Gods, demons and customs of the ancient Slavs

The Book of Weles

                                      ( Kniga Welesowa - a photograph of an original  )

Fragments

Plate 1 (II 1)

Why don't we remember the glorious times of the past, going to where we want to go? We look back and say that we are ashamed to get to know both sides of Navy-Law-Jawaii and to experience and understand everything around us.

Here Darzbog created for us that and that - all that exists. The light of the stars shines for us, and in this abyss Darzbog hung the earth to be so maintained, Here are the souls of ancestors that shine for us with the stars of Iru.

But behold, the Greeks attacked Ruthenia and spread wickedness in the name of their Gods. And we, husbands, do not know where to run and what to do. After all, what was predicted by Darzbog in the Law is not visible to us. And in the footsteps of it - like this war - Jawia moves, and this creates our lives. When we leave, it is death. Java is a movement, what is created by the Law. Nawia is before it, and after it - Nawia. And yet in the Law there is Jawia.

We have received wisdom about antiquity and we have plunged souls into it. Here is it, our knowledge, as if you didn't think about it - and so something else is already happening. Here everything around us creates the power of Gods. We see it in ourselves, we have received it as a gift from Gods and for their needs. So to do it means to follow the Law.

Here are the souls of our heroes looking at us from Iru. And Zhalia cries there over us and says that we disregard the Right-Ave-Jawaii. We ignore it and are deafer to the truth. We are not worthy of being grandsons of God. Because only by praying to the gods and our pure souls having, and bodies, can we receive life with our forefathers in Gods, merging into the only truth! We are grandchildren of Darzbog.

Look, Russian understands how great the Divine Reason is! So proclaim his glory, and sacrifice yourselves to it, and with Gods you turn into unity.... Our life is fleeting and we must, like our horses, work, living with calves, sheep and cattle on our lands, saving ourselves from enemies, going north....

Plate 2a (II 2a)

He is not the righteous man who washes himself and of whom he speaks of being righteous, but he in whom words and deeds fully coincide. That is why it was said in antiquity that, like grandfathers, we should create our goodness. And we will plunder our fields and be famous.

And so in the days of Zielonoslaw, Borus and Rus was chopped up with a corner arm and evil and wickedness spread. Our prince was in powerlessness. and sent his sons to battle, and they were defeated by enemies. They did not listen to the rally, and what was decided they did not observe. That is why they were beaten and captured.

Do we not say so today? Princes are ours and they should not go south to conquer lands for us.... and our children. And there the Greeks attacked us as soon as Boris separated from us. And there was a great sword and many months.

One hundred times Ruthenia was reborn and a hundred times it was broken from north to south. And just as our great-grandparents led our flocks and they were brought to the Russian land by Ori - their father. And many of them did not pay attention to the suffering, both wounds and cold. And so they came to this place and settled down in the Russian land in the past.

And twice a moth passed away, and after these two moths the Waregs came.... And the land of the Khazars, where we were in serfdom, was taken into their own hands.

And there was also the Ilmer nation of one hundred to two hundred families. Our nation settled among the Ilmers, as it came to the Russian land later. And yet they are our brothers and to us.... They are similar. How to distinguish us from evil, after all, they protected us.

And in their place there were many times, and what was said ... at the rally, it was true. And what wasn't accepted at the rally, it wasn't allowed.... From the congregation to the gathering of princes together we chose and so we lived and helped them anyway. We knew grasses and knew how to burn jugs in bonfires, how good potters they were, how to lead cattle and how to plunder the earth - they all understood.... And so did our fathers. And an evil family attacked us. And that's why ...

Plate 2b (II 2b)

...we had to hide in the forests and live there as hunters and fishermen in order to

avoid danger. That's how we survived a moth and started

The fireplace should be erected and installed everywhere around the hearth. And after the second moth

there was a great cold, so we went south because there are places there.

Cereals. And there the Romans took our cattle at a price which was

agreed and kept their words. And we went to the south ...

green grasses and we had lots of cattle....

Plate 3a (II 3a)

We pray to Weles, our Father, to let Suri's cavalry go up into the sky and to let Suria enter the sky to turn the eternal golden wheels. After all, it is our sun, which illuminates our homes and in front of which the faces of home hearths are fading. To this fire, Semurgle to God, we say to him to appear and to show himself in the sky and to devote himself to his work, until the light becomes blue.... We call him by his name "Fire of God" and we go to work. And as every day, having said a prayer and saturated the body with a meal, we go to the field to take up our efforts. As the gods ordered each husband to work for his bread.

We are grandchildren of the Gift of God, God's favorites and God's lineage in the right hand, we proclaim the glory of the Miraculous and praise five times a day until the evening. We drink Surica as a sign of gratitude and communion with the gods, who in Swarog are also drinking for our happiness.

When we sing the fame of the Miraculous, Suri's golden horse gallops in the sky. And when we return home, dirty, we light fire and eat food. And we say What is divine love for us and we go to sleep, as the day has passed and the darkness has come.

And yet we give the tenth part to our Fathers and the hundredth of power. And so we remain kind to the gods as long as we glorify the gods and pray to them with the body washed with clean water.