Slavic mythology

Christmas figure in Slavic cultures

In Slavic mythology, Perun () is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone), horses and carts, and weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow). The supreme god in the Kievan Rus' during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone and later with those of metal.

Serbian medieval ruler and fictional character

opera by Antonín Dvořák

Mythical flower blooming only on the night before Ivan Kupala or Midsummer

Russian legendary figure

Slavic mythological female character

11th-century Slavic religious sculpture

founders of the medieval city of Kyiv

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Serbian mythological creature

Slavic folklore character

Collection of folksongs (faked)

souls of the dead, as well as the name of the underworld

Russian epic hero

Zlydzens (Belarusian : Злыдні, and Ukrainian : Злидні) are small, hunchbacked, hazardous creatures in Belarusian and Ukrainian mythology associated with gremlins. These mythological characters often live under the masonry stove.

Russian mythical hero

demon of the Lenchitsky Castle in Poland

Czech ethnographer, philosopher, librarian, linguist, literature historian, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1812–1869)

thumb|Slavic priest of fire, Jan Matejko, ca. 1870 A zhrets is a priest in the Slavic religion whose name is reconstructed to mean "one who makes sacrifices". The name appears mainly in the East and South Slavic vocabulary, while in the West Slavs it is attested only in Polish. Most information about the Slavic priesthood comes from Latin texts about the paganism of the Polabian Slavs. The descriptions show that they were engaged in offering sacrifices to the gods, divination and determining the dates of festivals. They possessed cosmological knowledge and were a major source of resistance aga

male given name

Koročun or Kračun (see other variants below) is one of the names for the time of the year that corresponds to Christmas in several Slavic languages such as Pannonian Rusyn, as well as the common name for the holiday in Romania and Hungary. It is also refers to an evil spirit which shortens one's life, in particular bringing a sudden death, as in the curse "Let Karachun take you!" ().

deity

Dukljan or Dukljanin ( or ) is a figure in Serbian mythology that is a reflection of the Roman emperor Diocletian. He is presented as the adversary of God, possibly because of the real Diocletian's persecution of Christians.

thumb|A folk healer applying 'holy water' on a child, Russia, 1914

Moryana (, ) is a female sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. Moryana was a sea vodyanitsa and daughter of the Sea Tsar, and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds. Sometimes the moryany/moryanki (plural; ; Polish: moriany) were said to be numerous spirits of the sea and a marine kind of rusalki, which posed a great threat to ships, but usually Moryana was represented as a single entity.

Lazavik () is a creature of Belarusian mythology.

Witchcraft location in Slavic mythology

right|270px|thumb|Geira's death illustrated in Ethel Harriet Hearn and [[Gustav Storm's 1911 translation of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason]]

depiction of Blacks or Arabs in Serbian mythology and folklore

tutelary deity