Dog Korolenko. Proud name Rooster

15. [The rooster] raises its voice, [meeting] the morning dawn:
16. “Arise, O people! <...> [Otherwise] the long-armed Bushyasta will come to you, who puts all living creatures to sleep as soon as they wake up before dark, [saying]: <...> “Sleep some more, man, not yet [time]". <...>
20. Summons fire <...>:
21. “Help! Farmer raising livestock, rise up, put on your clothes, wash your hands, get firewood, bring it here so that I can burn again <...>.” <...>
26. [And then] the friend says to the other, and they rest on the pillows: “Wake up, it’s he [the rooster] who wakes us up.”

Avesta

His real name is not his real name. And what he called himself, only a few of us remember. Those who listened and heard his message. Those who are addressed by a strange singer and prophet, who lifted the veil of secrets of the past century and left at its very end. Kukkare-Ku (Yuukcorey-Couw) was born in 1880, in the village of Yukkonen (Qouwckohneen) in Russian Finland. In addition to his native Finnish, Kukkare-Ku spoke fluently ten modern European languages ​​and read ancient sacred languages. According to legend, the singer’s real father was the orc Dred, and his mother was not even ten years old when she conceived him. Perhaps that is why he lived exactly one hundred and twenty years.

The unheard-of gift of Juksi Jukkonen (that's his "real name", which you should immediately forget), first opened in 1893. In a roadside inn on the remote outskirts of old Helsinki , he sang the song-prophecy Death and Air , sang it so that the whole country soon heard it. In this song he sang about what happened in one of the villages of the mysterious Ingermanland: “I saw with my own eyes how the altar opened in the church at dawn and the White, Red and Black Rooster came out in turn and crowed, followed by the Black Monk, and said: “White rooster - an unheard of harvest, Red rooster - terrible bloodshed, Black rooster - a great many deaths, coffins and graves, so that no one will eat bread ." The last prediction was fulfilled by the boy with extraordinary joy and enthusiasm. He understood that finally his time has come, the time of Kukkare-Ku.

The rumor about the song-prophecy Death and Air reached the metropolis. He is invited to St. Petersburg, which will forever remain his favorite city. In 1894, he performed Death and Air while standing on Sennaya Square, in front of a huge crowd of people. At this time, his range suddenly expands from F subcontra octave to A fifth octave, and a powerful insight occurs in his consciousness. Nobody knows what exactly happened then, but since then the singer has always called himself a rooster and really considered himself one. From now on, every day at dawn he shouts loudly: “Kukkare-e-ku-oo-oo-oo!” And he orders himself to be called exactly the same.

Amazing success and recognition comes to the newly-minted “ Finnish Rooster ” after he performs in several theaters and variety shows the song Bird’s Idea by Ivan (Juuhanaan) Hämäläinen, a revolutionary poet, philosopher, politician, magician and publicist, one of the most mysterious to this day. almost unknown people in Eurasia. In this song, he deliberately, in order to fool the amorphous cattle, preaches extreme pacifism and Tolstoyanism , and also openly declares for the first time that he is a rooster. “Don’t be afraid, they need to trust you,” taught Ivan Hämäläinen, a faithful friend, teacher and impresario. “Wait, soon they will relax, and you will immediately peck them in the dark.”

It was Hämäläinen who, through a series of trances, told the singer about the traditional meanings of the rooster and its images. According to the Jewish Kabbalistic book Zohar , a rooster crows three times before a person dies, so in Russia the sudden crowing of a rooster is considered a harbinger of someone's death. Among the ancient Aryans, the patron of the dawn, Sraosha, was sometimes depicted with a rooster's head, and among Buddhists, the rooster, signifying the element of "passion", is drawn in the central circle of bhavacakra , the Wheel of Existence, representing samsara as a continuous process of self-emergence of ignorance and suffering. In the Chinese horoscope, the Rooster is a direct and uncompromising leader, a cynic and an idealist, ultra-conservative in love and in politics, capable of being tough and even cruel. He can kill if necessary, but if necessary, he himself will go to his death with a smile. He will go through fire, water and copper pipes, but may in the end be rewarded with a happy old age.

