HeyJaredWitia
Witia project is an attempt to look at the Slavic culture with the eyes of a pagan, to try to separate interpretations from facts and find in the Slavic heritage the elements which were supressed by time and Christianisation.
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Rusalii/călușari healing dances (opens the original)
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Translation of a fragment of Moszyński’s Kultura Duchowa, describing healing dances of the rusalii/călușari of northern Bulgaria. Note that the practice described below is not originally Slavic, as explained by Moszyński at the end of the translated text.Translation by Witia You can watch a full călușari dance here<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HiHH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
Khlysts (opens the original)
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Translation of a fragment of Moszyński’s Kultura Duchowa, describing trance-inducing dances of the Khlysts. Note that the practice described below is not originally Slavic, as explained by Moszyński at the end of the translated text.The original ‘Great Rus’ has been translated as ‘Russia’, and ‘Little Rus’ as ‘Ukraine’ to make the fragment more intelligible to modern readers.The capitalisation and lack of capitalisation in God and god as in original.Translation by Witia <a class="image-lin
Nestinari (opens the original)
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Translation of a fragment of Moszyński’s Kultura Duchowa, describing fire dances in Bulgaria. Note that the practice of fire dances is an element of celebration of solar solstice (Kupała-like), influenced by Greek tradition (not originally Slavic).Translation by Witia <div class="
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