I once again apologize for the lack of consistent posting. This last month I’ve been trying to figure out what I wanted to do and what I wanted to post. It’s been a rough ride over 1 year into quarantine/work from home for me. The sameness has been rather draining, so I was struggling to […]
Read MoreI finally got around to reading this article, here on JSTOR, now. It’s really short, just about 10 pages long, and about 1/3-1/2 of that is footnotes. It’s a bit older (1970s), nothing too amazing in terms of information, at least not as where I am in research. The main reason I like this article […]
Read More
I read this book a while back (probably about 5 years ago), but then never really wrote up anything about it. It was during a time where I was just skim reading a lot of books, and so it was never really in the forefront of my imagination or mind at the time. But, as […]
Read MoreTime for a…well, October-themed review. This time around we’re talking about death and burial customs in Russia, from the lens of 19th Century British commentary. Yeah, it’s a fun little mouthful of explanation, but it makes sense. Up for review: The Use of Sledges, Boats, and Horses at Burials in Russia by J. Oliver Wardrop, […]
Read MoreThis week I’ve been re-reading an old book I’ve had for a bit now Russian Myths by Elizabeth Warner. It’s a great little primer, starter book of sorts that has good intro information into Russian myths and folklore. It’s proven an interesting re-read though. It gives me new things to consider researching, and looking into. […]
Read MoreI am continuing slowly through my attempts to write up reviews for all the Slavic articles I copied and got from JSTOR while I was still in college. Here’s the next one I’ve been working on. It’s “The Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Modern Europe: Was Russia an Exception?” – by W. F. Ryan, from The […]
Read MoreSo I was reading “Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs” by Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, from here. As a side-note, the articles from Studia Mythologica Slavica are great reads. The ones in English are usually a bit shorter reads than the massive tome-like articles from JSTOR, which make them easier to digest, and […]
Read MoreThis is a review of my reading of Veles in Slavic Myth by Kim Huggens, an article in the anthology “Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God” (ed. Sorita d’Esta, David Rankine, Kim Huggens), link here. Full admittance: I bought this book on Kindle only for this article. I’m interested in the others, but […]
Read MoreSource: Rod Ways: Gnosis in Slavic Heathenry and Witchcraft This is an interesting article, worth a read. It gives a really interesting perspective on UPG and on just what place it has in Slavic circles.
Read MoreSo something of quite a bit of academic and spiritual importance. Or rather, something I like to learn about, because of sheer historical research value that it holds. See, the “Book of Veles” is extremely problematic from a historical standpoint for Slavic paganism. It was discovered roundabout 1919 by a White Army soldier, as the […]
Read More
The Slavic Polytheist 