Deities of the ancient Slavs. Dolznitsyn A.S.

“deities of the ancient Slavs” is one of those books that should be in the library of anyone who is interested in the religion and history of our ancestors. Written on the basis of rich actual material and the works of famous Slavists, it opens up to the reader a wide panorama of the original beliefs of the Slavs. The author examines the connections in detail; between the religion of the Slavs, the Greeks and the Italians. In the focus of the presentation-the spiritualized religious culture of the White race, which was resettled in time immemorial in the vast expanses of Eurasia.

The author of the book “The Divine of the Ancient Slavs”-Alexander Sergeyevich Damnitsyn (1841-1896) was one of the most famous Petersburg music historians and musical critics. He was vividly interested in the history of folk music and song creativity. It was the interest of Damnitsyn in the origins of Russian and Slavic song folklore that made him turn to the study of Slavic paganism and his traces in folk songs, conspiracies, spells and other ritual texts.

A.S. Damnitsyn was not a professional ethnographer or religious agent. Nevertheless, he conscientiously tried to reduce all the information available to him about the pre -Christian worldview and rituals of the Slavic peoples.