Peckols
deity underworld Prussian single tradition · 2
Peckols is a death deity in Prussian mythology. The entity is associated with death and the underworld realm.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1520 CE
- Attested period
- 1520 – 1530
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in the Sudovian Book (1520s) and church decrees of 1530.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Peklenc, Veles, Patollo, Pockols, Pikulas, Pikul, Mara, Chernobog, Morana, Tuoni, Giltinė
- syncretized with
- Pluto
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Peckols (Prussian mythology)”
#12253 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Vytautas Mažiulis also suggested two different etymologies for Peckols: (1) pyculs ‘hell’ E 10 – a loanword from v. sl. pьkъlъ ‘etc.’ (> s. le. pkieł ‘place of the souls of sinners condemned to eternal torment, (resp. locus ubi animae commorantur eorum, qui poenas sempiternas peccatorum luunt’”
#13654 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001