Thread by @MavrosArkouda, 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀-𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐀 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄.𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢 [...]

𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀-𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐀 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄.

𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐞, 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞.

[𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃]

𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀?

Among many Slavic communities the svastika is referred to as a Yargic symbol, a solar symbol.

Often these two names, YARGA and SVASTIKA, are interchangeable, but in some cases the Yarga refers to a specific variation of the svastika.

YARGA has two roots

YAR denotes actions performed by the rays of the sun it is a fertilizing, creative force

It also means to be furious, to have lust, to be strong, courageous, and spring

Often this symbol is linked with farming and the God Yarillo, who can be linked to Arius

GA means natural movement, movement of objects, living beings, feelings, thoughts.

There is also a large group of words with the ending GA that mean “endows with supernatural power, a special state, inhuman capabilities”

All together it can be seen as the furious spark of light/furious flame that gives life and puts the world in motion. It is this furious/passionate life giving energy that Yarillo represents.

Of course this is just a base exoteric understanding of this symbol and there are many more esoteric meanings, which I will not discuss in this thread.

One of the first works on the Russian Folk pattern Yarga was done by V. A. Sollogub a Russian Scientist.

He states that signs and patterns are “the initial prototypes of an original culture”

Another Academic, F.I. Buslaev, was a linguist, and researcher of ancient Greek, Byzantine, and Old Russian Patterns, wrote that the Yarga is in the genetic memory of the Russian people.

Buslaev perceives folk Yarga patterns as "long seen and heard, awakening pictures of folk life in distant corners of memory."

the scientist noted that "it [Yarga] was borrowed even in the most ancient monuments of Christian art from pre-Christian times."

Thus, Buslaev considered the swastika: "a natural, ancient and special sign of the Russian people, which is in their genetic memory . "

𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄:

Overall, there are more than 144 variations of the Yarga used in Russia and neighboring Slavic lands.

It is a symbol that has been revered by the Russian people for thousands of years.

Variations of the Yarga found in Southern, Central, Northern Russia.

Variations of the Yarga found in Ukraine and Belarus.

Scythian-Sarmatian and other Slavic variations.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚-𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬:

The Yarga can be traced back into deep antiquity and is most likely even older than that.

In some related texts the Yarga was used even during the Hyperborean age, pre the axis tilt and freeze over.

The most ancient objects with yargic signs, dating from the Paleolithic (18-22 thousand years BC), were found in the Chernigov province at the end of the 19th century.

Yarga symbols were found in the Tripolye-Cucuteni civilization (VI-III millennium BC), which then spread over the territories of Moldova, Right-Bank Ukraine, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.

They also found it on earthen vessels from Samarra, which date back to the 5th millennium BC; in the culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus river basin) 2600 BC; in ancient China around 2000 BC; in the Sintashta culture (Volga-Ural region, Arkaim) and the Andronov culture.

Yarga-Svastikas were ubiquitous in the Aegean (Cretan-Mycenaean) civilization in the Bronze Age - from 3000 to 1000 BC, which was created by the distant descendants of the European Antes.

Yargas were also used in the culture of the Etruscans - the teachers of the Romans.

The descendants of the European Antes - the ancient Hellenes - continued to use swastika symbols, in their lives and beyond (IX-IV centuries BC). e).

Swastikas were also massively used by Celtoibers, who lived in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, the Spanish provinces of Galicia, Asturias and Leon) almost 3 thousand years ago.

They were also used everywhere by the Phoenicians.

The Caucasus regions, especially Dagestan, Ossetia, Georgia, Ingushetia and Chechnyaalso, have a rich amount swastikas/yargas dating back far into history.

The Avar Khanates, who controlled mountainous parts of Dagestan from the early 13th century to the 19th century also incorporated the yarga into their banner and equipment.

In Dagestan , swastikas are quite common, carved on stones that were embedded in the walls of various buildings

Swastika symbols of various types, both with twisted and rectangular ends, are depicted on numerous towers and crypts located in Chechnya . They are also referred to the Koban culture of the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.

In Ingushetia ,Archaeologists have unearthed several burial grounds, where ancient swastika images were also discovered.

For example, in the Nesterovsky burial ground - an ancient cemetery at the Nesterovskaya station, which dates back to the 6th-4th centuries BC

𝗬𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗔-𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗔 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗦

Many Yarga rings have been found in Novgorod, Rivne, Kiev, and Zhytomyr regions, which date back to the middle ages.

Pin and Buckle found in Novgorod XII-XIII.

Swastikas found on the bottom of handcrafted pots in Gnezdovsky burial ground dating to IX-X centuries.

Vyatichi jewelry made of 3 yargic pendants. Found in 1927 in mounds near the village. Kargashino of the Moscow district.

Reconstructed wedding dress (clothing) of a Vyatichka girl (based on materials from the Vyatichi burials); enlarged details of clothes and jewelry-amulets of the bride, XII century (Saburova MA, 1997, tab. 78-2).

Corolla - female headdress ; swastika in the circle of the corolla ring (no later than the 10th century). S. Zhukino of the Ostersky district of the Chernigov province.

𝗬𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗔 𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗞 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦:

The use of swastika symbols in ornaments in the Slavic lands is simply innumerable. They are used in the Baltic States, Belarus, the Volga region, Pomorie, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Urals, Altai and other regions.

In Russian folk culture, the swastika is an indispensable element of embroidery and weaving: a swastika was used to decorate the collar, mantle, and sleeves of Slavic shirts, hats, aprons, gods, towels, tablecloths, window curtains and many more household items.

In the countryside, girls and women still wear elegant sundresses, ponevs and shirts for holidays, and men wear kosovorotki embroidered with swastikas.

Lush loaves and sweet cookies are baked, decorated on top with Kolovrat, Salting, Solstice and other Swastika patterns.

Academics propose that before the second half of the XX century one of the main and most important patterns/symbols that existed in Slavic embroidery was the Yarga.

It is during the second half of the XX century that the USSR began to resolutely eradicate this Solar symbol.

I would like to point out one very interesting three part swastika pattern which is usually sown on the end of towels and bed covers.

This pattern symbolizes the perfection of being.

It represents a three part picture of the world, the middle being the earthly world, the top and bottom are the world of the gods.

The earthly world is balanced by the right and left directions of the Yarga.

At the same time, the yargs are placed in squares without upper sides - a sign that earthly life is subject to divine decrees. The spiritual world - "up and down" - are balanced by multi-directional rows of yargs located on a free field.

Here are some more examples of folk clothing/ ornaments w/ the Yarga symbol.