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A thread on the Slavic Pagan creation myth and order of the cosmos.
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A thread on the Slavic Pagan creation myth and order of the cosmos.
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Greetings dear reader and welcome to another Slavic paganism thread.
This thread will be dedicated to one of the creation myths of the pagan Slavs.
Greetings dear reader and welcome to another Slavic paganism thread.
This thread will be dedicated to one of the creation myths of the pagan Slavs.
Firstly I must make a disclaimer. The whole Slavic pagan community does not subscribe to this version of the myth.
Nor is it the historic word for word myth that the ancient Slavs believed in and told. Fragments that form the basis of this myth have been collected from ancient accounts but it is mostly a reconstruction done by the neo-pagan community.
In general there are two types of creation myths floating around in the Slavic pagan sphere.
The first being creation of the world from one by Rod.
The second being creation of the world by the dual forces of Good and Evil / Opposing forces.
The first being creation of the world from one by Rod.
The second being creation of the world by the dual forces of Good and Evil / Opposing forces.
The one that was told to me by old man Sasha back in the Ukrainian country sides was of the first type.
So we will begin there.
Enjoy.
So we will begin there.
Enjoy.
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The beginning. No darkness nor light. No day nor night. True stories were fiction and fiction was reality. There was no separation. No form to anything. The great cosmic mind was dormant.
The beginning. No darkness nor light. No day nor night. True stories were fiction and fiction was reality. There was no separation. No form to anything. The great cosmic mind was dormant.
Within this void mind flew around little seeds of life that carried the possibility of a future world.
If only the great cosmic mind would awake and show his interest to one of these seeds, everything would be changed.
If only the great cosmic mind would awake and show his interest to one of these seeds, everything would be changed.
Suddenly the great cosmic mind did just so. It awoke. It began nurturing one of these seeds with its intent and focus. The seed then transformed into a great golden egg. The great cosmic mind was enamoured with its new creation.
So enamoured that the great cosmic mind infused itself within the egg becoming the Great God ROD. Our ancestor who is yet born. The future of life. The reasons for all reasons.
Within the egg ROD fell into slumber and began dreaming of a magical world. A world in which all things were arranged and everything had its rightful place. A world with crystal clear dawns and luscious wind.
A world with dense forests that were the home to many great creatures. A world with high mountains from which you can almost reach and touch the sky. A world with grand rivers that traveled around the whole world.
A world where beings like him but smaller would exist. Conscious of the world. In awe of the beautiful world. Just like ROD is.
For a long time ROD was dreaming of this world and as the dream continued the egg grew larger and larger.
For a long time ROD was dreaming of this world and as the dream continued the egg grew larger and larger.
Then one day ROD realized that this dream must become reality. He fell in love with all he created. Thus Love was born. The great power which will give life to his dreams.
The egg could not contain his loving energy no further so it cracked giving birth to all life. ROD became the mother and father of itself and of everything in this world.
From the face of ROD two chariots emerged. One golden containing the Sun and one silver containing the moon and stars. The two would later race after each other in hopes of catching one another.
ROD then separated the earthly waters from the waters of heaven by a stone firmament. Separated the light from darkness and truth from lies. RODS abundant Love gave birth to the Goddess LADA.
After her birth the Goddess took on the form of a Great white swan, the bird mother SVA. She took flight and flew across the whole world spreading and filling everything with her love.
ROD then began separating the world into three different realms. Creating the heavenly kingdom of Prav/ ΠΡΠ°Π²Ρ, the earthly kingdom of Yav/Π―Π²Ρ or the kingdom of reality, and lastly the kingdom of Nav/ΠΠ°Π²Ρ.
To support and connect all three kingdoms ROD planted a seed of a great Oak tree. Later the Oak would grow tall and powerful. Its roots would be firmly secured in NAV, its trunk going across YAV, and its crown settling in the PRAV kingdom.
Disappointment arose in ROD. Everything in this world is mixed up and there was no one to create order and look over his creation after it was finished.
ROD then created the Mighty God SVAROG who would be a helping creator and guardian of order.
ROD then created the Mighty God SVAROG who would be a helping creator and guardian of order.
With his mighty arms SVAROG lifted the sky above the sea and named it after himself, SVARGA. In the sky he paved the way for the Sun so that it would rise and set. A path for the horses of day to rush after each other from dawn to dusk..
A path for the black horses of night to gallop silently around the sky. This is how SVAROG created the blue SVARGA, a beautiful country in the sky.
But then SVAROG looked down from the sky and saw that below there was no thing, only blue ocean waters all around. There was no raw earth who would act like a mother and feed everything born into the world.
SVAROG then began his search for the earth. He searched and searched but did not find. Until on the seventh day of searching he came upon a large stone rock that came up from the waters. On it lay a white stone and its name was ALATYR.
