Lada
Slavic · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Slavic goddess of love, harmony and spring, named in medieval ritual refrains.
Domains
- love
- spring
Powers
- Bless love, marriage and spring renewal
Epithets
- Lada refrain-name invoked in spring and wedding songs; equated with Mars by DługoszJan Długosz, Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae (c. 1455); 15th-c. Polish church prohibitions (primary)
Sources
- existence: Medieval Polish church sermons listing 'Lada' (primary)