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Arkona is a temple city of the state of the Rus on the island of Ruyan (Buyan) in the Varangian Sea (now the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea). After the fall of Arkona in 1168 at the hands of the Judeo-Christians, an unprecedented and largest genocide on earth began - the German onslaught to the east, as a result of which the West Slavic lands were captured, and peoples and tribes were destroyed or assimilated.
The West Slavic Baltic tribes (Vendi-Vendi), who settled between the Elbe (Laba), Oder (Odra) and Vistula, reached a high development by the 9th-10th centuries AD, having built the sacred city of temples Arkona on the island of Ruyan (Rügen), which performed for all Baltic Slavs the role of the Slavic Vedic capital.
After all, it was here, at the northernmost point of the island, that the legendary fortress was located. Arkona. High on a chalk cliff, on a steep cliff, protected on three sides by the sea, and on the fourth, a huge rampart, impregnable for the enemy, the capital of the most powerful tribe of the Western Slavs.
The ancient Slavs always used the features of natural landscapes to defend their cities, but the location of Arkona is so magnificent, ingenious and incredible that it allowed this small Slavic principality to maintain its will, independence and Faith, being in a constant state of war with the Judeo-Christian ones, which in many respects outnumbered and military power. neighbors - the Catholic Polish state, imperial Germany and Denmark. And not only to defend against numerous enemies. Possessing a powerful fleet, the Ruyans controlled most of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea for a long time.
Huge wealth accumulated in the Arkona fortress, partly being won in military campaigns, partly being presented as a tribute and sacrifice to the god Svyatovit (Sventovit) by all other Slavic tribes. Priests with gifts to God Svyatovit came not only from the entire Baltic coast, modern Eastern Germany and Poland, but also from Moravia and Rus'. The memory of this place has been preserved in Russian legends.
In ancient Russian legends, this is the island of Buyan in the sea-okiya, where the Stone-Alatyr lies white-flammable, the ancient Pradub is unreachable and mighty, it pierces the seven heavens and props up the center of the universe. Arkona - Yarkon - ardent - fiery white horse - a symbol of the grace of the God of light - Svetovit. The white horse is a symbol of the Rus heritage of the traditions of their ancestors, the legendary Aryans.
Ilya Glazunov "Rügen Island. Priest and sacred horse Svyatovit»
The temple of Arkona on the island of Ruyan was the main shrine of the Western Slavs, it was the largest cult center and the last bastion of West Slavic paganism, opposing the influence of Judeo-Christianity. According to the general belief of the Baltic Slavs, the god Svyatovit gave the most famous victories, the most accurate prophecies. Therefore, for sacrifices and for divination, Slavs flocked here from all sides of Pomorie.
The sacred white horse lived in Arkona at the temple of Svetovit (Sventovita). His mane and tail were left uncut. Only the first priest could saddle a horse. This horse also participated in divination, it was used to guess before the start of a military campaign. In the most important battles, the white horse stood on the prince's boat.
In especially important cases, the sacred horse “gave answers” to difficult questions of national importance - the white horse carried the will of Svetovit, going through the thorns of the rite - the Rus always consulted with the Ancestral Gods at the crossroads of life's roads.
There were several ways of divination by Svetovit's servants about the future. Some of them - with the help of the sacred white horse of the god.
The servants stuck in front of the temple three pairs of spears at a certain distance from each other, a third spear was tied across each pair. The priest solemnly uttered a prayer, then led the horse by the bridle from the vestibule of the temple and led it to the crossed spears. If the horse, walking through all the spears, stepped first with the right foot, and then with the left - this was considered a happy omen, but if the horse stepped first with the left foot, then the military campaign in this case was canceled.
And there is still a belief that getting up in the morning on the left foot is a bad omen, so they say: "I got up on the wrong foot".
Three pairs of spears, perhaps, symbolically reflected the will of the gods of heaven, earth and underworld (3 kingdoms according to Russian fairy tales) during divination.
They also guessed as follows: in the evening they left the horse cleaned, and in the morning they found it foamy and dirty (all night Svetovit fights with the enemy on his horse). According to the condition of the horse, it was determined whether it was worth starting a war or not - the planned campaign was blessed only if the heroic battle horse Svetovit was in excellent physical shape.
At the temple there was a permanent squad of 300 knights on white war horses, each of whom voluntarily went to serve from his tribe; this was the lot of the elite, equipped with heavy weapons. This squad participated in campaigns, confiscating a third of the booty in favor of the temple.
Vsevolod Ivanov "Temple of Svyatovit in Arkona"
The main god of Arkona was the God Svetovit (Sventovit), the largest and richest temple on the island was dedicated to him (during excavations next to the temple, a public meeting area was discovered, and residential buildings were located to the west).
The sanctuary (sanctuary) was located on the top of the cape, the main square was protected from the sea by steep cliffs, and from the side of the island by a double semicircle of a system of ditches and ramparts (generally characteristic of Slavic sanctuaries), and on the central square there was a wooden temple surrounded by a palisade with large gates into the yard.
Vsevolod Ivanov "Rainbow over Arkona"
Inside the sanctuary stood the idol of Svyatovit. The temple itself was a wooden structure and towered on the plain.
The walls of the temple were decorated with paintings, there was only one entrance. There were two rooms in the building, one of which, consisting of several pillars and wonderful curtains, contained the idol of Svetovid and his full combat equipment: a sword, as well as the bridle and saddle of his horse, which was kept here in the temple.
Once this temple of Svetovit was one of the brightest (holy) places in Venia (Europe), a wonder of the world, no less than the temple of Zeus in Olympia. And therefore aroused envy and hatred among the Judeo-Christian neighbors.
The idol of Svyatovit installed in Arkona by Polish Rodnovers in the 90s of the XX century
The idol of Svetovit had four faces, looking in different directions of the world and, possibly, symbolizing the power of God over the four cardinal directions (like four winds) and four seasons of time. According to one version, he had a bow in his left hand, according to another, it rested on his side. The shirt was made to the elbows; the lower parts of the arms were made of different kinds of wood, and connected to the knees in such a bizarre way that at first glance it was difficult to recognize the place of their connection. The legs rested as if on the floor and went into the ground. In his right hand, the deity held a horn lined with different metals, striking in its size - the priest annually filled it with liquid, in order to later predict the future harvest by its qualities (the idol itself was much larger than human height), a sword in a silver sheath hung at the hip.
In addition to all of the above, the temple contained the sacred banner of Svetovid ( stanitsa), it was carried in front of the troops before the battle. Like other military attributes, the banner tells us that Svetovid was revered as the god of war.
Svetovid's horn meant patronage of fertility.
The holiday in honor of God Svyatovit among the Slavs was celebrated by baking a huge public pie, for the manufacture of which a large number of grain graters should have been required.
The temple had vast estates that gave it income; duties were collected in its favor from merchants who traded in Arkona, from industrialists who caught herring off the island of Ruyan. He was brought a third of the spoils of war, all the jewels, gold, silver and pearls obtained in the war. Therefore, chests filled with jewels stood in the temple. And Arkona itself was surrounded by several more villages.
The sacred city of Arkona was in those distant times the forge of the martial arts of the European North. The ancient history of the Polabian Slavs brings to us the memory that there was a special kind of military service at the temples. These temple warriors were originally called knights.
When, after the unceasing centuries-old struggle with the Frankish, German, Danish Judeo-Christian baptizers, the peoples of the Baltic Slavs were enslaved one after another, Arkona became the last free Slavic city that honors its native Gods. And it remained so until its destruction in 1168.
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Death of Arkona
In the spring of 1168, on the orders of the Judeo-Christian Bishop Absalon, the troops of the Danish king Valdemar I with allies attacked the Arkon State.
For almost a month and a half there was a war in the possessions of the Rugs on the Baltic Sea. And only then, when the remnants of the troops retreated to the island, did the Danish king with German detachments begin an assault on the fortress city of Arkona itself.
In total, the invaders had up to 20,000 soldiers - professional soldiers, and not peasants recruited in the villages ...
