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r. Marjeta Šašel Kos REKA KOT BOžANSTVO – SAVA V ANTIKI noaruS: Sava ali njen Spodnji tok? Reke so od nekdaj predstavljale najbolj naravno in včasih celo edino komunikacijo med naselji in deželami; rečna pot je povezovala tudi med seboj zelo oddaljene kraje. Sava je bila del takšne poti, ki se je začela na Ljubljanici pri Navportu, zdaj Vrhniki (tudi reka se je v antiki imenovala Nauportus), in nadaljevala prek Save in Donave do Črnega morja. To je bila legendarna »argonavtska pot«, saj naj bi se po eni od različic mita o Jazonu in zlatem runu Jazon skupaj s svojo posadko petdesetih najhrabrejših grških junakov na begu pred Medejinim očetom, kolhijskim kraljem, vračal z govorečo ladjo Argo od Črnega morja proti Jadranu prav po teh rekah.1 Reke so bile poleg gora od nekdaj najizrazitejša geografska značilnost vsake pokrajine, bile pa so tudi velikega gospodarskega pomena, saj je bil promet po rekah kljub brzicam, slapovom in drugim zaprekam cenejši od kopenskega tudi potem, ko so si ljudje zgradili ceste. Neredko so si reke vsekale struge med hribovjem skozi ozke doline, kjer ponekod še za vlečne poti ni bilo prostora; na nekaterih odsekih to velja tudi za Savo.2 Nič nenavadnega torej ni, da so se za reke ohranila prastara imena, ki pripadajo praviloma najstarejši jezikovni plasti vsake dežele: kljub naseljevanju drugih ljudstev, raznim selitvam in vojnam so se namreč ohranjala iz roda v rod. Pomembne reke so imele tudi več imen, saj so tekle skozi različno govoreče dežele, kjer so jih različna ljudstva različno poimenovala. To je npr. veljalo za Donavo, ki se je imenovala tudi Istros; ime Ister je bilo znano grškim piscem, pozneje se je omejilo predvsem na njen spodnji tok. Zanimivo je, da je znan 1 Marjeta Šašel Kos, A Few Remarks Concerning the archaiologia of Nauportus and Emona: The Argonauts. V: Mediterranean Myths from Classical Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century / Mediteranski miti od antike do 18. stoletja (Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2006), 13–20. 2 Janez Dular, Sava v bronasti in železni dobi. V tej publikaciji, str. 36 ss. tudi kraj Istros v bližini izliva Donave, podobno kot Navportus ob istoimenski reki ali še danes vas Sava ob Savi. V času rimskega imperija je bila pri rimskodobnih piscih Donava znana predvsem kot Danubius/Danuvius, ohranjeno pa je celo njeno skitsko ime, Matoas, ki naj bi pomenilo 'srečo prinašajoča'.3 http://iza.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/Sasel_Kos_Ukrocena_lepotica.pdf http://iza.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/Sasel_Kos_Ukrocena_lepotica.pdf

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Vem, da se hecas, ker hoces, da me VN naseska 😛 🙂 On your head be it, Izvoli 🙂 Tradition[edit] Even though the name Sava became very common among (and not only South) Slavs, especially as a form of personal name, either male or female, and has a "Slavic tone," the river's name is not Slavic but Celtic and Roman in origin;[144] the Latin name was Savus. Another name, used for Sava in entirety or its lower part by Strabo, is Noarus.[145] Worshipping of various river gods in the area is traced back to the Late Bronze Age,[146] when the first settlements were founded along the Sava River.[147] Taurisci associated their river goddess Adsullata with the Savus.[144][146] Altars or inscriptions dedicated to the river god Savus were found at a number of locations along the river course, including at the Zelenci Pools where the Sava Dolinka rises, and a number of Roman settlements and castra built along the Via Pannonia, Roman road spanning from Aquileia to the Danube.[148] The settlements include Emona, Andautonia and Siscia (near modern-day Ljubljana, Velika Gorica and Sisak respectively) upstream of the Kupa River confluence, and Marsonia, itself built atop a prehistoric settlement,[149] Cibalae, Sirmium and Singidunum (in modern-day Slavonski Brod, Vinkovci, Sremska Mitrovica and Belgrade) downstream of the Kupa.[150] Besides the altar found at the Zelenci Pools, inscriptions and sites dedicated to Savus were found in remains of Emona,[151] Andautonia and Siscia.[152] Several years after 1751 completion of the Robba Fountain in Ljubljana, the three male figures sculpted as parts of the fountain were identified as statues of the river gods of Sava, Krka and Ljubljanica. In the early 20th century, the fountain was named the Fountain of Three Carniolan Rivers.[153] The Baptism on the Savica (Slovene: Krst pri Savici), the Slovene national epic written by the Romantic poet France Prešeren in 1835. The poem, referring in its title to a headwater of the Sava River, inspired design of the coat of arms of Slovenia of 1991. However, the two wavy lines at the base of the blazon represent rivers of Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea rather than the Savica or the Sava specifically.[154] The Sava River is represented in the coat of arms of the former Kingdom of Slavonia. The design, approved by the Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary in 1496, incorporates two bars symbolising the Sava and the Drava rivers tracing the borders of the kingdom. The design inspired arms of several present-day counties of Croatia in the region of Slavonia and it is itself a part of the coat of arms of Croatia.[155] The Sava River is also referred to by the poem Horvatska domovina, written by Antun Mihanović in 1835, as a national symbol of Croatia. Modified lyrics of the poem later became the Croatian anthem.[156] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sava