Koza (She- Goat)

With time came a different ideology, and the people forgot the war and, hence, the true meaning of a goat's head on a human body. But, like the picture of Eye, so it was with the picture of Koza with a goat's head. From time to time, it was discovered, and someone had to explain the meaning. Either no one remembered what the true meaning of the picture was, or it was chosen to mask the true identity of them, and they become devils.

But the devil was supposed to be of human form; hence, the goat's head was removed and painted as a human. I was taught that the devil has different and visible marks by which he can be recognized; hence, to show the visible mark, the horns were attached to a human head. Now the devil is a devil as it was taught to be.

It would be naive to think that no one remembered the true meaning of the cartoon depicting a goat's head on a female or male human body. To the remnants of Eyebelivers,it was a disgraceful thing that their Gods were pictured as humans with a goat's head. But they could not object but only suffer. With time, they were branded as believers of devils. As the old generation of Eye believers died out, the new generation continued to practice the religion but, as usual, with less devotion.

Time does not stand still, so it is with history. Around 600 AD. the Khazars gained power and renewed the old Eye religion and the old leader's name, Koza. Now the other side was branded as devils and occultists. Many of them went underground to practice their religion, but many were converted either willingly or by force to the Khazar religion. For how the people took the religious turmoil, let's take a look at the custom that probably formed during that time and survived to the present.

The book Pre-Christian Beliefs of Ukrainian People by Metropolitan Ilarion, gives many pre Christian customs of Ukrainian people. How the beliefs and customs formed, no one knows for sure, but it survived for many years. In his book, he describes how the people pictured the devil. In short, usually the devil is dark, shaggy, and with a tail. His legs are either goats, dog's, or hen's. There are always horn on the goat forehead. As usual, the devil is looking to buy a soul for earthly possession; that is why he walks with a pen and a knife, which he uses to draw blood for the signature.

Is that not a description of Khozars conversion to the Eye religion renovated in Koza? Probably they did carry a pen to record the names and a knife, which served as a tool of persuasion. Obviously, the one who accepted the religion was regarded as selling his soul to the devil. This shows that the people resisted and the conversion to the Eye religion progressed slowly. No wonder that the description of missionaries or priests of the Eye religion become devils. But this is not the only instant of the past; let me give one more.

In the same book is given the following unexplained custom, which only recently was abandoned. To me, this was the most ridiculous custom of the pre Christian religion. The Christian church fought bitterly against this custom but could not wipe it out and had to allow the practice. When I translated the Voynich manuscript, it became clear why the people adhere to the custom.

During Christmas holidays, a caroling group went from house to house singing carols of Christian and pre-Christian origin. With them, they drag along a he-goat and a bear. Many nations have a custom of caroling, but the he-goat and bear are the most ridiculous custom. What does the goat and bear have to do with the Christmas holidays? How can one pair such animals and make sense of such a custom? But the sense was there; that is why the Christian church was powerless to break the custom.

As I explained above, Miss Mania's name was Koza (goat). Her son had the same name. But he also claimed to be the son of God. Evidently, they conceived the holidays and imposed them on the people of Ora religion. The people disliked them but obeyed the state religion Oko's (Eye's). They did so by starting the above-stated custom. When Rus was Christianized, the time of the Eye celebration happened to be birth of Jesus Christ. The Christian religion has a parallel story with the reli-gion of the Eye, whose leader at the time of renovation was Miss Koza (goat). The people continued to celebrate the Christmas holidays as before; after all, it was at the same time. With them, as before, they continued to drag a he-goat and a bear, singing the old and new Christmas carols. To them, the goat was a symbol of the name Koza, who imposes the holidays.

I'd like to point out that Metropolitan Ilarion stated that the Christian church forbade the custom of caroling but was pow-erless to fight it and had to give up. Caroling, as he explained, is not a Christian but a pre-Christian custom. But the people refused to give up the custom and continued to carol and to drag the he-goat and bear with them.

To ridicule Miss Mania Koza and her son Sust, who renewed the Eye religion and imposed the holidays, they dragged the goat as a symbol of their name. Now you probably are thinking, What does the bear have to do with it?

I would like to define the meaning of the name Media. In a Slavic languages, Med = honey. Hence; Med-ian he who is of honey, sweet man or most probably the honey color man. Therefore; Media = the people of honey or honey color.  In Ukrainian language, bear = medvid. The meaning of "medvid" is;

med = honey
vid = (from vida) knowledge
hence, med-vid = honey knower, or one who knows the honey. 

When Miss Mania's forces could not win the victory over Ora, she invited the neighboring nation, the Medians, to help her fight Ora. Obviously, she had to make a political or maybe a territorial concession to the Median king, Ponta. The people of Rus disliked not only the concession that she made but the presence of a Median army in Rus. Thus the "med-vid" = bear was dragged along with the he-goat as a symbol of political or religious unity between Media and Koza, the leader of Eye re-ligion who proclaimed her son to be from god.

In addition to the goat and the bear, the caroling party dressed in costumes and wore masks. This probably was done because of the following. The mask signified that they come to practice the new religion on the order of their present government. They were ashamed of doing that; therefore, they covered their faces with masks. As proof, they brought with them the ever present government of Koza and Median, symbolized by a he-goat and a bear.

This custom suggests that, at one time, a police state existed in Rus. Under such conditions, one could not talk or freely document what was happening to their freedom and religion. To show the true condition of the dictatorial government, the people invented a way and practiced it every year as a reminder of the past defeat and present conditions under the Koza-Median government.

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