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The association between birds and kids comes up quite often in folklore. I found an article which explores this exact connection. Here's the translation with some context:
Once, one unreasonable Soviet leader climbed onto the UN podium and angrily began to threaten the United States of America from there, promising to show them Kuzma's mother. The translators precipitated; "Pentagon hawks" sternly scowled, believing that this term hides some kind of new super-secret Russian miracle weapon; the referents rushed to the explanatory dictionaries, frantically trying to find out who is "Kuzma's mother"?
This way our people (he used one of the common idioms with the name Makar here) (by the way, who is Makar and is he somehow connected to the famous shepherd?) understand all of this naturally, but cannot explain a bunch of similar idioms. Such things, understandable to everyone, the original meaning of which was lost in ancient times, are called archetypes.
Today we will talk about one such archetype and its origin. If you take a picture depicting a stork carrying a ripe baby in its beak, go out into the street, stop ten thousand people and ask them to explain the meaning of this picture to us, then all ten thousand people, without hesitation, will automatically say the popular answer to children's question "Where do children come from?" - a stork brings them. It is this hypothetical stork that is presented in our image, which usually means an addition to someone's family.
In principle, we can safely call a picture with a stork and a baby a pictogram. That is, an image in which the semantic content does not correspond to the visual range and the decoding of which requires an abstract approach. Any hieroglyphic writing works according to this principle - from ancient Egyptian to modern Chinese.
Where the stork flies, we know, but from where?
However, on the statement of the fact that the stork is carrying a newborn to someone's house, the decoding of this symbol will end. Already to the question “Where is the stork carrying the baby from?" the answer will most likely not follow. A stork with a baby has become so commonplace for us, so "blurred" our eyes that we, perfectly imagining where the baby-carrying bird is flying, do not even think that its flight has a starting point somewhere. Where are the babies that are delivered by storks to happy parents stored?! And why, by the way, are storks used for this, and not ostriches, for example?
Any archetype is formed not over the years or even over the centuries, but over millennia. Our stork with a baby is no exception. This idiom is rooted in the Slavic-pagan ideas about the world around us. There, in the beliefs of distant ancestors, in their worldview, in their views on nature and their place in it, one must look for a decoding of the symbolism of a stork carrying a newborn child.
And you will have to start with the structure of the Slavic-pagan Universe. Our ancestors saw it as having three levels: the Upper World (Prav') - the world of the gods; The Middle World (Yav') is our world, and, finally, the Lower World (Nav') is the world of demonic forces. Moreover, our World, the smallest and most primitive, according to this scheme, is only a point of contact between the Upper and Lower Worlds; the field of their incessant battle that rotates the Universe.
Two "inhuman" Worlds - Upper and Lower - are many times larger than the world of people and are divided into "floors". Such "floors" of the Upper World are called heavens. There are seven of them. Let's recall the popular expression "In seventh heaven"(same in Russian and English). It describes the stay in the highest - the seventh Slavic-pagan - sky, where the residence of the supreme god of the Slavic pantheon Svarog, the light Svarga, is located. A marvelous garden of Iriy, a Slavic pagan paradise, grows around it. It is very simple to determine that we are no longer on earth, but in Svarga: in Iriy the grass is light-blue - therefore the sky is also light-blue. And from here comes another idiom - "light-blue distances", describing the attractive, but hardly-realizable perspectives that have opened before someone.
Iriy is the place of residence not only of the gods, but also of human souls. There are two categories of such in Svarga. The first is the souls of deceased ancestors who have earned the bliss of being in the abode of the gods with a righteous life in our World; the second is the souls of children who are yet to be born.
This place is accessible not only to disembodied souls, but also to quite tangible creatures: migratory birds fly to Iriy for the winter. It is them that Svarog attracts to the transportation of souls for newborns to earth. When a person is born on earth, Svarog opens a window in the sky. Through it, he releases a bird that bears an infant's soul. Through it, he will observe this person all his life, recording his actions, both good and bad. From the ground, these windows are visible like stars. Therefore, there are as many stars in the sky as there are people on earth. This idea will pass from paganism to Christianity without cuts and will be fixed in it by the postulate: “The sky is the tower of God, and the stars are the windows through which the angels are watching us” (V. Dal “Proverbs and Sayings of the Russian People”).
