Arkona (Jaromarsburg)

Arkona is a city and religious center of the Baltic Slavic tribe Ruyan. The city of Arkona existed until the XII century and was located on the cape of the same name on the island of Rügen (Germany).

Geographically, the city of Arkona is located on the cape of the same name (Arkona), on the island of Rügen, in its northern part. Since ancient times, this territory was controlled by the Slavic tribe Ruyan, who were also called the Polabian Slavs. Archaeological excavations indicate that there were about 14 settlements in the area of ​​Cape Arkona.

Date of foundation of the city is unknown, but from medieval European chronicles (in particular - from the work "Acts of the Danes" by Saxon Grammar), we know that the city was destroyed by the Danes in the second half of the 12th century, during the reign of Prince Yaromar I. Following this event, the Ruyan tribe, according to modern historians, adopted Christianity, which in reality is unlikely, if only in view of the fact that in other regions the original faith of the Slavs was inferior to the new religion with a lot of blood, and "religious wars" on the territory Ancient Rus were conducted up to the XIV-XV centuries.

The already mentioned Saxon Grammaticus wrote that the Danes destroyed the temple complex of Arkona, which in fact was a cross between a city, a temple and a fortress. In size, Arkona, the city of the Slavs, surpassed all cities known at that time. In the center was the sanctuary of Sventovit (Svetovita), the ancient Slavic god, the patron saint of heavenly truth (many tribes, in particular - Ruyan themselves, revered him as the supreme god). The sanctuary was believed to be about 480 meters long (north to south) and 270 meters wide (east to west).

In progress archaeological site, which were conducted in 1921, 1930, as well as in the period from 1969 to 1971, it was found that individual fragments temple complex were built in the 9th century, however, there is no information regarding the dating of most of the surviving structural elements. Judging by the "Acts of the Danes" of Saxon, Grammar Arkona by the XII century was already considered an ancient city, this suggests that the temple-fortress was built much earlier.

A detailed description of the Svetovita temple, which was located in the very center of Arkona, can be found in the Acts of the Danes, and within the framework of this material it makes no sense to retell this medieval text. Another thing is important. This temple was probably the largest religious building in all of Europe, and its decoration could have been the envy of the palaces of the most powerful emperors. For more than three and a half centuries, "noble knights", Catholics and faithful, tried to capture Arkona. No one " crusade”Ended at the walls of this legendary city. And each time, 300 soldiers came out to meet the invaders, only 300 warriors on white horses and in bright red raincoats. There is a legend that they could not be defeated, for they were protected by Svetovit himself, the great god of the eternal truth. Also, legends say that "three hundred warriors of Arkona" traveled across all Slavic lands, protecting the shrines from enemies. And wherever they appeared, foreign forces washed themselves in blood, and fear settled in the hearts of the survivors forever.

But, as mentioned above, Arkona still fell. The Danish king Voldemar I sent 15,000 of his best soldiers to capture the city. 300 knights of Arkona died in that battle, but not one of Voldemar's warriors returned home. Moreover, the Danes, having lost the lion's share of their forces, did not dare to move further, deep into the territories controlled by the Ruyan tribe. However, in this case we are talking about a legend. If we turn to the information left to us by medieval European chroniclers, then everything in that distant year, 1168, developed somewhat differently. Under the leadership of Voldemar I (including the allied forces of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony) there were more than 30,000 people. On May 9, 1168, he landed on the island of Rügen near the city of Arkona. 2500 warriors, the regular army of Arkona, came out to meet him. Chroniclers write that almost all Slavic soldiers fell in the first battle, but Voldemar also lost more than a third of his personnel in just one day. Only civilians and 200 guards who served directly in the Svetovita temple remained in the city. The siege of Arkona lasted until June 12, and after one of the walls of the fortress ( Arkona was almost entirely wooden) was set on fire by the invaders, the Danes managed to break into the city. It is believed that the wall did not have time to be extinguished, because after a month of siege in Arkona the water ran out.

