CASE-02 — LULLABY_ARCHIVE / Pogost Sequence

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Sometimes the system marks material as an artifact not because of rarity, but because of structural directness.

This material was obtained by a user of our application and transferred to the archive.
The user requested to remain anonymous.

The recording was initially interpreted as contact with an aggressive entity.
Preliminary hypothesis: female profile with signs of violence or psychopathy.

After text decryption, the hypothesis was revised.

Before us is not a maniac.
Before us is a folkloric form.

On the phenomenon of “death lullabies”

So-called “death lullabies” represent an extreme form of folk poetry in which a mother, while rocking a child, directly names death, burial, or loss.

Modern interpretations tend to explain such texts as:

— a “protective charm”;
— “deceiving death”;
— “ritual protection”.

The operational version is simpler.

Insomnia + isolation + lack of support
→ cognitive overload
→ verbal discharge
→ ritual speech instead of care speech.

The lullaby ceases to soothe.
It enumerates.

Across cultures, the structure manifests differently:

In most cases, euphemisms are used.
In this case — direct enumeration of ritual logistics.

Geography of Directness

The African-American example demonstrates that extreme intonation is often connected not to a “national trait,” but to environmental conditions — separation, violence, social destabilization.

The Japanese tradition (子守唄 / komoriuta) indirectly confirms this. In many historical variants, lullabies were performed not by mothers but by nursemaids or older children. The texts register fatigue, poverty, and hard labor. However, direct enumeration of funeral protocol is rare. The intonation is a complaint rather than ritual logistics.

The Latin American variant demonstrates another path: death (La Calaca) becomes a culturally personified figure. It is present, yet integrated into a symbolic layer — almost like a festival character. This is not procedural enumeration, but stylization.

Northern traditions similarly often employ external agents: cold, forest, entities. Death is personified — but through folkloric imagery rather than through domestic funeral mechanics.

In this context, Slavic texts appear direct. We have not identified stable analogues.

Personification of death is a widespread cultural device found throughout Europe.
Mechanistic enumeration of ritual is significantly rarer anywhere.

This is not a claim of exceptionalism.
It is a fixation of degree of explicitness.

Structural logistics of the text

— frost → transfer;
— crying → burial;
— herbs, pancakes → memorial protocol;
— priest → institutional intermediary;
— large bell → public fixation of the event.

Cultural anchors

Pogost

Pogost — traditional church graveyard (archaic Slavic term).

Historically, the term designated:

— an administrative center;
— a parish church;
— a churchyard with cemetery.

In later usage — a rural church graveyard connected to parish structure and Orthodox social order.

This is a local term.
It fixes a specific environment and a specific social model.

Chernozem

Chernozem — fertile black soil of Eastern Europe.

Chernozem is a soil type with high humus content, widespread across Eastern Europe.

In traditional agrarian culture, it is associated with fertility, agricultural stability, and sustainability.

In the text, it is used as a designation of burial medium without metaphorical extension.

Institutional layer

The line about feeding the priest requires separate fixation.

In traditional Orthodox practice, the participation of clergy in funeral rites was accompanied by donations and memorial meals. This pattern was correctly identified by the system:

Economic incentive embedded in mourning protocol.
Institutional Faith Degradation detected.

Historically documented:

— mandatory donations for funeral services;
— memorial fees;
— payment for bell ringing;
— offerings both to clergy and to intermediaries.

This is not a deviation from the norm.
It is a structural element.

When ritual includes a financial component, a transactional layer emerges.
The function of the institution partially shifts toward servicing procedure.

On the “large bell”

The line about the “large bell” warrants separate analysis.

By the XVII–XIX centuries, Orthodox tradition was already deeply integrated into daily life. Bell ringing functioned as a mandatory public marker of death, a signal to the community.

Possible explanations for the emphasis on the bell:

1. Environmental conditions. In contexts of high infant mortality, death was a normalized event.
   

2. Infantile displacement.
   When loss cannot be cognitively contained, attention fixes on the external ritual object.
   

3. Conscious verbal protest.
   A possible version: demonstrative violation of lullaby tonality as protest against environment.
   

The system confirms none of the hypotheses.
The system records displacement.

Formalized model of decompensation

Infant crying is biologically constructed as an effective irritant.

In the absence of support:

— continuous stimulation;
— absence of recovery;
— cognitive destabilization.

Verbal discharge becomes a permissible output.

The text does not describe intent.
It registers overload.

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Below is the recording transferred to the archive.

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Conclusion

This text records the state of the environment.

If the text appears “alien,” clarify one parameter:

Who held the child at 03:00 for the third consecutive night?

Bond is formed through care.
Not DNA.

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