#ancient rus

[kusurrone]

(i wasnt late!!)

Ancient Rus au

ancient russian halloween Veles night of 31st of october--1st of november where all the spirits, especially evil, go out and confuse the roads so if you're outside that time you get lost and fucking die :D

*leshi -- evil spirit of forest (who just wants to be left alone)

*perun -- the main god of pagan pantheon

[gachats]

Khors, 2015 - oil on canvas.

— Andrey Alekseyevich Shishkin (Russia, 1960).

According to the most widespread and reliable theory, Khors was the East Slavic god of the moon, equal in importance to Perun and Veles.

[mavkarants]

Comments on videos of ruzzian centric history (aka propaganda): Rus is Russia. Great russian history! Russian culture is so long and beautiful. Honestly russians have so much to be proud of.

Comments on videos which correctly recognize Rus as Ukraine, using Ukrainian spelling: Kiev. Ummm actually you can't say (insert ancient Ukrainian person) is Ukrainian, they are actually just Slavic or Ruthenian or Russian. You can't insert modern day politics into this. Russians and Ukrainians didn't exist back then! They were just slavs! Back then they were just russians. You don't know history! Rus is modern day Russia! Kiev. Kiev. Actually they are Russian in the ancient way and not modern way because that's what they were called. Ugh Ukrainians always have to remind us that Rus is Ukrainian.

How come this shit only happens on Ukrainian posts? On ruzzian posts that steal Ukrainian history and push propaganda, people are at awe at what they say. Posts that are factually correct and use Ukrainian spellings and mention Ukraine, suddenly people have a balanced view of history where the predecessor isn't only Ukraine (cough cough yes it is cough cough). This is just a very clear reminder of how people still hate Ukrainians and would prefer ruzzian propaganda over reality.

Also, if you wanna refer to Ancient Ukrainians and Belarusian properly then say Rusians. One s to separate them from modern day russians. It has ALWAYS been spelled with one s, until moscovites stole the name Rus and spelled it with two s's.

[roran01]

Anyways have some concept art of ancients in the new style

Personally I like how Rome come out

[joelchaimholtzman]

Slavic inspired character design I painted a few years ago; Inspired by ancient paganism and early medieval/cossack apparel.

Hope you like it!

JCH

[myrtleturtlee]

[toxictoxicities]

Somethin somethin Links local group and beloved Ancient, A Humid Breeze, Seven Distant Valleys

[suddenlymicah]

happy ides of march! time to kill ceasar

[flock-from-the-void]

For the emoji askssss

🐛🐈‍⬛🦋

Hi Aki! I see it's a revenge for my weird ass emojis /lh Here's the ask game

🐛 – I had to think about this one for a good while... I think Xióng Yǒu would work? The guy just wants to live quietly in his little house but things just keep happening to him. I bet a tiny bug also doesn't ask for any attention and still has to deal with dumb teenagers poking it with sticks or something like that

🐈‍⬛ – I'll go with Rú Sàizhuàn. She's the head of Rú clan and the Rú city, briefly mentioned in a short story Brutal as "that old ungrateful bitch" lol. She's a separatist, slowly building the city's wealth and military force to make her dream of Rú country come true. That's why a black cat going away in an unknown direction reminds me of her!

🦋 – Oh, that's so Dū Huìjiàn!! Works on multiple levels for her. One, she managed to escape the cocoon of her abusive family and become a flourishing butterfly under Dài Zhūdiān's care. Two, she had to take from multiple martial arts schools to kinda make her own fighting style, which reminds me of butterfly flying from a flower to flower. Lastly, butterfly is sometimes used as a symbol for trans people and she's a trans woman! Butterfly icon haha

[turtlemagnum]

one of my favorite parts of strategy games like chess and advance wars is that feeling when you haven't quite won yet but the enemy has no real options so it feels like you're just sloowly wrapping around them like a snake. when all your enemy has is their king and you've managed to turn 3 of your pawns into queens, and all you've gotta do is get in juust the right position, and in the meantime all they can do is squirm. god, that's such a wonderful feeling. nothing quite like it

[kusurrone]

ANCIENT RUS DIVINE COMEDY AU :DDD

dont ask me why i was just feeling like it (couldnt make any of their heights match)

Dante's name is Dusia or Dania (yes the first one sounds like dussy-) and Guido is Glieb :D

Virgil is Vavila (probably shouldve made him old but i need a gusliar bard twink from ancient rus) and Beatrice is Viera

Gemma is Euhienia + bonus little dantino (dushen'ka :з) ina big ass papaha.

of course dante would wear a freaking papaha.

[gachats]

Trizna, 2019 - oil on canvas.

— Andrey Alekseyevich Shishkin (Russia, 1960).

Trizna was a funeral feast of ancient Slavic religion, which was conducted for distinguished members of society before their cremation. Besides the feast and the wake, the deceased will have their body washed and dressed in the finest clothes before their cremation, and merry-making and contests were also held. According to tradition, this was done to symbolise the victory of life over death by repelling evil spirits with laughter.

[mavkarants]

It's actually hilarious how there are so many ruzzian accounts that make it their mission to claim Ukrainian culture as their own. And I mean full out accounts with so many followers who put in time and effort to do this.

And it's also the funniest when dumb ruzzians use Ukrainian culture and are at aw of it without realizing, or even wanting to realize, that it's actually Ukrainian and not theirs.

Like ruzzians are so fucking stupid that for centuries they were making stories about Ukraine using Ukrianian historical figures and personas and calling it ruzzian. Like no, hun, that's Ukrainian. Bogatyr? That's Ukrainian. I know they love them so much and make a lot of shit with them in it but it doesn't change the fact that it's still Ukrainian. They are hailing Ukrainian culture.

And I also find it sad how some Ukrainians don't know this and attempt to abandon our culture. Ruzzians are obsessed with Ukraine and our culture and identity to the point they will make so much fanfiction surrounding our culture and pretend as if it is theirs. Like use just one braincell and it will become hilariously obvious how they base their entire identity on Ukraine.

Dear Ukrainian bothers and sisters, stop being meek. Take back what is ours loudly and proudly. Don't shy away from using ruzzian creators work and calling it Ukrainian, because it is. Show the world how obsessed they are with us.

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Special Lady (2023-2024)

"Let's play a game!" "Is that so?" #SpecialLady #陌上人如玉 #Shane #ZhaiZilu #iQIYIMalaysia #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M8FaH9xU7ZM

[muttball]

Sviatoslav Igorevich [свіатослав іґоревіч] -Grand Prince of Kiev

As the son of Igor the Old, Sviatoslav became the ruler of the lands of the Kievan Rus. His reign was a persistant threat to his enemies. In his short life, he became the largest state in Europe, eventually moving his capitol to Romania on the Danube River.

[ownencyclopedia]

☀Windows made of mica | Ancient Rus' | XVII century

How were windows "glazed"? Bull's bladder and mica

As for the materials, for "glazing" they chose what was at hand. For example, a film bag from caviar, which was obtained from huge fish. Such a bag was called "payus", it was large and transparent, so it was well suited for "glazing". They also used the skin of large carp, which was cleaned of scales, dried and then stretched. Less often they used a bull's bladder, which was considered a very strong material. Also, stories have come down to us about how river ice was used instead of glass in winter.

If we talk about more traditional methods, then mica was in use - a layered natural material. Mica was expensive, in the 16th-17th centuries it decorated windows in royal palaces, churches, merchants' and boyars' houses. Mica was also used to decorate household items: doors, boxes, caskets, church decorations. In Rus', mica was often called "Moscow glass" and "crystal".