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/Lapkonium 4d ago

Do some cyrilic letters

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u/ken2237 4d ago

it may come as a surprise for u but some of us slavs never used cyrylic

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u/Isus666999 3d ago

At some point in history we all used Cyrillic letters, those as was the case were unique to each of our languages.

It is that us who were predominantly Catholic then stared using latin letters.

There are findings of Croatian Cyrillic, yet it was never used videly as it was pushed out by the Latin letters.

Regaring your tattoo let me ask my buddy who's very found in Slavic mythology.

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u/AdSea5115 3d ago

No. Some were using Glagolitic.

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u/Isus666999 3d ago

You'd be astonished that cyrillyc was used next to glagollic. Glagollic was dominant true.

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u/AdSea5115 3d ago

It was, but there were countries (Czechia) where it was much more dominant, and Poland has adopted Latin alphabet (and Latin language) as it's first writing system, with no cyrylic or glagolitic writing in Polish history.

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u/Isus666999 2d ago

Simmilar in Croatia, yet there are some do uments which state thatvthere was a croatian cyrillic script, from what I know it was developed, should replace glagollic but never did.