Lunar mythology – a case study of Natko Nodilo’s mythology of nature

Abstract

While reconstructions of Old Slavic religion are largely based on solarism and lunarism, Nodilo initiated his own mythological re/construction. The Chronicle of the Slavs identifies Arkonsky Svantevit as the deus deorum of the Baltic-Polish Slavs. In the last chapter of his study Old Faith of the Serbs and Croats (1885–1890), it is clear that Nodilo did not apply the absolute conclusion of pansolarism in his re/construction of the old faith of the Serbs and Croats.