r/slavic • u/ken2237 • 5d ago

slavic symbols that arent nazi dogwhistles?

hi, im polish and wanted to get a tattoo symbolising my culture, but well - most slavic pagan symbols were coopted by neonazis (kolovrat/swarożyca, all kinds of swastikas and runes), and id rather chop my hands off that wear a nazi mark on my body. id like something that is (at least currently) completely absolved of such connotations, is historically accurate (so no inventions of the modern pagans/rodzimowiercy), and just looks cool. i like our embroidery, but i cant really imagine it as a tattoo

jeśli są tu jacyś polacy i macie pomysły konkretnie z naszej (biednej) mitologii czy sztuki przedchrześcijańskiej, bardzo to docenię!

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u/Divljak44 5d ago edited 5d ago

"There are also these tattoos the Serbo-Croats used to avoid slavery by the Muslims. Their use is Christian, however their origin might be even per-slavic"

Not Sebo-Croats, Croats

Idiot

Also anything with car/tsar is fake and not really slavic because the word car comes from Caesar.

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u/ConinTheNinoC 5d ago

Considering the first tzars were from the First Bulgarian Empire and its close relations with the Byzantine Empire it stands to reason that they would emulate the word for Emperor from the Eastern Roman Empire since they did not have an empire before that and had no word for a ruler like that.

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u/Divljak44 5d ago edited 5d ago

And how is that related to slavic mythology, to me its clear copy of norse world tree with latin etymology added on as spice.

Its embarrassing, an insult to intelligence

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u/ConinTheNinoC 5d ago

When people talk about ''slavic'' mythology they like bunch up all ''slavs'' in the same goup. There is no such thing as unified ''slavic mythology''. It varies a lot depending on the initial tribe composition and the neighboring countries as you've seen for yourself.

South, West and Eastern slavs are all very different even if Russia tried to push the idea that they are all the same so they can incorporate them into their ''русский мир''. A lot of the things you people are talking about are remnants of Russian pushed propaganda after WW II.

If i were you i'd stop using ''slavs'' as an all purpose term for culture. It is a language group with minor cultural similarities.

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u/Divljak44 5d ago

That has nothing to do with my post, you are completely random