The mechanism for delivering newborns to the ground does not have any selectivity, and if people won't pay attention, then the same birds can grab a child's soul on their way back - a separate work of Russian folklore, the fairy tale "Geese-Swans", is devoted to this sad phenomenon. That is why we still consider a bird that has flown into the house as an extremely bad omen - according to pagan beliefs, it flew in to take someone's soul.
Since we remembered the epic geese-swans, we will have to admit at the same time that the stork from our pictogram usurped their place. As we found out, not only storks, but in general any migratory birds can carry baby souls to earth. And the primacy in this matter, nevertheless, should belong to the geese-swans, since swans are the personal birds of Svarog.
But back to our baby stork - what have we found out? It turns out that it flies from the seventh heaven, from the pagan paradise of Iriy, where the souls of unborn children live, and any migratory bird could be in its place. What a beautiful mythologeme; what a lovely fairy tale... A fairy tale, you say? What did Alexander Pushkin (a freemason) say about fairy tales? - "A fairy tale is a lie, but there's a hint in it"... Alexander Sergeevich was wrong! There is not one word of lies in fairy tales; they are the truth of the highest standard! So let's make sure of this on the example of how migratory birds were associated with the process of procreation.
I'll have to start from afar - get ready for a long introduction...
In a series of Slavic pagan holidays, Yarila's day, timed to coincide with the summer solstice, occupied a special place. We know him better as Kupalo or even Ivan Kupala and Agrafena Kupalnitsa.
The last name is nothing more than a clumsy attempt to powder a purely pagan celebration with Christian dates - the day of remembrance of the Holy Martyr Agrippina of the Romans and the birth of John the Baptist. Although, we must pay tribute, many tried to prove the primacy of Christian celebrations, and not only persons of clergy, but also quite secular scientists. So the great Russian folklorist-philologist Hermann-Voldemar Propp (funny name - don't you think?!) deduced the name Kupalo from the fact that John the Baptist baptized Christ by dipping him in water, that is, he bathed him. Hence, the ingenious conclusion: купал/kupal (bathed) - Kupalo.
I will refrain from racial hints that the Hermanns, Voldemars and other Propps would be more agile in studying their native, German folklore, which also has a lot of interesting things, and leave Russian fairy tales to someone more mentally adapted for them (me, for example) - let's go right away to the point. The name Kupalo does not come from the verb “to bathe”, but from the noun “kupa, kupavna”. This is a complex, multi-level term. Its most down-to-earth meaning is a fire, an indispensable attribute of Yarila's day. At the second level of perception, this is passion, symbolized by this fire; passion, as a rule, is understood as love (also an attribute of the described holiday), and therefore do not be surprised if you meet the same root in the name of the Greek god of love Cupid. Well, and finally, this is what we call white light, that is, the divine light that fills our Universe and gives life - the visible aspect of the yari (яри), which will be discussed in the paragraph below.
There was nothing Christian about the celebration of Yarila's day! Rather, even the opposite! It was an orgyistic (I'm not linking that), emphatically sexualized holiday, alien to all Christian ideas about virtue: “Whenever a holiday comes, on that holy night, the cities and the villages they will be excited, tambourines and snuffling and buzzing strings, splashing and dancing; wives' and girls' heads will nod, they will screech, sing all bad songs, their backbone will wobble, and their feet will gallop and stomp; man and a boy will endure a great fall, masculine, feminine and maiden whispering, their lustful view, defilement of wives, corruption of virgins”(abbot Pamphilus, 16th century).
Now, through the efforts of the playwright Ostrovsky, who created a fundamentally wrong image in the play "Snow Maiden", mass consciousness mistakenly considers Yarila to be the god of the Sun. In fact, Yarila was the god of yari - the productive forces of nature; the patron saint of fertility, carnal love and aggressive male sexuality (the same root words are яркий(bright), яростный(furious), яровой(crops which were planted in spring)).
