Well the pre-Christian culture of Rus was pretty throughly effaced, at least in its symbolic aspects. That's why we know relatively little about the pre-Christian Slavic pantheon. There is a heavy Roman influence on Orthodox Christian countries. It's just Eastern Roman, you know, that part of the Empire that outlasted the other by a thousand years. :)
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 07:18 PM 3/27/2008, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> While there is a continuity in some
> regions, in other
> >regions niether of these were successful in
> dominanting the
> >pre-existing cultures and languages. I am thinking
> particularly about
> >Germanic and Slavic people in middle and eastern
> Europe.
>
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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