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Baba Yaga
by Obsidian [128 words] |
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"An aged crone, often described as a witch or an ogress, who dwells in the forest and appears in several Russian folktales. In some..." |
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Beda
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"(disaster) Goddess of misfortune and disaster...." |
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Belobog
by Obsidian [10 words] |
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"(The White God) West Slavonic. A God of happiness and luck...." |
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Bestalannitsa
by Obsidian [3 words] |
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"(Luckless) Goddess of misfortune...." |
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Chernobog
by Obsidian [27 words] |
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"(The Black God) West Slavonic A God of evil, grief and woe. His legend is one source of inspiration for the music of Moussorgsky's &..." |
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Chernogolov
by Obsidian [15 words] |
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"(Black-Head) A God of misfortune who was representative as man wih black head and silver moustaches...." |
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Dabog
by Obsidian [29 words] |
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"(Gift-Lord ?) South Slavonic A clear cognate with Dazhdebog, below. Some sources, however, hold that Dabog is an earthly, rather..." |
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Dazhdebog
by Obsidian [53 words] |
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"(Gift-Lord, The God of Gifts) East Slavonic A God of sun and warmth, son of Svarog and one of the eight primary Slavonic deities...." |
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Div
by Obsidian [45 words] |
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"(miracle) God of the miraculous, also a God of the wildwood (thicket) who was hostile to humanity. At first he was a God of clear..." |
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Dolya
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"(fate) Goddess of happiness and luck...." |
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Gore
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"(Grief) Goddess of grief and woe...." |
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Jarila
by Obsidian [4 words] |
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"The Serbo-Croatian equivalent of Yarila...." |
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Khors
by Obsidian [22 words] |
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"God of sun and light, and one of the eight primary Slavonic deities. He seems to have an association with dogs, as well...." |
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Koshchei the Deathless
by Obsidian [87 words] |
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"A mythological figure, the ruler of a land variously described as "Thrice-Ten Kingdom, or the "Kingdom Beyond Blue..." |
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Kostroma
by Obsidian [55 words] |
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"(from "Koster" = 'bonfire') A fertility Goddess, personification of spring, who dies at the end of spring, only to arise..." |
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Krivda
by Obsidian [6 words] |
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"(insult) Goddess of bitterness, hatred, and offence...." |
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Kruchina
by Obsidian [10 words] |
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"(grieving) A Goddess of mourning, imaged as an eternally weeping woman...." |
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Kupala
by Obsidian [26 words] |
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"God of summer, husband of his sister Marena. His thatched scarecrow is burnt in a bonfire on the holiday of "Ivana Kupala"..." |
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Lada
by Obsidian [24 words] |
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"Goddess of love and beauty. She was represented as girl dressed in white with flower wreath on the head and with flowers in the..." |
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Lel
by Obsidian [16 words] |
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"God of love. He was represented as youth dressed in white with flower wreath on the head...." |
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Likho Odnoglazoye
by Obsidian [18 words] |
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"((Likho One-eye ["likhiy"= 'odd'] ) A Goddess of privation and suffering that was represented as thin, one-eyed, old..." |
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Marena
by Obsidian [49 words] |
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"The Goddess of winter, and as such She became (not unpredictably) a spirit of hunger, sickness, epidemic, and death. Nevertheless,..." |
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Maria Morevna
by Obsidian [79 words] |
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"Probably not divine as such, there are nevertheless some echoes of a connection with Marena. She is a warrior-princess who figures..." |
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Marzana
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Marena...." |
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Mokosh
by Obsidian [65 words] |
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"(Weaver or Spinner) Goddess of home and hearth, perhaps sovereign over the Domovoi, a patroness of fertility and midwivery, and one..." |
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Nav
by Obsidian [71 words] |
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"(related to Aryan for "Boat") The Goddess of Death. She is said to secretly cast up a little bone ("Navya kostochka&q..." |
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Nedolya
by Obsidian [6 words] |
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"(Unfated) A Goddess of sadness and dissatisfation...." |
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Nesreha
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Yugoslavia. The Serbian equivalent of Nestrecha...." |
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Nestrecha
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"A goddess of grief and failure...." |
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Nuzhda
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"A Goddess of hardship and poverty...." |
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Perun
by Obsidian [96 words] |
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"Pan-Slavonic. God of lightning, thunder, storm and (probably) war, and one of the eight primary deities. He was patron of nobility..." |
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Podaga
by Obsidian [4 words] |
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"Balto-Slavonic. A God of fire...." |
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Pogoda
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Podaga...." |
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Polel
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Lel...." |
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Porevit
by Obsidian [52 words] |
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"West Slavonic. A God of the woods; he has no idol or image, but is considered to be manifest throughout the forest primeval. His..." |
