The word Nav' or Nav'e ("the dead") perhaps also meant a world beyond the grave. Until recent times the Ukrainians preserved the belief in navki (mavki). Among the Eastern Slavs two types of dead were sharply distinguished: the "parents," who had died a natural death, and the mertviaki, who had died by violence in an untimely demise , sorcerers and other "unclean" deceased. The former were venerated, and periodically funeral banquets were arranged for them. — [books.google.ru/books?id=y78UAQAAIAAJ&q The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history] --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 14:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
