Members of this ethnic group once poured hemp oil in each cardinal direction while praying to Moist Mother Earth. Wooden dwellings known as continae once served as these people’s temples. The alleged migration of these people from the “land of seven rivers” to their current home is recounted in a literary forgery written on wooden planks that is a central text in their so-called “Native Faith.” A three-tiered limestone idol likely built by these people in the 9th century portrays the faces of four deities, who may include (*) Mokosh and Lada. Kupala’s Night is celebrated by these people, who built the Zbruch idol. These people, who revered forest spirits called leshy, may not have actually worshiped the debated “White” and “Black” gods Belobog and Chernobog. For 10 points, name these people whose pantheon includes Veles and Perun. ■END■
ANSWER: Slavic Peoples [or Slavs; accept Slavic Paganism or Slavic Neopaganism or Slavic Shamanism or Slavic Native Faith; accept Eastern, Western, Baltic, or Southern Slavs, or the Belarusians, Bosniaks or Bosnians, Bulgarians, Bunjevci, Croats or Croatians, Czechs, Goranis, Hussites, Kashubs or Kashubians, Lechs or Lechites, Lusatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Moravians, Poles or Polish, Russians, Rusyns, Serbs, Silesians, Šokci, Sorbs, Slovaks or Slovakians, Slovenes or Slovenians, Torbeši, Ukranians, Wends or Wendish, or Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians] (The forgery is the Book of Veles. The Slavic Native Faith is also known as Rodnovery.)
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