Snowman (statue)


Slavic snowman, so called. "Światowid z Zbrucza".

Snowman - a common word for all Slavic languages, which defines a statue of a deity worshiped or idol.

In western Slavs it is in the form of a snowman, while in the south and east it is a burial. This word was borrowed from Sanskrit ball (strength, power) plus the suffix -van means possession, so the etymological "idle" means "strong", "powerful." In Kyrgyz language, balvan is a strongman or hero while in Persian pahlevān means heroic hero. The last meaning, originally sparse, has been found in the Slavonic languages ​​after the Christianization, making the idiom explicitly pejorative. The fact that all Slavonic languages ​​have a common word describing cult figures can This is a to the early spread of idolatry among the Slavs, perhaps as a result of Turkish or Iranian influences. The word for a similar pedigree is the "god" of the Sanskrit "bhaga" / Iranian "bag". In India, the god is often referred to as "bhagvan", "bhagwan" (Bhagavan).

The word derived from the idiom is idolatry. Bibliography

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