Information about the gods of the ancient peoples who inhabited our planet are scarce.Restoring their accounts from surviving myths, dowry, fragmentary information and paraphrases excavation of cultural sites.From these bits of information, it became known that the ancient people tried to "humanize" some life situations and constitute the world.So the concept was identified human aggression - war.And after there were gods of war.These gods are the most popular and respected among warring tribes.Like the mythological story, war is often linked with the creation of the cosmos and of being protected.Common myths about the war between the various groups of the gods, where collisions between moving on the ground and is becoming a war between the people of the earth.The dowry is often the gods intervene in people's lives: favoring or punishing.Gods War had every ancient pagan culture.
The Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus in his treatise "On the Origin of the Germans and the location of Germany" (98g. BC) describes the amazing voinstvennostpredstaviteley this people, their desire for a constant battle and bloodshed.Like other Roman authors, Tacitus says that many German gods - this identification Roman.So fierce god of war Mars, the god Tivazu German equivalent, which is also called Tyurom.It is difficult to say when the Germans began to read Tivaza and other deities of war.It is also not known exactly when it was replaced by Wodan as the supreme god of war, which the Roman writers compared with Mercury.At the Tiviazom and Wodan, the Germans worshiped the god of war, and the third - Donar (Thor or Tunari).In the late pagan period, most Germans thought he was the most powerful and noble god.
Although, as historians note, "Slavs were never a warlike people, adventurers, as the Germans ...", they also had their gods of war.Today, the best known are the Slavic gods as Perun and Semargl.Despite its antiquity, and hence the well-known, they are little esteemed because of the warlike appearance.Perun was represented armed with an ax warrior raced on a golden chariot drawn by white and black stallions.Semargl seen as a wolf with wings and claws falcon and sometimes the falcon-headed.Warriors Slavs often identified with the wolves.
Slavic gods of war, in other matters, as well as all the pagan gods "demanded" sacrifices, this ceremony took widespread character.As it became known on the testimony of ethnographic and archaeological excavations have brought to the gods as victims of wolves and dogs, the highest ritual offering was considered a human sacrifice.Those became prisoners.
C introduction of Christianity Slavic gods officially ceased to exist.Their characters were seen as negative, except those identified with the Christian saints.In order to strengthen the spiritual unity of the people and mitigate the transition from paganism to Christianity, Prince Vladimir did not conduct the brutal persecution of fans of the old faith.Over time, this has meant that the Slavic gods became a symbol of the Christian characters.Since Perun was compared with the holy Ilya.
It's been a thousand years since the adoption of Christianity, but the Russian pagan gods still have not forgotten.In the folk art, paintings, wood carving, embroidery patterns preserved their image and schematic symbols.Moreover, today many believe that Russian paganism is able to be reborn as something primordial, not borrowed from other nations, and not subject to globalization.
