Author: T.D. Kokoszka
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803412860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.
Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods
Author: T.D. Kokoszka
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803412860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1803412860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.
The Age of the Gods
Author: Christopher Dawson
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Age of the Gods
Author: Christopher Dawson
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Languages : en
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Ancient Gods and Heroes of East and West
Author: Marta Vannucci
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Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This Book Is An In-Depth Study Of The People Of Nomadic Groups Of Central Asia Notably, The Greeks, The Ancient Iranians And Indo-Aryans Of The Indian Subcontinent From About 6000 Bce To The Last Millennium Bce. It Deals With The Evolution Of Cultures, Migrations And Settlements, Myths And Legends Gods And Heroes Of The Ancient Cultures.
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Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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This Book Is An In-Depth Study Of The People Of Nomadic Groups Of Central Asia Notably, The Greeks, The Ancient Iranians And Indo-Aryans Of The Indian Subcontinent From About 6000 Bce To The Last Millennium Bce. It Deals With The Evolution Of Cultures, Migrations And Settlements, Myths And Legends Gods And Heroes Of The Ancient Cultures.
The Ancient Gods
Author: Edwin Oliver James
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Ancient Gods
Author: Edwin Oliver James
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Zalmoxis, the Vanishing God
Author: Mircea Eliade
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Category : Dacia
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Dacia
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Gods of the Ancient Slavs
Author: Myroslava T. Znayenko
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher: Slavica Publishers
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Ancient Gods
Author: Lewon ShantÊ»
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Category : Armenian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Armenian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Ancient Gods
Author: Lewon ShantÊ»
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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