Slavic Vedic Legends. Folk Tales about Orpheus

We are used to considering Orpheus as a hero of Greek myths. But what if his true homeland is ancient Thrace and the Rhodopes, and his story has been preserved for centuries in the songs and tales of the Slavic peoples? Valery Gavrilovich Barsukov presents a unique work based on authentic ethnographic records from the 19th–20th centuries. Before you is not a retelling of ancient legends, but a living, breathing epic, where Orpheus is not a Hellenic musician, but a mighty king-wizard, son of the Sun and Judah, whose flute made the very mountains dance. In this book, you will discover genuine tales from Bulgarian and Macedonian storytellers, collected by ethnographers; forgotten stories about the birth, marriage, and feats of Orpheus, full of magic, battles with dragons, and encounters with the deities of the Slavic world; a sensational connection between the myth of Orpheus and the birth of the name of an entire continent — Europe, as well as a deep analysis of the Thracian roots of the Orphic cult and its influence on world civilization.