Slavic fairy tales are an encrypted message from our Ancestors. Perhaps that is why they have survived to this day without being destroyed. Now we can look at fairy tales familiar to us from childhood from a completely different perspective. In order to understand Slavic fairy tales, you need to return to your origins, first remember your ancient language and the meaning of each word, and then we will get absolutely new information and knowledge left to us by our Ancestors.
Up to late XVIII centuries, the intelligentsia and clergy classified fairy tales as superstitions common people, which was invariably portrayed as savage and primitive. The dominant philosophical and worldview trend of that era - classicism - was oriented towards antiquity, flavored with Christian censorship, and European rationalism. There is nothing for a nobleman to learn from a peasant.
However, in early XIX century, along with the movement of romanticism, scientists, philosophers, and poets came to realize that the most ancient mythological consciousness largely determines the life and worldview of every person. You cannot escape your roots, because breaking with them is like separating a river from its source. “The study of ancient songs and fairy tales,” writes Pushkin, “is necessary for perfect knowledge of the properties of the Russian language.” An intensive study of the legends preserved by the people begins, and their deep value and ideological significance becomes obvious.
What do we know about the fairy tale today? A fairy tale is a means of shaping a person’s worldview in traditional Slavic culture. Along with the explanation moral values, fairy tales contain a complete picture of the world. This picture of the world echoes cosmological models presented in mythologies different nations peace. These are the archetypes of the world mountain, the universal egg, the world tree, the motives for the hero’s descent into underworld or ascension to higher worlds. We propose to consider the cosmological codes of Russian fairy tales, which can be understood by referring to the texts of the Vedas.
Scientists have found that once the ancestors of the Slavs, Iranians, Indians, Europeans lived together, were one people with common culture and worldview. Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev in the preface to his book “Russian Folk Tales” wrote: “We have already spoken more than once about the prehistoric similarity of legends and beliefs among all the peoples of the Indo-European tribe.” To highlight the special closeness Vedic culture, preserved in India, and the traditional culture of the Slavs, Professor Rahul Sanskrityan used a special term - “Indoslavs”. Thus, the presence of elements of Vedic cosmology in the Slavic fairy tale appears more than natural.
Kolobok
Let's start with the well-known folk tale “Kolobok”. Ball or pancake traditional culture- symbol of the sun. Maslenitsa pancakes symbolize the sun, because... Maslenitsa has absorbed pagan holiday spring equinox. In ancient Slavic, “kolo” or “horo” means “circle,” which indicates the sacred, “solar” meaning of the round dance. In Sanskrit there is also “khala” - sun, “ghola” - “circle”, “sphere”.
Kolobok is a symbol of the sun. We can understand the meaning of the movement of the kolobok and the eating of it by the fox by referring to the Vedic concept of solar eclipse. In special nakshatras - combinations of constellations, the demon Rahu, according to the Vedas, “swallows” the sun, causing an eclipse. The fox performs the same function in the fairy tale.
What do the animals you meet symbolize? This can be understood if we remember that before the use of Greek Zodiac symbols, the Slavic horoscope was zoomorphic. Different animals symbolized different constellations. Thus, at the astronomical level, the kolobok fairy tale is a presentation of the myth about a solar eclipse, about the movement of the sun across the sky. At the same level moral tale tells about the destructiveness of vanity.
Chicken Ryaba
Another fairy tale known to everyone from childhood is “The Ryaba Hen”. It is also necessary to begin its analysis with the main character. In the myths of different peoples of the world, the universe is born from an egg carried by a bird floating on the universal waters. In the Finnish “Kalevala,” the birth of the Universe is presented as the appearance of an egg: the maiden of the sky, also known as the “mother of water,” Ilmatr-Kave, turned into a duck, and, turning into a duck, received the “highest god Unko,” who appeared to her in the form of a drake. The duck laid an egg from which the Universe was created:
From the egg, from the bottom
Mother earth came out damp,
From the egg from the top
The vault of heaven has become high
On a number of statues from the Prilwitz collection of the Temple of Retra ( Western Slavs) we see a duck on the head of the deities. Incl. number on the head of a lion-man, close to the Vedic Narasimha. This duck is a symbol of power over the universe.
In the original Vedic literature, the universal egg - brahmanda - is created by Brahma - the creator of the levels of the universe, through mystical mantras. The Bible states, “In the beginning was the word.” According to the Vedas, this “word” is the original syllable “OM”, which gives Brahma the knowledge of how to create this world. Brahma resides in higher worlds, called “svarga” in Sanskrit. Slavic deity Svarog and the word “bungle” in the meaning of “to create something” indicate the closeness of the Vedic Brahma to the Slavic Svarog.
What do we find in the fairy tale? Ryaba the hen lays golden egg which the mouse breaks. The mouse is a chthonic creature associated in mythology with the earth. In the Mediterranean countries - Egypt, Palestine, Greece - it was believed that the mouse was born from the earth. IN in this case, it indicates the emergence of the earth, the firmament from the universal waters.
The golden color of the universal egg is also described in the Vedas. What today is known to scientists as the “big bang”, the Vedas call “the inhalation and exhalation of Vishnu,” the universal Being.
The Brahma Samhita (13-14) describes the creation of the universes exhaled by Vishnu and absorbed by him again:
tad-roma-bila-jaleshu
bijam sankarsanasya ca
haimani andani jatani
maha bhuta vritani tu
“Divine seeds are born from the pores of Maha-Vishnu in the form of endless golden eggs. These golden grains are covered with five main material elements. In his expansions, Maha-Vishnu enters each of the Universes, each of the cosmic eggs.”
So, the process of breaking the golden egg symbolizes the creation of the universe, the separation of the earth from the firmament. Who are the grandfather and grandmother? In Slavic songs, close to ritual ones, there is often a song repetition (refrain) “oh did, oh okay.” For example: “And we sowed millet. Oh, Did-Lado, they sowed.” In the context of the reconstructed scheme, Grandfather was one of the epithets of Svarog, and Lada was his wife. The creation of the universe appears as a unification of their creative potentials.
The Book of Veles also calls Svarog “grandfather of the gods.” “Praise i Svarga Dida God, as if you are waiting. Ese Rodou Bozhsku Nshchelniko, and the universal rodou Studits is prophesied, as if he was born in the summer of the Kryne sva, but in Zme he never died.” (“We also praise Svarog, the Father of the Gods, because He is waiting for us. He is the head of the Clans of God and every kind of source that flows in summer and does not freeze in winter”).
Magic Mountain
After analyzing the two tales in full, let's look at some key elements folk tales related to cosmology. The first such element is a golden or crystal mountain (for example, in the fairy tale “Copper, Silver and golden kingdom"). The hero must climb the mountain or penetrate inside with the help of hooks, swans, and magical helpers.
The image of a golden mountain refers us to the Vedic Meru - the golden universal mountain. Meru is the abode of the gods in its upper part and the abode of demons in the lower part. The archetype of the universal mountain is more familiar to us in the version of the Greek Olympus. However, the “needle” in the egg, which is in the duck from the tales of Koshchei, is also a spatial symbol of Meru - the axis of the world, located in the ovoid universe. Here is a fragment of the fairy tale “Crystal Mountain”, full of cosmological codes:
“Late in the evening, Tsarevich Ivan turned into an ant and crawled through a small crack into the crystal mountain, looking - the princess was sitting in the crystal mountain.
“Hello!” says Ivan Tsarevich, “How did you get here?”
- A snake with twelve heads carried me away; he lives on Father’s Lake.
In that snake there is a chest hidden, in the chest there is a hare, in the hare there is a duck, in the duck there is an egg, in the egg there is a seed; If you kill him and get this seed, then you can save me from a crystal mountain of lime.”
The “seed” in the egg from the above fragment is nothing other than Meru. The image of a glass or crystal mountain is also interesting. It is directly related to the theme of Hyperborea and Arctic civilization. It points to the north, ice and icebergs. Koschey in folk tales, like Pushkin’s Chernomor or the Vedic Kubera, is described as a resident of the “full mountains” of the far north.
One can often hear the question of the relationship between the traditional Vedic worldview and the views of followers of the Arctic theory. External contradictions are removed when studying multidimensional Vedic cosmology. The Vedas explain that there are various projections of the mountain of gods Meru in our world. Its astronomical projection is the North Pole, its geographical projections can be the Pamirs and Kailash. In the deepest understanding, Meru and other lokas (worlds) are not geographical concepts, but levels of consciousness.
Snake Kingdom
If golden mountain in its upper part is the space of the gods, then the lower worlds (caves at the base of Meru) are associated with the image of the serpentine kingdom. IN literary fairy tale Bazhov (“Mistress of the Copper Mountain” and others), based on Ural tales, the theme of a cave world inhabited by magical snakes develops. Some of them are hostile, and some may be friendly to humans.
The Vedas also describe a plane of existence called naga-loka - civilizations of intelligent snakes living in caves underground. Nagas have the ability to change shape and other mystical powers. Sometimes their world is also identified with underwater kingdom. The Mahabharata describes how the hero Arjuna enters another world by immersing himself in water to take a bath and marries Ulupi, the queen of the nagas, attracted by his beauty.
Besides diving into water, other ways to enter the underworld are by entering a cave or jumping into a well. These motifs are not uncommon in Russian fairy tales. Time in these worlds flows at a different speed. One day of presence there is often equal to many dozens earthly years. “How long or how short” the journey lasts is impossible to say. These are not dungeons in the usual sense, but other dimensions of existence, the entrance to which can be in a variety of “hidden” places.
Dense forest
Another symbol of other existence in Russian folk tales is a dense forest. This is also the space of another world. Often the forest is the border between the world of the dead and the living, where one must travel main character. A sign of another world is the absence of signs of life and movement, silence - or, conversely, the presence of intelligent plants and animals.
ABOUT KASHCHEY and BABA YAGA
In a book written based on the lectures of P.P. Globs, we find interesting information O classic heroes Russian fairy tales: “The name “Koshchey” comes from the name holy books ancient Slavs “blasphemers”. These were wooden tied signs with words written on them. unique knowledge. The guardian of this immortal inheritance was called “koschey.” His books were passed down from generation to generation, but it is unlikely that he was truly immortal, as in the fairy tale. (...) And in scary villain, a sorcerer, heartless, cruel, but powerful, ... Koschey turned relatively recently - during the introduction of Orthodoxy, when everyone positive characters Slavic pantheon turned into negative. At the same time, the word “blasphemy” arose, that is, following ancient, non-Christian customs. (...) And Baba Yaga is a popular person among us. But they could not completely denigrate her in fairy tales. Not just anywhere, but specifically to her they came to Hard time all Ivans are princes and Ivans are fools. And she fed and watered them, heated the bathhouse for them and put them to sleep on the stove in order to show them the right path in the morning, helped to unravel their most complex problems, gave them a magic ball that itself leads to the desired goal.
This knowledge partly confirms the Slavic idea of Kashchei and Baba Yaga. But let us draw the reader’s attention to the significant difference in the spelling of the names “Koshchey” and “Kashchey”. These two are fundamental different heroes. That negative character that is used in fairy tales that everyone struggles with characters, led by Baba Yaga, and whose Death is “in the egg”, this is KASHCHEY. The first rune in the writing of this ancient Slavic word-image is “Ka,” meaning “gathering within oneself, union, unification.” For example, the runic word-image “KARA” does not mean punishment as such, but means something that does not radiate, has ceased to shine, has turned black because it has collected all the radiance (“RA”) inside itself.
Slavic runic images are unusually deep and capacious, ambiguous and difficult for the average reader. Only the Veduns (priests) owned these images in their entirety, because writing and reading a runic image is a serious and very responsible matter, requiring great accuracy and absolute purity of thought and heart.
Baba Yoga (Yogin-Mother) is the Eternally Beautiful, Loving, Kind-hearted Goddess-Patroness of orphans and children in general. She wandered around Midgard-Earth, either on the Fiery Heavenly Chariot, or on horseback through the lands where our Ancestors lived, collecting homeless orphans in towns and villages. In every Slavic-Aryan Vesi, even in every populous city or settlement, the Patron Goddess was recognized by her radiating kindness, tenderness, meekness, love and her elegant boots, decorated with gold patterns, and they showed Her where orphans lived. Ordinary people called the Goddess differently, but always with tenderness. Some - Grandma Yoga Golden Leg, and some, quite simply - Yogini-Mother.
The Yogini delivered the orphans to her foothill monastery, which was located in the thicket of the forest, at the foot of the Irian Mountains (Altai). She did this in order to save her from imminent death. last representatives the most ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans. In the foothill Skete, where the Yogini-Mother conducted the children through the Fiery Rite of Initiation to the Ancient High Gods, there was a Temple of the God of the Family, carved inside the mountain. Near the mountain Temple of Rod, there was a special depression in the rock, which the Priests called the Cave of Ra. From it extended a stone platform, divided by a ledge into two equal recesses, called LapatA. In one recess, which was closer to the Cave of Ra, Yogini-Mother laid sleeping children in white clothes. Dry brushwood was placed in the second cavity, after which LapatA moved back into the Cave of Ra, and the Yogini set fire to the brushwood. For all those present at the Fire Rite, this meant that the orphans were dedicated to the Ancient High Gods and no one would see them again in the worldly life of the Clans. Foreigners who were sometimes present at Fire Rites, they very colorfully told in their area that they watched with their own eyes how small children were sacrificed to the Ancient Gods, thrown alive into the Fiery Furnace, and Baba Yoga did this. The strangers did not know that when the lapata platform moved into the Cave of Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone slab onto the ledge of the lapata and separated the recess with the children from the Fire. When the Fire lit up in the Cave of Ra, the Priests of the Family transferred the children from the lapata to the premises of the Temple of the Family. Subsequently, Priests and Priestesses were raised from orphans, and when they became adults, the boys and girls created families and continued their lineage. The foreigners knew none of this and continued to spread tales that the wild Priests of the Slavic and Aryan peoples, and especially the bloodthirsty Baba Yoga, sacrifice orphans to the Gods. These foreign tales influenced the Image of the Yogini-Mother, especially after the Christianization of Rus', when the Image of the beautiful young Goddess was replaced by the Image of an old, angry and hunchbacked old woman with matted hair, who steals children, roasts them in an oven in a forest hut, and then eats them. Even the Name of Yogini Mother was distorted and began to scare all children.
Very interesting, from an esoteric point of view, is the fabulous Instruction-Lesson that accompanies more than one Slavic folk tale:
Go There, we don’t know Where, Bring That, we don’t know What.
It turns out that this is not only an instruction (Lesson) that was given to the fabulous fellows. This instruction was received by every descendant from the Clans of the Holy Race that ascended the Golden Path Spiritual Development(in particular, mastering the “science of imagery”). A person begins the Second Lesson of the First “Science of Imagery” by looking inside himself to see all the diversity of colors and sounds within himself, as well as to experience the Ancient Ancestral Wisdom that he received at his birth on Midgard-Earth. The key to this great storehouse of Wisdom is contained in the ancient instruction: Go There, not knowing Where, Know That, you don’t know What.
This Slavic Lesson is echoed by many folk wisdom world: To seek wisdom outside oneself is the height of stupidity. (Chan saying) Look inside yourself and you will discover the whole world. (Indian wisdom)
Slavic fairy tales have undergone many distortions, but, nevertheless, in many of them the Essence of the Lesson embedded in the fable has remained. It is a fable in our reality, but it is a reality in another reality, no less real than the one in which we live. For a child, the concept of reality is expanded. Children see and feel much more energy fields and flows than adults. It is necessary to respect each other's realities. What is Fable for us is Fact for the baby. That is why it is so important to initiate a child into “correct” fairy tales, with truthful, original Images, without layers of politics and history.
The most truthful, relatively free from distortion, are some of Bazhov’s fairy tales, the fairy tales of Pushkin’s nanny Arina Rodionovna, recorded by the poet almost verbatim, and the tales of Ershov, Aristov, Ivanov, Lomonosov, Afanasyev.
When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing its hidden meaning, Ancient WISDOM, contained in this fairy tale, is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on a subtle level, on a subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmations, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.
For many centuries, fairy tales teach the wisdom of life, tell about the world around us and interaction with it, educate morally, instructing people towards goodness and justice, love and duty. Children learn to think about their actions fairy-tale heroes, determine where it is good and where it is bad. Fairy tales also teach children to love and respect their parents, instill a sense of belonging to everything that happens on earth, patriotism, courage and heroism.
Fairy tales can relieve fatigue after long journey or a hard day’s work (it was not for nothing that Russian Pomor fishermen hired a professional “buyman” for their artel and paid him a lot of money for telling fairy tales).
Let our children be raised by our relatives Slavic fairy tales, grow with them and become smart, wise, kind, strong like fairy-tale heroes!
A fairy tale plays in the lives of children huge role. This amazing world Magic. Plunging into this world, the child comes into contact with a piece of himself unknown. Direct perception at the moment of reading a fairy tale allows him to look into his own heart; deep subconscious moments will appear on the surface.
What does a fairy tale teach?
If we look at our history, we can note that in the old days, when a child committed an offense, they did not immediately punish him, but started a conversation with him, setting him on the right path. After this, the child could think about his behavior, draw appropriate conclusions and not repeat the mistakes.
A fairy tale has the same importance for the upbringing and development of a child. Through a fairy tale, the child gains the experience of the older generation. It helps expand the child’s perception of the world, enriches him spiritually, gives him knowledge about life and its laws, promotes the development of imagination and lays the foundation for creativity. Imagination helps him to take on the roles of characters from a fairy tale, to experience the plots of the realities of a fairy tale as if from his own experience, which makes his thinking more flexible and develops an intuitive perception of the world. The conclusions drawn after reading the fairy tale can be called the first life knowledge, experience. Fairytale language understandable and loved by children of any age, this is their element.
