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	OLD SLAVS - slavic Gods - Perun - Veles - Svantevit - Slavic mythology, Slavic weapons - Wulflund
		Slavic Shop (Stroe) - Slavs The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples which original homeland was woody area between rivers of the Dniester and the Visla.
		This symbol is known from Slavic excavations (brooches, pottery etc.) and represents Supreme God and universe.
		Lime tree is one of the Slavic symbols.
	www.wulflund.com /products/old-slavs/?show=0&lang_id=2&curr_id=3 (654 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Krasnoludek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In wendish mythology Karewit is the protector of the town of Korzenica (nowadays Garz) on Rugia.
		Porenut was one of the Slavic deities worshipped by the Polabian Slavs in the town of Korzenica (nowadays Garz) on Rugia.
		Porewit was one of the Slavic deities worshipped by the Polabian Slavs in the town of Korzenica (nowadays Garz) on Rugia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Krasnoludek (1858 words)

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		As various Slavic populations were Christianised between the 7th century to 12th century, Christianity was introduced as a religion of the elite, flourishing mostly in cities and amongst the nobility.
		Reconstruction of original Slavic myths is thus a true detective work, requiring a considerable knoweledge of various scientific disciplines such as semiotics, linguistics, philology, comparative mythology and ethnology.
		This is contrary to the usual concept in Indo-European mythologies, in which the Sun is usually associated with male deities and Moon with female ones, but identical to the picture in Baltic mythology, which is most closely related to Slavic.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Slavic_mythology (6818 words)

	Slavic fairies - Definition, explanation
		Fairies in Slavic mythology come in several forms and their names are spelled differently based on the specific language.
		In Polish mythology, the Wila are reputed in Poland and Lithuania to be the shape-shifting souls of the dead that were believed to visit the homes of their families.
		Among the Slavic creatures of folklore, for the English-speaking world the wilis are indelibly connected with the Romantic ballet Giselle, first danced in Paris in 1840, with its spectral wilis, young girls who have died on their wedding days, who almost snatch away the hero's life-breath, but must disappear at the break of dawn.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sl/slavic_fairies.php (797 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Slavic mythology
		Slavic mythology and Slavic paganism evolved over more than 3,000 years.
		For the last decades the Slavic paganism seems to gain certain popularity and there are many web-sites dedicated to the study of the Slavic mythology.
		Many Slavic paganists belive that the Slavic peoples should unite to become one nation based on the original religion of the Slavs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Slavic_mythology (6987 words)

	health-Tales from Slavic Myths
		Slavic Myths is an incomparable general introduction to the topic.
		The tales and the importance of comparative mythology in the study of history and culture are placed in context in an epilog supplied by Dr. Dusan Caplovic, Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and a noted anthropologist.
		The ancient Slavic mind was open to nature and the material manifestations of weather..." With these introductory remarks from Tales from Slavic Myths, welcome to the world of ancient mythology---Slavic style.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_health/A_tales_from_slavic_my-0865164517.htm (695 words)

	Slavic mythology at AllExperts
		As various Slavic populations were Christianised between the 7th century to 12th century, Christianity was introduced as a religion of the elite, flourishing mostly in cities and amongst the nobility.
		Reconstruction of original Slavic myths is thus a true detective work, requiring a considerable knoweledge of various scientific disciplines such as semiotics, linguistics, philology, comparative mythology and ethnology.
		Slavic neopagans use the Book of Veles as their sacred text, and consequently, insist that the document is authentic.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sl/slavic_mythology.htm (6935 words)

	Slavic Fairies - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fairies in Slavic Mythology come in several forms and their names are spelled differently based on the specific language.
		Among the Slavic creatures of folklore, for the English-speaking world the wilis are indelibly connected with the Romantic ballet Giselle, first danced in Paris in 1840, with its spectral wilis, young girls who have died on their wedding days, who almost snatch away the hero's life-breath, but must disappear at the break of dawn.
		In Slavic Mythology, a rusalka was a female ghost, water nymph or succubus or Mermaid-like daemon that dwelled in a lake.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Slavic_Fairies (691 words)

	The Rusalki: Slavic Nature Nymphs
		He notes that: "The Slavic peoples had a particularly rich Otherworld traditionåso rich, in fact, that it is often difficult to say where the realm of the nature spirits ends and the realm of the gods (and goddesses) begins" (142).
		Slavic people also fear the fact that the Rusalki's favorable influence on the weather can be gone in an angry flash, bringing "fatal storms, dangerous rains, and heavy hail" (Máchel 255).
		The second common aspect of this Slavic celebration is the honoring of the dead with a festival known as Semik that begins on the Thursday.
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Rusalki.htm (3289 words)

	Slavic mythology . Enpsychlopedia
		As various Slavic populations were Christianised between the 7th century to 12th century, Christianity was introduced as a religion of the elite, flourishing mostly in cities and amongst the nobility.
		Reconstruction of original Slavic myths is thus a true detective work, requiring a considerable knoweledge of various scientific disciplines such as semiotics, linguistics, philology, comparative mythology and ethnology.
		Slavic neopagans use the Book of Veles as their sacred text, and consequently, insist that the document is authentic.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Slavic_mythology (7063 words)

	Slavic mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slavic religion recognizes three worlds: Jav, Prav, and Nav, Jav being the material world, Nav the immaterial, and Prav being the laws that govern them.
		The supreme god of Slavic pantheon is usually Svarog (senior member of Triglav).
		But exactly because of his nature he was not the most worshiped: that was Perun, while tribes that were occupied mostly with cattle could pay most attention to Veles and so on.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/sl/slavic_mythology.html (330 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Slavic
		The earliest Germanic inhabitants were replaced by Slavic Wends, who in turn were overcome in the 12th century by Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg.
		It was founded as a Slavic settlement in the 10th century.
		The beginnings of Slavic settlement east of the river Elbe.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Slavic&StartAt=21 (664 words)

	Veles (god) Summary
		A unifying characteristic of all Indo-European mythologies is a story about a battle between god of thunder and a huge serpent or a dragon.
		Slavic folklore seem to confirm this: as stated already, Veles was a god of magic, and in some folk accounts, the expression presti vunu (weaving wool) or, particularly, crnu vunu presti (weaving of fl wool) stands as allusion to magical crafts.
		Only in Celtic mythology do we find a deity similar to Veles in his attributes and his complexity: Cernunnos, god of druids, nature, horned animals and shamanism, whose symbol was a ram-headed serpent.
	www.bookrags.com /Veles_(god) (2911 words)

	Slavic Paganism
		Water was refered to in mythology as the water of life and death and rivers were treated with respect lest they should drown you on your next visit.
		His identity with the latter is also found in Polish mythology as the son of Svarog, the Slavic 'heavenly sky father', and either the dawn-goddess Zorya Dennitsa or the summer- and love-goddess Lada.
		However, her many parallels in the IE mythologies suggest she was the Slavic representative of the IE virginal hunting goddesses including Artemis, Arduinna, and so on.
	www.circe-argent.com /slavic_paganism.htm (8366 words)

	Slav1.
		This picture shows the circulation of nature (according to idea of Slav mythology).
		Svarog (the Sky god) is shown as cosmos.
		The winged dog is Semargl, the defender of crops (like Senmurv of Zoroastrian Persian mythology).
	fantalov.tripod.com /slav1.htm (92 words)

	EUROPEAN THEME PARK - With respect to our history and legends
		The emphasis on the three realms is particularly characteristic for the Slavic
		RUGIVIET/RUGIVIT: Slavic Wargod, whose cult centre laidon the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea.
		STRIBOG: Slavic who was official worshiped by the Russians during the lasts years of the tenth century.
	www.freewebs.com /eurothemepark/slavicmythology.htm (752 words)

	Slavic and Baltic Mythology : Gods, Goddesses, Spirits, Demons of Eastern Europe
		Slavic and Baltic Mythology : Gods, Goddesses, Spirits, Demons of Eastern Europe
		So if you live in the region and would like to comment, we'd love to hear from you.
		TRIBES, CULTURES AND PEOPLES COVERED: The Slavic and Baltic peoples, including Russians, Lithuanians, Czechoslovakians, Prussians.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/slavic_baltic-mythology.php (309 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		Geographicaly the Slavic cradle was limited in the south by north-eastern slopes of Carpathian Mountains.
		In Baltic mythology, there is a deity known as Vélinas, Velnias or Véls, very well attested in folklore and toponymy, hence indicating the importance of this god in Baltic beliefs.
		Their mythology was often as inconsistent as in the case of the Slavs.
	www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Zaroff (12336 words)

	CER \| Book Review \| Tales from Slavic Myths by Ivan Hudec
		Thus, to understand the nature of Slavic peoples in its totality, one needs to look to Slavic mythology as it existed before the advent of Christianity.
		What we know about Slavic mythology is based upon oral traditions and scattered references in ancient texts.
		The story continues with the creation of the world and ultimately the Slavic man. It elaborates on his relationship with the gods, various forms of worship, and his battles with the Nemtsi (the dumb, or Germanic, peoples who did not speak the Slavic language).
	www.ce-review.org /01/17/books17_kopanic.html (1056 words)

	Old Eastern Religions - ADF Neopagan Druidism
		He reasons that the use of linguistic analysis, in particular "the etymological method", is essential to the study of mythology, pointing out a number of examples in which the names associated with particular deities are integrally related to both other religious and even geographic terminology, and similar but importantly different "tabooed" forms.
		Perun is one of the deities in the Slavic pantheon to whom Jakobson devotes considerable analysis.
		Roman Jakobson concludes that, "[t]he relative linguistic unity and negligible dialectal differentiation of the Slavic world until the end of the first millennium A.D., and particularly the considerable lexical uniformity of Slavic pre-Christian beliefs, corroborate the supposition of a substantial unity for the cult of the Primitive Slavs" (4).
	www.adf.org /articles/gods-and-spirits/slavic/old-eastern-religions.html (2212 words)

	Slavic mythological images.
		After destruction of west Slavic princedoms, sanctuaries were destroyed, idols were destructed and up to us have reached insignificant traces of the last magnificence.
		On the one hand, these are the stone relieves found in churches at which construction ruins of pagan temples were used: the image of person with a horn for drink from Arkona; the image the three-headed person from Vergen; 'Stone of Herovit' from Volgast.
		It is necessary to note that among Slavic peoples in the most full structure the pantheon of east Slavs is known.
	greek-gods.tripod.com /Slavic.htm (3470 words)

	Learn more about Slavic mythology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Old Slavic religion evolved over more than a thousand years and some parts of it were from neolithic or possibly even mesolithic times.
		It recognized three worlds: Jav, Prav and Nav, Jav being the material world, Nav the immaterial and Prav being the laws that govern them.
		The supreme god of Slavic pantheon is Svarog a.k.a.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sl/slavic_mythology.html (265 words)

	Slavic Gods. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		In Slavic mythology this was the name of the goddess of winter and death.
		In Slavic mythology Perun was the god of lightning, sometimes worshipped as the primary god.
		If Gimli get lose in some slavic text, he can use www.recnik.com or similar things...And, for extreme problems, J should be good friend (as Legolas was) to Gimli and help him to understand (by PM or Forum)...
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=269141&goto=nextoldest (1609 words)

	Mythology's Mything Links: Eastern Europe / Pan Slavic Traditions & Beliefs
		The opposing polarity, the dark, the dead, the cold, the gloomy forests, snakes, drowned spirits (usually female or children), and ruthless hags are feared, even demonized (especially under the influence of Christianity), yet many fairy tales indicate that if this darker world is treated with cautious respect, one will fare well.
		In addition, her section called "Slavic Runes" gives you access to an online oracular divination; her Bookstore offers a great selection of relevant books; and her Links are terrific.
		And this is Part Three, "Where Myth Merges with Reality: Slavic Mysteries." Here Vilenskaya looks specifically at Baba Yaga's role in initiations as well as at the mushroom connection in Slavic shamanism (she mentions, by the way, that Marija Gimbutas also supported such mushroom data).
	mythinglinks.org /euro~east~panSlavic.html (2563 words)

	Baba Yaga's Hut: Initiatory Entrance to the Underworld
		Usually found in the deepest darkest corner of the forest, she is commonly portrayed as a hideous old hag with razor sharp teeth who cannibalistically devours those who naively stumble upon her domain.
		This fence is a clear signal to anyone who would dare to pass through its gate that they must be prepared for an initiatory underworld experience, an experience that could end in sudden death or life-altering enlightenment, depending upon the wits and attitude of the initiate.
		Yet, in the dualistic Slavic culture, where life and death are still closely connected, this answer is far too simple since most folktales require two waters instead of just one for renewal.
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Baba_Yaga.htm (1964 words)

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