Ganymed
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That's exactly it! And this is a major weakness of paganism. It has only a practical purpose and says nothing about morality (all pagan "morality" is too closely tied to practice).
We know NOTHING about Slavic paganism. All the books we have (like the now-famous Book of Veles) are forgeries. This is a fact confirmed by the Academy of Sciences. Rybakov simply invented Slavic paganism, based on very few and rather contradictory finds and chronicles of other peoples. In general, of all European paganisms, we know at least something more or less reliably only about Scandinavian paganism.
"Slav" from "to glorify God"?:smile52: What a joke! Only Zadornov came up with something even funnier - "Slav is 'slav' Yan 'In'" (by the way, it's actually Yin and Yang). I didn't expect to have to explain this well-known fact to such an educated and intelligent person as Ganymede... "Slav" comes from the word "glory"; the names of many Slavic tribes (not all!) and places were very, very warlike (for example, "Branibor," now Brandenburg). In general, the Slavs, especially the Western Slavs, were a very warlike people - they were perhaps the only ones who robbed the Vikings (I was shocked when I found out).
Well, I used modern paganism (Neopaganism) as an example, as it presents itself, I just didn't explain it. About the forgeries... well, let them be forgeries, but people have created their modern faith based on them. And why not? Everything started somewhere at some point. In the 1st century, one could just as easily call the writings of the apostles about Jesus forgeries.;)
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Pagans worship statues. And not just one, but several. But where is the proof that these statues are genuine?
And Christians worship icons. And not just one, but several. But where is the proof that these icons are genuine?:)
Don't confuse the concepts of image and archetype if you're going to make comparisons
Настоящие герои - не те, пред кем мы преклоняемся, а те, кого мы оплевываем...[/COLOR]
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