Rod
Rod is a revered figure mentioned in "The Word of a Certain Christ-Lover, Zealous for the True Faith". The work criticizes surviving fragments of pre-Christian religion.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 CE
- Attested period
- 1000 – 1400
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in a text criticizing pre-Christian religion.
Relationships
- parent of
- Rozhanitsy
- co occurs with
- Dola, zorze, Pereplut, Dziwa, Norns, Dolya, Veles, Sima, Rglu, Perun, Mokosh, Khors, Simargl, Vila, Brigid, Moirai, Ora, Laima, Parcae
- allied with
- Rozhanitsy, narecnitsy, sudzhenitsy
- consort of
- Rozhanitsa
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“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.”
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“Vila, Mokosh, Dziwa, Perun, Khors, Rod and Rozhanitsy, ghosts and banks, and Pereplut, and turning to drink to him in the corners”
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“Old Russian sources also mention Rozhanitsa as a single person, usually in the pair of Rod and Rodzanica. An example of such a source is the 12th-century chronicle Gesta regum Anglorum, which describes the cult of Svetovid among the Slavs of the Elbe, comparing him to the Roman Fortuna as Rozhanitsa”
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