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50-464: Book of Veles, Tablet No. 1: праве бо есь невідомо уложена дажьбом, а по ньяко пря же ся теце яве і та соутворі живо то нашо а токо лі одіде сьмртье есь явь есь текоуща а творено о праві наве нбо есте по тоія до те есте нава а по те есте нава а в праві же есте явъ In the interpretation of the neopagan ideologue and popularizer of the Book of Veles, Alexander Asov (1992), this means: For what

100-412: A Christian temple. Brandenburg's Mound of Triglav is located about 0.5 kilometers from the fortress located on the island. A bronze horse, iron and decorative objects, including a lot of pottery, were discovered in the stronghold, indicating its importance and that an extensive religious cult may have been associated with it. According to Aleksander Gieysztor , it should be considered that Triglav

150-517: A Polabian hypostasis of Perun, was sacrificed to a white horse. Andrzej Szyjewski also recognizes Triglav as a chthonic god. He mentions the opinions of some researchers that the names Volos ( Veles ), Vologost , Volyn and Wolin are related to each other, and Herbord's information that " Pluto " – the Greek god of death – was worshipped in Wolin. According to Jiří Dynda , Triglav may have been

200-501: A long journey by sea! What shall I say to my lord or who will believe that I was here, if I return empty-handed?” And looking around him, he saw Triglav’s saddle hanging nearby on the wall: this was extremely old and now served no purpose and, immediately rushing towards it, he tears the hapless trophy off the wall, hides it and, leaving in the early evening, he hurries to meet up with his lord and his men, tells them what he had done and shows Triglav’s saddle as proof of his loyalty. And thus,

250-411: A modest farm, where there was no danger that anybody would come in search of it. Once they had taken this gift to her, she looked after it as if it were the apple of her eye and guarded that pagan idol in the following manner: after making a hole in the trunk of a large tree, she placed the image of Triglav therein, wrapped in a blanket and nobody was allowed to see it, much less touch it; only a small hole

300-609: A mountain or tree (themselves symbols of the axis mundi ). According to Dynda, this threefold vision originating in Proto-Indo-European religion was also elaborated in early and medieval Christianity giving rise to the theology of God who is at the same time creator (father), creature (son) and creating activity (spirit). In her theological commentaries to the Book of Veles , the Ukrainian Rodnover leader Halyna Lozko emphasises

350-609: A sacrifice. But after throwing it in, he took back out what he had thrown and, by way of homage to Triglav, he offered him a humiliation, specifically, a large gob of spit as a sacrifice. Afterwards, he looked carefully to see if there was any possibility of carrying out the mission for which he had been sent there and he realised that the image of Triglav had been placed in the trunk so carefully and firmly that it could not be taken out or even moved. Whereby, afflicted by no small sorrow, he asked himself anxiously what he should do, saying to himself: “Woe! Why have I travelled so fruitlessly such

400-482: A three-headed god who combined the three gods responsible for Earth, Heaven, Underworld. In doing so, he cites the pass of " Neptune " worshipped in Wolin and links this to Slovenian traditions regarding Mount Triglav, a three-leveled idol from Zbruch , a Wolin's sacred spear attached to a pole, and an oak tree with a spring which, according to Dynda, corresponds to the Norse Yggdrasil and the wells beneath it, and

450-679: Is a state of afterlife, in which a person does not lose consciousness and waits for his reincarnation in Nav - parallels are drawn with ancient Hades . After bodily death, a person can remain in Yav as a guardian of a kind - chur or domovoy . They can go to the Veles Meadows in Nav, awaiting their fate, or be attributed to the gods and heroes in Iriy (Prav) and create the fate of other worlds. The world of Yav belongs to people, and they determine its fate. From Mirolyubov,

500-573: Is added to the native faith triad "Yav, Prav, Nav". Like Yemelyanov and Asov, several different "trinities" ("Great Triglavs of the Worlds") are constructed, the number of which reaches seven. The neopagan ideologue Dmitry Gavrilov (Yggeld, the Bera Circle community) interprets the triad "Yav, Prav, and Nav" by Gavrilov without reference to the original source (Book of Veles) within the framework of Hegel 's philosophy as thesis, synthesis, and antithesis. After

550-478: Is also traditionally embodied by Veles , who in this function is the god of waters but also the one who guides athwart them (cf. Sanskrit Varuna ). In his study of Slavic cosmology, Jiří Dynda (2014), identifies Triglav as a conception of the axis mundi , and compares it to similar concepts from other Indo-European cultures. He gives weight to the Triglav as a representation of what Georges Dumézil studied as

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600-485: Is attested to in several biographies of the bishop St. Otto of Bamberg in the years immediately preceding his suppression of it in 1127. In Latin records, this theonym is noted as Triglau , Trigelaw , Trigelau , Triglou , Triglaff , Trigeloff . Information about Triglav comes from three sources, the oldest being Life of Saint Otto, Bishop of Bamberg ( Latin : Vita Prieflingensis ) by an anonymous monk from Prüfening Abbey , written by 1146,

650-423: Is believed to be the plane of matter and appearance, the here and now in which things appear in light, coalesce, but also dissolve in contingency; Nav ("probability") is held to be the world of human ancestors, of spirit, consisting in the memory of the past and the projection of the future, that is to say the continuity of time. Represented as Triglav the three worlds are traditionally associated, respectively, to

700-449: Is common. Divine ancestors are believed to be the spirits who both kin and generators and holders together of kinship. The Russian volkhv and neo-Nazi leader Alexey Dobrovolsky (also known as Dobroslav) emphasised the importance of blood heritage, claiming that the violation of kinship purity brings about the loss of the relationship with the kin's divine ancestor. Alexander Asov Too Many Requests If you report this error to

750-493: Is laid down by Dazhdbog in Prav, we do not know. And since this battle takes place in Yav, which creates our life, and if we leave, there will be death. Yav is the current, what is created by Prav. Nav is after it, and before it, there is Nav. And in Prav, there is Yav. The publisher and probable falsifier of the Book of Veles, Yury Mirolyubov, interprets these terms as follows: We managed only after long efforts to establish that "Yav"

800-411: Is possible that the cult Triglav was mentioned by the 13th-century writer Henry of Antwerp  [ de ] , who was well informed about the battles for Brenna in the mid-12th century, according to whom a three-headed deity was worshipped in the stronghold, but he does not give its name. Some authors believe that Adam of Bremen 's information about " Neptune " worshipped in Wolin may refer to

850-605: The Triglav stone near Ptuj , whose name was mentioned in 1322. There is a village Trzygłów in Poland , but it is within the range of the Szczecinian cult. In northwestern Poland, folklorists have collected a number of local legends, according to which the statue of Triglav taken from Wolin was supposed to be hidden in the village of Gryfice , in Świętoujść on Wolin , in Tychowo under

900-515: The erratic boulder Trygław , or in Jezioro Trzygłowskie  [ pl ] ("Trzygłów's Lake"). The Hill on which Szczecin's temple to Triglav was located was most likely identical to Castle Hill . At the top of the Hill there was supposed to be a circle surrounded by a ditch, which was originally a sacred circle (from the 8th century), later a temple of Triglav was built there, and later

950-404: The "Indo-European trifunctional hypothesis " (holy, martial and economic functions reflected by three human types and social classes). The Triglav may also represents the interweaving of the three dimensions of time, metaphorically represented as a three-threaded rope. By Ebbo 's words, the Triglav is definable as summus deus , the god representing the "sum" of the three dimensions of reality as

1000-516: The Apostle of the Pomeranians, after holding council with his companions, came to the conclusion that that they should desist in their undertaking, unless it should appear that they were driven less by a zeal for justice than by a greed for gold. After summoning and gathering the tribal chieftains and the elders, they demanded, by means of a solemn oath, that they abandon their cult to Triglav and that, once

