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Veles - (Macedonian: Велес) is a city in Macedonia that has the name of the Slavic god Veles. He is the god of wine, music and cattle. He is the god of wine, music and cattle. Mokosh - toponyms that relate to the goddess of fertility, women's work and women's happiness, Mokosh or Mokoshka/Makoshka are
A fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, quoted by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, states: "Macedonia the country was named after Makedon, the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, as the poet Hesiod relates; and she became pregnant and bore to thunder-loving Zeus, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, the horse lover, those who dwelt in mansions around Pieria and Olympus".
Leon of Pella (4th-century BC) historian On the Gods in Egypt; Marsyas of Pella (356–294) historian; Marsyas of Philippi (3rd century BC) historian; Hippolochus (early 3rd century BC) description of a Macedonian wedding feast; Poseidippus of Cassandreia (c. 288 BC) comic poet; Poseidippus of Pella (c. 280 BC–240 BC) epigrammatic poet
Pages in category "Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Attempts to classify Ancient Macedonian are hindered by the lack of surviving Ancient Macedonian texts; it was a mainly oral language and most archaeological inscriptions indicate that in Macedonia there was no dominant written language besides Attic and later Koine Greek. [195]
Heraclea Sintica was a sprawling city founded by the ancient Macedonian king Philip II of Macedon, between 356 B.C. and 339 B.C. in what is now the Bulgarian region of Pirin Macedonia.
Category: Animal gods. ... Male deities depicted as animals or whose myths and iconography are associated with animals. Subcategories. This category has the following ...
Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ ˈ m æ s ɪ d ɒ n / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [6] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [7]