Ox horns. The book of contradictions, or what is “God's grace. When did martial arts appear
Berserkers were not the very first, nor were they the best warriors to use a combat trance. Their popularity, thanks to Hollywood, has become planetary and overshadowed the truly brilliant martial arts masters.
I already wrote about the ancient Jews - skillful super-warriors and the history of martial arts.
Jewish boxing and Jewish samurai:
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I repeat a little.
Jews and samurai
Jews are the founders of the so-called "oriental martial arts"
I believe that in general the so-called martial arts are an invention of the Jews and are described in the Bible. Samson crushed the Philistines with nunchucks from a donkey's jaw (by the way, in the liberation wars of the 17th century, Ukrainian Cossacks used a horse's jaw as a weapon - chipped in a certain way it turns into a terrible weapon), and David's "strong" alone or together, back to back - fought off an entire army.
"After him was Samegar the son of Anath, who beat six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad; and he also saved Israel." (Judgement 3:31) An ox goad is a long stick - "dryn" (sharpened at one end, which is used to drive oxen, by the way, the Greeks called such a stick - an incentive, hence the concept of stimulate), is very similar to the combat staff of the Shaolin monks .
"Here are the names of the brave David: Isbosef Achamanite, chief of the three; he raised his spear to eight hundred people and hit them once. (One against eight hundred! - if this man was not a martial artist, throw the "weapon of the proletariat" at me" !)
According to him, Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the son of Ahohi, from the three brave ones who were with David, when they called out the Philistines who were assembled for war with reproof; the Israelites went out against them, and he stood up and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary and stuck to the sword. And the Lord granted that day a great victory, and the people followed him only to plunder [the dead]. Behind him is Shamma, the son of Age, a Gararite. When the Philistines gathered at Thiriah, where there was a field sown with lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines, he stood in the middle of the field and guarded it and struck down the Philistines. And then the Lord granted great victories "at. (2 Kings 23: 8-12) One man against the Philistine army! Israeli army as according to Suvorov (we'll talk about Suvorov separately) - "every soldier knows his own maneuver."
"And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Saruin, was the chief of the three; he killed three hundred people with his spear and was in glory with those three. Of the three, he was the most noble and was the leader, but he was not equal to those three. Vaneas, the son of Jehoiada, a brave husband, great in deeds, from Cavzeil; he struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab; he also descended and killed a lion in a ditch in the snow; (meaning the Eurasian lion - a kind of cougar. The last lions of this species were exterminated by Prince Vladimir Monomakh in Russian / Ukrainian steppes) he killed one Egyptian, a prominent man; in the hand of the Egyptian there was a spear, and he went to him with a stick and took the spear from the hand of the Egyptian, and killed him with his own spear: this is what Vaneas, the son of Jodaev, did, and he was in the glory of the three brave men, he was more noble than thirty, but he was not equal to those three. And David made him the closest executor of his orders. (2 Sam. 23:18-23)
The 33 heroes in Pushkin's poem are the "strong ones", the guards of David from the Bible. And the uncle himself - in Hebrew DOD - and means - David. This happened because Pushkin retold the tales of the Karaites - Krymchaks and Crimean Jews - This is the "tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Golden Cockerel", Ruslan and Lyudmila .. By the way, Pushkin wore a Jewish wedding ring with the inscription in Hebrew "betabaat haze" at mekudeshel... - with this ring you are consecrated to me according to the law of Moses and Israel.
Samurai, brave warriors defying death. But these are not just soldiers, but philosophers, poets. Being a samurai is a lifestyle, an ethic, a philosophy, and not just a virtuoso weapon. The very word "samurai" comes from the verb saberu, literally meaning "serve, support"; that is, a samurai is a service person. In Hebrew, saburim are Jews born in Israel, tough as a cactus - sabur, that is, in our opinion - tough guys. In Slavic - syabry - community members, hence the Serbs.
But doesn’t the word karate have Slavic roots - “kara te” (that is, to you), the Slavic samurai said to the presumptuous enemy.
When Jewish merchants seized a monopoly on the entire Silk Road from the Chinese city of Kaifeng (Haifa) to the Spanish Toledo (from Talit) and Toulouse (from Tales, both words mean a Jewish prayer veil), they hired "strong" - HAZAKIM (wanderers and Cossacks) as caravan guards. So the Jewish martial art ended up in China and then Japan. These Cossacks were also called by the Chinese - "sho-muren", that is, people with colored (blue, for example) eyes. From here it is not far to the "samurai". The black-eyed Chinese considered blue-eyed people to be demons, the Japanese also called the faces of the European race - demons - goi-zhin. In general, goyim and goyim in Japan. "Retiring", the caravan guards settled in monasteries that provided assistance to the poor and sick. There, the hazakim taught the techniques of martial arts to young monks.
By the way, did you know that according to DNA, the Japanese and Kazakhs are 97.3% brothers (and the DNA of the Kyrgyz with the same Kazakhs is only 43.7%). And yet, among the samurai clans, the frequency of the R1a marker is much higher than that of the rest of the Japanese. And the Kazakhs, displayed in the Saka (Cossack) haplogroup R1a1, seriously, scientifically, consider themselves modern Cossacks (and Aryans), and the Kazakhs zealously retain the term "Cossacks" for themselves at the state level. This is not fantasy. I (Khazarin), being in Alma-Ata, talked with the local intelligentsia, and they seriously identify themselves with the Cossacks and the descendants of the Aryans !!!
Note: SAK GENE: haplogroups are included in the so-called "Saki gene" - the genetic basis of the Cossacks of all times and territories. Saks - historically, these are Scythians and Aryans - the people who inhabited Siberia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Take a look at this photograph of the statue of Japanese samurai leader Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336) outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. This is a very characteristic, iconic monument. It embodies not an Asian, but a EUROPEAN type of person. The Japanese, unlike us, remember well who stood at the origins of the founding of their homeland and are still very offended when they are called "Asians".
When did the real samurai appear?
Samurai originated as a result of the Taika reforms (646) which were carried out as an attempt to adopt the political, bureaucratic and military structure of the Tang Dynasty. The greatest impetus for the development of daimyo and samurai as a class was given by Emperor Kammu at the end of the 8th - beginning of the 9th century, when he turned to the regional clans for help in the fight against the Ainu.
When did martial arts appear?
