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Perun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | He was worshiped in oak groves by western Slavs, who called him Prone, which name appears in Helmold's Chronica Slavorum (c. |
 | | Porenut, Perun's son, is mentioned by the Danish historian |
 | | In the Christian period the worship of Perun was gradually transferred to St. Elijah (Russian Iliya), but in folk beliefs, his fructifying, life-stimulating, and purifying functions are still performed by his vehicles: the ax, the bull, the he-goat, the dove, and the cuckoo. |
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