VMs: Chuvashia: a Paganist-Zoroastrian corner of Europe

[mesinik@xxxxxx]

Chuvashia: a Paganist-Zoroastrian corner of Europe
(this is located in very-very eastern Europe)
This "old Chuvashia" just seems to have some coherence with VMS

?hm, probably just a coincidence:
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%C3erb_Volg.jpg

nothing very special:
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/47.JPG

petroglyphs with mixed eastern and western alphabets:
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%C4rchuv-pism.jpg

in the East, they often say "to write a picture (incl. icon)":
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%CDarodisk3.jpg
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%CCasmak.jpg

in early times, such stuff was like a CV of the author; anybody inside the same
cultural context was able to read it (not sure how old are these here):
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%D1urpan.jpg
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/ykrashen.jpg
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%CAostum.jpg

one more forgotten lore:
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/vved6.jpg

want some hats for ladies?
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%D2uhiaV.jpg
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%D5ushpuA.jpg
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/%D5ushpuV.jpg
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/16.JPG
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/18.JPG

could this herb be found in VMS-botany, too?
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/1_4.JPG

sunwheels:
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/1_5.JPG
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/19.JPG
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/1_.JPG
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/4_4.JPG

a question for anybody ... is this the old Nestorian-style cross still
surviving? Is anybody familiar with such things?
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/22.JPG

sitting, walking in rings: spiritual ceremonies
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/2_32.JPG
http://www.enc.cap.ru/images/vved8.jpg

nice mix:
http://www.cap.ru/cap/foto/old_chuvashia/7_5.JPG
birds (Finno-Ugric stuff), horses (motives from Türcic steppes), rings of  Sun
(probably southern, Zoroastrian influence). So, in VMS there are not enough of
horses and (water)birds ... so should we move southward? Okeey, when about
birds, this one
http://highway55.library.yale.edu/PHOTONEGIMG/zoom/Z361/z3610579.jpg
looks quite coherent with some Finno-Ugric tales about how the Earth was created
.. but it's just one page.

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