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The etymological reconstruction of the word, supported by preserved beliefs, allows us to connect the Iriy with the oldest Slavic ideas about the other world, which is located underground or beyond the sea, where the path lies through water, in particular, through a whirlpool. [4] The pagan Slavic peoples thought the birds flying away to Vyrai ...
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) has a theology that is generally monistic, consisting in the vision of a transcendental, supreme God (Rod, "Generator") which begets the universe and lives immanentised as the universe itself (pantheism and panentheism), present in decentralised and autonomous way in all its phenomena, generated by a multiplicity of deities which are independent hypostases ...
The Slavic word stryj is derived from Proto-Indo-European *stru-io-and is cognate with Lithuanian: strujus "uncle, old man" and Old Irish: sruith "old, honorable" Veles — considered a variant of Velnias and Germanic Frey.
According to the studies of Boris Rybakov, whirl and wheel symbols, which also include patterns like the hexafoil, "six-petalled rose inside a circle" (e.g. ) and the "Perun's sign", or "thunder wheel" (e.g. ), represent the thunder god Perun or the supreme God , expressing itself as power of birth and reproduction, in its various forms ...
The dualistic creation myth by "evil god" diving has 24 credentials in Balto-Slavic areas and 12 credentials in Finno-Ugric areas. The Bulgarian myth does not mention the Devil's catastrophe, but it develops the theme of creation by the formula "by God's and my power", and the Devil, who twice reversed the order of the formula, could not reach the bottom until the third time he pronounced the ...
In wedding folklore a duck and a drake symbolize a bride and a groom, in other words a pair of ducks is a symbol of family life. Another common symbol on rushniks are birds. [5] During a wedding ceremony, the bride and groom stand on a Rushnyk called a pidnozhnyk, which translates as step-on towel.
Picture of an urn from 1941 and the coat of arms of Litzmannstadt (occupied Łódź), based on the swastika from the urn. [1]The funerary urn was discovered in 1936 in a grave field in the village of Biała in the Łódź Voivodeship (then Brzeziny county) and is dated to the turn of the 2nd and 3rd century (Przeworsk period), less frequently a century older.
Zbruch Idol, Kraków Archaeological Museum Zbruch Idol. The Zbruch Idol, Sviatovid (Worldseer, Polish: Światowid ze Zbrucza; Ukrainian: Збручанський ідол) is a 9th-century limestone sculpture idol, [1] and one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs [citation needed] (according to another interpretation, it was created by the Kipchaks/Cumans).