Bronze pendant inspired by Great Moravian jewellery and ornaments.
Slavic Goddess Lada - Goddess of love, spring, marriage, sowing and ploughing.
- Material: bronze
- Size: 1.5 x 3.5 cm
- Czech production
The Goddess Lada is an important Goddess of Slavic mythology, often associated with spring, beauty, love and fertility. In folk traditions, she is seen as the protector of marriage and family, bringing harmony between people and in nature. Her name appears in songs and ceremonies, especially in connection with spring festivals and fertility festivals, when people rejoiced at the end of winter and the arrival of new life. Symbolizing freshness, youth and joy, it was closely associated with the cycles of nature. Some sources compare her to the ancient Aphrodite or the Germanic Freya.
Great Moravia was the first significant Slavic state formation in Central Europe, existing in the 9th century. It included the territory of present-day Moravia, Slovakia and parts of the surrounding countries. It reached its peak during the reign of Prince Rastislav and then Svatopluk. It was in Great Moravia that the Thessalonian brothers Cyril and Methodius came to spread Christianity and created the Old Slavonic script - the Glagolitic alphabet. This cultural and spiritual legacy was of great importance for the development of the Slavic peoples. Great Moravia thus became the cradle of Slavic education and an important centre that laid the foundations for the later Czech and Slovak states.
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