tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post9142269281075595569..comments2024-03-28T06:30:58.474-07:00Comments on Old European culture: Grýlaoldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-45581870870303431082021-05-14T09:28:04.925-07:002021-05-14T09:28:04.925-07:00Thank you for pointing me to relevant posts for th...Thank you for pointing me to relevant posts for the matter at hand. Looking to locate the peaks featured in these posts on the map, I came across valuable online resources. <br />One is https://peakvisor.com, and a search via Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=site:peakvisor.com+inurl:baba) returns tens of Baba peaks. <br />Another great resource (12 million toponyms) is at http://www.geonames.org, which allows online searches and downloading the toponym database. In this database, there are over 500 toponyms of mountain features that could be related to the Slavic ‘Baba/Boba’ names for old woman, with the highest concentration in and around the Dinaric Alps. Over 100 such mountain features, with the same meaning in non-Slavic languages, are spread across the Alps, Pindus, Carpathians and around the Aegean Sea. As a fun fact, Geonames identifies in Iceland a geyser named Grýla. <br />Would you consider a one-to-one discussion on this topic?<br />Miron Stratanhttps://osf.io/fyskb/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-63930550629783002232021-05-04T10:47:06.572-07:002021-05-04T10:47:06.572-07:00You need to check these articles too
https://olde...You need to check these articles too<br /><br />https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-stone.html<br />https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/01/tanngnjostr-and-tanngrisnir.html<br />https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/baba-cold-winter.html<br />https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/08/baba-mountains-and-crags.htmloldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-12495503626349391732021-05-04T10:02:53.202-07:002021-05-04T10:02:53.202-07:00I suggest, as being informative for this subject, ...I suggest, as being informative for this subject, the works of the Russian ethnologists Berezkin & Duvakin (with their world mythology database at https://ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/, specifically the themes https://ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/b33a.html; https://ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/b33d.html) and Golant (ГОЛАНТ Н. Г. – Мартовская старуха и мартовская нить. Легенды и обряды начала марта у румын. Санкт-Петербург, МАЭ РАН, 2013. – С. 110-113. http://www.kunstkamera.ru/lib/rubrikator/03/03_05/978-5-88431-241-8/). <br />In case Russian is not familiar, here is the book translated to English via Google https://drive.google.com/file/d/11m_84tCfxrwoi-gq-3hzowqGk4dJXhAt/view?usp=sharing. Based on Golant 2013, I have identified on Google Maps 110 mountain features with toponyms related to the myths of the old woman in Carpathians, Balkans, Dinarics, Alps and the British Islands. Thanks to you, I added 20 more, see here https://osf.io/cghw3/. Please let me know if you are open to a dialogue on the parallels between the rituals of the Balkans and the British Islands.Miron Stratanhttps://osf.io/fyskb/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-23504119697695354072021-01-08T20:30:15.749-08:002021-01-08T20:30:15.749-08:00In Bulgaria Morena is a type of large rounded ston...In Bulgaria Morena is a type of large rounded stone left behind by the melting of the last great ices in the mountains. They are found in large groupings, like rivers of large rounded rocks. Moreni. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-31160501940456227082020-07-26T00:44:40.890-07:002020-07-26T00:44:40.890-07:00Wow. Really cool. Do you have a link to the text o...Wow. Really cool. Do you have a link to the text of that legend?oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-83917691511135232202020-07-25T16:45:58.130-07:002020-07-25T16:45:58.130-07:00Really interesting. In Gaelic Polytheism, Cailleac...Really interesting. In Gaelic Polytheism, Cailleach, which is a winter and earth goddess that turns to a maiden in spring, is also connected with stones and weather, since in another version of her legends, she turns into a boulder as a punishment to her attempts to extend the winter over the earth. Angus McOisinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05951574852350056800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-7636825836490035132020-02-01T10:56:11.592-08:002020-02-01T10:56:11.592-08:00short text describing the climate prevailing in th...short text describing the climate prevailing in the Babia Góra massif<br />http://www.bgpn.pl/walory-przyrodnicze-babiogorskiego-parku-narodowego/przyroda-nieozywiona/klimat<br />"Ten kapryśny charakter masywu znalazł odzwierciedlenie w przydomku "Matka Niepogod""<br />/This capricious nature of the massif is reflected in the nickname "Mother<br />the inclement weather's/<br />http://www.edupedia.pl/words/index/show/567926_slownik_nazw_geograficznych-babia_gora.html<br /><br />It is not excluded that the ancient geographer Ptolemy<br />it was Babia Góra who meant "Babiwora". Similarly, the emperor Constantine VII of Byzantium used a phonetically similar name to describe the Beskids."<br /><br />Baba, the highest mountain on the Soła River, abundantly bearing herbs, and rising above the city of Żywiec.<br />Author: Jan Długosz, Chronographia Regni Poloniae, 1468<br />Baba, góra najwyższa nad rzeką Sołą rodząca obficie zioła, i wznosząca się nad miastem Żywiec.<br />Autor: Jan Długosz, Chronographia Regni Poloniae, 1468<br /><br />Baba, the highest mountain on the Soła River, abundantly bearing herbs, and rising above the city of Żywiec.<br />jaroplhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15990551426350663371noreply@blogger.com