Vladimir Povetkin, Konstantin Vertkov, Nikolai Privalov, Artyom Agazhanov, Dmitry Pokrovsky. And there is not the slightest reason to doubt that the word "jew's harp" has ancient Russian roots.

A similar situation has developed with the "original Scottish" bagpipes, and the "Peruvian Pan". Everyone has already forgotten that the bagpipe is an integral part of Russian culture, and until recently it was very common. And to this day they play the kugiklah in the villages of the Kursk, Bryansk, and Oryol provinces. But we are shown only accordion, balalaika and "Hey-ge-gay!" A similar situation has developed with folk costumes.

Dudar with a pipe (bagpipes). Brest-Litovsk, late 19th century

Unknown with kugikly

Zipun rule

Almost everything that we know about the culture of our ancestors is gleaned from modern sources, which in no way can be considered sources. Popular-looking dancers in red shirts, belted with ridiculous sashes, and caps with even more ridiculous roses, as well as girls in sarafans, dressed backwards - that's basically everything we know about folk costume. But it is worth looking at the photographs taken in the Russian Empire, as vague doubts involuntarily creep in.

If you don't know that the photo was taken in Russia, then …

Arkhangelsk landowners. End of the 19th century

No less revelations about the Russian jew's harp of modern citizens are shocked by the appearance of Orthodox priests. Is this how they should look in accordance with the established stereotypes?

Orthodox priest in Novgorod. End of the 19th century

Ministers of the Baisin church in the Vyatka province at the end of the 19th century. Priest Mikhail Rednikov, Priest Nikolai Syrnev, Priest Vasily Domrachev, Deacon Nikolai Kurochkin, Psalmist Vladimir Vinogradov, Psalmist Alexander Zarnitsyn. But this is true. At least half of the Orthodox ministers of the cult outwardly could not be distinguished from the rabbis. But that's not all. If you remember the famous painting by Rembrandt "Portrait of a Noble Slav", then you can completely fall into a stupor. He is depicted with an earring in his ear, with a turban on his head. Is this how a Slav should look like? We are accustomed to the image of the fabulous Ivan Tsarevich. So the rule is:

Clothing used by different peoples in different eras is not a distinctive feature of this or that ethnic group, since the division into nations was made artificially, and relatively recently

Enlightenment

It is here that a simple man in the street begins to guess that he was simply fooled throughout his life. All the signs of national culture, by which it would be possible to determine a person's belonging to a particular nation, were created artificially, and basically already during the twentieth century, at a time of the rapid growth of the level of theatrical art, the emergence of cinematography and printed publications.

All our ideas about the difference in the cultures of peoples inhabiting the territory of the former Russian Empire turn out to be unreliable, and often false. External differences in folk costumes actually existed, as they exist to this day, when in each village there may be a unique ornament for its inhabitants, but they were insignificant.

In addition, just like the modern men's costume of a couple can be found in any corner of the world, in Tartary there were entire sections of the population (mainly nobles) who dressed in dresses that were no different from those worn in Madrid or Constantinople. Travelers who have visited Tartary in different periods, all as one declare that they have met many people dressed exactly like Europeans. And this should not surprise us, because before the advent of railways and air communications, representatives of various peoples actively traveled and exchanged goods and experience in their production.

The tribes inhabiting Eurasia almost never lived in complete isolation from each other, which means that there were no objective prerequisites for the formation of centers of authentic cultures. All national cultures are the latest artificial modification, designed to divide peoples even more than before, when cultural differences were determined by religion alone.

Religion

Now let's remember what types of religions existed during the heyday of Great Tartary. The overwhelming majority of peoples did not have any religion at all. Today it is customary to call it paganism, or at best, Vedism. The percentage of Nestorians and Mohammedans who argued about which traditions were more correct was negligible. All the rest knew that there was only one God, and his name was Rod.

Yes, the names of the gods could be different in different places. If the Novgorodians knew the thunderer Perun, then their closest neighbors were Samogites, the same god was called Perkunas. That is why cultural differences between the pagan voivods Mamai, Dmitry and Yagailo did not exist at all. Religion cannot unite peoples, it divides them. And this is an indisputable fact. And it was religion that became the first impetus for the linguistic division of peoples, and then the cultural one.

Linguistics

Mohammedanism, which did not accept any languages other than Arabic, divided people into nationalities. But as you know, the language of communication is not a distinctive feature of this or that nation. After all, the Germans, Austrians and some of the Swiss speak German, but at the same time they do not consider themselves one nation. The Moldovans, who in the nineteenth century all sources unconditionally attributed to the Slavs, forgot the language of the Vlachs and Ruthenians, which their ancestors spoke, and borrowed the Romanian language, which completely erased them from the Slavic family. Although in fact, genetically they were not Slavs. They just had a language of communication, when it was Slavic. And on that basis they were considered relatives of the Russians.

With the Volgars, or as they were called in the west, the Bulgars, the situation is exactly the opposite. Genetically, they are Slavs, but since they adopted the Turkic language along with religion, the development of the culture of modern Kazan Tatars went along a different branch, separating from the one that was the same for everyone, in the not so distant past. And there is a great many confirmations of this. They have been preserved to us by the languages we now speak.

It is only at first glance that it seems to us that the Turkish, Arabic, Indian and European words are not similar. On closer inspection, it turns out that all modern languages on our continent, with the exception of the languages of China, Japan and Southeast Asia, have one single basis. And most likely, it was founded precisely because of the language in which Genghis Khan spoke. Many of the Tartar words have come down to us unchanged, and some have slightly changed the sound and (or) meaning. A huge number of words, considered exclusively Russian, existed among the Moguls (tartar), having the same meaning and pronunciation:

• book,
• money,
• raisin,
• ass,
• shoe,
• iron,
• arshin,
• coachman,
• Kremlin.

You can continue indefinitely. These are neither Russian, nor Tatar, nor Turkic words. This is all the matrix on which various modern languages have arisen, but we have a common one.

A funny situation with such "Tatar" names as Catch up, Run away, Kuchu-Bey, Guess, Throw, etc. Do you feel it? You are already beginning to understand the Tartar language! And all these names are not fiction. Information about them has been preserved in real chronicles. And these are only the names of famous people, mainly khans and their governors. And how many such nicknames of ordinary people were not included in the chronicles?

And here's another curious moment. Many compound nicknames for tartars had the ending Chuk. I do not know what exactly it meant, but it is very likely that chuk is an indication of the status of the bearer of the name. Only monarchs (Genghis Khan, Ogus Khan, Kublai Khan) had the right to wear the prefix to the name khan. And most of the highest commanders of Tartary had names with the second word Bayadur (Chuchi-Bayadur, Amir-Bayadur). Lower-ranking officers often had nicknames with the prefix Chuk. Now, remember what surnames are most common in Ukraine? That's all right. In addition to "Yenko", many Ukrainians are also "Chuki" (Stanchuk, Dmitrichuk, etc.). Probably because at one time dashing guys with the names Ku-Chuk, Kotyan-Chuk, Bilar-Chuk, etc. went to war on them. In the Baltic republics, the name Margus is popular, but it is also Tartar. In the chronicles of various times, there are references to several heroes named Margus-Khan.

But the most interesting to me seems to be the commonality of Tartar words and Sanskrit. Thanks to the works of S. V. Zharnikova, the world learned that in the Russian North and in India there are a great many identical or similar hydronyms. Exactly the same picture is observed with the hydronyms of Taimyr and Siberia, according to N. S. Novgorodova. On my own behalf, I will add that in Kolyma, Chukotka and Yakutia there are also hydronyms that do not have etymology in the languages of local peoples, but have a clear and clear interpretation in Sanskrit.

R. Indigirka

For example, the name of the great river Indigirka is translated as the Mountains of India. However, it was necessary not to prompt, a native speaker of the Russian language could have guessed so. But what have India and Yakutia got to do with it? It's simple. Once, in ancient times, on the territory of modern Yakutia and Kolyma there was a country that was also called India. Moreover, on the maps it was listed as India Superiore, which in Latin means “Upper India”, or “Primordial India”.

Now is the time to remember the Iranian Avesta, which says:

“The homeland of the Aryans was once a bright, beautiful country, but an evil demon sent cold and snow on it, which began to hit it every year for ten months. The sun began to rise only once, and the year itself turned into one night and one day. On the advice of the gods, people left there forever."

For some reason, our compatriots decided at once that the descendants of the Aryans were only Russians. But let me remind you that the Germans once thought that they were the real Aryans, and therefore the whole world owes its existence to them. Such reasoning, not only does not have a real basis, but is also fraught with the development of nationalist sentiments, which inevitably lead to the establishment of Nazi ideology.

In my deep conviction, all peoples belonging to the Caucasian race are direct descendants of those very Aryans. Moreover, most of the Indo-Iranian and Central Asian peoples are also children of our common ancestors. And among us there is not a single people or tribe that has the right to be considered better or worse than others. And representatives of other races, too, cannot be considered worse or better. They are just different. But they don't owe anything to white people. And whites cannot consider themselves exceptional just because their ancestors supposedly were the most advanced. You need to be proud of your own achievements, and not of the merits of your ancestors, about which, of course, you need to carefully preserve your memory. But only in order not to be worse than them. In the meantime, I see no reason to believe that we are worthy of our ancestors.

The whites split up and began to feud with each other. And this is a direct violation of the covenants, for which punishment will certainly follow. Everyone should remember this. And in order not to forget, you need to know your history. And the story is that we all have one common cultural base. We are children of the same parents, and we have nothing to share. The evidence is innumerable, but I will cite just one of the latest revelations:

We all know the Russian word tract. Linguists will object, of course, and say, they say, this is from the Latin traktus, which means "to drag". There are many such interpretations of Russian words, and very few people doubt their reliability. However, I have already collected a whole collection of examples of "borrowing from Latin". Apart from a smile, such interpretations can cause nothing. Well, judge for yourself, how many simple peasants, artisans and coachmen, familiar with Latin, lived in medieval Russia? About ten people, I think, were recruited at the best of times. And they planted Latin words all over the territory from the Danube to the Bering Strait? Absurd!

