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Perun | |
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God of the sky, lightning, thunder, war | |
Weapon | Hammer, mace or axe |
Battles | Battle of Perun and Veles |
Animals | Eagle |
Symbol | Oak, fire, iris |
Genealogy | |
Consort | Mokosh, Perunika or Dodola |
Children | Jarilo and Morana[1] |
Equivalents | |
Indo-European equivalent | Perkwunos |
Norse equivalent | Thor |
Finnic equivalent | Ukko or Uku |
Baltic equivalent | Perkūnas |
In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перун) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees.[2] His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone[3]), horses and carts, and weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow). The supreme god in the Kievan Rus' during the 9th-10th centuries,[4] Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone and later with those of metal.[5][6]
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