Paganism of the ancient Slavs
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Paganism of the ancient Slavs
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This book was written by Academician B.A. Rybakov, a distinguished historian and archaeologist, expert on the culture of ancient and medieval Rus', and the founder of the Russian school of medieval studies. It is the first volume of his fundamental study on the history of the origin and development of paganism among the ancient Slavic-Russian ethnic group.
In the first part of the book, the author invites the reader to delve into the millennia-old depths of the Stone Age, which gave rise to the ancient hunting and agricultural beliefs of the Proto-Slavic tribes, which served as the natural source of the mythological and religious system associated with our often contradictory ideas about paganism.
In the second part, the author traces the formation of Proto-Slavic culture in the later period of Slavic ethnogenesis, characterized by the development of a predominantly agricultural culture and its influence on funerary rites, the construction of sanctuaries, and ancient mythological beliefs in their relationship with the Indo-Iranian and ancient Greek pantheons of gods.
In the third part, the author examines the formation of stable Slavic ideas about goddesses and gods and comprehensively substantiates an original perspective on the cult of the god Rod and the Rozhanitsy (female rozhanitsy), drawing on both extensive archaeological and ethnographic material and the extremely diverse and still understudied Slavic folklore.
This book is intended for students and researchers in the humanities, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the origins of ancient Slavic beliefs and cults.
In the first part of the book, the author invites the reader to delve into the millennia-old depths of the Stone Age, which gave rise to the ancient hunting and agricultural beliefs of the Proto-Slavic tribes, which served as the natural source of the mythological and religious system associated with our often contradictory ideas about paganism.
In the second part, the author traces the formation of Proto-Slavic culture in the later period of Slavic ethnogenesis, characterized by the development of a predominantly agricultural culture and its influence on funerary rites, the construction of sanctuaries, and ancient mythological beliefs in their relationship with the Indo-Iranian and ancient Greek pantheons of gods.
In the third part, the author examines the formation of stable Slavic ideas about goddesses and gods and comprehensively substantiates an original perspective on the cult of the god Rod and the Rozhanitsy (female rozhanitsy), drawing on both extensive archaeological and ethnographic material and the extremely diverse and still understudied Slavic folklore.
This book is intended for students and researchers in the humanities, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the origins of ancient Slavic beliefs and cults.
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