active principle of Brahma – Shakti – is called «lolita» or «lulita» and represents the «feminine» principle of the universe. In Hebrew – Lilith is the name of the «night Goddess», whose symbol was the Owl.
In the Sumerian-Babylonian texts, Lilith is «The Holy Ruler», «The Great Mother and Mother», giving and taking life. The Hitto-Huritic goddess of love and fertility, the chthonic goddess who combines the male and female principles of Shavushka (Russian. Shovushka – Sovushka), also correlates with her.
And, finally, in the Russian tradition, this word «cradle» is a baby cradle and the chorus «lyuli-lyuli», «leli-lely», inherent in both lullabies and calendar ritual songs.
All this, taken together, testifies to the fact that the above-mentioned traditions have one source and, consequently, one Ancestral home – the North of Eastern Europe – the Polar region.
And the birth of this single tradition goes back thousands of years.
The question of what caused the Old Testament tradition to turn Lilith from the Great Goddess and the All-Mother into a bloodthirsty demon, an evil spirit that abducts newborns and drinks their blood, corrupts pregnant women and rapes sleeping men in order to give birth to children from them, remains open. Perhaps the answer lies in the legend of Cain and Abel – the farmer and the shepherd and their antagonism, which ended in the murder of Abel – the «shepherd of the sheep.» Is this not too similar to a split in the Indo-Iranian unity, when mutual hatred led to the fact that even the previously common gods were turned into demons. The «Asuras» of antiquity – radiant and blissful, became symbols of evil in ancient Indian mythology and good in ancient Iranian mythology. «Devas» are demons of ancient Iranian mythology, in ancient Indian they were deities. But before, everything was the same. And the Russian language testifies to this. We are still shouting «Urra!» invoking the light. And in Russian villages, a girl can still be called «devka», which is analogous to «ancient Indian (Sanskrit) devika» (daivika) – «divine, or even «deva "– (daiva) “ deity, divinity, fate, fate, destiny».
Here it is appropriate to recall again Greek mythology, in which there is a shepherd Lilai or Lily, «who revered of all the gods only Selene (ie, the Moon – the Goddess of the night) and sent her a night cult. The gods sent two lions on him, which tore him to pieces, but Selena turned Lily into a mountain.» The name of this «shepherd» sounds like a dull echo of the ancient mother cult.
And two lions are also appropriate here. Indeed, in the Sumerian image of Lilith (2 thousand BC) with owl wings and paws, and two owls on the sides, she stands on two lions.
And the mountain into which the shepherd Lilai (or Lily) has turned is also a symbol and embodiment of the Great Mother of matriarchy. It is hard to say where this boundary of mutual rejection passes, and the power of Mother Earth is replaced by the supremacy of the Patriarch-Shepherd. But the fear of freedom and independence of a woman is already recorded in the «Laws of Manu» which says: «Neither day nor night should men allow women to be independent and free in their actions: women inclined to worldly pleasures should always be under the control of men. In childhood, a girl is under the protection of her father, in her youth – under the protection of her husband, in old age – under the protection of her son, but she should never be left to herself, in other words, a woman should not have independence. But all the different hypostases of the ancient Mother Goddess, be it the Akkadian Ishtar, the Sumerian Inanna, Lilith, the ancient Greek Gaia, Hera, Aphrodite, Athena, etc., were distinguished by one main quality – independence. Therefore, it is not surprising that in a patriarchal society, Lilith turned into an evil demon.
Returning to Sanskrit, we note that among the many analogues of Russian words, the Sanskrit terms of kinship are of undoubted interest.
Russian – Sanskrit: mater’ – matr’ (mother), pramater’ – pramatr’ (foremother), mat’, mama – mata, ma (mother), syn – suna (son), tyatya, tata – tata, tyatya (daddy), dever’ – devr’, devar (brother-in-law), zhena – dzhani (wife), svoyak – svaka (brother-in-law), svat’ya – svatva, svata (matchmaker), zyat’ – dzhata, dzhati (son-in-law), snokha – snusha, snukkha (daughter-in-law), vdova – vidkhavva (widow), svokor-svakar (father-in-law).
Going deeper into the meaning, you understand that in essence it is all about the same thing in Sanskrit «papu, dad» – «protector», but should not «papa, dad» be the protector of his children. «Svakha, Matchmaker» in Sanskrit is an exclamation made when a new fire is ignited.
And the name of the wife of the god Agni (Fire). But does our «Svakha, matchmaker» not incite new family hearths, connecting the bride with the groom.
By the way, the word» nevesta, bride» is also in Sanskrit («nivesta») and it means «shell, packaging, case, tire», and the word «nivesaya» – «soothe, marry.»
In this rather extensive series, for some reason there are no sounds close to the Russian term «toshcha, mother-in-law».
But, knowing how it sounds in Russian, we will try to find an analogue in Sanskrit. It turns out he is – «tesu». And this term means literally the following: 1) that, that, that, 2) this, this, this, 3) he, she, and it.
Indeed, the Earth is indeed the Great Mother of God, which is on it. That, that, that, that, that, that, he, she, and it – everything is born by her and everything returns to her! So much for Maslenitsa – «Krasnaya Gora» of the Veles book! The great ancient holiday dedicated to Mother – Earth, the Eternal Universal motherly principle, whose awakening was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox – March 22. Waking up for a whole month (from February 21 to the night of March 21 to 22), she woke up completely to give birth to all living things. And she was asked about the offspring of livestock, about healthy offspring, about a rich harvest. They asked, riding on luxuriously decorated horses, whose mistress she was – «The Lady of the Horses.» They asked, rolling on spinning wheels from the icy mountains dedicated to her. And here it is appropriate to recall the wooden fetish of the ancient Greek Hera, which was a spinning-like wooden carved board that stood in the temple of Hera on the island of Samos. Note also that the same carved board was a symbol of the Great Mother Goddess of the inhabitants of the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan).
In the Russian tradition, it was women, girls and girls on the spinning wheels, who were holding pancake in the apron’s pocket, from the mountain to Shrovetide. But the spinning wheel in Russian ritual practice was by no means a simple tool for obtaining a thread. She was the embodiment of the Tree of Life, with which the Goddess – the Mother of God is directly connected. This tree carried the Eternal Time on its branches – past, present and future.
The spinning wheel was a grave monument and connected the world of the living and the world of those who passed away, ancestors and descendants. As the embodiment of the original deity, combining both feminine and masculine principles, the spinning wheel was a symbol of fertility and contributed to an increase in the fertility of everything living on Earth. And the threads obtained on a spinning wheel are not so simple. The very word «niti» in Sanskrit means literally «correct behavior, life wisdom, custom», and nitka – «musical melody, song».
And here it is appropriate to recall the ancient Egyptian goddess Neith (Nit), who was worshiped as «the father of fathers and mother of mothers», «All-Creator», combining both male and female principles, «Lady of the Waters» at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC during the first dynasties of the kings of Egypt. Her hypostases later became Hathor, Isis, Nephthys and Serket. Herodotus identified Neith with Athena, the owl Goddess, the Mother of matriarchy. It is worth emphasizing that the sacred city of the goddess Neith was called «Lunyt» (Lunit), and the ancient Greeks called it Latopolis (city of Lato), Polis Laton (city of Latona) or simply Lato.
Together, they personified Mother Earth, which cannot be loved or praised. Awakening from a long winter sleep, she was glorified by songs, and bonfires, and violent merriment. People asked