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In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning. His other attributes were the mountain, oak, firmament (in Indo-European languages this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone), horses and carts, weapons (the hammer, axe and arrow), war, and fire. He was first associated with weapons made of stoneRock is a substance composed of minerals and classified according to mineral composition. Rocks are generally clasified by the processes that formed them, and are thus separated into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks are formed fr and later with those of metalFor alternative meanings see metal (disambiguation). In chemistry, a metal is an element that readily forms cations and has metallic bonds, and it is sometimes said that it is similar to a cation in a cloud of electrons. The metals are one of the three gr.

Myth - reproduced on the ground of folkloristic given: the fight of Perun against demonic opponents (main opponents - Zmij , VelesThis article is about the god Veles, for the city in Macedonia see Veles, Macedonia Veles Volos Weles Voloh is a Slavic god, thought to be the deity of: cattle, commerce, music, the underworld. He was depicted with horns later, and became associated with, aerial dragons and crowd of smaller ghosts: biesy (sing. biesBies (read: b-yes) in Slavic mythology, demoniacal, obsessional bad spirit, demon, after acceptance of Christianity identified with devil, translating Greek: daimon, daimonion, pneuma; There is probable hypothesis (splendidly explaining semantic differenc), czarty ( czart ), latawce ( latawiec ), poronce ( poroniec ) etc. Polish spelling.) stealing waters, cattle, divine partner of god ( PerperunaIn Slavic mythology, Perperuna or Dodola was the (wife) of the god Perun, the god of thunder. In south-eastern Europe, there are still rain-making ceremonies featuring a young girl called Perperuna or Dodola. Slavic goddesses.), hiding before anger of Thunderlord under/in a man, horse, cow, tree, stone, at last in to water (a fish with red eyes).

Perun is helped by the planetnicy (sing. planetnik), chmurni-cy(-k), obloczni-cy(-k) ( Pl.Polish polski jezyk polski is the official language of Poland. History Polish has been influenced by contact with foreign languages (foremost Latin, Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian and recently it has been virtually bombarded by English, especiall), stuh(-y), zduh(-y), stuhac(-e), zduhac(-e), vjetrogonj-e(-a), jedogonj-e(-a) ( Serb.The Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. Serbian is used primarily in Serbia-Montenegro, Republika Srpska and by Serbs everywhere.) and, after to carriage names from demoniac enemy to the helper, zmaj(-e), zmej(-e) ( Bulg.Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the South branch of the Slavic languages, along with Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. The Bulgarian language is closely related to the Macedonian language. Some linguists, however, including al) and zmij(-e) (Pl.) (spirits, living peoples and even animals with spirit or with body being raised to sky during storm) fighting with smok(-i) ("a dragon") (Pl.) zmej(-e) (Russ.), (ch)al-a(-y) (SouthSlav.).

In Russia, Perun was represented with silver hair and golden moustaches. His bolts of lightning were said to be stones and stone arrows. According to folk beliefs, fulgurites and belemnites and sometimes even archaic tools are these stone weapons' remains. Various Slavic countries also call these deposits "Perun's stones", "thunderbolt stones", "thunderbolt wedges" and "Perun's arrow"; other unrelated names for these include "devil's finger", "God's finger", and "Mother of God finger", and in Lithuania, " Berkun 's finger". These thunderbolt stones were sometimes said to be transferred back to the sky by the wind or pl anetnik. The weapons of Perun protected against bad luck, evil magic, disease, and - naturally enough - lightning itself.

In the classification scheme of Dumézil he was the god of the second function (physical and military power). Members of Slavonic squads swore on his name.

Like Thor, Perun's vegetable hypostasis was the oak, especially a particularly distinctive or prominent one. Underneath this oak would be a general place of worship and folding of sacrifices (with a bull, an ox, a ram, and eggs). In Southern Slavic tradition, marked oaks stood on country borders; communities at these positions were visited during village holidays in the late spring and during the summer. Perun is also connected with the plants perunika and perin in Serbian and Russian tradition.

Strong correlation with the near-identical Perkunas from Latvian mythology suggests the close affiliation between, and common origin of, the Balto-Slavic tribes. In the Vedic religion this god is called Varuna. The similiarities between Perun and the god Thor in Norse mythology caused an amalgamation of the two gods in Kievan Rus. Perun may also be compared to Iupiter Quernus .