Paganism of the ancient Slavs
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Paganism of the ancient Slavs
19.99 €
The book belongs to the outstanding historian and archaeologist, expert in the culture of ancient and medieval Russia, Acad. B.A. Rybakov, the founder of the Russian school of medievists, and is the first volume of his fundamental research on the history of the origin and development of paganism of the most ancient Slavic-Russian ethnos.
In the first part of the book the author invites the reader to plunge into the millennial depths of the Stone Age, in which the most ancient hunting and farming beliefs of the Proto-Slavic tribes originated, which served as a natural source of the mythological and cultic system with which our largely contradictory ideas about paganism are associated. 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 arrangement of sanctuaries and the most ancient mythological representations in their interrelation with the Indo-Iranian and ancient Greek pantheons of gods. In the third part, the author examines the process of formation of stable Slavic ideas about goddesses and gods and comprehensively substantiates an original point of view on the cult of the god Rod and Rozhanitsy, using both extensive archaeological and ethnographic material and extremely diverse and still insufficiently studied Slavic folklore. The book is addressed to students and researchers in the humanities, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the origins of the most ancient Slavic beliefs and cults.
In the first part of the book the author invites the reader to plunge into the millennial depths of the Stone Age, in which the most ancient hunting and farming beliefs of the Proto-Slavic tribes originated, which served as a natural source of the mythological and cultic system with which our largely contradictory ideas about paganism are associated. 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 arrangement of sanctuaries and the most ancient mythological representations in their interrelation with the Indo-Iranian and ancient Greek pantheons of gods. In the third part, the author examines the process of formation of stable Slavic ideas about goddesses and gods and comprehensively substantiates an original point of view on the cult of the god Rod and Rozhanitsy, using both extensive archaeological and ethnographic material and extremely diverse and still insufficiently studied Slavic folklore. The book is addressed to students and researchers in the humanities, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the origins of the most ancient Slavic beliefs and cults.
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