VII. Chapter 1. Kievan Rus' as a Metahystorical Phenomenon
I have already defined “suprapeople” but shall do this again: it is a group of nations or nationalities bound with an overarching, jointly created culture physiognomically distinct from others. Ethnicity does not play a significant role here. Suffice it to recall that among nations comprising a suprapeople would immediately stand out the leading one (for example, the Egyptian nation led the peoples of Nubia, Napata, and Meroë which belonged to another ethnic root). Quite the opposite could also happen: several ethnically distinct nations united into one suprapeople switching or sharing the leadership at various points of time (e.g. Hindu, North-Eastern, Far-Eastern, Roman-Catholic supranations).
By and large, overlapping with the centuries-old contours of Russia, our people, rather, belongs to the formation of the first type. The multiethnic origin of the Russian nation is not at odds with this: tellingly, in the course of its history, it has retained its leading or global role in the supranation unlike transferring it to Ukrainians, Belorussians, or peoples of Povolzhye or Siberia. Having been combined of ethnically motley elements, as the people of Egypt had been at its time, the Russian people proved to be, as Egyptians had once done, a prepotent creative force among the smaller ethnic groups conjoining it (I am talking about the past and present. Future may see a different configuration).
This great formation of the last millennium had been predetermined since time immemorial with a creative design of the people-leading hierarchies – the Russian demiurge and Navna. The design first emerged in their consciousness as a vague dream, an image that spellbound their will. It happened so at one time in Rangaraidr, the birthplace of demiurges and Great Sisters. O, Yarosvet was far from resembling “the spirit of blizzards and flame” back then: he was a joyous child of the sun having yet acquired the wisdom of Shadanakar not. If he did foresee the vastness of his duties, they were just dim foreshadows. Upon observing from afar the emerging summits of other metacultures, creative acts of other demiurges and synclites, he began to realize the stature of his own spirit, the proportions of his own future creation. The inspirational play of youthfulness helped him gradually realize his duties; this play began to outgrow into a sacred rite, a Creation act when a great man-spirit that had been St. Andrei the First-Called in Enrof a few centuries before endowed Yarosvet with his powers. In the sakwala of demiurges, as though a misty outline of Heavenly Russia began to take shape. According to the church tradition, Andrei was the first illuminer of our forefathers. It was true in the sense that the life of St. Andrew the Apostle ended in martyrdom in the lands of Scythians at the end of the first century. But the tradition appears to have an echo of the intuitive knowledge that the founder of Heavenly Russia was precisely that man-spirit that had achieved great powers and heights in the period between his demise and his involvement with Yarosvet’s creative acts.
By then, demiurge Yarosvet had already come to realize his duty of marrying the Ideal Collective Soul of the people and of their giving birth to Zventa-Sventana. But the actual forms and scale this ultimately took had been beyond his imagination and what he was readying himself for. He could not foresee that one of his own creations would fatefully revolt against him and become his worst metahistorical rival, usurper, and distorter of his design. Foreboded he not that a constant feud between the opposing hierarchies and himself together with Navna would shape the course of the metahistorical drama of Russia all the way from the eleventh to twenty first century. Lastly, he was yet to acknowledge that the accomplishment of his mission depended on the completion of immense processes in the folds of other cultures, for only a social-political unison of the entire humanity would see its gradual transformation into a single, planetwide brotherhood.
The hour of Navna’s descent into the four-dimensional plane arrived somewhat earlier when Yarosvet was still absorbing the creative emanations of the Planetary Logos in Rangaraidr.
Below outspread the boundless wasteland expanses of four-dimensional sakwalas. In the distance, in the East and in the South, towered the emerging colossuses of other, older metacultures. In the West, a cloudy, slowly crystalizing structure with a glistening white peak had already taken shape – the mystical Montsalvat of Germany, England, Burgundy, and Scandinavia. The Byzantine zatomis was flickering and shimmering with gold and purple in the South, and it appeared as though preparing to leave the ground and elevate, as a glistening ark, directly to the foot of the supraheavenly abode of Christ. Yet, the vast expanse facing the Arctic Ocean remained desertlike. Only translucent puffs of raging elementals were dashing over the untrodden forests and gargantuan rivers of Enrof, and faint condensations of tribal egregors were pulsating here and there amplifying in the open heaths of the South.
