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A brief insight into deities of the old Slavic mythology. Slavic mythology is the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the Slavs before Christianisation. The religion possesses many common traits with other religions descended from the Proto-Indo-European religion. Old Slavic religion evolved over more than a thousand years and some parts of it were from neolithic or possibly even mesolithic times. The Earth was worshipped as Mat Zemlya and there were no temples. Rituals were performed in nature.

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Mokoš is the protector of women's work and women's destiny. She watches over spinning and weaving, shearing of sheep, and protects women in child birth. Mokosh is the handmaiden of Mat Zemlya. Her ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Rod is the creator of all life and of existence itself. He is everything that exists. He is born out of himself. At first, there was only darkness, and rod was trapped in an egg. When he gave life to ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Devana is the goddess of woods in Slavic mythology. She represents the wild, the unattainable, since she has not yet given herself to a man. The root of her name "deva" means "virgin". Her animal is ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Crnobog, also spelled as Chernobog, Czernobog, Crnobog and Tchernobog is a Slavic deity, whose name means black god, about whom much has been speculated but little can be said definitively. The only ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Morana, Moréna, Mara, Maržena, Mora or Marmora is a Slavic goddess associated with seasonal agrarian rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature. She is associated with death and winter ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Vesna is the goddess of spring and nature. In many Slavic languages today (Russian, Slovak, Czech, Slovene), the word "vesna" means "spring". One of the most favourite deities, Vesna was worshipped ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Živa, also Żiwia, Siva, Sieba or Razivia, was the Slavic goddess of love and fertility. Her name means "living, being, existing". Sieba's consort was Siebog, her male equivalent. She is the protector ...

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

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