He was portrayed accordingly. The main character on Kupala was the straw effigy of Yarila - a gigantic, richly decorated, anthropomorphic male figure, as Frezer slipperily put it in its address, “like Priapus”. This similarity was in the hypertrophied depicted sexual characteristics with an erect penis. The straw Yarila was dragged around the village all day and worshiped as a shrine (at the end, however, they were torn to pieces and drowned). Under the influence of Christianity, the ritual figure will first reduce the size of the genitals, then level them completely, and then take away the name, replacing the original Yarila with the vague Kupalo.
By the way, Yarila and virile sound kind of similar
Scarecrow Yarila in a modern interpretation
However, the matter was not limited to the rituals of worshiping the stuffed Priap-like Yarila - after sunset, the practical part of the celebrations began, so to speak. First followed by ritual cleansing with all the elements. It was necessary to walk barefoot - cleansing with earth (we now know that this is the best way to remove static electricity); undress - air purification; to jump over the fire - purification by fire and, in the end, to swim - purification with water. And then an orgy followed...
The puritanical customs of the Victorian era did not allow the artists of the 19th century, even the lover of the orgy theme G. Semiradsky, to depict the true scope of the Kupala night celebrations.
On this day, the only one in the year, all prohibitions and sexual taboos were removed - whoever catches whom where, he uses them there. Moreover, children, even clearly conceived on that night on the side, had to be brought up as their own without any differences and reproaches. You say - savagery, but let's figure it out!
The orgy on Yarila's day had a serious physiological basis. The purpose of this sin was not banal indecency or getting subjectively pleasant sensations colloquially called orgasm, but the onset of the maximum number of conceptions. For it was the best moment of the year for conception!
As we noted, Yarila's day is a holiday of the summer solstice. That is, it falls on the shortest nights of the year and the longest daylight hours. The duration of daylight hours and the presence of the Sun above the horizon determines the maximum insolation. This means that future parents produce enough vitamin D - and this is the prevention of rickets plus the formation of the fetal skeletal system. Potential parents actively receive other vitamins from food. By Yarila's day, the first fruits of the new harvest had already hit the table. At least, the greens (vitamin C, B) have ripened enough and the seasonal winter-spring hypovitaminosis has been overcome. But these are still the first harbingers; the rest of the harvest is just on its way - its task is to ensure that the woman does not lack carbohydrates for the entire period of pregnancy.
The sun is not only about the vegetation; by Yarila's day, egg production in chickens increases (for them, it also depends on the illumination), and cows, on fresh grass, begin to gradually give milk. This means that a pregnant woman in the early stages will not be left without proteins and fats of animal origin. Well, and closer to the cold, you can stab a piglet...
In humans, the abundance of sunlight affects not only the exchange of calcium and skin pigmentation, but also the functioning of the pineal gland.
Where pineal gland is situated
The pineal gland is the most mysterious endocrine gland in the human body. Some consider it a reduced third eye; others - a dormant organ, stirring which you can awaken the gift of clairvoyance; the third - the central structure of the sixth chakra... Official medicine has reliably established so far that the pineal gland produces a hormone responsible for the regulation of circadian (daily) rhythms - melatonin. And as a bonus, the pineal gland suppresses the release of growth hormones, inhibits sexual development, inhibits sexual behavior. Sunlight suppresses the activity of the pineal gland and causes opposite effects, first of all, increases sexual activity. On the eve of Yarila's day, in the biological species Homo sapiens, at the maximum insolation, it reaches an annual peak and, accordingly, there is no better time for mating.
If pregnancy occurs immediately after the summer solstice, childbirth should take place around the spring equinox. That is, the child will spend the dark and, most importantly, the cold part of the year in the womb and will be born when spring confidently begins to come into its own. He will come to this world when the frosts are left behind, the snow is almost melting, and the length of daylight hours begins to increase. The increasing level of insolation guarantees the newborn its own dose of vitamin D, not only from the parents. In addition, timing the birth of a child to the warm season also makes a purely practical sense - if only due to the fact that the diapers dry faster in summer.