After the city was taken, Voldemar's troops approached the main temple, the Sventovit sanctuary, which was protected by the chief priest and 200 knights. Chroniclers write that the battle for the sanctuary lasted more than two weeks. After the capture of Arkona, Voldemar had a little less than 15,000 soldiers, which was clearly not enough to further advance inland. Then the Danish king offered Jaromar I, the Ruyan prince, peace.

It's hard to say what is true in this story and what is pure fiction. How does the legend of the fall of the city of Arkona relate to historical facts? It's hard to say, especially if you remember that history is always written by the winners. But even if the "winners" honestly told us that less than 3,000 Slavic warriors managed to "halve" the 30,000th Danish army, then beautiful legend about the "three hundred warriors of Arkona" does not look so fabulous, does it?

Unfortunately on this moment the truth is not known to us. It is also unknown where all the riches of the temple went. Part, of course, was plundered, but, for example, the three-meter kummir of Sventovit, which according to legend was the highest value of Arkona (Saxon Grammaticus writes that it was created from gold, platinum and other noble materials), disappeared without a trace. There is a legend according to which the Danes tried to snatch a blade from the hands of a kummir of excellent work, after which they fell down dead. Subsequently, the kummir was simply thrown into the sea, for Voldemar's soldiers decided that "he was cursed." Probably, the blade of Sventovit was made of meteorite steel, the same Saxon Grammaticus hints at this.

In fact, it is important that the memory of Arkona, the city of the Slavs, is alive. The legend of three hundred invincible warriors is also alive. And this means that the ancient culture of our Ancestors is not at all doomed, because we remember. We remember, despite the fact that "the history is written by the winners."

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Arkona

arkona in the crossword dictionary

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998

arkona

ARKONA (Arkona) city and religious center of the Baltic Slavs 10-12 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 of the 10th-12th centuries. on about. Rugen (Slavic Ruyana) in the southern part Baltic Sea, part of the GDR. From the west the city is surrounded by a rampart. Between 10 and 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 Armenia was described by the Danish medieval author Saxon Grammaticus. His data was confirmed in the 1920s. excavations of the German archaeologist K. Schuchhardt and others. Near the temple, a public gathering area was uncovered, and dwellings in the western part. In 1169 the Danish king Waldemar 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, B., 1926; Lyubavsky M.K., History of the Western Slavs, 2nd ed., M., 1918.

Wikipedia

Arkona (group)

Arkona- Russian pagan / folk metal band.

The group combines both screaming with growling and regular female vocals in their compositions. The main poet and composer is Masha "Scream" Arkhipova.

Arkona (cape)

Cape Arkona- a high bank (45 m) of chalk and marl on the Vitt 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 commune 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 a ring-shaped rampart, which housed the temple of the Vendian god Svyatovit. 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 project 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 Rugen Island. About 1 km to the northwest, there is a place called Gellort, which is the northernmost point.

Built in 1927, the Cap Arcona steamer was named after the cape.

Arkona

Arkona:

• Arkona is the city and religious center of the Ruyan.
• Arkona is a Russian metal band.
• Arkona is a cape on the coast of Germany.
• Cap Arcona is a steamer.
• Arkona (1902-1945) - a ship of the German fleet.

Examples of the use of the word arkona in literature.

I closed the hatch, sat down in a chair and thought about the hints for a few minutes. arkona about my loneliness.

Geoffrey with attention, but at times the meaning of speeches arkona seemed to elude me, giving way to an intuitive feeling of emptiness opening up under my feet.

Buying certain things is the most ordinary occupation in the world, but at arkona when he found out what I want, it was worth a look!

He dreams of power and might, and fasting arkona dear to him as long as it brings power and power.

Of course, she was no longer that stubborn, intractable, bitter creature that I bought from arkona Geoffrey.

How I needed something cool now - sermons arkona Geoffrey or in a bucket of cold water!

Almis reluctantly began picking an incomprehensible heap in her plate - there is no Arkona, nobody knows how to make a stew from a sysop.

Nowadays you are, in a way, really the heir to the king Arkona, however, we cannot agree that the author of these lines meant you.

Even if your sword is the same blade Arkona- and we have no evidence of this, although to some extent I can admit it - and you are exactly the person to whom it was intended, there may well be other interpretations of all this.