The Japanese art of the samurai is bujutsu (X-XI centuries), when the bushi military class (samurai) was born to protect the newly acquired agricultural and land interests. This warrior class adopted bujutsu as part of their culture. Later, during the Kamakura era (1192-1333), the military began to play a political role. They practiced a number of martial arts, especially three types of mounted archery: kasagake (using umbrellas as targets), yabusame (shooting arrows at wooden targets) and inu-omono (shooting at running dogs - by the way, Nicholas II really loved to shoot over everything that moves, and not only over stray dogs and dogs of ladies-in-waiting in the summer palace, but also over cats and crows). True Samurai!
Around the tenth century, in parallel with the formation of the military class of the samurai, the art of fighting in armor began to take shape - yoroi-kumiuti (kumiuti, yoroi-gumi, katchu-gumi). It reached its peak at the end of the 12th-13th centuries.
In the XVI century. on the basis of kumiuchi, a new kind of Japanese art of close combat is being formed, which is called “kogusoku-jutsu” - “the art of fighting with small weapons”, briefly - “kogusoku”. The basis of kogusoku was fighting techniques with small weapons aimed at killing the enemy, as well as techniques for capturing him alive and binding.
The arts of close combat are described in the chronicles "Kojiki" (712) and "Nihongi" (720) all the techniques known at that time: punches and kicks, throws, arm twists, strangulations.
7th century - Sumo. And it's not just men's wrestling. At the Inari Shrine in Higashikane, saotome, girls planting rice, are fighting. Even the ancient name of sumo - "sumai" - is associated with the end of rice harvesting - sumai.
Chinese - e-ie - fistfighting, a broad term and a narrower one - Kung Fu (in Cantonese), Gong Fu (in official Chinese) - literally "work on oneself / training", also means the result of hard training, in Hong Kong is used to denote wu-shu, a variant of kung fu is also used. Beginning - the dynasty 618-907.
Karate - the term "karate" ("Chinese hand") was put into circulation in the eighteenth century. a certain Sakugawa from the Okinawan town of Akata. Upon his return from China, where Sakugawa studied the Shaolin style of martial arts, he founded a private school of Karate no Sakugawa. In the 19th century, karate came to Japan itself.
In the second half of the XVI - early XVII centuries. a huge step forward was made in the field of hand-to-hand combat without weapons and with the use of small weapons and improvised means. The formation of a new direction in the art of close combat, which is currently commonly called "jujutsu", began. There was no judo before! 882.
The year of birth of aikido can be called 1920, and the place is the city of Ayabe.
Krav Maga - the name in Hebrew means "close (contact) combat" (maga - combat, krav (close, contact), and refers to combat with physical interaction with the enemy, as opposed to combat using weapons at a distance (although in krav- magician, modern types of weapons are studied - rifles, pistols, and other items, combined with self-defense techniques).
The Krav Maga system was developed in the 1930s by Imi Lichtenfeld, also known as Imi Sde-Or (Sde-Or - “field of light”, the translation of the surname into Hebrew). Initially, he taught his fighting system in Bratislava to help protect the Jewish community from Nazi militias. After arriving in Palestine, Lichtenfeld began teaching hand-to-hand combat in the Haganah. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he became the chief physical and hand-to-hand combat instructor at the Israel Defense Forces Combat Training School. Lichtenfeld served in the IDF until 1964, constantly developing and improving his system. After his retirement, Krav Maga was adapted by him to civilian realities.
Sambo - 1938 - Soviet (Russian) type of wrestling based on a combination of oriental martial arts.
So, again, we do not see everything before the same until the 8th century, even the beginnings of the famous martial arts.
They appear suddenly and as if ready-made, although they are further improved.
In Europe, the first testers of trance (including combat) were:
nordic shamans
At present, the classical shamanic cults of Siberia and America are widely known and fairly well studied. But at the same time, there was a specific shamanic tradition in the territory of the North of Europe. The presence and fundamental role of what Mircea Eliade called "archaic techniques of ecstasy" allows us to attribute it to shamanistic beliefs.
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Runic magicians - erilis adopted from the peoples of the North who preceded them the practice of taking hallucinogens (fly agarics) and ecstatic travels during the ritual to the sounds of a tambourine and beaters, but at the same time developed their own system of symbols to illustrate shamanic cosmogony in the form of runes. At the same time, all the fundamental motives are very closely related: the Tree of Worlds in the form of Yggdrasil, Odin as the archetype of a shaman, his acquisition of knowledge through suffering, sacrifice and rebirth, a journey to the upper and lower worlds inhabited by spirits and gods.
Later, the beliefs of the Erils became a transition from shamanism to pagan cults. Early Middle Ages with their more formalized pantheon of deities, and the Futhark of the elder runes will turn into a mantic system, but will still contain the vast knowledge of shamans about the worlds and energies that the erils obtained in their incredible journeys beyond the reality known to us.
In the III-IV centuries of our era, Europe was stirred up by the Great Migration of Nations. Among the barbarian tribes, a special place was occupied by the Goths, who later largely shaped the main European peoples. Among the Goths-settlers, eager for conquest and new knowledge, during this period a kind of mysterious society was formed, like a military order-brotherhood of the era of the Crusades (such as the Templars or Hospitallers), whose members were called Heruli. In their customs, they combined the fearlessness and contempt for the death of berserkers with a spirit of equality and community. But the main distinctive feature of the Heruli was that they were the only carriers of the practice of martial magic based on the Futhark of the Elder Runes (the runic alphabet).
The word "herul" is the Latin version of the word "erilar" - eril, the rune magician, directly indicates the nature of the knowledge that these extraordinary warriors possessed. Military skill and dedication to sacred secrets gave them a sense of being chosen and allowed the Heruli to leave their mark on history.
In the 3rd century, magical warriors settled at the mouth of the Don and the Sea of Azov, from where they made desperately bold sea raids on the entire Black Sea coast, right up to Greece. After half a millennium, their exploits will be repeated by Prince Svyatoslav, in whom a direct follower of the military traditions of the Heruli is guessed (historians attribute the Heruli to the Gothic tribes already known to us, although in reality the Heruli are not an ethnic group, but an intertribal clan of character warriors). And in the XVI-XVIII centuries, the Gothic heritage will find its embodiment in the Vedic magic of the Zaporizhzhya Kharacterists and the Don Cossack freemen.
