polskie-wierzenia: Perun

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In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перун) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone), horses and carts, and weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow). The supreme god in the Kievan Rus' during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone and later with those of metal.

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Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Although the mythological motifs are not directly attested – since Proto-Indo-European speakers lived in preliterate societies – scholars of comparative mythology have reconstructed details from inherited similarities in mythological concepts found in Indo-European languages, based on the assumption that parts of the Proto-Indo-Europeans' original belief systems survived in the daughter traditions. The Proto-Indo-European pantheon includes a number of securely reconstructed deities, which in various Indo-European traditions have cognate names (linguistic siblings from a common origin) an…

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A Proto-Indo-European thunder god, reconstructed as *Perkʷūnos (Proto-Indo-European: 'the Striker' or 'the Lord of Oaks'), was the weather god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. The deity is thought to be associated with fructifying rains, and his name was probably invoked in times of drought. In a widely attested Indo-European mythic pattern, the thunder-deity engages in combat with a multi-headed water-serpent in order to release the life-giving waters that had been confined or obstructed. The Proto-Indo-European thunder god was often associated with the oak tree, probably because such tall trees are frequently struck by lightning. His domain may have been conceived as the forested mountai…

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The informational phenomenon of trees and biomorphism. The article analyzes the phenomenon of information exchange of trees and shows the productive role of nature in urban revitalization. Based on the EDEN Project, the potential of mental maps of the city, taking into account natural objects, was revealed. The specificity and significant sociocultural influence on the human worldview of the historically composed mytho-archetypes of the tree, their sacred and artistic images, aspects of dendrology under the auspices of biomorphic urbanism as an innovative philosophy of our days are determined. The fact of the existence of cognitive-communicative functions of nature determines the further tr…

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Feminine Features in the Imagery of God in Israel: The Sacred Marriage and the Sacred Tree

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The Siberian Village of Okunevo as a Place of Power and its Sacred Landscape. Abstract The paper deals with contemporary places of power and New Age sacred landscapes in Russia.* It focuses on the Siberian village of Okunevo, its sacred sites, and their worshippers. Formation of this place of power was a result of the activity of individuals (both academics and adherents of new religious movements), combined with the specific interpretation of archaeological sites and the natural landscape of the area. The landscape around the village of Okunevo affects the interaction of people with the sacred loci and the ways the signs, symbols and narratives about them are created.. Source: Journal of E…

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Changing Perceptions of Estonian Sacred Natural Sites. This article considers the changes and variation in perceiving sacred natural sites and landscapes in Estonia that have been brought about by the processes of modernization and the shift from a mainly oral vernacular culture to a national culture with a written core. Sacred sites of the vernacular religion as well as narratives and customs associated with them have been documented in collections of folklore and some of the archived folklore texts have been given second lives in print; concurrently, Romantic literary notions about pre-Christian Estonian history and culture have become rooted in the collective cultural memory. The article…

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Preliminary documentation of old trees in the Pirot District and their protection needs with special reference to 'zapis' trees. The aim of this paper is to identify the localities of veteran trees in the Pirot District and to support their future protection as natural monuments by recording them. The Pirot District (municipalities: Pirot, Bela Palanka, Dimitrovgrad, Babušnica) hosts a number of centuries-old trees, mostly oaks, that are part of cultural landscapes, village commons, churchyards, and field boundaries. Some are already designated as natural monuments, such as five oaks at Osmakovo, pedunculate oak in Sopot, sessile oak at Divljana, as well as black pine in Rsovci. However, ma…

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Perkūnas (Lithuanian: Perkūnas, Latvian: Pērkons, Prussian: Perkūns, Perkunos, Sudovian: Parkuns, Latgalian: Pārkiuņs) was the common Baltic god of thunder, and the second most important deity in the Baltic pantheon after Dievas. In both Lithuanian and Latvian mythology, he is documented as the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, fire, war, law, order, fertility, mountains, and oak trees.

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The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals marking the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them. Modern pagan observances of the cycle adapt a range of folk traditions to varying degrees. British neopagans popularized the Wheel of the Year in the mid-20th century, combining the four solar events ("quarter days") marked by many European peoples, with the four midpoint festivals ("cross-quarter days") celebrated by Insular Celtic peoples. Some Wiccans use the term sabbat () to refer to each festival, represented as a spoke in the Wheel. Different paths of modern Paganism vary regarding the particular timing of each observance, base…

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Dąb był sakralnym drzewem gromowładnego i był postrzegany jako jego siedziba. Perun przetrwał w folklorze, zwłaszcza wśród Białorusinów, jako zły duch uzbrojony w broń piorunową i ścigający węża lub diabły ukrywające się w różnych miejscach. Prorok Eliasz jest opisywany w podobny sposób w ludowym chrześcijaństwie, z powodu którego zaproponowano teorię, że kult Peruna został ostatecznie przeniesiony na Eliasza. Pomimo podobieństw między nimi, całkowita zbieżność Eliasza z Perunem jest fałszywa, ponieważ idea Eliasza jako gromowładnego wywodzi się z greckiego, chrześcijańskiego folkloru.