Already at the very beginning, on the very first day, the main army of Arkona (about 2,500 people) perished, reflecting the landing of the Judeo-Christian aliens.
Then, for a whole week, the Danes and Germans stormed the city walls, where ordinary people stood, who fought heroically. When the Christian army failed to take the city by storm, it was set on fire from all sides at once. The Slavs threw themselves into the fire and preferred death to captivity and baptism.
All this time, side by side - fought with the remnants of the Arkon army - a professional team of knights of the temple - by the time the city fell, there were less than 200 of them left. And when the city was taken after the fire, only the temple of Svetovit remained.
For almost a week, 200-odd warriors defended it from 15,000 troops (as many remained from 30,000 Christian troops - about 10,000 died on the coast and 5,000 during the assault).
The temple was fortified and located on the top of a cliff, 2 roads led to it, on which the Arkon warriors stood to death.
For 2 weeks of fighting (in the German annals they write 6 days and the losses are underestimated ...) the knights-warriors of the Svetovit temple, of whom there were only 9 by that time !!! people - put out of action almost 4,500 thousand professional Judeo-Christian soldiers. The entire ditch in front of the temple was filled with corpses, swords were taken from the dead comrades.
The Normans and Dacians were already simply afraid to go on another assault, 2 brothers of the king, 7 barons died, riders and horses were cut with swords. After all, these were the best warriors of the Slavs - the best of the best!
On the last day, when only 9 warriors of the temple remained, German and Danish detachments went to storm the temple, detachment after detachment, for the first time using the change method, the Danes fought at night, and the Germans fought during the day.
The Slavs, exhausted and not sleeping for several nights, did not give up, and over the last day the Germans could not kill any of the 9 Slavic temple knights (one of them was the high priest)
Then the Danes collected all the barrels of resin (it had already been brought by this time on ships) and threw the temple from the catapults of the ships, and then set it on fire.
Burning deified Slavic warriors ran out of the temple and rushed into the thick of the troops, killing everyone, until they themselves died ....
Thus perished the last Vedic Power of the Slavs in Venia (Europe).
The official Christian date of the fall of Arkona is June 15, 1168, but these 2 weeks were deleted from many chronicles, no one wanted to know about the heroes.
In fact, the fall has come 1 July 1168, it was then that the temple with the last defenders burned down.
According to legend, the revival of the Rus nation and Rodnoverie will begin when the desecrated idol of Svetovit (Sventovita) is returned to Arkona again.
1168 year. Militant Christians led by Bishop Absalon destroy the statue of the god Svyatovit in Arkona.
On July 1, 1168, Arkona was completely destroyed - a sanctuary on the island of Ruyan, which was once a single all-Slavic one. The temple of Svetovit, the solar temple of all Slavic tribes, collapsed in the fire. It was burned by the Christian Danish king Valdemar 1, again nicknamed "The Great".
So, the last, northernmost stronghold of the Slavs was wiped off the face of the earth. The insatiable Jehovah got drunk on the sacrificial blood of the Baltic Slavs. But there were also Eastern Slavs. There was a mighty people Rus. And there was holy Rus'.
Yes, Rus' was Holy precisely before its bloody “conversion” to Christianity. Saints means Light (solar), the meaning merges consonantly here.
After the fall of Arkona, an unprecedented and largest genocide of the Slavs on earth began (it was not a fake Jewish Holocaust) - in 50 years, out of 8 million Slavs survived, i.e. as if assimilated less than 0.5 million people.
But there is not a single line about this in Europe - this is a taboo ...
The entire GDR is all Slavic lands, it was not for nothing that Stalin divided Germany along the border of the settlement of the Slavs during the time of Arkona.
Eastern and Western (Baltic) Slavs are related groups, they are closer to us than the South Slavs or Poles or Czechs. There were no differences between us Russians and them. It was a huge non-Judo-Christian Civilization that did not submit to the Judeo-Christian cross and perished, but we will always remember them.
In 1308, an earthquake occurred in the Baltic, after which most of the island of Ruyan (Rügen) and a good half of Arkona went to the seabed. In 1325, the last prince of the Ruyans, Wislaw III, died, and 80 years later, the last woman who spoke Slavonic died on Rügen.
