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Perun

Perun

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Oct 5, 2026

AlistairNARRATOR
17:47
Like the Greeks, the Romans and the early Saxons, they worshipped nature in all her manifestations.
AlistairNARRATOR
17:53
They had among their gods Perun, the thunder god, Svarog, the god of light and of the sky, Dazbog, the sun god, Liada, the god of war, Volos, protector of cattle and sheep, the panopola of the Slavs, Stribog, god of winds, Morena, goddess of death and frost, Siva, goddess of universal life.
AlistairNARRATOR
18:15
They also had Don, Dnieper and Danube, who were three divinized rivers, the Vodyani, the spirit of the waters, the Laishi, spirit of the woods, the Dumavoi, genius of the home and the Raselkas or Naiads.
AlistairNARRATOR
18:31
Besides these there were also many local divinities, and every family had its own dylaryu.
Doug NormanGUEST
50:52
And he immediately ordered the destruction of all the pagan idols in Kiev and in his state.
Doug NormanGUEST
51:00
And there was one great statue to a god called Perun that they dragged through the mud and beat with iron rods and then threw it in the Dnieper River.
Doug NormanGUEST
51:12
and then he issued a royal decree that every citizen had to be baptized.
Doug NormanGUEST
51:17
Anyone who didn't come to the river would be declared the enemy of the prince.
ReidHOST
26:09
So in Proto-Indo-European cultures, there are also like thunder god weapons that include things like hammers, clubs, like maces, things that are those kind of like impact weapons.
ReidHOST
26:25
Perkunas and Perun are associated weapons that can take the form of axes, stones, clubs, or hammers.
ReidHOST
26:30
In Lithuanian tradition, Perkunas sometimes has a hammer.
ReidHOST
26:34
In Baltic and Germanic traditions, there are...
Dustin NemosHOST
13:45
But you can see where they've got this sort of pagan god with lightning control.
Dustin NemosHOST
13:49
Everything from Zeus to Ishtar to Indra to Vajrapani to Thor to Legong to Raijin to Perun.
Dustin NemosHOST
14:00
I can't even pronounce the Polynesian one.
Dustin NemosHOST
14:03
Ta-Hiramatea.

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