Once upon a time, people inhabited the earth together with other peoples, who were also the grandchildren of good and evil deities.
From Alina Svyatogorovna and Ilm Svarozhich the gmurs and alvas descend. Gmurs and Alvs are relatives; the first Gmurs and Alvs were brothers. Only the Gmurs took after their father, the great blacksmith god Ilm Svarozhich, and the Alvas took after their beautiful mother Alina.
In the mountains, in caves, gmurs live, they are also called homozuli and gnomes. These are great master blacksmiths who know the secrets of the mountains. They were the first to learn how to mine ore and smelt metals.
In general, they are kind and hard-working people, but they have suffered greatly from human greed, and therefore they do not like people. They hide in deep mountain caves, where they built underground cities and palaces. Sometimes they come to the surface, and if they meet a person in the mountains, they scare him with a loud cry.
Gmurs fight in dungeons with mountain monsters and dragons. Gmurs are similar to people, only smaller in stature, so it is more convenient for them to walk through caves. Some of the gmurs mixed with people, and from them people received knowledge about blacksmithing and jewelry. Many; ancient families of blacksmiths have gmurs as their ancestors.
Alvas (alvins) are relatives of gmurs, but they cannot stand dungeons, so it was difficult for them to hide from people. They did not like to fight, so they did not resist, but only fled from the human tribe. The Alvas are sages and wizards, but they possess only good magic and cannot cause harm.
Some alvins came to people and did a lot of good. They taught the Magi magic, secret sciences, and sought to improve morals. And they achieved something. But now there are almost no alves left, for the wrath of the rulers serving the forces of darkness was the first to be directed at them.
One of the last refuges of the elves was Eulysia - the Blessed Swan Country near Alatyr Mountain, but then they left here too.
They say that somewhere in the ocean there is a magical island where they moved, but there is no road for people there. On this island, among the ever-blooming gardens, their castles stand. Here no one bothers the alvods, they eat fruits, sing songs and never grow old.
In addition to the Gmurs and Alvs, other magical peoples once lived on the lands of Rus' - forest druds, asil giants, or volotomanes, also white-eyed chud, cave dwellers lords, psygols, one-eyed oriks, female-controlled yagyns and others. All of them are of the human tribe, some of them mixed with the Slavs, some with other peoples. And their spirits still roam throughout Rus', guarding ancient burial mounds.
The Droods are descended from Anta Velesic and Priya Bogumirovna. They mixed with the acts to which some Cossack and Circassian families attribute their ancestors. From Veles Asila, the giants Asilki and Volotomans descended, who mixed with the ancestors of the Belarusians, Poles and Celts.
There was another kind of giants, who are also called trolls. They, apparently, are the degenerate descendants of the titans who were once exiled or expelled from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to the North. Until recently, they inhabited northern forests and mountains (they were last seen near the Panov Mountains on the Volga). They owned black magic and could turn into rocks and snakes. And in the end they completely degenerated, turned into evil cannibals and were completely exterminated.
In ancient times, the White-Eyed Chud and Divya people lived in the Urals and the Russian North. Initially, they were of the same family, and had the same ancestors, apparently Churila Dyevich and Tarusa. Then they gave rise to many Aryan and Finnish families. In particular, they include the Lunar Dynasty of Indian and Venedian kings. They divided on religious grounds. The Dyev people began to serve Dy and went to the underground cities immediately after the battle between Svarog and Dy. They were sheltered by the underground inhabitants of the Pans, who descend from Pan Vievich. And the Chud went into those caves shortly before the inclusion of the Urals into the Muscovite kingdom.
A report on the unknown miracle of the ancient manuscript collection of the Solovetsky Library was published in “Antiquities”, Proceedings of Moscow. Archaeol. society, vol. 14, M., 1890.
“Above that great river Ob, people walk underground, another river day and night with lights and go out to the (underground) lake, and on that lake there is a wonderful light and a great city.”
If fairy tales, parables and legends are more common about Chuds, Alvahs and Gmurs, then purely historical information has been preserved about the last giants who lived in Rus' back in the 10th century. Thus, the Arab diplomat and respected land recorder Ibn Fadlan, who visited the upper reaches of the Volga, saw the remains of a just killed cannibal giant at the court of the Bulgarian Khan.
“And I saw that his head was like a large tub, and his ribs were like the largest dry fruit branches of palm trees, and in the same way the bones of his legs and both his elbow bones. I was amazed at this and left."
This giant was caught in the forests of the Vesi tribe (that is, in the Murom forests). He had a violent disposition, which is why he was kept on a chain and with boa constrictors because his screams caused women to have miscarriages.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru