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The Russian folklore, i.e., the folklore of Russian people, takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and now is represented in the Russian fairy tales. Epic Russian bylinas are also an important part of Slavic paganism .
The Slavic Myths. co-author Svetlana Slapsak. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500025017. Graves, Robert (1987). New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology: With an Introduction by Robert Graves. Gregory Alexinsky. Nowy Jork: CRESCENT BOOKS. ISBN 0-517-00404-6. Lajoye, Patrice (2022). Mythologie et religion des Slaves païens. Les Belles Lettres.
Anthropogonic myths are a complex of myths of Slavic peoples about the origin, creation of man. [1] The original pagan mythological narrative has not survived, and the established anthropogonic myths [Wikidata] in folklore largely repeat the biblical myth of the creation of man. At the same time, reconstruction of Slavic mythology is possible ...
Old Russian sources also mention Rozhanitsa as a single person, usually in the pair of Rod and Rodzanica. [24] An example of such a source is the 12th-century chronicle Gesta regum Anglorum , which describes the cult of Svetovid among the Slavs of the Elbe , comparing him to the Roman Fortuna and Greek Týchē .
The vodyanoy is a male water spirit of Slavic origin. The Czech and Slovak equivalent is called a vodník, Polish is a wodnik, in Russian it is vodyanoy and vodyanyk in Ukrainian. A South Slavic equivalent is vodenjak. He is viewed to be particularly malevolent, existing almost exclusively to drown swimmers who have angered him by their boldness.
In the Slavic mythology several creation myths are recorded: the first version is the so-called earth-diver myth, which intertwines two main motifs: the dualistic motif – the cooperation of God and the Devil (that is, the "good god" and the "bad god") is required to create the world, and the oceanic motif – the pre-existence water, where ...
'Prince and the Gray Wolf', of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS): hero seeks the firebird, a horse and a princess with the aid of a gray wolf; jealous elder brothers kill him, but he is revived by the gray wolf. [15] Folklorist Jeremiah Curtin noted that the Russian, Slavic and German variants are many. [16]
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