Slavic Mythology · deity
Stribog
Stribog
also: Stribog · Stribog
deitythe windthe airthe breath of the skyattested
The god of the wind, the air, the breath of the sky; in the Kiev pantheon. The 'Stribog' is the wind itself in folk belief.
The account
Who they are
Stribog is the god of the wind, the air, the breath of the sky [S1]S1 · Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremennykh let / Latopis povest' vremen'nykh let)c. 1113 CE (describes 10th c.)textOpen source ↗[S2]S2 · Hypatian / Hletovskaya Chronicle (Kiev idol list)14th-15th c. (later copy)text[S4]S4 · Vsevolod Miller, 'Slavic God-Concepts' (Slavjanskije bozhestvennye predstavl'enija)1860 (19th c. ethnographic)academic[S5]S5 · 19th-20th c. Slavic ethnographic collections (Volkov, Ivanov, etc.)19th-20th c.academic. In the Primary Chronicle, Stribog is named as the 'father of the winds' (he 'sends the winds') [S1]S1 · Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremennykh let / Latopis povest' vremen'nykh let)c. 1113 CE (describes 10th c.)textOpen source ↗. In folk belief, the 'Stribog' is the wind itself, and the wind is sometimes personified as a deity [S5]S5 · 19th-20th c. Slavic ethnographic collections (Volkov, Ivanov, etc.)19th-20th c.academic. Stribog's role is clear (the wind-god) but his mythic biography is not attested [S4]S4 · Vsevolod Miller, 'Slavic God-Concepts' (Slavjanskije bozhestvennye predstavl'enija)1860 (19th c. ethnographic)academic.
Worth knowing
- God of the wind, the air [S1]S1 · Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremennykh let / Latopis povest' vremen'nykh let)c. 1113 CE (describes 10th c.)textOpen source ↗[S2]S2 · Hypatian / Hletovskaya Chronicle (Kiev idol list)14th-15th c. (later copy)text[S4]S4 · Vsevolod Miller, 'Slavic God-Concepts' (Slavjanskije bozhestvennye predstavl'enija)1860 (19th c. ethnographic)academic.
- 'The father of the winds' in the Primary Chronicle [S1]S1 · Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremennykh let / Latopis povest' vremen'nykh let)c. 1113 CE (describes 10th c.)textOpen source ↗.
- The wind itself, personified, in folk belief [S5]S5 · 19th-20th c. Slavic ethnographic collections (Volkov, Ivanov, etc.)19th-20th c.academic.
Uncertainties & variants
- Stribog's mythic biography is not attested; the sources name him as the wind-god but give no stories [S4]S4 · Vsevolod Miller, 'Slavic God-Concepts' (Slavjanskije bozhestvennye predstavl'enija)1860 (19th c. ethnographic)academic.
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Connections
Family & kinship
SIBLING_OFPerun — Perun and Stribog are both members of the Kiev pantheon.[S1] [S2]
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