Stribog
Stribog is a Slavic god who was worshipped in Kievan Rus'. Vladimir the Great included Stribog among the six gods honored in a pagan temple built on a hill in Kiev.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 900 CE
- Attested period
- 900 – 1000
- Historical notes
- Worshipped in Kievan Rus' during Vladimir's reign in the late 10th century.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Dazhd'bog, Mokosh, Dazhd'bog, Khors, Simargl, Svarog, Dazhbog, Dabog, angels of thunder, angels of lightning, Varpulis, Moryana, Dogoda, Perun
- parent of
- winds of the eight directions
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Slavic gods Stribog and Dazhd'bog”
#1757 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“And Vladimir began his reign in Kiev alone and erected idols on the hill outside his palace with porch: Perun of wood with a head of silver and moustache of gold and Khors Dazhbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh.”
#16526 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“head and a gold moustache, and Khors, Dazhdbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh. And they offered sacrifices and called them gods, and they took their sons and daughters to them and sacrificed them to the devils.”
#16771 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Stribog is the name of the Slavic god of winds, sky and air. He is said to be the ancestor (grandfather) of the winds of the eight directions.”
#24112 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the East Slavic Mokosh (a presumed toponym in the Czech Republic), and the East Slavic Stribog (toponyms in Poland) are sometimes indicated.”
#26593 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001