Belovodie - Russia to Altai
All peoples of the world at all times had their own ideas about paradise and a happy life after death. The ancient Greeks and Romans got to the young and beautiful gods, the warriors of the north got to the eternal feast among the heroes, paradise awaited the righteous Christians. In Russia, since ancient times, they talked about a certain country of bliss and happiness, which they called in a whisper Belovodie. Along with the image of the Christian paradise, Belovodie in Russia was considered a refuge from grief and suffering. But unlike the Christian paradise after death, the inhabitants of Russia believed that Belovodie could be found during life. There was a belief among the people that Belovodye is not an abstract concept, but a certain geographical area where you can find a way and stay there to live until the end of your days. The outstanding Russian artist, ethnographer and scientist Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich in the 20s of the XX century left the following entry in his diary: “Beyond the great lakes, behind the high mountains is a sacred place where justice flourishes, there lives the highest knowledge and the highest wisdom for salvation. This place is called Belovodie. The entry about the legendary country was made in connection with the preparation of the Central Asian expedition. It was Roerich who considered him the heart of Belovodye, the land hidden from people. Belovodye is in many ways a myth, a beautiful legend, but this legend has every reason.
Berserkers
We have already read about them.
In fact, the archetype of the berserker arose much earlier and takes its roots in Indo-European mythology. It got its expression in the ancient myth of the rabies of Hercules, the features of berserkerism are also traced in the fury of the invulnerable hero of the Iliad, Achilles. Trying to explain the phenomenon of berserkering, scientists put forward 3 main hypotheses.
According to the first of them, the fury of a berserker is an obsession with an animal spirit. This version is confirmed by the presence of information about the attributes of werewolves inherent in berserkers: dressing in bear and wolf skins.
The second is the use of a hallucinogen in the form of a fly agaric tincture. The use of "plants of power" to facilitate entry into a trance by fighters is possible, but unlikely, given the need for increased concentration in combat conditions.
According to the third explanation, berserkers are warriors who suffered from Paget's syndrome, a disease in which there is an uncontrolled increase in bone. It is interesting that in the skeleton of Ilya Muromets we see very powerful and thick bones and a skull with a very dense and powerful frontal bone (more than 2 cm thick).
All these versions have the right to exist, their adherents and arguments, but the most plausible explanation for the existence of berserkers seems to be the possibility of some specially trained warriors to arbitrarily fall into a state of combat trance.
Celtic Fenians
The most notable made up the sacred band of fianna. The Fenians did not hide behind their backs, shields, armor, did not calculate the actions of the enemy and did not study the strategy - these are the actions of a coward, which they recognized as unworthy. But they practiced for hours, bringing their virtuoso skills to fantastic limits. Their techniques were incredibly complex, and the preparation helped to use all the reserves of the body at the right time, opening up a second wind and internal energy. All this was taught in the school of combat agility. There they learned hand-to-hand combat, pole-fighting, techniques with a spear, with a rope, jumping, pole-throwing and so on. In a word, the Celtic heroes knew how to use any object, any weapon to emerge victorious. Now such skill can be found only in rare Eastern schools. To physical development a spiritual attitude was mixed in, the ability to vent energy in a battle cry, the ability to control the breath, which allowed you to control the body as it was convenient. They could go into battle practically naked and still win! They won thanks to the frenzied onslaught and fearlessness that shone in their eyes and frightened even the staunchest Roman legionnaires. It is believed that the Celts sometimes maintained their fighting ecstasy with the help of drugs.
Celtic Berserkers
The consciously evoked fighting frenzy developed among the Celts into the cult of the warrior-beast. Especially this form of combat took root among the Germans, who continued to use it even in the Middle Ages. The forces that such warriors let out of themselves were difficult to resist even an armored close formation, owning the art of proper combat. Many berserkers were called either wolves or bears, depending on which aspect of the animal the warrior took on during the battle. Bjorn and Ulf met equally in the same way. During the battle, the berserkers did not use armor and defensive weapons, or used them to intimidate the enemy, biting into the shield with their teeth, crushing the armor. They knew how to fight both with and without weapons, and did not consider it shameful to be able to fight with a fist. Stones, clubs and ropes were used as auxiliary weapons. This showed adherence to the precepts of the ancient school of martial arts. And it helped to win. A rare enemy did not hesitate at the sight of a frenzied berserker splashing with saliva, not noticing either fatigue, or wounds, or encirclement, but continuing his offensive.
Yarygs are Russian berserkers.
Ilya and Idolishche in Tsargrad
The word Yaryga, rage and the god of the sun Yarilo are of the same root. They also produce from the word - "roar" (I am a roar), in Europe the well-known distorted - "knight" - a warrior, growling in a combat trance (like a bear). In vain, the totem of Russians (and Slavs in general) is a bear, which is reflected in the coats of arms of many cities.
Initially, the word yaryga meant - a professional frantic warrior (the same as the berserk among the Scandinavians). Such lone warriors (which existed among many Indo-European peoples), thanks to their special skills, could withstand a whole enemy detachment. In a state of passion, an ardent warrior was insensitive to pain and could overcome obstacles that were inaccessible to a person in a normal emotional state.
Rykars were Ilya Muromets, Vasily Buslaev,
Vasily Buslaev
Then the word began to mean - a worthless person, a drunkard, a tramp. It is interesting that this word also means a policeman, investigator, tramp, bailiff in medieval Russia. Also, "yaryga" in the Muscovite state meant a petty employee, but it also had a different meaning - "brisk, dodgy." Apparently, like the Japanese policemen who fought against the dominance of the samurai, the yarygs used the elements of martial arts and combat trance in their work.
Slavic-Goritskaya wrestling.
The Slavic-Goritsa struggle has nothing to do with the highlanders. This is an attempt to restore the ancient system of martial arts of the Slavs. The name of the struggle comes from the ritual fights on the burial mounds of the dead soldiers - Goritsy.
From the history of the Slavic-Goritsa struggle. The origin of the Slavic schools of martial arts dates back approximately to the 3rd-2nd centuries. BC e. In Russia, fighting traditions have a long history. At the same time, entertaining, gaming folk tradition and martial arts. For all their differences, there was an obvious connection between these areas: folk fun was a kind of school for the initial training of a future fighter.
