Songs Of The Russian People Index Also covered are the details of russian pagan religion and mythology, withcomparisons to related topics such as Vedic and Germanic mythology. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/srp/
Extractions: Sacred Texts Songs of the Russian People by W. R. S. Ralston Contents Start Reading This book, despite its title, is a treasure-trove of Slavic mythology, tradition, folklore and ethnography. There are plenty of songs, not only from Russia but every part of the Slavic region from Serbia to Siberia. The songs are used as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion of pre-industrial Slavic peasant life, including weddings, funerals, witchcraft, demonology, games, riddles, and seasonal traditions. Also covered are the details of Russian pagan religion and mythology, with comparisons to related topics such as Vedic and Germanic mythology. Lacking are samples or analysis of the songs in the original language (except for a very brief treatment in appendix B), and there are no musical transcriptions or descriptions of dance. However, the massive, well documented, and very entertaining collection of Slavic traditions in this book more than makes up for this deficiency. Title Page
Sacred Texts: Legends And Sagas The Songs of the russian People by WRS Ralston 1872 A treasure trove of russianand Slavic folklore, mythology and tradition. Covers preChristian Slavic http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/
Extractions: Icelandic ... Buy Books: Legends and Sagas Legends and Sagas Image: How at the Castle of Corbin a maiden bare in the Sangreal [Holy Grail] and foretold the achievements of Galahad (Arthur Rackham)." Northern European Arabia Baltic Basque ... Spain This section of sacred-texts archives the rich literature of Sagas and Legends. These are mostly (but not all) from Northern Europe, and primarily based on legendary events and people from the Middle Ages. Many of these narratives are based on archetypal stories that date even further back in time. Teutonic Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie [1912] The 1001 Arabian Nights (Burton, tr.) This is an 'unexpurgated' version, translated from the Arabic by the Orientalist Sir Richard Burton.
Amazon's Warrior Women Or Ancient Myth? Greek mythology describes the Amazons as descendants of the god of war, Ares, Recent excavations by russian archaeologists, however, have produced new http://tx.essortment.com/amazonswarrior_ryci.htm
Extractions: Amazon's warrior women or ancient myth? Did Amazon warrior women, the Antiope and Hippolyte belong to an extinct matriarchal warrior society? Or were they simply fictional characters depicted in ancient Greek mythology? Amazons - Real Warrior Women or Ancient Myth? Stories of beautiful and bloodthirsty female warrior women thundering across arid battlefields have been told, re-told and speculated over for thousands of years and by many cultures. Greek myths are filled with tales of the Amazons and their exploits, love affairs and battles with Olympian gods like Zeus, Ares and Hera. Amazon warriors fought and died in the Trojan war. Homer and Hippocrates speculated over or wrote of these fierce fighting women, as did Greek historian Herodotus. The West African kingdom of Dahomey employed a legion of so-called Amazons who conquered cities for King Agaja during the 1600âs. Spanish adventurer, Francisco de Orellana, is said to have named South Americaâs greatest river, the Amazon, after a fierce tribe of warrior women he encountered along its banks. Greek mythology describes the Amazons as descendants of the god of war, Ares, and the sea nymph, Harmonia. They worshipped Artemis, goddess of the hunt and exactly where the Amazons territory was has always been disputed. Herodotus believed they may have occupied the sweeping steppes of Southern Russia. Other stories claim they lived in Thrace or along the lower Caucasus Mountains in northern Albania. The Thermodon River, in Asia Minor, known today as the coast of Turkey, seems to be the most frequently mentioned territory of the Amazons.