The fairy tale is useful and interesting for the child. It provides the child with the opportunity to imagine himself in the place of all the heroes of the fairy tale. From the main character to the most insignificant secondary and even a negative character. It is important that a child can identify and identify himself with the hero and, having lived through all his actions on the pages of a fairy tale, evaluate their results and consequences.
The main character of the fairy tale teaches the child by his example act actively in any life situation, don’t give up, don’t step aside. He is credited with the most best qualities person: courage, boldness, resourcefulness. And the quality that is lost in Lately, - kindness.
In fairy tales, there is a clear division of heroes into positive and negative, which allows the child to understand what is bad, what is good and form the right value system.
Fairy tales are imbued with magic and shrouded in mystery. Written in poetic, figurative and metaphorical language. They give the child new sensations and impressions.
good good fairy tale always ends well, no matter what happens throughout the entire story. Good conquers evil. Negative heroes change, realize something, get what they deserve, or disappear from the world of this fairy tale. Positive heroes they also change, acquiring new qualities, and continue to live in the world of fairy tales in some other guise. All this creates an optimistic attitude towards life and a sense of justice.
All events in the fairy tale flow harmoniously and logically from one another and the child easily grasps the cause and effect of every event that occurs.
Any fairy tale basically has several layers at once and therefore, read at different ages, will be perceived differently and solve different problems.
Skill is also an art. To ensure the effect of reading a fairy tale by parents, it is useful to take into account several points.
- A fairy tale can be read, or it can be told. But it is important to do this with expression, highlighting the climactic moments with intonation or making a meaningful pause. This will give you the opportunity to go on an exciting, adventurous journey together, strengthen your bond, and also give you the opportunity to observe your child's reactions throughout the story.
- You need to read quietly, slowly and clearly pronounce the words. How your child’s speech will develop depends on this. lexicon and correct sentence construction.
- Try not to make any changes to the narrative of folk tales to suit our reality if you are retelling the tale. Such additions and transformations can confuse the child and make it difficult to perceive the fairy-tale world. But this in no way stops you from inventing fairy tales for your baby.
- It is better to read original works. Shortened and simplified versions very often distort not only the meaning of the fairy tale, but also violate the integrity of the images of the heroes.
- Don't get annoyed when your child starts asking questions. Patiently explain what worries him or what the child cannot understand.
- Don't read more than one fairy tale at a time. After all, a child needs to pass it through himself in order to understand the meaning of the work.
- Give the choice of fairy tale to the child himself. If he often wants to listen to the same fairy tale, then it is necessary for his consciousness in this moment, and some important work is happening in the subconscious.
- Refrain from explaining to your child the meaning of a fairy tale you read or tell. It’s better for him to realize everything himself. But you can ask suggestive questions, give comparisons or examples.
Adults often forget that they were small children and how they eagerly awaited the telling of the next fairy tale. Therefore, do not waste your time and go on this trip with your child more often. an amusing trip. There you will find a world of joy, love, tranquility, courage and much that is sometimes missing in our lives. And perhaps together you can invite this into your reality.
What is a fairy tale? A fairy tale is a moral story with elements of fiction and fantasy. Nice fairy tale one where fiction is only a shell under which a wonderful everyday truth, a reasonable thought, is hidden.
A fairy tale is, in general, fun. But in times ancient times the tale had a different meaning, was supposed to be an epic tale
about omnipotent beings, gods and their struggle. With the loss of an important meaning (when people began to forget their pagan beliefs), it lost its former poetic structure, mainly fairy tales - in prose, but traces of the measured structure were preserved, especially in the so-called “sayings” (“soon a fairy tale is told, but not soon the job is done").
Folk tales are of great importance in the life of every person and the whole nation. The important role of fairy tales is that they are a valuable repository of everything experienced, a mirror that forever preserves the reflection of a past life.
We owe the preservation of the material of the life of the people, their worldview to the oral tales of the people, their fairy tales, songs, and legends. How much great importance these pearls have, is shown by their extraordinary vitality, which has survived centuries, and in its entirety has survived to this day.
Fairy tales and legends contained so much of universal humanity, were based on so many common views that they wandered from one people to another and took deep roots everywhere, cultivating in a new place in accordance with local views, conditions and habits.
The main merit of the fairy tale is that it is at all times on the side of everything that is right, fair, and good. And at the same time, a fairy tale is an irreconcilable “fighter” against evil, dashing, lies, and aggression. The fairy tale unobtrusively talks about important ethical categories - good and evil.
