Ritual before Veles Night on October 31.
The harvest festival and the end of the livestock-grazing season—the Celtic Samhain and, among the Slavs, the transition from summer to winter—were considered powerful magical days. The ancient Sakha (Yakuts) also had such a festival, but due to their climatic conditions, it was celebrated on the autumnal equinox.
One ritual common to all these festivals involved fire, allowing people to enter winter purified, and this is what we used as the foundation.
The Celts purified themselves by passing between two large fires; the Slavs also lit a large bonfire and then walked on the coals; in Yakutia, nine shaman women—udagans—praised the universal energies through the sacred fire.
Twenty-three people, from Yakutia to Ukraine, took part in the ritual. Sergey Vasilyevich’s techniques were used.
We based it on the “mystical figure eight,” with two candles representing the fires. Why did I remember it? At Vottovaara (a Place of Power in Karelia), the megaliths—the rocks—are arranged in a figure eight, with two craters in the middle. We walked around this figure eight, just as in our practice, when we called it closing the Rings of Power.
At the appointed time, everyone stood before the lit candles. L and I surrounded everyone (working according to the list) with Ra fields: the Elements of Fire; Cleansing and Purification; Strength and Empowerment. After 15 minutes, everyone began moving in a figure eight—nine figure eights in total (as with the udagans). Since, in the Slavic tradition, this ritual was performed before sunset, L and I sang the mantra (to which Om Shanti is dedicated), “OM Suryam, Agni Devayam,” with the intention that the sound resonances and vibrations of this mantra would affect the entire group.
I am attaching several screenshots and testimonials:
The harvest festival and the end of the livestock-grazing season—the Celtic Samhain and, among the Slavs, the transition from summer to winter—were considered powerful magical days. The ancient Sakha (Yakuts) also had such a festival, but due to their climatic conditions, it was celebrated on the autumnal equinox.
One ritual common to all these festivals involved fire, allowing people to enter winter purified, and this is what we used as the foundation.
The Celts purified themselves by passing between two large fires; the Slavs also lit a large bonfire and then walked on the coals; in Yakutia, nine shaman women—udagans—praised the universal energies through the sacred fire.
Twenty-three people, from Yakutia to Ukraine, took part in the ritual. Sergey Vasilyevich’s techniques were used.
We based it on the “mystical figure eight,” with two candles representing the fires. Why did I remember it? At Vottovaara (a Place of Power in Karelia), the megaliths—the rocks—are arranged in a figure eight, with two craters in the middle. We walked around this figure eight, just as in our practice, when we called it closing the Rings of Power.
At the appointed time, everyone stood before the lit candles. L and I surrounded everyone (working according to the list) with Ra fields: the Elements of Fire; Cleansing and Purification; Strength and Empowerment. After 15 minutes, everyone began moving in a figure eight—nine figure eights in total (as with the udagans). Since, in the Slavic tradition, this ritual was performed before sunset, L and I sang the mantra (to which Om Shanti is dedicated), “OM Suryam, Agni Devayam,” with the intention that the sound resonances and vibrations of this mantra would affect the entire group.
I am attaching several screenshots and testimonials: