Basics of Worship & Starting Praxis | Slavic Polytheism 101

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

Note for clarity: While these things have been mentioned in other videos, this video unexpectedly drew quite a few new-to-the-channel viewers, so I would like to clarify a point: At 0:55 I explain “bear in mind my mostly krakowian=shaped customs, so its impossible for me to summarize every method applied across the slavic world, any advice is not the single correct way, or an original pan-slavic praxis”. What does this mean? Most customs in this video, pertaining to trees and demons and superstitions, focus on the area of Krakow or Lesser Poland, and most writing on these customs come from 1700 to 1940. The process was one of growing up around many of these customs, and in adulthood reading the ethnographers and discovering that these customs have long been attested professionally, thus I preferred to speak of them organically rather than reading from books and effectively plagiarizing about living customs. Adam Fischer, Alexander Bruckner, Michael Arct, Stanislaw Jakubowski, and Zygmunt Gloger have written in varying detail about much of what was discussed, though almost all their works remain untranslated to English (see credit document for more). To be very clear, “Krakiwian” is meant to indicate that these customs are not ancient, and I said as much in the video. The ancient peoples around Krakow were named the Wislani or Vistulans, and they do not become the group we indicate with “Krakowian” until around the 1400s-1500s (with a complicated period of growing pains for the 300ish years before this). These are not the original pan-slavic customs, simply later ones which remained known to the area. The tribal Slavs of the 600s had living customs too shrouded by the fog of history to say much about. I felt this was clear in the video, but am making a note incase it was unclear.

[@ghoulworldorder2406]

I'm glad you're doing these videos. Slavs in the U.S. and Canada haven't had much exposure to Slavic Paganism until more recently. Keep up the impressive work! Slava!

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

​ @arturhashmi6281 Please do not spam Russian-invented misinformation. In regards to the misinformation invented by Russian author R V Shizhensky which you spread; Stanisław Jacubowski in "Prasłowiańskie motywy w architekturze“ included the straight-armed Kolowrot, the form which Dobrowolski stole; A book quite easy to find, and I will stress that Jacubowski was so passionate an anti-Nazi that the foreword to his "Bogowie Słowian" is dedicated to rallying Polish English and French readers against the Nazis before it was too late. It is on eggs, it is on old artifacts shown in this video (or do you consider those faked?). Perhaps you are willfully blind to things which obviously exist for the sake of your political agenda, or perhaps you have eaten Shizhensky's lies like so many who listen to anything a Russian scholar says, as he constructs lies to weaponize against Ukrainians and publishes these one year into the initial war (surly you know the method of Russians inventing nonexistent pagan presences to partly justify the war? Just simply open any Russian news and look around for a bit). Shizhensky was right inthat Dobrowolski was a fascist fool, but fascist fools do not invent new things, they steal, and Dobrowolski quite obviously stole from Jacubowski or a museum piece. I do not surrender parts of my culture to the nazis just because a Russian tells me to. My practices shared in this video do not come from Russians. They come from weighing the practices of my Grandparent's folk Catholicism to Polish historians and historical works. If that is difficult for you to accept, it is time for you to discard that propaganda which has trained you to assume others are idiots, and attempt to learn something yourself.If you have never read about, say, altar construction, idol punishment, or superstitions against demons to protect the home, then you are clearly distressingly unfamiliar with your own cultural history. Go to a library and find ethnographers, read a single work by Adam Fisher for the love of the gods. Discarding your own history because a Russian tells you not to learn it, and then taking hostility to those who know it, that appalls me.

[@opalsystem5356]

This is SO GOOD, thank you for sharing it all! I feel like I have a footing and a place to start much more now, this is really useful. Also not me jerking up when you mentioned putting iron over doorways to stare at the iron keys I've had hanging on the doorknob of my room for no reason for like 10yr now lol

