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Thracians

On 15 February the students from grade 8 had a lesson about Thracian and their culture and religion.It was a project activity and Mrs Natasha Danova, who is a history teacher was invited to tell the students more about the people who lived in Bulgaria before the old Bulgarian.

Bulgarians had a different religion.

Prior to Christianity Bulgarians had a different religion.

Our ancestors believed not only in the celestial bodies but also in a supreme God-Creator. So far scholars had only one real fact to rely on the name TANGRA in an early Bulgarian inscription of the 9th c. It turns out that, like the Persians, who called God with three parallel names, the Bulgarians called him Tangra, but also Edfu. The notion of TANDRA/  lightening/ is connected with the supreme God of thunder.

The roots of the religion of the Bulgarians can be found in the region of Pamir and Hidukush where they lived before moving to Europe.

Two relics of this forgotten religion were discovered: - a bronze rosette from Pliska, dedicated to the seven celestial bodies and marked by the typical Bulgar symbol IYI, and two stone slabs with the same symbol and - drawings of the Sun and the Moon, found not far from the Bulgarska Morava river. To the same religion we can attribute also three newly deciphered runic inscriptions from Murfatlar, two of which are dedicated to the Sun and Jupiter.

The history of the religious cult of the seven celestial bodies is very interesting. It appears for the first time in the Shumer-Accadian civilization where the names of the Sun, the Moon and the five planets, known to the Ancient world.

From this very part of the world the cult of the celestial bodies spread to the East and the West among the ancient peoples Assyrians, Indo-Iranians, Hittites, Celts, Romans, etc. Bulgarian religion, with its devotion to the seven celestial bodies and the Supreme God, called Tangra and Edfu, is part of this religious system. For more information: http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/connections/Vedic-Bulgaria.php

The thunder-god of the ancient Slavs - PERUN

        

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          In Slavic mythology, the world was represented by a sacred tree, usually an oak, whose branches and trunk represented the living world of heavens and mortals, while its roots represented the underworld, i.e. the realm of dead. Perun was a ruler of the living world, sky and earth, and was often symbolised by an eagle sitting on the top of the tallest branch of the tree, from which he kept watch over the entire world.

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