The rooster is the most magnetic and sensitive of all birds, hence its Greek name alectruon . It is dedicated to Aesculapius, whose name was Soter, the Savior who raises the dead, hence the dying word of Socrates: “We owe Aesculapius a rooster.” Jesus' prediction of Peter's denial (before the rooster crows three times) is based on medieval European occult-symbolic gnosis, where the rooster is inextricably linked with the energies of the solar gods, Death and Resurrection. Heraldic images of a rooster and fortune telling on its entrails gave great power to the secret descendants of Jesus and Magdalene, who guard the holy Grail.

Having received initiation from Hämäläinen, Kukkare-Ku becomes extremely strong physically, and is finally strengthened in the belief that he is a rooster. When the war began, Ku (as he was sometimes called for short) performed the completely otherworldly composition Stone Water and Man . The newspapers argued fiercely whether this song was militaristic or pacifist, killing by the very dispute that Only Possible Understanding, which is obviously accessible to not many. Stone Water and Man Kukkare-Ku immediately infuriates many financial tycoons who previously sympathized with him. Ivan Hämäläinen approves of all this. He teaches that you need to shock them.

After this, Ku falls silent for ten to fifteen years. Many tried to forget about the strange man who imagined himself to be a rooster, but it was not easy. The subconscious of the crowd, thirsty for the Myth, itself slipped it to them. What did Koo do from the war until 1933? I met Lenin in Smolny from emigration and begged him to make Helsinki the capital of Russia. Fully translated into Finnish by Ahad-Gaama . I went to Tuva to study throat singing , and in gratitude I taught the Supreme Shaman of the Far North himself . I learned to sing silently. I taught him to sing in choir. Taught me not to sing. The result of all this was an amazing and strange, decadent and deliberately, in defiance of Nordau and Nietzsche, degenerate record Arcana . Each song was dedicated to one of the Tarot arcana, and all this was superbly performed in 1932 in a rapidly fascist Italy. Now it is impossible for even the most impenetrable skeptics to turn away from Ku.

In 1933, Koo performed in his homeland with the author’s cycle Finn , using his own words and music. He sings about nostalgia, about love for the nation and for the country. “I have not forgotten you, my native Finland,” he sings in the song Finn Land , and in the song Proud Name the Rooster recites: “Yes, I am the world’s rooster, but I am the Finnish rooster.” The Finns received this speech extremely enthusiastically, Kukkare-Ku was declared a national hero, he was forgiven for everything, even for “flirting with the fascists.” This marked the beginning of a new stage.

In 1935, he was invited to act in films for the first time. Kukkare-Ku plays in the silent political comedy Cockroaches and Mosquitoes (allegorically representing the struggle of the parties), in the horror films Two-Headed (played the main role, Two-Headed), City of Corpses (played the role of a corpse), in the thriller Murder in the Apartment . In the year of the beginning of the Second World War, he starred in the intellectual pornographic film Sexy Corkscrew , and at this time he began an affair with the brilliant French holy fool, saint and porn diva, who played the main role in this film - Jeanne Clarke. Special mention must be made about Zhanna.

This has never happened before or after it. Everything that was, is and will be good in porn, from beginning to end, was stolen from Zhanna and discolored. In the Corkscrew, Zhanna hangs a small monkey, Macaque, on a hook and, while it writhes in agony, licks it voluptuously... Then she tears off all four legs in turn and sticks them into her vagina. In one of the interviews, Jeanne explains that she reproduced exactly the ritual that, according to legend, Philip, the King of Flanders, performed as a child. And this helped him later, many years later, to defeat the disgusting, macaque-like cryptogoblins, the enemies of his father. Kukkare-Ku participates in the interview and adds that Zhanna wanted to reproduce as many sexual perversions as possible at the same time, including sadism (dismemberment of the body) and masochism (with a charming, embarrassed smile, Zhanna confirms that sticking monkey paws “There” was painful). In another interview, she explains that she serves God.

Zhanna defined her unthinkable, dizzying project as a fight against the corrupt and hypocritical porn industry of the modern West: “These films are actually cold and sexless, they are invented to divert the channels of sex and aggression, and this is a profanation of that very transcendental. They are frigid and pretending ", and I really experience my terrible and sweet sin. Only those few who are given the opportunity to understand will understand what abysses there are . " Indeed, few people realized that this was the saint, the new Joan of Arc. Everyone wrote that Zhanna was a witch who had a pernicious effect on Kukkare-Ku. The same thing, however, was said and written about Ivan Hämäläinen. The crowd always treats geniuses, saints and prophets.

In 1949, Kukkare-Ku performed with the cycle Cracks, Fax, Pax, Sax , dedicated to Jeanne, and then in Paris recorded two deeply subversive and provocative stylized as White Trash albums of dirty thieves' songs, - Shit/Spam/Scum/Smut in English and Boris Villon in French. were released one after another After this, the singles Kukkare-Ku - Chastushki and Light of Sodom - . But the famous French "rooster" action, audaciously called the Fall of Paris , was still ahead.

In 1958, Koo arrived in Paris, quickly burst into the Olympia concert hall during a performance by Edith Piaf , with a sharp movement pushed her off the stage and, to a flurry of applause, shouted: “This stupid and stoned professional woman, who waved the bastards from the Resistance, is only pretending, that she is a whore. In fact, she is a virgin. The real whore is me. Now you will see it. The whole concert will be obscene. Shut your ears when I sing the songs Sea Rooster , Crax, Fax, Pax, Sax , Zhanna and some others, with obscene names. Turn off my microphone and watch how your beloved and dear cockerel sings." At the same time, in the song Crax, Fex, Pax, Sex, he deliberately sang four times simply: “Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex,” thus angrily mocking the profane.

In the 70s, the “Finnish Rooster” will face a difficult test. was launched against him A frenzied campaign in the liberal Western press. Like all, without exception, any outstanding personalities of the 20th century, they tried to label the “Finnish Rooster” as a “collaborator”. Some people sincerely, and others cursed him for political reasons; major newspaper headlines called him “a fascist - a fascist schizoid”, “an ordinary madman”, “an accomplice of the international terrorist Juuhanaan Hämäläinen”, “an irresponsible provocateur hunting for power”, “ a hack-mediocrity", "a sodomite and a charlatan", a " pederast " and even a "skin-sucker". Only the most principled people remained with Ku until the end.

In 1980, Kukkare-Ku comes to the Soviet Union for the Olympic Games . It was an action in support of the USSR, against the American boycott of the Olympics. However, the fifth column in the Brezhnev establishment, playing along with “world public opinion,” did not allow Ku into Moscow, fearing that this would lead to unrest. “The Finnish Rooster” settled in the northern capital, in a small communal room on the Petrograd side, where in complete obscurity, among beer bottles, syringes and floppy disks lying on the floor, Ivan Hämäläinen eked out his difficult, troubled life. Thanks to the support of the latter, the Russian authorities “covered” Kukkare-Ku from the corrupt zoils of the “free press”. For a long time, no one in the West even knew that these two people, who once shocked the world, were in St. Petersburg.

As a result, Kukkare-Ku remained in Russia for ten years. , which he composed based on Hämäläinen’s poems The song From Ivan , is dedicated to those “Peters” who did not become “Judas” because they heard the rooster crow in time. First of all, the Russian people were such “Peter” for Kukkare-Ku. , was released with a multi-million circulation It was in Russia that the joint project of Kukkare-Ku and Hämäläinen , Voices of the Birds , with the program song Old, Old Rooster , which entered all the charts in 1982 with its refrain: “I’m already old.” At the same time, a riddle joke appeared: “Who do you think will die first - Brezhnev or Kukkare-Ku?” And then they joked about this song in Moscow: “I’m old... I’m very old... I’m super old...”. Since then, every year on his birthday, Ku held a large charity concert in some Russian city.

In the late 80s - early 90s, in between work on the experimental neo-avant-garde musical-syncretistic project Enjoy the Cock, Kukkare-Ku often walked through the “otherworldly” night of St. Petersburg with his strange teacher and long-term friend Ivan Hämäläinen. During one of these walks, he stopped and looked into his friend’s eyes for a long time, and then quietly said: “Once after a concert they asked me, do you really consider yourself a rooster ?!” I answered: “Will the rooster’s songs really be sweeter to you if he pretends to be a human? Didn’t my old, good friend Yuuhan say that a real rooster will be honest with people and will answer only the Truth to every such question.” It was a white night.

In 1997, Ivan Hämäläinen, an incognito international aristocrat unpredictable until the very end of his life, suddenly leaves for America and invites the “Finnish rooster” with him. In America, Kukkare-Ku did not so much sing as shock politically correct “public opinion” with his nonconformism and rejection of bigotry. After Koo spoke at the so-called “Round Table on Contemporary Ecology and Ethics” at Columbia University (New York), the most independent-minded representatives of the American underground began to treat him as a guru. Here are some excerpts from this speech:

How pointlessly prohibitionists and pro-choice advocates argue today about guns [that is, the right of private individuals to bear arms - P.K.] or about abortion. While they are arguing, a new anthropological revolution is coming with leaps and bounds across the planet, which will be more terrible than the old, “sexual” one, and many will become very unsexual, no matter what. <...> Soon all debates about abortion, guns, euthanasia, the death penalty and other animal rights will become yesterday. <...> They can’t decide whether to consider an embryo a “person” and what abortion is – “murder” or “the right to choose.” O brainless fools! I told them that every choice is murder. And that not everyone can be considered a “human”. And that sometimes it is necessary to kill someone. And that only this, by and large, is Choice. And that such a Choice cannot always be made by everyone. Let the Authority and the Law restrict someone. What exactly it will limit should depend on the era, the country... <...> In modern Finland I would ban abortions, but here in America, on the contrary, I would abolish the article on murder, let everyone carry a gun and do choice.

According to rumors, it was this scandalous performance that became the reason for the “soft”, unobtrusive expulsion of the singer from “the freest country in the world” under the pretext of a grant for participation in the joint program of the largest European universities “Modern Anthropology and Social Darwinism”. Kukkare-Ku received the status of an unconventional participant in scientific and political conferences, at which he had to demonstrate that he was a rooster. He decided to start his cruise around Europe from St. Petersburg, firmly believing that the anthropological revolution would begin in Russia. Then he headed into the wilds of the mysterious Ingermanland to find the spirit of his Orc ancestor, and then to Estonia, from where he was soon going to Finland.

In Kukkare-Ku fan clubs, the legend of his immortality was intensively spread, but he could not escape the common fate of all people. On December 30, 1999, the day before the calendar Millennium, Juksi Jukkonen, aka Kukkare-Ku, died of a cerebellar hemorrhage on the way from Estonia to Israel , where he suddenly, after a seven-hour telephone conversation with Ivan Hämäläinen, decided to organize a big charity concert, dedicated to the meeting of the new century. On the day of Ku’s death, many residents of Israel told how a sad rooster’s cry was heard from behind the wall of the destroyed Jerusalem Temple.

"The music created by Kukkare-Ku was so beautiful that it was impossible to listen to it. But now it seems that the opposite is true. Currently, Kukkare-Ku's music is exclusively available in any decent Western store at World Music. But not everyone understands what Kukkare-Ku did. Maybe he is right, and today the path of Kukkare-Ku is well understood only by children, spiritual revolutionaries par excellence, because they have not yet been spoiled by the so-called “adult” soul,” wrote the American philosopher, cultural scientist and conservative revolutionary Ho Wang Shih in his seminal work Cultural Vivisection . themselves The philosopher's simple thought is confirmed by the children . Isn't it true that you can trust them?

In Finland there is a memorial to the artist and a fund in his memory, supported by Hämäläinen. This fund sponsors talented musicians and artists, nonconformists who are able to continue its traditions. Traditionally minded Russian students annually hold folk festivals in memory of Kukkare-Ku , the secret of which is closed not only to enemies, but even to “friends”, the envious and powerless.

The pre-dawn Vedic Rooster moves forward. Solemnly and confidently, with his chin raised high, with a golden comb fluttering in all directions. Vigorously swaying his steel hips, he marches straight towards the new dawn, leaving far behind the so-called “modern man” who is sluggish in body, confused in soul and decrepit in spirit. He is singing a song. Maybe someone can guess what she's talking about.

This is unusual music. Maybe it's not even music at all. You can do anything but listen to her. You can't listen to her. She herself will “listen” to you. And he will listen to the end. Soon she will come, impossible. Like a true hour of reckoning for everything. As the final choice. Like inevitability. Like death. Like the singing of a sharp and swift bird, victoriously carrying such a familiar and familiar name, but not to everyone, not to everyone understands.

Proud name - Rooster.

First published (in a different version) in Willie P.'s project " Overground Music Review "