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December 20, 2015

Russian Federation: Last Remaining European Pagans - the Mari (aka 'Cheremis' / 'Chimari')










Last of Europe's Pagans
Russia's Mari people


aka 'Cheremis'  /  Chimari
-- Finno-Ugric ethnic group
-- Republic of Mari El
-- Volga Finnic ethnic group
-- x3 different groups
  • Meadow
  • Mountain
  • Eastern

2002:  604,298 self-identified Mari

Rural residing Mari = 60%

Own language:  Mari

RELIGION

Pagan
-- individual connected with nature
-- nature exerts magical influence over the people
-- relate to nature as sacred, powerful & living being
-- (man cannot exist outside of nature)
-- nature:  source of absolute good
-- helper as long as it is not harmed or opposed
-- pantheon of gods, reside in heavens
-- Great White God (Osh Kugu Yumo), most important
-- lesser gods:
    -- god of fire (Tul Yumo)
    -- god of wind (Mardezh Yumo)

Hybrid Gods - Chumbulat
-- Mari believe in half-men, half-gods on Earth
-- most revered:  Chumbulat (leader & warrior)

Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible
-- 1500s - incorporates Mari into Russian Empire
-- Adoption of Christianity / but not universal
-- paganism practised to this day
-- pagan Mari:  25-40% of Mari population (otherwise mostly Orthodox)

[wikipedia]

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Spring in the birch grove by Strakhov

Keremet god
identified with sacred groves

birches & oaks
grow on site upon which mortal killed
by god of earth & water, Keremet

Keremet is the punisher god
Keremet's home is the sacred groves
Sacred groves:  home of dead heroes


Mari / Maris (Chimari)


Osh Kugu Yumo
Osh Poro Kugu Yumo
Great White Good God


Great White Good God
-- masculine form
-- master of heavenly laws
-- protector

etymological (word origin) parallels in related other languages:
  • Finnish (Jumala)
  • Estonian (Jumal)
  • Zyryan (Yen)
  • Udmurt (Inmar)

God Keremet
-- opponent of Kugu Yumo
-- negative aspect
-- dangerous, destructive
-- contact made through sacrifices & consecrating trees or groves
-- Eastern Mari see Keremet as defender of Maris
-- but this does not negate dangerous / negative aspects
-- 'keremet' - generic term for nasty spirits
-- those not properly buried / dead with hostile dispositions
-- Keremet evilness not absolute

-- Keremet is lord of the earth & esp. the waters
-- records misdeeds of humans
-- does not punish without reason
-- punishment for bad deeds or violation of rituals
-- demonisation of Keremet = Christianity influence

Ancient myth:
-- earth diver water-bird that created world
-- by diving down to bring up earth from abysses of water

Yumo's Daughter - Yumyn-Iudyr
-- regularly descended silky stairs from heaven
-- to pasture 'heavenly herd of cattle'
-- married a mortal
-- marriage ended tragically for mortal (jealousy)
-- mauled by Keremet / site of his death grew birches & oaks

-- some Mari consider husband of Yumyn-Iudyr
-- their totemic ancestor

Kugo Yumo
-- distant from humanity (in the heavens / sky)

Shaman = kart

belief in initial unity of gods and humans
-- humans & gods lived on star (planet)
-- tended to animals
-- natural cataclysm:  grass stopped growing
-- gods sent people to Earth
-- to feed the herd & herds lifted back to heaven (for food)
-- but planetary catastrophe:  ppl & animals could not return to star
-- remained on earth

Sacrifices
-- sacrificed animal flesh burned on fire
-- to feed gods in heavens
-- as souls of animal (burnt offerings) rise to the star to the gods
-- gods consume the spirit (and are fed)

Individual Angel-Servants
-- Susko, defender of faith
-- protects from forces of nature & poverty
-- Vitn'yze, spirit helper who helps gods
-- Piyambar, goddess linked with destiny & divination

Vechory (or vesiory) - male or female
-- female is positive
-- male brings destruction
-- are local family spirits
-- upon whom material success of humans depends

Demonic Spirit:  Obada
-- social defects blamed on an 'obada'
-- eg drunkenness


Cult of Saintly Heroes
-- national leaders & defenders of Mari tribes
-- special reverence:
    -- Chumbylat - saint of all Mari, prince-warrior
    -- end 11th Century gathered all Mari
    -- told them to build cities
    -- 1830s Chumbylat's grave, cliff at:
    -- rocky mountain by river Nemda
    -- cliff destroyed
    -- Mari revived the cult:  honour hero - 26 June

Mari often mix up figure of Chumbylat
with figure of tribal god:  Kuryk Kugyza
(k.a.  'Kuryk Kugu' -  the great mountain person')

Akpatyr
-- considered by Mari as one of ancient tribal princes
-- 1500s service to Russian Tsar
-- diplomatic skills
-- peaceful existence for his ppl, amid Russian & Tatar expansion
-- cult of Akpatyr revived in present day

Mari acknowledge x9 honoured, powerful ancient hero-ancestors
-- to address ancestor, one needs special spiritual power
-- morally purity requisite

Kugeche - connected with Easter (celebrated same day)
-- Eastern Mari seek to distance themselves from Christian traditions
-- celebrate a week earlier

Above is not a complete overview.  It is  just a small portion of what's covered in the following academic text:
SOURCE
Modern Pagan & Native Faith Movements
in Central & Eastern Europe
by Kaarina Aitamurto (University of Helsinki)
& Scott Simpson (University in Krakow)
http://www.amazon.com/Movements-Central-Contemporary-Historical-Paganism/dp/1844656624




cataclysm

violent upheaval
causes great destruction
or brings about a fundamental change
or 
devastating flood

fm. Latin 'cataclysmos' (deluge)
fm. Greek kataklusmos
fm. katakluzein (to inundate)

'kluzein' (to wash away)





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 COMMENT


I could get into reverence for enormous 1,000 year old oak trees (and warrior ancestors).  Sounds sensible. 
I'm also drawn to the European tribal thing. 
But I'd never fit into tribal society.
Mari El Republic must be a wonderful place to live -- as in the ancient history that's borne by the people and the land. 
Favourite parts (aside from warrior ancestors & the space myth):  birches and oaks growing from place mortal was killed.

Chimari is the term I prefer.