User:Bezimenen/Cosmological concepts within Bulgarian folklore

Organization

• мир (mir, “peace”)

< Proto-Slavic *mirъ, possibly related to Bulgarian мил (mil, “gentle”). Compare further *mirъ (“world”).

• ред (red), порядък (porjadǎk), уредба (uredba): order

< Proto-Slavic *rędъ, *urędьba

• cf. Old East Slavic клюдь (kljudĭ) (non-native): disposition, arrangement

< Proto-Slavic *kľudь

• ла́да (láda) ⇒ ладуване (laduvane, “matchmaking ritual”): concord

< Proto-Slavic *lada

• покой (pokoj): tranquility

< Proto-Slavic *pokojь

• ха́ос (háos): chaos, disorder

< Greek origin

Concepts (draft)

• световно дърво (svetovno dǎrvo): cosmic tree (as axis mundi)
• време (vreme), dial. пора (pora): temporal dimension
• пространство (prostranstvo): spatial dimension
• dial. вара (vara): predetermined, encountered state

Realms (draft)

• свят (svjat): perceptible world, realm
• яве (jave): presentworld
• наве (nave): afterworld
• отвъд (otvǎd): transcendence
• недро (nedro): core (primordial realm)
• земя (zemja): earth (chthonic realm)
• море (more): sea (aquatic realm)
• небе (nebe): sky (celestial realm)
• бездна (bezdna): abyss
• рай (raj): paradise