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Saint Nedelya
Saint Nedelya (''St. Sunday, St. Anastasia'', in folk Orthodoxy of the Slavs is the personification of Sunday as day of the week.Неделя (персонаж) / О. В. Белова // Славянские древности: Этнолингвистический словарь : в 5 т. / под общ. ред. Н. И. Толстого; Институт славяноведения РАН. — М. : Межд. отношения, 2004. — Т. 3: К (Круг) — П (Перепёлка). — С. 391–392. — It is correlated with Saint Anastasia (in Bulgarians also with Saint Kyriakia. The veneration of the Week is associated with the prohibition of various kinds of work (cf. the origin of the Slavic ''week'' from ''not to do''). In Old Russian sources The Old Russian sermons against paganism ("Word about creatures and days of the week" and "Word of St. Gregory... How the first Gentiles worshipped idols"), it is said that one should not venerate the image of the Week as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Mythology
Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion refer to the Religion, religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation of the Slavs, Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled in the Balkans during the 6th–7th centuries AD, bordering with the Byzantine Empire to the south, came under the sphere of influence of Eastern Christianity relatively early, beginning with the creation of writing systems for Slavic languages (first Glagolitic, and then Cyrillic script) in 855 by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius and the adoption of Christianity in First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria in 864 and 863 in Great Moravia. The East Slavs followed with the official adoption in 988 by Vladimir the Great of Kievan Rus'. The process of Christianising the West Slavs was more gradual and complicated compared to their eastern counterparts. The Moravians accepted Christianity a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grodno Governorate
Grodno Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Grodno. It encompassed in area and consisted of a population of 1,603,409 inhabitants by 1897. Grodno Governorate was bordered by Suwałki Governorate to the north, Vilna Governorate to the northeast, Minsk Governorate to the east, Volhynian Governorate, Volhynia Governorate to the south, Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire), Kholm Governorate to the west, and Łomża Governorate to the northwest. The governorate covered the areas of modern-day Grodno Region of Belarus, part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland, and a small part of Druskininkai Municipality, Druskininkai, Lazdijai District Municipality, Lazdijai and Varėna District Municipality, Varėna districts of Lithuania. Overview Grodno, a western province or governorate of the former Russian Empire, currently located in Belarus, was situated between about 52° to 54° N latitud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Legendary Creatures
Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples * Anti-Slavic sentiment, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples * Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity * Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples Languages, alphabets, and names * Slavic languages, a group of closely related Indo-European languages ** Proto-Slavic language, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages ** Old Church Slavonic, 9th century Slavic literary language, used for the purpose of evangelizing the Slavic peoples ** Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopted by Slavs in the Middle Ages, which became a lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Uspenskij
Boris Andreevich Uspenskij () (born 1 March 1937, in Moscow) is a Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, historian of culture. Biography Uspenskij graduated from Moscow University in 1960. He delivered lectures in Moscow until 1982, but later moved on to work in Harvard University, Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ..., Vienna University, and the University of Graz. Full professor of Russian literature at the Naples Eastern University, he was elected to many scholarly societies and academies of Europe. Uspenskij worked with Juri Lotman and was influenced by his ideas as a member of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school. His major works include ''Linguistic Situation in Kievan Rus and Its Importance for the Study of the Russian Literary Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveta Nedelja (other)
Sveta Nedelja and Sveta Nedjelja () may refer to: * Sveta Nedelja, Istria, a municipality in Croatia * Sveta Nedelja, Zagreb County Sveta Nedelja or, until 1991, Sveta Nedjelja () is a town in Zagreb County, Croatia. It is one of the provincial satellite towns in Zagreb's metropolitan region. Geography Sveta Nedelja is situated west of Zagreb near the town of Samobor. It h ..., a town in Croatia (also named Sveta Nedjelja before 1991) * Sveta Nedjelja, Hvar (or Sveta Nedilja), a village in Dalmatia, Croatia See also * Sveta Neđelja, an island in Montenegro * Holy Sunday {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokosh
Mokosh ( ) is a List of Slavic deities, Slavic goddess. No narratives about this deity have survived and scholars must rely on academic disciplines like philology to discern details about her. According to etymological reconstruction, Mokosh was the goddess of earth, waters and fertility. Later, according to most researchers, she was reflected in bylinas and zagovory as Mat Zemlya, the personification of Earth in East Slavic folklore. Another reconstruction was made on the basis of ethnography; at the end of the 19th century, the names kikimora as ''Mokusha'' or ''Mokosha'' were recorded in the Russian North. The coincidence is explained by kikimora being a demonized version of the goddess and, by approximating between the two, researchers have portrayed Mokosh as the goddess of love and birth, with a connection to night, the moon, spinning, sheep farming and women's economy. Spinning was the occupation of several European Time and fate deities, goddesses of fate, which led to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Of Sirmium
Saint Anastasia (died December 25, 304 AD) is a Christian saint and Christian martyr, martyr who died at Sirmium in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia). In the Eastern Orthodox Church, she is venerated as ''St. Anastasia the Pharmakolytria'', i.e. "Deliverer from Potions" (). This epithet is also translated as "One who Cures (Wounds)" in Geoffrey Hugo Lampe, Lampe's ''A Patristic Greek Lexicon''. Concerning Anastasia, little is reliably known, save that she died in the Diocletianic Persecution, persecutions of Diocletian; most stories about her date from several centuries after her death and make her variously a Rome, Roman or Sirmian native and a Roman citizen of Patrikios, patrician rank. One legend makes her the daughter of a certain Praetextatus and the pupil of Saint Chrysogonus. Catholic tradition states that her mother was Fausta of Sirmium, St. Fausta of Sirmium. Anastasia has long been venerated as a healer and exorcist. She is one of seven virgins a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia The Roman
Anastasia the Roman (died 250) was 3rd-century Christian saint and nun who was martyred during the reign of Roman emperor Decius. Anastasia was orphaned at the age of three and was raised in a convent, where she became renowned for her asceticism. During the persecutions under the Emperor Decius, she was apprehended, tortured, and beheaded by a city administrator named Probus. Her feast day is celebrated on 29 October. This St. Anastasia should not be confused with another St. Anastasia of Rome who was martyred with St. Basilissa in 68 AD. See also *List of saints named Anastasia Saint Anastasia or Santa Anastasia may refer to one of several saints, including: * Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome (died AD 68), martyrs * Anastasia the Roman (died ), virgin martyr * Anastasia of Sirmium (died 304), virgin martyr who is comm ... References BibliographySaint Anastasia The Great Martyrfrom Jehanne d'ArcOrthodox Wiki Year of birth unknown 250 deaths Saints from Roman It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personification
Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. In the arts, many things are commonly personified, including: places, especially cities, National personification, countries, and continents; elements of the natural world, such as trees, the Deities and personifications of seasons, four seasons, the "four elements", the Anemoi, four cardinal winds, and the Sense, five senses; moral abstractions, especially the four cardinal virtues and seven deadly sins; the nine Muses; and Personifications of death, death. In many polytheistic early religions, deity, deities had a strong element of personification, suggested by descriptions such as "god of". In ancient Greek religion, and the related ancient Roman religion, this was perhaps especially strong, in particular among the minor deities. Many such deities, such as the or tutelary deities for major cities, survived the arrival of Christianity, now as symbolic personif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabbath
In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath () or Shabbat (from Hebrew ) is a day set aside for rest and worship. According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, Ten Commandments, commanded by God to be kept as a Holiday, holy day of rest, as God rested from Genesis creation narrative, creation. Sabbath (Shabbat) observance is commanded in the Ten Commandments: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy". The Sabbath might have been influenced by Babylonian mid-month rest days and lunar cycles, though its origins remain debated. The Sabbath is observed in Judaism, Islam, and by some Christian groups. Observances similar to, or descended from, the Sabbath also exist in other religions. The term may be generally used to describe similar weekly observances in other religions. Origins A number of scholars propose a cognate Akkadian language, Akkadian word ''šapattu'' or ''šabattu'', which refers to the day of the full moon. A lexicographic list found i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
