Talk:Svetovit

message: What is svetovid? The Polabian deity's name was SVANTEVIT(from proto-Slavic: Svętovitъ) and is typical Slavic name like Svętoplkъ, Sĕmovitъ etc)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.88.89.86 (talk) 13:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Or, more correctly, Svetovit or Sventovit. That D in the end was made out only because in Serbia the St. Vitus Day (Vidovdan, as Vitus is pronounced Vid in Serbian) was being connected with the cult of Svantevit, and so we got Sveti + Vid (St. Vid) = Svetovid. 93.86.28.154 (talk) 15:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  It should be renamed to SVANTEVIT 

message: Re: "Many of modern researchers see Svetovid as a Rugian counterpart of the all-Slavic Perun common in Slavic mythology."
Can someone replace 'Rugian' with a more commonly understood term, or a link to a wiki article that explains what is meant? --Egregius (talk) 16:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugian? 

message: I've added the titles of the chronicles mentioned in the article. They are Gesta Danorum (Deeds of the Danes) (by Saxo Grammaticus) and Chronica Slavorum (Slavic Chronicle) by Helmold. Anybody who knows the links with working version of each chronicle please add the references, thanks. I have the copies of these chronicles, however they're in Polish translation. The fragment related to Svantevit worship is also posted in the Polish version of the article. Critto (talk) 21:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronicles 

message: It seems that poems, sayings, etc regards to God Svetovid vividly survived until today in Slovenia. Svetovid is described as "alpha and omega" - the "first one, eternal one" and never as "war god".
Saying:
"
Kar vidiš - to je (obstaja).
Kar je - to spoznaš.
Kar spoznaš - daš temu ime.
Kar ima ime - je uvidel prvi.
Prvi, ki je - vekomaj bil.
To bil je - Svetovid"
What you see - this is (exists).
What exists - you meet it.
What you meet - you give it a name.
What has a name - has found out(the truth) before.
The first One who is - has always existed.
This was - Svetovid." 
More translated (Slovenian Cosmogony about Svetovid) poems, mythology here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rD6_YmyeGI
slov "to spoznaš" means engl "this you recognize" or "cognize" in sense of cognition
slov "daš temu ime" is slov "poimenuješ" means engl "you denote" "you name, naming"
slov "uvideti" means engl "comprehend"
The translation would then be as follows: 
What you see - that is. 
What is - that you recognize.
What you recognize - that you denote.
What has a name - that he comprehended first.
The first which exists - always exists.
That was - Svetovid." 
Ask 59 (talk) 09:04, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slovenian "pagan" sayings, mythology, Creation of our universe, planet Earth as a "stone/sand in a Sea(universe)- Cosmogony and more  

message: Is there a reason for the picture of a Sami drum? Yes, it has a similar segmented circle figure, but as far as I know, the cultures are unrelated. There is no explanation in the text.
Scottwh (talk) 22:52, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sami drum? 

message: There is no such thing as an autochthonous human being outside of the Great Rift Valley in Africa.  Slavs are descended of Proto-Indo-Europeans, who date to the 7th millennium b.c.e. in the Crimea.  The first Indo-Europeans on Rugen were Goths, who subdued the indigents, whoever they were, who may have themselves subdued earlier inhabitants, as humans have been migrating to the island since the Stone Age.  Autochthonous!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finnbjorn (talk • contribs) 03:46, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autochthonous 

message: The following paragraph is both irrelevant to the section it appears in (worship) and contradicted by the Rügen and Rugii articles. It should be deleted.
"The original name of the island Rügen or Danish Rygen (Polish/Latin: Rugia) at the Baltic Sea was Rujan (meaning red in Old Slavic); thus the name would in translation imply 'The Red Island'. The autochthonous inhabitants of the island were the Slavic tribe, the Rujani, whose name was cognate with the island's; thus translating as people from Rujan. After the destruction and/or assimilation of the Rujani by the Danes, in 1168, the original Slavic name of Rujan was corrupted as Rügen in German and Rygen in Danish."
2601:85:C202:150:A9DB:C559:F5B:5A9 (talk) 14:58, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of Ruegen... 