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Porvata
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Porevit...." |
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Prince Ivan
by Obsidian [91 words] |
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"Not a divinity as such, but there are some echoes of a connection to Kupala. Ivan figures in a cycle of tales in several different..." |
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Rakh
by Obsidian [10 words] |
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"(probably from "Strakh" = `fear') A God of fear and unreason...." |
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Rod
by Obsidian [33 words] |
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"A God of fertility and family, chiefly concerned with continuation of blood lines and the extention and glorification of clans. He..." |
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Rugievit
by Obsidian [19 words] |
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"West Slavonic. A local tutelary, a seven-headed warrior God associated with the South Baltic island of Rugen. See also, Svantavit...." |
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Sedz
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Sud...." |
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Semargl
by Obsidian [30 words] |
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"(Seven-Head) Pan Slavonic God of soil and fertility, one of the eight primary deities. Like Rugievit, whom He may be a variant of,..." |
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Sreha
by Obsidian [4 words] |
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"Yugoslavia. Serbian equivalent of Ustrecha...." |
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Stribog
by Obsidian [33 words] |
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"([paternal-] Uncle-Lord) Pan Slavonic God of sky, air and wind, and one of the eight primary deities. He is said to be the ancestor..." |
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Sud
by Obsidian [48 words] |
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"A God of destiny and glory. When he strews gold in his palace, those born at that time are preordained to become wealthy. But when..." |
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Svantavit
by Obsidian [59 words] |
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"West Slavonic. God of war. He was represented as man with four heads (facing the cardinal directions) and with sword, spears, and..." |
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Svarog
by Obsidian [47 words] |
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"(Fear-Lord) God of fire, and one of the eight primary deities. He was patron of smiths, and is considered a patron of artisans and..." |
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The Banniki
by Obsidian [17 words] |
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"(sing. Bannik) Any of a class of household spirits, these being particularly associated with the bath-house, or Sauna...." |
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The Domoviye
by Obsidian [25 words] |
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"(sing. Domovoi) Any of a class of household spirits, animistic tutelaries of hearth and home who function as guardians and helps or..." |
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The Gumeniki
by Obsidian [15 words] |
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"(sing. Gumenik) Any of a class of animistic spirits, tutelaries to storehouses, grainaries, and the like...." |
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The Leshiye
by Obsidian [35 words] |
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"(sing. Leshy) Any of a class of animistic nature spirits, having charge and stewardship over wild animals. As the idea evolved,..." |
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The Ovinniki
by Obsidian [16 words] |
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"(sing. Ovinnik) Any of a class of animistic spirits having tutelary functions over drying-houses and food preservation...." |
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The Poleviki
by Obsidian [14 words] |
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"(sing. Polevik) Any of a class of animistic nature-spirits, having authority over fields and pasturage...." |
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The Vampires
by Obsidian [93 words] |
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"(Slavonic Vlkoslak, Wampyr) Any of a class of spirits associated with tainted souls who cannot rest in their graves. The idea of..." |
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Troyan
by Obsidian [32 words] |
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"(The Triune One) The God of night and darkness. He was represented as a three-headed man with golden bands in his eyes. His three..." |
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Tryglaw
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Troyan...." |
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Ustrecha
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"(Meeting) Goddess of happiness and luck...." |
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Usud
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Yugoslavia. The Serbo-Croatian equivalent of Sud...." |
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Vasilisa the Wise
by Obsidian [98 words] |
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"Not divine as such, she is the princess figure in one version of the Koshchei cycle. Her tale relates that she was transformed by..." |
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Vazily, The
by Obsidian [19 words] |
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"(sing. Vazila) Any of a class of household tutelary spirits; these to be found in and concerned with the..." |
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Vili, The
by Obsidian [49 words] |
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"(sing. Vila) Any of a class of Slavic dryads, tree-spirits who are exclusively female. They are often vicious and cruel, and have a..." |
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Vodyanoi, The
by Obsidian [19 words] |
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"Any of a class of animistic nature-spirits, beings associated with and having control over water: springs, pools, lakes, rivers,..." |
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Volos
by Obsidian [97 words] |
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"(Hair) East Slavonic. God of cattle, and one of the eight primary deities. Later he also became known as a God of wealth. He was a..." |
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Yarila
by Obsidian [37 words] |
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"God of spring fertility. He was represented as young man dressed in white with wheaten wreath on the head, wheaten ears in right..." |
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Yarylo
by Obsidian [14 words] |
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"Belarus and Ukrainian equivalent of Yarila. In Belarus, he gradually evolved into a female deity...." |
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Zhiva
by Obsidian [13 words] |
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"West Slavonic Goddess of life vigour. She was chief goddess of the Western Slavs...." |
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Zywye
by Obsidian [5 words] |
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"Poland. The Polish equivalent of Zhiva...." |
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