Cult of Gods

Khors

Slavic tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
sun or moon (uncertain)
Ivan Bilibin, Baba Yaga, an illustration for a Russian fairy tale (1900s).
Ivan Bilibin, Baba Yaga, an illustration for a Russian fairy tale (1900s).

Key myth

One of the idols at Kyiv. The name may be from Iranian, and nothing is told of Khors beyond the list.

Primary sources

  • Primary Chronicle (980)

All sources for the Slavic pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

SvarogDazhbogPerunVeles / VolosMokoshStribogKhorsSimarglSvantevitChernobogMarzanna / Morana

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Khors: the sun and light. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Atum

creator, the completed one

Egyptian

Ra

sun, kingship, order

Hindu

Agni

fire, the sacrifice, messenger of the gods

Celtic (Irish)

Lugh

skill in all arts, kingship, the sun (in later readings)

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