Re: Stars as Balto-Slavic deities

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> I supposed that in a rather prudent style, and used in my

objections

> to Martin the same argument as you did. On the other hand, I must
> admit your specific argument has to be rejected: the Orthodox
> practice in contrast to the Catholic does not have the connotations
> you mentioned. I don't state I know all the Orthodox prayers and
> liturgical texts by heart, but I've explored most of them and can
> state that in Church Slavonic texts <dennica> is used exclusively

as

> a designation of Lucifer (the leader of the tenth of angels).
>
> Sergei

Out of curiosity - what would the origin of that Christian symbolism
be? I don't recall the New Testament mentioning the Morning Star? Was
it picked up later from some outside source?

Torsten