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But, one of the strategical interests was stimulating nationalism, in order to place
this strategically important part of Europe under their sphere of influence, using
the primitivism which was traditionally rooted among the Balkan people. In order
to more clearly explain what I'm talking about let us remember this historical fact
which states: how is it possible that the people of the Balkans, which existed
between two great civilizations, Greece and Rome, never managed to achieve a
cultural or civilization advancement. Everything that was created in the previous
centuries in this area is a result of all other people besides the Balkan ones,
starting from the Greeks, Romans, Vizigoths, Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians.
whether we like it or not, the answer is simple - primitiveness was always a
dominant trait of this part of Europe.
History has shown as well as proved that the people which can be manipulated
the easiest are primitive ones.
In order to grasp the pagan world of our ancestors, especially the one connected
with their religious life, we need to gather all the names of the god’s and
goddesses of the Illyrian pantheon from the entire area of Illyricum from today
Greece, Albania across Bosnia and Herzegovina to Slovenia. Individual deities
had several names but an identical function which is the reason why the Illyrians
failed to establish a unique religion across the territory of Illyricum and why it was
divided into many cults.
But, according to all available data, worshiping the snake, the reincarnation of the
Grand Mother, Thane and Vidasus were common to all Illyrian tribes mostly
because these deities were connected with the cult of agriculture and fertility.
God Dracon and goddess Dracaena, divine couple.
The serpent was a powerful symbol among the ancient Illyrians, in particular
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