Curche (the Harvest God)
Old Prussian · numen · old prussian pagan · Recorded classification
Curche (Kurke) is the earliest historically attested Old Prussian deity, named in the Treaty of Christburg (1249) in which the converted Prussians swore to abandon his cult; he is a harvest god embodied in an idol made from the last grain of the field.
Domains
- harvest and firstfruits
Powers
- to embody the harvest in the last sheaf
Sources
- Curche is the Old Prussian harvest deity named in the 1249 Treaty of Christburg, an idol made from the last grain and honoured at harvest.: Treaty of Christburg (Christburg/Kishpork, 1249), in Preussisches Urkundenbuch, Bd. 1.1 (Königsberg, 1882), no. 218. (secondary); Wilhelm Mannhardt, Letto-Preussische Götterlehre (Riga: Lettisch-Literärische Gesellschaft, 1936). (secondary)