# Chukovsky, the Sun and Reptilians: A Theory About a Hidden Meaning - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2070192727028081103 - Source account: [@brain_stimulus](https://x.com/brain_stimulus) - Source language: Russian - Target language: English - Duration: 2:08 - Published: 2026-06-25 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/ru/%D1%87%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5-%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BE-%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%81%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning) Korney Chukovsky was shouting about this from every book counter back in the last century. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=5) But you decided that the guy just wrote a little poem. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=8) No, not just that. He was forced to hide such a thing in a children's poem. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=15) That's how he avoided the madhouse. You were told clearly. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=18) The crocodile swallowed our sun. And you just sat there, clueless. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=23) And so you missed the sun. Nobody stole anything. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=27) The sun rises every morning. You will object, but you will be bitterly mistaken. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=32) Has it never occurred to you, why on earth there is this extra, unnecessary and unpronounceable letter L in the middle of the word SOLNTSE? [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=41) After all, we clearly say SONNTSE. SONNTSE. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=45) Son-se? Wait, stop. So the sun is a dream? [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=51) What dream? And who inserted this letter L to distort the image? [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=56) Apparently, the one who stole the sun. So, a crocodile or a reptile? [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=59) In other words. You'll say I'm paranoid. [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=62) Well, here's the catch. Belarusians and Ukrainians write it the same way. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=67) SONNTSE. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=70) And now let's translate the children's rhyme into adult language. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=73) Reptilians blocked out our luminary, and turned on some surrogate lantern instead, of such a strange effect, that people fell into a specific state, which they began to call SONSE. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=82) It turns out that the sun is not a fiery disk, but the name of this entire scam, as a result of which they blocked the true source of light and heat. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=89) They shoved in a replacement lantern, and people fell into hibernation. [1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=92) If the sun is not the name of the lantern, then what did our ancestors call it? [1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=100) Let's recall the fairy tales. There is no sun there. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=103) But there is Yarilo. That is exactly what our ancestors called their new lantern. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=108) In Dahl's dictionary, Yarilo means heat, an intense burning fire. [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=112) Apparently, our ancestors alternated pronunciations. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=114) Sometimes Yarilo, sometimes zharilo. Thus, Yarilo is a new, unusually hot, a blinding and scorching lantern. [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=120) And the sun is an illusory world, into which the people were plunged. [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=124) Over time, the creatures merged these two concepts. [2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/riG5tWeEq9oZ/en/chukovsky-the-sun-and-reptilians-a-theory-about-a-hidden-meaning?t=126) Yarilo, the sun.