Marzanna
Slavic · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Slavic goddess of winter, death and rebirth, ritually drowned to usher in spring.
Domains
- winter
- death
Powers
- Bring winter's cold, blight and death
Epithets
- Marzanna goddess of death and winter; equated with Ceres by DługoszJan Długosz, Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae (c. 1455) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Jan Długosz, Annales (Marzanna) (primary)