Their leader is rumored to have Arkona beer alcoholism - Ariss knew for sure that he would not enter the arena without a bottle of dark Gorgan.

« Past Buyan Island ", which Pushkin colorfully described in his" Tale of Tsar Saltan ", floated not only the notorious barrel with the hero of the work of Alexander Sergeevich, but also the armada of Danish kings who wanted to conquer the lands of the free Baltic Slavs.

It is precisely this connection between Fr. Buyan and Fr. Ruyan was conducted by the historian Wilinbach, proving the identity of the names of the legendary island.

Ruyan with the capital Arkona was one of the last pagan fortresses of the most ancient and autochthonous Slavic civilization, its western wing - the lands of the Polabian-Obodrit Slavs.

In modern Germany, many Slavic sanctuaries have been reconstructed, and this is not surprising, because all of its territory beyond the Oder (the glorious name of Odra) and the Elbe (resp. Laba) until the Middle Ages was inhabited by numerous Slavic tribes, known under the names of Lyutichi, Viltsy, Bodrich, Pomorians, Serbs-Sorbs and many others. The Germans and other Germanic and Romanic peoples called the Baltic Slavs Venda. Vendy-Wends are often mentioned as the ancestors of the Slavs.

Over time, almost all of these tribes were assimilated by the most powerful Germanic-Catholic onslaught to the east - it. Drang nach Osten. But so far in Germany, the Slavs-Sorbians have retained their identity. (their number is about 250,000 people.) .

This relict ethnos remained to us in memory of the former Slavic hegemony in that region and the stubborn, long-term resistance of the Polabian Slavs to German colonization. Assimilation was bloody, there was a powerful outflow of the Slavic population of these lands to the neighboring fraternal countries - Poland and the Czech Republic. But especially fierce struggle took place in the very north of the lands of the Polabian Slavs - on the island of Ruyan (modern German Rügen) at Cape Arkona.

Cape Arkona was the location of the cult center of the same name for the Baltic Slavs. It was dedicated to the Slavic deity Sventovit. This God was responsible for fertility and was central in the pantheon of deities of the inhabitants of Ruyan.

Danish chronograph XIV century. Saxon Grammaticus in his work "Acts of the Danes" gave detailed description Arkons and temples with the priest Svyatovit (Sventovita).

The idol of Svyatovit had four faces, facing the cardinal points, and held a horn with wine in its hand. According to the level of wine in it, the minister of the cult determined the degree of yield for the coming year.

"Svetovid", ill. from "Mythology of Slavic and Russian" A. S. Kaisarov, 1804

The central holiday in the solar pagan cycle was the day of the autumn equinox - it was in September that the Slavic New Year and festivities with feasts and round dances were organized right in the Sventovit sanctuary. The Ruyans were preparing a large honey cake as tall as a human being. The priest stood up for him and asked the audience: "Can you see me?" If it was visible, then he wished that the next year the cake completely overshadowed him.

On the territory of Arkona was located a warehouse of all the wealth obtained by peaceful and military means. The Ruyans gave the priest Sventovit about a third of the funds obtained. In its barns and bins there were jewelry and clothing, a lot of fabrics and other valuables. There were about 300 horses in the stable at the temple. You can even say that the priest was the central figure in the state of the recalcitrant island. It was he who planned the routes and tactics of military campaigns, including using the widely used fortune-telling practice.

With axon Grammaticus described a ritual associated with a white horse, which stepped over a symbolic gate made of three lances. If the horse stepped with the right foot, then the campaign will be successful, if with the left, then it is worth reconsidering the direction of movement of the army. This horse was an inviolable figure; only the priest himself could take care of him, and pulling even a hair from his mane was considered a grave offense.

The Ruyans were not only engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding, but were truly conquerors of the sea. They controlled a vast territory of the Baltic Sea, waging constant wars with the Vikings. Some Danish provinces even paid tribute to Ruyan's Slavs.

Perhaps the expansionist policy of the Baltic Slavs was partly due to their response to the well-known German ideological paradigm "drang nach Osten". After all, attempts to colonize the lands of the Ruyans and convert them to Christianity took place practically throughout the entire length of Slavic-German contacts, starting from Frankish times.

