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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
.... <Zuarasici> is a rendering of West Slavic Svaroz^ic
(*svaroz^icI = *svarog- plus the patronymic suffix -icI = East
Slavic -ic^I, as in Russian patronymics, from Proto-Slavic *-itjI).
Svaroz^ic (Svarog's son) is probably the same deity as Radogost
('hospitable'), widely worshipped among the Polabians, or rather an
alternative epithet of Dazhbog/*Dadzbog (or of his brother!)
Piotr
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That's making more sense! After quoting Puhvel's statement that
Svaroz^ic^i was the diminutive form of Svarog, I started thinking
that it's pretty presumptious of mortals to call a deity (even a
minor one) by a diminutive name. A patronymic strikes me as a bit
odd (maybe because I'm not a Slav), but at least it's respectful!
Dan