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- mythology
- Part of
- Slavic folklore
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- Slavic mythology
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- Category:Slavic mythology
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- denomination=slavic
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Encyclopedic overview
A priest of Svantevit depicted on a stone from Arkona, now in the church of Altenkirchen, Rügen.
Slavic paganism encompasses the historical pre-Christian religious beliefs, mythologies, and ritual practices of the Slavic peoples before their gradual Christianization between the 8th and 13th centuries. Rooted in broader Proto-Indo-European religion, the historical Slavic faith was polytheistic and animistic, characterized by a deep reverence for nature, ancestor worship, and rituals tied closely to the agricultural calendar. While a unified pan-Slavic pantheon likely never existed due to geographic fragmentation, certain core deities and cosmological concepts were shared across the East, West, and South Slavs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slavic mythology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.