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Marzanna
Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic pantheon, Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature. She is an ancient goddess associated with winter's death, rebirth and dreams. In ancient Slavic rites, the death of the Goddess Morana at the end of winter becomes the wikt:rebirth, rebirth of Spring of the Goddess Kostroma (deity), Kostroma (Russian), Lada or Vesna representing the coming of Spring. Some medieval Christian sources such as the Czech 13th century Mater Verborum compare her to the Greek mythology, Greek goddess Hecate, associating her with sorcery. 15th century Polish chronicler Jan Długosz likened her in his Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, ''Annales'' to Ceres (Roman mythology), Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture (tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devana
Devana ( , ), Zevana (), less often Zievonia () is the goddess of wild nature, forests, hunting and the moon worshiped by the Western Slavs. In the sources, she was first mentioned in the 15th century by Jan Długosz, who compared her to the Roman goddess Diana. ''Dziewanna'' is also a Polish name for ''Verbascum'', and the etymology of the word is unclear. After strong criticism from Aleksander Brückner, researchers rejected her authenticity, but nowadays it is accepted by an increasing number of researchers. Sometimes, in folk rituals, she performs together with Morana. Etymology Proto-Slavic name for ''Verbascum'' is reconstructed as ''*divizna'' (cf. , Czech and , ), with secondary form as ''*divina'' (cf. , ). That word has a Proto-Balto-Slavic origin and appears in Lithuanian language as e.g. ''devynspė͂kė'', ''devynjėgė''. The only cognate from outside the Balto-Slavic group may be Dacian word ''διέσεμα''/''diésema'' (Dioscorides), which is being derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Pantheon
The pagan Slavs were polytheistic, which means that they worshipped many gods and goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and letopises, or not very accurate Christian sermons against paganism. Additionally, more numerous sources in which Slavic theonyms are preserved include names, proper names, place names, folk holidays, and language, including sayings. Information about Slavic paganism, including the gods, is scarce because Christian missionaries were not very interested in the spiritual life of the Slavs. Also, no accounts written down directly by the pagan Slavs exist. During the Christianization missions, the deities, on the one hand, were demonized to deter from worshipping them, on the other hand, their characteristics and functions were assumed by the saints, which was supposed to make the new religion less alien. Common Slavic deities Because of the small number of sources, there is no consensus among scholars of Slavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morė
Morė is one of the main effigies and attributes of the traditional Lithuanian folk festival ''Užgavėnės''. It is an artificial woman (''čiūčiala''), stuffed with various materials, who is ultimately burned in a bonfire. Morė is associated with the winter personification as a Slavic goddess Marzanna Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic pantheon, Slavic .... She is burned because once it was believed that it will help to bring spring faster. Participants of the ritual are dancing around the bonfire and shouting "Žiema, žiema, bėk iš kiemo" (Winter, winter, run from the yard). References Lithuanian traditions European folklore Bonfires {{Lithuania-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morana , a Slavic goddess of death and rebirth
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Morana may refer to: * Moraña, a municipality in Galicia, Spain * Morana Dam, an earthfill dam on Morana river near Patan, Satara district in the state of Maharashtra in India * Marzanna, Slavic goddess of death * ''Morana'' (film), a 1994 Slovenian film * '' Morana'' Sharp, 1874, a genus of pselaphid beetles * Morana (goddess) Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic goddess associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brynica (other)
The Brynica The Brynica (German: ''Brinitz'') is a river in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It has a length of and has a drainage basin area of . The river is the main tributary of the Czarna Przemsza. Course The river flows entirely within the Sile ... is a river in southern Poland. Brynica may also refer to the following villages: * Brynica, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) * Brynica, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland) * Brynica, Kluczbork County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland) * Brynica, Opole County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miasteczko Śląskie
Miasteczko Śląskie (originally Żyglińskie Góry ) is a small town in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It borders the Metropolis GZM - a large metropolitan area with a population of over 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before World War II, in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Miasteczko Śląskie is one of the towns within the Katowice urban area and within the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area with a population of about 5,294,000 people.European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) The population of the town is 7,437 (2019). Industry The largest factory in the town is the Miasteczko Śląskie Zinc Smelter. This metallurgical plant was originally built under license for the British company Imperial Smelting Processes of Bristol. Now a modern plant, ore processing is carried out in a continuous process, producin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proto-Indo-European Language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best understood of all proto-languages of its age. The majority of linguistic work during the 19th century was devoted to the reconstruction of PIE and its daughter languages, and many of the modern techniques of linguistic reconstruction (such as the comparative method) were developed as a result. PIE is hypothesized to have been spoken as a single language from approximately 4500 BCE to 2500 BCE during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, though estimates vary by more than a thousand years. According to the prevailing Kurgan hypothesis, the original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans may have been in the Pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root (linguistics)
A root (also known as a root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements. In morphology, a root is a morphologically simple unit which can be left bare or to which a prefix or a suffix can attach. The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (this root is then called the base word), which carries aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of, root morphemes. However, sometimes the term "root" is also used to describe the word without its inflectional endings, but with its lexical endings in place. For example, ''chatters'' has the inflectional root or lemma ''chatter'', but the lexical root ''chat''. Inflectional roots are often called stems. A root, or a root morpheme, in the stricter sense, is a mono-morphemic stem. The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moryana
Moryana (, ) is a female water spirit, sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. Moryana was a sea Vodyanoy #Vodyanitsa, vodyanitsa and daughter of the Sea Tsar, and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds. Sometimes the ''moryany/moryanki'' (plural; ; Polish language, Polish: moriany) were said to be numerous spirits of the sea and a marine kind of Rusalka, rusalki, which posed a great threat to ships, but usually Moryana was represented as a single entity. Due to the consonance of her name with the name of the goddess Morana (goddess), Morana, Moryana was sometimes identified with her and was called the goddess of death. Etymology Moryana's name is derived from ''море'' meaning "sea", and with the feminine ending ''яна'' it is roughly translated as "she of the sea". Moryana's name is used in some regions of Russia to describe the cold and harsh winds she personifies; these winds blow from the sea to the land and are also called ''морянка'', ''� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovak Language
Slovak ( ; endonym: or ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech-Slovak languages, Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script and formerly in Cyrillic script. It is part of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken by approximately 5 million people as a native language, primarily ethnic Slovaks, it serves as the official language of Slovakia and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Slovak is closely related to Czech language, Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish language, Polish. Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology (linguistics), morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German language, German, as well as other Slavic languages. History The Czech–Slovak gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