And another practical approach to such a time of childbearing did not concern the child, but the mother - she was not lost as a worker. It is now, in urban conditions, the time of maternity leave does not depend on the season. Before, however, in the countryside, and with subsistence farming, turning off a full-fledged pair of working hands from the production process was an unaffordable luxury. To avoid such labor losses, there was only a narrow time window, but for this, again, pregnancy had to come on Kupala. In this case, by the Pokrov - the official date of the end of the agricultural season - the expectant mother was just ending her first trimester. It, of course, could be accompanied by toxicosis, but, in general, it does not interfere with doing the work. And childbirth in early spring gave the mother at least a month to recover before the start of the next cycle of agricultural work.
You can, of course, object to me that early spring is not the best time in terms of supplies: last year's is eaten up, and the coming harvest is still far away! But so our baby at this time does not need anything except his mother's tit. And when his teeth begin grow and it is time to introduce other foods, then the new crop will ripen.
Judging by the number of teeth, this kid from the cartoon "Once upon a time there was a dog" (based on a fairy tale), about six months; the wolf steals him during haymaking (late July - early August), which means that he was born in the spring, and was conceived, most likely, on Kupala.
There is one more, rather subjective, but interesting aspect. If a child is conceived on Yarila's day, it means that he must be born under the zodiac sign of Aries. Their element is fire, their planet is Mars; they are stubborn and aggressive. These are not hysterics-Leos and not depressics-Scorpions - these are natural-born fighters, berserkers! Planning for mass conceptions on Kupala means that a targeted selection of potential warriors was carried out in society. And this is already called eugenics - the science of improving the hereditary properties of a person. This is what the Slavic wizards indulged in at their leisure!
In general, pay attention to how everything is thought out! What a super rational approach! What a subtle understanding of the ongoing processes and organic integration into nature! And after that, Mr. Gundyayev declares about my and your ancestors: “And who were the Slavs? They are barbarians, people who speak an incomprehensible language, they are second-class people, they are almost animals." Pause... silent scene... no comments...
But we digress... So, here it is, in fact, what we started this long and not the easiest conversation. A child conceived on the Kupala night will be born in late March - early April. At this time, the birds are returning home from wintering (from Iriy or simply from warm countries - this is the secondary question). And it was this coincidence that formed the basis for the association that the abundant droppings of March sheep, massively conceived on Yarila's day, are brought by migratory birds (and is it storks or geese-swans - again, the secondary question). From them, from the fruits of free Kupala love, this prejudice spread to the rest of the newborns. It has spread so deeply that we still, at the reflex level, understand the sacred meaning of the image of a stork with a baby in its beak, although we don't remember where it flies to us from...
But what about those who are impatient to be born in winter, when birds winter in Iriy? Here, too, Yarila's intervention is here again. The second standard answer to the question “Where do children come from? "- found in the cabbage.
Let us ask ourselves the question again: who throws the children into the cabbage? Well, who, starving in the forest, visits our gardens to feast on it? Hares, of course. they are Yarila's personal animals, symbols of the masculine principle.
Sexual symbolism simply prevailed over hares in Russia. It is now, castrated by sanctimonious censorship, adapted versions of fairy tales for a children's audience, the hare is depicted as a defenseless, humiliated creature of the lowest rank. But he appears completely different in unfiltered primary sources - there he is a hero and all his heroic deeds are associated with his sexual abilities.
The hare was a frequenter of love-conspiracies and rituals of erotic magic. Rabbit blood was considered the most effective means of increasing virility. Rabbit fat was used to lubricate the genitals of women in labor during prolonged difficult labor. Rabbit droppings were used in the treatment of venereal diseases. A hare in a dream foreshadowed an imminent pregnancy. It is not surprising that the collective unconscious during the absence of migratory birds assigned the functions of delivering newborns to hares.
