Mythology Among the Slavs: A Translation of Louis Léger’s La Mythologie Slave

Mythology Among the Slavs: A Translation of Louis Léger’s La Mythologie Slave By Louis Léger First published in Paris in 1901, Louis Léger's La Mythologie Slave stands as one of the earliest serious attempts to piece together the religious world of the pagan Slavs. Léger worked with medieval chronicles, missionary accounts, Byzantine and Arabic sources, linguistic clues, and comparative studies across Indo-European cultures. His goal was to separate genuine pagan traditions from later forgeries, folk embellishments, and the biases of Christian writers who recorded them. This English edition, translated, annotated, and prepared by the Perun Mountain team, keeps Léger's scholarly approach intact while opening his work to readers unfamiliar with French or Latin. The book covers a pantheon led by a supreme deity and includes figures like Perun, Svantovit, and Veles. It looks at ritual practices such as sacrifice and divination, examines beliefs about the afterlife and sacred sites, and places Léger's work in the context of nineteenth-century philology and comparative religion. While later scholarship has challenged or updated many of Léger's conclusions, his work remains an important milestone in the study of Slavic religion. This edition gives contemporary scholars and students direct access to a foundational text in the critical examination of pre-Christian Slavic belief and its role in nineteenth-century European thought.
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Author/Artist:Mountain, Perun|Gromov, Sviatoslav|Léger, Louis
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