Talk:Morana (goddess)

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The Slavic root mor means also "pestilence". The female godess of the death in slavic mythology is Nyja (root: nyt'i - rot, molder). Today's pagans in Poland celebrating the fest at the spring equinox day, march 21.

Lajsikonik 12:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The sun is not feminine in Slavic
The Old Slavic word for sun - слъньцє, is in the neuter, just like in Serbian - сунце, and in Russian - солнце, and by no means in the feminine gender. Apart from that, why is this article named according to the Polish spelling of name this goddess, with that -rz-, and not with a name more close to its original appellation in Slavic, like Morana or Morena? VVVladimir (talk) 14:04, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

That was because the original article was talking only about the Polish tradition. It seemed to be expanded later including other Slavic countries. Too bad that some details were removed in process. (e.g. explanation of origin of the word Marzanna - that it orginates from root word "mor" doesn't make sense in Polish at all. Marzanna (at least the Polish word) orginates from the month March (Marzec). Marzec also means freeze, cold etc.

Here's good explanation: http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art297fr.htm Takeda (talk) 00:45, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

How can Marzanna originate from March? The name of that month comes from the Roman god "Mars", and is pretty recent compared to what we are talking about 99.236.221.124 (talk) 00:33, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

It did originate from the Polish name of Month March, which is ‘Marzec’. The Roman naming of the months was not adapted in all Slavic countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.109.230.96 (talk) 13:40, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I think "Marzec" origin "mьrznǫti"(marznąć) - [ultimately from morzъ] is more probable. For mor,mar change from r to rʲ(rz) is also extremly extremely ambiguous since it don't happened in any other languages, ex. there is no Mořana in czech). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.183.14.53 (talk) 21:43, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Vegetation goddess?
Why is there no information on her role as a vegetation goddess? She was equally important to the vegetation cycle as Jarilo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.23.30 (talk) 17:22, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Spelling of variants
The original etymology of the name contains r. I therefore find the variants Maržanna and Maržena very suspicious. The Polish variant Marzanna is indeed written with the diagraph rz, which is the modified continuant of r, but this Polish diagraph does not contain any diacritic and there should not be any ž. Are there any sources for the variants Maržanna and Maržena in any Slavic languages?--Poltecatl (talk) 22:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Why Marzanna?
Is there a particular reason why the variant Marzanna should be the name of the article? Judging by a quick Google Books search for the names given in the lead, it may be the least common in English literature. It also seems to be the most complicated spelling for an English-speaking reader. Surtsicna (talk) 11:01, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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Claim of equivalence
An editor has repeatedly inserted Cethlenn ino the infobox as an Irish equivalent of this article's subject, with edit summaries Wikipedia's policy No original research does not allow for such deductions and applications of "common sense". If it is so obvious, then reliable sources should be easy to find. Without them, this claim of equivalence is unsubstantiated andf cannot remain. NebY (talk) 13:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * "The tradition of Cethlenn having drowned in a river and Marzanna having been drowned in a river according to her cultic practice isn’t indication?"
 * "Any lack of critical thinking and basic comparison skills from a random user are also unsubstantiated as well. Study Irish mythology and look at Cethlenn’s role in the mythology. Short sightedness is acceptable but closed off stupidity isn’t."
 * "There doesn’t need to be support, only common sense and logics applied here."