By: Sviatoslav Pidlubniak

Sviatoslav Pidlubniak — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:26:07 +0000

The Book of Veles is not a “fake”. Even the greatest proponents of the “fake” angle have admitted to the enormous political pressure from the apparatchiks. And the reason why the Book Of Veles is banned in Russia is because it contradicts the favorite Russian history narrative – the myth of “three brother nations” (Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians) is blown to bits by the Book of Veles. So, the first argument… “The Book of Veles details history of Western Slavs”. The Western Slavs were isolated from the lands of Kievan Rus through various political development. Not to mention, the oldest Slavs are the Serbs – which have given rise to the other Slavic ethnicities, tribes and cultures as they’ve moved from the Dunabe basin to the Novgorod lands. Looking at the snippets of the Book of Veles (which was likely “vanished” first by the Nazis and then, after the war, taken by the Soviets – convenient, huh? You can’t prove the authenticity of something that is likely resting deep in Moscow’s secret storage and cannot ever see the light of day), one can draw conclusions that the religious concepts and gods of the Slavs (Triglav – Trimurti, Perun – Parjanya, Svarog – Svarga, Mokosh – Moksha, Veles – Vala) really correspond and are cognate to the Vedic ones. This is an another big argument for the book’s authenticity. Then, the Book of Veles mentions the “land of seven rivers” – in the oldest bits of Serbian folklore, India is even mentioned by name! In fact, Sapta Sindhu was the old name of the Punjab region – the land of seven rivers… The third argument… If someone would falsify the Book of Veles… Hm. Anyone who has ever worked with wood would know just how hard and time-consuming it is – not only that, one can rather easily determine whether the wood is old or not, so a would-be falsifier would be required to use parchment instead. Second – falsehoods and falsifications are based on existing things. And the Book of Veles is unlike anything else right now. So… Who gains from demonizing and calling such a precious historical find a “fake”. Russian imperialists. They have a long history of historical revisionism – their ploy with “faking” the Book of Veles is just one of the innumerable ploys they have made towards the denial of the national identities of Belarusians and Ukrainians (particularly Ukrainians). It’s logical that the same imperialists who have tried to rewrite the history of “Kievan Rus” to fit their story would also try something like this with a historical and cultural find that predates the concept of Muscovites by centuries.

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