RT Journal Article
T1 Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs
A1 Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Juan Antonio
AB 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.
SN 1581-128X
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42585
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42585
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025