There is an opinion that the Kiev prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich "Red Sun" erected a pagan pantheon in Kiev, on Podol, in 980 out of solidarity with the rebellious Slavic relatives of Arkona.

Surrounded by aggressive neighbors, Arkona resisted for a long time, until in 1168 it was destroyed by the army of the Danish king Valdemar I, who defeated the Ruyan prince Jaromir.

The stones of the Arkona sanctuary were used to build a Catholic church in Altenkirchen in 1185. The stone with the image of the priest Sventovit is still kept there.

The greatest leader of the Reformation, Philip Melanchthon, wrote that after the fall of Arkona and its complete plundering by the colonialists - Catholics, most of the Slavs-Ruians migrated to the east - to where the coast of the Gulf of Riga is now. He also etymologically linked the names of Riga and Ruyan. It is quite possible that the Ruyans found refuge with their kindred pagan Balts, the ancestors of modern Latvians. After all, it is known that the Baltic and Slavic tribes are the closest genetically, culturally and linguistically in comparison with other Indo-European peoples.

Arkona is also associated with the anti-Normanist doctrine of Lomonosov, in which the great Russian scientist postulated a version of the Ruyan Slavic roots of Rurik and his entourage. Mikhail Vasilyevich believed that the Varangians called up in 862 by the Novgorodians were natives of Ruyan, or other lands of the Baltic Slavs, and had nothing to do with the Germans.

The Slavic legends about the legendary elder Gostomysl (the ruler of Novgorod) tell about the calling of his grandchildren, headed by Rurik. The daughter of the gray-haired leader Umila was married to one of the princes of the Baltic Slavs, and Rurik, thus, was a representative of the clans of cheer and Novgorod Slovenes, if we start from this legendary version. And this is quite plausible, since archaeologists have established the continuity of archaeological artifacts, types of buildings of the Slavs of Novgorod and the southern Baltic coast.

In addition to archaeologists, the idea of ​​a single cultural space was expressed by Academician Zaliznyak, an outstanding representative of Russian linguistics, who outlined in his works a single Novgorod-West Slavic linguistic continuum.

The Slavic citadel of the Baltic - Arkona - reminds us of the great era of the dominance of the developed spiritual culture of our ancestors.

Arkona today

Cape Arkona (German: Kap Arkona) is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Rügen. Annually, about 1 million people come to admire the location of the ancient sanctuary of Ruyan.

The place is very beautiful and picturesque. A high bank (45 m) of chalk and marl is located on the Witt peninsula in the north of the Rügen island (near the fishermen village Witt).

The main attractions of Arkona are two lighthouses, two military bunkers, a Slavic fortress and several tourist buildings (restaurants, souvenir shops). On the western side of the cape there is a ring-shaped rampart, which housed the temple of the Vendian god Svyatovit. Also near the ancient castle of Jaromarsburg, you can take a picture against the background of a modern wooden carved statue depicting the four-faced Slavic deity Svetovid.

Arkona- This is the 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 Jewish 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 the peoples and tribes were destroyed or assimilated.

West Slavic Baltic tribes (Wends-Wends), settled between the Elbe (Laba), Oder (Odra) and the Vistula, reached high development by the 9th-10th centuries AD, having built on the island of Ruyan (Rügen) sacred city temples to Arkon, which served as the Slavic Vedic capital for all Baltic Slavs.

After all, it was here, in the northernmost point of the island, that the legendary fortress was located Arkona... High on a chalk cliff, on a steep cliff, protected from three sides by the sea, and from the fourth, by a huge rampart, inaccessible to the enemy, the capital of the most powerful tribe of the Western Slavs.

