Lunnica

Historically, Lunnica - metal ornament of bronze or silver in the form of the crescent. It has been known since the end of the Bronze Age along the rather wide territory from Europe and Asia up to the North Africa. In Rus Lunnica is dated from 9th century and as historians state, it was brought from the East. It became widely spread as an ornament of a married woman. Lunnica had various forms including earrings, pendants, head-dress elements or was fixed onto the belt.

Lunnica is a crescent with its horns turned down. Later the solar ornament appeared on it: dots, "drops," crosses. V. P. Darkevich including that the Moon is the male-symbol in Russian folk-lore, thinks it is possible to interpret the pendants with a cross in the following way: "The composition with the moon and cross could mean indissolubility, unity of male (moon) and female symbols-principles". According to it Lunnica could appear as the symbol-protection, connected with fertility. This tradition to wear Lunnica existed till the 18th century and was lost in the period of the Mongolian-Tatar yoke. At the same time strengthening of Christianity could have contributed to the oblivion of the heathen heritage. And today when the revival of the heathen spirit is happening, the blood of the remote ancestors that runs in the youth of Russia and Europe, along the White world, requires the revival of the old symbols.

It is known for sure that the moon is the oldest European deity revered on the whole indo-European area. It has Nordic nature. No one knows if it is possible to restore the formal interpretation of Lunnica as it used to be in Rus. I wonder how the current official historical works interpret this symbolism, because it is connected with the lunar - namely with the dark gods. In accordance with exoteric understanding of this symbol one can have a look at the horse-shoe in the article "The symbolism of the horse-shoe" written by my Lithuanian comrade Weissthor, from which the protective sense of Lunnica can be understood very well. But we will go to the inner and hidden senses.

To begin with I would like to make things clear on the occasion of the male and female aspects of the moon. It is absolutely normally that the moon is a male deity by germans, Baltic people, Indo-Europeans and Russians as well. By Scandinavian people Mani (moon) had two aspects, two roles like the sun has. The sacred spiritual light was revered in some particular way for they were worshipping the moon standing at the water because the reflected sunlight was reverberating from the water once again.

Byzantine historian Lev Dyakon described the rite performed by Russians that were beleaguered in Dorostol at the Danube river on the 20th of July 971. At night as soon as the moon rose, Svyatoslav's warriors drowned cocks and infants in the river and then began to burn down their killed warriors. Male and female deities by Russians are rather bellicose. Veles and Mara are connected with the night, moon and death, with the world beyond, with abodes of the dead, water areas, hidden and some peculiar vital power.

In Russian and Ukrainian poetry the host of the house is similar with the moon and his wife - with the sun but it can be also vice versa. Of course, the opinion that the sun is the male aspect and the moon - female one has become current in the Russian heathenism but the other branches of the European tradition won't mislead us. The true is that still there is some difference in the symbolical representation of these aspects but other meanings and interpretations can be also given for the Aryan knowledge is universal. For example, the turned up arch of the sickle moon can mean not the male but again the female sign - a cup that collects and holds, the Grail. When it is turned down it will be the cup that gives, spills and nourishes. The given work is devoted to just one of many interpretations. Lunnica with its horns turned down is the female aspect that symbolizes dark, lunar, underground, earthy and water goddesses. It is of the passive principle mainly and looks like the gates, cave, narrow vault and points at some visual slope and immersion. A window, hole, hidden exit. Where to? Into the space areas as they are described by German Wirth - to the White woman (White goddess by Celts - Aryanrod), the Great mother, the Black mother where the boundless cosmic potencies, sacred knowledge of runes, love, transformation and immortality are hidden. The symbolism of Lunnica keeps inside itself not only the protective sense but mystery of death as well, that's why Morana was always depicted with a sickle in her hand, like Yavi, warrior Navi: "She scythed his (Mara, Death) legs, then took the sickle, grabbed his neck with it and began to cut off his legs and hands". Here we can see the forgotten hyperborean science which isn't understood now by the followers. The main aim in that science was to set free from the brute, material principle, achieve immortality and total transformation. The knowledge was cut off with the sickle of Morana.

Let's say a few words about the male aspect, about the crescent with its horns turned up. This symbol belongs by right to Yarila and Veles as well and also not only to the underground but even to the cosmic deities for Veles is associated with the Galaxy. Properly speaking they are not solar deities. Their cosmic aspect is clear as Mithra is always depicted against the background of many cosmic bodies. Visually it was depicted in the symbol that the lowest level of unconsciousness, night and death had been reached and that the raise, birth, revival of a new personage started from here. This is male, active, martial principle. Many ancient Indo-European deities are horned: Veles, Cernunn, Pan. The quintessence of this image was put firmly in the Christian mind by the atmosphere of some unknown, ruinous horror. It is worth recalling at least the raids of the vikings into the Christian world. And finally the teutonic knights put the symbol of the ancient Horned God onto their helmets. This type of the hero, warrior, the desire to fight and win existed.

Mithra is accompanied by two youths: Kaut (with a raised torch) and Kautopat (with a turned down torch) that symbolizes day and night. Morning and Evening Star. And also the greek Dioskurs, Kastor and Pollux. Here are also two strange knights templars, two-faced deities - Yanus and Bapfomet. The ancient, esoteric and cosmic nature of the mentioned symbolisms is clear to us. They have their double meaning on purpose for initiation, Nordic types, images, signs, clues are hidden behind it and the hero must understand, interpret and fulfill them by himself.

In Lunnica there is also the Ur-rune that will explain the dedicated ones a lot. The Abyss, roots of Irminsul, sources of the wisdom of the White race are hidden behind it, Baldr drinks the magic honey deep inside the Black mother where the invisible and uncontrollable light calls upon for joining the raging dance of the sickles that cut the human gist.

WTS-Russia - Frater S.I.

Translated by Alex Maximov