Ynglism

[15] The term "Ynglism" refers to the Ynglings, one of the early Germanic royal families, whom Ynglists believe to be descendants of the Aryan race who originated from the Omsk region of Western Siberia, Russia.

[16] According to the Ynglists, the term has cosmological significance,[17] referring to the order of the universe carried by the primordial fiery radiance — the Ynglia, personified as Yngly — emanated by the supreme God, Ra-M-Kha.

[3] The term, which means the right way of living in accordance with the law of the universe, was appropriated by Eastern Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs only by the 17th century, through the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, in order to wholly absorb the indigenous religion which was then still prevalent among the population.

[21] The definition "Old Believers" (Староверы, Starovery), which today is employed to refer to Christians who preserved pre-Nikonian rituals, who are more correctly called the "Old Ritualists" (Старообрядцы, Staroobryadtsy), was imposed on the latter during the same Nikonian reform.

[22] He began to give an organisation to Ynglism between the 1980s and the early 1990, starting from the community Dzhiva-Astra (Джива-Астра) which practised exorcism and traditional medicine,[23] and formally founded the Ynglist Church in 1992, in Omsk.

[7] In the same year he published a book entitled Ynglism, Short Course, in which he put forward the backbone of his doctrine, and he visited the United States where he claimed to have established branch groups of the Ynglist Church.

[28] The scholar Elena Golovneva argued that it is accurate to classify Ynglism a "new religious movement", or an "invented tradition", which nonetheless contains elements drawn from very old sources.

[37] They were allegedly originally written on santy (сантии, сантьи, саньтии), tablets made of noble metals, which would now be kept in a secret location by the high priests of Ynglism and would contain texts composed of 186,000 "Slavic Aryan runes", first transliterated into Cyrillic script and printed on paper in 1944.

[40] The third Veda comprises the Ynglism, the Ancient Faith of Slavic and Aryan Folks (Инглиiзмъ, Древняя Вера Славянскихъ и Арiйскихъ Народовъ; Ingliizm, Drevnyaya Vera Slavyanskikh i Ariyskikh Narodov) and the second part of the Word of Wisdom.

[42] Besides their Vedas, the Ynglists also rely upon the Book of Veles,[42] and also upon various Gnostic scriptures, including the Secret Gospel of John and the New Testament of the Holy Apostle Thomas discovered in 1945.

[47] According to the prolific Ynglist writer Aleksey Trekhlebov, one of the closest disciples of Aleksandr Khinevich, the Slavic tradition offers three postulates for knowing truth: word (slovo), vision (vedy) and experience (opyt).

[48] The scholar Victor Shnirelman observed that the Ynglist doctrine owes much to Slavic, Germanic, Iranian and Indian sources, but integrates gods and concepts from other cultures as well.

[57] They are all in accordance with the order (the Ynglia) begotten by the supreme God, but at the same time they may exceptionally intervene in the course of phenomena helping the spiritual evolution of mankind along the right path, if people are motivated by sincere creativity and love.

[46] The Ynglists distinguish four categories of gods: In the hierarchy of the Highest Gods there are: Vyshen (Вышень, Slavicised Vishnu), Kryshen (Крышень, Slavicised Krishna) and Svarog — the ecliptic north pole; Perun, Indra and Simargl — the celestial north pole, Iriy or Svarga; Dazhbog — the Sun; Chislobog — the great year or great time; Svetovid and Ramkhat — the year; Dzhiva and Marena — life and death; Veles — the patron of the Earth; Mokosh and Lada — aspects of the Earth; Rod and Rozhana — male and female progenitors of human kins.

[58] On the level of the cycle of the Sun, Yngly manifests itself as the eight gods who govern the eight phases of the year: Kolyada, Veles, Lelya, Yarilo, Kupalo, Perun, Mokosh and Marena.

[59] In their incarnated form, materially functioning as progenitors of genealogical lineages, the gods of the northern polar astral planes, especially of the Svarga, are known as "Ases" (Асов, Asov) and they are believed by the Ynglists to be the forefathers of the four ramifications of the Slavo-Aryans: Da'Aryans (Да'Арийцы), Kh'Aryans (Х'Арийцы), Rassenians (Расены) and Svyatorussians (Святорусы).

[17] Ynglism presents itself as the true spirituality of the Aryans, a term which means "harmonious men", those who live in accordance with the laws of God and therefore manifest bright physical features and clear thoughts.

[42] After leaving their original homeland Daarya, the Aryans settled in what is today the vast expanse of Eurasia, where the richest occurrences of hooked cross symbolism in historical testimonies have been found, in patterns of architecture, weaponry, and tools of everyday life.

[60] The Ynglist author Trekhlebov claims that most of the ancient peoples of Eurasia, known by a variety of ethnonyms, were in fact ramifications of the Slavo-Aryans, and that the same term "Russians" and related ones come from the Aryan root ros meaning "radiance", "light" and "holiness".

[79] Within the Ynglist Church, the "purity of the kin (rod) and the blood" is considered a divine command: miscegenation and incest, as well as "perverted" sexuality without reproductive ends and the consumption of alcohol and drugs, are forbidden as unhealthy threats of "modern confusion" imported from the "degenerated" West.

[24] As a solution, Ynglists emphasise the theme of "creating beneficial descendants" (созидание благодетельного потомства, sozidanye blagodetel'nogo potomstva), and encourage the creation of large families of up to sixteen children, considered the number of an ideal "full circle of offspring".