The most ancient type of wrestling in Russia - bear wrestling - is rooted in the pre-Christian era, when the bear was considered a totem animal and protector of the clan. (The ritual battles held on the field were designed to drive away evil spirits from the crops.) It is believed that such types of folk competitive culture as wrestling in an armful, in a fight, in a cross, on a collar, etc. originated from the bear wrestling.
Belt wrestling, borrowed from the Turkic peoples (now recognized as an official sport), has also become widespread.
Along with the struggle, we developed different kinds fisticuffs with accentuated percussion technique: one on one, crowd on crowd, wall on wall, coupler - dump, etc. Such a battle between the merchant Kalashnikov and the royal guardsman is beautifully described by Pushkin.
Judgment fights and betting fights (“prize” fights) were practiced in Russia.
This system also has its own styles
Basic styles.
Radogora is a style of fighting with hands, which has absorbed the technical and tactical developments of the schools of Slavic-Goritsa wrestling and other Russian fighting styles.
Podol - a style of kicking in which the arms only perform defensive functions. Ways of movement and strikes are borrowed from the battle dances of the Slavs, from the historical schools of Russian hand-to-hand combat and European martial arts (chasson, savate, puring, folderskal).
Rocker (proportional style) - a combat system in which a high rate of movement is achieved by successive strikes of arms and legs due to inertia and special plasticity, which saves the fighter's strength.
The way is a fusion of several types of struggle, combining the technical and tactical developments of the Russian historical school and special techniques for waging a total battle.
Pozem (complex combat on the ground) - a style in which creases, flips, holds, painful and suffocating actions, as well as various blows in the prone position are used.
Svilya (combat gymnastics) - a system of techniques that allows you to evade blows and captures of the enemy. It forms a special plasticity of movements in a fighter, allows you to avoid an enemy attack without excessive effort.
Heel (style of unplanned situations) - develops combat skills in specific conditions: in the dark, in tight quarters, on slippery surfaces, with the numerical superiority of the enemy and in a limited space.
Breast - a way to organize a battle with a physically superior (in height, weight, strength) enemy.
Flexible rebuilding (anti-system) - maneuvering and tactical tricks, taking into account the stereotypical actions of the enemy using one or another type of martial arts.
"S-42" - a kind of Slavic-Goritsa wrestling, adapted to real combat conditions. Includes the most effective technical actions, a survival system, special skills, as well as ways to conduct a guerrilla war.
Firefight - fighting with the use of firearms. The system is built on the basis of pistol triathlon: head-on combat (duel shooting on the move), aimed shooting, demonstration of combat movement techniques, as well as the general principles of combat using automatic weapons.
Blade fighting - a combat system based on knife triathlon (free combat, knife throwing and demonstration of military equipment in motion).
Cossacks-characterists - extraordinary warriors
All major civilizations had their elite warriors, whose abilities went beyond the usual military training and gave rise to legends about their invincibility. Be it samurai or ninja, "immortals" or Spartans, kshatriyas or Sikhs. The memory of these legendary fighters and their traditions has survived the ages and entered the myths.
The Slavic peoples also have a rich history in martial arts and are famous for their bogatyrs. But much less studied are the sacred cultural origins of their techniques and the last representatives of this line - the Cossacks-characterists.
Characteristics are extremely unusual characters even for such a motley and colorful army as the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks. They were distinguished by extraordinary vitality even in the most difficult conditions and a mocking attitude towards death and danger. In addition, typically magical attributes were attributed to the kharacterniks: the ability to turn into animals and birds, predict the future, speak, levitate, control the weather, and so on. That is why they buried the Cossacks-characterists face down, so that they would not rise from the dead (perhaps this ritual was somehow identified with the belief in ghouls and ghouls, common among the Slavic peoples).
It is especially unusual that, being representatives of the Zaporizhian Orthodox army, the kharacterniki were not completely Christians and always kept to themselves, like a secret knightly order. Like any full-fledged martial art, their tradition was based not only on technical practices, but also on the esoteric teachings of their ancestors. The basis of the original doctrine of the characterists is Vedic knowledge, supplemented by subsequent inclusions from the cultures of the steppe peoples (Polovtsy, Khazars, Pechenegs). So there was a universal combat system containing elements of survival and bioenergetic techniques.
It is believed that the emergence of characterism is associated with the development and decline of Slavic volkhvism (spiritual practices and knowledge of the Vedic plan). Priests-warriors (dates) direct forerunners of the Cossacks of the kharacterniks of the 1st millennium BC. - 1 thousand AD In the late Middle Ages, part of the knowledge of a higher order and meditative techniques were preserved. You can read about Volkhvism in the book "The Greatness of Dulibiya Ros. Surenzh" (http://rivne-surenzh.com.ua/ru/pub/) and articles (http://rivne-surenzh.com.ua/ru/our_articles/ ). Read and plunge into the millennium to Russia ...
Also interesting is the story of Gogol - blood feud, this is not fantasy, but the realities of the Cossack life of that time.
Samara true story
Alexey Solonitsyn
“Language is given to man in order to hide his thoughts,” said Frenchman Charles Talleyrand, master of political intrigue.
We are used to being guided by a different concept about the purpose of the language and the words we pronounce, even sometimes not knowing that they are said in the Gospel of Matthew: “From your words you will be justified, from your words you will be condemned” ( Matt. 12:37).
Each city has especially revered places, which are its face, its "visiting card". By the bell tower of the monastery in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God, by its churches and also by the Cathedral of the Resurrection Cathedral, which towered behind the monastery shrines, being nearby, Samara was recognizable.
In the godless years, they demolished the cathedral, famous throughout Russia, and the bell tower, and the churches of Iversky, leaving only the building of the refectory church. It housed the offices of the House of Scientists, who were engaged in the dissemination of knowledge - of course, corresponding to Marxism-Leninism. And where there was a graveyard and burial places of the most prominent citizens of Samara, they erected a residential building in which they settled the most prominent residents of the new Samara - that is, the administrative apparatus headed by the first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU .. In our present times, apartments in the "obkom" house have become to buy the richest residents of Samara, as the "fathers" rested, and their children preferred to profitably sell the housing they inherited. The apartments in the "prestigious house" with a wonderful view of the Volga now belonged to entrepreneurs, or businessmen, as they began to be called in the capitalist manner.
