Khors

This is the fault this programme keeps finding, in its clearest form yet. The Primary Chronicle names six gods in one sentence; the registry held five of them and had done so through every prior pass. Five-of-six is worse than none, because a corpus with a hole in the middle of its only enumerated pantheon looks complete. He is also, on the frequency count, the second-best-attested god the East Slavs have. The record does not resolve the sun-or-moon question, because the sources do not: the Tale of Igor's Campaign passage that is the main evidence for either reading is ambiguous, and the record says so rather than choosing.

Domains

• sun

Relations

• co enshrined with: PerunNot a kinship and not an alliance: the six were set up together on the hill at Kiev in 980, and that joint erection is the only thing the source says relates them. The kind is chosen to say exactly that and nothing more, and it is non-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing record.Reference treatment: the Primary Chronicle records that Vladimir the Great erected statues of Perun, in wood with a silver head and gold moustache, and of Khors, Dazhbog, Stribog, Simargl and Mokosh. (secondary)
• co enshrined with: DazhbogSecond of the six.Reference treatment of the Primary Chronicle's list of the idols erected by Vladimir in 980. (secondary)
• co enshrined with: StribogThird of the six.Reference treatment of the Primary Chronicle's list of the idols erected by Vladimir in 980. (secondary)
• co enshrined with: SimarglFourth of the six, and the other member of the pair usually read as an Iranian layer in the Kiev pantheon.Reference treatment of the Primary Chronicle's list of the idols erected by Vladimir in 980. (secondary)
• co enshrined with: MokoshFifth of the six, and the only goddess in the list.Reference treatment of the Primary Chronicle's list of the idols erected by Vladimir in 980. (secondary)

Sources

• Khors is an East Slavic solar deity, one of the six idols erected by Vladimir the Great at Kiev in 980 according to the Primary Chronicle, and the most frequently mentioned Slavic god after Perun.: Reference treatments of Khors, of the Primary Chronicle entry for 980, and of the Kiev pantheon. (secondary)