#pagan Poland

[theancientgod]

Slavic Gods by Viktor Kryzhanivskyi - Rod

[pol-ski]

Slavs and Vikings Festival in Wolin, Poland

The Slavs and Vikings Festival is one of the largest early-medieval events in the world. There are archery and spear-throwing competitions, games and contests for kids, craft-making presentations demonstrating how jewelry, coins, horns, and amber were created, live music, readings, and much more.

Wolin is a town located on Poland’s largest island (of the same name) on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It's a City of History, whose glory days date back to 1000 years ago. In the early Middle Ages, it was one of the largest and most powerful cities in this part of Europe, and ranked among the most important ports of the Baltic Sea. Wolin is considered to have been the gateway through which Scandinavians traveled southwards from the Baltic Sea to inland Piast state.

[temple-of-perunika]

Everytime a slavic mythical creature/deity is watered down as "Russian folklore", a babushka spills her kompot...

[haveyouheardthisband]

[jezzzebel]

SLAVIC PAGANISM VIBES

Perun feels like when an uncle asks you to go to his house to escape a bad environment.

Rod feels like a family gathering with cousins you haven't seen in years.

Veles feels like a friend that is silly most of the time but sometimes is very serious.

Morana feels like when an aunt is backing you up in an argument with your mother.

Mokosh feels like covering yourself with a blanket in your babushka's old house.

Vesna feels like finding a unique flower in a field and admiring its beauty.

Baba Yaga feels like that one friend who is cold or mean, but just wants the best for you and isn't afraid to criticize your wrongs for your own growth.

Dajbog feels like walking into sunlight after sleeping for 10 hours and feeling slight headache and warmth.

Stribog feels like dipping your legs in a clean river stream as a child, and seeing the same river now polluted, years later.

Triglav feels like standing up for your friends and getting hurt, but still not regretting it.

LIKE FOR PART TWO PLS ❣️❣️❤️❤️

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Ukrainian refugees celebrate the Ivan Kupala holiday in Warsaw, Poland. June 2024.

[angie-massei]

Ngl it’s kinda funny to see hetalian discourse about Poland, Lithuania and christianity, because it’s somehow always like this - Poland christianizes, everyone is happy and cool with that and IMMEDIATELY BECOME EXTREMELY RELIGIOUS and then this poor lithuanian pagan boy straight from the woods is forced to go to church ;<

[yugoslavicgirlie]

Introduction

Hi! I am your local slavic girlie!! But you can also call me Sava! I am 18 years old and i go by she/her. I am serbian!

This blog is gonna be about:

Slavic countries and culture 🇷🇸🇷🇺🇸🇮🇸🇰🇧🇬🇵🇱🇨🇿🇭🇷 +others

Slavic mythology

Slavic memes

And much more!!!

Disclaimer: i do not condone racism, hate, bigotry, and xenophobia. And especially THOSE bad political ideologies. If you support any of those, the door is here 👉🏻🚪

[kveldulv88nsbm]

Venedae – Venedae (1998), Poland 🇵🇱

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Foundation offerings

A foundation offering is a magic practice known since antiquity, performed during the the construction of new residential buildings, but also the of sacred or defensive buildings, roads and bridges. The foundation offering (pl. zakładzina) should ensure the well-being of the users and residents of the building and strengthen the building’s durability by giving it the life of a living being. In his monograph about archaeological excavations in Opole (Poland), Hołubowicz writes that a textual account known as Rudolf’s Catalogue of Magic mentions the practice of foundation offerings in medieval Silesia. He also interprets the bowls found under foundations of houses or inside them as possible sacrifices or foundation offerings for households spirits. Also pisanki – traditionally painted or decorated eggs were found there – they were made from chicken eggshells as well as of limestone and “of size and form corresponding to chicken eggs”. The most expensive and splendid ones were made of clay and ornamented with colourful toppings. Hołubowicz adds that eggs and crushed eggshells were found at Ostrówek in Opole within houses and also in the eastern corners of houses.

