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Alternately it may be translated as "council hosting", from "rada" (Czech, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian) - council (also advice, counsel, committee), and "hostit" (Czech "to host"), "goszczący", "gościć" (Polish "hosting", "to host"), and relate to a place, person, or deity hosting the council.
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The boar, who according to Thietmar came out of the lake before a war to take pleasure in the mud, thereby "terribly shaking and appearing to many", might likewise be a symbol that Thietmar used for the devil rather than an actual oracle, in contrast to the horse oracle.
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Following the alternative hypothesis, it was the other way around: Adam of Bremen and Helmold mistakenly adopted the name of the temple site as the name of the deity, which was correctly identified by Thietmar and corresponds with Svarožič or
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In addition to the disputed location of the place, even the assumption that Thietmar and Adam were writing about the same town has been controversial. This is in part because the main deity worshiped in Riedegost/Rethra was reported as
209:, an alliance he opposed, and composed his report to advise the Holy Roman Emperor against it. He also explicitly addresses the reader and advises him not to follow the pagan Lutician cult, but instead to adhere to the Holy Bible. 230:), that could be reached by a wooden bridge by those who wanted to sacrifice or ask the oracle. The 12th-century chronicler Helmold largely followed Adam's version. The difference in the numbers used by Thietmar ("three", 395:, "sun", to a distinct personalized deity with the name Riedegost. This could then have been adopted as the name of the temple in the town and as the name of the tribe settling there (Redarii, Redarians, Redars). 198:), and a wooden temple elevated on animal horns was inside. Idols of several pagan deities were there, each of whom had a name engraved and wore helmet and armor, with "Zuarasici" being the highest deity. Guidons ( 348:
The precise location of the city is unknown, however, its most likely location is on the islands and in the swamp area of the Lieps and Tollense lakes near Neubrandenburg (see
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This is interpreted by historians and linguists in different ways: probably, the different names mark the transition from an appellativum related with the Iranian root
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It is assumed that Radgosc was destroyed either in this or one of the following campaigns; probably it was destroyed and rebuilt several times since Ebo's
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when Radgosc was already in decline, and gave a somewhat different account: according to him, Radgosc, or "Rethra", "seat of the idols" (
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The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th-Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau)
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The name "Radgosc" (or its close forms) derives from old Slavic and roughly translates as "hospitable" (
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Slupecki, Leszek, "West Slavic pagan ritual as described at the beginning of the eleventh century", in
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was, according to Adam of Bremen celebrated in "Rethra" by the ritual decapitation of captured bishop
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This article is about the Slavic town of the Lutici. For the Nazi prison in occupied Poland, see
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The name Rethra was suggested by T. Witkowski to be a "distorted form" of the name of the
403:. According to a third theory, Riedegost was the second name of Thietmar's Zuarasici. 190:), two of which could be reached by land, while the third, smallest gate faced a lake ( 168: 125:, the word "radohostinství" means 'hospitality', and "radovati se" means 'to rejoice'. 122: 87: 69: 767: 527:
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Unbegaun, Boris-Ottokar. L'Ancienne religion des Slaves de la Baltique. In:
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Witkowski, T.. "Mythologisch motivierte altpolabische Ortsnamen". In:
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templum ibi magnum constructum est demonibus, princeps est Redigast
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Thietmar wrote his chronicle when the Lutici were allies of the
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for the year 1068, describing its capture by bishop
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and the sacrifice of his head, stuck on a lance, to
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Thietmar (VI, 23) described Riedegost as a castle (
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Radgosc
Radogoszcz prison
Great Rhetra
Slavic
Redarians
Lutician
Mecklenburg
Slavic deity
Radegast
Swarożyc
Czech
Radhost
Radogoszcz
Radgoszcz
Redarians
Thietmar of Merseburg
Adam of Bremen
Holy Roman Emperor
Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

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