Rozhanitsy
Rozhanitsy are revered figures mentioned in "The Word of a Certain Christ-Lover, Zealous for the True Faith". The work criticizes surviving fragments of pre-Christian religion.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 CE
- Attested period
- 800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in a text criticizing pre-Christian religion.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- narecnitsy, sudzhenitsy, zorze, Pereplut, Dziwa, Norns, Fati, Deivės Valdytojos, Veles, Sima, Rglu, Perun, Mokosh, Khors, Simargl, Vila, Brigid, Laima, Moirai, Ora, Parcae
- child of
- Rod
- allied with
- Dola
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Therefore, for Christians it is inappropriate to play demonic games or dance, to make music, sing demonic songs, or offer sacrifices to idols, in which they pray in drying houses to fire and to the fairies and Mokosh, Sima, Rglu, and Perun and Volos, the cattle god, to Rod and the Rozhanitsy, and to all those who are like them.”
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“Vila, Mokosh, Dziwa, Perun, Khors, Rod and Rozhanitsy, ghosts and banks, and Pereplut, and turning to drink to him in the corners”
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“They were said to look after pregnant women, and after giving birth to a child, they determined his fate for the rest of his life. The rozhanitsy appeared at midnight three days after the birth of the child, at his cradle, when they were supposed to foretell the child's good or bad fate for life.”
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“The trio of Fates also appears in Slavic culture as the Rozhanitsy, figures who foretell an individual's destiny.”
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