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Ukraine is #ukraine .
Ukraine is not #russia .
It has its own #history .
#KievanRus was a multinational union,
an early medieval empire formed of principalities, whose vast territory was ruled by several rulers. The center of this empire was #KyivDenied the capital of present-day Ukraine, not Moscow. -
Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Perun
In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon & the god of the sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility, & oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris (the flower), eagle, firmament, horses & carts, & weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), & arrow).
The supreme god in the Kievan Rus’ during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone & later with those of metal. The Kievan Ris’ (a.k.a. Kyivan Rus’) was the 1st East Slavic state & later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. It encompasses a variety of peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, & Finnic.
The Primary Chronicle relates that in the year 6415 (907 AD) Prince Oleg (Old Norse: Helgi) made a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire & by taking his men to the shrines & swearing by their weapons & by their God Perun, & by Volos, the God of cattle, they confirmed the treaty.
In 980, when Prince Vladimir the Great came to the throne of Kiev, he erected statues of 5 pagan gods in front of his palace which he soon thereafter discarded after his Christianization in 988.
Perun was chief among them, represented with a silver head & a gold moustache. Vladimir’s uncle, Dobrynya, also had a shrine of Perun established in his city of Novgorod. After the Christianization of Kievan Rus’ this place became a monastery, which continued to bear the name of Perun.
Perun was worshipped by the Varangian (Scandinavian) warriors hired by Oleg & Igor during the campaigns against Byzantium. In the treaty of 971, the Varangians reenforce with the Slavic deity, Veles.
When the arrival of Christianity, the old gods fared poorly amongst the Slavs. Grand prince Vladimir the Great, who had once been a very vocal & lavish patron of Perun, converted to Christianity.
In 988, the prince & his family & people of the Kievan Rus’ were collectively baptized. He ordered that the statues of Perun which he himself had erected formerly, be dethroned, torn down with great dishonor & dragged through the streets as they were beaten with sticks. The idols were then cast into rivers & not permitted to land on the shore. 3 of Vladimir’s sons are also recognized as saints.
In neopaganism interpretation, the struggle of St. George with the serpent is understood as the struggle of Perun with Veles, who stole cows from him.
According to the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, 1 of the founders of the Russian neopaganism, in the ideas of the “Veneti” (“Aryans”), there was a “trinity of three triune trinites”: Prav-Yav-Nav, Svarog-Perun-Svetovid, Soul-Flesh-Power.
In some currents, Perun may be the supreme patron god. Since 1992, the 1st neopagan Kupchinsky Temple of Perun has been in St. Petersburg.
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I saw a post about the previous ‘Time of Troubles’ in #Russia and did a deep dive on @wikipedia .
It started in 1598 when Tsar Feodor I died without an heir, ending #Russian rule by descendants of #KievanRus’. During this time, Polish Hussars captured #Moscow and occupied the #Kremlin for months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_Troubles
It ended when Cossacks from #Ukraine helped end the siege of Moscow and install the 1st Romanov Tsar. The Romanovs’ demise started the current ‘Time of Troubles’. 🤔
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’Rus’ is from Kiyv
’Rossija’ is Muscovian cultural appropriation#rus #kievanrus #russia #culturalappropriation #ukraine #kiyv #history #nafo
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...to half of #Ukraine, let alone all of it. That might not be what's required.
I've long held the view, though, that a scorched-earth strategy for #UKR would be sufficient as a minimal strategic goal for the #Russian #stateterrorists: the ethnic #Finnish #KievanRus 5) are, IMO, THE heartland of Russia (I'm a #Normanist, btw ;)). The #Ukrainian population was seen as of the same blood, as brothers,...
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The #ThirdRome imperial theology is delusional, destructive, and requires building roads of nihilistic annihilation in order to manifest the prophecy.
#Transnitria #Constantinople #theology #millenarianism #Russia #Kyiv #Ukraine #KievanRus #history #Caesar #Tsar #power
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@NovemberMan @DarthPutinKGB #Russia WAS part of #Ukraine , but that was almost one thousand years ago in #KievanRus , and #DNA 🧬 gets so diluted and mutated over the course of a millennium that there’s not a single Ukrainian gene left in the typical Russian.
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OTD 800 years ago the Golden Horde had its first victory over #KievanRus, which led to splitting-off from #Ukraine what would become #Russia and #Belarus , as well as the rise of Cossacks within #Ukraine. 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%27
This time #UkraineWillWin !
#Histodons
