All the Slavic Gods and Their Roles (A to Z) - Slavic Mythology

This episode is about the Slavic Gods and their specific role in Slavic mythology.

In the following list you will find in an alphabetically order the gods from Slavic Folklore:

1. Berstuk- Forest God.
2. Chernobog - Black God and Lord of Evil.
3. Dazhbog - Solar Deity.
4. Devana - goddess of wild nature, forests, hunting, and wild animals.
5. Dogoda - Slavic god of the west wind.
6. Dziewona - goddess of hunting and forest.
7. Jarilo - East and South Slavic god of vegetation, fertility, and springtime.
8. Khors - Slavic God of Sunrise and Horses.
9. Koliada - God of the new year and the rising of the new sun each day.
10. Kupalo - God of joy, mid-summer, peace, magic, water, and herbs.
11. Lada - goddess of spring (and the end of winter) and of human desire and eroticism.
12. Marzanna - Goddess associated with winter's death, rebirth, and dreams.
13. Mat Zemlya - the oldest deity in Slavic mythology.
14. Matka Gabia - goddess of the fire.
15. Mokosh - protector of women's work and women's destiny.
16. Niya - Slavic god of the Underworld.
17. Oynyena Maria - fire goddess.
18. Oźwiena - the goddess of echo in Slavic mythology.
19. Peklenc - god of underground and a divine judge.
20. Perun - God of thunder, Oaks, war, and fertility.
21. Podaga - god of wind, fishing, hunting, and farming.
22. Porevit - god of the forest.
23. Radegast - god of crops, harvest, abundance, and hospitality.
24. Rod - god of the family, ancestors, and fate.
25. Rugiaevit - god of war and love.
26. Semargl - winged dog god.
27. Siliniez - forest god of the Poles.
28. Stribog - god of wind, storms, air, and an ancient deity of heavens.
29. Svarog - the great god of blacksmiths, law, and fire.
30. Svarozhits - god of the sun, of fire, and the hearth.
31. Sventovit - Slavic deity of war, fertility, and abundance.
32. Triglav - The three-headed god.
33. Veles - god of earth and waters.
34. Zhiva - goddess of fertility and love.
35. Zorya - the personification of the dawn.

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[chadlittewillie]

Been trying to get into either Celtic, Germanic or Slavic paganism and this helped. As a Czech, it makes me happy that people did not forget about Slavic mythology.

[js]

Nice to see Slavic mythology get some love! I thought Chernobog was a Slavic deity invented by later Christians, alongside Belobog? Though their dualism could maybe be based on Perun and Veles.

[domiiinik]

Despite the fact that slavic cults are pretty much nonexistent today (there are some but they are more of historic reenactments than real cults) in Poland we still celebrate Marzanna's holiday at the beginning of spring to "get rid of" winter

[lettuce]

I'm a western slav and I had no idea we had a mythology of our own. This is what centuries of christianisation does to a nation.

[williamslavik]

It's extremely awesome to be able to read up on the Slavic history and mythology as it is very hard to come by and also to see it without being rewrote by other cultures.

[thamirivonjaahri]

Much appreciated the presentation. Especially considering how difficult is to put deities together since most of records were written long after the original Slavic panthenon got trampled under christianity.

Some deities names were slightly distorted and few were not named, but I assume it was because they often represented local versions of those, who were named.

For example from the little I've learned about our version of panthenon, we did not have Marzanna, but Morana instead and she was goddess of winter, death and famine, who died in the end of winter to be replaced by Vesna, who was goddess of spring, fertility, festivity and music.

In some other versions Morana is called Veliana instead and she is also aspect of war and blood sacrifice, portrayed as beautiful but very pale woman with very long either dark black or grey hair and sometimes with ghastly grinning smile. She is sometimes also called Smrť, or Smrtka, or Zubatá.

[SusonTadakhe]

Very nice Explanation of slavic and all History. Thank You Sir..

[pointgreece]

Slavic nations all together have over 350 milion and are the largest ethnic group of the white race.

[Peregrina]

I love this. There were a lot of interesting gods I've never heard of but I could recognise a bunch of them from my book "Mythological Atlas" by Thiago de Moraes. I also had a strong reaction to Radegast since it made me think of Tolkien's wizard character Radagast. If I'm not mistaken, Radagast in Tolkien's world building is a brown wizard focused on the forest. I might be wrong here but it sounds like he took inspiration from slavic mythology for his own character. I know that he borrowed a lot from norse mythology, the story of Beowulf and from the poetry collection Kalevala as well as historical events in britain.

It sort of feels like an easter egg whenever I discover new things.

[yuliyanti]

Thank you for this interesting video. Hopefully the Gods will return and bless all of Slavic people guiding them to love and good fortunes.

[-RONNIE]

Thank you very much for the video. I knew a couple of them from watching other history and mythology channels. I always like learning new things 👍🏻

[natalias]

Up until now we are drowning Marzanna (Winter Witch) on the first day of calendar spring.
Marzanna is braided from straw into the shape of a human and dressed in traditional local women's clothing. Before she drowns she’s lit of fire.

[yokaifaerie]

This was awesome and very well done 🙏🏻✨

[valerysebeleu]

As a slavic guy I had fun from some pronounciation, but I still happy for our representation. Btw in our county we still have more pagan holidays than Christian ones!

[emgex]

There is the Drekavac or in english "the screecheer, in Bosnia this is a humanoid creature who walks around at night and hunt the living, in some region of ex Yugoslavia like in east Serbia that creature is portrayed as a disturbed child, with horns. In Bosnia we have a Mountain called Veles or Velez and in Slowenia there is a mountain called Triglav. Those are all names from south slavic Mythological deities and beings

[marekkuzmicki]

Nice overall, but if you use slavic pronunciation it would be much better - because names of some divinities have common connotations to ordinary words. It would be archetypical that way.

[slavenarkaimovski]

Jarilo or Yarilo in english, is serbian god of war, whos name comes from word Jarac Yarats, meanin Goat.The god of war Jarilo have Goat for his symbol, becouse goats can get angry very easy, and becouse they can kill you with theirs horns, expecialy whild goats.And in Serbo-Croatian language, you can find word that comes from Jarilo, Razjaren, meaning furious as the goat.Other example is Razjarena Rulja, meaning furious crowd, protesters are called like that usually.

[bystanderbutch]

Bystander Butch finds this interesting. Bystander Butch appreciates the fact that you made this video.

[ninobelov]

Goddess Dziewana & Devana are the same goddess also called Word Divia also gain a meaning Goddess and word Div (other name of Perun) also means God. Word Devana also means Virgin and Romans copied Devana into Diana and "Greeks"/Hellens copied Devana/Serbona into Erbona/Arbona/Artema/Artemis.
Brother of Goddess Devana/Serbona (Polona; Pol-pole, Ona-She) was her co-ruller and opposite/Polon (Pol-pole; on-he) called God SERBON/TARH/DARH/DAZHBOG.
Parents of SERBONA/DEVANA & SERBON/TARH/DARH/DAZHBOG were God PERUN and Goddess LETO/LADA. Symbol of Devana/Serbona/Dara/Tara is a Moon Crust symbol (C) or 4 Crust moons symbol (C), which is today an emblem of Serbia.

[Povhc]

In alpine area there was Kresnik. In stories and character he is multifaceted so he can be compared to both Perun, Dažbog, and Jarilo. He is however clearly solar. The 24.june was historically one of more imortant dates in Slovene lands so they made bonefires and maypoles and that day was called Kres and people said; O kresi se dan obesi - day (daytime) is hanged on a Kres day. Kres also means bonefire, kresniti to strike, kresilnik - flint for starting fire, kresilo - fire striker and many more related meanings.