#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

[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

[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

[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]

Knyaz Igor and his retinue swear before the idol of Perun, laying down their weapons. Illustration by artist V.P. Vereshchagin from the album "History of the Russian State in images of its rulers with a brief explanatory text", 1896.

In addition to Perun's control over the thunderstorm because of his association with rain, he was responsible for crops by bringing rain to the fields, and so Perun was thought of as the god of fertility. Manipulation of the thunderstorm gave the deity a "thunderous character", which served to second-guess him as a god of war, as reflected in the oaths of arms in his name and his depiction as the patron of warriors, knyazs power and the Rurikovich dynasty.

[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.

[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

[blueiscoool]

An Ancient Cave Complex Discovered in Kyiv  

Dmytro Perov, a conservationist at Kyiv’s Center for Urban Development, told Radio Kultura that the caves were discovered next to a demolished house that Kyiv housing authorities had deemed unsafe for habitation.

Actually, Dmytro Perov followed his grandmother’s clues.  Perov’s grandmother used to talk about a large stone house next to an old cave, but no one knew its location of it. According to Perov, who had previously examined the area several times, only the front facia of the house remained, concealed by bushes.

The conservationist told reporters that he and his friends decided to go to the old house “on a small expedition to look for caves,” and they discovered an entrance. The first archaeological explorations in the Voznesensky Caves were carried out by Perov and a group of researchers from the Institute of Archaeology last Saturday. Timur Bobrovskyi, an archaeology professor at the Sofia Kyivska reserve, said he was “amazed that such a treasure was found in the center of Kyiv” after spending three hours exploring the cave.

The team discovered pottery fragments from the Late Kyivan Rus’ era, an Eastern and Northern European state that existed from the late ninth to the middle of the thirteenth century, in the cave’s northern section.

Perov wrote on Facebook that the team scoured around 40 meters (131 feet) of caves, including the lower cave complex, which he claims is twice as long as the upper passage and has a series of “radial branches.” The most significant discovery, according to Petrov, was “a set of Kyivan Rus hieroglyphs and Varangian symbols from the Early Rus period,” when the region was under the control of Varangian rulers.

While more investigation is required to confirm it, according to Dmytro Perov, they think that some of the carved symbols may date all the way back to the fifth or sixth centuries BC. He says that “animistic images of animals and graffiti” from the Varyaz period, including the rune Algiz (“chicken’s foot”), were also discovered on the walls. This was an ancient Varangian charm, a symbol of safety and longevity.

Several Hellenic Greek colonies were established on the northern coast of the Black Sea, on the Crimean Peninsula, and along the Sea of Azov between the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The steppe hinterland was occupied by the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians who traded with the Greek/Roman colonies after a period of control by the Roman empire during the first millennium BC.

Rurik, a Varangian or Viking prince, established the Kyivan state in the latter part of the ninth century. Up until the 13th century, his descendants established and controlled a global trade route to the west. However, the Kyivan state was made up of East Slavic, Norse, and Finnic peoples, making it difficult to determine who left the carved symbols on the cave walls.

[doueverwonder]

Kievan-Rus: Eurus and I got married!!!

Scandia: Don't share your personal problems with everyone.

[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.