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- Title
Measurement of Time by the Ancient Slavs.
- Authors
Zarof, Roman
- Abstract
The paper explores time measurements and perception of time by the ancient Slavs in the pre-Migration Period and Slavic settlement of Central and Southern Europe. It attempts to reconstruct a year, seasonal, month-like division and naming, as well as lunar and solar time measurement. Moreover, it explores and attempts to reconstruct what were the common Slavic month names that, is before 5th-7th centuries. It also, discusses the issue of adoption of Julian calendar across the Slavdom in the period between the 9th-11th centuries. The research is based on scarce limited written historical records as it explores the times before writing came to the Slavs. Hence to a large degree it relies on abundant ethnographic sources, as well as on linguistics. Therefore, in principle it employs a comparative methodology and often draws from Indo-European examples.
- Subjects
SLAVIC calendar; SLAVS; MONTHS; DAYS; SOLAR time; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2016, Issue 19, p9
- ISSN
1408-6271
- Publication type
Article