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Bogowie - a Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods by T.d. Kokoszka (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Bogowie : A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods, Paperback by Kokoszka, Troy David, ISBN 1803412852, ISBN-13 9781803412856, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An earnest and careful analysis of East European folklore, history, and mythology, and a credible summary of Slavic paganism.

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PublisherHunt Publishing The Limited, John

ISBN-101803412852

ISBN-139781803412856

eBay Product ID (ePID)21058376508

Product Key Features

Book TitleBogowie-A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicPaganism & Neo-Paganism, Europe / Eastern, Religious

GenreReligion, Philosophy, History

AuthorT.D. Kokoszka

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-939756

SynopsisT.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book., An earnest and careful analysis of East European folklore, history, and mythology, and a credible summary of Slavic paganism.

LC Classification NumberGR139.5