Since ancient times, hair has been of particular importance to humans. No wonder it was the locks of hair that the sorcerers used in their magical rituals. Moreover, most often the purpose of such rituals was to harm health.

Strength in hair

It cannot be said that in ancient times the length male hair was absolutely equal to the length of women's. Male Slavs regularly cut their hair, but nevertheless their hairstyles were never too short. Men's hair was cut so that the back of the head and ears were covered. The hair was combed from the crown in a circle or simply combed back. Until the 10th century, a straight parting remained popular among the princes, while the length of the hair reached the shoulders.

Our ancestors believed that it was through the hair that they acquire special power from the gods, the surrounding nature and their ancestors. No wonder hair is often compared to a wheat field. Long ears receive more life-giving moisture from Mother Raw Earth and more light from the Sun - Yaril. Yes, and the warning of the Slavic god Svarog said: “Do not cut your fair hair, your hair is different, but with gray hair, because you will not comprehend the Wisdom of God and lose your health.”

Long hair in Russia was associated not only with strength, but also with wisdom. It was believed that the longer their length, the wiser their owner. He receives this wisdom from above, as they would say now - from space. No wonder the word "cosmos" is so similar to "cosmos".

How was sheared

Children up to a certain age in Russia were not cut at all. Before the rite of tonsure, the little Slavs were considered asexual. Boys and girls wore the same clothes and the same long hair. At the age of 3-7 years, depending on the locality, the boys were sheared, having previously seated them next to objects symbolizing the masculine principle. It could be a harrow, an ax or a saber. Only after the haircut, the boys were dressed in men's clothes.

Traditions

In the old days, not only women, but also men treated their hair with care. Cut a man's hair
only his wife or other close relative was eligible. The cut hairs were thrown into a burning stove or buried under a fruit tree so that the man would not lose his vitality, and also so that no one could use his hair for evil purposes.

The fighting hairstyle of the Slavs changes the character of a man, makes him brave, courageous, fearless and causes panic among our enemies.

The well-being, standard of living and worldview of society are reflected in a person, including a hairstyle.

After the collapse Soviet Union the times of petty thieves or punks have come, which penetrated everywhere and saturated the aura of the whole country with respect for thieves, swindlers and scum, men began to cut their hair like criminals, i.e. bald. hairstyle displays public policy. Televisions filled not very pleasant faces, which sharpen infamously vulgar jokes throughout the country. And the corresponding programs and films. But not so long ago, jokes were sharpened, mainly in prison from idleness. And now in respect in our country - authorities, that is, criminals.

So many bald people still walk in the likeness of criminals, which confirms the direction of society. "But you can still change society with an ordinary male national hairstyle. The old Slavic and Cossack hairstyle, mustache and forelock (sedentary man), is a warrior's combat hairstyle and even a royal hairstyle. This hairstyle was worn by Tsar Svyatoslav, who died in Zaporozhye. defending Russia. The Great Prince Svyatoslav was a warrior and, accordingly, wore the battle hairstyle of the Slavs. Without such a hairstyle, a Slav is not a warrior, but a woman."

From here the Cossacks inherited the fighting and royal hairstyle and reigned for many centuries, and not only in Ukraine. And if all men in Russia wear military and royal hairstyles, mustaches and forelocks, then the Slavs will reign not only in their own country, but throughout the world. In addition, there is evidence that the formidable God, the thunderer, the defender of the Slavs - Perun had such a hairstyle. It's so easy to change life for the better, you just have to want our men to change their hair. Try it and see for yourself.

We now have such a time that every Slav must become a warrior because we are enslaved and we need to be freed. This combat hairstyle not only suits the Slavs, it makes them beautiful and courageous, and by this hairstyle it will be easy to recognize your own, by the way, if a foreigner does such a hairstyle, then it will not suit him, because he will look like a monkey.

Also, the beard changes not only the character, but also the life of a man and society as a whole. If all the men of the country wore beards, then it would be a country of sages and saints. A person completely changes depending on his hairstyle. A beard gives wisdom and dignity, a mustache and forelock (sedentary) - courage and fearlessness. A beard for men is very useful in a free society where there is no internal enemy.

There is a law of feedback. Men will change their hairstyle - and our society will change. If it is impossible to change anything from the top, then the bottom must change itself, and the top will become consistent with the society they govern. Therefore, if someone wants to become a warrior and then live like a king, then cut your hair under the forelock and leave your mustache. And you will know that the most powerful God-Perun, Tsar Svyatoslav, the glorious heroes of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks and you wore such a hairstyle. You will feel the difference between who you were and who you have become. And no one else will be able to fool and exploit you. (The correct forelock should not be behind, but in front, three or four fingers wide from the crown to the forehead)

Be happy!

With respect to all Mikhail Levadny
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Pagan peoples, including the ancient Slavs, have long given hair and beard sacred meaning, it was believed that the longer the hair, the more in a person life force the longer he will live in this world. The beard was especially taken care of - it was considered the beauty and honor of any man.

It is difficult to judge what hairstyles were worn in ancient Russia, because in most images the hair of men is hidden by headdresses or helmets, but it is known that the ancestors of the Slavs - the Scythians wore rather simple hairstyles, the nobility and warriors grew their hair below their shoulders, and only fashionistas Having seen enough of the Greeks and Romans, they cut them in the form of a long square and curled both their hair and beard with curls.

Varangians

In Russia, the braids were braided by the Varangian warriors who served in the princely squads - that is, the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. Since ancient times, these peoples had intricate hairstyles and the custom of washing often, caring for their hair and beard. This was done for practical purposes: so that the enemy could not detect an ambush by the smell of an unwashed body.

When in Norway in the city of Trondheim, during random excavations, a Viking burial boat was found in one of the estates, the assumptions about the complexity of the Norman hairstyles were confirmed: a bas-relief image of a Viking male head was found. The warrior's hair was parted evenly on two sides and neatly braided, the back of the head was shaved, and a long beard was braided.

The Vikings began to grow their hair from childhood, and from childhood they shaved their hair at the temples and at the back of the head. On the crown of the head, the hair grew until it became too long and began to interfere, then they were collected in a bun, and later, when they grew more, they began to braid. Usually the scythe covered the back of the warrior's head. The Normans believed that for her, the Valkyries pulled out the soldiers who fell on the battlefield from the battle and took them to Valhalla.

The Varangians often shaved their beards, this can be seen from the image on the 11th-century tapestry from Bayeux, in which the Anglo-Saxons are fighting the Norman conquerors, apparently, there was no special sacred power in it, but some Normans have magnificent mustaches.

Princes and warriors

It is known that in ancient times the Russian princes, and obviously, the warriors, shaved their heads baldly, but left their hair on the crown. Whether it was a settler familiar to us, or whether they braided a braid from this hair, it is not known for certain, because the ancient chronicles paid little attention to the appearance of people. However, the memory of the Byzantine writer Leo Deacon, who in the 10th century described the appearance of the Novgorod prince Svyatoslav, son of Prince Igor and Princess Olga, survived: “His head was shaved, but on one side a tuft of hair hung down - a sign of a noble family.”

Whether this tuft of hair was a forelock or looked somehow different is not specified in the memoirs of the Deacon. However, it is known that both the Varangian and Slavic warriors had every right to braid pigtails on both sides of the face before an important matter: battles, a long trip, and even marriage. That is, they did it not only so that the hair did not interfere in battle or on the road, but also for beauty.

sorcerers

Witchers and sorcerers braided their hair and long beards into braids, they believed that by braiding them in a special way, they seemed to envelop themselves with amulets, and long braid, on the back supposedly protected a person from the rear - from evil eyes. In paganism, a lot of superstitions were associated with hair in general. They were not sheared so as not to lose their strength, they were burned so that no one could cause damage, and if the cut hair was carried away by a bird, they believed that this was a disease - they expected that a person would soon begin to twist like hair is twisted in a bird's nest. Hair was used for love spells, for curses, for conspiracies. The beard was a special pride of the sorcerer. In no case was she sheared, believing that all male and witchcraft power was in her.

Laity

In peacetime, the ancient Slavs walked with loose hair. middle length, intercepted by a cord, so as not to interfere with work. Hair and beard trimmed neatly. For little boys there was even a special rite - tonsure. On this day, not only did the scissors touch the child's hair for the first time, but the future warrior was also allowed to sit on the horse for the first time.

After the adoption of Christianity, both princes and commoners began to cut their hair shorter, under a pot or bracket, and stopped braiding it, since such a custom was recognized as pagan and inappropriate for a Christian. For example, there is an engraving depicting the grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, the Kyiv prince Izyaslav, on which the prince is definitely tonsured like a pot. Approximately the same hairstyles were worn by Prince Yaropolk and Vsevolod the Big Nest.

In Geographic News of 1850, there is an interesting entry, which says the following: “About the costume, we find in de Lanois that women in Novgorod open two braids on their backs, and men wear one braid. The Novgorodian headdress has not yet been described by anyone, and from our legends we cannot but confirm or refute the knight’s testimony about the pigtails of the Novgorodians, who now remain in Russia only for church clerks.

Obviously, the journal article refers to the traveler and diplomat Gilbert de Lanois from Flanders, who visited Novgorod in 1413 and left literary memoirs about it. Whether he wrote the truth is difficult to judge, since in the same memoirs he told how Novgorodians sell their wives to each other for money.

The question of the appearance of ancestors has always interested people!
After all, it is interesting to know what your ancestors looked like and how similar they were to us.

Hair in ancient times played a sacred function and was always associated with the gods and higher powers.

The Egyptians shaved their heads and wore wigs, as it was considered a sign of high birth. The Greeks shaved their mustaches, but left beards and hair of medium length, so as not to look like barbarians.
The Germans and Celts, on the contrary, wore long hair and beards, the loss of which was a terrible shame!

But what about the Slavs?
Interestingly, living between the long-haired Germans and no less long-haired Scythians and Sarmatians, the early Slavs did not adopt this custom.

They are written about as people who wear short haircuts(the notorious "under the peas") or medium length square, but invariably have beards.

In a later period, the reign of Svyatoslav, the custom of shaving their heads became widespread among the Slavs, leaving long forelock, as well as a mustache. Or the Norman fashion for a shaggy head and full beard.

Probably, head shaving was borrowed from the Turks: Bulgars, Pechenegs and Huns, who after half a thousand years would shave off their hair and wear horseshoe mustaches. The Slavs often allied and fought with them, which is why they might like the customs.

So, in the picture above we see two diametrical hairstyles, what would it be for?

Brief information:

Oseledets:

A long mustache and a slightly gray-haired settler adorned his face with signs of experience and peace, and a silver mace that shone in his strong hand reminded everyone of the great power of the Zaporizhzhya ataman ...

Oseledets, don't say it, it's not just an attribute, not a medieval fashion - it's a sign of distinction, a certain status.

another option - a scythe on the head - is a sign that the warrior is in a state of holy war and is ready to die at any moment for his land and family.

Chub (settler) is not a Turkic and not a typical Slavic-Norman frieze, because the Vikings did not shave their heads and even braided pigtails, and if the Chinese and Japanese are Turks (they also shaved their heads) - then I am the Almighty messiah buda-alakh-yarilo. Where did the forelock come from? Let's try to figure it out

But some Normans also had forelocks! But which Normans? Usually those who communicated with the Slavs. On the head of the Normans, such a hairstyle was a sign of the nobility - jarls. The Normans who conquered England had shaved heads and a wide forelock in front. This hairstyle was common among the Celts. The latter considered long shocks of hair as a sign of divinity. In the 9th century, during the Carolingian dynasty, Frankish warriors wore a hairstyle that resembled a sedentary forelock.

They ate the Cossack: "What is the reason,

Why is your head naked, And the beast is chuprin?

"And the reason is this: I'll die in war

- Carry me an angel

To the sky for the chuprina".
Chubs were also worn by the ancient Germans - the Goths (Ostgoths), who lived in the steppes of modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, because this hairstyle was common among the Scandinavians and Russians.
Slavic pagan idolography practically does not know long-bearded gods and does not know long-haired gods at all. Slavic tribes depicted their idols with mustaches, but without beards (Perun, who has “a mustache of gold”). On the miniatures of the Radzilla Chronicle, Perun does not have a mustache, as well as a beard. On the other hand, the sedentary forelock is expressively noticeable, falling down to the left ear in a completely Zaporizhian way. Historians say that Russ (Scandinavians) Kievan Rus IX-XI Art. shaved beards and heads. Adhering to the princely military tradition, the Cossacks, as well as the army of the Varangian Svyatoslav, shaved their heads and beards, leaving mustaches and forelocks.
It must be said here that in medieval Europe, the Christian church opposed the custom of “growing stubble on the face”, in contrast to the Orthodox. Kozma of Prague, describing a noble Czech from the time of Boleslav the Terrible, notes a double forelock on his shaved head. The “Great Chronicle”, describing the last representative of the tribal nobility to the Polish throne - Kotishko, says that his head was bare, with the exception of one tuft of hair on the crown - a complete analogy with Svyatoslav. similar hairstyle Prince Wenceslas on the miniatures of the Wolfenbüttel manuscript. Almost relatives, the Slavs and the Balts, were also not inclined to grow their hair and beards. In medieval images of the Prussians, we see shaved beards, long mustaches and short-cropped hair (sometimes forelocks are recognized). In the iconographic tradition of Lithuania, the image of Jagiello (Yagaila) very much occurs on Prince Svyatoslav. The general view of the Lithuanian gentry of that time was the same.
On the island of Malta, in the chapel of Aragon, there is an interesting tombstone of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Nicolo Cotoner, made by the sculptor Domenico Guidi (1628-1701). One of the Atlanteans that supports this tombstone, similar to a Cossack who breaks his bonds. Art historians agree that this is the image of the Lithuanian prince Radivila (see picture), who was a galley rower in Turkish captivity, and who was later released by the Knights of Malta. And again the question: why does the prince have a Cossack hairstyle?

That is, we came to the conclusion that the forelock was a sign of some kind of class of people different peoples, but what?

The Swedish historian Johann Gerbinius, in describing the ancient world, recalls the Borysfenitive-Kosoners (inhabitants of the Borisfen-Dnepr basin). Unknown Persian author, 9th century CE in the work “The Book of the Borders of the World” describes the Rus: “the people of the Rus are warlike. They fight with all the infidels and always come out victorious, among them there is a group of Morovvats (knights). They sew harem pants from about 100 pieces of fabric, which they put on and rotate above the knee ... they sew hats from wool with a tail (shlyk). Full description a Cossack in trousers and a hat with a cloak. In general, traces of the spread of the settler in the world are noticeable as the settlements of the Aryan tribes from the Dnieper region.
In Mizyn, on the banks of the Ros River, Ukrainian archaeologists found the world's oldest anthropomorphic image with a forelock, carved on a mammoth bone. The age of the image is 20 thousand years. But historiography does not even want to remember this image. After all, this find convincingly proves that these lands were the homeland of the Aryan tribes.
Among the Aryan tribes, who in ancient times moved to India, this hairstyle was a sign of the military caste - the Kshatriyas. Kshatriyas wore it four thousand years ago. They had the name "shikhandaka" and it was characteristic of the Indian god of the wind, Krishna (as a symbol of the army). It is believed that this hairstyle symbolized Sunbeam, sun sign. In addition, the forelock, which resembles a shlyk on a Cossack hat, testified to the Kshatriya's disregard for death. After all, through the forelock his immortal soul will rise to the sun.
To deprive a Cossack forelock was considered the greatest shame. The extremely high status of this hairstyle among the Cossacks is also evidenced by the strictly regulated way of wearing a forelock, twisted precisely behind the left ear.
The forelock was certainly worn behind the left ear, like all distinctions and awards, - the former Cossack Antin Golovasty explained to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, - a saber, sword, orders, etc. are worn on the left, then the forelock, as a sign of a zealous and brave Cossack, should also be worn left". In Ukraine, there was even a special term "chuprindir" - brave, like a Cossack who wears a forelock on his head.
There is not a single doubt that the first Cossacks were pagans, but then, it is not known under what circumstances, part of them converted to Christianity. And one more thought that constantly annoys my head - the State of our ancestors, which the Europeans called RUSSIA no one could conquer, then they decided to split it internally and introduced Christianity, which tells us from childhood that we are God's servants!...
The most famous pagan characterist is Sirko.