The ancient Slavs always used features natural landscapes for the defense of their cities, but the location of Arkona is so magnificent, ingenious and incredible that it allowed this small Slavic principality to preserve its will, independence and Faith, being in a constant state of war with the largely outnumbering and military power of Judeo-Christian neighbors - the Catholic Polish state, the imperial Germany and Denmark. And not only to defend against numerous enemies. Possessing a powerful fleet, the Ruyans controlled most of the south coast Baltic Sea.
Huge wealth accumulated in the fortress of Arkona, partly being conquered 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 Russia. The memory of this place is also preserved in Russian legends.
In ancient Russian legends, this is the Buyan island in the sea-okiyane, where the Stone-Alatyr is white-combustible, the ancient Pradub is unattainable and mighty, the seven heavens pierces and supports the center of the universe. Arkona - Yarkon - ardent - fiery white horse - a symbol of the grace of the God of light - Svetovita. The white horse is a symbol of the Rus heritage of the traditions of their ancestors, the legendary Aryans.

Ilya Glazunov “Rugen Island. Priest and sacred horse Svyatovit "

The Temple of Arkona on the island of Ruyan was the main shrine of the Western Slavs, was the largest cult center and the last bastion of West Slavic paganism, opposing the influence of Judo Christianity. According to the general conviction of the Baltic Slavs, the god Svyatovit gave the most famous victories, the most accurate divinations. Therefore, for sacrifices and for fortune-telling, Slavs flocked here from all sides of Pomorie.

The sacred white horse lived in Arkona at the Svetovita temple (Sventovita). His mane and tail were left uncut. Only the first priest could ride the mount. This horse, also participated in fortune-telling, with the help of it they 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 state importance- the white horse carried the will of Svetovit, walking through the thorns of the rite - the Rus always consulted with the Ancestor Gods at the crossroads of life.
There were several ways of divination by the servants of Svetovit about the future. Some of them - with the help of the sacred white horse of the god.
The ministers stuck three pairs of spears in front of the temple at a certain distance from each other, to each pair a third spear was tied across. The priest solemnly pronounced a prayer, then led the horse out by the bridle from the hallway of the temple and led to the crossed spears. If the horse, walking through all the spears, first walked with his right foot and then with his left - this was considered a happy omen, but if the horse first walked with his left foot, then the military campaign in this case was canceled.
And there is still a belief that getting up on the left foot in the morning is a bad omen, and they say that: "Got up on the wrong foot".
Three pairs of copies, perhaps, symbolically reflected the will of the gods of heaven, earth and underground (3 kingdoms according to Russian fairy tales) during fortune-telling.
They also wondered in the following way: in the evening they left the horse cleaned, and in the morning they found it foaming 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 war heroic horse Svetovita 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, it was the lot of the elite, equipped with heavy weapons. This squad participated in campaigns, withdrawing a third of the spoils 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 near the temple, a popular assembly square was discovered, and residential buildings were located to the west).
The luminary (sanctuary) was located at the top of the cape, main square was protected from the side of 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 luminaries), and on central square there was a wooden temple, surrounded by a palisade with a large gate to the courtyard.

Vsevolod Ivanov "Rainbow over the Arkona"

Inside the sanctuary there was an image of Svyatovit. The temple itself was a wooden structure and stood on a plain.
The walls of the temple were decorated with paintings, there was only one entrance. The building had two rooms, 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 Svetovita was one of the brightest and brightest (holy) places in Veney (Europe), a miracle of the World, no less than the temple of Zeus in Olympia. And therefore he aroused envy and hatred among the Jewish-Christian neighbors.

Idol of Svyatovit installed in Arkona by Polish relatives in the 90s of the XX century

The idol of Svetovita had four faces, looking in different directions of the world and, possibly, symbolizing the power of God over the four cardinal points (like the four winds) and the four seasons of time. According to one version, he had a bow in his left hand, according to the other, it rested against the side. The shirt was made to the elbows; the lower parts of the arms were made of different types of wood and were so intricately connected to the knees that at first glance it was difficult to recognize where they were connected. The legs rested, as it were, 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 filled it with liquid annually, so that later, by its qualities, he could predict the future harvest (the idol itself was much larger than human growth), at the hip hung a sword in a silver sheath.

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.
The horn of Svetovid meant the 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 him income; in favor of it, duties were collected from merchants who traded in Arkona, from industrialists who fished herring near the island of Ruyan. A third of the war booty was brought to him, all the jewelry, gold, silver and pearls obtained in the war. Therefore, there were chests filled with jewels 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 martial arts of the European North. Ancient history Polabian Slavs bring to us the memory that there was a special type of military service at the temples. These temple warriors were originally called knights.

