Slavic mythology

Russian Folk Negative Characters

Here is a list of (almost) all Slavic mythical creatures. Alkonost, who gets her name from the Greek demigod Alyclone, is a creature with the body of a bird and the head of a woman. Her voice is incredibly beautiful and alluring, causing people to forget everything and never be able to experience happiness like hearing the voice again. She lives in the underworld with her counterpart, who is named Sirin, who appears in an orchard during the morning to cry on the Apple Feast of the Savior…

Side notes on Slavic gods: 1 Slavic culture isn’t like, for example, Greek one. The pantheon is underdeveloped, a lot of mythology is lost, and the names, attributes and myths strongly vary throughout different regions. All this is richly compensated by intricate and detailed folklore about spirits and creatures (and I’ve got a whole highlight ‘Slavic folklore’ about that). 2 ‘But where is Yarilo?’ I’m sorry, but all the credible research I’ve seen stands on the point that he was almost…

I want to show other people my vision of slavic mythology in comic story. This will be my first big comics project, and have hope, I do it to the end. Slavic mythology is very interesting and I'm really surprised that in polish school any theachers

The Slavs worshiped a wide range of deities, from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the White Sea. Slavic folklore is cultic in nature, where the same

Ever since I started telling you about my native Slavic folklore, I feel a bit like Baba Yaga’s ambassador🦉 So, now I’ve decided to invite you in her hut on chicken legs on a brink of Smorodina fire river… The pictures we’ve created with @khvost.art are here to be a helpful visual, they may be not 100% historically accurate, but we’ve tried our best🐔 What else would you love to know about Baba Yaga? Or, maybe, some other Slavic folklore or mythological characters?

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An illustration for the fairytale "Vasilisa the Beautiful"

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Learn more about Slavic mythology, its origin and the most important symbols that can still be found in Slavic folklore today.

Biesy (singular: bies) are a personification of all the undefined evil forces in the nature. Once they were placed amongst the most dangerous and the oldest demons in the central and eastern Europe…