Wailing Songs and the Immortal Regiment

So this word ‘magic’ I think is worth just looking into. It appears a lot. We’ve recently seen that movie the “Magus in the Kremlin. The Magus. This “G” sound was associated in the Greeks in early 5th century BC with singing a wailing song of grief. So the tales of woe which M.ockers on Volya4US radio on Twitter/X and Spotify is so brilliant at recounting. They are really… They are magic. They are the original meaning of magic. As far back we’ve written records.

This is the first time this verb which is the element in magic appears. So to sing a wailing song of Greek a Greek playwright then uses the words in the Persians to describe songs here I’m quoting “that call upon the souls of the dead to appear to the living.” So that’s what Russia does.

We used to always have May 9th - “Victory Day, Russians call it. I attended a few of them in Ukraine, as part of my job. Everyone holds up placards showing photographs of their relatives who supposedly fought in the Second World War. The Immortal Regiment. The whole institution was revitalised after the 2009 demonstrations against Putin stealing the Russian election. It’s a Soviet-era institution. The Immortal Regiment troll in modern Russia is about calling the souls of the dead.

When Putler is talking about the great patriotic war, that’s what he’s doing.

Source: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

The word “magic” itself traces back to Greek “goes” — a wailing song calling the souls of the dead to appear before the living. Russia’s Immortal Regiment is exactly this: a mass ritual where millions hold up photographs of the dead, summoning them into the present as political force. Putin’s invocation of the “Great Patriotic War” is not nostalgia. It is, etymologically and operationally, the original meaning of magic — a necromantic incantation performed at national scale.

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