The Old Bulgarian Pagan Pantheon from the Time of Double Faith in „Chin Pokayaniya, Pache zhe i Skimnitsam“ Cover Image

Старобългарският езически пантеон от времето на двоеверието в „Чинъ покаянiя, паче же и скимницамъ“
The Old Bulgarian Pagan Pantheon from the Time of Double Faith in „Chin Pokayaniya, Pache zhe i Skimnitsam“

Author(s): Ancho Kaloyanov
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Modern Age, Bulgarian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: confession; epitheme; double faith; Old Bulgarian; pagan pantheon.

Summary/Abstract: The Confession Rank (Chin Pokayaniya) for nuns, published in 1874, is known only because of its eleventh question with the list of pagan deities Rod and rozhantsi, Perun, Hars and Mokosh, which, so far in the Slavic studies, have been recognized as Old Russian. The study proves that this manuscript is taken from an epitheme collection of the Bulgarian church and dates back to the time of the double faith of the Bulgarians, at the end of the 9th century, and consequently the deities are from the Old Bulgarian pagan pantheon.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-112
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian, Old Bulgarian