Willing slave or master of his own destiny? Who do you want to be? Decide.

Does this remind you of something?
The working day ended, and the slaves who worked on the plantation dispersed to their homes. During dinner they started talking: - We need to do something with the owner. He will drive us to the grave! - So, if only to lose him... And so he said by nightfall. And when he said everything, the happy ones went to sleep, to gain strength. After all, tomorrow you have to go to the plantation to continue working ...

Photos of forelocks of other nationalities:

Svyatoslav the Conqueror. Prince of Russia in the years 964-972.

Most of the Frankish, Saka, Vandals and other warriors of medieval Europe braided their hair into braids and shaved the back of their heads.

Slov'yansko-Norman hairstyle-forelock of a warrior of Kievan Rus from the time of Prince Svyatoslav.

Russian warrior

Wide variety of Norman forelock

The warriors of the Germanic tribe of the Angles wore a hairstyle that resembled a sedentary. (Stills from the Scottish historical film "Winter Warrior" by Palm Tree UK Ltd.)

Simply put, you can say this: tonsure- This is a specially shaved bald head on the crown of the Catholic monks. Actually tonsura is translated from Latin as a haircut or shave. Tonsure figured in Christianity long before the split into Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and in Orthodoxy sometimes the crown of the head was shaved - this was called humence. Here is what Dahl says about this:

gumenets also the very crown of the head, dome, top, cut off from the clergy and clergy, at their consecration; in old times it was cut off at the tonsure, with the maturity of the lad in general; now peasants inclined to Old Believers, esp. lower cut out the Humenets.

Most fully about the different forms of tonsure is told:

Tonsure (lat. tonsura) - a shorn place on the crown of the Catholic clergy, a symbol of their renunciation of worldly interests. For a long time there was a custom according to which penitents cut their heads bald; then this custom was adopted by the monks, and in the VI century. and all Christian clerics; this was legalized by the fourth Toledo Cathedral in 633. T. differed in two kinds: T. of the Apostle Paul, when the front of the head was shaved, and T. of the Apostle Peter, made on the crown in the form of a circle. The first kind of T. was common in the Greek Church, and in a slightly modified form (T. apost. James) - also among the British and Irish; the second kind of T. is generally accepted in the Western church by monks and priests. At present, T. is usually produced simultaneously with initiation into a lower spiritual dignity, and it is the size of a small coin; for priests it is the size of a host, for bishops it is even larger, and for the pope only a narrow strip of hair is left above the forehead.

There is no consensus on the origin of tonsure. It seems that various customs of taming the vegetation on the head, which came to Christianity from different cultures, merged into the current form of tonsure. Here, Comrade Bondarenko writes:

The tonsure of the Irish (and British BC IX century) monks, which also caused irritation in Rome (the front of the head was shaved to a line that went from one ear to the other, the hair on the rest of the head was not cut) was, judging by the passage from the Book from Armagh, borrowed from the Druids...

Here is what Comrade Blavatsky writes about this: THE ROOTS OF RITUALISM IN THE CHURCH AND FREEMASONRY):

The top of the heads of the priests of Anubis / Egyptian deity with the head of a dog and the body of a man, the guide of the soul to the kingdom of the dead - approx. DM/ was shaved (Juvenal) - hence the tonsure originated ...

However, according to Blavatsky, in general everything is at least somewhat mystical in our country - from Egypt:::) What does tonsure symbolize? http://mirslovarei.com/content_sim/Tonz ura-874.html is quite light and mystical:

Shaving hair symbolizes the rejection of the fertile forces of nature, spiritual transformation, the nakedness of a newborn child, ascetic life, entering the spiritual path of self-denial and denial of the world, concentration. Tonsure can share the symbolism of the solar disk, the crown and the dome of the temple. In Christianity, it symbolizes the crown of thorns and the rejection of the flesh.

However, Masons, for example, draw a parallel here with a light window in the roof of the temple - in their interpretation of the tonsure there is a readiness to immediately perceive the descended grace. It seems that if you trace the historical roots, it will be possible to get to the point that this is just shaving hair over the Sahasrara chakra...