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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

co occurs with
Ahi Budhnya, Afsati, Welnos, Vṛtra, Ouranos, Sima, Rglu, Rod, Rozhanitsy, Volos, Bojan, Veleda, Þór, Kaukas, Nykštukas, Triglav, Mara, Chernobog, Morana, Tuoni, Giltinė, Peckols, Peklenc, Enyo, Hades, Odin, Hermes, Varuna, Aruṇa, Velnias, Mokosh, Indra, Mitra, Oðinn, Laumé, Pluto, Svetovit
syncretized with
Niya
allied with
Perun

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Mentioned by

and 5 more

Sources

wikipedia (10)
  1. List of death deities
  2. Niya (mythology)
  3. Veles (god)
  4. Mėnuo
  5. Sėlija
  6. Vaivora
  7. Vakarinė
  8. Žiezdrė
  9. List of Slavic deities
  10. Triglav (mythology)

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