Russian folk tales are the fundamental basis of Russian culture and Russian literature.
The value of fairy tales is that they provide an opportunity to introduce children to the life and way of life of the Russian people. Russian folk tale is a faithful assistant in developing a person’s language and speech skills. Epithets and figures of speech from fairy tales with their classic and deep meaning are embedded in our consciousness. Fairy tales broaden a person’s horizons and provide an opportunity to increase vocabulary.
The fairy tale has an important mission - the education of the younger generation.
In our modern, technogenic world, the traditions of the people and moral rules families have faded into the background, and kindergartens, clubs and hobby studios are engaged in raising children, secondary schools. Until recently, mothers and grandmothers told fairy tales to their little children, and thereby raised them. When putting the child to bed, the mother or grandmother began to tell various fairy tales, the essence of which was a simple worldly wisdom, i.e. in other words, Russian folk tales acted as a kind of socialization tool in modern world. Listening to fairy tales in detail, the child comprehended the relationships between people, looked for a way out of difficult situations and overcame various difficulties, and most importantly, learned to distinguish good from evil, believe in the power of truth and justice, which was very important in the moral development of the child.
Tongue artistic images, using vivid examples, the fairy tale helps children understand the characters of the characters, their actions, their relationships with other characters in the fairy tale, teaches children about life, and shows the good and the bad. All these points make fairy tales valuable material for raising children. preschool age.
Fairy tales develop imagination, thinking, attention and memory. Almost all children like to repeat phrases from fairy tales three times, they like to add endings to phrases when reading fairy tales, they like songs and short rhymes from fairy tales. This process of repetition contributes to the development of the child’s spirituality, his morality, develops the baby’s speech, Creative skills. And then, using specific examples of fairy tales, it is better to learn wisely than just listen to your mother’s moral teaching.
Everyone knows that fairy tales play a very important role in the development emotional qualities child, and those, in turn, influence the formation of the child’s moral assessments. Psychologists say that childhood impressions will remain in the child’s mind for a very long time, and at the same time they influence the behavior and mood of an adult. Children do not forget those readings and discussions of fairy tales that they had with their mother or grandmother in the evening hours together. Despite the fact that in our time there are fairy tales in audio files, in media files, no one can replace live communication between an adult and a child. No one is demanding that we abandon modern technical means of using fairy tales, but old-fashioned reading of fairy tales with the family should not be forgotten. After all, a tape recorder or computer cannot ask a child a question, understand incomprehensible words, or compare the actions of the characters. This can only be done by a living person, primarily a mother.
Children who often listened to fairy tales in childhood adapt much faster and less painfully to kindergartens and schools. These children find it faster mutual language with unfamiliar children, adults, and they are the ones who have practically no complexes in life. It is necessary to take into account the child’s condition and choose the right time for reading fairy tales. It is necessary that the baby is in a good mood and not excited; in this state he is most inclined to listen to a fairy tale, to communicate with his mother or other adults.
The optimal time is to read a fairy tale before bedtime, since at this time the child is relaxed, in a calm mood and ready to receive fairy-tale information. Adults should remember that a fairy tale should be read with pleasure, with good mood- in this case, your emotions, your mood, your pleasure will be transmitted to the baby.
When reading a fairy tale, remember that your attitude towards it is also important. If you feel fairy world, if you want to believe in the miracles that are described in the fairy tale, then the fairy tale you read will become even more interesting for your child.
You need to read fairy tales with good diction: pronounce all sounds clearly, as the child listens and repeats what he hears. If a child likes a fairy tale, he can listen to it for several days in a row.
Properly selected fairy tales, taking into account the age and psycho-emotional characteristics of children, can not only positively influence emotional condition kids, but also correct their behavior.
What fairy tales should you tell (read) to your child?
The choice of a fairy tale for a child, especially a small one, should be approached consciously. To choose the right fairy tale, you need to take into account both the child’s age and the characteristics of his temperament. A fairy tale should make your child’s soul feel joyful. But books that will cause him emotional stress and make him noisy and irritable should be abandoned.
It is known that parents know their baby very well; they can accurately predict his reaction to each specific story and feel what will suit him. this fairy tale or not. Of course, when choosing any fairy tale, if you are unfamiliar with it, you should first familiarize yourself with its content and analyze: how much your child will like the characters, whether they will scare him, etc.
