Mysterious fairies named Bereginyas, Berehynias or Brzeginias are reference

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Mysterious fairies named Bereginyas, Berehynias or Brzeginias are referenced in The Lay of St. Gregory the Theologian of the Idols, which was preserved in a manuscript from Novgorod in the fifteenth century. The Lay is an anthology of translations from Greek sources that a Kievan monk from the 12th century annotated. The literature mentions Bereginyas as the first entities worshipped by the Slavs, even before the cult of Perun was brought in their regions; nonetheless, it appears that later scribes made significant revisions to it. There is no information provided concerning Bereginyas, leaving plenty of room for conjecture of all kinds. Boris Rybakov explains that the term refers to Slavic mermaids, but unlike Rusalkas, they were kindhearted. The term is related to the Slavic word for riverbank. Following the release of the findings by Rybakov, Slavic neo-pagans have come to favor the Bereginya, viewing it as a potent pagan goddess as opposed to a simple water sprite.

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