When, after an incessant centuries-old struggle with the Frankish, Germanic, Danish Judeo-Christian baptists, the peoples of the Baltic Slavs, one after another, were enslaved, Arkona became the last free Slavic city honoring the native Gods. And it remained so until its destruction in 1168.
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Death of Arkona

In the spring of 1168, by order of the Judeo-Christian bishop Absalon, the troops of the Danish king Valdemar I with allies attacked the Arkonian State.

For almost a month and a half there was a war in the possessions of the rugs on the shores of the Baltic Sea. And only then, when the remnants of the troops withdrew to the island - the Danish king with German troops began the assault on the fortress city of Arkona itself.
In total, the invaders had up to 20,000 soldiers - professional soldiers, not peasants recruited in the villages ...
Already at the very beginning, on the very first day, the main army of Arkona (about 2500 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 could not take the city by storm, they set it 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 - the professional squad of the knights of the temple fought with the remnants of the Arkonian army - by the time the city fell, less than 200 of them remained. And when, after the fire, the city was taken - only the Svetovita temple remained.
For almost a week, over 200 soldiers defended it from 15,000 troops (this is how much remained of the 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 Arkonian soldiers stood to death.
For 2 weeks of battles (in the German chronicles they write 6 days and underestimate the losses ...) knights-warriors of the Svetovita temple, of whom there were only 9 by that time !!! people - put out of action almost 4500 thousand professional Judo-Christian soldiers. The whole moat in front of the temple was filled with corpses, swords were taken from the killed comrades.
The Normans and Dacians were already simply afraid to go to the next assault, 2 brothers of the king, 7 barons were killed, horsemen 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 soldiers of the temple remained, detachment after detachment to storm the temple went German and Danish detachments, for the first time using the shift method, the Danes fought at night, and the Germans during the day.
Exhausted and not sleeping for several nights, the Slavs did not give up and over the last day the Germans could not kill anyone of the 9 Slavic temple warriors-knights (one of them was the high priest)

Then the Danes collected all the barrels of resin (it had already been brought up 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 midst of the troops, killing everyone, until they themselves died ...
This is how the last Vedic state of the Slavs perished in Venei (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 July 1, 1168, it was then that the temple burned down with the last defenders.
According to legend, the revival of the nation of Rus and Rodnoverie will begin when the desecrated idol of Svetovita (Sventovita) is returned to Arkona.

1168 year. Militant Christians led by Bishop Absalon destroy the statue of the god Svyatovit in Arkona.

On July 1, 1168, Arkona, a sanctuary on the island of Ruyan, which was once a single all-Slavic sanctuary, was completely destroyed. The temple of Svetovita, the solar temple of all Slavic tribes, collapsed in the fire. It was burned by the Christian Danish king Waldemar 1, again nicknamed "the Great".

So, the last, most northern stronghold of the Slavs was wiped off the face of the earth. The insatiable Jehovah was drunk with the sacrificial blood of the Baltic Slavs. But there were also Eastern Slavs. There was a mighty people Rus. And there was holy Russia.

Yes, Russia was Holy just before its bloody "conversion" to Christianity. Saints - means Light (solar), the meaning here merges in tune.

After the fall of Arkona, the 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 not a line about this in Europe 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.
East and West (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-Jewish Christian Civilization that defied the Jewish Christian cross and perished, but we will always remember them.

In 1308, an earthquake occurred in the Baltic, after which most of Ruyan (Rügen) islands and a good half of Arkona went to sea ​​bottom... In 1325, the last prince of the Ruyan, Wisław III, died, and 80 years later, the last woman who spoke Slavic died on Rügen.

The Baltic Slavic Venedian ethnos has ceased to exist, as many believe, 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, there are two lighthouses. The first was built in 1826, and the second is younger - in 1902

Rugen Island is located on the southern coast of the Baltic (Varangian) Sea. Rügen has been inhabited since about 4000 BC. In the 7th century, a powerful Slavic tribe - Rugieris or Rugii, having founded here on the coast of Pomerania, Slavic principality, which became a political and shopping center(harbor of Ralwick) Varangian Sea on the trade route from Gotland, and a well-fortified religious center at Cape Arkona.

