Choirs

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Chors (also Chers , Chrs , Churs or Chros ) is a Slavic god who is believed to have embodied the moon . Along with Perun , Dažbog , Simargl , Mokosch and Stribog, he was one of the six deities whose statues Prince Vladimir I had erected in Kiev in 980 and is therefore counted among the main gods of the Eastern Slavs .

Choir is only mentioned in Russian sources. The medieval authors describe him vaguely: sometimes he is called the “Jewish thunder angel ” ( Beseda trech svjatitelej ), sometimes he is said to come from Cyprus ( Slovo i otkrovenje ) or just a person with divine qualities ( Chozdenje Bogorodicy ). His actual responsibility does not emerge from this.

The only concrete clue is found in the Song of Igor , where Prince Vseslav Brjatschislawitsch of Polotsk ability is attributed to (1044-1101), into a werewolf to transform. He had administered the city during the day, but at night he walked from Kiev to Tmutorokan in the form of a wolf and crossed the path of "the great Chrs". In the older literature, which was based on this tradition and etymological interpretations, Chors was therefore interpreted as a sun deity . However, this contradicts the werewolf motif, and so the same story was later interpreted in the opposite way, namely that Chors was a moon deity and the opposite pole to the sun god Dažbog.

literature

  • Naďa Profantová, Martin Profant: Encyklopedie slovanských bohů a mýtů . Nakladatelství Libri, Praha 2000, ISBN 80-7277-011-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zdeněk Váňa: Mythology and the world of gods of the Slavic peoples , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 387838937X , p. 79.