Among them, one stood out in particular, which created a network in Samara outlets, perhaps the largest. It was he who bought a suite of spacious rooms with high windows arranged in a semicircle.
This is how the “new Russians” settled down, not attaching importance to other arrangements of the city and the state. And little by little the Iberian Monastery was being revived. There were countless difficulties - the descent to the Volga went just past the "house of scientists", right to the Brewery, to that place known throughout Samara, which was called "Dno". There was a trade "drinking and takeaway", and what kind of pictures you will not see here then. It is no coincidence that the famous film director Stanislav Govorukhin filmed the finale of his documentary film “The Russia We Lost” here, showing how a drunken man and woman walk from the “Bottom” to the Volga in an embrace, staggering.
But if the director ordered his cameraman to turn the camera in the opposite direction, to the Iversky Monastery, located across the road, he would see stone walls, the first temple in honor of the Iverskaya icon, the first sister building .
But the director set other tasks, and therefore, if he saw that the monastery was being revived, then this fact “did not fit” into the fabric of his sensational film at the time.
There were more and more sisters of the monastery, which was formerly the spiritual center of Samara, and their prayer intensified. Especially in the most difficult days, when it seemed that troubles would cover everyone with their heads and no longer get out from under the raging elements of the "nineties". I will name only one of them: on the territory of the monastery, a so-called “working town” was formed with communal apartments and all the delights of life in such “crow's settlements”, described by famous satirists. All plumbing and sewer communications had rotted, the houses had never been overhauled, and when the main temple of the monastery, which was here before, began to be revived from the shoe factory, the rotten pipes were about to break through. No sooner had this formidable danger been eliminated than a new one, no less terrible, arose. The corner of the “Obkomovsky house” began to subside, threatening to collapse. No wonder, because the house was built on loose soil, on a churchyard.
The exposed coffins and crypts were taken to a new place on the territory of the monastery, where a necropolis was built. A moleben was served led by the primate of the diocese, Bishop Sergius. The reburials were carried out jointly with scientists who drew for their scientific works many valuable facts related to the history of Samara. They convinced the authorities to help the construction - for these purposes, they had to pump a huge amount of concrete into the hill, build a supporting wall so that the “obkom building” would not slide down.
The time has come, and the revived temple in honor of the miraculous icon of the Iberian Mother of God shone with wondrous beauty. Here, to the monastery, where the inextinguishable lamp of the Orthodox faith was no longer warm, but was burning, people from all over the city flocked, remembering that it was the Iversky Monastery that was the center of the spiritual life of the province.
And the abbess of the monastery, Mother John (Kapintseva), as she began the holy work of reviving the monastery, she continued it.
The time has come for the construction of the bell tower, with which we began our story. After all, the bell tower itself and its special ringing served as an identification mark of Samara, its spiritual symbol, and were a joy for the townspeople.
The same businessman who occupied a suite of rooms in the “Obkom building” became extremely annoyed when he saw from his high windows that a bell tower was being built opposite his apartment. He should be glad that the bells that heal the sick will fly straight to him, that the bell tower will not block his view of the Volga, but, on the contrary, decorate, as in the old days, both the panorama of the whole city and the view from his window. But he thought differently. Letters rained down in various instances. They explained to him that the land on which the bell tower was being built was monastic. That the historical shrine, which has belonged to the monastery for more than 150 years, is being restored.
In vain!
“Zakhar”, as the businessman and his shopping complexes were called, could not accept the fact that his iron will had stumbled upon a stone that he could not budge.
Having exhausted all the arguments that are given in a legal order, he resorted to the one that is used in his world as the most effective.
When I was instructed to write about Matushka John, her cell-attendant said this:
- Once, late at night, the bell rang at the door of the hegumen's house. The call is persistent, demanding. I left. I look: two people with machine guns are standing on the threshold, and Zakhar himself is between them. He says: "Call your boss." I'm to my mother: so and so. She got out of bed and got dressed. He says: “Go open it. Do not be afraid of anything". Went out to uninvited guests. Zakhar began to scold his mother so menacingly and obscenely, obscenely. “If, he says, you don’t stop the construction, we will remove you.” And again mother. And threaten again. I can tell you that not a single muscle on my mother's face trembled. She calmly listened to everything and said: “You are not dishonoring me, but the Mother of God Herself. Change your mind." In response, he again threatened, and only after that he left with his submachine gunners. I then thought: “Wow, this is our mother! That's who we should learn from, how to stand in the faith. This is what a warrior of Christ means.”
“After this incident, we learn that this Zakhar went to rest on the Cote d'Azur in France,” the cell attendant continued the story. - And there between them, these businessmen, there was a shootout. And this Zakhar got a bullet right in the tongue. I had to cut off half of my tongue. And then, in another place, he was shot to death.
I made inquiries before publishing the essay on Mother Joanna. Indeed, a well-known Samara businessman was shot twice. The first time the bullet hit the cheek, went right through, damaging the tongue. The second time, on the beach in Marseille, "Zakhar" was killed in a criminal "showdown".
From the bell tower of the Iversky Monastery, a wonderful view of the Volga and the city opens up. Of course, not everything in my city is as we would like. "Candles" were built along the embankment and thereby blocked the view of the old, primordial Samara. What can you do, many entrepreneurs are fighting for profitable, especially attractive places closer to the Volga, forgetting that such cities as ours rose from the river in tiers, without closing one house with another. But nothing, but the temple in the name of St. George the Victorious, built for the 2000th anniversary of the birth of the Savior and the anniversary of the Victory, flaunts on a high slope. The bell tower of Iverskoy also rises, and its ringing calls to prayer in the very center of my city. The bell ringer, a short, thin mother, rings beautifully: she has a wonderful ear for music.
I listen to these chimes, look at the bells and see that each of them has a language, just like a person. And this language calls to the temple, to the Lord, to the Most Holy Theotokos, who, as Matushka John is deeply convinced, is the Abbess of the monastery.
And the language “idle and crafty”, as Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin said in the famous “Prophet”, is uprooted.
Sometimes in the literal sense, as it happened with us.
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Zakhar! why are you chasing me? It's hard for you to go against the pricks
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Sometimes the rampage was used as a weapon. For example, the Israeli judge and warrior Samegar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad ( Court. 3:31).
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In Holy Scripture, this shepherd's instrument is often mentioned in figurative terms. So King Solomon wrote that "the words of the wise -
like ox goads" because they can induce a person to accept correct solution(Eccl. 12:11).