By the way, the expressions “the hare broke the cabbage” and “the hare jumped into the hole” are nothing more than the now forgotten allegorical designations of sexual intercourse. It is not difficult to understand that the hare is meant to be a penis in this context. This wonderful organ, in general, had many designations, both animate (hare, cockerel, gray drake) and not (oud, tooth, ear, shuttle). Sometimes he even honored his own names. Vanka, for example (hence Vanka-vstanka). Or Kuzka ... yes, the very mother of which Khrushchev frightened the Americans.
Vladimir Orlov,
Aries
The Arian supremacy aside, this is quite an article. However, there's more. It was only the first part. A comment from under the article:
From wiki:
There's also a video by Robert Sepehr in which he mentions a global war between pigmies and large cranes
Translation of the second part of Orlov's "Gifts from Birds"
Are there any other stories from other traditions about infant soul transfer, baby-carrying animals and a far away paradise from which those souls came?
Once, one unreasonable Soviet leader climbed onto the UN podium and angrily began to threaten the United States of America from there, promising to show them Kuzma's mother. The translators precipitated; "Pentagon hawks" sternly scowled, believing that this term hides some kind of new super-secret Russian miracle weapon; the referents rushed to the explanatory dictionaries, frantically trying to find out who is "Kuzma's mother"?
The Russian people, unlike the Americans, not only won't look for an answer to this question, but they will not even ask such a question - we, they say, already understand what it is about! Maybe we understand, but we cannot explain it. Now, you, who are reading these lines right now, can you explain what the notorious Kuzka and his mother are famous for? Are they living beings or inanimate objects? Are they in the room where you are sitting right now or in order to get them you have to go to the distant lands? Well, and, finally, why is Kuzka's mother so terrible, if even her simple demonstration can cause Armageddon in America ???
This way our people (he used one of the common idioms with the name Makar here) (by the way, who is Makar and is he somehow connected to the famous shepherd?) understand all of this naturally, but cannot explain a bunch of similar idioms. Such things, understandable to everyone, the original meaning of which was lost in ancient times, are called archetypes.
Today we will talk about one such archetype and its origin. If you take a picture depicting a stork carrying a ripe baby in its beak, go out into the street, stop ten thousand people and ask them to explain the meaning of this picture to us, then all ten thousand people, without hesitation, will automatically say the popular answer to children's question "Where do children come from?" - a stork brings them. It is this hypothetical stork that is presented in our image, which usually means an addition to someone's family.
In principle, we can safely call a picture with a stork and a baby a pictogram. That is, an image in which the semantic content does not correspond to the visual range and the decoding of which requires an abstract approach. Any hieroglyphic writing works according to this principle - from ancient Egyptian to modern Chinese.
Any archetype is formed not over the years or even over the centuries, but over millennia. Our stork with a baby is no exception. This idiom is rooted in the Slavic-pagan ideas about the world around us. There, in the beliefs of distant ancestors, in their worldview, in their views on nature and their place in it, one must look for a decoding of the symbolism of a stork carrying a newborn child.
And you will have to start with the structure of the Slavic-pagan Universe. Our ancestors saw it as having three levels: the Upper World (Prav') - the world of the gods; The Middle World (Yav') is our world, and, finally, the Lower World (Nav') is the world of demonic forces. Moreover, our World, the smallest and most primitive, according to this scheme, is only a point of contact between the Upper and Lower Worlds; the field of their incessant battle that rotates the Universe.
Two "inhuman" Worlds - Upper and Lower - are many times larger than the world of people and are divided into "floors". Such "floors" of the Upper World are called heavens. There are seven of them. Let's recall the popular expression "In seventh heaven"(same in Russian and English). It describes the stay in the highest - the seventh Slavic-pagan - sky, where the residence of the supreme god of the Slavic pantheon Svarog, the light Svarga, is located. A marvelous garden of Iriy, a Slavic pagan paradise, grows around it. It is very simple to determine that we are no longer on earth, but in Svarga: in Iriy the grass is light-blue - therefore the sky is also light-blue. And from here comes another idiom - "light-blue distances", describing the attractive, but hardly-realizable perspectives that have opened before someone.
Iriy is the place of residence not only of the gods, but also of human souls. There are two categories of such in Svarga. The first is the souls of deceased ancestors who have earned the bliss of being in the abode of the gods with a righteous life in our World; the second is the souls of children who are yet to be born.
This place is accessible not only to disembodied souls, but also to quite tangible creatures: migratory birds fly to Iriy for the winter. It is them that Svarog attracts to the transportation of souls for newborns to earth. When a person is born on earth, Svarog opens a window in the sky. Through it, he releases a bird that bears an infant's soul. Through it, he will observe this person all his life, recording his actions, both good and bad. From the ground, these windows are visible like stars. Therefore, there are as many stars in the sky as there are people on earth. This idea will pass from paganism to Christianity without cuts and will be fixed in it by the postulate: “The sky is the tower of God, and the stars are the windows through which the angels are watching us” (V. Dal “Proverbs and Sayings of the Russian People”).
The mechanism for delivering newborns to the ground does not have any selectivity, and if people won't pay attention, then the same birds can grab a child's soul on their way back - a separate work of Russian folklore, the fairy tale "Geese-Swans", is devoted to this sad phenomenon. That is why we still consider a bird that has flown into the house as an extremely bad omen - according to pagan beliefs, it flew in to take someone's soul.
Since we remembered the epic geese-swans, we will have to admit at the same time that the stork from our pictogram usurped their place. As we found out, not only storks, but in general any migratory birds can carry baby souls to earth. And the primacy in this matter, nevertheless, should belong to the geese-swans, since swans are the personal birds of Svarog.
But back to our baby stork - what have we found out? It turns out that it flies from the seventh heaven, from the pagan paradise of Iriy, where the souls of unborn children live, and any migratory bird could be in its place. What a beautiful mythologeme; what a lovely fairy tale... A fairy tale, you say? What did Alexander Pushkin (a freemason) say about fairy tales? - "A fairy tale is a lie, but there's a hint in it"... Alexander Sergeevich was wrong! There is not one word of lies in fairy tales; they are the truth of the highest standard! So let's make sure of this on the example of how migratory birds were associated with the process of procreation.
I'll have to start from afar - get ready for a long introduction...
In a series of Slavic pagan holidays, Yarila's day, timed to coincide with the summer solstice, occupied a special place. We know him better as Kupalo or even Ivan Kupala and Agrafena Kupalnitsa.
The last name is nothing more than a clumsy attempt to powder a purely pagan celebration with Christian dates - the day of remembrance of the Holy Martyr Agrippina of the Romans and the birth of John the Baptist. Although, we must pay tribute, many tried to prove the primacy of Christian celebrations, and not only persons of clergy, but also quite secular scientists. So the great Russian folklorist-philologist Hermann-Voldemar Propp (funny name - don't you think?!) deduced the name Kupalo from the fact that John the Baptist baptized Christ by dipping him in water, that is, he bathed him. Hence, the ingenious conclusion: купал/kupal (bathed) - Kupalo.
I will refrain from racial hints that the Hermanns, Voldemars and other Propps would be more agile in studying their native, German folklore, which also has a lot of interesting things, and leave Russian fairy tales to someone more mentally adapted for them (me, for example) - let's go right away to the point. The name Kupalo does not come from the verb “to bathe”, but from the noun “kupa, kupavna”. This is a complex, multi-level term. Its most down-to-earth meaning is a fire, an indispensable attribute of Yarila's day. At the second level of perception, this is passion, symbolized by this fire; passion, as a rule, is understood as love (also an attribute of the described holiday), and therefore do not be surprised if you meet the same root in the name of the Greek god of love Cupid. Well, and finally, this is what we call white light, that is, the divine light that fills our Universe and gives life - the visible aspect of the yari (яри), which will be discussed in the paragraph below.
