DACIAN AND THRACIAN GODS

THE DACIANS AND THE THRACIANS ARE THE

ANCESTORS OF OUR PEOPLE, THOSE WHO LIVED IN THESE

LANDS BEFORE BEING CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS. HERE ARE SOME OF THEIR GODS, PRESENT IN FOLKTALES, POEMS, STORIES, LEGENDS.

ZAMOLXES
THE SUPREME GOD, THE GOD OF THE GREAT BEYOND, OF THE XEAD AND THE LIVING ALIKE. HE RULED THE UNDERWORLD AND ALL LIFE AFTER DEATH. IT IS SAID THAT HE RETIRED IN A CAVE IN THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF

Kogaionon

GEBELEIZIS
THE GOD OF THUNDER, RAIN AND LIGHTNING. IT IS SAID THAT WHENEVER IT RAINED, THE THRACIANS WOULD GO OUT AND FIRE ARROWS INTO THE SKY TO PLEASE THIS GOD.

BENDIS
THE GODDESS OF LOVE, MATERNITY, WOODS AND ENCHANTMENTS, THE GODDESS OF THE MOON, THE FORESTS, OF NIGHT

KOTYS THE MOTHER GODDESS PLEISTOROS THE GOD OF WAR

CYBELE
CONSIDERED THE SUPREME MOTHER OF ALL GODS, THE GODDESS OF CAVES AND THE EARTH IN ITS NATURAL STATE, PROTECTOR OF THE VEGETATION, ADORED ON MOUNTAIN TOPS. SHE REIGNED OVER WILD ANIMALS, BEING ALSO A PROTECTOR OF BEES.

THE WOLF
IS A SYMBOL OF WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE , JUSTICE AND UNTAMENESS PRESENT THROUGHOUT DACIAN MYTHOLOGY
ZAMOLXES AND THE WOLVES