Kievanism
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A polytheistic religion practiced in the south of the Kievan Empire.
Gods include:
Dazhbog, a sun god
Khors, another sun god
Mokosh, the only female deity, associated with the Moist Mother Earth
Perun, god of thunder and lightning and of war
Simargl, the only non-human deity, he is a winged animal, possibly a Gryphon.
Stribog, god of wind and storm
Prince Vladimir has statues of these six gods at the main gate of Kiev.
(Greek translation from the Arabic in a book found in Prince Vselov's library) The Hindoo sages themselves say that their religion has not spread far, as the True Faith has, and only very few are the times it has left the area of Hind, and those areas immediately around it that have not been converted. One time it spread to the East, even further than any Believer has traveled, to strange savage lands wherein dwell strange monsters, such as women whose heads detach from their bodies, and men who divide their bodies in half. Also, it spread to the West twice, once to the North and once to the South. Iskander is said to have brought certain statues and holy men back from Hind with him, and these were carried North, and inspired unbelief there; while certain Hindoos in the forms of snakes traveled to the south and there spread, as snakes do, their poison. Surely Allah will grind them beneath his heel!