12 In Serbian, the Paschal troparion reads as follows: "Christ is risen from the dead, I will crush the smrt and let us die at the grave of the gift of life."

13 "In general, the appearance of Kali is harsh and terrible; This is a three-eyed monster with bared teeth, a protruding tongue, many (more often four) arms in which weapons are placed. Her earrings are in the form of the bodies of babies, the necklace is made of skulls. Holidays in her honor are colorful and popular. But she is feared and therefore revered, making bloody sacrifices... Kali is considered the patroness of all those engaged in unclean deeds, including professional criminals, robbers and murderers, not to mention members of the caste of stranglers-thugas, who kill people in her honor" (Vasiliev L.S. History of Religions of the East, p. 245). "Goddesses Durga and Kali... look frightening and are often the objects of worship of bloody cults" (Eliade M., Culiano I. Dictionary of Religions. [Moscow, St. Petersburg,] 1997. P. 164). "There are still those," wrote the neo-Hindu Vivekananda, "who ridicule Kali. But today she is here, in the crowd. People are beside themselves with fear, and soldiers are called upon to sow death. Who would dare to assert that God does not manifest himself in evil as well as in good? But only a Hindu dares to worship it as evil" (quoted from: Father Seraphim (Rose), Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. [Moscow,] 1991. P. 37).

14 The cross remains a symbol of the Serbian nation to this day. This symbol is depicted in the form of a four-pointed symmetrical cross with four letters "C", symbolizing, according to some interpretations, the motto: "The very syllable of Srbija spasava" – "Only unity saves Serbia".

15 Stefan Uroš IV Dušan (1331–1355) was the ninth ruler of the glorious Serbian dynasty of Nemanjić, the most famous and most powerful Serbian king. He was harsh and brave, during his 24 years of reign he attacked the Byzantine Empire alone 13 times. Dušan raised Serbia to a height it had never reached: during his reign, Serbia stretched to the Adriatic Sea, and Dušan was proclaimed king of almost all the countries that had previously been part of the Byzantine Empire. Serbia was the strongest and most prosperous kingdom on the Balkan Peninsula at the time of the invasion of the Turks. The relics of King Dušan rested in his main monastery (this is the name given in Serbia to monasteries or temples built by someone for the salvation of his soul, that is, donated "for the soul") – the monastery of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel near Prizren. In 1968, the holy relics were transferred to Belgrade to the Church of the Holy Apostle Mark.

16 The Great Martyr Lazarus (c. 1329–1389; commemorated on June 15/28 and on the Third Sunday after Pentecost) was the Prince of Serbia from 1371 to 1389, a favorite national hero of the Serbs. He united the Serbian lands scattered after the death of King Dušan, and obtained from Byzantium the rank of patriarch for the Serbian archbishop. He fought courageously against the Turks, who sought to conquer the Balkans. He died heroically in the Battle of Kosovo, on the day of his Cross Glory (the day of memory of his saint). His holy relics rest in his monastery, Ravanica, in the Church of the Ascension of Christ, and give healing to those who come to them. In the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbian troops were defeated by the Turks, and the Balkans began a dark period of almost five hundred years of Turkish rule. In Kosovo, this holy place for Serbs, today, after the events of 1999, there are almost no Serbs left.

17 Karadjordje was the leader of the Serbian people, a national hero, who led the first victorious anti-Turkish uprising in 1804. The reason for the uprising was the murder by the Turkish janissaries of the seventy best sons of the Serbian people. By 1807, the Serbs had reconquered almost all of their lands and, with the support of Russia, achieved broad autonomy from Turkey. However, in 1813, "the Turks paid the Serbs cruelly for these ten years of forced concessions... the Turks burned and massacred entire villages, sold thousands of Serbs into slavery (in Belgrade alone, on October 17, 1813, 1800 Serbs, women and children were put up for sale)" (Pogodin A.L. History of Serbia // History of Serbia and Montenegro. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia. p. 316). Karadjordje was forced to flee to Austria, and in 1814 to Russia. Returning to Serbia, he was treacherously killed on July 13, 1817 while sleeping. His head was taken to Constantinople, where it was hung for viewing on the wall of the seraglio with the inscription: "This is the head of the robber Kara George." In Smederevo, at the site of his murder, the Serbs built the church "Pokajnica".

18 Miloš Obrenović (1780–1860) was a Serbian elder, supreme prince of the Serbs (1817–1839), and a successor to Karađorđe. In 1815, he led the second Serbian uprising against the Turks, instilling in the Serbs that they had no choice but to win or die; He showed genuine miracles of bravery. After several victories, he obtained from the Turks the recognition of the autonomy of Serbia in the same year, in 1826 by the Treaty of Akkerman self-government was returned to Serbia, in 1830 by the Adrianople Peace Treaty between Russia and Turkey Serbia was returned to independence. During the reign of Miloš, Serbia was forever freed from the danger of the Turkish yoke.

