Pikulas
deity underworld Prussian single tradition · 2
Pikulas is a Prussian god compared to Chernobog and associated with the underworld. The name ultimately derives from the Polish word piekło meaning "hell."
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“compared him to the Prussian god Pikulas, which ultimately derives from the Polish word piekło "hell"”
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“Prussian pyculs "hell", which would be a loanword from the West Slavic pьkъlъ "hell", and Pikulas "god of the underworld, i.e. the world of the dead; devil" from the common West Baltic pikulas "hostile being (mythological)".”
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