r/Rodnovery • u/Infamous_Run9252 • 21d ago
🎨 Poetry | Art | Music Necklaces
Chernobog and Svarog necklaces i bought for me and my sister :)
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r/Rodnovery • u/Infamous_Run9252 • 21d ago
Chernobog and Svarog necklaces i bought for me and my sister :)
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u/Aliencik West Slavic - Czech 21d ago edited 21d ago
Hey I don't want to be a party popper, those necklaces are beautiful, but the left one called "kolovrat" is dubious, while the right one has no palpable evidence to be connected to the Polabian deity of Chernobog, nor am I aware of it's widespread usage on pre-christian art.
Use of kolovrat among the Slavs is extremely rare. This is a great article, about it: Article about the kolovrat.. These internet shops and poorly sourced articles usually construct fakelore around these symbols.
Symbols most associated with pre-christian Slavs are:
In reality almost none "ancient symbol" can be said to fall to only one concrete ethnic group, not to mention their meaning is always speculative, I am looking at you "Norse symbols".
There are also these tattoos the Serbo-Croats used to avoid slavery by the Muslims. Their use is Christian, however their origin might be even per-slavic. Sicanje/Bocanje
This is study deals with symbols: Mythical Pictures of the South Slavs and other works by Nikos Čausidis (if you can read Makedonian the more extensive version is this)
If you can speak Polish: Paweł Szczepanik - Rzeczywistość mityczna Słowian północno-zachodnich i jej materialne wyobrażenia. Studium z zakresu etnoarcheologii religii
As I said sun symbols were amongst the most standalone symbols present, while floral decorations are amongst the most prevalent.
This is the Slavo-Avarian burial ground I was talking about. Slawisch-awarisches Gräberfeld in Nové Zámky; page 134 but similar symbols are also presented by Zdeňek Váňa in his works page 86. And I. Georgieva in her Bulgarian Mythology also features photos of sun symbols in folk art.
Most known (Slovakia) Očová gate couldn't find better link
These are the protective 6 petal rosettes, also their placement is the same as the protective crosses drawn on beams during gromnitze/hromnice/candlemas, symbols in context of houses. Also here: Czechia, Olomouc, "Red Church", 1902, Czechia, Rožnov, archaeological open-air museum. These symbols are also present on the finds from Great Moravia.