message: Guys , this is so funny to read, because you are making alot of assumptions in the comment section while trying to understand how to actually spell the word "Svetovid" and coming up with such weird and wrong explanations...
If you want to understand how to properly spell "Svetovid", then you need to understand it's purpose , and relate it to the world that ancient Slavs lived at...
There are two main parts of it's spelling consisting of two words...
First is it "Svet" or "Svyat" , and what's it's etymology...
The word "Svyat" - is a much newer word, which is a transformed form of "Svet" it came with the notion of Christianity for Slavs and is the there to represent holiness and divinity of a holy person. It DOES NOT relate to the paganism or our pagan roots, and it couldn't have been used in the name "Svetovid", because paganism and Christianity don't mix, and the word wasn't there when the god "Svetovid" was created.
Now with the word "Svet" - it is a very important Slavic word, which has many more words derived from it (not worth going into them now). The word "svet" itself could mean - the light, shining (svetit), white/bright (svetlij), but most importantly - THE WHOLE WORLD !!!. An example of that you can find in one of the famous Russian classics by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin called " The Tale of Tsar Saltan " , and in one of the verses it goes like this "... mi objekhali ves' svet ..." which translates to " ...we have traveled the whole world..." and "svet" is synonymous with the word "world".
If it is the most (or one of the most important gods), it can't mean anything else but the "world" , I will give an example at the end...
Now with the next part, is it "vit" or "vid" , this is the most controversial one, and I have my own opinion on it, but because of it's controversy I'm not gonna get into it's etymology now... although I believe the word "vid" to be older than "vit". And "vit" being a severely metamorphed word with many reduced letters , unlike "vid" ...
The word "vid" in a modern Slavic language means - view/look ...
So basically there's only one possible written form of the word "Svetovid", if you just think about it... and it's "Svet o vid" which translates to " looker over the world" or the " world onlooker" or basically someone who looks over the whole/entire world.
It is just that simple, and everything sets into place if you just understand our ancestors logic, and know a bit of etymological history...
Now, let's check our theory for falsehood...
How would you picture a god (a deity) that looks over the world?
And what did our ancestors know and think about the world?
For them it was a flat earth , with a 4 directional space plain. You can find 4 spacial coordinates in any modern compass or civilization, and it's always 4, with other ones being derivatives of those 4.
Also, as all gods, in every religion, especially important or main ones, were always pictured as humans or human like...
So after we've realized that , we can try to construct our image of how the god "Svetovid" would look like...
So there has to be at least a head,so that the god could be able to see... And to look over 4 spatial directions ,you would need 4 heads with 4 sets of eyes... Oh wow, coincidentally that is exactly what we will find in how "Svetovid" was depicted by our ancestors. The mystery has been solved.
All we had to do is to use our brain and logic.
So the long story short... The original correct spelling is "Svetovid" with possible toned down dialect variants.
--ДОброМАкс (talk) 01:18, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Svetovid" spelling any etymology. 

message: Can someone please work on this article, it has alot of missing information and broken sentences as I don't have time...
Also my original concern with the etymology and spelling of the word "vid" or "vit" came to fruition...
It just dawned on me that the last part of the word could just be it's ending as in "it" which basically overemphasizes the first part of the word. Making it wholesome/ it's final , conclusive form, and personifies it.
Making the original word itself a bit longer as in "Svetov", and the "o" and "e" connective vowel rule is not needed here, which makes perfect sense... and the ending letter "v" on the end signifies "vse" (all).
It's a common Slavic word ending part "it" which is widely used in Slavic word morphology for example: govor - govor it , bol - bol it , bur - bur it, gar - gar it (signifies a person/thing or deity) and so on...
Then you would read Svetovit like it's an actual person, which makes sense, and the only ending letter which could be applied by the Slavic rules of morphology is "t" and not "d".
--ДОброМАкс (talk) 02:40, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs work, also "Svetovit"? 

message: User:Sławobóg I see you have added another picture as the main image in the article. It is better than the old one yet I do not understand why you are so against the Andrej shishkin painting? it has a way more "Slavic" feel. the other two photos you keep adding are not so. besides most of your other articles have paintings from the same artist.  you threaten to report me for changing it then you go ahead and add one of your own, are you the owner of that page that you can change the picture when you see fit and deny others the ability? i can see you have done a great job of adding slavic articles to Wikipedia and that is commendable, yet this does not give you the right to act like a dictator. you do not have any concrete reason for reverting my edit. I have explained all my edits yet you never do you just keep reverting without logic.Joe Flats 123 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 23:59, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture