#slavic — Public Fediverse posts
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In Poland, KUPALA NIGHT - Eve of Saint John’s (Noc Świętojańska) blends ancient Slavic midsummer rites with Christian tradition. Celebrated on the shortest night of the year, it honors fire, water, and love - marked by bonfires, floating flower wreaths, and folklore about magic ferns. A night where nature, myth, and community meet.
#Poland #EveOfStJohns #KupalaNight #MidSummer #Rites #Traditions #Slavic #Folklore #Ferns #Legends #Culture #Community #Magic #EC
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Happy Summer Solstice! (June 21st 2026)
This day of days marks the point when our regal death star is at its furthest point from the equator, delivering unto us the longest span of sunshine and the briefest night we’ll see all year.
#Sun #Summer #Solstice #Celebration #Midsommar #KupalaNight #Slavic #Midsummer #SummerSolstice #Light #Sunlight #Rituals
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Happy Summer Solstice! (June 21st 2026)
This day of days marks the point when our regal death star is at its furthest point from the equator, delivering unto us the longest span of sunshine and the briefest night we’ll see all year.
#Sun #Summer #Solstice #Celebration #Midsommar #KupalaNight #Slavic #Midsummer #SummerSolstice #Light #Sunlight #Rituals
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Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.
Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).
When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.
Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.
These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.
They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.
One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️
And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.
I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).
I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂
I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂
I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.
Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P
#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic
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Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.
Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).
When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.
Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.
These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.
They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.
One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️
And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.
I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).
I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂
I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂
I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.
Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P
#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic
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Hungarian, Cuman, and Croat soldiers in the 13th century AD
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Hungarian, Cuman, and Croat soldiers in the 13th century AD
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Koschei the Deathless is a powerful, malevolent sorcerer in East Slavic folklore who achieved immortality by separating his soul and hiding it inside a nested, "matryoshka-style" container: a needle within an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside a chest, buried under a green oak on the mythical island of Buyan. His original recipe (with some obvious substitutions) would later be known as the "turducken". #folklore #cooking #slavic #wizard #deathless #lich #turducken #sorcerer
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Koschei the Deathless is a powerful, malevolent sorcerer in East Slavic folklore who achieved immortality by separating his soul and hiding it inside a nested, "matryoshka-style" container: a needle within an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside a chest, buried under a green oak on the mythical island of Buyan. His original recipe (with some obvious substitutions) would later be known as the "turducken". #folklore #cooking #slavic #wizard #deathless #lich #turducken #sorcerer
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Koschei the Deathless is a powerful, malevolent sorcerer in East Slavic folklore who achieved immortality by separating his soul and hiding it inside a nested, "matryoshka-style" container: a needle within an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside a chest, buried under a green oak on the mythical island of Buyan. His original recipe (with some obvious substitutions) would later be known as the "turducken". #folklore #cooking #slavic #wizard #deathless #lich #turducken #sorcerer
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Koschei the Deathless is a powerful, malevolent sorcerer in East Slavic folklore who achieved immortality by separating his soul and hiding it inside a nested, "matryoshka-style" container: a needle within an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside a chest, buried under a green oak on the mythical island of Buyan. His original recipe (with some obvious substitutions) would later be known as the "turducken". #folklore #cooking #slavic #wizard #deathless #lich #turducken #sorcerer
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Koschei the Deathless is a powerful, malevolent sorcerer in East Slavic folklore who achieved immortality by separating his soul and hiding it inside a nested, "matryoshka-style" container: a needle within an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside a chest, buried under a green oak on the mythical island of Buyan. His original recipe (with some obvious substitutions) would later be known as the "turducken". #folklore #cooking #slavic #wizard #deathless #lich #turducken #sorcerer
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Mongolia after reading about their ancestors brutally conquering half the world: "lmao based"
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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🐾 260+ Slavic Dog Names
Check out our blog post of #dognames with meanings inspired by the history, food, language & famous figures of #Slavic culture.
Which #dogname is your favorite? Alyosha? Koschei?
