The architecture of many buildings of Kiev mythological motifs are present, confirming "mystical" and "magic" reputation of the city.
In the old Kiev called "the city of the dragons."As you know, the world of ancient Slavs were in the form of a giant snake biting its own tail.If you believe this view, the tail of the snake is located just above the Kiev ... No wonder the patron of the Ukrainian capital is Archangel Michael, according to the Bible, who defeated the devil in the guise of the seven-headed snake ...
In Kiev district potters-Kozhumyaki.Its name is connected with the name of the mythical hero Nikita the Tanner allegedly victorious serpent regularly carries away to his lair beautiful girls.Said Nikita the Tanner was a real person and lived here in the tract, which then housed something like craft suburb ... According to others, the winner of the Kiev serpent called Cyril.Perhaps it was his second Christian name, received at baptism.In honor of Cyril Kozhumyaki it was built and St. Cyril's Church, which is located near the cave Zmiyov.
And what if he serpent really existed?No wonder near Kiev is still preserved Serpent's Wall - as the myth goes, this is the furrow that Nikita plowed plow 300-pounds, which harnessed the serpent slain.By the way, the image of the legendary serpent can be seen on the facade of a historic building on the street Reitarskaya.
I do not whether the folk legend about Nikita (Cyril) Kozhemyako one interpretation of the biblical tradition of the victory over the serpent of the Archangel Michael?
Anyway, in the architecture of many buildings of Kiev there are mythological motifs, suggesting "mystical" and "magic" reputation of the city.
So, in the street Yaroslavov Val Castle, the gable is decorated with winged lions.According to one version, in the nineteenth century it belonged to the family of the Barons Steinheil.On the other hand, this house built for his mistress tobacco magnate Salve.Lions also had to serve her protection from evil spirits.
№14A house on the same street in the early XX century, built a merchant Rodzianko.At the entrance are two stone statues depicting some mythical creatures female.According to the researcher Dmitry Lavrov like motifs in the design of the buildings were at the beginning of the last century is very popular in Kiev.On the one hand, bare stone beauties could be characters from Greek mythology, the other - the specific images of witches, who thus guarded by the hosts from trouble.
But the most famous "mythical" home in Kiev is located at Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya 8. It is known as the House with Chimeras.The facade shows a really deadly monster Chimera.Today, it is not to determine who was the first owner of the building and why he chose such a "design".Perhaps he wanted so to scare away evil spirits from your home (like cures!), And can, praising the dark forces trying to gain their patronage ... Although there is a hypothesis that the owner of the house just copied chimera with Notre Dame - because in those daysIt was fashionable to imitate all French ...
Despite his reputation as "holy" city, capital of Ukraine, there is plenty of names associated with devilry - Chertoroy, Ferris Beremische, Bald Mountain and so on. d. The most active of Kiev began construction in 1840.The construction of each house begins with a special ceremony - zakladchiny, without which, as they said, the house will not stand.The owner-contractor brigade masters exhibited a bucket of vodka and gave each of his shirt.Then he called the sorcerer (this was available in each brigade and the ceremony took a special magic name - Kasian).Kasian approached one of the corners, threw the ax in the air and read the spell.Then sprinkled with magic powder into a corner and demanded that the owner named the conditional sacrifices that need to bring homes.Usually called names or sworn enemies opostylevshih wives, other relatives wanted to get rid of them.
is not known if it is somehow their destiny and die if someone really.But it is clear that the rite zakladchiny - a more relaxed version of the ancient rite, when the wall of a building under construction walled up the corpse of the murdered victim (often human), and even a man alive.However, the latter was more common in Western countries.But the belief that if you die during the construction of the person, the building will be "good standing" is alive to this day.And often do people die: falling from the scaffolding builders, pushing their plates and so on.. Many see this as something mystical ...
Irina Shlionskaya
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