Slavic Gods and Heroes

Slavic Gods and Heroes- Front Cover
Slavic Gods and Heroes
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of charts
List of tables
Preface
Introduction
	Notes
PART I:
Ancient Slavs
Chapter 1: Ancient Slavs and their neighbors
	Slavic languages
	Slavs’ homeland
	Hydronymics
	Names of the Slavs and Slavic names for their neighbors
	Slavic migrations
	Slavic scripts
	Slavic society
	Slavic states
	The Christianization of the Slavs
Chapter 2: The earliest evidence of Slavic religion
	Procopius, The Gothic War
	St. Boniface, A Letter to King Ethelbald of Mercia
	Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Travel-Report
	Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De administrando imperio
	Widukind of Corvey, Deeds of the Saxons
	Leo the Deacon, History
Chapter 3: Conclusions
PART II:
Gods
Chapter 4: Sources
	Documentary evidence
	Historiography
	Hagiograph
	Poetry
Chapter 5: Svarozhich
Chapter 6: Sventovit
Chapter 7: Rugevit
Chapter 8: Porevit, Porenut, and Turupid
Chapter 9: Pizamar and Chernoglav
Chapter 10: Prove and Podaga
Chapter 11: Triglav
Chapter 12: Gerovit
Chapter 13: Pripegala
Chapter 14: “Vladimir’s gods”
	Perun
	Khors
	Dazh’bog (Dazhd’bog)
	Stribog
	Simar’gl
	Mokosh’
Chapter 15: Volos (Veles)
Chapter 16: Conclusions
PART III:
Heroes
Chapter 17: Sources: Slavic national historiography
	Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs
	Gallus Anonymus, The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
	Wincenty Kadłubek, Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland
	The Chronicle of Great Poland
	The Chronicle of Dalimil
	Jan Długosz, Annals or Chronicles of the Famous
Kingdom of Poland
Chapter 18: Bohemia
	Čech
	Krok
	Kazi
	Tetka
	Libuše
Chapter 19: Little Poland
	Wiślanie
	Lędzianie
Chapter 20: Great Poland
Chapter 21: Kiev
Chapter 22: Croatia
Chapter 23: Reconstruction
Appendix 1: Indo-European hippomancy
	India
	Persia
	Parthia
	Greece
	Rome
	Germanic tribes
	Slavs
	Ireland
	Reconstruction
Appendix 2: Zmey Gorynych
Afterword
Bibliography
	Sources
	Research literature
Index