Lada (deity)

M. Presnyakov. Lada. 1998.

Lada , Lahra or Lado (na) , sometimes also called Lupa , is a Baltic deity and Slavic deity .

history

In medieval Czech and Russian wedding songs, the exclamation Lada or Lado can be found in the meaning of "beloved". This gave rise to the widespread interpretation that Lada was an old Slavic goddess of love . However, there is no evidence for this interpretation in older sources. Only in the 15th century is Lada mentioned by Jan Długosz and in the Chronica Polonorum by the Krakow scholar Maciej Miechowita (1519) and presented as the mother of the divine twins Lel and Polel . Church bans from Poland in the 15th century also refer to Lada as a deity, but as a (male) god of war .

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Latvians and Lithuanians also sang the deity Lada in ritual songs and sacrificed white roosters to her. Further, equally late testimonies to a cult are handed down in a Serbo-Croatian song where Lada is implored for rain, and in stories from Kiev , where the idol of a deity named Lado was worshiped at weddings.

Due to the unclear and late tradition, the worship of Lada in pre-Christian times is doubted, but not excluded. The asteroid of the main inner belt (2832) Lada is named after the deity.

literature

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

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.weltnetzzeitschrift-der-lotse.de/wendgoet.htm#LausitzerGötter
^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 18, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 EC1. Discovered 1975 Mar. 6 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "

[1] ttp://www.weltnetzzeitschrift-der-lotse.de/wendgoet.htm#LausitzerGötter

[2] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 18, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 EC1. Discovered 1975 Mar. 6 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "