>>12071684>You don't think it's just some reflection of the reality in the way we interface with snakes?That's how WE relate to snakes. There were obviously people who wanted to be "on the side of the snek" and thus making pack with death itself. It's a different world view, a matriarchal chthonic one.
Aryans wage war with death, never surrendering, never making any deals with the other side.
Snek is primordial fear, all higher primates are afraid of snek.
>They're almost universally hard to see and incredibly deadly but also invasive of homes. Imagine having the power to make a partnership with snakes. That's the logic behind it
>What old gods are you speaking of?I'm not entirely sure, I assume it's the female deities like Mokoš (the wet one), Morana (goddess of death), Živa (goddess of life), Vesna (goddess of spring) besides other lower beings like dwarfs, nymphs, forest spirits
>All I know of, for instance, are the Vanir, which weren't dealt with in this manner. Is that different for proto-slavic people?I think there's a similar story behind the conflict with the difference that the Slavs made a deal with the old gods and absorbed them to the point of no differentiation between the old and the new.