You need to start with short and simple tales so that the baby can follow the plot. The main characters of the first fairy tales are people and familiar animals. For example, the fairy tales “Kolobok”, “Hen Ryaba”, “Teremok”, “Turnip” will definitely appeal to a child aged 1-3 years: there are few characters, the plot is simple and there are elements of repetition.
When starting to read a fairy tale to your child, you need to interest him. Fairy tales for little ones should be read slowly, in a sing-song voice. During the reading process, mom or dad can imitate the voices of the characters, intone, gesticulate, and grimace. It is very important to be able to show surprise, curiosity and other emotions, and rejoice with the child. For small children, you need to choose beautifully designed books. Large and bright pictures, not overloaded with details.
Older children (3-6 years old) can read fairy tales with more complex content, but they should still have a specific plot, and the characters should be well known to your child.
Children of this age really like to read fairy tales in verse - poems are easy to understand, children subconsciously like them, and soon the baby, following you, will begin to repeat lines from “Moidodyr”, “Mukha-Tsokotukha”, “Doctor Aibolit” or Marshak’s poems. A child of this age can begin to be introduced to such fairy tales as “The Three Little Pigs”, “Cinderella”, “Pinocchio”, “Dunno”. Many fairy tales from around the world, Russian folk tales, as well as fairy tales by Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Bazhov, and some fairy tales by Pushkin are perfect for preschoolers.
A fairy tale at this age should not only please the child, but also be instructive and benefit him. The most important thing for a child is a correct understanding of the meaning of what he read.
Therefore, if you want your child to perceive life positively, to easily accept failures, while learning the proper lesson from them, to rejoice at success and move towards his goal, read fairy tales to him. Read fairy tales as often as possible and for as long as possible: remember, fairy tales are not just a pleasant, interesting pastime, but they are also one of the most powerful tools that help children develop correctly and harmoniously.
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One of the characteristic components of the folklore of any country is the presence of fairy tales. And our country is no exception here. You all probably remember how, as a child, one of your parents or, for example, your grandmother, read you a bedtime story so that you would quickly close your eyes and fall asleep. Calm and monotonous native voice, telling about something very interesting before bed, has a truly calming and soporific effect. However, we will not talk about the effect of reading fairy tales before bed, but about the meaning that is inherent in these fairy tales, but very often remains incomprehensible due to the fact that it is hidden. And not only children, but even adults cannot understand it.
The fact is that fairy tales are often imbued with the deepest symbolism, and also contain inexhaustible information about all kinds of events of antiquity. In most fairy tales there are no random images and characters, titles, names and words, and the semantic load can be so deep that you are simply amazed - akin to a Russian nesting doll, inside of which there is another, and inside of it another, etc., main meaning a fairy tale may be hidden somewhere in its depth - under a layer of simpler semantic layers. All levels of a fairy tale can represent a window into the unknown world of the structure of the universe and the foundations of life.
We all should know that fairy tales, in addition to the usual everyday educational function, can also perform a number of other – more complex ones, for example:
- Reveal the secrets of the universe and other secret knowledge
- Point out the cyclical nature of life
- Serve astronomical or natural
- Be a repository of history
- Connect with ancestors
- Talk about initiation rites when a person moves from childhood to adulthood
- To guide a person on the path and personal growth etc.
In many fairy tales, the presented directions can not only go next to each other, but also intersect and even synchronize. The characters of fairy tales are certain symbols, each of their actions carries in itself sacred meaning, and the paths they follow indicate special methods of obtaining secret knowledge and achieving inner harmony. Fairy tales are often compared even to magical formulas, which lose their power if pronounced incorrectly.
And let's look at several well-known Russian folk tales as examples. It is not a fact that our transcripts will fully reflect the truth, but they can still serve as a kind of algorithm for understanding the hidden meaning inherent in fairy tales.
So, let's look at three fairy tales: “Turnip”, “Po pike command" and " Koschey the Immortal ".
Fairy tale "Turnip"
What we know from the fairy tale: We know that my grandfather planted a turnip, and due to a particularly fruitful year, it grew very large. To pull out the turnip, the grandmother, granddaughter, Zhuchka, cat and mouse came running to help the grandfather in turn. They were only able to pull the turnip out when they all pulled it together.
Hidden meaning: If we talk about the hidden, esoteric meaning of this tale, then it tells us about the knowledge that was accumulated by the ancestors who lived in ancient times. The turnip acts as the roots of the family, and it was planted by the first ancestor - the same grandfather, who is the oldest and wisest.
The grandmother in this tale symbolizes the traditions of the house; father – support and protection of the family; mother - care, warmth and love; granddaughter - continuation of the family; Zhuchka – protection of welfare; cat - a blissful state in the house and; and the mouse is prosperity.