Flit(tm): Wanted: A New Russian Civic Mythology Wanted A New russian Civic mythology. John Cole whines about Yalta and reallysteps in it when he thinks that it s all about the US. http://www.snappingturtle.net/jmc/tmblog/archives/005377.html
Extractions: Main John Cole whines about Yalta and really steps in it when he thinks that it's all about the US. The problem of condemning Yalta isn't that it dirties up FDR and Churchill but rather that condemnation is designed to dirty up Stalin. Putin is fighting to reestablish Russia. For this he needs to have a suitable civic mythos. Liberal Democracy isn't cutting it in Russia so he has three alternatives. 1. Stalinism - A modified limited restoration of communist heroes, Stalin in the forefront is in order to rally the nation. 4. Peasant Mythos - You see some of this in the current national anthem. Out of the four options, Putin seems to have tossed out option 2 entirely, looked at option 4 and is seriously working on option 1. I cannot begin to tell you how bad it will be for world stability if Russia starts turning out high school students that are neo-stalinists. All of E. Europe would become a danger zone for nuclear proliferation. The long-term dream of pulling Russia fully into the Core would be dead for as long as that nonsense continued. Stalin is a very powerful force for disrupting connectivity. President Bush is absolutely correct to condemn Yalta. It was not absolutely necessary to win the war against Hitler and Tojo and made the second half of the campaign to rid the world of 20th century totalitarianism unnecessarily long and costly. We did not have to go to war against Stalin. We just had to not stand in the way of the many, many people who wanted out from under his yoke.
Mythology, Folklore, And A Little Bit Of Religion Slavic. see also russian, Serbian, or Siberian; Slavic Deities mythology ofthe Divozenky The Twelve Months, an adapted Slav legend http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~bnagy/sarahsite/myths2.html
Extractions: Welcome! This page is essentially a massive list of links to sites about mythology, folklore, and religion. I've tried to sort them all by category, which has the advantage that it (theoretically, at any rate) makes it easier to find what you're looking for, but can lead to some pretty deeply nested subdivisions and also means that a lot of these pages do link to each other. There are links here to almost every relevant page I can find "almost" because there are a few things I don't have here: pages not in English, usenet sites, urban folklore and cyberlore sites, or any pages relating to "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys." That's about it . . . happy mything! Other Lists O' Links Myths and Legends from Chris Siren and Myth and Legend from Philip "Pib" Burns are two of the best resources out there Mythtext: Mythology from All Over the World has an impressive amount of links to texts, bibliographies, FAQs, and other sites
Igor Loschilov, Fenomen Nikolaya Zabolotskogo FIREES, Finnish institute for russian and East European Studies images ofthe collection Zabolotsky is following the mythology os russian Futurism. http://www.rusin.fi/loschilov.htm
Extractions: Igor Loschilov is a Research Fellow at the University of Joensuu, Finland, and a lecturer in Russian literature at the Pedagogical University of Novosibirsk, Russia The subject of this dissertation is the poetic phenomenon of Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958). The poet's earliest and best known collection of poems Stolbtsy, is the most suitable point of departure for the study of this phenomenon. The study is based on the three published variants of Stolbtsy: Stolbtsy Korrektura (1933) and the first part of Svod Stolbtsy i po my . The central mythologeme is the odinic myth of imperfect knowledge . It is concretized in images derived from three systems of mythological thought which were known to the Futurist and the OBERIU poets. The first is the Kabbala , the second is the myth of the wisdom of Atlantis preserved after its destruction in the divinatory Tarot cards, and the last is the European myth of Alchemy, which includes the search for the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life, the transmutation of metals, and the genesis of the homunculus. The author, as demiurge of the collection's micro-universe, possesses perfect knowledge, and he offers the reader mythical knowledg encoded in combinations of stolbtsy, or columns. The author offers the vacant role of the mythical hero, and thus the possibility of access to mythical wisdom, to the reader who is willing to attempt to unravel the poet's intentions.
Behind The Name: Russian Names Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, russian, Lithuanian, Roman mythology Meaning unknown, possibly from the mythological Greek name Faea http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/rus.html
Extractions: The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature is the first book to study the development of the Cossack hero and to identify him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Judith Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, providing new and challenging readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Khlebnikov, Babel, Tsvetaeva, Sholokhov, and a host of lesser-known writers, all of whom were attracted to the Cossack. By comparing the Cossack with the American cowboy, she reveals what is both unique and universal about the Russian self-image. Grappling with the phenomenon of myth-formation, Kornblatt places the Cossack hero in historical and sociopolitical context, chronicling the growth of the Cossack myth of unbounded wholeness and life, its gradually increasing influence on the Russian national consciousness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its eventual demise under the strictures of Stalinist socialist realism. Kornblatt's eclectic methodology draws upon Barthes, White, Turner, and other Western theorists as well as such leading Russian critics and philosophers of language as Bakhtin, Lotman, and Uspensky. "There are no equivalent books on the topic. Familiar works become more interesting through its lens, unknown works take on a relevance they would not otherwise have, and Kornblatt's approach to the general problem of literary influence within the Cossack Myth is both original and very well-informed. Slavists and other readers will find it provocative: a topic that we knew randomly and work by work suddenly emerges as one of those important and organic literary traditions that Russian culture seems to generate so effortlessly."—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Gigablast Search Results Arts Literature Myths and Folktales Myths Baltic (5); Society FolkloreLiterature Tales Fairy Tales World Tales russian (10); Society Religion http://dir.gigablast.com/Arts/Literature/Myths_and_Folktales/Myths/Slavic/
Extractions: Firebirds and firebrands, forests and fools, water and witches, puissant princesses and pulchritudinous princes: all of these and more are elements within the environment of Russian fairy tales. Many of these factors are similar to those found in fairy tales the world over, as are the history and structure of tales in Russia . However, the fairy tales of Russia also possess a number of characters who, though they have counterparts in other cultures, are unique to the Slavic tradition - including Baba Yaga, Koshchei the Deathless, and various spirits such as rusalkas, vodoniye, leshiye, and domovieye One of the most well known figures from Russian folklore, Baba Yaga's name can be roughly translated as "Granny Yaga." In Russian Myths , Elizabeth Warner notes that Baba Yaga brings many of the dominant themes of Russian fairy tales together: she travels on the wind, occupies the domain of the leshii , the forest spirits, is associated with death, and is an acceptable surrogate for the generic ved'ma , or witch. Also known as "Baba Yaga
Extractions: In English, we call them fairy tales. This term comes from the French skazka volshebniyi skazki skazki o zhivotnykh bytovye skazki Given this fundamental difference in the viewpoint of each culture towards the nature of fairy tales, it is unsurprising that there are significant differences between the nature of the messages put forth by the variants of Eastern and Western European folklore. This can be attributed in part to the fact that where Eastern European folklorists were more likely to record straight transcriptions of the tales with few changes, Western European folklorists had a well-documented tendency to edit and rework their finds to conform to the values of their intended audience. The differences between the attitudes towards the genre, and between the archetypes of the Eastern and Western European cannons of fairy tales themselves, have had significant effects upon the later fantastic traditions of both regions. One of the more interesting contrasts in the use of Russian fairy tales by Eastern and Western writers lies in the fact that while Russian authors use the form of the fairy tale (its structure) in their creation of imaginary worlds, focusing particularly on the utopianism inherent in the Russian fairy tale genre, Western authors are far more likely to co-opt particular characters from Russian lore (such as
Russian Myths By Elizabeth Warner, Univ of Texas Pr July 2002 ISBN 0292791585. http://www.thattechnicalbookstore.com/b0292791585.htm
Extractions: The celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the second world war are likely to be the most verbose, the least reflective and the last. In Moscow, politicians will be lining up to extract their pound of kudos from the main victory celebrations on offer. NI_MPU('middle'); The Axis powers included fascist Italy and imperial Japan and in the years Britain was under most threat, they were supported by the Soviet Union. At the height of its power in 1942-3, the Reich controlled the human and economic resources of the greater part of Europe: 2m French prisoners, and more than 10m forced labourers from the east toiled on German farms and in German factories. The Waffen SS raised dozens of volunteer divisions from almost every occupied country, even a skeleton Legion of St George from British prisoners. In June 1941, at the start of Operation Barbarossa, it was not Russia that the Wehrmacht invaded, but Soviet-occupied Poland. The German armies overran the Baltic states, Byelorussia, and Ukraine, but only the fringes of Russia. They approached the outskirts of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad but never secured a main Russian city. As a result, by far the heaviest civilian casualties were incurred in the western, non-Russian borders.
