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What is polands pagan roots?


jasinskiThreads: 11
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Gender: Male 		  Jan 30, 10, 08:47 / #1
pre 966 of course
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Slavic Mitology
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: PolishNutjob   Jan 30, 10, 12:54 / #3
That's easy ...

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/c atholicism_christian_or_pagan.htm
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PolishNutjob

And look at this nonsense, from the same site:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/End%20of%20the%20World/seat_666.htm
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Gender: Male 		  Feb 6, 10, 04:18 / #5
who is thi jesus. it sounds middle eastern. iam talking northern europe.
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http://www.kresy.co.uk/pol_paganizm.html
i don't think there's much of it going on in poland
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: jasinski   Feb 6, 10, 05:24 / #7
what? there wasnt much paganism going on in poland? is that what youre saying? excuse me if i chuckle. maybe people with knowledge of history and not christians should answer this one for me. that would be greatly appreciated. thanks. lets think perun and veles. by the way iam just joking around, but i would like a serious answer.
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Gender: Male 		  Feb 6, 10, 05:32 / #8
what i meant was there is not going much right now, but you probably have noticed
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: jasinski   Feb 6, 10, 05:39 / #9
oh yeah not much of it going around these days. what i meant was: i was joking about sounding conceited, but i would like a serious answer concerning the polanie and their pagan religion. i mean what was their religion.
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Gender: Male 		  Feb 6, 10, 21:27 / #10
Unfortunately as the Poles had no writing while pagan, and thus we know very little about the peculiarities of their faith. We do know the names of several gods and goddesses but, as Georges Dumezil wrote on this topic, a list of names is not a mythology. The so called "Book of Veles" has been exposed as a fraud.
That being said the familial resemblance of the various Indo-European cultures is apparent in their mythologies as well. By examining less obscured branches of paganism one can make assumptions about Poland's. Dumezil inferred that the Slavs resembled the Germans having a mercurial god head their pantheon. This would be Svarog who thus corresponds to the Nordic Odin, and the Aryan Varuna. Etymology shows clearly that the name Svarog is of Iranian origin, and so the Sarmatian ancestory that Poles claim may be in fact be the case.
Poland's former partner Lithuania being the last country in Europe to abandon paganism has much more known about its indigenous faith, snake worship and all!
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: marqoz   Feb 11, 10, 19:49 / #11
The Polish pagan roots are Indoeuropean ones.

There are a few traces of it in documents from X-XIII century left by monks or priests trying to convert folk and expel any superstitions, old wives' tales or pagan rites.

Unfortunately they were too much erudite. They knew Roman and Greek gods, goddesses and daemons. And they used to use their knowledge while describing awful pagan activities. As an effect there is a big mishmash of Slavic, Greek and Roman entities. Many researchers fought to resolve this puzzle. Some of them adding even more confusion by adding some Baltic and Germanic parallels.

There were many potential mythological figures identified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Slavic_deities but they are from different areas and times.
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Gender: Male 		  Mar 7, 10, 04:48 / #12
okay thanks des essienties.
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thanks too marqoz.
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Perun its Thor..

Argier - Ariel - Anioł - Angel..

Odyn - its Kupidyn!! - the night 23-24.06 noc świetojańska, Sobota (so-bo-ta;yes-becose-there; scha-bat) - Saturday (hi' Sit-at-Ur)

Swaróg - its in nordic Gaarm.. lord of underworld.

Russ-iał-ka = Walkirie.
Russ (that's "we") aił (płowił - lets say "looks 4 us") ka (ona- "she") <-> We (we) - ki (took) - r - ie (in the hell ;) )

There are lovely majestic legends written by Jan Kochanowski (1530-84) and others.. just look for them.

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