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, extending from central Europe to the Pacific Ocean, are the Slavs. There are two subdivisions of Slavs Fly Away Home hd – East and west Slavs. The south Slavs are a completely geographic division. West and east Slavs migrated south and were later separated by Hungary and Romania, in this purely geographic division, Bulgarians {though of mixed origin} belong to the east Slavs while Serbs, Croats and Slovenes are west Slavs.
The origins of the Slavs are obscure, a long, long, long time ago, somewhere at the border of Europe and Asia, in the far north, Caucasoid people originated, then the Slavs forced the other Caucasoid peoples to move west and south. Around 5000 to 3000 BC, the Slavs expanded further west, occupying the best {most fertile} land, which was mainly the east European steppes. Thus the Slavs became the biggest body of peoples in Europe. Socially the Slavs were organized as exogamous clans {based on marriages outside blood relationship} or, more properly, as sibs {groups of lineages with common ancestry} since marriage did not cancel membership in the clan of one’s birth–a type of organization unique among Indo-European peoples. The elected chief did not have executive powers. The world had been created, in the Slavic view, once and for all, and no new law ought to modify the way of life transmitted by their ancestors. Since the social group was not homogeneous, validity and executive power were attributed only to decisions taken unanimously in an assembly, and the deliberations in each instance concerned only the question of conformity to tradition. Ancient Slavic civilization was one of the most conservative known on earth.A sedentary, agricultural people, the Slavs were dominated in succession by the Scythians and the Sarmatians {both Iranian tribes}. Both Scythians and Sarmatians, being nomadic peoples, didn’t do much actual ruling, their domination expressed itself mostly as raiding, that’s what nomads do. Never the less, this ancient Iranian influence has left a strong mark on all the Slavs. Just a few examples are words like “Bog” {God in Slavic and an Indo-Iranian word signifying riches, abundance, and good fortune.} and “mir” {In Slavic peace and cosmos (Space station MIR, get it now?), also the ancient Iranian god of love and peace.} which are thought to be of ancient Iranian origin.The Slavs are a Nordic people, but over the millennia they have mixed heavily with Iranian peoples, the Skythians, Sarmatians, then the tribal confederacy of the Huns which also included Turkic and Mongolian tribes, etc. Here’s how a Greek historian by the name of “Prokopije” describes the Slavs bordering Byzantine territory:“The Slavs are tall and of slim stature, as well as sturdy. Their complexion is not exactly white, nor dark, but rather between fair and olive.”Obviously there is a lot of variation amongst Slavs, some being more olive and others more Nordic. Those Slavs who have been smack in the middle of the way of the Skythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Kozaks, etc. are generally mostly olive and those more out of the way, in the far north, are generally very Nordic.No one knows for sure what the word “Slav” is supposed to mean. In all the Slavic languages, it and its derivations have many meanings – ‘glory’, ‘word’, etc. The most likely meaning is “The speaking ones”. Because in Slavic, the words ‘German’ and ‘mute’ are synonymous. As Slavs and Germans have been neighbors for a loong time, it is thought that the Slavs referred to their neighbors as mute because they could not understand their language, and called themselves the speaking ones.Speaking of things common to all Slavs, rituals and belief still alive today in most if not all modern Slavic nations have very ancient origins. According to a primitive Slavic belief, a forest spirit, leshy, regulates and assigns prey to hunters. Its food-distributing function may be related to an archaic divinity. Though in early times the leshy was the protector of wild animals, in later ages it became the protector of flocks and herds. In early 20th-century Russia, if a cow or a herdsman did not come back from pasture, the spirit was offered bran and eggs to obtain a safe return. Equally ancient is the belief in a tree spirit that enters buildings through the trunks of trees used in their construction. Every structure is thus inhabited by its particular spirit: the domovoy in the house, the ovinnik in the drying-house, the gumenik in the storehouse, and so on. The belief that either harmful or beneficial spirits dwell in the posts and beams of houses is still alive in the historic regions of Bosnia and Slovenia and the Poznan area of west central Poland. Old trees with fences around them are objects of veneration in Serbia and Russia and among the Slavs on the Elbe River. In 19th-century Russia a chicken was slaughtered in the drying house as a sacrifice to the ovinnik. This vegetal spirit is also present in the sheaf of grain kept in the “sacred corner” of the dwelling under the icon and venerated along with it, and also in non cultivated plant species that are kept in the house for propitiation or protection, such as branches of the birch tree and bunches of thistle. Such practices evidence the pre agrarian origin of these beliefs. Similar to the leshy are the field spirit (polevoy), and, perhaps, the water spirit (vodyanoy). Akin to the domovoy are the spirits of the auxiliary buildings of the homestead.

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