Отново за „Веда Словена”: съвременни гледни точки; перспективи от виртуалното пространство
RETHINKING THE VEDA SLOVENA: RECENT STUDIES, PERSPECTIVES FROM THE INTERNET

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this editorial article is to initiate a profound ethnological research on Veda Slovena, a two-volume song collection edited by the Bosnian ethnographer Stefan Verkovich by the end of the 19th century. In order to shed a new light on the question of the Veda’s authenticity the study presents several aspects of the scientific reception occurred after its publication. Different hypotheses and perspectives of the leading Bulgarian academics like Prof. Ivan Shishmanov and Prof. Mihail Arnaudov are shortly presented in the context of a strong ongoing mystification theory about Veda Slovena. Attention is paid on the fact, that the mystification theory was not scientifically confirmed by any analytical studies or systematic interpretations of the text. Counter-arguments to thist theory are therefore highlighted. On the other hand, recent and mostly unknown studies of Veda Slovena published during the last twenty years (in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Russia, as well as publications on the Internet) are reviewed and critically discussed. While rejecting the mystification theory and interpreting the songs as an authentic source of an unexplored (Proto) Bulgarian, Slavonic or even a Russian ancient culture, they also create several new speculations about the contents and the structure of Veda Slovena. This editorial, as well as the studies published in this edition of the e-journal Ongal, take distance from the scientific mythologization and/or mystification of Veda Slovena, by exploring the ethnological background of the text.

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