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Radegast is a god mentioned by Adam of Bremen, and the information is repeated by Helmold. He was to occupy the first place among the gods worshipped at Rethra. Earlier sources state that the main god of Rethra was Svarozhits, thus Radegast is considered to be a epithet of Svarozhits or a local variant of his cult. A white horse was dedicated ...
A priest of Svantevit depicted on a stone from Arkona, now in the church of Altenkirchen, Rügen.. Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century.
Marzanna. Poland. Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon. Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), 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 ...
In such a situation, Rozhanitsa could be interpreted as a Mother Goddess – the goddess of fertility and motherhood. [32] [33] According to mythologists, the triple deities of fate are the hypostasis of the ancient goddess of fate. Protogermanic Urðr and early Greek Clotho are thought to be such goddesses. A similar process probably took ...
Devana, Andy Paciorek, 2015.. The first source to mention Devana is the Czech Mater Verborum - a Latin dictionary dating back to the 13th century. The text of the dictionary can be read: "Diana, Latonae et Iouis branch" ("Diana, daughter of Jupiter and Latona") and a Czech gloss: "Devana, Letuicina and Perunova dci" ("Devana, daughter of Letuna and Perun"). [10]
Other than the many gods and goddesses of the Slavs, the ancient Slavs believed in and revered many supernatural beings that existed in nature. These supernatural beings in Slavic religion come in various forms, and the same name of any single being can be spelled or transliterated differently according to language and transliteration system.
Dzidzilela – according to Jan Długosz, the Polish equivalent of Venus, goddess of love, weddings and fertility. [8] Chislobog – pseudo-deity of time and/or numbers invented in the 1900s, mentioned in the Book of Veles [9] Vesna – alleged goddess of spring; Jutrobog, Jutrnyboh – a supposed god worshipped in Lusatia.
Lel and Polel (Latin: Leli, Poleli) are Polish divine twins, first mentioned by Maciej Miechowita in the 16th century where he presents them as equivalents of Castor and Pollux and the sons of the goddess Łada, the equivalent of Leda. There is no complete agreement about the authenticity of the cult of Lel and Polel.