I was wondering if anybody here had done any dabbling into the Slavic or Baltic mythos? If so, do you follow a slavic/baltic influenced path? Any specific region? F'ex, Russia, Polish, etc?
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I don't know much about Slavic traditions, but I do know about Maslenitsa. It's a 7 day holiday that is a celebration of the imminent end of the winter. It is celebrated before a big lent.
On Maslenitsa, people eat blini (sort of thin pancakes), make snowball fights and burn a big doll dressed like a woman. Nothing against women specifically.
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Maslenitsa is a Slavic holiday, by the way."Fair means that everybody gets what they need. And the only way to get that is to make it happen yourself."
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Originally posted by Ljubezen View PostDabbling, no. Practice, culture, ancestry/family, and tradition; yes.
Staroverci, Slovenian.
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There are a fair few similarities, that may be a good starting point. Perun and Veles are in a lot of stories in several regions (or variants of those names), for example. I'll see what I can do about digging out some resources (have to make sure none of the links are broken and all that fun stuff).
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Here's some, turns out a lot of the bookmarks I had never made it off my other laptop (which went to laptop heaven). They may be on my other computer but I don't want to go in there and disturb the hedgehog right now. A lot of my links seem to be broken or have changed, and a lot aren't in English.
Here are a few that I have to hand. I would recommend taking the information with a grain of salt and cross-referencing where you can as I'm not convinced of the credentials of the authors.
Songs of the Russian people
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/srp/index.htm
Various Mythologies and Fairy Tales
Russian Fairy Tales
Slovenian Deities and other information
Slavic and Eurasian Pantheons
Slavic Mythologies
A lecture on Slavic Paganism
Slavic Pagan Calendar
Jugoslav Folktales
Some things I ought to mention are that not all these links refer to Slovenian at all, some are considered "generic Slavic" (which is a whole other can of worms regarding accuracy and blanket statements). But they may be a good starting point. Some of the fairy tales will mention God, Saints, and the Devil (because written record of folktales didn't generally happen until after Christianization). I would strongly recommend reading some history books on the region(s) you're interested in to get an idea of how the beliefs, lore and lifestyle fit together.
One of the books I rather like (despite its differences in information from other sources I've read) is Balkan Traditional Witchcraft by Radomir Ristic.
Oh, and for the record:
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I only have two links to offer, but they give a Polish slant / perspective.
http://www.polishtoledo.com/pagan/ -- I tend to glean most of my understanding of Polish traditions from this site.
http://www.bogowiepolscy.net (you can feed this into Google to give rough translation)
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Originally posted by Ljubezen View PostThere are a fair few similarities, that may be a good starting point. Perun and Veles are in a lot of stories in several regions (or variants of those names), for example. I'll see what I can do about digging out some resources (have to make sure none of the links are broken and all that fun stuff).
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Here's some, turns out a lot of the bookmarks I had never made it off my other laptop (which went to laptop heaven). They may be on my other computer but I don't want to go in there and disturb the hedgehog right now. A lot of my links seem to be broken or have changed, and a lot aren't in English.
Here are a few that I have to hand. I would recommend taking the information with a grain of salt and cross-referencing where you can as I'm not convinced of the credentials of the authors.
Songs of the Russian people
Various Mythologies and Fairy Tales
Russian Fairy Tales
Slovenian Deities and other information
Slavic and Eurasian Pantheons
Slavic Mythologies
A lecture on Slavic Paganism
Slavic Pagan Calendar
Jugoslav Folktales
Some things I ought to mention are that not all these links refer to Slovenian at all, some are considered "generic Slavic" (which is a whole other can of worms regarding accuracy and blanket statements). But they may be a good starting point. Some of the fairy tales will mention God, Saints, and the Devil (because written record of folktales didn't generally happen until after Christianization). I would strongly recommend reading some history books on the region(s) you're interested in to get an idea of how the beliefs, lore and lifestyle fit together.
One of the books I rather like (despite its differences in information from other sources I've read) is Balkan Traditional Witchcraft by Radomir Ristic.
Oh, and for the record:
Originally posted by Rhaethe View PostI only have two links to offer, but they give a Polish slant / perspective.
http://www.polishtoledo.com/pagan/ -- I tend to glean most of my understanding of Polish traditions from this site.
http://www.bogowiepolscy.net (you can feed this into Google to give rough translation)
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My other pc yielded nothing else of use regarding websites, but I did forget to mention that there are a host of free collections of Russian/Baltic/Polish/etc... folktales on amazon that you can download to a kindle or onto your pc (and read with the free amazon cloudreader).
Here are a few:
Russian
Polish
Czechoslovak
A collection of the free kindle ebooks on fairy tales and folklore
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