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In the Russian dialect (Novgorod) the obsolete word сва́рог, svarog meaning "fire" and "blacksmith", is preserved. [5] The Romanian word sfarog, meaning "something burnt, charred, dried", was probably borrowed from an unspecified South Slavic language, probably Bulgarian, and the source word is reconstructed as *svarogъ. [6]
The question on ethnicity was voluntary and 10% of the population did not declare any ethnicity, [47] thus the figure is considered an underestimation. Ethnic Bulgarians are estimated at around 6 million, 85% of the population. [48] ^ b: Estimates [49] [50] of the number of Pomaks whom most scholars categorize as Bulgarians [51] [52]
Officially no ethnic Pomaks are recorded, while 67,000 declared Muslim and ethnic Bulgarian identity, [4] down from 131,000 who declared Muslim Bulgarian identity at the 2001 census. [77] Unofficially, there may be between 150,000 [ 21 ] and 250,000 [ 1 ] Pomaks in Bulgaria, though maybe not in the ethnic sense as one part declare Bulgarian ...
[83] [25] [76] [84] He founded the Old Great Bulgaria (Magna Bulgaria [85]), also known as Onoğundur–Bulğars state, or Patria Onoguria in the Ravenna Cosmography. [86] [76] [36] Little is known about Kubrat's activities. It is considered that Onogur Bulgars remained the only steppe tribes in good relations with the Byzantines. [85]
Bulgarian legends claim that God created man from earth mixed with his saliva. It is from this saliva that sperm comes. [63] Another Bulgarian legend says that God created humans the way a potter creates pots. After lunch, God saw that the work was going slowly and hurriedly began to mold people, making them lame, sickly, proud, stubborn, etc.
Bogomilism (Bulgarian: богомилство, romanized: bogomilstvo; Macedonian: богомилство, romanized: bogomilstvo; Serbo-Croatian: bogumilstvo / богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic, dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century.
Rodnovers blame Christianity for transferring personal responsibility into a transcendent future when actions will be judged by God and people either smitten or forgiven for their sins, in fact exempting people from responsibility in the present time, [135] while at the same time imposing a fake moralism of self-deprecation, self-destruction ...
The preservation of paganism among the Bulgars and the Slavs, the ethnic groups that formed, along with the local, Romanized (later called Vlachs) or Hellenized Christian Thracian population, the Bulgarian people and nation brought another disadvantage — the pagan and Christian ethnic groups' unification was hampered by their different ...