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God name "Agu'gux" | Aleut / Aleutian Islands | Creator god. The name given to the Christian god under Russian Orthodox influence.... |
Goddess name "Azer Ava" | Russian | Ancient Russian goddess, the name Azer-Ava translates into "forest mother" or "the friendly tree goddess". Azer-Ava lives in trees and welcomes those who venture out to pick berries and mushrooms. She is known as a goddess of fruitfulness who brings Rain and corn, and oaths are taken in her name. |
Spirit name "Chlvnik" | Russian | A household spirit who lives in the cattleshed. Russian |
Goddess name "Dali" | Russian / Georgia | A goddess of the hunt |
Demon name "Dobrochot" | Russian | A demon, especially a domestic spirit. Russian |
Spirit name "Dvorvoy" | Russian | A household spirit who lives in the yard. Russian |
Spirit name "Ignis Fatuus" | Russian | According to a Russian superstition, these wandering fires are the spirits of still-born children which flit between heaven and the Inferno. |
Spirit name "Khitka" | Russian | Kidnapping spirit; an aspect of the Rusalka. Russian |
Goddess name "Koshchei" | Russia | The deathless, a powerful wizard or demigod who kidnapped Marena (Mara, the Russian goddess of death. Koshchie is the son of Vij, lord of the Underground, and travels on a war-horse or as a whirlwind. Russia |
Goddess name "Kostroma" | Russian | Benevolent and malevolent fertility goddess; like the Greeks' Persephone, she is a dying and reborn daughter. Russian |
God name "Kostromo" | Russian | Kostrubonko - A dying-and-ressurecting spring fertility-god. Russian |
"Krasnyi" | Russian | 'Red' or 'Beautiful'. Russian epithet to a girl and the Sun. |
Goddess name "Kupal'nitsa" | Russian | Russian Mother goddess of the southwest, consort of Ivan Kupalo. She seems synonymous with Kubai-khotun and Kupalo / Kupala. |
Goddess name "Kupalo" | Russian | Russian and Balkan midsummer goddess åśśociated with water, magic, fertility, trees, flowers, and herbs. |
Hero name "Munchausen" | German | The hero of a volume of travels, who meets with the most marvellous adventures. The incidents have been compiled from various sources, and the name is said to have pointed to Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchhausen, a German officer in the Russian army, noted for his marvellous stories. |
God name "Ne'nenkicex" | Kamchadal / southeastern Siberia | Creator god. The name given to the Christian god by the Kamchadals under influence of the Russian Orthodox church.... |
God name "Picullus" | Roman / Celtic / Prussian | Chthonic underworld god. He becomes syncretized with the devil in Christian times.... |
Hero name "Sadko" | Russian | A legendary hero of a Russian epic tale. |
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