@diceeury worldwide deities meme → slavic dieties → ivan kupala; god representing the mighty sun of summer solstice.
“Russian: Иван-Купала. He is celebrated on Kupala Night with rituals of purification through water and fire.”
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slavic mythology: chernobog (czernebog, czorneboh)
"Also, the Slavs have a strange delusion. At their feasts and carousals, they pass about a bowl over which they utter words, I should not say of consecration but of execration, in the name of [two] gods — of the good one, as well as of the bad one — professing that all propitious fortune is arranged by the good god, adverse, by the bad god. Hence, also, in their language, they call the bad god Diabol, or Zcerneboch, that is, the black god."
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slavic mythology: perun (pierun)
"In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) 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."
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slavic mythology: kupala (kupalo, ivan's day)
"Ivan Kupala (Ivan's Day, Ivanshchyna, Ivan Kupala, Kupala) is a folk holiday of the Eastern Slavs, celebrated on June 24 (July 7), dedicated, according to researchers, to the summer solstice and the highest flowering of nature. In time and name it coincides with the Christian holiday of the Nativity of John the Baptist, from which it takes its name: since John's name is the Baptist, it literally translates from Greek as a swimmer, a submerger in water.
The night before the holiday surpasses Ivan Kupala Day itself in its ritual content."
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slavic mythology → kupala
goddess of the summer solstice, joy & water
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slavic mythology → lelia
slavic goddess of spring & mercy
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@melqomene asks → Loki or Veles
Veles was a major Slavic god of the earth, water, and underworld
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Slavic Mythology ↠ Lada
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