Slavic Goddesses Morana And Vesna
Georgetown University's Department of Slavic Languages is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding in the global community by educating students who are linguistically and culturally competent users of Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. A well-known Slavic word in almost all European languages is vodka , a borrowing from Russian водка (vodka) - which itself was borrowed from Polish wódka (lit. As an organization uniting scholars wierzenia słowiańskie and teachers of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures, we are very familiar with the historical consequences of xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic nationalism.
Slavic mythology is the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the Slavs before Christianisation. In contrast to mtDNA lineages derived from the East India, which can be grouped together on the basis of 4958-4884-3576 motif, sample from Poland determined in this study locate on a separate branch ( Figure 4 ). Similar picture could also be observed in the case of Slavic haplotypes belonging to haplogroups G2a and D5a2a1a1.
According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Slavic gods liked the taste of human and animal blood. A member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages. While Koschei is primarily a Russian myth, similar figures exist in the mythologies and folk tales of certain other Slavic peoples, such as Bash Chelik (in Serbian mythology). Slavic is a branch of the Indo-European language family The Slavs, speakers of Slavic dialects, live in two broad bands in eastern Europe and, through Russian expansion and colonization, into Asia.
Stribog in the Slavic pantheon, is the god and spirit of the winds, sky and air; he is said to be the ancestor (grandfather) of the winds of the eight directions. The latter is recognized as the predecessor of the sixth- and seventh-century Prague-Korchak and Pen'kovo cultures , the first archaeological cultures identified as Slavic. Historic sources show that each Slavic tribe worshipped its own gods, possibly even had its own pantheon.
Consequently, in many Slavic countries, Christmas is called Bozhich, which simply means little god. The yellow k5 component in the gene pool of Russians from northern Europe comes from the local pre-Slavic populations and shows that expanding Slavs mixed with indigenous populations. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages exists to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures on all educational levels.
