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with it. He brought it to God and gives it to him, but he himself does not say a word... The Lord throws the earth, wherever he throws it, it is suddenly so flat that even when you stand at one end – you can see everything that is happening at the other... Devil looks... wanted to say something and choked. God asked him: what does he want? The devil coughed up and ran away in fear. Then the thunder and lightning struck the running Devil, and where he will lie down – there will be hills and slides, where he will cough – there will grow a mountain, where he will jump – there will stick out the celestial mountain. And so, running all over the earth, he dug it up: he made hills, slides, mountains and high mountains.
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handful of sand from the bottom. God threw it on the water and created the beginning of the Earth so thin that they both barely fit on it. God and the devil inhabited the Earth, the devil thought to push the sleeping God into the water, but he contributed to the expansion of the land from the side of God, from the east and from his own side, from the west. Both creators started a dispute that ended up with God going to heaven and knocking down the devil, who also went there, by lightning into the abyss.
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624:. In folklore, the World Tree stands in the "navel of the world", it is supposed to be heavy, tall and with a wide leaf. In a similar preserved myth, God throws his staff into the water, which then changes into a tree. On its branch, God and the Devil sit down to take the world out of the water. The relationship of this prayer with the
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For they believe that one god, the maker of lightning, is alone lord of all things, and they sacrifice to him cattle and all other victims; but as for fate, they neither know it nor do they in any wise admit that it has any power among men, but whenever death stands close before them, either stricken
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At the beginning of the world, God favored to expand the earth. They called the Devil, told him to dive into the abyss of water to get a handful of earth from there and bring it to him. – Fine, Devil thinks, I will make the same land myself! He dived, took out a handful of earth and stuffed his mouth
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is indicated by the "fine sand" from which the "black earth" and the "blue stones" from which the heaven and the celestial objects are made. This corresponds to the widespread myths of the Cosmic Egg, which is broken down in the creative act, and from whose lower shell the Earth is formed, and from
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to overhear the Devil. The Devil, laughing at God, says to himself: a stupid God does not know that you have to take some stick, draw the sign of the cross and say "Enough of this Earth!" When the Devil saw a bee running away on his shoulder, he tried to catch it, but it ran away from him, so he
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myth does not mention the Devil's catastrophe, but it develops the theme of creation by the formula "by God's and my power", and the Devil, who twice reversed the order of the formula, could not reach the bottom until the third time he pronounced the formula correctly, reached the bottom.
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with sickness or beginning a war, they make a promise that, if they escape, they will straightway make a sacrifice to the god in return for their life; and if they escape, they sacrifice just what they have promised, and consider that their safety has been bought with this same sacrifice.
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Fairy-tale eggs are generally submerged in water and their extraction and breaking up creates a "kingdom" – a world in fairy tongue. Also, the triple of egg-kingdoms is not accidental – it corresponds to the tripartite division of the world in Indo-European mythologies into Heaven
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710:, which was a collection of oral stories of the clergy, the following story: a great book fell from heaven, in which the history of being was written; kings ask tsar David to read it, but the book is too big, but David, inspired by the
970:– the deceased's name is also his identity, and it lasts until someone mentions his name, until his name is forgotten and he joins the nameless group of souls. The souls already in the afterlife return to Earth in the rays of the sun.
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Russian fairy tales. In these fairy tales, the hero, looking for a princess, travels through three kingdoms, and after defeating three vipers, the kingdoms are reduced to three eggs.
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such a Milky Way is called the Way of the Soul, the Way of the Army and it was spilled with stardust. The other Axis Mundi connecting the worlds was the Tree of the Family, connected to the
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Christian motif, but this motif is used in myths to set directions and exists in other mythologies: according to the
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328:- "to beat, to hit"). The core
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737:Lush winds of the Holy Spirit
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570:How can we create the world?
522:Creation from the Cosmic Egg
421:. In South Slavic folklore,
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1326:Petrów, Aleksander (1878).
1307:Szyjewski, Andrzej (2003).
1257:Traditional Russian Legends
768:From the holy head of Adam.
725:The red sun from God's face
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558:Two pigeons were sitting.
207:from now on. A myth from
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1334:Uniwersytet Jagielloński
1298:Kelemina, Jakob (1930).
860:Functioning of the world
600:Bright sun, bright moon,
567:Happy debated and cooed:
433:(lit. "Black God") and
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2620:Serbian folk astronomy
2016:Vasilisa the Beautiful
1941:Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv
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2492:Dodola and Perperuna
1956:Mikula Selyaninovich
1253:Afanasyev, Alexander
833:from the shoulders,
468:antithetical couple
21:Slavic creation myth
2968:Peterburgian Vedism
2938:Slavic Native Faith
2689:Serbian epic poetry
2674:Bosniak epic poetry
2531:Mythological places
2031:Legendary creatures
2021:Volga Svyatoslavich
1846:Priesthood and cult
815:Indo-European myths
740:People of God from
641:respective kingdoms
302:Kazimierz Moszyński
264:, or in names i.e.
95:Alexander Afanasyev
3014:In popular culture
2684:Russian fairy tale
1981:Mustay-Bey of Lika
1049:, p. 156-166.
841:from the feet; in
646:Vladimir Toporov,
617:
532:
417:"devil, demon" in
68:Creation by diving
33:Christianized form
3065:
3064:
2921:
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2766:Apocryphal prayer
2558:Oponskoye Kingdom
2470:
2469:
2092:Cornflower Wraith
2006:Solovey-Razboynik
1986:Nikita the Tanner
1906:Dobrynya Nikitich
1291:Literatura Ludowa
1278:978-83-235-0234-0
1269:Mitologia Słowian
1072:"Slavic religion"
825:– the first man:
798:
797:
755:
754:
702:Stanislaw Schayer
609:
608:
457:Chronica Slavorum
394:Primary Chronicle
387:, the god of the
377:Henryk Łowmiański
3090:
3078:Slavic mythology
2824:Ilya the Prophet
2807:Paraskeva Friday
2787:
2786:
2704:Christianization
2036:
2035:
1936:Jugović brothers
1916:Hrnjica Brothers
1911:Dragon of Bosnia
1886:Alyosha Popovich
1878:Legendary heroes
1823:
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1670:Personifications
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1176:
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1155:
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1143:
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829:from the mouth,
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1287:Hernas, Czesław
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819:Hindu mythology
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1216:
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1204:
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1183:
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1162:
1158:Szyjewski 2003
1150:
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1135:
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1118:
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1101:
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1059:Afanasyev 1914
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