Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion: Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination

Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa; Enrique Santos Marinas

doi:10.17302/BME-9781802701173

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-64189-206-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-80270-117-3
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Series: Beyond Medieval Europe
Language: English
Pages: 134
Product Type: Monograph

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1. Table of contents
IntroductionPages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
Chapter 1. Methodological Problems in Reconstructing Pre-Christian Slavic ReligionPages 5 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
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1. Fertility Rites and Calendrical Rituals
2. 1. The Description of a Harvest Ritual in the Sanctuary of Arkona
  2. The Sacred Lake of Glomuzi and the Auguries of Fertility
  3. A Festival at the Beginning of the Summer at Wolin
3. 1. Spring Festivals: Rusalia
  2. Other Spring Festivals in the Western Slavic Realm
4. 1. Rod and Rozhanitsy
  2. Svarozhich
  3. Hennil/Bendil
  4. Pereplut
5. Wedding Rituals
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1. 1. Oaths and Pledges
  2. Divination
  3. Travelling and Trading
  4. Healing
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1. Rituals before Combat
2. Rituals during Combat
3. Rituals after Combat
4. Military Rituals during Peacetimes
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1. Was the Concept of the Afterlife Unknown to the Pre-Christian Slavs?
2. 1. Cremation
  2. Funerary Banquet
  3. Ritual Sacrifice of the Widows
  4. Votive Victims
  5. The Baths of the Dead
  6. Festivals to Honour the Dead
  7. Self-immolation of the Warriors
  8. The Ritual Described by Ibn Faḍlān
  9. The Oath of Self-execration of the Warriors
3. 1. Slavic Vampires
  2. The Living Dead among the East Slavs
  3. Living Dead among the West Slavs
  4. The Aggressiveness of the Living Dead
  5. The Change of the Funerary Rite and the Origin of the Living Dead
ConclusionsPages 111 - 112 Download chapter (PDF)
BibliographyPages 113 - 122 Download chapter (PDF)
IndexPages 123 - 126 Download chapter (PDF)