ABC-CLIO In russian myth and legend, Christian themes are interwoven with pagan ideas Encyclopedia of russian and Slavic Myth and Legend includes extensive http://www.abc-clio.com/visitortools/productSheet/preview.aspx?productid=109438
Extractions: Pressed between the western world of Europe and the eastern world of Asia, Russia and Slavic countries like Poland, Hungary and Romania are a fertile ground for fairytales and folklore. is the perfect gateway into this lesser-known realm of magic and myth. One of the best aspects of the book are the political and religious discussions for some of the better-known stories. I found the comments on Baba Yaga's regional variations and historical development thought-provoking and balanced through the presentation of different viewpoints. Dixon-Kennedy keeps his editorial comments light, but when he makes them, they are always instructive, such as his explanation for why none of the characters in Granny Snowstorm's stories are ever named. I finished the book with a multi-faceted introduction to the role myth and folktale play in the region's culture. If you have family from Eastern Europe or Russia, is a Santa's bag of riches. Within a half-hour of reading, I discovered why my Ukrainian grandmother talked about Grandma Snow at Christmastime and why my grandfather called my sisters and me "Almafi" whenever he took us to pick apples. Several hours slipped by as I wound through the various stories from my multi-ethnic background, tales that might disappear from lack of being told. For anyone wanting to preserve their cultural heritage, this book is a good place to start. This book is a solid reference work that should meet the needs of anyone interested in Russian and Slavic folklore and mythology. While Dixon-Kennedy's text arrangement is academic, his writing style is surprisingly clear and colorful. The scholar in me wished for more source citations; although Dixon-Kennedy provides a long list of references and recommended reading, he seldom notes where he obtained his information for individual entries. The Polack and Ukrainian in me wished for a more inclusive historical background on the other countries in the region besides Russia. But the folklorist in me was thrilled with the overall quality and thoroughness of
The Moscow News Try this for size an anchor on the ORT (Public russian TV) channel gives Mify o Rossii i dukh natsii (Myths About Russia and the Spirit of the Nation). http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2003-11-7
New Times Politisc THE MYTH GIVES A CRACK This beautiful myth seems to have given a crack. deteriorate the materialwellbeing of most of the russian population (continuing rise of food prices, http://www.newtimes.ru/eng/detail.asp?art_id=1289
New Times Politisc MYTHS LIVING AND DEAD The myth is betrayed Through immense efforts Russia was industrialized in preparation As one russian writer said, everything was allowed after Stalin. http://www.newtimes.ru/eng/detail.asp?art_id=814
The Jamestown Foundation BEYOND THE MYTH A REVIEW OF THE WOLVES OF ISLAM Meanwhile, the infamousbombings of russian apartment buildings in 1999 (blamed on Chechens by the http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3273&ar
SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Russian Wonder Tales By Post Wheeler THE russian skazki (skazatz = to tell) are the mass of folk tales In lapseof time, too, the form of the myth deteriorated as had the content. http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/russianwondertales/foreward.html
Extractions: by Post Wheeler Table of Contents Foreward Tsar Saltan Vasilissa the Beautiful The Little Humpbacked Horse Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf ... SurLaLune Fairy Tales Main Page Foreward THE Russian skazki (skazatz = to tell) are the mass of folk tales distributed widely throughout all the Russias. Handed down, by constant repetition, from generation to generation, a possession common to peasant's hut and Prince's palace from a time when history did not exist, they are today, from Archangel to the Black Sea, and from Siberia to the Baltic, almost as much a part of the life of the people as the language itself. Their adventures are linked to a hundred phrases in common parlance; their heroes peer from every page of Slavonic literature; and the delver in historic debris finds each stratum sown thick with skazka shards to the very bedrock of legend. These older meanings, for the teller, vanished many centuries ago. The only things the skazki picture that are common to Russian country life today are those things which in Russia never change-the wide, windswept steppe and dense forest, the love of animal life and the comradeship of the horse, the dread and terror of the long winter cold, and the passionate welcome given to the springtime sun. What ever else they may tell the student is in a tongue now un intelligible to the peasant, who has least of all been aware that, in these centuries-old repetitions there have been handed down to a new era pictures indelible, though blurred and indistinct, of an ancient age, of times, customs, religion and deities no longer his own.