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The resurrected Jesus also used the word "scary" in a figurative sense. He said to Saul, "It's hard for you to go against the pricks." His words paint an image of a stubborn animal that does not go where the owner directs it with goads. Saul, having shown wisdom, followed the advice of Jesus, changed his life path and became the apostle Paul.
Rozhon
Rampage, a special long stick, which the plowman drove the oxen. At one end, it had a melalic tip, and at the other, a small blade for removing earth from the plowshare (coulter) (1 Samuel 13:21). This device forced draft animals into obedience and at the same time could serve as a weapon. (Judg 3:31, "ox goblin"). AT Proverbs 22:5 under R. (in the Synod. per. - "thorns"), probably, traps and traps are meant. In a figurative sense, R. names the words of the wise, who instruct people on the true path (in the Synod. Lane - "needles and driven nails" - Ecclesiastes 12:11). AT 1 Corinthians 15:55 and next. sin is called the R. of death (in the Synod. per. - "the sting of death"), because it directs to the path of death.
Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia. F. Rinecker, G. Mayer. 1994 .
Synonyms:See what "Rozhon" is in other dictionaries:
ROZHON, ROZHON, husband. (obsolete region). A sharp stake fixed in an inclined position. ❖ Climb (itti) on the horn (colloquial) to take deliberately risky actions, doomed to failure and promising trouble. Never mind (simple vulg.). nothing. No worries... Dictionary Ushakov
Against hell. Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. under. ed. N. Abramova, M .: Russian dictionaries, 1999. trouble stick, stake Dictionary of Russian synonyms ... Synonym dictionary
ROGON, wife, husband. (old). Same as col (in 1 digit). Go with the goat on someone n. (armed with a stake). To climb on the rampage (to go) (colloquial neod.) to undertake something. obviously risky. Go against the goad (go) (simple neod.) act against ... ... Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov
Vostrogo rye! Vlad. Wishing you failure, what l. bad guy SRNG 5, 150. Go against the grain. Psk. Resist, oppose what. great strength. SPP 2001, 65. What the hell? Prost. Rough 1. What else (needed, missing)? 2. Why, why? … Big dictionary of Russian sayings
trouble- Climb (go) on the horn (colloquial) to take deliberately risky actions, doomed to failure and promising trouble. Stop climbing on the rampage! No problem (colloquial vulg.) nothing. I won't give you shit. What the hell (shouldn't, don't ... ... Phraseological dictionary of the Russian language
trouble- This word, naming an object resembling a stake, is used mainly in expressions to climb on the rampage, what the hell, is formed from the same stem as shrog. This tool was used to hunt a bear, which was fixed in the expression to climb ... ... Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Krylov
- (Acts 9:5) a long pointed stick, which is used to drive oxen. The meaning of the expression it is difficult to go against the rampage was a proverb that got its origin from the fact that oxen lagging behind the herd often stumble upon the rampage, i.e. adjusted with the tip of the end of the stick and ... Bible. Old and New Testaments. Synodal translation. Bible encyclopedia arch. Nicephorus.
trouble- wife/; m.; obsolete Pointed pole, col. Go with the horns on someone l. (armed with a stake) climb on the rampage against the rampage what the hell? … Dictionary of many expressions
ROJON- (in expressions to climb on the rampage, no bullshit, what the hell). General Formed from the same base as the horn. The literal meaning, reflected in monuments from the 11th century. and preserved in dialects, “stake, nail, spear” ... Etymological Dictionary of Sitnikov
Genus. n. zhna stake, sharp pole, horn pl. dung pitchfork, ukr. born, born n. zhna, Russian. cslav. razhn - the same (Golden jet of the 12th century; see Srezn. III, 19), razhdn count; fork, Jerem. (Ghoul; see Srezn., ibid.), Bolg. ryzhen poker, spit, ... ... Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Max Fasmer
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"The First Book of Kings" tells about the beginning of a new stage in the life of the Jewish people - the stage of the appearance of kings.
However, before coming to grips with the kings, the first 3 chapters of the book are devoted to a detailed description of the circumstances of the birth and, so to speak, the track record of the last Jewish judge - the prophet Samuel.
Namely, how his mother had a problem - she could not give birth to a child (Jehovah - Sabaoth is already here - imprisoned her womb - again extorted something), how in the temple she agreed with him, promising to give her firstborn into service.
A boy was born. He was placed to be brought up in the temple in Shiloh to the priest Elijah, who had two sons who were fools.
They dragged the meat directly from the sacrificial cauldron, practically by force took away raw meat for roasting from the sacrificers, without cutting off, oh horror, at the same time, fat, which turned the people away from sacrifices.
In addition, these "priestly youths" were very eager for women - they used parishioners, so to speak, without leaving the cash register - right at the entrance to the tabernacle of the meeting.
And so, at a time when “the word of the Lord was rare, and visions were not frequent,” Samuel began to hear Jehovah and became a prophet...
During the judging of Samuel, the quiet life of the Jews did not break off - they were often beaten by the Philistines, and the good God did not deny himself pleasure, somehow ruining more than 50,000 souls for curiosity. (The chosen ones managed to look into the ark).
When Samuel grew old, he handed over the reins of government of the people into the hands of his sons. However, like the sons of Elijah, Samuil's sprays were not distinguished by piety - "they took gifts and judged perversely."
Then the elders of Israel, on behalf of the people, tired of priestly lawlessness and defeats in wars, under the guidance of judges, decided to change the leadership and asked the king for themselves so that everything would be like other peoples.
Neither Samuel nor Jehovah, who, until that time, was the only king of the Jews - the King of Heaven - naturally did not like this.
The high priest described in detail the additional duties that the institution of the kingdom would impose on the shoulders of the Jews (he found how to frighten those hardened by Levitical arbitrariness). The stubborn people stood their ground.
Then, feigning resignation to the will of the people, the democratic God allowed Judge Samuel to find a suitable anointed one for the Jews.
The choice fell on a certain Saul, the son of Kish, a noble man from a small tribe from the tribe of Benehamin. Why on him? Probably because he was very tall, young and handsome. For the king - quite "enough".
And the rite of anointing itself was not distinguished by special solemnity. The judge went out to escort Saul to the gates of the city.
