Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs Fortuna e riti di fertilità presso gli slavi occidentali precristiani
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12638298 |
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| Authors | Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 157-168 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studia mythologica Slavica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1408-6271 • E-ISSN: 1581-128X |
| Publisher | The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3986/sms.v15i1.1580 |
| OpenAlex | W2603757866 |
| Language | IT |
| References cited | 2 |
The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the fertility rites attested in the Medieval sources about the Western Slavic Pre-Christian Religion in order to make an assessment of such texts. It allows us to elaborate a hierarchy: the more reliable text belongs to Saxo Grammaticus and narrates the festival made every autumn in the temple of Arkona; in second term we place the fragment of Thietmar of Merseburg relating to the obtaining of auguries about the harvest by the sacred lake of Glomuzi; finally we can read a text of Ebbo about a yearly feast at the beginning of summer in the city of Wollin, inspired by the biblical story of the Golden Calf
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Fertility · Fortuna · Gospel · Hierarchy · Humanities · Late Antiquity · Middle Ages · Slavic languages · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Demography · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution
| Highly cited | No |
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