Foundation offerings of horses were placed under corners of houses of Slavs and Balts. Findings from Novgorod (10th–14th century), Opole (12th century) and Szczecin seem to confirm this. According to Szafrański, sacrifices of this type were also placed under ramparts, for example in Biskupin (8th–9th century), Gdańsk (12th century), Santok (12th–13th century). Those rites were supported by many folk beliefs about apotropaic qualities of the horse and they can be observed in Christmas mock rituals, costumes and requisites of mummers. The findings of horse skulls are also known from Kalisz, Wolin, Gniezno and Czeladź Wielka.

- Sacrifices among the Slavs: Between Archeological Evidence and 19th Century Folklore by Izabella Wenska

[theancientgod]

Slavic myths about the creation of the world

The World Tree

The Slavic World Tree is an oak, a sacred tree that is incredibly important throughout Slavic mythology. At its roots is Nawia, the realm of the dead/underworld. Here, the god Weles (Veles) dwells. The trunk of the tree is Jawia, the realm of the living. And among the branches is Prawia, the realm of the gods, ruled by the thunder god, Perun.

It used to be at the beginning of the world –

Then there was no sky or earth,

No sky nor earth but the blue sea,

And in the middle of the sea on oak

Two pigeons were sitting.

Two pigeons on an oak tree

They held such a council,

Happy debated and cooed:

How can we create the world?

We will fall to the bottom of the sea,

We'll bring out the fine sand

Fine sand, blue stone.

We will sow fine sand,

We will pick up the blue pebble.

From fine sand - black earth,

- icey water, green grass.

From the blue stone - the blue sky,

Blue sky, bright sun,

Bright sun, bright moon,

bright moon and all the stars

Białobóg I Czarnobóg

In the beginning, there was nothing but the sky, the sea, the God (Białobóg) who sailed by boat and the devil (Czarnobóg) emerging from the sea foam, who sat down to God. The idea of creating the Earth was suggested to God by the devil, who could not do it by himself alone. The devil immersed himself and brought out a handful of sand from the bottom. God threw it on the water and created the beginning of the Earth so thin that they both barely fit on it. God and the devil inhabited the Earth, the devil thought to push the sleeping God into the water, but he contributed to the expansion of the land from the side of God, from the east and from his own side, from the west. Both creators started a dispute that ended up with God going to heaven and knocking down the devil, who also went there, by lightning into the abyss.

The Cosmic Egg

Rod created the magical golden egg. The crust broke and out of the egg left Svarog, Lada and Chernabog. Svarog married Lada and then fell asleep. During his dreams, he saw the entire world, the perfection of it, its beauty and he didn't want to wake up. His wife desperately wanted him to open his eyes again so she gave birth to everything he dreamt of. While she was doing that, Chernabog silently watched. He grew envious of Svarog's beautiful world to be and he sat out to destroy it. But then Svarog woke up and threw him away.

He then stood marveling the perfection of the world. He decided to come to the centre of the world where he found the white stone Alatir. He decided to turn it into his forge. He created more weapons to fight Chernabog if he was to return.

And, oh, he was. But now as a dragon with hundreds of heads and an iron tail. Svarog couldn't fight him alone so he forged more gods to help him. The first one was Dazhbog, the god of Sun. Then Stribog the god of wind. And finally, Semargl, the god - dog of fire.

Combined together, the powerful gods defeated dragon Chernabog and used him as a bull. Namely, Svarog forged a plow and the gods made Chernabog pull it. The large canyon he made was the border that separated the world. The world where gods live is Prav and the dark realm of Chernabog is Nav. The only thing that connects them is Kalinov bridge which will later be used by souls who passed away.

The gods decided to move up and live in the Sky. So they made Lada give birth to a magical Oak, the world tree. Oak's branches were holding the sky, its trunk became Yav, the visible world and its roots grew down to Nav enabling evil things to climb up to Earth and Heaven just to fight gods in desperate need to continue the mission of Chernabog.

[wintersnightt]

Wawel castle & hill, Kraków, Poland

[temple-of-perunika]

Bigger, more popular cultures around the world are cool.

But you, you are special to me 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦🇷🇸🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪🇲🇰🇧🇬🇸🇮🇸🇰🇨🇿🇸🇰!!!

[jezzzebel]

Prayer to Dazhbog for the Summer Solstice

(yes i am a little late...)

Dazhbog, god of the Sun, the one who gives us prosperity and life itself, please hear my humble prayer. May the Summer Solstice bring me abundance and love. Svarozhich , please, may the rays of your Sun shine over me at all times. As i feel safe when i feel your warmth.

Glory to Dazhbog, the one who gives, the son of Svarog.

[polishdynasty]

daily reminder that despite still popular belief, jagiello's and jadwiga's relationship wasn't as cold and distant as many could think. first of all, it's worth to mention that modern historians lean towards the version that jagiello was just in his twenties when he married jadwiga. he was jealous af (just like with his all other wives excluding elizabeth of pilica) but! they actually liked each other!! they had similar hobbies (both loved hunting) and i personally think that the fact that they both were “strangers” in polish kingdom (jadwiga was hungarian, raised in buda and jagiello was lithuanian) could even helped them form some kind of bond. jagiello trusted her enough to always seak her advice and even sent her to reconsile his feuding relatives. yes, he travelled a lot (what he had to do if he wanted to keep personal union with lithuania and the whole kingdom in peace), but jadwiga often was going out to meet him in korczyn or niepołomice. they even celebrated the 10th anniversary of their marriage. we know that after jadwiga's death he was wearing her wedding ring the rest of his life!! HE NAMED HIS DAUGHTER AFTER HER. maybe it wasn't a relationship full of love and passion, but rather companionship, but still. THEY. DIDN'T. HATE. EACH. OTHER.

[thecraftwitchrachel]

A domovoi, which can be spelled domovoj or domovoy, is a house spirit in pre-Christian Slavic mythology, a being who lives in the hearth or behind the stove of a Slavic home and protects the inhabitants from harm. Attested from the sixth century CE, the domovoi sometimes appears as an old man or woman, and sometimes as a pig, bird, calf, or cat.

In Slavic mythology, all peasant houses have a domovoi, who is the soul of one (or all) of the deceased members of the family, making the domovoi part of ancestor worship traditions. The domovoi lives in the hearth or behind the stove and householders took care to not disturb the smoldering remains of a fire to keep their ancestors from falling through the grate.

My personal practice includes working with my hearth spirit as I tend to dabble in Kitchen Witchery. I keep a small gnome figurine on my stove as a representation of my apartments Domovoi. I keep it secured with a bit of museum wax which is necessary for all over my apartment because my black cat, Vlad likes to knock things over.

Slavic Chronicles writes that "the domovoi tries to take good care of pets – if a cat gets too noisy during the night, that means it is playing with the home domovoy". I have two cats, Greta and Vlad and Greta's favorite spot is by the stove so I like to think she is keeping our Domovoy company or vice versa. I try to keep my apartment up to our Domovoy's standards but as someone who struggles with depression that leads to some executive dysfunction, chores often are the first thing to be ignored when I'm "down bad". So when my depression finally lessens, I do cleanings and cleansings along with giving my Domovoy an offering as an apology. I work with other ancestral energies, so I like to think that my spirits are understanding that keeping my home in this state isn't a sign of disrespect so they don't act out, which I am grateful for.

Britanica and Madame Pamita gave me the idea of when I moved into my new apartment to make sure I did something to invite my ancestral Domovoy from my previous apartment to my new one. So after getting my new keys and checking out the apartment, I did a smoke cleanse of mugwart and rosemary, said a small 'prayer' in my previous apartment inviting my Domovoy to my new apartment and when in my new apartment I cleaned my stove and brought my gnome figurine and put it on my stove and welcomed the spirit to it's new home.