Yet, the picture which I have just outlined should not be understood word for word. It is just an intimation, a poetic generalization that largely trivializes the true picture of many sakwalas meeting the gaze of descending Navna. All of them, at the same time, were connected with that sole region of the prehistoric Eurasian continent which bore no layers of great human civilizations. Scarce material vestiges of several vanished tribal groups that had created neither nation, nor script lay in the pristine ground. Forests and heaths of future European Russia appeared capacious enough for gigantic future settlements of human masses with another limitless spatial reserve stretching as far as to the Pacific Ocean. Diverse and plentiful treasures of soil secured the material basis for living for millennia to come. Cradles of older great civilizations were too far away for the future young culture to dissolve into them, and that made possible the task of overcoming the borderline voids with its own nascent genius. Only the demiurge of Byzantium carried on its tragic, leaving-the-ground work, readying to transfer to Yarosvet the weight of tasks which were doomed to remain unaccomplished.
It wasn’t just a country but a whole part of the world, and one could easily lose his or her breath – not only that of a human – anticipating the events commeasurable with its size.
The purpose of Navna’s descent or her second birth in Shadanakar was her gradual clothing in the materiality of the four-dimensional plane where the demiurge and great men-spirits nourishing it had begun to lay down the material (not physical, of course, but etheric) foundations of Heavenly Russia. Chronologically, this corresponded, in all likelihood, to the eighth-ninth centuries AD, and a slow process in the historical plane began to take shape thenceforth: the formation of tribal unity among East Slavs.
Should we decide to determine Navna’s metaetheric age in that historical epoch by way of progression of human life, in our usual language we would call it the transition from childhood to adolescence(*1). Mother Earth was nurturing her, and the souls of elementals, rough and tender alike, entered, one after another, the emerging zatomis of Holy Russia, endowing the streamy-breezy substance of Navna with their shimmering filaments. The state of Navna at that time was marked with the wholesomeness of primal harmony, the childlike joy of relishing the first physical incarnation. Her womanly premonitions of the future calamities were palliated with the memories of her supraheavenly birthplace Rangaraidr and the anticipation of her brother-friend-bridegroom’s arrival from thence. Both in Heavenly Russia and the earthly Russia could be felt his distant yet unflinchingly riveted, omnipresent gaze. While Navna barely started trickling the folk consciousness with vague childish reflections of surrounding elementals, the mind of the demiurge clarified, delineated, and defined those images crystallizing them into the names of Slavic deities: Perun, Yarilo, Stribog, Lada.
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1 Just to be clear, the periods of aging as superimposed on hierarchies of suprapeoples not only have a duration exceeding the corresponding human periods by multiple tens of times but also do not match their usual proportions. In particular, their adolescence is synchronous with rather long periods of history, and they reach their prime when the corresponding people has already played its role in Enrof so as to continue its becoming and creative works in the uppermost planes of the metaculture. For instance, the hierarchies of Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, classical antiquity, let alone Gondwana and Atlantis have now reached their full maturity.
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By and large, overlapping with the centuries-old contours of Russia, our people, rather, belongs to the formation of the first type. The multiethnic origin of the Russian nation is not at odds with this: tellingly, in the course of its history, it has retained its leading or global role in the supranation unlike transferring it to Ukrainians, Belorussians, or peoples of Povolzhye or Siberia. Having been combined of ethnically motley elements, as the people of Egypt had been at its time, the Russian people proved to be, as Egyptians had once done, a prepotent creative force among the smaller ethnic groups conjoining it (I am talking about the past and present. Future may see a different configuration).
This great formation of the last millennium had been predetermined since time immemorial with a creative design of the people-leading hierarchies – the Russian demiurge and Navna. The design first emerged in their consciousness as a vague dream, an image that spellbound their will. It happened so at one time in Rangaraidr, the birthplace of demiurges and Great Sisters. O, Yarosvet was far from resembling “the spirit of blizzards and flame” back then: he was a joyous child of the sun having yet acquired the wisdom of Shadanakar not. If he did foresee the vastness of his duties, they were just dim foreshadows. Upon observing from afar the emerging summits of other metacultures, creative acts of other demiurges and synclites, he began to realize the stature of his own spirit, the proportions of his own future creation. The inspirational play of youthfulness helped him gradually realize his duties; this play began to outgrow into a sacred rite, a Creation act when a great man-spirit that had been St. Andrei the First-Called in Enrof a few centuries before endowed Yarosvet with his powers. In the sakwala of demiurges, as though a misty outline of Heavenly Russia began to take shape. According to the church tradition, Andrei was the first illuminer of our forefathers. It was true in the sense that the life of St. Andrew the Apostle ended in martyrdom in the lands of Scythians at the end of the first century. But the tradition appears to have an echo of the intuitive knowledge that the founder of Heavenly Russia was precisely that man-spirit that had achieved great powers and heights in the period between his demise and his involvement with Yarosvet’s creative acts.
