{"id":6172,"date":"2026-05-19T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/stribog\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:26:19","slug":"stribog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/stribog\/","title":{"rendered":"Stribog"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6172\" class=\"elementor elementor-6172 elementor-3030 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01b72f6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"01b72f6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3db54bb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3db54bb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c80ac80 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c80ac80\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f7d518 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3f7d518\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Stribog, Slavic god of the wind<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca757ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca757ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Stribog is a Slavic god of the wind, to whom storms and the air currents in all directions of the heavens were ascribed. Stribog (Old Russian \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043e\u0433\u044a) is the god of wind and storms in the Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>.<\/p><p>He belongs to the six divine images that Grand Prince Vladimir I had erected on the castle hill above Kiev in 980. In the &#8220;Slovo o pluku Igoreve&#8221; the winds are called &#8220;Stribog&#8217;s grandsons&#8221; (&#8220;Stribozhi vnutsi&#8221;), which documents Stribog&#8217;s status as forefather of the wind in a manner similar to the designation of the Rus as &#8220;Dazhbog&#8217;s grandsons&#8221;.<\/p><p>This makes Stribog one of the few Slavic gods whose function is secured by direct sources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-201e0db e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"201e0db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ba4560 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"4ba4560\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"God \/ goddess: personified supreme power in the pantheon of a culture, with clear areas of responsibility: forces of nature, fate, war, fertility. 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gods from the Slavic tradition, historical and illustrative\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_slawisch_stribog-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_slawisch_stribog-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_slawisch_stribog-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_slawisch_stribog.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd6e58d e-con-boxed e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"dd6e58d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c584991 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c584991\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cba527 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7cba527\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sources and First Attestations<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d365c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d365c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The central sources are the Nestor Chronicle (1110 to 1118) in the entry for the year 980 and the &#8220;Slovo o pluku Igoreve&#8221; (end of the 12th century). In the Nestor Chronicle, Stribog appears in the catalogue of names of Vladimir&#8217;s <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> between Dazhbog and Simargl, without further characterization.<\/p><p>In the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign the passage is richer: &#8220;Behold, the winds, Stribog&#8217;s grandsons, blow from the sea like arrows upon the brave troops of Igor&#8221;. The metaphorical identification of the winds as Stribog&#8217;s descendants is a sound piece of evidence for his function in terms of the history of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religion<\/span>.<\/p><p>Further mentions are found in medieval sermon writings against paganism, for instance in the &#8220;Sermon of St. Gregory&#8221; and in the &#8220;Tolkovaniye nekoego ljubitelja Hrista&#8221; (12th to 14th century), in which Stribog is listed alongside Perun, Khors, Mokosh and other names of gods as a forbidden <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Pejorative term for an image of veneration regarded as false.\" tabindex=\"0\">idol<\/span>.<\/p><p>These sources are polemical and offer no substantive characterization, but they confirm the liturgical reality of the Stribog <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of religious acts of veneration for a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> into the High Middle Ages.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e1e9d2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8e1e9d2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b212f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1b212f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Etymology and Interpretations of the Name<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4c74c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4c74c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The etymology of the name is disputed. A derivation from Proto-Slavic &#8220;stryj\u044c&#8221; (paternal uncle) interprets Stribog as &#8220;uncle-god&#8221;, possibly as a brother of Svarog. A second derivation from Proto-Slavic &#8220;*sterti&#8221; (to spread out) makes him the &#8220;spreading one&#8221;, which fits the wind; this etymology is advocated by Toporov and Ivanov.<\/p><p>A third hypothesis connects the name with the Iranian &#8220;Sribag&#8221; (high god), similar to Simargl, who clearly has Iranian roots (Senmurv). This Iranian trail has been discussed since Roman Jakobson, yet it remains disputed. Henryk \u0141owmia\u0144ski rejected it, Aleksander Gieysztor held it to be possible but unproven.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01ca290 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"01ca290\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6aac1ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6aac1ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Function and Myth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5bf63b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c5bf63b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The only directly attested function of Stribog is dominion over the winds. From the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign it can be reconstructed that the individual winds were conceived as his descendants, comparable to the Anemoi of the Greek <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span> (Boreas, Notos, Zephyros, Euros).<\/p><p>A concrete <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> about Stribog has not been transmitted. In &#8220;Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan&#8221; (1981) Boris Rybakov reconstructed an extensive Stribog <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the transmitted tales of the gods of a culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">mythology<\/span>, in which he stands in conflict with Perun as a cosmic orderer of the winds; this reconstruction is hypothetical and disputed in present-day research.<\/p><p>Folk personifications of individual winds are found in East Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The handed-down folk culture with customs, narratives and songs.\" tabindex=\"0\">folklore<\/span>: the &#8220;Posvist&#8221; or &#8220;Pochvist&#8221; as a violent whirlwind, the &#8220;Vetr&#8221; as the general wind, the &#8220;Vichor&#8221; as a storm wind. Whether these figures are direct descendants of Stribog in the mythological sense or independent folk-religious formations cannot be decided.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e279f5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1e279f5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c672b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6c672b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Veneration and Cult Practice<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bba8e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9bba8e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Concrete cult sites of Stribog are not attested archaeologically. Like all members of the &#8220;Vladimir sextet&#8221;, his image was destroyed in 988 during the Christianization of the Kievan Rus.<\/p><p>Possible remnants of his cult survived in folk practices that are documented into the 19th century: invocations of the wind before sea voyages, the throwing of flour or bread into the wind as a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A gift to a deity, to express thanks, a request or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">sacrifice<\/span>, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The petitioning or conjuring address of a deity or power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invocation<\/span> formulas during storms in which the wind is addressed as &#8220;father&#8221; or &#8220;grandfather&#8221;.<\/p><p>The connection of these practices with the historical Stribog <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> is a hypothesis, not direct proof.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-301aed3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"301aed3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-472b14f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"472b14f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Classification in the History of Religion<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-870bfc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"870bfc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Structurally, Stribog corresponds to functions that in other pantheons are exercised by their own wind gods: Vayu in Hinduism, Aeolus in Greece, Njord (in partial function) among the Germanic peoples.<\/p><p>In Indo-European comparative <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the transmitted tales of the gods of a culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">mythology<\/span>, Vladimir Toporov particularly emphasized the Stribog-Vayu parallel and pointed to shared structural features: both are not primary but derived chief gods, both rule over the multiplicity of the winds, both stand in a structural relationship to the supreme sky god (Perun and Indra respectively).<\/p><p>In the Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>, Stribog is the only independent weather god who does not coincide with the thunderer Perun. While Perun is responsible for storm, thunderstorm and thunder, Stribog covers the calmer phenomenon of the continuous wind.<\/p><p>This differentiation is remarkable in terms of the history of religion and speaks for a deliberately structured <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> in which the natural powers were kept functionally distinct.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f48e2c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9f48e2c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eed9aa9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eed9aa9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">History of Research<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2a939d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2a939d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Stribog belongs to those gods whose study is shaped by fundamental questions of method. Aleksander Br\u00fcckner regarded him as a literary extra without real cult roots. Boris Rybakov saw in him the chief god of the wind and reconstructed an entire Stribog <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The scholarly doctrine of God and of the faith of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theology<\/span>; this maximal position is today considered to overstate the case.<\/p><p>Aleksander Gieysztor (&#8220;Mitologia S\u0142owian&#8221;, 1982) took a mediating position: Stribog is historically secured as a wind god, while everything else remains hypothetical. Henryk \u0141owmia\u0144ski and Ji\u0159\u00ed Dynda largely follow this line.<\/p><p>A particular discussion concerns the question of whether Stribog stood in a hierarchical relationship with Khors or with other gods of the Vladimir sextet. The order of the enumeration in the Nestor Chronicle (Perun, Khors, Dazhbog, Stribog, Simargl, Mokosh) is possibly to be read hierarchically, but this is not certain.<\/p><p>Mokosh, the only goddess of the group, stands in the last position, which suggests a gender-specific valuation; among the male gods the hierarchy remains unclear.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43b0d9a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"43b0d9a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f8654f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9f8654f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Afterlife and Modern Reception<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f6724d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f6724d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>After Christianization, Stribog disappeared from the official texts. In the 19th century he was rediscovered by Romantic Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies everyday culture, customs and inherited beliefs.\" tabindex=\"0\">folklore studies<\/span> and linked with folk conceptions of the wind.<\/p><p>In the Neopagan Rodnovery movement of the late 20th and early 21st century, Stribog is a central figure, often conceived as a brother of Svarog and father of the winds. This modern veneration is, in terms of the history of religion, a new creation; its connection to medieval practice is constructed.<\/p><p>In the literature and visual art of the eastern Slavic world, Stribog has left a modest trace. In Vasnetsov&#8217;s paintings, in Russian Symbolism of the early 20th century and in Ukrainian national literature, allusions to him appear, occasionally also in contemporary Slavic fantasy literature.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7545d3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d7545d3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5831d0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5831d0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9454144 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9454144\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;Povest&#8217; vremennych let&#8221; (Nestor Chronicle), entry for the year 980, critical edition by Dmitrij Lichachev, Moscow 1950. &#8220;Slovo o pluku Igoreve&#8221; (end of the 12th century), translation by Dietmar Endler, Leipzig 1971. &#8220;Sermon of St. Gregory against the Heathens&#8221; and &#8220;Tolkovaniye nekoego ljubitelja Hrista&#8221; (12th to 14th century).<\/p><p>Aleksander Br\u00fcckner, &#8220;Mitologia s\u0142owia\u0144ska&#8221;, Krakow 1918. Aleksander Gieysztor, &#8220;Mitologia S\u0142owian&#8221;, Warsaw 1982. Boris Rybakov, &#8220;Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan&#8221;, Moscow 1981 (with reservations).<\/p><p>Vladimir Toporov and Vyacheslav Ivanov, &#8220;Issledovaniya v oblasti slavyanskikh drevnostey&#8221;, Moscow 1974. Henryk \u0141owmia\u0144ski, &#8220;Religia S\u0142owian i jej upadek&#8221;, Warsaw 1979. Roman Jakobson, &#8220;Slavic Gods and <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A spiritual being to which harmful or ambivalent effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">Demons<\/span>&#8220;, in: Selected Writings VII, Berlin 1985. Ji\u0159\u00ed Dynda, &#8220;Slovansk\u00e9 pohanstv\u00ed ve st\u0159edov\u011bk\u00fdch latinsk\u00fdch pramenech&#8221;, Prague 2017. Michael Shkapa and further contributions in &#8220;Studia Mythologica Slavica&#8221;, Ljubljana since 1998.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a480f43 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a480f43\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bf2d8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4bf2d8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Tale of Igor's Campaign and Wind Symbolism<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d35249 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d35249\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The &#8220;Slovo o pluku Igoreve&#8221; (Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign), composed at the end of the 12th century, is the most important work of Old Russian poetry and at the same time the most valuable literary testimony to the East Slavic complex of gods.<\/p><p>In the text several gods are named: Veles as &#8220;Veles&#8217; grandson&#8221; (for the singer Bojan), Dazhbog as <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An ancestor venerated in many cultures as a protective power.\" tabindex=\"0\">ancestral<\/span> father of the Rus, Stribog as ancestral father of the winds, as well as Khors and Trojan.<\/p><p>These references to gods are not cultically motivated but poetic: the poet employs them as metaphors in order to emphasize the cosmic dimension of the events.<\/p><p>The central Stribog passage reads, in Dietmar Endler&#8217;s translation: &#8220;Behold, the winds, Stribog&#8217;s grandsons, blow from the sea like arrows upon the brave troops of Igor.&#8221; The metaphor of the &#8220;arrows&#8221; turns the wind into a warlike power that turns against Igor&#8217;s host.<\/p><p>Roman Jakobson read this passage as a key piece of evidence for the religious deep structure of the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign and showed that the seemingly poetic metaphor goes back to a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Originating from the period before the spread of Christianity.\" tabindex=\"0\">pre-Christian<\/span> conception of the winds as divine warriors.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d881ad4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d881ad4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4ff412 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f4ff412\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Question of the Authenticity of the Tale of Igor's Campaign<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b6023c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b6023c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>An important preliminary remark on Stribog research concerns the authenticity of the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign itself. The only manuscript of the work was discovered at the end of the 18th century by the collector Aleksei Musin-Pushkin and burned in 1812 in the great fire of Moscow; only printed editions and copies were preserved.<\/p><p>Since the 19th century, some Slavists (most recently Edward L. Keenan, &#8220;Josef Dobrovsk\u00fd and the Origins of the Igor&#8217; Tale&#8221;, 2003) have advocated the thesis that the work is a forgery of the 18th century.<\/p><p>The overwhelming majority of Slavic studies (Roman Jakobson, Andrei Zaliznyak in &#8220;Slovo o polku Igoreve. Vzglyad lingvista&#8221;, 2004), however, defends the authenticity of the work with linguistic arguments.<\/p><p>Should the forgery hypothesis prevail, the Stribog attestation would also have to be reassessed. The detailed linguistic analysis by Zaliznyak and others has, however, considerably strengthened the authenticity position, so that the Stribog attestation in the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign can today be regarded as historically reliable.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42f8e17 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"42f8e17\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c161203 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c161203\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Christian Polemic against the Idols<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45ddb90 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45ddb90\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A valuable source for the Stribog tradition are the medieval sermon and polemical writings against paganism. These texts aim to reject the old gods, but at the same time list their names and functions and are thus indirect sources of evidence for <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Synonymous with heathen; belonging to a pre-Christian religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">pagan<\/span> practice.<\/p><p>The &#8220;Sermon of St. Gregory on Idol Worship&#8221; (transmitted in several manuscripts of the 12th to 14th century) and the &#8220;Tolkovaniye nekoego ljubitelja Hrista&#8221; regularly name Stribog in the lists of forbidden gods, alongside Perun, Khors, Mokosh and others.<\/p><p>Aleksander Br\u00fcckner and Henryk \u0141owmia\u0144ski have argued that these lists are partly copied from one another and thus do not represent independent attestations.<\/p><p>The evaluation of the sources therefore requires methodological caution; individual strands of god-names may be transmitted in literary form without necessarily corresponding to an independent cult practice. Stribog, however, belongs through the mention in the Tale of Igor&#8217;s Campaign to the better-secured names of gods.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15ebb1e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"15ebb1e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-986b6c5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"986b6c5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Structural Position in the Slavic Pantheon<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9c788d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a9c788d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> of Vladimir, Stribog occupies the fourth position (after Perun, Khors, Dazhbog). This order is possibly hierarchical, but could also be motivated by <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An ordered sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> technique.<\/p><p>The combination of Khors-Dazhbog-Stribog is interpreted in more recent research (Ji\u0159\u00ed Dynda) as a functional complex of the &#8220;sky and weather gods&#8221;: Khors as the solar disk, Dazhbog as solar power and prosperity, Stribog as wind and weather force.<\/p><p>This triad is illuminating in terms of the history of religion, because it shows that the East Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> of the Kievan Rus was functionally structured and did not represent a random collection of god-names.<\/p><p>With Perun as thunder god (highest position) and Mokosh as earth goddess (at the end of the list, the only goddess), the sextet forms a functionally complete world of gods: sky-thunder-human (Perun), the sun in two aspects (Khors, Dazhbog), wind (Stribog), an exotic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being that unites the characteristics of various creatures in itself.\" tabindex=\"0\">hybrid being<\/span> of Iranian origin (Simargl) and earth-water-woman (Mokosh).<\/p><p>This structure assigns Stribog an important position as a bridge between the heavenly powers and the earthly sphere.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9950de e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c9950de\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-100b13b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"100b13b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Indo-European Parallels<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18a41c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18a41c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Vladimir Toporov and Vyacheslav Ivanov applied Indo-European comparative <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the transmitted tales of the gods of a culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">mythology<\/span> to Stribog. The closest parallel is the Vedic Vayu, god of wind and of the breath of life.<\/p><p>Both gods are not primary chief deities but stand functionally in the second rank, both rule over the multiplicity of the winds and both have messenger and mediator functions.<\/p><p>In the Greek <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>, Stribog corresponds to the Anemoi (the four chief winds Boreas, Notos, Euros, Zephyros) as well as their father Astraios.<\/p><p>In the Germanic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>, no single figure has a comparable function; the winds are assigned partly to Odin (as storm god of the Wild Hunt), partly to Njord (as sea wind). The Slavic function of a distinct wind god is thus a relatively clear special development of the Indo-European complex of gods.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-683b3a8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"683b3a8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec45860 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ec45860\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Storm Folk Belief and the Memory of Stribog<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2154b2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2154b2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In East Slavic folk religion, traces of a storm <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Religious ideas and customs that are widespread in everyday life.\" tabindex=\"0\">folk belief<\/span> have been preserved, which research occasionally connects with the old Stribog complex. The figures Pochvist (violent wind), Vetr (general wind), Vichor (whirlwind) and Bujnik (storm wind) appear in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian narratives.<\/p><p>They are partly personified, partly interpreted as wrathful <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A bodiless being to which agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirits<\/span> against which one can protect oneself through ritual inversion (putting on shoes the wrong way, spitting against the wind).<\/p><p>During long-lasting storms or when the harvest was threatened by drought or storm wind, bread, salt and flour were thrown into the wind or laid at the edge of the field in some regions.<\/p><p>These practices are documented in folkloric collections of the 19th century (Sergej Maksimov, Vladimir Dahl) and speak for a continued religious veneration of the wind power, even though the name Stribog had long since vanished from the active vocabulary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9886406 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9886406\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e7e07c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4e7e07c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Stribog in Modern Reception<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bbc449 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3bbc449\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the East Slavic Symbolist movement of the early 20th century, Stribog undergoes a literary rediscovery. Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Bely and other poets refer to him as a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sign that stands in place of a conception or meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">symbol<\/span> of a primal wind and storm force.<\/p><p>In Ukrainian national literature of the 19th and 20th centuries he is occasionally present, without attaining the significance of Dazhbog.<\/p><p>In the modern Rodnovery movement, Stribog belongs to the recognized chief gods of a reconstructed pantheon. The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The fixed order of worship of a religious community.\" tabindex=\"0\">liturgy<\/span> connects wind invocations with themes of nature conservation and with ecological spirituality.<\/p><p>In contemporary fantasy literature (especially in Andrzej Sapkowski and Maria Semjonowa), Stribog is a recurring figure of the Slavic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The handed-down folk culture with customs, narratives and songs.\" tabindex=\"0\">folklore<\/span> universe. This modern reception is to be evaluated, in terms of the history of religion, as a new construction, not as the continuation of an unbroken tradition.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e65f59 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5e65f59\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33b792e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"33b792e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Personifications of the Winds in Folklore<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5e1817 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b5e1817\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>While Stribog himself is barely tangible in the medieval tradition, East Slavic folk religion knows a series of personified wind figures, which according to Toporov and Ivanov are to be interpreted as his &#8220;grandsons&#8221;.<\/p><p>Pochvist (also Posvist) is the violent wind power, often conceived as northern or eastern, who in the Russian fairy tale often appears as an old man with a white beard and blue eyes.<\/p><p>Vetr is the general wind, less personified, but frequently addressed in peasant invocations. Vichor (&#8220;whirlwind&#8221;) is the especially feared wind, conceived as demonic and transporting witches, the dead or other otherworldly beings.<\/p><p>These wind personifications are well attested ethnographically. Sergej Maksimov, Dmitrij Zelenin and Aleksander Afanasjew collected hundreds of invocations, fairy tales and peasant practices in which the winds appear as personal beings.<\/p><p>During storms the wind was conjured by spitting &#8220;against the wind&#8221; (a gesture of inversion) or by throwing bread and salt into the wind. Before sea voyages or before important field work, the wind was addressed directly and asked for benevolence.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c5c85f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9c5c85f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74a3d78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"74a3d78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Wind and Death: Chthonic Aspects<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9251f89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9251f89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A dark side of the Stribog tradition concerns the connection of the wind with death. In East Slavic folk tradition, especially violent storms (&#8220;bujnyj veter&#8221;) are often signs that the &#8220;unclean powers&#8221; (the dead, witches, water spirits) are abroad.<\/p><p>In the &#8220;Slovo o pluku Igoreve&#8221; the winds appear as arrows that destroy Igor&#8217;s host; this warlike connotation can also be found again in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The handed-down folk culture with customs, narratives and songs.\" tabindex=\"0\">folklore<\/span>. Whirlwinds that arise suddenly and topple houses or trees were treated with special <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Magical or ecclesiastical exclusion; also the binding of a power through a formula.\" tabindex=\"0\">banishing<\/span> formulas.<\/p><p>In &#8220;Filologicheskie razyskanija&#8221;, Boris Uspenskij advanced the thesis that East Slavic wind <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The scholarly doctrine of God and of the faith of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theology<\/span> exhibits two layers: a &#8220;light&#8221; wind complex (fresh breeze, mild weather, fruitful winds), which would be assigned to the chief god Stribog, and a &#8220;dark&#8221; wind complex (storms, whirlwinds, dangerous winds), which belongs to the sphere of the unclean powers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stribog, Slavic god of the wind Stribog is a Slavic god of the wind, to whom storms and the air currents in all directions of the heavens were ascribed. 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