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Ludomir– ‘He who secures peace for people’. From the root lud-, which means people. Marzanna– While the name is not popular at the moment, it goes back to Slavic antiquity. Marzanna was a Slavic deity, and she is still present in Polish folklore. An effigy of the goddess is burnt on the first day of Spring.
The group of calendar names includes traditional names that used to be listed in orthodox menologia prior to the October Revolution and in popular calendars of the Soviet era that had been printed since the second half of the 19th century. 95% of the Russian-speaking population in the Soviet Union in the 1980s had calendar names. Ancient Slavic ...
Moirai. Roman equivalent. Parcae. Celtic equivalent. Brigid. Baltic equivalent. Laima. Rozhanitsy, narecnitsy, and sudzhenitsy are invisible spirits or deities of fate in the pre-Christian religion of the Slavs. They are related to pregnancy, motherhood, marriage [1] and female ancestors, [2] and are often referenced together with Rod.
Slava is a given name in Slavic countries . Slava is a common nickname for masculine Slavic names ending with "-slav", e.g. Vyacheslav, Stanislav, Yaroslav, Sviatoslav, Rostislav, Mstislav or feminine Slavic names ending with "-slava", e.g. Miroslava, Yaroslava. Notable people whose given name has this etymology include: Slava is also found as ...
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The most universal type of egg decoration in Slavic countries is the krashanka, a simple boiled egg dyed a single color. Before modern chemical dyes became common, women would use natural botanical dyestuffs to make the dyes. The most common color for krashanky was red, usually obtained from onion skins.
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic (/ s l ə ˈ v ɒ n ɪ k, s l æ ˈ v ɒ n-/ slə-VON-ik, slav-ON-) is the first Slavic literary language.. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and undertaking the task of translating the Gospels and necessary liturgical books into it as part of the Christianization of the Slavs.