The Baltic Slavic Venedian ethnos ceased to exist, many people think so, but even now, almost in the very center of the long-Germanized land, you can hear the ancient Slavic speech ...
Currently, instead of the ancient fortress, two lighthouses rise. The first was built in 1826, and the second younger - in 1902
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ARKONA (Arkona) the city and religious center of the Baltic Slavs of the 10th-12th centuries. on about. Rügen (Germany). Destroyed by the Danes in 1169. Remains of the sanctuary of Svyatovit, public and residential buildings.
Arkona
(Arkona), a city of the Baltic Slavs in the 10th-12th centuries. on about. Rügen (Slav. Ruyana) in the southern part of the Baltic Sea, as part of the GDR. From the west, the city is surrounded by a rampart. in 10-13 m. A. was a religious center that united a number of Slavic tribes. The island was ruled by the high priest of the god Svyatovit. The temple of this god in A. was described by the Danish medieval author Saxo Grammatik. His data were confirmed in the 1920s. excavations by the German archaeologist K. Schuchhardt and others. Near the temple, a square for public gatherings was unearthed, and dwellings in the western part. In 1169 the Danish king Valdemar I destroyed the city and the temple. The statue of Svyatovit was burned, and the temple treasures were taken to Denmark.
Lit .: Schuchhardt S., Arkona Rethra / Vineta, V., 1926; Lyubavsky M.K., History of the Western Slavs, 2nd ed., M., 1918.
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Arkona (Cape)
Cape Arkona- a high coast (45 m) of chalk and marl on the Wittow Peninsula in the north of the island of Rügen, the location of the ancient sanctuary of the Polabian Slavs - Ruyan.
natural monument Cape Arkona next to the fishermen's village, Witt belongs to the municipality of Putgarten and is one of the most popular tourist sites in Rügen (about 800,000 visitors annually).
There are two lighthouses, two military bunkers, a Slavic fortress and several tourist buildings near the cape. On the western side of the cape there is an annular shaft, in which the temple of the Vendian god Svyatovit was placed. The Danish king Valdemar I the Great took this fortified point on June 15, 1168, burned the temple along with the idol and took the treasures of the temple to Denmark. In 1827 a lighthouse was built over the rampart.
The smaller of the two lighthouses was built in 1826-1827 according to the design of Schinkel. Commissioned in 1828. Its height is 19.3 m. The height of the fire in it is 60 m above sea level.
Cape Arkona is often incorrectly referred to as the northernmost point of the island of Rügen. Approximately 1 km northwest is a place called Gellort, which is the northernmost point.
Built in 1927, the Cap Arkona steamer was named after the cape.
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Examples of the use of the word arkona in the literature.
I battened down the sunroof, sat down in a chair and thought about the hints for several minutes. arcona about my loneliness.
Geoffrey with attention, but at times the meaning of speeches arcona as if eluding me, replaced by an intuitive feeling of emptiness opening up under my feet.
Buying certain things is the most ordinary thing in the world, but on arcona when he found out what I wanted, it was worth a look!
He dreams of power and might, and fasting arcona dear to him as long as it brings power and authority.
Of course, she was no longer the stubborn, intractable, bitter creature that I bought from arcona Geoffrey.
How I now needed something refreshing - in sermons arcona Geoffrey or in a bucket of cold water!
Almis reluctantly began picking an incomprehensible brew in the plate - there is no Arkona, no one knows how to make a stew from a sysop.
At present you are, in a sense, really the king's heir. Arkona, however, we cannot agree that the author of these lines had in mind exactly you.
Even if your sword is the same blade Arkona, - and we have no evidence of this, although to some extent I can admit this, - and you are exactly the person to whom it was intended, there may well be other interpretations of all this.
According to rumors, their leader Arkona beer alcoholism - Ariss knew for sure that he would not enter the arena without a bottle of dark Gorgan.
ARKONA- the northern cape of the island of Rügen. The name is ancient Slavic from the word "urkan", which means "at the end".
Here was one of the last known pagan pantheons of the gods of the Slavs.
In 1168, the Danish king Voldemar I, together with Bishop Absalon, burned it down.
The West Slavic Baltic tribes (Vends), settled between the Elbe (Laba), Oder (Odra) and Vistula, reached a high development by the 9th-10th centuries AD, having built the sacred city of temples Arkona on the island of Rane (Rügen), which performed for all the Baltic Slavs the role of Slavic Mecca and the Delphic Oracle. The Slavic tribe of the Rans formed a priestly caste in its midst (like the Indian Brahmins or the Babylonian Chaldeans) and not a single serious military-political issue was resolved by other Slavic tribes without advice from the wounds.
Wounds (rouans) they owned the runic writing of the Vendian tradition, the graphics of which differed markedly from the known older and younger runes (probably the term wound itself came from the Slavic wound, that is, cut runes on wooden planks).
The construction of the city of temples and the rise of the pagan culture of the Vendian ethnos was a retaliatory measure of the Slavic priestly elite for the ideological rallying of the Baltic Slavs against the intensified expansion of first the Frankish, and then the German and Danish aggressors, who, under the banner of Christianization, carried out a systematic genocide of the Slavic population and its expulsion from the occupied territories. By the XIII-XIV centuries, under the intense onslaught of the Danish and German crusaders, the Slavic principalities of Ranskoe, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and others fell, and the Baltic Slavic Vendian ethnos ceased to exist.
Let us cite the information of Western chroniclers (Adam of Bremen, Otto of Bamberg, Titmar of Merseburg) about the paganism of the Baltic Slavs.
Arkona was built on the high rocky coast of the island of Rügen and was impregnable from the Baltic Sea. There were many temples of all tribal Slavic gods in the city.
The main god of Arkona was Svyatovit, whose idol was installed in a special temple. The idol was huge, taller than a human, with four heads on four separate necks with cropped hair and shaved beards. Four heads, apparently, symbolized the power of God over the four cardinal points (like the four winds) and the four seasons of time, that is, the cosmic god of space-time (similar to the Roman Janus). In his right hand, the idol held a horn lined with different metals and annually filled with wine, the left hand was curved and rested on the side. The horn symbolized the power of God over productivity and fertility, that is, as the god of life and plant power.
Near the idol were a bridle, a saddle and a huge combat sword and shield (symbols of the god of war).
In the temple stood the sacred banner of Svyatovit, called the village. This village of the wound was honored as Svyatovit himself and, carrying it in front of him on a campaign or battle, considered himself under the cover of his god (the battle banner can also be attributed as a symbol of the god of war).
After the harvesting of bread, many people flocked to Arkona and brought a lot of wine for sacrifices and a feast. Apparently this happened in September, in Slavic - Ryuen, hence the second name of the island - Ruyan. Ruyan Island is mentioned in many Russian fairy tales, in which, due to the peculiarities of children's pronunciation, its name turned into “Buyan Island”.
On the eve of the holiday, the priest of Svyatovit, with a broom in his hands, entered the inner sanctuary and, holding his breath so as not to desecrate the deity, swept the floor clean. The broom and the balayage symbolically signify the end of the time cycle, in this case the annual one, because the next day fortune-telling is carried out on the pie, similar to the East Slavic Christmas carol. This means that the Rana priests used the September style of reckoning (the year began with the autumnal equinox).
The next day, in the presence of all the people, the priest took out a horn with wine from the hands of the idol of Svyatovit and, carefully examining it, predicted: to be or not to be harvested for the next year. Having poured out the old wine at the feet of the idol, the priest filled the horn with new wine and drained it with one spirit, asking for all kinds of blessings for himself and the people. Then he again filled the horn with new wine and put it into the hand of the image. After that, they brought to the idol a pie made of sweet dough taller than human height. The priest hid behind the pie and asked the people if they could see it. When they answered that only the cake was visible, the priest asked God that they could make the same cake the next year. In conclusion, in the name of Svyatovit, the priest blessed the people, ordered them to continue to honor the Arkon god, promising an abundance of fruits, victory at sea and on land as a reward. Then everyone drank and ate to satiety, for abstinence was taken as an insult to the deity.
