Travel Love Poland Magazine – March 2021
Dear Readers, And so the spring has come again. Disliked by some as in Poland it tends to be often cool till May while adored by the others. However, before we move on to more spring topics, we invite you to read the conversation with probably the most famous Slav and Slavic warrior in Poland, i.e. with Igor Górewicz. It is a fascinating journey into the past, and since Igor's knowledge is immense, his stories will be extremely interesting, not only for history lovers. As usual, the whole is illustrated by already well-known Marek Kalisiński. From more spring themes, this time we recommend trips to Roztocze and cycling adventures in southern Poland. We especially want to draw your attention to the photographs by Marcin Gądek in the article "Churches from heaven". As Marcin is also a priest, his stories and photographs have an additional, slightly deeper dimension. Also, get to know the city that we haven't presented yet – that is Opole. Perhaps slightly off the beaten track of the most frequent hikes, it will be an interesting proposition for music lovers. Opole is called the capital of Polish song. There will be, as usual at this time of the year, Easter accents, both culinary (with a recipe for Sękacz) and visual – we are presenting once again the photographs by Kamila Rosińska - as well as her two new stories for children.
Dear Readers,
And so the spring has come again. Disliked by some as in Poland it tends to be often cool till May while adored by the others. However, before we move on to more spring topics, we invite you to read the conversation with probably the most famous Slav and Slavic warrior in Poland, i.e. with Igor Górewicz. It is a fascinating journey into the past, and since Igor's knowledge is immense, his stories will be extremely interesting, not only for history lovers. As usual, the whole is illustrated by already well-known Marek Kalisiński.
From more spring themes, this time we recommend trips to Roztocze and cycling adventures in southern Poland. We especially want to draw your attention to the photographs by Marcin Gądek in the article "Churches from heaven". As Marcin is also a priest, his stories and photographs have an additional, slightly deeper dimension.
Also, get to know the city that we haven't presented yet – that is Opole. Perhaps slightly off the beaten track of the most frequent hikes, it will be an interesting proposition for music lovers. Opole is called the capital of Polish song.
There will be, as usual at this time of the year, Easter accents, both culinary (with a recipe for Sękacz) and visual – we are presenting once again the photographs by Kamila Rosińska - as well as her two new stories for children.
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Let us take, for example, the matter of mythology or more
broadly, beliefs. We know quite a lot about these elements in
the Greeks or Scandinavians, but mainly thanks to the fact
that they had their own mythographers. Greeks had their
Homer and Hesiod, not to mention several playwrights who
used mythological threads. In Scandinavia, the one who did a
great job was Snorre Sturluson, writing his Edda. Thus, the
mythographers preserved specific scenarios, stories, and
sequences of events involving gods and other beings.
With the Slavs, however, we do not have such scenarios,
although we can reconstruct the most important ones, such
as cosmogenesis, which is the myth about the beginning of
the world. We mainly have information about statues, names,
attributes, some pictures, like Veles on the golden throne. In
addition to historical and archaeological sources,
ethnographic ones like fairy tales or folk songs, are vital to
us as they may store extremely archaic content. All this,
however, makes it more difficult to present Slavic mythology
in an attractive form of stories, and the books
about it are full of scientific research, which makes them
less attractive in the eyes of some recipients.
For me, it is very interesting, it is often even a kind of an
investigation that must be carried out to understand an
element. Therefore, some time ago I concluded that while we
have "movies" of the Scandinavian or Greek mythologies,
there are only "photos" left in the case of Slavonic myths.
The role of a researcher or populariser, in this case I play
both roles, is to arrange these photos appropriately so that
they create an interesting, beautiful album showing a whole.
I wrote about it in my book for children, entitled Borek and
Slavonic Gods, where using a boy figure, I presented the
world of beliefs, gods, rituals and temples.
All of it was in accordance with the professional literature on
the subject. tried to create a similar canon of myths about
the beginnings of Poland in Borek and the Legendary
Beginnings of Poland.
photo: As a voivode from a series of photos for the "Piast Total War" exhibition.
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