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

@arturhashmi6281 Please do not spam Russian-invented misinformation. In regards to the misinformation invented by Russian author R V Shizhensky which you spread; Stanisław Jacubowski in "Prasłowiańskie motywy w architekturze“ included the straight-armed Kolowrot, the form which Dobrowolski stole; A book quite easy to find, and I will stress that Jacubowski was so passionate an anti-Nazi that the foreword to his "Bogowie Słowian" is dedicated to rallying Polish English and French readers against the Nazis before it was too late. It is on eggs, it is on old artifacts shown in this video (or do you consider those faked?). Perhaps you are willfully blind to things which obviously exist for the sake of your political agenda, or perhaps you have eaten Shizhensky's lies like so many who listen to anything a Russian scholar says, as he constructs lies to weaponize against Ukrainians and publishes these one year into the initial war (surly you know the method of Russians inventing nonexistent pagan presences to partly justify the war? Just simply open any Russian news and look around for a bit). Shizhensky was right inthat Dobrowolski was a fascist fool, but fascist fools do not invent new things, they steal, and Dobrowolski quite obviously stole from Jacubowski or a museum piece. I do not surrender parts of my culture to the nazis just because a Russian tells me to. My practices shared in this video do not come from Russians. They come from weighing the practices of my Grandparent's folk Catholicism to Polish historians and historical works. If that is difficult for you to accept, it is time for you to discard that propaganda which has trained you to assume others are idiots, and attempt to learn something yourself.If you have never read about, say, altar construction, idol punishment, or superstitions against demons to protect the home, then you are clearly distressingly unfamiliar with your own cultural history. Go to a library and find ethnographers, read a single work by Adam Fisher for the love of the gods. Discarding your own history because a Russian tells you not to learn it, and then taking hostility to those who know it, that appalls me.

[@user-ih3vx]

Many thanks for these videos!

[@mayaisveryfriendly]

Thank you for making this awesome video!!

[@tammy55743]

So beautiful, greetings

[@azamutu1413]

To je úžasné

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

@@arturhashmi6281 ​ Please do not spam Russian-invented misinformation. In regards to the misinformation invented by Russian author R V Shizhensky which you spread; Stanisław Jacubowski in "Prasłowiańskie motywy w architekturze“ included the straight-armed Kolowrot, the form which Dobrowolski stole; A book quite easy to find, and I will stress that Jacubowski was so passionate an anti-Nazi that the foreword to his "Bogowie Słowian" is dedicated to rallying Polish English and French readers against the Nazis before it was too late. It is on eggs, it is on old artifacts shown in this video (or do you consider those faked?). Perhaps you are willfully blind to things which obviously exist for the sake of your political agenda, or perhaps you have eaten Shizhensky's lies like so many who listen to anything a Russian scholar says, as he constructs lies to weaponize against Ukrainians and publishes these one year into the initial war (surly you know the method of Russians inventing nonexistent pagan presences to partly justify the war? Just simply open any Russian news and look around for a bit). Shizhensky was right inthat Dobrowolski was a fascist fool, but fascist fools do not invent new things, they steal, and Dobrowolski quite obviously stole from Jacubowski or a museum piece. I do not surrender parts of my culture to the nazis just because a Russian tells me to. My practices shared in this video do not come from Russians. They come from weighing the practices of my Grandparent's folk Catholicism to Polish historians and historical works. If that is difficult for you to accept, it is time for you to discard that propaganda which has trained you to assume others are idiots, and attempt to learn something yourself.If you have never read about, say, altar construction, idol punishment, or superstitions against demons to protect the home, then you are clearly distressingly unfamiliar with your own cultural history. Go to a library and find ethnographers, read a single work by Adam Fisher for the love of the gods. Discarding your own history because a Russian tells you not to learn it, and then taking hostility to those who know it, that appalls me.

[@ZeLeninovoMasoveRizoto]

Mimochodem, kolovrat jakožto symbol je převážně známý z keramiky Čech, Moravy a Slovenska, takže nejen že tenhle frajer má potřebu spamovat, ale není si ani schopný zjistit základní informace Roztomilé

[@froozigiusz]

This might be my overall favourite piece of media that you have produced so far. So many great ideas and thoughtful choices, especially with multi-platform altars. It was a revelation. On the technical side of things, the sound quality was great, and the ratio of content to runtime makes the viewer / listener engaged, not to mention the fact that with the amount of video footage present, I did not get a dilemma about whether this is a video-enhanced podcast or a very passive film visual-wise. One minor problem that I caught is the camera having auto-zoom level cranked to the maximum, or some other software-side option that made some shots shaky. This surely won't be a problem forward though, I hope. Overall, good job! I'll patiently await more movies from this series.

[@3ddieT99]

I absolutely loved this video! Thank you thank you thank you! I've been trying to connect back to my roots and you are from the exact region my ancestors were from. You have provided more information vital to me than what I've discovered on my own in the past year. Please keep up the awesome work with trying new videos like this! I can't wait for the deviation and holiday videos. Again, thank you so much!

