page_title: Veles (god)
hierarchical_section_title: Veles (god)
caption_attribution_description: English: Veles by Marek Hapon
context_page_description: Veles, also known as Volos, is a major Slavic god of earth, waters, and the underworld. His attributes are wet, wooly, hairy, dark and he is associated with cattle, the harvest, wealth, music, magic, and trickery. According to reconstruction by some researchers, he is the opponent of the supreme thunder god Perun. As such he probably has been imagined as a dragon, which in the belief of the pagan Slavs is a chimeric being, a serpent with a bear's head and drooping hairy ears. His tree is the willow much like Perun's tree is the oak.
  No direct accounts survive, but reconstructions speculate that he may directly continue aspects of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.
context_section_description: Veles (Cyrillic Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian: Велес; Polish: Weles; Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Montenegrin, Slovak, Slovenian: Veles; Ruthenian and Old Church Slavonic: Велесъ; Belarusian: Вялес, romanized: Vialies), also known as Volos (Russian: Волос, Влас, Власий), is a major Slavic god of earth, waters, and the underworld. His attributes are wet, wooly, hairy (bearded), dark and he is associated with cattle, the harvest, wealth, music, magic, and trickery. According to reconstruction by some researchers, he is the opponent of the supreme thunder god Perun. As such he probably has been imagined as a dragon, which in the belief of the pagan Slavs is a chimeric being, a serpent with a bear's head and drooping hairy ears. His tree is the willow much like Perun's tree is the oak.
  No direct accounts survive, but reconstructions speculate that he may directly continue aspects of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.
caption: Veles, Marek Hapon, 2014
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