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Podaga is a god who, according to Helmold, had his image in Plön. Meaning of the theonym is explained as "power, might". It was suggested that the name Podaga is identical with Długosz's Pogoda. [34] Devana: Poles Lusatians: Devana is the goddess of wildlife, forests, the moon and hunting. Mentioned by Jan Długosz as a Polish equivalent of ...
Poland. Morana (in Czech, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature. She is an ancient goddess associated ...
Olga (Church Slavonic: Ольга; [3][a] Old Norse: Helga; [4] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [5] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. [b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
Laima. Rozhanitsy, narecnitsy, and sudzhenitsy are invisible spirits or deities of fate in the pre-Christian religion of the Slavs. They are related to pregnancy, motherhood, marriage [1] and female ancestors, [2] and are often referenced together with Rod. [3][4][2] They are usually mentioned as three together, but sometimes up to 9 together ...
Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
The name Mokosh means a combination of earth and water, [1] fertile moisture. [2] Wet Meadow [Wikidata], Fyodor Vasilyev, 1872. In Old East Slavic texts, the name of the goddess is noted as Mokošĭ (мокошь), Mokŭšĭ (мокъшь) [3] – in ancient texts uppercase was not used. According to Oleg Trubachyov, the form Mokŭšĭ was ...
Chernobog[a] (lit. "Black God" [1]) and Belobog[b] (lit. "White God" [1]) are an alleged pair of Polabian deities. Chernobog appears in Helmold 's Chronicle as a god of misfortune worshipped by the Wagri and Obodrites, while Belobog is not mentioned – he was reconstructed in opposition to Chernobog. Both gods also appear in later sources, but ...
Moryana. Moryana (Russian: Моря́на, pronounced [mɐˈrʲanə]) is a female sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. [1][2] Moryana was a sea vodyanitsa and daughter of the Sea Tsar, [3][4][5] and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds. [1][6] Sometimes the moryany/moryanki (plural; Russian: моряны ...