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Vseyasvetnaya Gramota (Russian: Всеясветная Грамота; literally "Universal Script", "Universal Alphabet" or "Worldwide Writing"; acronym: ВГ, VG) is a Rodnover (Slavic Neopagan) movement based on an elaborate doctrine of esoteric linguistics or natural philosophical linguistics,[1] holding that there is a continuity between language, script, the cosmos and God, corroborated by the etymological relation that in East Slavic languages exists between yazychnik, "pagan", and yazyk, "language".[2] The movement was begun in Russia by Anany Shubin-Abramov (1938–2019) in the 1980s, and was later incorporated as a homonymous public organisation.[3]
The adherents of the movement are known as Vseyasvetniks,[3] but they also call themselves — as the founder himself did — Orthodox.[4] They believe that the Vseyasvetnaya Gramota is an ancient, primordial script which gave rise to all the other writing systems of the world;[5] a "magical script" whose letters are representations of multidimensional divine archetypes manifesting as entities and events, proving that the world is divinely designed by God, and providing means to work with the universe.[6] The Cyrillic script and especially its ancestors, the Old Church Slavonic and Glagolitic scripts, are considered to have preserved some magical properties of the original Vseyasvetnaya Gramota of which they would be simplified descendants.[7]
- ^ Tambovtseva 2019a, pp. 48–49, 57; Tambovtseva 2019b, abstract.
- ^ Laruelle 2012, pp. 306–307.
- ^ a b Tambovtseva 2019a, p. 50.
- ^ Tambovtseva 2019a, p. 53.
- ^ Aitamurto & Gaidukov 2013, p. 163; Tambovtseva 2019b, abstract; Povstyeva 2020, p. 11.
- ^ Tambovtseva 2019a, p. 51; Tambovtseva 2019b, abstract.
- ^ Laruelle 2008, p. 290; Laruelle 2012, pp. 306–307.