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portada Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
448
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.4x13.8x2.6 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN13
9781803412856
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Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods

T. D. Kokoszka (Author) · Moon Books · Paperback

Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods - Kokoszka, T. D.

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Synopsis "Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods"

T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.

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