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The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and letopises, or not very accurate Christian sermons against paganism. Additionally, more numerous sources in which Slavic theonyms are preserved include names, proper names, place names, folk holidays, and language, including sayings.
Gamayun - symbol of knowledge and wisdom [citation needed] Veles - Veles has been the most revered god in the Vedic pantheon of Slavic culture since ancient times. He is the patron saint of the interworld — both Light and Darkness are subject to him, he is also called Prophetic, Wise, because in the three worlds he manifests his power, he is ...
However, the theory of the knowledge of the god Svetovit in the South Slavs cannot be accepted – it is widely believed in the scholarly community that the god Svetovit was known only to the Polabian Slavs and did not have a pan-Slavic range, and the Serbo-Croatian toponymy and proper names refer to St. Vitus (Serbian: Свети Вид ...
Stribog — resembles Latvian Žaltys, Indian god of chaos Vritra (it is noteworthy that both deities are represented in the form of chronic snake like entities or ordinary snakes). The Slavic word stryj is derived from Proto-Indo-European *stru-io-and is cognate with Lithuanian: strujus "uncle, old man" and Old Irish: sruith "old, honorable"
The original meaning of Dazhbog would thus, according to Dubenskij, Ognovskij and Niederle, be "giving god", "god-giver, "god-donor". this word is an old compound, that is particularly interesting because it retains the old meaning of the Proto-Slavic *bogъ "earthly wealth/well-being; fortune", with a semantic shift to "dispenser of wealth ...
Slavic gods (31 P) F. Slavic fortune deities (2 P) H. ... Pages in category "Slavic deities" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Radegast or Radogost is, according to medieval chroniclers, the god of the Polabian Slavs, whose temple was located in Rethra. In modern academic literature, however, the dominant view is that Radegast is a local nickname or a local alternative name of the solar god Svarozhits, who
Al-Masudi, an Arab historian, geographer and traveler, equates the paganism of the Slavs and the Rus' with reason: . There was a decree of the capital of the Khazar khaganate, and there are seven judges in it, two of them from Muslims, two from the Khazars, who judge according to the law of Taura, two from the Christians there, who judge according to the law of Injil, one of them from the ...