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New Researches on the religion and mythology of the Pagan Slavs
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SYSNO ASEP 0506171 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Slavic Anthropogony Myths. Body and Corporeality in the Slavic Narratives about the Creation of Man Author(s) Dynda, Jiří (SLU-S) ORCID Source Title New Researches on the religion and mythology of the Pagan Slavs. - Lisieux : Lingva, 2019 / Lajoye P. - ISBN 979-10-94441-46-6 Pages s. 7-24 Number of pages 18 s. Number of pages 221 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country FR - France Keywords anthropogony ; body ; myth ; corporeality ; syncretism ; apocrypha Subject RIV AI - Linguistics OECD category Specific languages Institutional support SLU-S - RVO:68378017 Annotation The paper analyzes four narratives attested in chronicles, religious treatises and folk legends that it considers to be possible remnants of Slavic anthropogony myth that has partially survived after the Christianization of Slavs. The conclusion is that even though these narratives were considerably influenced by and syncretized with Christian (apocryphal) tradition, the archaic narrative and motivic core with many common traits with the other Indo-European anthropogony traditions can be positively identified in them. The special focus is laid on the role of human body and corporeality and its connection to the material of earth and the body of deities. Workplace Institute of Slavonic Studies Contact Dana Pilátová, pilatova@slu.cas.cz, Tel.: 224 800 262 Year of Publishing 2020
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