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

Please do not spam Russian-invented misinformation. In regards to the misinformation invented by Russian author R V Shizhensky which you spread; Stanisław Jacubowski in "Prasłowiańskie motywy w architekturze“ included the straight-armed Kolowrot, the form which Dobrowolski stole; A book quite easy to find, and I will stress that Jacubowski was so passionate an anti-Nazi that the foreword to his "Bogowie Słowian" is dedicated to rallying Polish English and French readers against the Nazis before it was too late. It is on eggs, it is on old artifacts shown in this video (or do you consider those faked?). Perhaps you are willfully blind to things which obviously exist for the sake of your political agenda, or perhaps you have eaten Shizhensky's lies like so many who listen to anything a Russian scholar says, as he constructs lies to weaponize against Ukrainians and publishes these one year into the initial war (surly you know the method of Russians inventing nonexistent pagan presences to partly justify the war? Just simply open any Russian news and look around for a bit). Shizhensky was right inthat Dobrowolski was a fascist fool, but fascist fools do not invent new things, they steal, and Dobrowolski quite obviously stole from Jacubowski or a museum piece. I do not surrender parts of my culture to the nazis just because a Russian tells me to. My practices shared in this video do not come from Russians. They come from weighing the practices of my Grandparent's folk Catholicism to Polish historians and historical works. If that is difficult for you to accept, it is time for you to discard that propaganda which has trained you to assume others are idiots, and attempt to learn something yourself.If you have never read about, say, altar construction, idol punishment, or superstitions against demons to protect the home, then you are clearly distressingly unfamiliar with your own cultural history. Go to a library and find ethnographers, read a single work by Adam Fisher for the love of the gods. Discarding your own history because a Russian tells you not to learn it, and then taking hostility to those who know it, that appalls me.

[@BardzoPowaznyUzytkownik]

There's so little known about Slavs. What are your sources?

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

@srturhashmi6281 Adam Fischer, Alexander Bruckner, Michael Arct, Stanislaw Jakubowski, and Zygmunt Gloger are modern sources? That's a strange cope

[@BardzoPowaznyUzytkownik]

@ Thanks

[@RazeAVillage]

Hey, thanks mentioning that we don't need elaborate alters. I've been using threes to pray by intuitively for.... um.... over a decade? Oh yeah! Thank you also for warning about American processed meats. The meat industry here is a mess. The animals are treated terribly. People in pagan communities often forget about this, and it's an important thing to consider. Another thank you is deserved because you showed us items in your home and those beautiful patterns. Sharing such personal things reflects sincerity on your part.

[@zeonive1173]

Regarding your question about your explanations having too much/too little detail: I think it was very good for the purpose of a 101 and I would be interested in further videos where you go more into depth!

[@margaretwhitmer2715]

I essentially know nothing, so I learned a lot from this. Well done! I look forward to the next installment.

[@Rohan_Trishan]

Very informative. I love the design of the various symbols.... very geometric and pleasing to the eye. I traced alot of em just for fun. I actually see the similarities between these slavic rituals and the hindu ones, which is cool that we can have something in coommon despite being on opposite ends of asia/europe. I hate how people still link the swastika/svarot to the nazi's and not ancient religions like the indian and slavic ones. But I am glad more people are embracing paganism and their past culture or religous practices, before it got wiped out by catholics and muslims. I hope it keeps growing in popularity.

[@peterpulis8198]

Pray light insects for old Gods- Svarog, Perún, Veles Mokoš Lada that represent our heavenly family call them and that parasite will be in trouble. You know those who represent Corporations.

[@singam7436]

I'd just like to comment on how beautiful I find your altar

[@arturhashmi6281]

I believe that you did not have bad intentions, but It's sad that you make videos about our culture without really knowing anything about it. It is not video about Slavic polytheism, but Slavic Rodnovery, which is modern New age movement inspired very loosely by Slavic culture, but usually twisting it according to the ideology of particular group or guru, eg. Russian imperialism or neo-nazism and often claiming to be original Slavic paganism which it is not. Eg. Aleksiej Dobrowolski - Russian neo-nazi, was the first who called swastika as "Kolovrat" in the 90s and according to him it was antisemitic symbol. You said that the name "Kolovrat" apply to electric current cycles. Do you even listen to yourself or do you just read anything you'll find in internet? Cycles of electricity is obviously modern discovery so how could bronze age culture create symbol for that? Kolovrat lit. means "turning-circle" from various machines and again, there is no evidence that any Slavic people called this symbol as such and that this symbol was even popular among the Slavic people in general. This video is missleading and offending to our culture. Please put this video down or at least pin this comment, so we can discuss it. Na Zdrowie!

[@panmonster1208]

CHILL MEN .

[@froozigiusz]

I would in other circumstances listen to you comments and ideas, but the fact that you've also commented on more than half of current comments with the same phrase makes me think that you aren't here to discuss, and are more likely than not rage-baiting. I don't think anybody has expected this video to be based purely on historical documents since there were none like those in ancient Greece. None have full knowledge of the past, so we can only try to recreate from what has been burried in allegories and similarities with other faiths of this region / era. With that in mind, Dobrowolski did not in fact „design” kolovrot and instead stole and twisted previous work, like every other nazi out there. Even then, his kolovrot had a specific desing, and much like Hitler's svastika, it has many other variants not connected to nazi symbolism. We cannot allow those rats to take every type of symbol we have, they would just keep going for more (good example is Z in current Russian propaganda). The only error that I might agree with you is that „electric current cycles” supposed name connecton. It is indeed more aligned with cycles of seasons, life-death, and so on. But with all of that, you're way too dramatic with this „offending to our culture”. I actively try to fight russian supremacy dogma in general, but here there is none of that. Please calm down.

[@froozigiusz]

@@kalez963 Demons by whomst standard exactly⁈ I ain't venerating demons, those are just dangerous but still mortal in some way spirits like topielec / drowner for example. No god can be a bad „character”, even the gods of death.

[@SlavicDeerGirl]

@arturhashmi6281 It is very disappointing that you try to disguise hostility and ignorance with superficially kind words. Which, logically, do you think has occurred here? (A) I am describing the definition of *a word* and explaining that "spinning shape" can be used to symbolically reference cycles, including nowadays the cycle of electricity i.e. strujno kolo, because electricity is a familiar concept for my viewers to relate to. (B) I am a blithering idiot who thought electrical devices existed 2,000 years ago. Do not couch such insults with superficial kindness. It is clear that you make your comment in bad faith (meaning, you sought out this video with prejudices in mind, to make attacks and project what you want to into my words). In regards to the misinformation invented by Russian author R V Shizhensky which you spread; Stanisław Jacubowski in "Prasłowiańskie motywy w architekturze“ included the straight-armed Kolowrot, the form which Dobrowolski stole; A book quite easy to find, and I will stress that Jacubowski was so passionate an anti-Nazi that the foreword to his "Bogowie Słowian" is dedicated to rallying Polish English and French readers against the Nazis before it was too late. It is on eggs, it is on old artifacts shown in this video (or do you consider those faked?). Perhaps you are willfully blind to things which obviously exist for the sake of your political agenda, or perhaps you have eaten Shizhensky's lies like so many who listen to anything a Russian scholar says, as he constructs lies to weaponize against Ukrainians and publishes these one year into the initial war (surly you know the method of Russians inventing nonexistent pagan presences to partly justify the war? Just simply open any Russian news and look around for a bit). Shizhensky was right inthat Dobrowolski was a fascist fool, but fascist fools do not invent new things, they steal, and Dobrowolski quite obviously stole from Jacubowski or a museum piece. I do not surrender parts of my culture to the nazis just because a Russian tells me to. My practices shared in this video do not come from Russians. They come from weighing the practices of my Grandparent's folk Catholicism to Polish historians and historical works. If that is difficult for you to accept, it is time for you to discard that propaganda which has trained you to assume others are idiots, and attempt to learn something yourself.If you have never read about, say, altar construction, idol punishment, or superstitions against demons to protect the home, then you are clearly distressingly unfamiliar with your own cultural history. Go to a library and find ethnographers, read a single work by Adam Fisher for the love of the gods. Discarding your own history because a Russian tells you not to learn it, and then taking hostility to those who know it, that appalls me. ... Anyway, with that said. If you reply singularly and in a thought-out manner, your reply will remain. But if you continue to spam and operate in bad-faith with the parroting of Russian lies, you will be blocked and reported for spam.

[@panmonster1208]

@@kalez963 I don't know who worships a being that murders the innocent, like the final Egyptian plague, or believes that children are responsible for their parents' mistakes.