Abstract
Discovered in a Ukrainian bombed out home at the end of WWI a set of wooden boards inscribed in runes was translated in the 1950’s and transcribed into English in the 1970’s. Known as the Book of Vles (or Veles[1]) the translator purports it to be the oldest known written account of pagan pre-Christian beliefs in the
The pagan traditions of the
With modern research being conducted in the fields of ethnography, anthropology, archaeology, religious studies, and the opening up of the
This paper looks at the Book of Vles in light of the information we have on pagan traditions in the Ukraine, and in light of the work of Maria Gimbutas who herself was no stranger to controversy.
[1] Vles or Veles refers to a particular Ukrainian pagan diety.
[2] Deniken led the White Army a counter revolutionary force against the Ukrainian Anarchist Army of Nestor Makhno and the Bolsheviks Red Army under Trotsky, another Ukrainian, in the Russian Civil War 1918-1921.
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Really incredible post.
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Ah yes Croatan...it took me a few days to remember the reference to the lost colony of Virginia...
And after all those hints I left writing about Jamestown, which of course is not to be confused with Jonestown.
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