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October 4th, 2007, 01:14 AM
I had this ukranian shirt..it was a wedding shirt with the design going down the front..typical....
i wore it a lot enjoyed it, was made out of real good cotton....
Then in the 90's i got to thinking about it and looked at similiar in shops.....I thought these designs going down the front look like chakras...i wonder....
there was this Ukranian lady in my building at the time and i knew she was scholary and i ran this past her......she freaked out for at the time she was doing some work on this very thing...she said the designs went farther back than when christianity had reached there...she said they practised a sort of shamanism...but they traced this India/Buddhist influence...appernetly monks had made it there long ago and influenced the local Shamans if you will...She said indeed the art work were symbols for chakras...long forgotton and the reason they wear them today at weddings and stuff is beckoning back to a religous meaning way back before Christianity....
Vereya, any thoughts
I had this ukranian shirt..it was a wedding shirt with the design going down the front..typical....
i wore it a lot enjoyed it, was made out of real good cotton....
Then in the 90's i got to thinking about it and looked at similiar in shops.....I thought these designs going down the front look like chakras...i wonder....
there was this Ukranian lady in my building at the time and i knew she was scholary and i ran this past her......she freaked out for at the time she was doing some work on this very thing...she said the designs went farther back than when christianity had reached there...she said they practised a sort of shamanism...but they traced this India/Buddhist influence...appernetly monks had made it there long ago and influenced the local Shamans if you will...She said indeed the art work were symbols for chakras...long forgotton and the reason they wear them today at weddings and stuff is beckoning back to a religous meaning way back before Christianity....
Vereya, any thoughts
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October 4th, 2007, 01:33 AM
Well, it would be hard to say anything specific without seeing the symbols, because the folk art-work has fortunately preserved a lot of pre-Christian symbols as decorative elements. They are ver different, and range from something like this
to something like this
These are just two images that I happen to have on my computer, there are lots more. The ancient Slavonic people, who lived on the territory of what is now Ukraine and Russia practised Pagan Slavonic religions. The Slavonic peoples descended from the Aryans, and Aryans have initially come to Europe from India. Thus some common features can be traced in the religious rites, and symbols. The most striking example is the swastika - it is a very ancient Pagan symbol, symbolizing life and the Sun, and the swastika is among the religious symbols of lots of different cultures. I even think it would be correct to say that it is a part of religious symbolism of every pre-Chrisitan religion. And there are lots of other symbols that occur in different religions, and have a common significance, just because the religions they occur in have a common source.
So this is a very general answer to your question, and I'd really like to see the particular design you are talking about, or at least something similar to it, to be able to say something more specific.
Well, it would be hard to say anything specific without seeing the symbols, because the folk art-work has fortunately preserved a lot of pre-Christian symbols as decorative elements. They are ver different, and range from something like this
to something like this
These are just two images that I happen to have on my computer, there are lots more. The ancient Slavonic people, who lived on the territory of what is now Ukraine and Russia practised Pagan Slavonic religions. The Slavonic peoples descended from the Aryans, and Aryans have initially come to Europe from India. Thus some common features can be traced in the religious rites, and symbols. The most striking example is the swastika - it is a very ancient Pagan symbol, symbolizing life and the Sun, and the swastika is among the religious symbols of lots of different cultures. I even think it would be correct to say that it is a part of religious symbolism of every pre-Chrisitan religion. And there are lots of other symbols that occur in different religions, and have a common significance, just because the religions they occur in have a common source.
So this is a very general answer to your question, and I'd really like to see the particular design you are talking about, or at least something similar to it, to be able to say something more specific.
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October 4th, 2007, 01:39 AM
it's free and then you insert the link in the insert image
Quoting Vereya
ya got to host them on places like http://photobucket.com/
Oops, I copied two pictures into my reply, and they didn't appear... I tried once again, with the same results... 
How do you copy pictures into your posts? Maybe I just did something wrong?
How do you copy pictures into your posts? Maybe I just did something wrong?
it's free and then you insert the link in the insert image
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October 4th, 2007, 01:40 AM
i was going to give links to pics of embroidered shirts....it's the embroidery i am talking about..it resembles chakras
i was going to give links to pics of embroidered shirts....it's the embroidery i am talking about..it resembles chakras
