Re: Stars as Balto-Slavic deities

This could well be Christian symbolism, though -- Stella Matutina,
etc. The fact that there was a Slavic name for the Morning Star (I
think Polish dziennica, as opposed to "dnieca" may have existed as
well, I'll check it), does not imply its worship.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> There are no indications to the worship of stars
> in Russian folklore as such, but cf. an old bookish (looking a bit
> black magicish) spell fragment (the author tries to imitate the
> Russian variant of Church Slavonic, so it's not proper Russian):
> <...vstaxomU zautra i pomolixse Gospodu Bogu i dInnice^...> '(we)
> woke up in the morning and (I) prayed to the Lord and the morning
> star'. Here dInnica would point to Slavic *dInInika 'the morning
> Venus' (cf. Serbo-Croatian Danica 'the same') and looks like a
> counterpart of Lithuanian Aus^ri`ne.