The Family Book (The Ringing Cedars of Russia Series - Book 6) by Vladimir Megre

Author:Vladimir Megre
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9785906381064
Publisher: Megre
Published: 2016-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Rituals

"Occult priests subsequently put much effort into discrediting and distorting the meaning of the rituals of the Vedian era. For instance, a rumor was spread about how the Veds worshiped the water element recklessly. Even the best young women, who had not yet known love, were sacrificed annually. They were thrown into lakes or rivers, tied to a raft, and pushed away from shore, and so were condemned to death.

"Many different acts truly were linked for the Veds with the water element, a lake or river, but their meaning was completely different. The rituals helped life, not death. I will tell you about just one. A semblance of it has even come down to the present day, but only a semblance. Today its great rational and poetic meaning has been replaced by opacity and occultism.

"Various countries even today have a holiday connected with water, when they drop wreaths onto the water, or a small raft with a pretty lantern or candle, push it away from shore, and let it sail, while asking the water for luck. But look where this holiday comes from and how rational and poetic its primordial meaning is.

"It so happened in Vedian times that one or two young women, it didn't matter, would not find themselves a beloved in their own settlement. During the great holiday for several settlements, they were unable to choose their intended. Not that the choice was limited. Before them, handsome youths with intelligent gazes such as gods have shone at the holiday events. But the maiden's heart and soul waited for someone else. Love did not visit them. The young woman was dreaming of someone, but whom? She herself did not understand. To this day, no one can explain the enigmatic arbitrariness of the energy of Love.

"This is why on a certain day the young women went to the river. In a river cove, they would lower a small raft onto the water. They would decorate the raft with a garland of flowers along the edge. In the middle, they would put a small pitcher with a either a fruit drink or wine. They would place fruits around the pitcher. The young woman had to prepare the beverage herself, and she had to pick the fruits from trees she had planted with her own hand in her orchard. Also on the raft she could place a headband of woven flax fibers, or something else, but always something created by her own hands. Last, a small lamp was placed on the raft.

"Around a fire burning on the shore, the young women danced their round dance and sang a song about the beloved they still did not know. Later, taking twigs burning in the fire, they lit the lamp wick. They pushed their little rafts out from the cove to where the current took over and gently carried them into the river's unknown distance.

"The young women's gazes accompanied their little rafts with hope. From a distance only the lamps' little light could be seen, shrinking.

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