By then, demiurge Yarosvet had already come to realize his duty of marrying the Ideal Collective Soul of the people and of their giving birth to Zventa-Sventana. But the actual forms and scale this ultimately took had been beyond his imagination and what he was readying himself for. He could not foresee that one of his own creations would fatefully revolt against him and become his worst metahistorical rival, usurper, and distorter of his design. Foreboded he not that a constant feud between the opposing hierarchies and himself together with Navna would shape the course of the metahistorical drama of Russia all the way from the eleventh to twenty first century. Lastly, he was yet to acknowledge that the accomplishment of his mission depended on the completion of immense processes in the folds of other cultures, for only a social-political unison of the entire humanity would see its gradual transformation into a single, planetwide brotherhood.
The hour of Navna’s descent into the four-dimensional plane arrived somewhat earlier when Yarosvet was still absorbing the creative emanations of the Planetary Logos in Rangaraidr.
Below outspread the boundless wasteland expanses of four-dimensional sakwalas. In the distance, in the East and in the South, towered the emerging colossuses of other, older metacultures. In the West, a cloudy, slowly crystalizing structure with a glistening white peak had already taken shape – the mystical Montsalvat of Germany, England, Burgundy, and Scandinavia. The Byzantine zatomis was flickering and shimmering with gold and purple in the South, and it appeared as though preparing to leave the ground and elevate, as a glistening ark, directly to the foot of the supraheavenly abode of Christ. Yet, the vast expanse facing the Arctic Ocean remained desertlike. Only translucent puffs of raging elementals were dashing over the untrodden forests and gargantuan rivers of Enrof, and faint condensations of tribal egregors were pulsating here and there amplifying in the open heaths of the South.
Yet, the picture which I have just outlined should not be understood word for word. It is just an intimation, a poetic generalization that largely trivializes the true picture of many sakwalas meeting the gaze of descending Navna. All of them, at the same time, were connected with that sole region of the prehistoric Eurasian continent which bore no layers of great human civilizations. Scarce material vestiges of several vanished tribal groups that had created neither nation, nor script lay in the pristine ground. Forests and heaths of future European Russia appeared capacious enough for gigantic future settlements of human masses with another limitless spatial reserve stretching as far as to the Pacific Ocean. Diverse and plentiful treasures of soil secured the material basis for living for millennia to come. Cradles of older great civilizations were too far away for the future young culture to dissolve into them, and that made possible the task of overcoming the borderline voids with its own nascent genius. Only the demiurge of Byzantium carried on its tragic, leaving-the-ground work, readying to transfer to Yarosvet the weight of tasks which were doomed to remain unaccomplished.
It wasn’t just a country but a whole part of the world, and one could easily lose his or her breath – not only that of a human – anticipating the events commeasurable with its size.
The purpose of Navna’s descent or her second birth in Shadanakar was her gradual clothing in the materiality of the four-dimensional plane where the demiurge and great men-spirits nourishing it had begun to lay down the material (not physical, of course, but etheric) foundations of Heavenly Russia. Chronologically, this corresponded, in all likelihood, to the eighth-ninth centuries AD, and a slow process in the historical plane began to take shape thenceforth: the formation of tribal unity among East Slavs.
Should we decide to determine Navna’s metaetheric age in that historical epoch by way of progression of human life, in our usual language we would call it the transition from childhood to adolescence(*1). Mother Earth was nurturing her, and the souls of elementals, rough and tender alike, entered, one after another, the emerging zatomis of Holy Russia, endowing the streamy-breezy substance of Navna with their shimmering filaments. The state of Navna at that time was marked with the wholesomeness of primal harmony, the childlike joy of relishing the first physical incarnation. Her womanly premonitions of the future calamities were palliated with the memories of her supraheavenly birthplace Rangaraidr and the anticipation of her brother-friend-bridegroom’s arrival from thence. Both in Heavenly Russia and the earthly Russia could be felt his distant yet unflinchingly riveted, omnipresent gaze. While Navna barely started trickling the folk consciousness with vague childish reflections of surrounding elementals, the mind of the demiurge clarified, delineated, and defined those images crystallizing them into the names of Slavic deities: Perun, Yarilo, Stribog, Lada.
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1 Just to be clear, the periods of aging as superimposed on hierarchies of suprapeoples not only have a duration exceeding the corresponding human periods by multiple tens of times but also do not match their usual proportions. In particular, their adolescence is synchronous with rather long periods of history, and they reach their prime when the corresponding people has already played its role in Enrof so as to continue its becoming and creative works in the uppermost planes of the metaculture. For instance, the hierarchies of Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, classical antiquity, let alone Gondwana and Atlantis have now reached their full maturity.
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