page_title: Ognyena Maria
hierarchical_section_title: Ognyena Maria
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Русская икона «Богородица Огнеобразная колесница Слова» (подпись на иконе — цитата из Акафеста Богородце, песнь 5.). Старообрядческая икона. Частная коллекция. Надпись: "огниев цравна зи лѧкхо ѧ волница воли син ннца слаову". Polski: Słowiańska ikona Maria Ognista, inskrypcja: "OGNIOW CARJAWNA ZI LJAHO JA WOLNINICA WOLI SIN NICA SLAOWU"
context_page_description: In Slavic mythology, Ognyena Maria is a fire goddess who is the sister and assistant of the thunder god, Perun. Ognyena Maria originates as a conflation of the figures of Margaret the Virgin and the Virgin Mary, both regarded as sisters of Saint Elias.
  This divinity also appears with southern Slavs, and is usually considered to be the sister of the thunder god/saint. She was also associated with rain or the sea, or with Lazarus and azure flashes of lightning.
  Ognyena Maria's feast in the folk calendar of the Slavs is on July 17, on the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: In Slavic mythology, Ognyena Maria (literally "Fiery Mary") is a fire goddess who is the sister and assistant of the thunder god, Perun. Ognyena Maria originates as a conflation of the figures of Margaret the Virgin and the Virgin Mary, both regarded as sisters of Saint Elias.
  This divinity also appears with southern Slavs, and is usually considered to be the sister of the thunder god/saint. She was also associated with rain or the sea, or with Lazarus (Марина Лазоревая) and azure flashes of lightning.
  Ognyena Maria's feast in the folk calendar of the Slavs is on July 17, on the Julian calendar (around 30 July).
caption: "The Fiery Chariot of the Word", 19th-century Russian icon of the Theotokos as Ognyena Maria.
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