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I do not own the copyright to this music or video. I have subtitled it in colloquial American English for the benefit of those who are learning the Russian or English languages. **** Fresh from Translation Station! Another music video from the Russian pagan metal band, Arkona. This one is called “Slavsya, Rus`“ which I have translated as “Glory, Rus.“ Rus (more correctly, Rus`, with an apostrophe at the end) is an ancient name of Russia, referring to the kingdom of Rus`, or Ruthenia, as it was also known - the land of the Eastern Slavs. In the song, the deities Dazhbog and Svarog are mentioned, and also Lyut, the god of war. Dazhbog, a pre-Christian god of the Eastern Slavs, is the son of Svarog, a mighty blacksmith who hammered the sun into shape and placed it into the sky. The earliest known mention of Svarog is in a 15th century manuscript known as the Hypatian Codex, which is a compilation of many, much older, texts: “(Then) began his reign Feosta (Hephaestus), whom the Egyptians called Svarog… during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith’s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time; before that, (people) fought with clubs and stones. Feosta also commanded the women that they should have only a single husband… and that is why Egyptians called him Svarog… After him ruled his son, his name was the Sun, and they called him Dazhbog… Sun Tzar, son of Svarog, this is Dazhbog.“
