Slavic Pagan terms

So I am doing an AAR for Crusader Kings on the PDX forum following Kiev and its rise to greatness in the Old Gods Start date. However, I am staying as Slavic pagan as Kiev. Since Holy Fury allows one to customize the reformed faith, I am basically sticking to well what it is, so no religious head, animism, Unyielding, and the Slavic unique doctrine.

Since the term Reformation I feel doesn't really fit how its being 'reformed' since story wise it isn't being reformed at all. So what I am wondering is how should this be called. In particular if there are any Russian/Ukrainian/church Slavonic words that would fit.

I could also just not call it anything since the faith isn't really changing. Though the 'Reformation' should correspond with switching from Tribal to Feudal and writing down the myths in their own language. So I figure there should be some sort of term for this period of transformation.

At the same time as this is going on, there will be the beginnings of a devotional movement for the faithful and as a way to counter Christanity and Islam's influence. It will be similar at least in concept to the Bhakti movement of Hinduism as that is what is inspiring me for this concept. Of course I am also not sure what to call this devotional movement as well, but I do want a term to call this movement.

So if people have ideas for terms I want to hear them. :)
 
Well if bhakti is what you are going for, bhakti literally means 'devotion' in Middle Indic languages. But it stems from the Sanskrit meaning of the word which proclaims it as 'to allot".

By comparison your best would be to use the Old East Slavic *годити or *goditi, which literally means 'to please'.

A variation with a little more twist might be *bogoditi which throws in the Church Slavic word for god to mean something like 'divine servicing' but can come to mean devotion.
 
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Well if bhakti is what you are going for, bhakti literally means 'devotion' in Middle Indic languages. But it stems from the Sanskrit meaning of the word which proclaims it as 'to allot".

By comparison your best would be to use the Old East Slavic *годити or *goditi, which literally means 'to please'.

A variation with a little more twist might be *bogoditi which throws in the Church Slavic word for god to mean something like 'divine servicing' but can come to mean devotion.

This is perfect. thanks. :)
 
Something like popravesto in Old Slavic ("making of truth" or similar from what my limited knowledge tells me) might work.

Hmm, that could work. The main things of this era are the transition from Tribalism to Feudalism, at the same time this is when a lot of the myths and religious practices start to be written down. This is how I am explaining the whole reformation mechanic, as the faith isn't really being reformed but more or less being written down for the first time. :)

Something like edinoverie could work. "Unified faith".

Well that doesn't work. Due to fact that the faith isn't really a united faith. The leadership doctrine of Autonomous explicitly states in its little blurb that it isn't united. Mechanically this is represented by having 4 branch traits.
 
Another question, is what to call the religious group as a whole since Slavic Paganism feels odd. As does terms like Slavic Faith or Native Faith(so no Rodnovery) So I am wondering what the religion as a whole should be called. :)
 
Another question, is what to call the religious group as a whole since Slavic Paganism feels odd. As does terms like Slavic Faith or Native Faith(so no Rodnovery) So I am wondering what the religion as a whole should be called. :)

If you reformed your religion to withstand foreign missionaries I think Rodnovery makes sense.
 
Another question, is what to call the religious group as a whole since Slavic Paganism feels odd. As does terms like Slavic Faith or Native Faith(so no Rodnovery) So I am wondering what the religion as a whole should be called. :)

What is the name of the prime deity or religious figure? Christianity, Buddhism, Zalmoxianism and a few others follow this trend.

Otherwise a key concept or number of figures might work, eg; Dei Consentes, Jñana, Shinto etc.
 
What is the name of the prime deity or religious figure? Christianity, Buddhism, Zalmoxianism and a few others follow this trend.

Otherwise a key concept or number of figures might work, eg; Dei Consentes, Jñana, Shinto etc.

Perunism might fit with the first one though it sounds weird and he's not the ONLY god. Maybe something relating to balance, it was an important part of the religion (like how you need to please both Chernobog (black/evil god (satan)) and Belobog (white/good god, possibly an incarnation of Perun). Or something relating to wheels or cycles. I don't have good resources on proto Slavic but balance is Ravnoteža in Serbian, равновесие (Ravnovecije) in Russian, maybe zou can work with those…

sorry. I keep posting here but not giving good enough info.
 
Perunism might fit with the first one though it sounds weird and he's not the ONLY god. Maybe something relating to balance, it was an important part of the religion (like how you need to please both Chernobog (black/evil god (satan)) and Belobog (white/good god, possibly an incarnation of Perun). Or something relating to wheels or cycles. I don't have good resources on proto Slavic but balance is Ravnoteža in Serbian, равновесие (Ravnovecije) in Russian, maybe zou can work with those…

sorry. I keep posting here but not giving good enough info.

Well the Old East Slavic common stem is ровьнъ (rovĭnŭ) so let's run with that. If you want to add genitive declension it would be something like ровьнъй (rovĭnŭyj). All further words would stem from that.

If we were to catch the word somewhere around it's transition to Ukrainian it would be something like Rívnuvicje. But I don't the reconstruction is fully accurate as we aren't sure what the morphology was like during the Early Kievan Rus'.
 
Perunism might fit with the first one though it sounds weird and he's not the ONLY god. Maybe something relating to balance, it was an important part of the religion (like how you need to please both Chernobog (black/evil god (satan)) and Belobog (white/good god, possibly an incarnation of Perun). Or something relating to wheels or cycles. I don't have good resources on proto Slavic but balance is Ravnoteža in Serbian, равновесие (Ravnovecije) in Russian, maybe zou can work with those…

sorry. I keep posting here but not giving good enough info.

Perunism doesn't fit since the faith is polytheistic. Sure Perun is a popular and important god, but as the faith is polytheistic there are plenty of other gods who are just as popular and important.

As for balance, not sure if I would name the whole faith as that. A philopshical school or path within the faith, yes and I am going to do that, but the faith as a whole not sure. I would say that honoring the various deities both great and small would play a larger role; since I went with Animism and Haruspicy doctrines(in addition to children of Perun).

And you are giving good info, thanks for your help. :)

Well the Old East Slavic common stem is ровьнъ (rovĭnŭ) so let's run with that. If you want to add genitive declension it would be something like ровьнъй (rovĭnŭyj). All further words would stem from that.

If we were to catch the word somewhere around it's transition to Ukrainian it would be something like Rívnuvicje. But I don't the reconstruction is fully accurate as we aren't sure what the morphology was like during the Early Kievan Rus'.

Thanks, again not sure if it works for the name of the religion as a whole, but I will be using that word for at the very least a philosophical school of thought that arises*.:)

*as one thing I am planning on doing with the AAR is have more evolution of things. Just because I hit 'Reform' mechanically doesn't mean that the faith is done evolving or static. While CK2 isn't the best at conveying this, I can however within my AAR. :)
 
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