Re: Slavs and Serbs(Sauth Slavs)
About versions of an origin of the name Slavs
There are some versions of an origin of self-name "Slavs".
The cores are four: from a "word" (the people speaking "in our language", unlike nemec — "mute", т.е «not knowing our language», "strangers"); from an Indo-European root *kleu - ' a rumor, popularity ' (the glory compare); from toponym, probably, river names (compare an epithet of Dnepr a Slavutich, the rivers Sluja, Slava, Slavnitsa in the different slavic earths); from a root *s-lau-os ' the people ' (with Indo-European «mobile s»), compare other-grech. λᾱός.
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The question is what you define as advanced, technologically advanced or spiritually?
In this case a word «adwanced» I have used a word in value more likely genetic development.
As I have understood from the citation, genetic and frequency characteristics of people were above earlier.
If to consider, that us conduct to self-destruction, any person not reached a degree of our present destruction can be considered more advanced. (more non-destroyed), than we.
And I didn't want to tell that advanced – more positive means.
I didn't want to concern polarization. While only concepts glory.
How much I remember, in Biblia (in russian, at least) Nefilim аre named "strong, since ancient times gloryous people".
It about polarisation STO/STS.
About names.
Many slavic names (and presently) consist of two roots, second of which – Slav.
And in most cases Slav concerns to glory, instead of to a word.
For example, if in people through one people call Svyatoslav, Boleslav, Mstislav, Yaroslav, Bronislav, and many other similar names, in itself arises sensation, that the tribe is made only with "Slav" and absolutely there is no necessity to address to place names.
Has forgotten to add, that at Slavs the Glory is closely connected with concept “valour”, and was much more often used in military sense, than in religious.
In general, in slavic languages the “glory” and a “word” somewhere are interchangeable, therefore as the glory is transferred by a word, both good and bad, in present understanding it can be designated a word "image" more likely.
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