As in the case of the word solidarity (to give salt is a synonym for mutual assistance, hospitality is a synonym for hospitality), the word tract, like most containing particles of ra, ar, ha, has nothing to do with Latin. A road was called a road that was higher in status than a highway. The tract is a state-owned road, maintained at the expense of the Yamskaya orders. And now, attention to the question: - The institution for rest and eating for the drivers and their passengers on the side of the road was called a tavern, but what should then be called a vehicle that transports passengers and goods along the road itself? Obviously, the English word "trucktor".

The version is not indisputable, I understand, however, such indirect confirmation of the unity of the common proto-language for all inhabitants of Eurasia is enough for a whole dictionary.

Customs

But the main signs of the unity of culture of all representatives of the Caucasian race who lived east of the Danube, to which, along with the Slavs, the Moguls with the Tartars belonged, these are, of course, customs, many of which have survived to this day, and some were borrowed by other peoples around the world.

1. The custom to greet each other with a handshake.
2. The custom of taking off the headdress and bowing, as a sign of special respect and trust, thus demonstrating one's defenselessness
3. Take off your outdoor shoes when entering the dwelling, and put on house slippers.
4. Putting a stick at the front door as a sign of the prohibition for strangers to enter the house. This happened if there was a sick person in the house (for the purpose of quarantining infectious diseases), in the absence of the owners, or if the owners were busy with intimate affairs and did not want to meet guests. In the Pskov villages, this is still done.
5. Wash hands and face before meals, before bed and after bed.
6. Take regular baths and wash clothes.
7. Put on clean underwear before the fight.
8. Going to distant countries, take a handful of earth with you.
9. To seat the wife and all female guests and relatives at the table on the left, and men on the right.
10. No one had the right to start the meal before the eldest of those present.
11. Only prepared drinks were used as a drink, and raw water was used as a last resort, in force majeure.
12. Compulsory education in literacy and other sciences for all children from an early age.
13. Compulsory training for all boys, regardless of class over twelve years old, horseback riding, fist fighting skills and possession of all types of cold arms and small arms.
14. Compulsory education of all girls, regardless of class over twelve years old, home economics skills.
15. Gender equality in the distribution of rights and responsibilities.
16. It is the duty to support the helpless, widows and orphans for life. Orphans were usually adopted, and widows were taken as a second or third wife
17. Collective assistance to newlyweds in the construction of a dwelling and its arrangement with everything necessary for the life of a new family.
18. The special status of city janitors, who acted as district police officers and night watchmen, and had to make night rounds of guarded courtyards and streets, periodically giving signals with the help of beaters or whistles.
19. A communal way of life, in which all important events were carried out by all able-bodied members, and all important decisions were made by voting of capable men.
20. In the presence of various estates, the absence of slavery, in its usual sense, up to the First revision of 1718, carried out by Peter I, after which the serfs received the status of a commodity, and became the subject of trade, exchange and donation.

Of course, this is only a small part of the customs and traditions that were the same for all the pagans who inhabited Great Tartary. And the key word here is the word "pagans." A single worldview, common concepts of good and evil, justice, cosmogony, and the purpose of man on Earth, created a single cultural field for representatives of all tribes and peoples, regardless of their habitat. If someone is jarred by the term "paganism", you can use such a concept as Vedism. This does not change the essence.

But I managed to find a lot of little things that also clearly demonstrate that there was initially no "cultural gap" between the Tartars and the Slavs, which we see today. It is worth a lot, for example, such a find:

Guillaume de Rubruck mentions in his diaries, which he wrote during a trip to the court of Mangu-Khan, about the bags strapped to the belt of horse mogulls. It turns out that in them the riders carried a kind of "energy" ration, consisting of nutritious nuts, roots, dried berries and pressed in the form of a button, hard salty pieces of dried cottage cheese. During long horse crossings, the riders, so as not to waste time dismounting for cooking, were reinforced with such a mixture right on the move, sitting on a horse. Obviously, this is a very high-calorie food that does not take up much space, and does not burden the load, because on a long journey every gram of excess weight turns into a burden.

Now attention! It turns out that in the tsarist army there were special forces that carried out raids on the rear of the enemy, conducted reconnaissance, mined languages, and organized sabotage. So the "special forces" of that time had a custom to take bags with a mixture of dried berries and nuts on a mission, almost like in the days of Genghis Khan. What is this if not the continuity of military traditions? But the miracle of "buttons" made of salted cottage cheese dried in the sun are still very popular in the republics of Central Asia, only now they are made in the form of balls, and they are called kurt.

Thus, I have every reason to assert that the culture of the Slavs and Tatars did not differ in any way until some converted to Islam and others to Christianity. I don’t undertake to voice the main conclusion from all this, for it is already clearer than the clear one. And if it is not clear, then show me where are the tartars, and where are the Russians in a miniature depicting the capture of Yaroslavl in 1238, which is placed in the title of the article.