Rod (Slavic religion)

Rod
Ancestors, fate, spiritual continuity, family continuity
Anthropomorphic representation of Rod in a temple of the Native Ukrainian National Faith.
Other names	Sud
Abode	Vyraj
Symbol	Rosette
Ethnic group	East Slavs, South Slavs
Consort	Rozhanitsa
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Quirinus
Celtic equivalent	Toutatis

In the pre-Christian religion of Eastern and Southern Slavs, Rod (Slovenian, Croatian Bosnian: Rod, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic: Род, Ukrainian Cyrillic: Рід) is the god of the family, ancestors and fate, perhaps as the supreme god. Among Southern Slavs, he is also known as Sud ("(the) Judge").^[1] He is usually mentioned together with Rozhanitsy deities (among Southern Slavs, the Sudzenitsy). One's first haircut (postriziny) was dedicated to him, in a celebration in which he and the rozhanitsy were given a meal and the cut hair.^[2] His cult lost its importance through time, and in the ninth or tenth century he was replaced by Perun, Svarog and/or Svetevid, which explains his absence in the pantheon of Vladimir the Great.^[3][4][1]