Left alone with the future autocrat, he quickly poured olive oil on his head, kissed him, and assured him that Jehovah was anointing him as a ruler.
Later, a performance was played for the people with a falling lot. Samuel delivered a speech and, on behalf of Jehovah, expressed his grief at the distrust shown to the Almighty.
All the tribes had to go before the Lord in tribes, until it was pointed to Saul, who, for some reason, was hiding in the wagon train.
After the ceremony, everyone went home as if nothing had happened. And the future king returned to his fields and oxen (!).
A month later, Saul proved himself worthy to rule over the Jews. A certain Naas the Ammonite laid siege to the city of Jabesh Gilead. The townspeople sent for help to Saul.
Returning from the field, the anointed one cut 2 oxen and sent them to all the borders of Israel, which hinted that this would be the case with the oxen of those who did not follow him.
Everyone, of course, understood the hint and 300,000 people gathered. The enemy has been smashed. The people rejoiced. Finally, they have a king-protector.
However, Samuel did not like the fact that he had to share power over the Jews with the king, albeit a puppet. A year later, the first serious conflict arose between them.
The Philistines, angry at Jonathan, who defeated their vanguard, gathered 30,000 chariots and 6,000 cavalry, and infantry like sand on the seashore, and went out to beat his dad Saul, with his 2,000 soldiers, of which only Saul and Jonathan were armed with swords (!).
The rest had no weapons. (And what happened? Donkey jaws and an ox goad?) And all because the vile Philistines did not reveal the secrets of blacksmithing to the Jews and there were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel.
Seeing the Philistine army, the Jews were afraid. Half of the army betrayed the king and fled, swimming to the other side of the Jordan.
Saul realized that the defeat was inevitable, and decided to turn to God for help. But the snag was that he did not dare to turn to the Lord over the head of the higher spiritual authorities, i.e., the prophet Samuel.
What was to be done? The king waited a week, but the prophet was in no hurry. It is clear that the complaisant enemy, at that time, was patiently waiting for Saul to solve all his problems and set them in the heat ...
Then Saul decided on a desperate step: he built an altar, on which he himself offered a sacrifice to the Lord.
Samuel was terribly angry. Saul encroached on the sacred.
First, he deprived Samuel, who was due to him according to the rite, of a piece of lamb.
Secondly, Saul, not clothed in the robe of a priest, had no right to build an altar and offer sacrifices.
Third, he set a precedent, so to speak. Now, oh horror, anyone could address God directly, bypassing intermediaries.
At the same time, Sabaoth himself was not offended at all by Saul (well, wow). Moreover, he, miraculously, helped him defeat his hated enemies.
Only two people (!) Jonathan and his servant (!!) sent such horror and awe on the thousands of Philistine army that they, out of fear, themselves killed each other (!!!).
Saul increasingly strengthened his power and fought with everyone in the world.
Once Sabaoth suddenly remembered that more than 300 years ago the vile Amalekites did not let the Jews coming from Egypt through their lands, and decided that the hour of reckoning had come.
He commanded Saul, through Samuel, of course, to wipe out these people from the face of the earth, including donkeys and camels.
Saul almost did just that, only he kept alive the best animals for sacrifice and Agag, the king of the Amalekites.
Because of this "almost" Hosts, again through Samuel, rejected Saul. In addition, Saul, despising the laws on the non-creation of idols and images of everything that is in heaven and on earth, erected monuments to himself.
Such terrible sins could not be forgiven, and Samuel began to look for a replacement for him.
And he found (clearly, Sabaoth indicated) the eighth son of a certain Jesse. The young man's name was David. He, in all respects, was suitable for the role of king. He was blond (!?), with beautiful eyes and a pleasant face (that's what you need for the kingdom!).
Samuel poured oil (just olive oil) on the boy's head and anointed him to the kingdom, which put him and himself in a very ticklish position. After all, the legitimate king was still alive!
At the same time, the Spirit of the Lord passed to David, and Saul began to be disturbed by some evil spirit, but also from the Lord.
In order to amuse the autocrat, they brought him, for repose, a brave and warlike man, reasonable in speeches and conspicuous by himself, who played the ... harp (and where did he get the Slavic folk instrument?).
It was none other than David. What a coincidence! The secretly anointed king in the service of the legitimate king.
The handsome youth liked the aging king and he made him his squire.
And the restless Philistines, quickly recovering from the crushing defeat that they had inflicted on themselves, again went to Saul.
For forty days (!) a certain Goliath from Gath challenged the Jews to a duel, until the shepherd David came and threw a stone at his forehead.
The Philistines fled, but the Israelites caught up with them, beat them and plundered them (this is how history is written!).
David was introduced to the king for the second time and was called to the palace for the second time, but already, as a commander. There was clearly someone with a memory problem. Either Saul, or the biblical writers.
David's fame grew. The people loved him. Saul's son Jonathan also fell in love with him, even taking off his clothes (1 Kings 18:1-4).
The growing popularity and indiscriminate ties of David, the betrayal of Jonathan, who took the side of David, all this greatly irritated the king.
Just the sight of David infuriated Saul. Often, during a peaceful conversation, he practiced throwing a spear in the direction of David, as if in jest. Several times David miraculously managed to dodge the tip of the spear.
However, despite this, David, nevertheless, married the second daughter of King Saul Michal, giving for her, as a vein (bride price), 200 circumcisions of the Philistines.
Michal and Jonathan loved David and did their best to save him from his father's wrath. Jonathan in every possible way emphasized his services to the state and obtained from Saul an oath promise that he would not encroach on the life of David.
Michal once sheltered David and deceived the king's servants who came to kill him. She lowered her husband by a rope from the window, and, instead of him, put in bed ... a statue! (1 Samuel 19:13)
Another statue. Where did she come from in the palace of an orthodox Jew? Or maybe Saul was only slightly orthodox? Those. not a Jew, but, say, a Philistine who converted to the Jewish faith, but did not forget the customs of his people?
Then it becomes clear why he did not dare to put King Agag to death. He was also a Philistine, and even God's anointed one. Therefore, Samuel had to personally finish off the blue blood of the enemy.
Saul personally went in pursuit of David. From anger, his head went slightly crazy and he began to prophesy on the go. When they reached the house where Samuel hid David, Saul stripped naked and continued to prophesy.
