The resurrection and also the willow – the pre-christian slavic religion

The Resurrection and The Willow - The Pre-Christian Slavic Religion

The pre-Christian Slavs shared a lot of their religion in the major

aspects with this from the other Indo-European peoples. Their gods derived

from common origins and displayed characteristics in unity using the

other Indo-European religions. The word for any god (bog)

originated from the Iranian language. The Slavic religion was unaccompanied

by doctrinal systems or creeds or scriptures and as a result it

evolved in a variety of directions because the ancient Slavic tribes migrated

using their common homeland into Eastern and Southern Europe.

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Such as the other Indo-European peoples the Slavs shared a hierarchy of

gods and spirits, some benevolent yet others malevolent, which governed

every facet of their lives and searched for propitiation requiring the expenditure

of great importance and effort through public and private worship and ritual. Vital

within the ancient Slavic pantheon was Svetovid, god of love and fertility and war,

who shared his primacy with Svarog, god of paradise and also the air. The latter’s

boy, Svarozid, was god of fireside. The 2 in relationship and performance

was similar to Zeus and Hephaestus in ancient greek language mythology. One of the

Eastern Slavs Perun, the god of thunder and lightning, enjoyed high

rank like Thor in Germanic mythology. Following the Eastern Slavs were converted

to Christianity Perun was eventually made available to the personage of

St. Elijah observed in Russian iconography riding a chariot of fireside across

the celebs. Important also were Chernobog, the black god from the underworld,

who survives in lots of Slavic curses, and Belobog, the white-colored god from the

upperworld. The 2 displayed that dichotomy of excellent and evil found

everywhere in Indo-European religions, which manifested itself later

within the development of the Gnostic heretical sects in early Christian

period.

Additionally towards the above dieties there have been many spirits of lesser

importance whose characteristics and processes found vary significantly

one of the various Slavic tribes. They lived on creatures, plants, trees,

rocks and rivers and placed great demands around the ancient Slavs who searched for

to propitiate them.Church of the Resurrection

Included in this was the "unclean spirit" (Nechysta Syla) relevant especially

for this web site in supporting the custom among Eastern Slavs to put

healing willow branches behind icons and crosses to enhance the latters’

capability to repel evil in the household. One dare remember the infamous

Baba Yaga who resided in darkness and devoured people. This demonized

goddess or witch established fact in Russian folklore and verse and it is

generally accustomed to scare children into obeying their parents. Baba

Yage bears an uplifting resemblance of Kanahora, the evil eye from the Eastern

European or Ashkenazi Jews.

Ancient Slavic religion was quite unsophisticated and naturalistic.

It contained neither doctrines nor creeds nor scripture nor organized

priesthood. Most importantly it had been as with other Indo-European religions

in becoming completely non-ethical, demanding of those no system of

specific conduct considered to become pleasing towards the dieties. Its practice

was completely ritualistic, i.e. it provided the folks having a system

of rites for that propitiation from the gods whether bad or good. That

system of elaborate rites and sacrifices privately shrines was sometimes

supported in public places temples by human sacrifices and worked out a strong

hang on the Slavs lengthy once they were transformed into Christianity.

The pre-Christian Slavs weren’t literate and left no everything written down

regarding their culture and religion. Church of the Transfiguration of KighiWhat

we know of the pre-Christian Slavic religion, apart from that from

analysis of archeological finds, originated from free airline within the writings

of German missionaries bearing Roman Christianity and in the South

from Greek priests bearing Byzantine Christianity. Both Eastern and

the Western places of worship held to the fact that Slavic heathenism was of

demonic origin and fully without merit. When Christian missionaries

experienced the Slavs they found religious practices entirely different

using their own. Christianity contained a fullness of doctrines and creeds

in addition to customs or religious practices produced from and supporting

the basic principles from the belief. Furthermore Christianity had a moral

system of behavior produced from the faith and highlighted through

scripture along with other writings. Quite simply, Christianity was both

doctrinal and ethical. Slavic religion was neither. As elsewhere when

paganism experienced Christianity it opposed however the old religion was

eventually overcome through the new which integrated into it a few of the

old directly into modern occasions. This subject is going to be covered more fully

within the essay which follows coping with the conversion from the Slavs.

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