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The deities of the Thracians
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The deities of the Thracians
Authors: Valeria Fol, Dimitar Popov. Language: Enslish—Bulgarian (bilingual)
The ethnonym Thracians concerns the numerous Indo-European population that inhabited during the antiquity the territory between the Dnieper and Dniester rivers, the southern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains, the lands between the rivers Strymon (present-day Struma) and Axios (present-day Vardar), the Northern Aegean coast with the adjacent islands and Northwestern Asia Minor. It possessed uniform economic, socio-behavioural and cultural stereotypes, naturally predetermined by the historical and geographic characteristics of the region. However, the Thracians, similar to other ancient European ethnic communities, did not possess the self-identification of a cohesive people. It is not accidental that already back in the 5th century BC the father of history Herodotus noted that the Thracians were the most numerous people after the Hindus, and that they could have been invincible if they had been united.
The eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, which is located between the Aegean Sea and the Carpathian Mountains, was the land of generations of farmers and potters, of horsemen and animal-breeders, of miners and goldsmiths, of seafarers and overseas merchants. The formation of the Thracian ethnos took millennia of interaction between the local autochthonous population and the newcomers from the north.
Dating the appearance of a deity is always highly debatable, because the formation of the notion about it and the establishing of the sacred rites did not constitute a one-off act, being a process that took a long time, often even a millennium. The Thracians had no literature of their own, hence the names and the epithets of their gods and goddesses, which have survived to our days, were basically attested in ancient Greek and Latin authors who very often Graecisised or Latinised the local names, or gave names to the deities similar to their own. The epithets of some local gods are known owing to preserved inscriptions that had been ordered by Thracian rulers and aristocrats. The archaeological finds are much more eloquent about the sacred rituals, the faith-rite and the religiousness of the Thracians in the various regions of their lands, and they suggest sophisticated cosmogonic and theogonic notions.
The Thracians constituted an integral part of the diverse ancient world of the Mediterranean region and Southeastern Europe. The faith of their kings dominated their entire life and their historical conduct. The faith of the Thracians in immortality, attested by the ancient authors, their deities and the ubiquitous kings-priests have stimulated for millennia the imagination of artists and scholars who believe in the divine thought.
Table of contents
Въведение
Глава първа. Тракийският орфизъм
Глава втора. Великата богиня-майка. Образи и персонификации
1. Зеринтия
2. Брауро
3. Котито
4. Хипта
5. Бендида
Глава трета. Върховният бог. Въплъщения и идентификации
1. Дионис
2. Загрей
3. Сабазий
4. Орфей
5. Залмоксис
6. Гебелейзис
7. Збелсурд
8. Сурегетес
9. Перко(у)с/Перконис
10л Великите самотракийски божества
11. Дарзалас
12. Делоптес
Глава четвърта. Тракийският конник. Царят-жрец/царят-бог
Глава пета. Завещано безсмъртие
Основна литература
Божествата на Траките
| Details | |
| Publisher | TANGRA TanNakRa |
| Language | English, Bulgarian |
| Pages | 324 |
| Illustrations | color figures |
| Binding | hardback |
| ISBN | 978-954-378-059-4 |
| Creation date | 2010 |
| Size | 21 х 29 cm |
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