BELGRADE, SERBIA, January 27, 2021 (Bharata Bharati by Zvonimir Kostic): Of all the Indo-European people, Slavs are the ones who inhabit the largest territory on the Euro-Asian continent today. Also, Slavs are the most numerous ethno-linguistic group on the European continent. There are about 300 million of them today. Slavic peoples are traditionally divided into Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarus, Ukrainians), Western Slavs (Polish, Czech, Slovakians, Lusatian Sorbs, Kashubians) and Southern Slavs (Serbs, Croatians, Slovenians, Macedonians, Bulgarians). In the current religious division, the Slavs are divided into: Orthodox (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarus, Serbs, Macedonians and Bulgarians), Catholic (Polish, Czech, Slovakians, Croatians and Slovenians) and Muslim (Bosniaks). Despite their numbers and the huge territory they inhabit, Slavs are the people about whose pre-Christian history and religion there are the fewest published scientific papers in English and there is little general knowledge about them overall.
When it comes to Eastern Slavs, we have the main testimony in the form of Nestor’s Chronicle, as well as the secondary testimonies in the forms of Novgorod Chronicle, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and The Hypatian Codex, which describe the faith in Kievan Rus near the end of the tenth century. Eastern Slavic Gods mentioned there include Perun, Xors, Dazhbog, Simargl, Veles, Stribog, Swarog, the Goddess Mokosh, etc. Of these, the primary spot undoubtedly belonged to Perun, the God of thunder, as the supreme Deity of the Eastern Slavs. Like many other Slavic Gods, Perun is etymologically related to the Vedic God Parjanya from whom he likely originated). But, aside from Perun (the Slavic Parjanya), two other Eastern-Slavic Deities have often been considered to be of Indian origin based on the words from Sanskrit. Those two Deities are the God Swarog, whose name comes from Sanskrit Svarga (meaning turbulent, cloudy, dim sky) and the Goddess Mokosh, whose name most likely originates from the Sanskrit word moksha (meaning “liberation from the eternal circle of reincarnation”).
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