1050-579: The Black Sea", where the idea of "the trinity of three triune trinities" ("Prav-Yav-Nav", "Svarog-Perun-Svetovid") was preserved and reigned a golden age. The neopagan writer Vladimir Shcherbakov believed that the formula "Yav, Nav, Prav" means the trinity of the world of people, spirits, and gods and was the basis of the Slavic pagan faith, which was the key to the invincibility of ancient ancestors. Another writer close to neopaganism, Yuri Petukhov, also wrote about

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1100-603: The Slavs the Christian God was a "German god," associated with a different ethnic group, but known from neighborly contacts and the later coexistence of the cult of Jesus and the Triglav (the so-called "doublefaith"). As pagans understood it, they linked the power of the deity to the military-political strength of the tribe in question, so the Pomeranians reckoned with a new deity, and the monolatrous (or henotheistic ) worship of Triglav may have fostered his identification with Jesus on

1150-555: The Triglav. Scholars have tried to find any references to the Triglav beyond the Polabia and Pomerania. In this context, Mount Triglav in Slovenia and the legend associated with it are often mentioned: "the first to appear from the water was the high mountain Triglav", although Marko Snoj , for example, found the mountain's connection to a god unlikely. Aleksander Gieysztor , following Josip Mal  [ Wikidata ] , cites

1200-710: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 367226797 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:39:20 GMT Triglav (mythology) Triglav ( lit. "Three-headed one" ) was the chief god of the Pomeranian and probably some of the Polabian Slavs , worshipped in Szczecin , Wolin and probably Brenna (now Brandenburg ). His cult

1250-417: The basis of interpretatio Slavica . Such an alignment of religiosity fostered a later highlighting of the separateness of Jesus and Triglav, in accordance with Christian theology, and further demonization of Triglav after the final christianisation of Pomerania, which perhaps finds an outlet in the 15th-century Liber sancti Jacobi , where Triglav is referred to as "the enemy of mankind" and "the god or rather

1300-410: The city there were supposed to be two richly decorated temples ( Latin : continas ) not far from each other that housed images of the gods, where the god Triglav was worshipped. One of the temples held a gilded and silver-plated saddle belonging to the god, as well as a well-built horse, which was used during prophecies: several spears were spread on the ground and the horse was led between them – if

1350-404: The cosmological unity of the three planes of Heaven, Earth and humanity between them. She gives a definition of Rodnover theology and cosmology as "genotheism". God, hierarchically manifesting as different hypostases, a multiplicity of gods emerging from the all-pervading force Svarog, is genetically ( rodovid ) linked to humanity. On the human plane God is incarnated by the progenitors/ancestors and

1400-507: The depiction of the Holy Trinity with three faces is attested only from the 14th century, and the official condemnation by the Pope from 1628. The depiction of the Holy Trinity with three faces itself may be of pagan origin ( Balkans ). According to Stanislaw Rosik , Christianity may have influenced the development of the Triglav cult in its declining phase. The significance may have been that for

1450-625: The hiding of the god's statue in the tree all of which are said to be connected to the Axis mundi . Dynda proposes the following interpretations: According to Henryk Lowmianski , the Triglav originated in Christianity – in the Middle Ages the Holy Trinity was depicted with three faces, which was later taken over by pagans in the form of a three-headed deity. However, this view cannot be accepted, since

1500-402: The horse, steered by the god, did not touch any spear with its foot, it meant good fortune and a good prediction for the upcoming battle or journey. Eventually, on Otto's orders, the temples were destroyed and the offerings distributed to the inhabitants. The bishop single-handedly destroyed the wooden statue of Triglav, taking only three silver-plated wooden heads from the statue, which he sent to

1550-405: The idea of "Yav, Prav and Nav" was borrowed by one of the founders of Russian neopaganism, Valery Yemelyanov . In his book Dezionization (1979), he wrote that the " Veneti " constituted the "backbone" of the "Aryan" community and were the main guardians of the "general Aryan" ideology. The purity of language and ideology, according to Yemelyanov, was preserved only "in the vastness from Novgorod to

