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Greek Myth Details Dazhbog: Apollo: Dazhbog is a sun god. His name, meaning "god of giving", may suggest that he was also a god of abundance. [13] He appears in the Primary Chronicle, where he is described as the son of Svarog, in The Tale of Igor's Campaign, [14] as well as in folk songs and proper names.
The rozhanitsy after Christianization were replaced by the Mothers of God or saint women. In Russian charms of a maturing boy, Parascheva, Anastasia and Barbara are mentioned, and in Bulgarian folklore Mother of God, Parascheva and Anastasia. [10] Angels or even Christ Himself also took over the functions of rozhanitsy. [13]
The first source mentioning Rod is the Word of St. Gregory the Theologian about how pagans bowed to idols, from the 11th century: [6]. Also, this word reached the Slavs, and they began to offer sacrifices to Rod and the Rozhanitsy [fate-goddesses] before Perun, their god.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
Chief god of the Greek pantheon. [161] He is the king of the gods, [162] and the most powerful deity. [163] He is the son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and the husband of Hera. [164] He is the only Greek god who is unquestionably Indo-European in origin, [165] and he is attested already in Mycenaean Greece. [166]
It is also mentioned in the Annales Augustani of 1135, which tells of the destruction of Rethra by Burchard II, Bishop of Halberstadt, who took the local "horse worshipped as a god" on which he returned to Saxony. [6] The last source mentioning Radegast is the Passion of the Martyrs of Ebstorf. [7]
In Ancient Roman times, a new Roman mythology was born through syncretization of numerous Greek and other foreign gods. This occurred because the Romans had little mythology of their own, and inheritance of the Greek mythological tradition caused the major Roman gods to adopt characteristics of their Greek equivalents.