Did slavs have a religion or any believes?

Question

Well i tried researching this, kind of found out about a lightning/thunder god, so much similar to Thor. Also, a belief in werewolves. If you have any extra info please post it ^^

Answer 1

Yes they did, mostly african religions and still practice to the day in Haiti, it's known by the name of Voodo, then they also practice similar in Cuba with the name of Santeria, and in Brazil with the name of Macumba, it is also known that all these rites cause more damage than good..☺

Answer 2

The Slavic peoples had a rich tapestry of beliefs prior to their conversion. SOME of it resembled the Nordic beliefs (understandable since the Slavic and Nordic people shared a common ancestry) and some of it was quite different. Perun was a slavic thnuder god that had much in common with the Nordic Thor. The also had, besides werewolf lore, a considreable amount of lore surrounding vampires and other creatures.

There was a deity called Chernobog who was a deity of darkness and the earth worshipped by the Balatic Slavs. According to some historians the was a deity named Belobog who was a deity of light and the sky who was in constant conflict with Chernobog.

The Belarussian legends had a figure named Belun who may ahve been a descendant of Belobog. Belun was a tall, frail old man with a streaming white beard, flowing white robes and a long staff.

In many ruissian folktales there was Tsar Satanail who ruled over the earth and made people from clay.

These are just a few, very brief examples of some of the Slavic deities...there are many more

Time life books has a series called Myth and Mankind and one of the books in the series is dedicated to the Slavic peoples. It is entitled Forests of the Vampire. If you can find it, it has a great deal of useful information.

Answer 3

I notice a couple of answers seem to think that "Slavs" is a misspelling of slaves, but you're referring to the peoples of Eastern Europe, aren't you?
They certainly did have a set of Pagan beliefs, before St Cyrill (& others) converted them to Christianity. [Hence the name, Cyrillic characters, the Cyrillic alphabet is a made-up one, so I think we can say they didn't have a written language before that.]
Traces of paganism have survived into fairly recent times, and some classical composers have used some of this material in well-known pieces. For example, there is Rimsky-Corsacoff's ('scuse spelling, I don't know whether the spelling check will help me with this one) "Night on Bear Mountain", or Stravinsky's "Ritual Fire Dance", or Dvorak's opera "Rusalka."
In "Beowulf & Grendel", John Grigsby points out the strong similarities between Norse & Celtic pagan beliefs, and I think you will find that there are also strong similarities between Norse & Slavic pagan beliefs. For one thing, the Vikings went at least as far east as Russia, so that St/King Vladimir was actually a Viking whose name in his own language would have been Valdemar. The Celtic peoples are believed to have originated in Eastern Europe (we're talking about 5,000 - 7,000 years ago), and so it is likely that the Celtic & Slavic peoples began with a similar set of Pagan beliefs.
Good luck with finding out more info on this subject.

Answer 4

You can research the "Yoruba tribe" and their numerous religions

- Also the brasilian blacks who worship oritsha, its also praticed in cuba and some other places

Shanti, shango, orisha...you can research those if you are really interested

Some of these are still practiced today, even here in the U.S.