relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 2295,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,opposes,ENT_SLAV_VELES,high,"The central Slavic mythological narrative: Perun (thunder) battles Veles (chthonic) who steals cattle or a solar being. Veles hides below the earth, in cattle, in trees; Perun strikes him with lightning. The oath treaties (PVL AD 945, 971) invoke both together as complementary cosmic powers. Structurally cognate with Baltic Perkūnas-Velnias. Brückner (1918) pp. 67-155.",SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed,PER_SLAV_PAGAN 2300,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,aligned_with,ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS,high,"Perun and Perkūnas are cognate thunder deities: same PIE *perkʷ- root, same cosmic myth structure (vs. Veles/Velnias), same oak cult, same role as divine guarantor of oaths. The Slavic-Baltic parallel is one of the most secure in Indo-European comparative mythology. Greimas (1992) pp. 77-84; Brückner (1918) pp. 67-80.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed,PER_SLAV_PAGAN 2302,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,aligned_with,ENT_NOR_THOR,high,"Perun and Thor are typologically parallel thunder deities: both wield the thunder weapon against a chaos serpent/giant, both protect cosmic order, both are oak-associated. The structural parallel (not etymological — different PIE roots) is well established in IE comparative mythology. Brückner (1918) pp. 67-80.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed,PER_SLAV_PAGAN 2304,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,embodies,ENT_STORM,high,Perun is the divine personification of the thunderstorm; his cult is centred on lightning as a divine force striking chaos from the sky. PVL AD 980.,SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed,PER_SLAV_PAGAN 2481,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,patron_of,ENT_SOVEREIGNTY,high,"Perun heads the 980 CE Kievan pantheon of Vladimir (Primary Chronicle); supreme thunder-god and patron of the prince and druzhina, the sovereign deity of the East Slavs.",SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed, 5597,ENT_SLAV_PERUN,member_of,ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON,high,Perun heads the Kiev pantheon listed in the Primary Chronicle.,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed,