THE ANCIENT SLAVIC MYTH Gods and Goddesses

Slavic Gods and Their Naturality
The religion was composed of a polytheistic structure of belief. Slavic gods and goddesses typically have a deep connection to natural bodies such as water, fire, thunder, and celestiality.

As mentioned before, the duality also gives way to the counterparts believed to be in control of other natural factors such as droughts and disease. Their faith was not only limited to gods but also branched out to spirits. These spirits represent long-dead people now residing spiritually in forests and lakes. The followers also worshiped gods hailing from celestial bodies such as stars and the moon, emphasizing a deep calendrical belief in the universe above.

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[anniesue]

The more I learn about the Slavs the more I see the beauty of the culture and the horrors they have survived that shaped them

[alLEDP]

Perun and Thor sure share a indogermanic ancesestor ith the goat and the thunder symbolism lol

[chalinofalcone]

"The most primitive & simple of religious beliefs among both northern & southern races connected the object with the divinity, & when the Ancients declared the Oak sacred to Zeus, they identified the tree with the god—in other words, the tree itself was the god, & in very primitive times was worshipped as such. This hypothesis is still further elaborated by the fact that the Oak is the tree most often struck by lightning, & Zeus, being the God of Thunder, or the Thunder itself, dwelt in, or rather had his being in, an Oak tree. Prof. Harris puts it thus: "The Thunder-god goes back to the Thunder-man, or into the Thunder-bird or Thunder-tree; Zeus takes the stately form in vegetable life of the Oak-tree, or if he must be flesh & blood, he comes back as a Red-headed Woodpecker. " The parasites of the Oak such as Mistletoe & Ivy, would evidently partake of the attributes of the tree & would thus be the thunder also. In the case of the Ivy a new & subordinate Thunder God would become evolved under the name of Dionysos, & Prof. Harris says: "Dionysos is the ivy; in the first instance he is ivy, nothing more or less" ; & again; "The tree is the thunder & makes all its parasites & its denizens thunder also.""
[The Forest: In Folklore & Mythology, Alexander Porteous, 1928/2002, p. 160-61]

[chalinofalcone]

"Scilicet ut salva sit mythologica Judaica, Noster misere torquetur."
"Our [friend The Slav] is tortured miserably and only for the purpose of saving Jewish mythology."

[Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the Libraries, Fall of 1966, Vol IV, No. I, The Folio Augustini of Schopenhauer, Martin Woods]