Sirin
demonic sky Slavic single tradition · 4
Slavic birds with women's heads who lured men to their deaths.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- Attested period
- 1600 – 2020
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Strix, Karura, Bird goddess, Cuca, Coco, Heqet, Horus, Monthu, Seker, Inmyeonjo, Kuk, Kauket, Meretseger, Sobek, Thoth, Alcyone, Raróg, Stratim, Chickcharney, Nyctimene, Ra
- allied with
- Alkonost
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Sirin (Slavic) – Birds with women's heads who lured men to their deaths.”
#4049 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl.”
#4744 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“She lives in the underworld with her counterpart, the Sirin. According to folk tales, at the morning of the Apple Feast of the Saviour day, Sirin flies into the apple orchard and cries sadly.”
#5649 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Like the Sirin and the Alkonost, other creatures likewise deriving ultimately from the Greek myths and siren mythology, the Gamayun is normally depicted as a large bird with a woman's head.”
#6369 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001