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Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Juan Antonio

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First Name
Juan Antonio
Last Name
Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Filología
Department
Filología Clásica
Area
Lingüística Indoeuropea
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    Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs
    (Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2012) Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Juan Antonio
    The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the fertility rites attested in the Medieval sources about the Western Slavic Pre-Christian Religion in order to make an assessment of such texts. It allows us to elaborate a hierarchy: the more reliable text belongs to Saxo Grammaticus and narrates the festival made every autumn in the temple of Arkona; in second term we place the fragment of Thietmar of Merseburg relating to the obtaining of auguries about the harvest by the sacred lake of Glomuzi; finally we can read a text of Ebbo about a yearly feast at the beginning of summer in the city of Wollin, inspired by the biblical story of the Golden Calf.
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    ¿Existió un dios eslavo Hennil?
    (Faventia, 2014) Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Juan Antonio
    La existencia de un dios eslavo occidental Hennil se basa en un testimonio del cronista medieval Thietmar de Merseburgo. La etimología de este teónimo ha suscitado un cierto debate que no ha dado lugar a una solución comúnmente aceptada. Sin embargo, un segundo manuscrito recoge una variante, Bendil, que posiblemente es el teónimo eslavo originario. Esta propuesta cuenta con la ventaja de presentar una etimología indoeuropea *bhendh-.