hrvatski

Zašto se sv. Martin popeo na Kalnik?

Through the analysis of testimonies within our ethnographic field research below Kalnik mountain in Croatian hinterland and its comparison with examples of Croatian oral literature, as well as with the culture-historical data about specific toponyms, a historical continuity of female cults on Croatian soil of the Kalnik area are being assumed. These are observed from the pre-antique cult of Neolithic Terra Mater, pre-Christian Slavic goddesses and Christian Virgin Mary. Their holy heights in symbolic landscape have been devalued and with time forgotten or they have been removed from them. Beyond the toponimic iron doors a surrounding connected with more recent antique warrior gods and/or their Slavic counterparts and their Christian substitutes is established. Possibly we are dealing with a kind of territorial dividing line – a door of passage between the neolithic indigenous population and the antique immigrants of the metal age. At the same time it is the passage between the female otherworldly into the male of this world of Slavic mythological landscape consecration which continues after the antique tradition. They are separated by water while the newly won higher elevations belong to the gods. Toponyms which contain the adjective iron are connected to adjacent sites of ore resources for the production of weapons of that time which is ascribed to gods or rather to cult locations at which during the antique era new hostile weapons might have been forged. As the pre-Christian Slavic devotion on Croatian soil was scientifically mostly unfoundedly researched or merely sporadically depicted due to a lack of archeological material evidence, the systematic and interdisciplinary culture-historical scientific research should be the basis for interesting new findings.

Terra Magna; slavenske božice; vrata prijelaza; kalnički kršćanski sveci

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engleski

Why the Saint Martin Climbed to Kalnik Mountain?

Through the analysis of testimonies within our ethnographic field research below Kalnik mountain in Croatian hinterland and its comparison with examples of Croatian oral literature, as well as with the culture-historical data about specific toponyms, a historical continuity of female cults on Croatian soil of the Kalnik area are being assumed. These are observed from the pre-antique cult of Neolithic Terra Mater, pre-Christian Slavic goddesses and Christian Virgin Mary. Their holy heights in symbolic landscape have been devalued and with time forgotten or they have been removed from them. Beyond the toponimic iron doors a surrounding connected with more recent antique warrior gods and/or their Slavic counterparts and their Christian substitutes is established. Possibly we are dealing with a kind of territorial dividing line – a door of passage between the neolithic indigenous population and the antique immigrants of the metal age. At the same time it is the passage between the female otherworldly into the male of this world of Slavic mythological landscape consecration which continues after the antique tradition. They are separated by water while the newly won higher elevations belong to the gods. Toponyms which contain the adjective iron are connected to adjacent sites of ore resources for the production of weapons of that time which is ascribed to gods or rather to cult locations at which during the antique era new hostile weapons might have been forged. As the pre-Christian Slavic devotion on Croatian soil was scientifically mostly unfoundedly researched or merely sporadically depicted due to a lack of archeological material evidence, the systematic and interdisciplinary culture-historical scientific research should be the basis for interesting new findings.

Terra Magna; Slavic goddesses; door of passage; Christian saints of the Kalnik area

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