Mokosh
Mokosh is a goddess representing Mother Nature who was worshipped by Finnish tribes. Vladimir the Great included Mokosh among the six gods honored in a pagan temple built on a hill in Kiev.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 900 CE
- Attested period
- 900 – 1400
- Historical notes
- Worshipped in Kievan Rus' during Vladimir's reign in the late 10th century.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Dazhd'bog, Veles, Khors, Svarog, Dazhbog, Dabog, Simargl, angels of thunder, angels of lightning, víly, Svarozhits, Beregyni, Artemid, Rod, Rozhanitsy, Vila, Pereplut, Dziwa, Stribog, Perun
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Mokosh—a goddess representing Mother Nature "worshipped by Finnish tribes"”
#1759 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Therefore, for Christians it is inappropriate to play demonic games or dance, to make music, sing demonic songs, or offer sacrifices to idols, in which they pray in drying houses to fire and to the fairies and Mokosh, Sima, Rglu, and Perun and Volos, the cattle god, to Rod and the Rozhanitsy, and to all those who are like them.”
#14757 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“And Vladimir began his reign in Kiev alone and erected idols on the hill outside his palace with porch: Perun of wood with a head of silver and moustache of gold and Khors Dazhbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh.”
#16528 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Khors, Dazhdbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh. And they offered sacrifices and called them gods, and they took their sons and daughters to them and sacrificed them to the devils.”
#16773 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“to Perun, Khors, the Vily and Mokosh, to vampires and the Beregyni”
#17476 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5