The Slavic Myths

斯拉夫神话

出版商 : THAMES HUDSON

出版日期 : 2025年6月25日

语言 : 英语

ISBN-10 : ‎ 0500298629

ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-0500298626

商品重量 : 8.5 盎司

尺寸 : 5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 英寸

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

普利策奖提名作家、斯拉夫文化伟大公共知识分子之一将斯拉夫世界不为人知的神话和传说带入生活。

斯拉夫文化范围广泛，包括东斯拉夫人（俄罗斯、乌克兰、白俄罗斯）、西斯拉夫人（捷克共和国、斯洛伐克、波兰）和南斯拉夫人（前南斯拉夫国家加保加利亚），但他们通过冒险和魔法故事联系在一起，有着共同的传说。在这本为国际读者收集的斯拉夫神话中，诺亚·查尼和斯维特拉娜·斯拉普沙克巧妙地将古代故事的复述与细致的分析交织在一起，阐明了它们在斯拉夫传统核心中的地位。

虽然我们对斯拉夫神话的熟悉程度不如古埃及、希腊和斯堪的纳维亚的传说，但在斯拉夫神话世界中，我们发现了很多我们熟悉的东西：任性的神灵、恶魔和仙女；女巫，邪恶的维斯蒂卡，其魔法可伤人亦可疗愈；至高无上的神祇，能够召唤风暴，投掷雷霆。诸神聚集在世界之树下，令人联想起北欧神话中的世界之树（Yggdrasill）；或者，在基督教传入后，聚集在云层之中。吸血鬼——通常是所有外语词典中唯一的塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语词汇——和狼人从斯拉夫信仰的浅坟中浮现。

查尼和斯拉普萨克对起源故事进行了细致的分析和敏锐的重构，揭示了斯拉夫信仰在被基督教编年史家和19世纪寻求新生民族国家起源故事的学者歪曲之前的真相。他们不仅揭示了与邻近的希腊、罗马、埃及和斯堪的纳维亚诸神殿的联系，还揭示了与澳大利亚、美洲、非洲和亚洲原住民信仰体系的联系。通过这种方式，他们在我们讲述自己的故事中，挖掘出跨越文化的普遍性。

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.

Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they are connected by tales of adventure and magic with deep roots in a common lore. In this first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together a retelling of the ancient stories with nuanced analysis that illuminates their place at the heart of Slavic tradition.

Though less familiar to us than the legends of ancient Egypt, Greece and Scandinavia, in the world of Slavic mythology we find much that we can recognize: petulant deities, demons and faeries; witches, the sinister vestica, whose magic may harm or heal; a supreme god who can summon storms and hurl thunderbolts. Gods gather under the World Tree, reminiscent of Norse mythology's Yggdrasill; or, after the coming of Christianity, congregate among the clouds. The vampire - usually the only Serbo-Croatian word in any foreign-language dictionary - and the werewolf emerge from the shallow graves of Slavic belief.

In their careful analysis and sensitive reconstructions of the origin stories, Charney and Slapsak unearth the Slavic beliefs before their distortion first by Christian chroniclers and then by 19th-century scholars seeking origin stories for their new-born nation states. They reveal links not only to the neighbouring pantheons of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Scandinavia but also the belief systems of indigenous peoples of Australia, the Americas, Africa and Asia. In so doing, they draw out the universalities that cut across cultures in the stories we tell ourselves.