19 In the glorious battle of the village of Mišare in the first anti-Turkish uprising (1804), the Serbian rebels under the command of Karadjordje completely defeated the Turkish troops.

20 In 1815, the victorious battles of Ljubić, Čačak, and Ratari dispersed the Turks, and most of Serbia was cleared of them.

21 In Serbian, this greeting reads: "Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! "Bring joy!"

22 Brahmins (Brahmins) are priests, a particularly privileged, higher caste, they occupy the position of earthly gods. The distinguishing sign of a Brahmin is a sacred cord worn over the left shoulder. This Brahmin receives the cord at the age of six at initiation into the caste and wears it constantly. Removing the cord is equivalent to renouncing caste. There are four types of Brahmins, each of them has its own specialization: hotri — exorcist, udgatri — singer, adhvarya — deals with the material part of the ritual, brahmin — priest-guardian; There is another gradation of them.

The castes are in opposition to each other, and this is clearly seen in the Brahmin Parasurama, the hero of the Bhagavad-gita, who was a sworn enemy of the Kshatriyas and shed so much Kshatriya blood that he filled five lakes with it (see: Bhagavad-gita. 3rd ed., add. / Introduction, transl. from Sanksr. and commentary by B.L. Smirnova. St. Petersburg, 1994. Chapter 23, text 27 (hereinafter quoted: Bhagavad-gita). As It Is", published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and distributed by Hare Krishnas).

23 Brahma is a Hindu god who, together with Shiva and Vishnu, is part of the trimurti – the three main deities. It is distinguished by the most intelligible, abstract attributes and therefore is close to the concept of Brahman-Absolute in Brahmanism. He is credited with the function of creating the world. He is depicted as red, with a beard, with four bodies and eight arms, in which he holds four Vedas, a rod, a vessel of water from the Ganges, a sacrificial spoon, sometimes a lotus flower, a pearl necklace and a bow. Brahma is little involved in the plots of myths, the number of temples dedicated to him in India is in the single digits.

24 Shiva is a Hindu god who is one of the three main deities, the trimurti. The main function of Shiva is destructive, he is the god of death, destruction, which is why he is depicted with the third eye, the eye of the destroyer. With his third eye, he was able to burn even the god of love Kama. Shiva drank a poison capable of burning and poisoning the entire universe, so he destroys the world and the gods at the end of each kalpa (era). The cult and appearance of Shiva is frightening. His retinue consists of pramathas - evil spirits who live in cemeteries and eat human meat. The emanation of Shiva is made up of terrible creatures, for example, a thousand-headed and thousand-armed serpent is expelled from Shiva's mouth, Shiva created a monster with giant fangs, girded with snakes and skulls, from his forehead. He is also revered as the patron saint of ascetics, as he became the first ascetic, albeit against his will: Shiva was condemned to eternal deprivation for cutting off the head of Brahma himself. The appearance of Shiva the ascetic is as follows: he sits on a tiger's skin, immersed in meditation, his body, completely naked, covered with ashes, and his hair stands in a shock, he is decorated with earrings made of snakes and a necklace of skulls. Shiva is the terror of demons. He is also the god of rhythm and dance; Shiva performs his orgiastic dance "tandava" together with his wife Devi (aka Parvati, Durga, Kali, Uma, etc.) on the body of Apasmara, whom he killed. The most popular is the cult of Shiva as the patron of life force and masculinity, which are symbolized by pillar-shaped lingams in temples and home altars of Indians, as well as Nandi bulls. "The cult of the lingam in India has become widespread. Shiva, the lingam symbolizing him, is addressed... thirsting for offspring, childless women flock to his temple, expecting help from him, sometimes considered embodied in the priests of the temple, real assistance" (Vasiliev L.S. History of Religions of the East, p. 242). This is how a pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave, a place of worship of Shiva, located deep in the Himalayas, is described: "The image of Shiva in the cave is amazing in itself: it is an ice statue formed from drops of seeping water. Depending on the phase of the moon, it grows or decreases: on a full moon, this natural statue reaches the ceiling of the cave - about 15 feet [4.6 m], and on the new moon almost nothing remains of it. And this is repeated every month - growth and decrease... I entered the cave with tears of awe. What happened there is difficult to describe. The cave vibrated, just like an ifugao [native tribe] hut in the midst of a baki [ritual magical rite]. Shocked by the inexplicable impurity of this place, I ran out, barely holding back my nausea, without waiting for the priest to finish sacrificing from me to a huge ice idol" (Father Seraphim (Rose), Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, p. 34). Shiva and his consort Shakti are the main deities of Tantrism. The fact that "there are many so-called followers of Lord Shiva who want to indulge in the smoking of ganja (marijuana) and similar drugs" is even mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita itself (Chapter 3, commentary to the text 24, Vol. 1, p. 190).