Anonymous ID: d92739 Oct. 3, 2021, 4:04 p.m. No.14713753   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3764 >>3894

>>14713739

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhrets

 

A zhrets is a priest in the Slavic religion whose name literally means "one who makes sacrifices". The name appears mainly in the East and South Slavic vocabulary, while in the West Slavs it is attested only in Polish. Most information about the Slavic priesthood comes from Latin texts about the paganism of the Polabian Slavs. The descriptions show that they were engaged in offering sacrifices to the gods, divination and determining the dates of festivals. They possessed cosmological knowledge and were a major source of resistance against Christianity.

Anonymous ID: d92739 Oct. 3, 2021, 4:06 p.m. No.14713764   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3815 >>3894

>>14713753

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhrets

Henry of Latvia describes how the Slavs wanted to sacrifice a monk to the gods โ€“ whether the pagans should do so was to be decided by the behavior of the horse, and the end of the matter was to leave the monk alive, which clearly indicates the unpredictability of the oracle. The ruler of fate here is supposed to be the god, the horse is merely the transmitter, and the priest is the executor of the oracle.

Anonymous ID: d92739 Oct. 3, 2021, 4:19 p.m. No.14713849   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_3_May_1791

 

The Constitution sought to implement a more effective constitutional monarchy, introduced political equality between townspeople and nobility, and placed the peasants under the government's protection, mitigating the worst abuses of serfdom. It banned pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which had put the Sejm at the mercy of any single deputy, who could veto and thus undo all the legislation adopted by that Sejm. The Commonwealth's neighbours reacted with hostility to the adoption of the Constitution. King Frederick William II broke Prussia's alliance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He joined with Catherine the Great's Imperial Russia and the Targowica Confederation of anti-reform Polish magnates to defeat the Commonwealth in the Polishโ€“Russian War of 1792.

 

The 1791 Constitution was in force for less than 19 months.

Anonymous ID: d92739 Oct. 3, 2021, 4:35 p.m. No.14713948   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3973

>>14713849

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_3_May_1791

 

The Second and Third Partitions of Poland (1793, 1795) ultimately ended Poland's sovereign existence until the close of World War I in 1918. Over those 123 years, the 1791 Constitution helped keep alive Polish aspirations for the eventual restoration of the country's sovereignty. In the words of two of its principal authors, the 1791 Constitution was "the last will and testament of the expiring Homeland."

 

The Constitution of 3 May 1791 combined a monarchic republic with a clear division of executive, legislative, and judiciary powers. It is generally considered Europe's first and the world's second, modern written national constitution, after the United States Constitution that had come into force in 1789.

Anonymous ID: d92739 Oct. 3, 2021, 4:39 p.m. No.14713973   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>14713948

>It is generally considered Europe's first and the world's second, modern written national constitution, after the United States Constitution that had come into force in 1789.

Medal commemorating the Constitution, issued that year.