VidaDuerme
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Anyone at all interested in Slavic mythology? I collect Baba Yaga and Rusalka stories, and I've always adored any stories about Chernobog/Belobog.
Slavic mythology
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Rhonda Tharp
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Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia... is that Chernabog?
VidaDuerme
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Yes, and that is where most people first stumble across him. Walt Disney refers to the figure as Satan himself, which confuses the issue a bit, but it is Chernobog.
VidaDuerme
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Check up on Baba Yaga as well. Fables, a favorite comic series of mine, depicts her as the witch in all of the Germanic fairytales, which I thought was a lovely way to tie them all together in a modern sense.
LegendofJoe
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Slavic myth is great and i have read a bit about it.
We don't really have stories of the gods (Perun, Volos), like we do from other myths, but there are many interesting folktales such as the Firebird and Vaselisa.
There also are a collection of short epics called byliny which tell the tales of such heroes as Ilya and Dobrynia.
Warner has a little book called Russian myths which is helpful.
And Bailey and Ivanova have an English translation of the byliny called Russian Folk Epics.
Ivanits has a great book called Russian folk belief which tells about such beings as the Rusalki and Domovoi, as well as Baba Yaga.
When King Vladimir converted to Christianity in the 10th C. in order to marry a byzantine princess, he through away all of the images of the gods into the river.
We don't really have stories of the gods (Perun, Volos), like we do from other myths, but there are many interesting folktales such as the Firebird and Vaselisa.
There also are a collection of short epics called byliny which tell the tales of such heroes as Ilya and Dobrynia.
Warner has a little book called Russian myths which is helpful.
And Bailey and Ivanova have an English translation of the byliny called Russian Folk Epics.
Ivanits has a great book called Russian folk belief which tells about such beings as the Rusalki and Domovoi, as well as Baba Yaga.
When King Vladimir converted to Christianity in the 10th C. in order to marry a byzantine princess, he through away all of the images of the gods into the river.
VidaDuerme
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I will have to look up some of the books you've mentioned, thank you.
I wrote my BA thesis about Baba Yaga. I can recommend Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale by Andreas Johns.
It's a really great book full of information.
If you want an unusual retelling with an extra informative part called Baba Yaga 101, then I recommend Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić.
It's a really great book full of information.
If you want an unusual retelling with an extra informative part called Baba Yaga 101, then I recommend Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić.