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Morana

deity underworld Slavic single tradition · 4

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #570 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
1200 CE
Attested period
1200 – 2020
Historical notes
Compared to Hecate in Czech Mater Verborum (13th c.) and to Ceres by Jan Długosz (15th c.).

Relationships

co occurs with
valkyries, Xolotl, Pushan, Charon, Vanth, Tuoni, Giltinė, Peckols, Peklenc, Veles, Kostroma, Lada, Vesna, Dziewanna, Hermes, Mercury, Anubis, Mara, Chernobog, Mars, Mare
syncretized with
Hecate, Ceres, Moryana, Marzanna
consort of
Marzaniok

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (4)
  1. Moryana
  2. List of death deities
  3. Morana (goddess)
  4. Psychopomp

Source passages

“Morana (Slavic mythology)”

#12252 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The date when the customs of drowning Morana and carrying the copse originated in Silesia is unknown. Although the Catholic Church considered these to be pre christian traditions, and persecuted them accordingly, the custom nevertheless survived in Silesia even at times when it had been almost extinct in other regions of Poland”

#12887 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the Slavic goddess Morana”

#14133 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001