There was nothing Christian about the celebration of Yarila's day! Rather, even the opposite! It was an orgyistic (I'm not linking that), emphatically sexualized holiday, alien to all Christian ideas about virtue: “Whenever a holiday comes, on that holy night, the cities and the villages they will be excited, tambourines and snuffling and buzzing strings, splashing and dancing; wives' and girls' heads will nod, they will screech, sing all bad songs, their backbone will wobble, and their feet will gallop and stomp; man and a boy will endure a great fall, masculine, feminine and maiden whispering, their lustful view, defilement of wives, corruption of virgins”(abbot Pamphilus, 16th century).
Now, through the efforts of the playwright Ostrovsky, who created a fundamentally wrong image in the play "Snow Maiden", mass consciousness mistakenly considers Yarila to be the god of the Sun. In fact, Yarila was the god of yari - the productive forces of nature; the patron saint of fertility, carnal love and aggressive male sexuality (the same root words are яркий(bright), яростный(furious), яровой(crops which were planted in spring)).
He was portrayed accordingly. The main character on Kupala was the straw effigy of Yarila - a gigantic, richly decorated, anthropomorphic male figure, as Frezer slipperily put it in its address, “like Priapus”. This similarity was in the hypertrophied depicted sexual characteristics with an erect penis. The straw Yarila was dragged around the village all day and worshiped as a shrine (at the end, however, they were torn to pieces and drowned). Under the influence of Christianity, the ritual figure will first reduce the size of the genitals, then level them completely, and then take away the name, replacing the original Yarila with the vague Kupalo.
By the way, Yarila and virile sound kind of similar
Scarecrow Yarila in a modern interpretation
The puritanical customs of the Victorian era did not allow the artists of the 19th century, even the lover of the orgy theme G. Semiradsky, to depict the true scope of the Kupala night celebrations.
The orgy on Yarila's day had a serious physiological basis. The purpose of this sin was not banal indecency or getting subjectively pleasant sensations colloquially called orgasm, but the onset of the maximum number of conceptions. For it was the best moment of the year for conception!
As we noted, Yarila's day is a holiday of the summer solstice. That is, it falls on the shortest nights of the year and the longest daylight hours. The duration of daylight hours and the presence of the Sun above the horizon determines the maximum insolation. This means that future parents produce enough vitamin D - and this is the prevention of rickets plus the formation of the fetal skeletal system. Potential parents actively receive other vitamins from food. By Yarila's day, the first fruits of the new harvest had already hit the table. At least, the greens (vitamin C, B) have ripened enough and the seasonal winter-spring hypovitaminosis has been overcome. But these are still the first harbingers; the rest of the harvest is just on its way - its task is to ensure that the woman does not lack carbohydrates for the entire period of pregnancy.
The sun is not only about the vegetation; by Yarila's day, egg production in chickens increases (for them, it also depends on the illumination), and cows, on fresh grass, begin to gradually give milk. This means that a pregnant woman in the early stages will not be left without proteins and fats of animal origin. Well, and closer to the cold, you can stab a piglet...
In humans, the abundance of sunlight affects not only the exchange of calcium and skin pigmentation, but also the functioning of the pineal gland.
Where pineal gland is situated
If pregnancy occurs immediately after the summer solstice, childbirth should take place around the spring equinox. That is, the child will spend the dark and, most importantly, the cold part of the year in the womb and will be born when spring confidently begins to come into its own. He will come to this world when the frosts are left behind, the snow is almost melting, and the length of daylight hours begins to increase. The increasing level of insolation guarantees the newborn its own dose of vitamin D, not only from the parents. In addition, timing the birth of a child to the warm season also makes a purely practical sense - if only due to the fact that the diapers dry faster in summer.
