This book is a PAINFUL embarrassment to the Rodnover- no, the entire Slavic- community as a whole. If you have even a single shred of respect for yourThis book is a PAINFUL embarrassment to the Rodnover- no, the entire Slavic- community as a whole. If you have even a single shred of respect for your heritage, you'll avoid this pitiful book at all costs.
The very first mistake is found on the very first page. Anyone who knows anything about history (i.e reality, and not idealist make believe) knows that the "Aryans" were the Alans. They were the Sarmatians. They were IRANIAN....not ethnically Slavic. They settled the regions neighboring Slavic tribes, and eventually they mixed with the Slavs (as well as other indigenous Europeans) and eventually their ruling class was assimilated so many Eastern Europeans have remnants of Sarmatian DNA; However, they themselves had an ancestral faith entirely distinct from the ancestral faith of the Slavs.
To refer to modern Slavs as "Aryans" or to summarize their ancestors as such is a misnomer.
Furthermore, the book uses unnecessarily politically charged commentary in the very beginning of the book and makes bold, unsubstantiated assumptions. Ex: "people use terms like 'anti-semitism' and 'racism' to prevent them from spreading the truth"
Laughable. I can already see right through this: What probably happened was that the author DID say something bigoted and illogical, and other people didn't like it, so he pouted about it in this book trying to cover it up by calling it the "truth" of his faith.
But here's the thing: Rodnovery has NOTHING to do with racism, fascism, or any kind of bigotry. So if you managed to get accused of those things when "spreading your truth," it's probably because you're using the religion to excuse your bullshit. And that's on YOU, not Rodnovers as a whole. Just because you think your skin makes you better than everyone else doesn't mean our ancestors did....so just keep it out of the book, okay? Besides, there actually IS racism in the Rodnover community because edgy white boys think they automatically know things about their family history when they really don't. It shouldn't happen, but sadly, it does. This book does nothing to address those legitimate issues.
Moving on to the next fault of this book, Rodnovery is an ancestral faith. This means that there is documented evidence of its practice by certain groups of people indigenous to a region. Key word here is "evidence."
Modern historians DO know that Rodnovery existed and ways in which it may have been practiced. But this book draws from none of that research and instead seems to rely on guess work or the author's own trivial opinion. I hate to break it to him, but one philosopher from the Ukraine doesn't magically know everything his ancestors believed. The book needs many more reliable sources if it is to be taken seriously.
And last but not least, this book is simply poorly written. It doesn't read like legitimate analysis on the ancient faith of Slavs- it reads like post from a teenager's blog. There is very little structure or organization, and the author hops from one opinion to the next without reinforcing the significance of those particular opinions. ...more
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