Veles

deity underworld Panslavic single tradition · 10

Veles is a death deity documented in the source text. The entity is associated with death and the underworld.

↻ synthesized from 10 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020

Relationships

syncretized with
Niya
allied with
Perun

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Sources

Source passages

“Veles”

#12255 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“vilas, Bulgarian wilněja ("crazy, someone who lost his mind"), Czech wilny ("voluptuous"), Slavic velna ("wave, waters") and Panslavic god of underground Veles (probably from *wel – death). Latin word thya, thyon means "fragrant tree" and brings to mind a wooden log depicting badnjak”

#13646 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Or Perun – Veles as the type Indra – Varuna, or Þór – Óðinn, which would represent a typical and insurmountable tension between a strong thunderer of the II. function (who moreover takes over competencies in the sphere of fertility, which fits both Perun and Þór) and a sovereign magical god of the I. function.”

#14773 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Based on the reconstructed myths around the figures of Perun and Veles, some scholars believe that both of these gods are chief deities.”

#26595 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Gieysztor recognizes that Triglav was a god close to the chthonic Veles. According to him, this interpretation is supported by the fact that a black horse was sacrificed to Triglav, while Svetovit, interpreted by him as a Polabian hypostasis of Perun, received a white horse as sacrifice”

#39329 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001