And another practical approach to such a time of childbearing did not concern the child, but the mother - she was not lost as a worker. It is now, in urban conditions, the time of maternity leave does not depend on the season. Before, however, in the countryside, and with subsistence farming, turning off a full-fledged pair of working hands from the production process was an unaffordable luxury. To avoid such labor losses, there was only a narrow time window, but for this, again, pregnancy had to come on Kupala. In this case, by the Pokrov - the official date of the end of the agricultural season - the expectant mother was just ending her first trimester. It, of course, could be accompanied by toxicosis, but, in general, it does not interfere with doing the work. And childbirth in early spring gave the mother at least a month to recover before the start of the next cycle of agricultural work.
You can, of course, object to me that early spring is not the best time in terms of supplies: last year's is eaten up, and the coming harvest is still far away! But so our baby at this time does not need anything except his mother's tit. And when his teeth begin grow and it is time to introduce other foods, then the new crop will ripen.
Judging by the number of teeth, this kid from the cartoon "Once upon a time there was a dog" (based on a fairy tale), about six months; the wolf steals him during haymaking (late July - early August), which means that he was born in the spring, and was conceived, most likely, on Kupala.
In general, pay attention to how everything is thought out! What a super rational approach! What a subtle understanding of the ongoing processes and organic integration into nature! And after that, Mr. Gundyayev declares about my and your ancestors: “And who were the Slavs? They are barbarians, people who speak an incomprehensible language, they are second-class people, they are almost animals." Pause... silent scene... no comments...
But we digress... So, here it is, in fact, what we started this long and not the easiest conversation. A child conceived on the Kupala night will be born in late March - early April. At this time, the birds are returning home from wintering (from Iriy or simply from warm countries - this is the secondary question). And it was this coincidence that formed the basis for the association that the abundant droppings of March sheep, massively conceived on Yarila's day, are brought by migratory birds (and is it storks or geese-swans - again, the secondary question). From them, from the fruits of free Kupala love, this prejudice spread to the rest of the newborns. It has spread so deeply that we still, at the reflex level, understand the sacred meaning of the image of a stork with a baby in its beak, although we don't remember where it flies to us from...
But what about those who are impatient to be born in winter, when birds winter in Iriy? Here, too, Yarila's intervention is here again. The second standard answer to the question “Where do children come from? "- found in the cabbage.
Let us ask ourselves the question again: who throws the children into the cabbage? Well, who, starving in the forest, visits our gardens to feast on it? Hares, of course. they are Yarila's personal animals, symbols of the masculine principle.
Sexual symbolism simply prevailed over hares in Russia. It is now, castrated by sanctimonious censorship, adapted versions of fairy tales for a children's audience, the hare is depicted as a defenseless, humiliated creature of the lowest rank. But he appears completely different in unfiltered primary sources - there he is a hero and all his heroic deeds are associated with his sexual abilities.
The hare was a frequenter of love-conspiracies and rituals of erotic magic. Rabbit blood was considered the most effective means of increasing virility. Rabbit fat was used to lubricate the genitals of women in labor during prolonged difficult labor. Rabbit droppings were used in the treatment of venereal diseases. A hare in a dream foreshadowed an imminent pregnancy. It is not surprising that the collective unconscious during the absence of migratory birds assigned the functions of delivering newborns to hares.
By the way, the expressions “the hare broke the cabbage” and “the hare jumped into the hole” are nothing more than the now forgotten allegorical designations of sexual intercourse. It is not difficult to understand that the hare is meant to be a penis in this context. This wonderful organ, in general, had many designations, both animate (hare, cockerel, gray drake) and not (oud, tooth, ear, shuttle). Sometimes he even honored his own names. Vanka, for example (hence Vanka-vstanka). Or Kuzka ... yes, the very mother of which Khrushchev frightened the Americans.
Vladimir Orlov,
Aries
The Arian supremacy aside, this is quite an article. However, there's more. It was only the first part. A comment from under the article:
From wiki:
There's also a video by Robert Sepehr in which he mentions a global war between pigmies and large cranes
Translation of the second part of Orlov's "Gifts from Birds"
Are there any other stories from other traditions about infant soul transfer, baby-carrying animals and a far away paradise from which those souls came?
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