In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) is the highest god of the

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In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone, horses and carts, weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow), and war. He was first associated with weapons made of stone and later with those of metal. Pagan tribes of all denominations recognized the law of nature. They were acutely aware that they were a part of nature, not above it. To have enough food, shelter, sun and rain was never taken for granted and that always depended on the benevolence of the natural forces. Indeed, Perun wore a crown made of lightning rods and in his left hand held a thunder hatchet and in his right, a fire bow. Whenever Perun threw a hatchet, thunder resounded across the land. Wherever he shot an arrow from his bow, lightning struck across the sky. To Native European Religionists, it was as if the sky opened to another dimension. A storm was an omen. A direct communication from Perun himself, warning the community to stay on the correct path and not to turn its back on the law of the land – the law of nature. The Baltic tribes had a widespread cult of the thunderer Perkunas, one of the main deities of the Baltic pantheon. With Perun, this deity also shares common attributes (amulets in the form of an axe, a fiery four-pointed symbol, oak as the main tree and the origin of the name (from the PIE root *perk). In the modern Baltic languages, related words associated with the deity Perkunas have been preserved: Lithuanian perkūnas (thunder) and perkūnija (lightning); Latvian pērkons (thunder).

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