12 Facts About Slavic paganism

Christianisation of the Slavic paganism peoples was a slow and—in many cases—superficial phenomenon, especially in what is today Russia.

The identification of a number of Eastern European monuments with Slavic paganism sanctuaries is a matter of dispute .

Many traces of slavic paganism are left in Western European toponymy, including the names of settlements, rivers, mountains, and villages.

Twentieth-century scholars who pursued the study of ancient Slavic paganism religion include Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov, Marija Gimbutas, Boris Rybakov, and Roman Jakobson, among others.

Slavic paganism elaborated one of the most coherent pictures of ancient Slavic religion in his Paganism of the Ancient Slavs and other works.

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Religions of other Slavic paganism populations are less documented, because writings about the theme were produced late in time after Christianisation, such as the fifteenth-century Polish Chronicle, and contain a lot of sheer inventions.

Slavic paganism survived, in more or less pure forms, among the Slovenes along the Soca river up to the 1330s.

The latter were particularly hardwearing in Slavic paganism religion, represented by the widespread devotion to Mat Syra Zemlya, the "Damp Mother Earth".

Rybakov said the continuity and gradual complexification of Slavic paganism religion started from devotion to life-giving forces, ancestors and the supreme God, Rod, and developed into the "high mythology" of the official religion of the early Kievan Rus'.

Slavic paganism traditions preserved very ancient elements and intermingled with those of neighbouring European peoples.

Slavic paganism temples were destroyed throughout the lands of Kievan Rus' and Christian churches were built in their places.

Slavic paganism religion persisted especially in northernmost regions of Slavic paganism settlement, in what is today the central part of European Russia, such as the areas of Novgorod, Suzdal and Belozersk.