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1600-507: The image was broken, all of its gold would be used to redeem captives. Otto then demanded that the inhabitants abandon the cult of Triglav. Then Otto established two Wolin churches: one in the city, dedicated to St. Adalbert and St. Wenceslas , and the other outside the city, large and beautiful, St. Peter 's Temple. On March 28, 1125, Otto returns to his Archdiocese of Bamberg . Soon afterwards, some Wolinians and Stettinians returned to their native faith, as Ebo describes: In Wolin,

1650-424: The inhabitants, after burning idols during the first Christianization mission, began to create new statues decorated with gold and silver, and celebrated the feast of deities. For this, the Christian God was to punish them with fire from heaven. He further states: Stettin, a big city, larger than Wollin, had three hills in its jurisdiction; the middle one of these, which was also the highest, was dedicated to Triglav,

1700-650: The kin lineage, in the Earth. Ethics and morality ultimately stem from this cosmology, as harmony with nature is possible only in the relationship between an ethnic group and its own land. The same vision of a genetic essence of divinity is called "rodotheism" by the Rodnover denomination of the Ynglists . The worship of human progenitors, such as the alleged forefather of the Slavs and Aryans "Or" or "Oryi" , or local forefathers such as "Dingling" worshipped by Vladivostok Rodnovers,

1750-480: The local cult of " Julius Caesar 's spear." However, the Wolinians refuse to accept the new religion and force Otto to leave the city; he goes to Szczecin . Herbord reports that Otto, after periodically hiding in the city, began Christianization on November 1, after receiving security guarantees from Boleslav III . An anonymous monk briefly introduces the cult of Triglav and the destruction of his temple and statue: in

1800-403: The most important god of the pagans. Its statue had three heads and its eyes and lips were covered with a golden bandage. About the idols, the priests said that their most important god had three heads because it ruled three kingdoms, namely, heaven, earth, and hell, and that its face was covered with a bandage so that it might ignore the sins of men as it did not see them and was silent. There

1850-399: The outflow of Alive through time and space can only go on thanks to Prav - the basis that exists under it and established by the gods (the incarnations of Svarog ), then in the future a person will "enter Nav," i.e., into the afterlife. Thus, there was no death, but only the contemplation of the "Nav sight" of those who left. According to Slavic neopaganism, death as such does not exist. There

1900-479: The pope as proof that the residents had been baptized. According to Herbord, there were four temples in Szczecin, including one richly decorated with paintings of people and animals, dedicated to the Triglav. Gold and silver " kraters ," bull's horns decorated with precious stones that were drunk from or used as instruments, as well as swords, knives and furniture were dedicated to the god. The horse used during divination

1950-418: The publication of Izvednik , Gavrilov admitted that the noun "Prav" is not found in reliable sources and is a lexical innovation . However, he expressed confidence that there was a "third component of the triad," but it had a different name. Following the description in the Book of Veles, many modern practitioners of Slavic Native Faith describe Prav ("Right"; cf. Greek Orthotes , Sanskrit Ṛta ) as being

2000-449: The sea thanks to the invocation of his god Triglav, and that he therefore wished to offer him the sacrifice promised for his salvation and that he had arrived there, led by him, following a miraculous order through unknown stretches of the road. And she says: “If you have been sent by him, I have here the altar which contains our god, enclosed in the hole made in an oak. You may not see him nor touch him, but rather, prostrating yourself before

2050-749: The second source is the 1151 Life of Saint Otto, Bishop of Bamberg by the monk Ebo  [ de ] , the third is Dialog on the Life of Saint Otto of Bamberg by the monk Herbord  [ de ] , written around 1158-1159. These sources are biographies of St. Otto of Bamberg and describe his Christianization missions among the Baltic Slavs. Otto, after receiving permission from Pope Callistus II , goes to Pomerania to Christianize . The bishop first arrives in Wolin (according to Anonymous on August 4, according to Ebo on August 13, 1124). Anonymous describes

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2100-514: The three gods Svarog ("Heaven"), Perun ("Thunder") and Dažbog ("Sun") or Svarog , Perun , and Svetovid ("Sacred Lord") or Veles ("Underworld"). These three gods are also seen, respectively, as representing the qualities of soul, flesh and power. Perun and Svetovid are regarded as manifestations of the same Svarog, and other names for them are Dazhbog ("Giving God", "Day God") and Svarozhich (the god of fire, literally meaning "Son of Heaven"). The netherworld (Nav), especially in its dark aspect,

2150-499: The triad of "Prav, Yav, Nav", borrowed from the Book of Veles. "Yav-Prav-Nav" appears in the neopagan Concept of Public Security of Russia "Dead Water" (KOB) by Major General Konstantin Petrov (volkhv Meragor). In the "Slavic-Aryan Vedas", the sacred scripture of Ynglism , a direction of Slavic neopaganism created by the Omsk esotericist Alexander Khinevich, a fourth component, "Slav" (Glory)

2200-404: The trunk, take note from a prudent distance of the small hole where you must place the sacrifice you wish to make. And after offering it, once the orifice is reverently closed, go and, if you value your life, do not reveal this conversation to anybody”. He entered joyfully in that place and threw a silver drachma into the hole, so that it would appear, from the sound of the metal, that he had offered

2250-407: The universal order otherwise described as the "Law of Heaven", which is enacted by the supreme God (Род Rod , "Generation" itself in Slavic theology) and permeates and regulates the other two hypostases. It is conceived as being at the same time the plane of gods, who generate entities in accordance with the supreme order; gods and the entities that they beget "make up" the great God. Yav ("actuality")

2300-416: Was black in color . Ebo then goes on to describe how the priests of Wolin carted away the golden statue of Triglav to save it from destruction: And when the pious Otto destroyed the temples and the images of the idols, the pagan priests stole the golden image of Triglav, which they worshipped as the most important, smuggled it out of the province and delivered it to the safekeeping of a widow who lived on

2350-445: Was a tribal god, separate from Perun , as indicated by Herbord's information that in Szczecin, in addition to temples, the place of worship included an oak tree and a spring, which are attributes of the thunder god. Gieysztor recognizes that Triglav was a god close to the chthonic Veles . According to him, this interpretation is supported by the fact that a black horse was sacrificed to Triglav, while Svetovit , interpreted by him as

2400-408: Was left open in the trunk through which to insert the sacrifice and nobody entered that house unless it was to perform the rituals of the pagan sacrifices [...] And thus, Hermann bought himself a cap and a tunic in the Slavic style and, after many dangers along a difficult road, when he reached the house of that widow, declared that he had not long since succeeded in escaping from the tempestuous jaws of

2450-705: Was once an epidemic in the city, which the priests believed was sent by the gods as punishment for abandoning their faith, and that they should start offering sacrifices to the gods if they wanted to survive. Since then, pagan rituals and sacrifices began to be performed again in Szczecin, and Christian temples began to decline. In April 1127, Otto returns to Pomerania to continue his Christianization mission. In May and June, he carries out Christianization in Wolgast and Gützkow , and on July 31 he returns to Szczecin. Further, Ebo and Herbord report that pagan places of worship were destroyed, and that Christianization continued. It

2500-506: Was reality, "Prav" - the truth, the laws that govern reality, and finally, "Nav" was the other world, where there was a "Yav" that was not connected with "Prav", and therefore incorporeal... The deceased came "from Nav, where no one vein comes veniti." Such communication with the dead takes place in Yav through Nav. Paradise, or the divine abode, where... Ancestors and Shuras ..., communicate with Yav through "Nav". This is, as it were, an intermediate step, because if we live in Yav, if Life itself,

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