• 2 Etymology. 3 Weapons. 4 The cult of Perun among neighboring tribes. 5 Characteristics. 6 Post-Christian Perun. 7 In neopaganism.
  • It is said that Perun was born from Mother Sva or Goddes Lada after he ate a pike fish which contained the embodiment of Rod the creator God.
  • As the God who had the strongest cult, next to Dažbog and Svarog, Perun was considered the most powerful God in Slavic folklore.
  • Perun was no exception. Often he was presented as a respectable man of 35-40 years old with a golden mustache and beard that shone like lightning.
  • bununla birlikte perun ile thor benzerlik gösterse de (tüm mitolojiler benzerlik gösterir) perun'un çekici değil baltası vardır.
  • While statues of Perun stood in Novgorod and in Kiev, and as Svarozic in Rethra, the sanctuary of Prove at Oldenburg is described as without idols [13].
  • Several Slavic countries refer to various deposits as “Perun’s stones,” “thunderbolt stones,” “thunderbolt wedges,” and “Perun’s arrow.”
  • Perun is the highest god in the Slavic pantheon, and he is associated with the sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility, and oak trees.
  • There is a well-known Lithuanian story, in which Perun occupies an intermediate place between that of a deity and of a demon.