Our ancestors warn us from the distant past: "... we ourselves are the grandchildren of Dazhdbog and have not aspired to sneak in the footsteps of foreigners".Ynglist doctrines emphasise a "healthy way of life", which includes eating natural and pure food, being responsible and sober, but also ideas based on theories of human biology and genetics which are "far from academic perceptions".

[71][107] According to Ynglist yujism, the human body — created by the nine chakras conveying the flux of the universal energy — also exists energetically on nine levels, of which one representation is the traditional Russian matryoshka doll made of nine wooden figures placed one inside the other in decreasing size.

[109] The only exception to this rule is the first month, Ramkhat (Рамхатъ), whose name refers to the beginning of Ra-M-Kha's ordering action, Yngly, represented by the swastika-like first rune and extending as the entire year.

[59] The Ynglists believe that if one behaves incorrectly, that is to say not in harmony with the rites (ряд, ryad) which follow the natural rhythm of the year, his own biorhythm, connection with the ancestors, and life cycle are disrupted, he becomes unhealthy and gets old quickly.

[1] The three intersecting triangles represent the three worlds of traditional Slavic cosmology (Prav, Yav and Nav), the Triglav manifestations within each of them, but also spirit, body and soul on the human plane.

[117] They believe that Christianity was deliberately invented by the Jews — whom they consider as the leading elite of the wicked "gray race" — as an "excellent ideological weapon" to enslave the whole world.

[118] On the other hand, the non-Ynglist Russian Rodnover leader Nikolay Speransky (volkhv Velimir) in the early 2010s classified Aleksandr Khinevich among the representatives of left-wing ideas within Rodnovery, although recognising that he then kept most of his activity outside of politics.

[24] In 2016, the scholar Kaarina Aitamurto reported that Ynglism clearly had a "substantial number of followers",[45] while Elena Golovneva noted that Ynglist ideas were not marginal even among non-Ynglist Russian Rodnovers.

[125] Golovneva reported that at the time of her study the activities of Ynglist communities were financed by their parishioners themselves and by two commercial organisations, namely "Asgard" and "Iriy", which were involved in building and consulting.

The symbol of Ynglism as a body of religious believers (church). [ 1 ] It represents Yngly, the fiery radiance, word and action of the supreme God begetting and ordering the universe, as the spinning astral images of the northern culmen of the sky ( Iriy or Svarga , "Heaven"). [ α ]
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The headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk , in 2016, including the residence of Aleksandr Khinevich in the foreground and the Temple of the Wisdom of Perun (Капище Веды Перуна) in the background.
Three of the canonical Slavo-Aryan Vedas , the Book of Light , two copies of Ynglism , and the Source of Life , plus the non-canonical Slavic Worldview .
The name of the supreme transcendental God, Ra-M-Kha , in stylised Ynglist runic writing . [ 18 ]
Scheme of the theology of Omskian Ynglism: Ra-M-Kha begets Ynglia - Yngly , which begets Rod , from which depart the four ramifications of the Slavo-Aryans.
Sword in brushwood prepared for worshipping Perun by Ynglists in Omsk; note the inscription in Ynglist runes on the sword's crossguard . According to the scholar Richard Foltz , the ritual of swords planted in piles of stones or brushwood has Scythian origins, and honoured the martial deity, and even the British Arthurian legend of the sword in the stone is an echo of this cult, which was brought to Britain by Alan (i.e. " Aryan " through a consonant shift; the name of Sarmatian tribes from the first century onwards [ 55 ] ) regiments settled there by the Romans during the first century CE. [ 56 ] [ dubious – discuss ]
Representation of the four dimensions of Ynglist cosmology and of the cycle of life throughout them.
Alatyr Stone , by the Russian artist Lola V. Lonli , 2000.
Woman from Belovodye , Lola Lonli, 2000.
Symbol of the Slavo-Aryan race, the "heavenly kin"; the four beams of the hooked cross represent its four subdivisions, based on the eye colours: gray the Da'Aryans, green the Kh'Aryans, hazel the Rassenians, blue the Svyatorussians. [ 60 ] It is often completed by a sword pointing downward over the hooked cross, representing the descent of the primordial fire of Yngly and the wisdom of the Slavo-Aryans. [ 60 ]
A "Baba Yoga" club in Okunevo, Omsk Oblast . In Ynglism, Baba Yaga , whose original name is Baba Yoga , meaning the " Yogini Mother", is a goddess representing female yujists who initiate orphan children to the Aryan gods through a fire rite, to make them priests and leaders of communities; she would have been demonised by the Christians, who turned her into the old hag who eats children of modern Russian folklore. [ 86 ] [ 87 ]
Yujist figurative representation of reality.
Representation of the nine energetic centres of the human body.
Ynglist kologod , also known as Alatyr . [ 59 ] The runes representing the nine months have to be read counterclockwise starting from the top-left hooked cross of Yngly, representing the beginning of the year. [ 109 ] The following eight months correspond to the eight gods proceeding from Yngly as the cycle of the Sun and to the eight phases of the year which such gods influence, which have to be read clockwise. [ 59 ]
The star of Yngly.
The Temple of the Wisdom of Perun, part of the headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk, as it appeared in 2004, before it was destroyed by arson on September 16 of the same year. [ 8 ] It was rebuilt in the 2010s.