Each of the presented images is closely related to each other, and all together they represent one whole. Only by connecting all the parts together is a person able to achieve true harmony of being, learn to live in a world where everything that is inside a person and everything that surrounds him outside comes into harmony with each other.
The fairy tale “At the behest of the pike”
What we know from the fairy tale: A young man named Emelya sat on the stove and did nothing. One day, going to the river for water, he caught a pike. Pike asked Emelya to let her go, and in return agreed to fulfill several wishes. After some thought, Emelya asked the pike for a princess and a palace, which he received in the end, and also became a handsome man.
Hidden meaning: The stove symbolizes the space of consciousness in which the hero of the fairy tale was most time, and from which I really didn’t want to get out, because... I was contemplating myself all the time. However, a person cannot be in harmony if he inner world has nothing to do with the outside.
“Having become acquainted” with the pike, Emelya realized his true desires and gained intention, which is expressed in the words: “By pike command, according to my desire." The pike, in turn, represents mother nature, towards which Emelya showed attentiveness. And only then nature gave him the opportunity to realize his intentions and self-awareness.
The phrase: “At the command of the pike, at my will” means the unity of two facets of existence - the Spirit of man and his Soul. Pike can also be interpreted as “Schura”, i.e. ancestor - the ancestor of everything and human spirit. The river from which Emelya decided to draw water is a kind of energy-information channel that can be penetrated only by abandoning constraining beliefs. Ultimately, Emelya, through the liberation of his spirit, reached inaccessible to man in normal condition consciousness of possibilities and became the master of his destiny. In addition, Emelya becoming a handsome prince is a manifestation inner beauty on the outer plane.
Fairy tale "Koschei the Immortal"
What we know from the fairy tale: Koschey is an evil ruler dark kingdom dungeons, regularly stealing beautiful maidens. He is wealthy, and his domain is home to strange birds and animals. Serving as Koschey is the Serpent Gorynych, who has a huge amount secret knowledge, for which reason he has great power. Koschey is considered immortal, and cannot be defeated by ordinary means, although, if you wish, you can find out unusual ways, which, as a rule, are revealed to Ivan Tsarevich by Baba Yaga.
Hidden meaning: If we turn to the pantheon of gods of the Slavs, we will see that Koschey is one of the manifestations of Chernobog, who rules over Navya, Darkness and the Pekelny kingdom. Koschey also personifies the winter cold, and the girls he steals represent the life-giving power of Nature and spring. Ivan Tsarevich is a symbol of sunlight and spring thunder, accompanied by rain (remember the god Perun), in the search for Koshchei, which is facilitated by all natural forces. Having defeated Koshchei, Ivan Tsarevich, darkness and death.
As we know, Koshchei’s death can be found in an egg, which is a symbol of rebirth and the possibility of the existence of all things that can be. Based on this, Koschey is at the beginning of Everything, and his death is equated to the emergence of the world.
The needle, at the tip of which is Koshcheev’s death, serves as a reference to the world Tree, connecting the underworld, earth and sky, as well as the winter and summer solstices. Koshchei can be interpreted as the winter solstice, and Ivan Tsarevich as the summer solstice. They are always in a state of struggle with each other. The death of one is the birth of another, just as winter leaves and summer comes, and then this cycle repeats.
And one more detail: Koschey the Immortal is an attempt to scare Ivan Tsarevich, which contains a completely different message - Koschey the Immortal is Koschey the Mortal Bes.
A little parting word
Time moves inexorably forward. The world is changing. And along with the world, a person and his perception change. Today very few people can understand and explain the sacred and very deep meaning fairy tales of our wise ancestors, and, as you have seen for yourself, of course, there is one. And the knowledge that was transmitted in these fairy tales may very soon sink into oblivion. It is easy to notice that over time, the subtle connection that connected each other with each other was interrupted. different generations of people.
In order to understand the true essence of fairy tales, especially Russian ones, a person must push into the background his current worldview, and try to look at the world and life in it, as they were viewed by people who lived in those distant times when fairy tales just began to appear .
The search for meaning must certainly be present, because the Laws of existence, no matter what the time, no matter how developed the society, no matter how high-tech human life, have always remained and will remain the same. Therefore, let the tales about Koshchei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, Ivan Tsarevich, Emelya, Alyonushka and other characters be for you not just interesting ideas, but those pointers to which you will be guided in your Everyday life, in which, it would seem, there is no true magic left at all.
Remember: magic exists, and it surrounds you everywhere!
