God of revenge in the beliefs of different nations

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

In ancient legends, among the higher powers, some terrible spirits are mentioned, called the gods of revenge, and this article will focus on them.

It is worth understanding that nothing just happens - everything is natural. If it seems to a person that he got it completely unfairly, then this is not a reason to be angry with the gods, but an opportunity to rethink his own life and his actions. It is possible that somewhere along the way you made a wrong step.

You should approach any higher powers very carefully, following all the rules, especially you should not blame them for anything, as they are always right.

Scandinavian god of revenge Vali

In Norman lore, he is also known as Bowes, Ali and Biv. Son of Odin, born to the giantess Rind. Scandinavian god of vengeance. It symbolizes the growing duration of daylight hours, as it grew from a newborn baby into an adult man in just a day. Being only one day oldas a baby, he managed to take revenge on Khed, the blind god of darkness, for the murder of Baldur. Although, in fact, he did it by accident, succumbing to the tricks of the cunning Loki. Vali, who was responsible for the death of his brother, struck down with a well-aimed arrow from his quiver. Actually, thanks to this, he is depicted as an archer and patronizes archers.

This is a god who brings a well-deserved punishment to all those who committed any serious crimes, and it did not matter to him whether a deity was in front of him or a person. His name was rarely spoken, but the criminals feared him like fire.

If someone is overtaken by Vali's arrow, then this may not be a punishment for past sins, but a "kick" in the right direction.

Chernobog

In the Black Mountains of Navi, the great Black Serpent, who lost the war with Svarog and his children, fell into rings, but his warriors dispersed throughout the human world.

The cold-blooded god of vengeance, death and destruction is implicitly served by dark magicians and magi. Vile reptiles - lamias - crawl around his royal hut, and werewolves and goblin dart through the surrounding forests.

Kingdom and retinue of the god of vengeance

Chernobog is the lord of Darkness and the kingdom of Navi. His throne is in a castle of the color of a crow's wing, and next to him majestically sits his wife Morena (Mora) - the goddess of death, and in front of him - the bestial Radogast, the god - the afterlife judge with a lion's head.

The commander in the dark army of Chernobog is Viy, who in calmer times acts as a jailer in the underworld. In the handhis fiery whip, which he uses to punish sinners. His eyelids are so heavy that the servants have to prop them up with pitchforks, but if Wii manages to look at a person, he suddenly dies. Daylight is worse for him than death, so he does not go out on the surface of the earth during the day.

Also, the retinue of Chernobog is made up of demons: goat-legged Pan (son of Viy); dragon Yaga; Black Stork Bucka; Black Kali and the witcher Margast; witches Mazata and Putana.

The dark power of Chernobog is enormous - all the forces of Hell are under his command. He loves to mock saints by wearing a black robe and holding a rosary.

Mention of Chernobog among the Saxons

The terrible god of revenge among the Slavs, also mentioned among the Scandinavians under the name Zernebock, who brings misfortune and destruction to mankind. Depicted in armor with a face burning with anger, in his hand his spear, ready to deliver an unexpected blow. To this bloody and vengeful deity, captives were sacrificed along with their horses, and on special days, tribesmen specially selected for this purpose. Prayers were offered to him so that evil would not fall upon them. His kingdom is in Hell. Only the magi can turn away his rage. Belobog and Chernobog have been fighting since the beginning of time, and this war is eternal, until day follows night.

In the famous historical novel about the knight Ivanhoe, written by W alter Scott, one can clearly see the traces of the Slavic religious culture. While reading the book, there is such a scene in which a half-witted decrepit old woman, standing on the walls of the castle, poking her bony finger into the ground, screams heart-rendingly:“Zernebok rumbles! Roars!”.

An interesting fact is that the name Zernebock appears seven times in the original English manuscript. And this is a spelling of the name of Chernobog - the bloodthirsty god of revenge of the ancient Slavs. But Scott lists it as the "Apollyon of Angels" - after the name of the apocalyptic demon - the destroyer of souls.

Based on the data of many German authors, this deity is also mentioned among the B altic and Polabian Slavs. On the territory of the Lusatian Serbs, the mountain with the formidable name Chernobog is still popular to this day, on which the locals drove the famous Slavist Sreznevsky in order to show real hell. In addition, they have a mountain named after Belobog, who always fights with his antipode.

The origin of the Greek goddess of revenge

Since ancient times, evil and treacherous females have been called shrews, but not everyone knows the true meaning of this word. The word itself is translated from the language of the ancient inhabitants of Hellas as "envious".

Megera is the most terrible goddess of revenge of the three Erinyes, and her appearance has several versions, these are:

1. Daughter of Nyukta and Erebus.
2. Child of the Night and Tartarus.
3. Born from the blood of Uranus.
4. Child of Gaia who absorbed the blood of Uranus.

The third version is still considered more official.

Megera is the Greek goddess of revenge, born from the blood of Uranus (together with two other Erinyes) after his sons who rebelled against him cut off his reproductive organ and threw him into the sea. Depicted as a nasty old woman, onwhose head is swarming with nasty snakes instead of hair. She holds her torch in one hand and her whip in the other.

The name of the god of revenge among the ancient Greeks with a masculine beginning does not appear, it is possible that he did not exist, but there was only a female hypostasis.

Conclusion

In the modern world, ancient legends look like a beautiful fairy tale filled with mythical creatures, but what if this is far from the case? Perhaps the gods really existed? In any case, until we get to another world, this mystery will not be revealed.