Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey

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I recently read an article in the English Wikipedia about an alleged ancient pagan text called the Book of Veles. Transcribed from wooden planks found during the Russian Civil War, it was later transported to Beograd, where the planks disappeared into the furnace the Second World War. The manuscript finally surfaced in the ’50s in San Francisco in an emigré Russian newspaper. The writing system used is a curious mixture of Greek, Cyrillic, and Devanagri (!). And for adherents of the Luvians at Troy theory, there is a Trojan War episode thhat nicely ties in with my Monmutensic entry title. There are two Russian and one Ukrainian translations online. On one site, it is referred to as the Slavic Vedas. A. Asov has a site dedicated to it, and it seems to form the sacred writings of Slavic Neopagans. It can be seen as an East Slavic answer to the Slovene-Venetic correspondence (see pro and con) which has also flourished on the Web.