Slavic coastal settlements located in a large number on all river trade routes, were of great importance in trade in the Baltic (Varangian) Sea. Many Scandinavian merchants lived permanently in some of the large market centers of the Western Slavs.

Nowadays, large territories of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea belong to Germany, and it keeps many Slavic toponyms - Rostock, Lubeck, Schwerin (Zverin), Leipzig (Lipsk), Berlin - ("den" - the lair of the beer-bear). .

“The island lies on the sea,
There is a city on the island ... "
A.S. Pushkin.

An ancient Russian legend about the wondrous island has been preserved: “There on the sea-Okiyane, on the island of Buyan, the Bel-key stone of Alatyr lies ... Pradub is ancient, vast and mighty, it stands, pierces the seven heavens, Iriy props”."Iriy is Paradise in the seventh heaven, and alatyr is amber!

On the island Ruyan, on a high 40-meter promontory facing east, archaeologists discovered the temple city-state of the Russians - Arkona - Yarkon - an ardent horse - a sunny white horse Svyatovit.

Arkona - lies on the top of the high white coast of the island of Rügen, and is washed on three sides by the waters of the Baltic Sea. The Arkona settlement-sanctuary now covers an area from east to west 90 meters, and from north to south - 160 meters, although archaeologists suggest that the size of the sanctuary was three times larger.

Have northern slope mountains in the sanctuary of Arkona are Holy spring and a path has been laid to it.

“Another island is located opposite Vil'tsev (lyutichi)... It is owned Rane, the bravest Slavic tribe. ... Rane, called Rouen by others, are cruel tribes living in the heart of the sea and beyond measure devoted to idolatry. They excel among all Slavic peoples, have a king and a famous sanctuary. Therefore, due to the special veneration of this sanctuary, they are most respected and, imposing a yoke on many, they themselves do not experience anyone's yoke, being inaccessible, because their places are difficult to get. "- Adam of Bremen, "Acts of the Bishops of the Hamburg Church" ("Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum")

Archaeological excavations of the Arkona sanctuary were carried out in 1921, 1930, 1969 -1971. In the vicinity of the Arkona settlement there are 14 settlements and a large burial mound, resembling burial mounds of northwestern Russia.

According to archeology, the wounds (Ruyans) had extensive trade ties with Scandinavia and the Baltic states, and also waged wars with their neighbors, defending their territory. Trade in Arkona was conducted from the 8th century to the 10th century.

Archaeologists have discovered two main settlements on the island of Rügen (Rügen):
(1) The harbor at Ralswick on the island of Rügen was a commercial center from the 8th to the 10th century. In the harbor, archaeologists have found twenty (20) houses, with adjoining sections of the Baltic Sea coast, and convenient marinas for merchant ships. Residents - Scandinavians and Slavs were engaged in various crafts and traded with foreign merchants. Outside the city limits on a hill, more than 400 burial mounds were found, the burials of the Scandinavians and Slavs are similar.

(2) The Sanctuary of Arkona is a pagan temple and fortress of Rugieris. The sanctuary of Arkona was located on the top of the cape, protected from the sea side by a steep cliff, and from the land side - by a double semicircle of embankments and ditches with water. The sanctuary was guarded by 300 warriors. In the center of the Arkona sanctuary was an ancient temple surrounded by a log palisade with a large gate. Only the high priest of the god Svyatovit could enter the temple. .

Encyclopedic Dictionary of F.A. Brockhaus and I.A.Efron, S.-Pb., Brockhaus-Efron, 1890-1907. “The Rugii are a large and powerful people, who lived in northern Germany, along the seashore, between the Oder and the Vistula. During the migration of peoples Rugia joined the Goths and moved to the area along the middle course of the Danube.

In 1325 the last prince of Ruyan Wislav-3 died, and the island of Rügen (Rügen) was conquered by the Duke of Pomerania. In 1405, the last resident died on the island of Rügen who spoke Slavic — .