Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Fierabras" | Babylon | Son of Balan, king of Spain. The greatest giant that ever walked the earth. For height of stature, breadth of shoulder, and hardness of muscle he never had an equal. He possessed all Babylon, even to the Red Sea; was seigneur of Russia, Lord of Cologne, master of Jerusalem, and even of the Holy Sepulchre. |
Goddess name "Hov Ava" | Russia | Goddess of the moon. Russia |
Goddess name "Iarila" | Russia | Goddess of Spring and fertility. She leads the dance at the Summer Solstice. Russia |
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. |
Goddess name "Jumala" | Russia | Goddess of war Russia |
God name "Jumo" | Russia | Jume. The supreme deity and sky god of the Cheremis. Russia |
Goddess name "Kaldas" | Russia | Goddess of cattle Russia |
"Kamennaia Baba" | Origin | 'The Stone Mothers', the monolithic stone menhirs in southern Russia. These were possibly of Scythian origin and engraved with serpent and animal images, hold a horn, and are flanked by hor√åǧïñå. |
Goddess name "Keca Aba" | Russia | Goddess of the Sun. Russia |
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 |
God name "Kostrubonko" | Russia | God of spring. "...in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: |
"Krasnyi" | Russian | 'Red' or 'Beautiful'. Russian epithet to a girl and the Sun. |
God name "Krukis" | Russia | Patron god of smiths and domestic animals. Russia |
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" | Russia | Goddess of midsummer. Russia |