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[FB] - Mazowiecka Drużyna Wojów Weles - Każdy wie, że w prawdziwym wojowniku zawsze jest trochę z romantyka;) dlatego, gdy otrzymaliśmy zaproszenie na piknik historyczny, który odbywał się na Plaża Romantyczna Wawer i dodatkowo jego motywem przewodnim była koronacja Bolesława Chrobrego na króla....to nie mogliśmy przepuścić takiego wydarzenia 🙂 Dziękujemy AMATUM Agencja Artystyczna za zaproszenie, Biblioteka Publiczna w Dzielnicy Wawer m.st. Warszawy za organizację oraz najemnikom z Vaettir, że stanęli z nami w linii! #vikings #slavic #wikingowie #słowianie #reenactment #viking #weles #fight #medieval #rekonstrukcjahistorycznaDzieje się tak zwykle, gdy właściciel udostępnił zawartość małej grupie osób, zmienił jej widoczność lub ją usunął. #Brwinów
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CW: Silly personal anecdote, Winter Solstice, paganism, ex-Christian, witchy things, veganism, candy
My #WinterSolstice treat for myself this year is some #vegan #TurkishDelight.
Like many kids raised in conservative Christian communities who read #TheChroniclesOfNarnia by #CSLewis, I was fascinated by the idea of a candy so good that Edmund would sell out his siblings for it. And since I have a penchant for gummies, when I finally tried it, I thought it was fantastic and that Edmund maybe had a point.
The deep irony there is that now, as a #Slavic #pagan, my patron goddess is #Morena, the goddess of winter and death and basically the White Witch. So maybe I was drawn toward #witchcraft earlier than I thought? 😆
Anyway, this is just a little reminder to all the other folks in the northern hemisphere to do something sweet for yourself this Winter Solstice!
Happy Solstice!
#Lokum #Candy #Veganism #Paganism #SlavicPaganism #HappySolstice #ExChristian #Witch #WitchyThings #Food
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D#20 (2024-09-06) #ScarletDeerInn #demo
Okay. So this is a #narrative #platformer with maybe a touch of #Metroidvania to it, what with the puzzle-like exploration.
The art is apparently #embroidered before being turned into assets for the game, and you can see clear #StudioGhibli (i.e. Miyazaki) influences in the designs. Importantly, though, it's all based on #Slavic folklore.
You play as Elise, medieval mother of two, who runs an inn and falls backwards into a terrifying murder(?) mystery.
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CW: art, nudity
Have a queer kupała night everyone! :heart_pride: :heart_trans:
Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim
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CW: art, nudity
Have a queer kupała night everyone! :heart_pride: :heart_trans:
Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim
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CW: art, nudity
Have a queer kupała night everyone! :heart_pride: :heart_trans:
Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim
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CW: art, nudity
Have a queer kupała night everyone! :heart_pride: :heart_trans:
Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim
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CW: art, nudity
Have a queer kupała night everyone! :heart_pride: :heart_trans:
Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim
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This week on the blog I'm taking you to the world of Slavic mythology, presenting one of my favourite ancient deities - Veles, the god of forests, animals, and the underworld.
To learn about him, visit https://grammaticus.blog/2023/09/06/veles/
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This week on the blog I'm taking you to the world of Slavic mythology, presenting one of my favourite ancient deities - Veles, the god of forests, animals, and the underworld.
To learn about him, visit https://grammaticus.blog/2023/09/06/veles/
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CW: Distant Eye contact
Remember to respect the forest, unless you want to anger the guardian of the forest. It's supposed to be Leshy but i can't really find a properly shown design.
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Blacktail review
The Yaga story told in a new way
https://www.sidequesting.com/2023/04/blacktail-review/
#Reviews #babayaga #FocusEntertainment #Review #slavic #theparasight #Yaga -
Joyous Weles Day! Hail to you, Tender of Boundaries, Lord of Livestock, God of Death and Magic. Bless us this day as we worship you. Bless us with luck, keep death at bay for another day, give us fertile livestock so we may eat.
Thank you, Friend of the Forest, Great Bear, Keeper of Order. We praise you this day. Sława Weles!
#slavicpagan #veles #weles #velesden #slavic #slavicfolklore #Slavicwitch #polishwitch #polishpagan #polytheist #pagansofmastadon #pagan #paganism #pagans #rodnovery
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