Shrovetide and Komoeditsa - history of origin

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

From 20 to 26 February, a holiday is celebrated on a grand scale throughout our vast country Shrovetide … Local administrations, to the best of their ability, organize various entertainment events in the settlements entrusted to them. Whole farmsteads are being built on the territories of the parks - Maslenitsa towns with village houses and shopping stalls, which are bursting with all kinds of delicacies. There are huge samovars with tea, and bundles of bagels, and mountains of painted gingerbread, and various pickles-smoked products, kebabs, fish and caviar, but the main delicacy these days are, of course, pancakes. In the heat of the heat, with butter, sour cream, caviar, mushrooms or fish - for every taste.

On Maslenitsa, theatrical performances, round dances with folk songs, the solemn burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa and all sorts of pyrotechnic entertainment are organized, special "Maslenitsa tours", exhibitions of arts and crafts are organized. People enjoy sledding and huge merry-go-rounds, participate in stilt races and contests with prizes, lead round dances, children enthusiastically slide down the ice slides, girls dress up in posad shawls, hot with tea (and not only) young people without (s) terribly climb on the Shrovetide pillar for gifts.

Elated mood reigns everywhere. This is understandable. The long, cold winter is already tired of everything, the celebration of the new year is already slightly forgotten, and the soul asks for a holiday. And rightly so - you need to celebrate, and you also need to have fun. But here's the question: What is the essence of this holiday? What are we celebrating on Maslenitsa, Rus?

In general, there will be few answer options. I suppose that the faithful Christians in the meat-eating or cheese week, for this is their name for this holiday, prepare for Great Lent before Easter, and the rest will answer that this is a pagan holiday, and they see off the winter and meet the spring. But, have mercy, in February in Russia, it is too early to meet spring in the midst of cold weather, among snowdrifts and blizzards. What spring? Look at the thermometer! And isn't it logical to meet spring not a month before it, but, in fact, spring? It was then that the so-called "pagans" met her - in day of spring equinox - the day of the astronomical, not calendar, the beginning of spring. It is interesting that in some European countries, in particular in Spain, spring even now "comes" on March 21, and winter - December 21.

Unfortunately, the true meaning of this holiday was long lost, or rather it was deliberately tried to be lost by the servants of the lunar cult in order to knock off the genetic memory of an entire people. At different times and in different countries of the ministers of this black cult called it differently, but now we know it under the name of Christianity. However, some scraps have survived, for, despite the millennial yoke of the Christian church and the burning of true folk traditions with fire and sword, they are in our genetics. We just need to awaken her. We only need recallwho we are and where we come from.

The fact is that no ancient Slavic holiday Maslenitsa is not, and it has no "pagan" roots. This holiday received the name "Shrovetide" from the abundant butter food, which was supposed to be consumed during the entire last week before Great Lent, when meat was no longer allowed, but dairy products were still allowed. In addition, Maslenitsa in its modern form, as such, began to be celebrated only in the 16th century, when the Christian Church abandoned its vain attempts to erase the Vedic holiday from popular memory, but did not want to leave everything to chance, and simply decided to slightly "edit" it. just like she did with other Vedic holidays. As they say, you cannot defeat the enemy, join him, and, I will add, destroy him from the inside.

A significant role in this black business was played by the reform of Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century, the essence of which was not at all in correcting liturgical books according to the Greek model and changing Christian rituals, such as two fingers for three fingers, as they are now trying to present it to us. Nikon launched information virus replacing the Vedic worldview with the obscurantism of Christianity, "putting on" their clothes for Vedic celebrations. All Vedic holidays were "fastened" according to a Christian saint, since the church had more than enough of them, or a holiday. After that, the holidays that the Russians celebrated for millennia, and some for tens of thousands of years (for example, the ancient spring holiday of Easter in honor of Dazhdbog's destruction of the moon Lelya with the bases of the Dark Forces on it), while maintaining the Vedic form, acquired a completely different meaning, very distant from the original, but so necessary for the enslavement of the most rebellious people on earth, which the Dark Forces could never defeat in an honest battle. However, they almost succeeded with the help of deception, using a social weapon - the religion of death and slaves, placing their Christian cuckoo in the Vedic nest of the Rus, which ousted the Vedic traditions from their consciousness and replaced them with their own, so much so that the substitution is not noticed, in order to lull their genetic memory and impose on them their religion of death (about the "cuckoo principle" see the wonderful book of the academician N. V. Levashova The Mirror of My Soul, Vol. 2, Ch. 5).

After the bloody baptism of Rus in the 10th century, which was a real genocide of the Slavs, after which the population of European Rus decreased from 12 to 3 million people, the territory of our country was established duality … To preserve their lives, people formally observed church traditions, but continued to live according to Vedic laws. This went on for centuries, but persistent in her policy of imposing her obscurantist rituals (see the film Alexandra Atakina "Holy relics - ruined souls"), the Christian church gradually replaced the Vedic holidays with its own, for which it also gradually destroyed the universal literacy among the Slavs. It is much more convenient to govern an illiterate and ignorant people! But even in the X century, ordinary Novgorod farmers from distant lands wrote notes to each other, calculated the harvest, collected debts, exchanged jokes and wrote instructions on household chores. And this despite the fact that at the same time the king of France was illiterate and put a cross instead of a signature!

And today the Patriarch of All Russia Kirill, not hesitating, to the whole country brazenly declaresthat "the Slavs were barbarians, beasts and second-class people." This he speaks of those people who had 6 types of writing, for hundreds of thousands of years they kept their chronicle, which the church destroyed, had the richest culture and deep knowledge of the universe. A good "spiritual guardian", you will not say anything! His "Holiness" acted like the most vile parasite, which turned out to be not enough to keep in ignorance the people on which he parasitizes, stupefying his head with his obscurantist religion, it was not enough for him to poison him with duty-free vodka and tobacco and fabulously cash in on the people he had fooled, he still wanted them humiliate and trample on their human dignity! The only sad thing is that no one sued him for the famous Article 282 for humiliation of the national dignity of the entire Russian people!

So that's it. The same cuckoo parsley happened to the Vedic holiday, which is now called Shrovetide … It is possible that under the guise of Shrovetide we secretly imposed the celebration of the Jewish "jolly holiday" of Purim, annually reminding everyone of the unprecedented, bloody atrocity Jews who despicably slaughtered the Persian elite 2,400 years ago, who did nothing wrong to them! (The Bible tells about this in the book of Esther).

The Christian Church "recognized" the popular Vedic holiday, ineradicable from memory, but called it in its own way, postponed its celebration to the week preceding Great Lent (just at the time of the celebration of Purim), and now, under various names, Purim is "celebrated" in many countries of the world. unsuspecting people. This is confirmed by the date of this holiday, which for some reason turned out to be "Floating", depending on the date of the "floating" Christian Easter, which, in turn, is calculated by lunar calendar. So not only among faithful Christians their god dies every year on different days, but by their mercy we also meet spring in different days and even, it happens, in different months.

In order to secure the "novelty" in the people's memory more reliably, the secular authorities also joined in the celebration of Maslenitsa. At the beginning of the 18th century, Peter I, or rather, false Peter (about the substitution of Peter I, see the wonderful film by Alexander Atakin "Peter and Peter"), wishing to resemble "enlightened" Europe in everything, he issued a decree according to which Maslenitsa was celebrated in a European manner like carnivals with cheerful carnival processions of mummers, antics of jesters, copious booze and partying. The holiday was headed by the clown "Patriarch" appointed for the time of Maslenitsa, who headed the "all-joking and all-drunken cathedral."

So which one was the ancient Vedic holiday warped this time?

This holiday was called Komoeditsa … He always celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox - March 21 according to the modern calendar, after which the day becomes longer than the night, and nature awakens. This holiday also had a functional significance. It was necessary to invigorate and strengthen the strength of people after a long and cold, and often half-starved, winter with fun and abundant food before the start of intense agricultural work, which continued throughout the warm season. The solemn celebration of welcoming spring lasted 2 weeks - a week before the day of the vernal equinox and a week after it. And immediately after it, hard intensive work began from sunrise to sunset, in order to secure food for the next long winter, fix or build housing, stock up on fuel, etc., in general, “prepare a sleigh in the summer”.

In addition to the main meaning of the sacred holiday - the meeting of spring and the transition to agricultural work - the Slavic Bear God was revered on this day: the first baked festive pancakes were sacrificed to the owner of the forest, which were solemnly taken to the forest. Hence the Russian proverb "The first pancake is coma, the second pancake is for acquaintances, the third pancake is for distant relatives, and the fourth is for me." Komam, and not a lump, as we were taught to say, that is, sacred animals - bears. Hence the name of the holiday - Komoeditsa.

The fact is that the Slavs called this animal differently: the bear is in charge of honey, ber - hence the lair (ber's lair) and lump … Hence the "komanika", coma berries - raspberries, which were called bear berries for the bears' addiction to feasting on raspberries. In addition, raspberry juice is very often popularly called - bear's blood. The ancient name of this plant is mentioned in the "Glorious-Aryan Vedas" - the oldest source of information about the past of our people.

("Slavic-Aryan Vedas", First Circle, "Source of Life", second message).

So our wise, ancient ancestors - "pagans" - children and grandchildren of the gods - greeted spring on a much more suitable day for this than modern orthodox Russians, turned into slaves of God by the efforts of the Christian religion. Our ancestors had a Vedic worldview, not a religion, therefore they knew about the laws of the universe immeasurably more than we did, and, as a result, their holidays had more meaning and connection with nature. Their main holidays were four astronomically important days - four holidays focused on the natural solar cycle, expressed in four yearly repeated annual hypostases of the sun god:

– day of spring equinox (March 21) - holiday Komoeditsa in honor of the growing Sun- Yarils.

– summer solstice (June 21) - a holiday in honor of the mighty Sun-husband Kupala.

– autumn equinox (September 21) - a holiday in honor of the retiring aging Sun - Svetovita.

– winter solstice (December 21) - a holiday in honor of the nascent baby Sun Christmas carols.

Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, professed the cult of the Sun - cult of Life, and their calendar was based on the solar calendar, which over the last thousand years was supplanted by the lunar cult - the cult of Death, imposed on the Russians in order to keep their genetic memory in a drugged state so that the Russians continue to remain "Ivans, not remembering kinship".

This is why the Vedic feast Komoeditsy, celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox, and was replaced by Shrovetide with a floating "schedule" tied to Christian Easter (to the lunar calendar). That is why the Vedic festival Kupala the summer solstice was replaced by "Ivan Kupala", timed to coincide with the birthday of the biblical John the Baptist (June 24), the holiday of the autumn equinox of the Sun-Svetovit was replaced by the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and the winter equinox of the Sun-Kolyada turned into the "Nativity of Christ".

We are Russian people. We are russians … And we must know and honor their holidays, and celebrate them as our ancestors celebrated them, and at the time that our custom requires. Someone likes to celebrate the "holy" dates of Death, such as the "beheading", "placement in the grave", "erection of the cross" - the instrument of execution, this is their business. If someone likes to pray to the black gods and demons of death - this is also their business.

Our business and our right is to be reasonable people and celebrate Light and A life!

Elena Lyubimova