Slavic Folklore Art
The south slavs living on the balkan peninsula in south eastern europe bordering with the byzantine empire to the south came under the sphere of influence of eastern orthodox.
Slavic folklore art. Buy high quality slavic folklore iphone cases from our community of independent artists and iconic brands. The vodianoi is a male water spirit of slavic origin. Secondly the old slavic pantheon of gods is not well documented so scholars have attempted to recreate the information based on secondary documents. Slavic mythology has two key differences from the well known greek and roman mythologies.
The religion possesses many common traits with other religions descended from the proto indo european religion. Slavic mythology is the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the slavs before christianization. Unlike greek or egyptian mythology there are no first hand records for the study of slavic mythology. Our art inspired iphone cases are available as both slim cases and tough cases and we have slavic folklore covers for all iphones including the newest iphone 11 models.
The most popular color. Dec 18 2017 explore romanzakharyak s board slavic art on pinterest. Despite some arguable theories for instance the. Folk art cross stitch blackwork sampler kit floklore cross stitch slavic embroidery design ornament blackwork cross stitch needlepoint kit.
Slavic paganism or slavic religion describes the religious beliefs myths and ritual practices of the slavs prior to christianisation the latter occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. Something very close to me always wanted to illustrate creatures from slavic folklore. See more ideas about ivan bilibin art slavic folklore. First many of the spirits are still part of common images and folktales among slavic people.
Our high quality art focuses on the most important aspects of life in slavic nations including religious beliefs and folklore. Slavic art having a heritage dating back to the early middle ages slavic culture is dominant in russia and the eastern part of europe. The most common slavic folklore material is metal. Deities of slavic religion arranged in cosmological and functional groups are inherited through mythology and folklore both in the earliest slavic religion and in modern slavic native faith s theology and cosmology gods are arranged as a hierarchy of powers begotten by the supreme god of the universe rod known as deivos in the earliest slavic religion.
The art of seduction. The czech and slovak equivalent is called a vodník polish is a wodnik while russian is vodianoy a south slavic equivalent is vodenjak he is viewed to be particularly malevolent existing almost exclusively to drown swimmers who have angered him by their boldness. Reports of his appearance vary. A succubus inspired bard subclass and cambion race for those of you who want to leave your enemies with wounded hearts.
Some tales define him as a naked old man.