Arkona was also visited for divination. At the temple, the sacred horse Svyatovit was kept, white in color with a long, never trimmed mane and tail.
Only the priest of Svyatovit could feed and mount this horse, on which, according to the belief of the wounds, Svyatovit himself fought against his enemies. By means of this horse, they were guessing before the start of the war. The servants stuck in front of the temple three pairs of spears at a certain distance from each other, a third spear was tied across each pair. The priest, uttering a solemn prayer, led the horse by the bridle from the vestibule of the temple and led it to the crossed spears. If a horse stepped through all the spears first with his right foot, and then with his left, this was considered a happy omen. If the horse stepped first with his left foot, then the campaign was canceled. Three pairs of spears possibly symbolically reflected the will of the gods of heaven, earth and underworld (3 kingdoms according to Russian fairy tales) during divination.
Thus, the main oracle symbol of the Arkon cult was the heroic battle horse of Svyatovit of white suit - “yar horse”, from where the name of the sacred city “Arkona”, that is, the ardent horse or the city of the Yariy horse, may have come from.
In addition to the functions of an oracle-soothsayer, Svyatovit's horse also served as a biological indicator of the state of the phase of vitality at a given moment in time. If the horse was lathered, with tangled and disheveled hair, then the phase of vitality was considered negative (depressive) and the planned trip was canceled. If the horse was in excellent physical condition (passionate), then the planned campaign was blessed.
Unfortunately, the literary sources do not give an unambiguous answer according to the method of this divination: according to one, the horse is in the temple all night before divination, according to others, the priest (or Svyatovit himself) rides on it all night.
The Arkon temple became the main sanctuary of the Slavic Pomerania, the center of Slavic paganism. According to the general belief of the Baltic Slavs, the Arkon god gave the most famous victories, the most accurate prophecies. Therefore, for sacrifices and for divination, Slavs flocked here from all sides of Pomorie. From everywhere gifts were delivered to him according to vows, not only of individuals, but also of entire tribes. Each tribe sent him an annual tribute for sacrifices.
The temple had vast estates that gave it income; duties were collected in its favor from merchants who traded in Arkona, from industrialists who caught herring off the island of Rügen. He was brought a third of the spoils of war, all the jewels, gold, silver and pearls obtained in the war. Therefore, chests filled with jewels stood in the temple.
At the temple there was a permanent squad of 300 knights on white war horses, equipped with heavy knightly weapons. This squad participated in campaigns, confiscating a third of the booty in favor of the temple.
The phenomenon of the Arkon temple is reminiscent of the Delphic oracle among the Greeks. The analogy goes further: just as foreigners sent gifts to Delphi and turned for predictions, so the rulers of neighboring peoples sent gifts to the Arkon temple. For example, the Danish king Sven donated a golden bowl to the temple.
The reverence that the tribes of the Baltic Slavs had for the Arkon shrine was involuntarily transferred to the wounds that were so close to this shrine.
Adam of Bremensky wrote that the Baltic Slavs had a law: in common affairs, do not decide anything and do nothing contrary to the opinion of the Rana people, they were so afraid of wounds for their connection with the gods.
Sanctuaries similar to those of Arkon also existed in Shchetin, where the idol of Triglav stood, in Volegoshcha, where the idol of Yarovit stood, and in other cities. The sanctuary of Triglav was located on the highest of the three hills on which the city of Szczetin was located. The walls of the sanctuary inside and outside were covered with colored carvings depicting people and animals. The three-headed statue of the god was covered with gold. The priests claimed that the three heads are a symbol of God's power over the three kingdoms - heaven, earth and hell. In the temple were stored weapons obtained in wars, and a tenth of the booty prescribed by law, taken in battles at sea and on land. Gold and silver bowls were also kept there, which were taken out only on holidays, from which the nobles and noble people drank and guessed, horns, gilded and decorated with expensive stones, swords, knives and various religious objects.
In ancient times, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, on the territory of modern Germany, the Slavs lived - the Ruyans or Rugs. There are many names that point to this. Rostock, Lübeck, Schwerin (Zverin) Leipzig (Lipsk) and even the name Berlin - came from the name of the berlyug, or in a modern lair. And the words “On the Okiyane Sea, on the island of Buyan lies the white-combustible stone Alatyr ...” Alatyr is amber.
Basically, the inhabitants of the island were engaged in land and sea trade, but they did not shun piracy, robbery and the collection of tribute from the surrounding peoples. The island interested modern archaeologists in finding the temple of Svyatovid on the island. From the description of Saxo Grammar: “The city of Arkona lies on the top of a high mountain. From the north, east and south it is surrounded by natural protection ... "
Arkona is a temple city of the Russian state on the island of Ruyan in the Varangian Sea, now the German island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. In ancient Russian legends, this is the island of Buyan in the sea-okiya, where the Stone-Alatyr lies white-flammable, the ancient Pradub is unreachable and mighty, it pierces the seven heavens and props up the center of the universe. Arkona - Yarkon - ardent - a fiery white horse - a symbol of the grace of the God of light Svetovit. The white horse is a symbol of the heritage of the Russians, the traditions of their ancestors, the legendary Aryans. In the most important battles, the white horse stood on the prince's boat.
Arkona - a settlement-sanctuary of the IX-XII centuries, located on a cape 40 m high, facing the east. It is washed by the sea on three sides and is largely destroyed. Modern dimensions are 90 m from east to west and up to 160 m from north to south, the estimated former dimensions are 2-3 times larger. Excavations were carried out in 1921, 1930 and 1969-1971. when trenches 1 m wide were laid through the site and the rampart. Three construction periods were identified in the rampart, layers of baked clay, coal, and stones were found. On the inner side of the rampart there is a flat ditch and on the outer side there is a deeper ditch also with a flat bottom. The tip of the cape is separated by an internal rampart 5-6 m wide and a flat moat 10 m wide, built in the 9th century. No buildings were found on the site between the ramparts. Partially excavated depressions in the mainland (up to 60 cm deep), having a length of 4.1 and 6.2 m and containing numerous things. Stonework was found in one of the trenches and 8-11 male skulls, partially damaged, animal bones, things, fragments of dishes of the 10th-12th centuries were found in a depression under it. In another trench, in a recess, were the remains of a casket with numerous things. At the northern slope of the settlement there is a water source and a path has been laid to it. In the vicinity of the settlement there are 14 settlements and a large burial mound.
The sanctuary was located on the top of the cape, the main square was protected from the sea by steep cliffs, and from the side of the island by a double semicircle of a system of ditches and ramparts (generally characteristic of Slavic sanctuaries), and on the central square there was a wooden temple surrounded by a palisade with a large gate into the courtyard. Inside the sanctuary stood the idol of Svyatovit. According to the chronicler of the XII century Saxon Grammatik, this idol was taller than a man with one camp and four heads on the cardinal points, sitting on four necks separated from each other.
In his right hand, Svyatovid held a horn filled annually with wine, and his left hand rested on his side. The clothes went down to the knees. Near the idol lay a huge sword, with a scabbard and hilt trimmed with silver and exquisitely carved. As well as a saddle, a bridle and many other items, and the temple itself was decorated with the horns of various animals. Judging by the annals of Saxo Grammatik, there were three more sanctuaries on the island dedicated to the gods Ruevit, Porevit and Porenut. And Arkona was surrounded by several more villages.
These names were given by the Wends - the Slavic inhabitants of the Baltic coast. Svyatovit (Svantevit) - God-warrior, for him they kept a white horse with a long mane and tail, which was never sheared. Only the high priest of God Svyatovit had the right to enter inside the temple, and the sanctuary itself was guarded by three hundred selected warriors. Remains of cult items were found at the sanctuary, primarily various weapons, which testifies to the militancy of the cult, and sacrificial animals - mostly young individuals sacrificed during the harvest festivals held in autumn. The veneration of Svyatovid took place on the autumn equinox not by chance.
An island in the sea lies
The city stands on the island
With golden-domed churches,
With towers and gardens.…
Everyone in that island is rich
There is no pic, there are wards everywhere.