David realized that anything could be expected from the touched king, and therefore decided to run away. But, before leaving, he met with Jonathan.
David and the prince swore that they would love each other and would not part until their death. Jonathan not only assured his friend that he would not allow his death, but asked David to swear that in the event of his, Jonathan's death, David would take his heirs under the protection. "... and they kissed each other, and both wept together, but David wept more."(1 Samuel 20:41)
David hid, endured hardship and hunger. Gradually, he amassed a detachment of adherents from "all the oppressed and all the debtors and all the grieved souls." A few months later, this gang numbered 400 people.
Saul dealt ruthlessly with David's supporters. He cut out cities, even priests went under the knife.
When David did not run from Saul, he fought with the eternal enemies of the Jews - the Philistines. They attacked the city of Keil. With Jehovah's help, David, with a retinue of six hundred men, "inflicted a great defeat on them and drove off their livestock."
Saul decided to attack unexpectedly, surround Keilah and lock David up in the walls of the city. And then take the city by storm.
But David happily escaped the danger, ahead of him, because he had his agents in Saul's palace, who informed him about every step of the king.
Jonathan managed to secretly meet his friend again. Jonathan's love was so strong that he decided to betray his father and refuse to inherit the throne in favor of David.
Saul was just obsessed with catching David. He gathered 3,000 troops and came to the mountains, where, according to his information, David's detachment was supposed to be hiding.
Once, Saul felt the urge to go out of need and he jumped into the cave, where (what a coincidence!), David and his companions were sitting.
While the monarch was attending his royal needs in the dark, David, despite the instigation of his henchmen to kill the king, only cut off the edge of his clothes.
Another hilarious, twisted biblical tale.
What did the biblical writers want to depict here - the nobility, intelligence and foresight of David or the delicacy and shyness of Saul in intimate matters?
However, the future great Jewish king David not only fled from King Saul and fought the Philistines. He figured out how else to get his bread with olive oil.
The man named Nabal was very rich. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. His flocks grazed, just in the territory on which David settled. Therefore, it was decided to offer Nabal a "roof", of course, not free of charge.
The messengers told Nabal that his shepherds were calmly grazing their sheep, they had not lost anything during this time (and what did the robbers themselves eat all this time?), because David, supposedly, was vigilant day and night for the good of Nabal.
Nabal, being slightly tipsy, sent them away. For this he should have been punished. However, Abigail - the wife of Nabal - took emergency measures to save her.
She collected 200 loaves, 2 skins of wine, 5 cooked sheep, 5 measures of dried grains, 100 bunches of raisins, 200 bunches of figs, and went to David to bow.
Abigail, with the help of blessings and flattering wishes on the head of David and curses on the head of Nabal, begged the formidable chieftain not to shed blood. David accepted the offerings and graciously agreed.
In the morning, when Nabal sobered up, his wife told him about it, Nabal had a heart attack, and 10 days later he died, and Abigail became David's wife.
So the "holy" Jewish book offers its readers a manual for a novice racketeer.
David, again pursued by Saul, fled to the city of Gath to the Philistine king Achish, in whose eyes he quickly "gained favor." (That's charisma!)
Taking advantage of the location of the king, David asked him to transfer his detachment to the small town of Sakelag.
From there, David attacked neighboring tribes and delivered rich booty to Anchus: small and large cattle, jewelry. But not once, for a year and a half, did he bring slaves.
And all because he did not leave witnesses of his raids alive. After all, he told Achish that he was robbing and killing the Jews, and not the tribes friendly to Gath.
And Achish, having fallen under the influence of David's charms (charisma), did not ask for a report on where the slaves were going.
The Philistines again went to war against Saul. He, seeing the Philistine army, was frightened and began to rush about in search of support.
But Jehovah did not answer him, remembering the puncture with the Amalakites, Samuel, as luck would have it, died, and he himself dispersed all the magicians and sorcerers.
With great difficulty managed to get on the underground séance and summon the spirit of Samuel. But it did not help.
The disgruntled spirit foretold the disgraced king defeat in the battle, death to him and his sons, and the kingdom would pass to David.
David, on the other hand, received a promotion - Achish appointed him as his bodyguard. However, the Philistine governors did not want to see David's people among their army, quite rightly believing that the Jews were capable of betrayal.
Achish did not want to part with David, who "was in his eyes like an angel of God," but he was forced to submit to the will of the majority.
While David and his band were in the camp of the Philistines, the Amalekites from the south attacked Sakelag, plundered and burned it, and carried off the women and children into captivity. Among the captives were two of David's wives.
The leader was almost stoned to death - after all, through his fault, the city was left without protection. Many of the robbers lost their loved ones.
Cunning and daring David found a way out. He put on a priestly ephod, which was a gross and criminal violation of the Mosaic law. After all, David was not only a descendant of Aaron, but even a simple Levite.
The trick worked and David began to communicate directly, without intermediaries, with the Almighty. And his word began to be perceived as the word of God.
The captives and the loot were recaptured, and even they took the surplus from the Amalekites. And then David took another step, securing for him the glory of a just king - for the first time he divided the booty equally among all the soldiers, regardless of whether they went on a campaign or not.
David did not forget his secret spies in all cities and villages, and also, at the court of Saul, they also got part of the booty.
And the battle with the Philistines ended, as the spirit of Samuel foretold. The Jews lost, three of Saul's sons died, and Saul himself, fearing captivity and bullying, stabbed himself to death.
In ancient times, farmers used to guide draft cattle during plowing with the help of goads. Rojon is a pointed pole about 2.5 meters long. At one end was a sharp metal tip. If the animal rested on the rampage, it hurt itself. At the other end of the goad, as a rule, there was a plate, with which earth, clay or grass was removed from the plowshare.
Sometimes the rampage was used as a weapon. The Israelite judge and warrior Samegar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad (Judges 3:31).
In the Holy Scriptures, this instrument is also mentioned in figurative terms. For example, King Solomon wrote that “the words of the wise are like ox goads” because they can move a person to make the right decision (Ecclesiastes 12:11).
The resurrected Jesus also used the word "scary" in a figurative sense. He said to Saul, "It's hard for you to go against the pricks." His words paint an image of a stubborn animal that does not go where the owner directs it with goads. Saul, having shown wisdom, followed the advice of Jesus, changed his life path and became the apostle Paul. (Information from publications of Jehovah's Witnesses).