Currently in a wikipedia rabbit hole about the history of Slavs. I like this description about early pagan ideas and practices:
...Old Believers have preserved early Slavic pagan ideas and practices such as the veneration of fire as a channel to the divine world, the symbolism of the colour red, the search for a "glorious death", and more in general the holistic vision of a divine cosmos.
A hybrid St. Christopher and Veles, a major god in Slavic paganism:
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Other highlights I love:
Household deity. Everyone should have a Domovoy.
One of the gods is called Rod!
Stone carved mushroom shaped idols without faces and a distinctive hat.
On certain days, people brought gifts to them, and in order to receive healing from an illness, they had to sit on an idol. The stone mushroom was respected and protected.
They used log cabin saunas
"Lyres were their baggage" --Theophylact Simocatta
Democracy! --these nations, the Sclaveni and the Antes, are not ruled by one man, but they have lived from of old under a democracy, and consequently everything which involves their welfare, whether for good or ill, is referred to the people.
— Procopius
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