Entity Periods
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46 rows where period_id = "PER_SLAV_PAGAN"
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| Link | entity_id | period_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status |
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| ENT_SLAV_BABA_YAGA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Baba Yaga ENT_SLAV_BABA_YAGA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The ambivalent witch of East-Slavic folktales who lives in a hut on hen's legs, flies in a mortar, and acts as both threat and helper to the hero. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_BANNIK,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Bannik ENT_SLAV_BANNIK | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The spirit of the bathhouse (banya) in East-Slavic belief, who must be appeased and can scald bathers who offend him. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_BELOBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Belobog ENT_SLAV_BELOBOG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | RECONSTRUCTED: the 'white god' posited as a benevolent counterpart to Chernobog; not attested in any medieval source, a scholarly/toponymic inference. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_CHERNOBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Chernobog ENT_SLAV_CHERNOBOG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The 'black god' of the Polabian Slavs to whom Helmold says misfortune was attributed; the only securely attested member of the often-cited black/white dualism. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_DAZBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Dažbog ENT_SLAV_DAZBOG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) — pre-Mongol period solar deity. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_DEVANA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Devana ENT_SLAV_DEVANA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A goddess of the hunt (Dziewanna) named by late-medieval Polish chroniclers (Długosz) who equated her with Diana; authenticity debated as a possible learned interpretatio. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_DOLA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Dola ENT_SLAV_DOLA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The personification of an individual's allotted fate or fortune in Slavic folk belief, attached at birth; its negative counterpart is Nedola. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_DOMOVOI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Domovoi ENT_SLAV_DOMOVOI | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The tutelary house spirit of East-Slavic folk belief, dwelling behind the stove and protecting the household and its livestock if respected. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_FOLK_SPIRITS,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Slavic Domestic and Nature Spirits ENT_SLAV_FOLK_SPIRITS | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Collective of lower mythological beings of East-Slavic folk belief (house, water, forest, and field spirits) documented in the ethnographic record. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_JARILO,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Jarilo ENT_SLAV_JARILO | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A spring fertility figure of the seasonal folk cult whose effigy was carried and ritually 'buried', reconstructed as the dying-and-rising counterpart to Marzanna. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_KHORS,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Khors ENT_SLAV_KHORS | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) "great Khors." | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_KIKIMORA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Kikimora ENT_SLAV_KIKIMORA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A female household spirit associated with the stove and spinning, who troubles a disorderly home with nighttime noises. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_KOSCHEI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Koschei the Deathless ENT_SLAV_KOSCHEI | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | An immortal sorcerer-villain of East-Slavic folktales who abducts the hero's bride and cannot die because his death is hidden in a needle inside an egg. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_KUPALA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Kupala ENT_SLAV_KUPALA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The personification of the midsummer (St John's Eve) festival of fire and water; treated in some sources as a folk personification of the rite. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_LADA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Lada ENT_SLAV_LADA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | DISPUTED: a putative goddess of love and marriage; Brückner and later scholarship argue she is a personification mistakenly derived from a wedding-song refrain ('lado'). | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_LESHY,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Leshy ENT_SLAV_LESHY | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The master spirit of the forest in East-Slavic belief, who guards the woodland and its animals and is known for leading travelers astray. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_MARZANNA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Marzanna ENT_SLAV_MARZANNA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Goddess or personification of death and winter (Morana/Morena), whose effigy is ritually drowned or burned at winter's end in Slavic seasonal custom. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_MOKOSH,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Mokosh ENT_SLAV_MOKOSH | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); ecclesiastical prohibitions from 9th-10th c. confirm pre-Christian cult. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | The Slavic Pantheon ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Collective grouping the principal deities of the Slavs known from the East-Slavic Primary Chronicle and the West-Slavic temple cults of Arkona, Szczecin, and Rethra. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_PERUN,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Perun ENT_SLAV_PERUN | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Attested in Byzantine-Rus treaty AD 945, 971 (PVL); Kiev Pantheon AD 980. Earliest explicit attestation of any Slavic deity. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_POLEVIK,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Polevik ENT_SLAV_POLEVIK | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A field spirit who inhabits cultivated land and may help or punish field-workers, especially those who sleep in the fields at midday. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_PORENUT,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Porenut ENT_SLAV_PORENUT | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A god of the Rani at Charenza on Rügen described by Saxo as having four faces with a fifth on his chest; his functions are unrecorded. | SRC_SAXO_GESTA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_POREVIT,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Porevit ENT_SLAV_POREVIT | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A five-headed god of the Rani worshipped alongside Rugievit at Charenza on Rügen, known only from Saxo; his specific functions are unrecorded. | SRC_SAXO_GESTA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_RADEGAST,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Radegast ENT_SLAV_RADEGAST | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The chief god of the Redarii at the temple of Rethra, named by Helmold and Adam of Bremen; often identified by scholars with Svarozhich. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_ROD,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Rod ENT_SLAV_ROD | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | medium | Attested in ecclesiastical prohibitions 9th-10th c. CE; not in the PVL Kiev Pantheon list. Classified medium. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_ROZHANITSY,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | The Rozhanitsy ENT_SLAV_ROZHANITSY | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Female birth-and-fate spirits invoked together with Rod, repeatedly condemned in medieval East-Slavic anti-pagan homilies for childbirth offerings. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_RUGIEVIT,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Rugievit ENT_SLAV_RUGIEVIT | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A seven-faced war god of the Rani at Charenza (Garz) on Rügen, whose oaken idol Saxo describes being destroyed in 1168. | SRC_SAXO_GESTA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_RUSALKA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Rusalka ENT_SLAV_RUSALKA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A female water spirit, commonly the restless soul of a drowned or unbaptized woman, who haunts rivers and woods especially during Rusalka Week. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_SIMARGL,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Simargl ENT_SLAV_SIMARGL | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | medium | Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); function uncertain; classified medium due to limited secondary evidence. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_STRIBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Stribog ENT_SLAV_STRIBOG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) wind deity attestation. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_SVAROG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Svarog ENT_SLAV_SVAROG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | medium | Attested in Hypatian Chronicle Malalas gloss (12th c.); Svarozhich in German Rethra sources (1000-1100 CE). Classified medium — indirect attestation. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_SVAROZHICH,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Svarozhich ENT_SLAV_SVAROZHICH | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A fire god understood as the son of Svarog; chief deity of the temple at Rethra in the West-Slavic chronicles and the personified sacred fire in East-Slavic homilies. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_SVETOVIT,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Svetovit ENT_SLAV_SVETOVIT | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The four-headed chief god of the great temple at Arkona on Rügen, whose white-horse oracle Saxo Grammaticus describes before the temple's destruction in 1168. | SRC_SAXO_GESTA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_TRIGLAV,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Triglav ENT_SLAV_TRIGLAV | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The three-headed god of Szczecin and Wolin whose heads signified rule over heaven, earth, and the underworld, reported in the Lives of Otto of Bamberg. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_VELES,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Veles ENT_SLAV_VELES | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Treaty oath attestation AD 945 and 971 (PVL) — among the earliest and most secure Slavic deity attestations. | SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_VODYANOY,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Vodyanoy ENT_SLAV_VODYANOY | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A malevolent male water spirit of East-Slavic folklore who rules ponds and rivers and is blamed for drownings. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_YAROVIT,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Yarovit ENT_SLAV_YAROVIT | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A West-Slavic war god (Latinized Gerovitus) worshipped at Wolgast and Havelberg, equated with Mars and associated with spring fertility. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_ZHIVA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Zhiva ENT_SLAV_ZHIVA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | A goddess of the Polabian Slavs (Siwa/Živa) named by Helmold, her name connected to the Slavic root for 'living', suggesting a life/fertility function. | SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA | reviewed |
| ENT_SLAV_ZMEY_GORYNYCH,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Zmey Gorynych ENT_SLAV_ZMEY_GORYNYCH | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | The multi-headed fire-breathing dragon of East-Slavic byliny and folktales, slain by heroes such as Dobrynya Nikitich. | SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_DABOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Dabog ENT_SSL_DABOG | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | South-Slavic (chiefly Serbian) reflex of the sun-god, attested in Serbian folklore as 'Dabog'/'Daba', a chthonic lord of the earth and of silver/gold often demonized in folk-Christian tradition; cognate of the East-Slavic Dažbog. | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_GERMAN,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | German (Herman) ENT_SSL_GERMAN | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | South-Slavic (Bulgarian/Serbian) rain-ritual figure: a small clay or dough effigy made, mourned and 'buried' or cast into water by women in a rain-making rite to end drought; attested ethnographically rather than as a cult god. | SRC_RALSTON_RUSSIAN_FOLK | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_PRIPEGALA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Pripegala ENT_SSL_PRIPEGALA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | West-Slavic (Polabian) deity known only from the Magdeburg letter (c. 1108), which decries his cult of orgiastic rites and decapitated-victim sacrifice; etymology and exact function disputed (sometimes likened to Priapus/Belial by the Latin source). | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_PROVE,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Prove ENT_SSL_PROVE | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | West-Slavic (Wagrian/Polabian) god of the land of Oldenburg, worshipped in a sacred oak grove without an idol; named by Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (c. 1170); often read as a god of law/justice (cf. Prove ~ pravo). | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_TJARNAGLOFI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Tjarnaglofi ENT_SSL_TJARNAGLOFI | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | West-Slavic (Pomeranian) war-god whose silver-mustachioed idol was a Rani battle-talisman; named in the Knytlinga saga as captured by the Danes (1168). Norse-transmitted theonym for a Rügen-area Slavic god. | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_VID,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Vid ENT_SSL_VID | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | Reconstructed South-Slavic theonym 'Vid' surviving in Croatian toponymy and folk usage (e.g. Vidova Gora) and folk-Christianized onto St Vitus (Sveti Vid); related to the West-Slavic -vit theophoric element (Svetovit). Attestation is indirect/onomastic. | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
| ENT_SSL_VILA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN | Vila ENT_SSL_VILA | Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN | high | South-Slavic nymph-class (vila, pl. vile; Bulgarian samodiva/samovila) — beautiful winged female nature-spirits of mountains, springs and clouds in Serbian/Croatian/Bulgarian folklore; distinct from the East-Slavic water-spirit Rusalka. | SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC | reviewed |
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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
[entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
[period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
[confidence] TEXT,
[rationale] TEXT,
[source_id] TEXT,
[review_status] TEXT,
PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);