Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs
The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the fertility rites attested in the Medieval sources about the Western Slavic Pre-Christian Religion in order to make an assessment of such texts. It allows us to elaborate a hierarchy: the more reliable text belongs to Saxo Grammaticus and narrates the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/42585 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42585 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 930.85(=16) Fertility Rites Reconstruction of Slavic Pre-Christian religion Western Slavs Saxo Grammaticus Sventovit of Arkona Thietmar of Merseburg St. Otto of Bamberg Religiones no cristianas 5506.21 Historia de las Religiones |
| Sumario: | The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the fertility rites attested in the Medieval sources about the Western Slavic Pre-Christian Religion in order to make an assessment of such texts. It allows us to elaborate a hierarchy: the more reliable text belongs to Saxo Grammaticus and narrates the festival made every autumn in the temple of Arkona; in second term we place the fragment of Thietmar of Merseburg relating to the obtaining of auguries about the harvest by the sacred lake of Glomuzi; finally we can read a text of Ebbo about a yearly feast at the beginning of summer in the city of Wollin, inspired by the biblical story of the Golden Calf. |
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