Veles

Summary

Veles is a water deity^[1]. He draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (water_deity category, ranking #18 of 165).^[2]

Key Facts

• Veles's field of work was Slavic mythology^[3].
• Veles's field of work was Slavic religion^[4].
• Veles's image is recorded as Zbruch Triglav.PNG^[5].
• Veles's image is recorded as Veles by Andrey Shishkin.jpg^[6].
• Veles is recorded as male^[7].
• Veles's instance of is recorded as water deity^[8].
• Veles's instance of is recorded as nature deity^[9].
• Veles's instance of is recorded as Slavic deity^[10].
• Veles's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 18112147^[11].
• Veles's GND ID is recorded as 122700910^[12].
• Veles's part of is recorded as Belarusian mythology^[13].
• Veles's Commons category is recorded as Veles (god)^[14].
• Veles's said to be the same as is recorded as Velnias^[15].
• Veles's said to be the same as is recorded as Flins^[16].
• Veles's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qqjj^[17].
• Veles's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as xx0308183^[18].
• Veles's worshipped by is recorded as Slavic mythology^[19].
• Veles's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• Veles's described by source is recorded as The Mythology of All Races^[21].
• Veles's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• Veles's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[23].
• Veles's CERL Thesaurus ID is recorded as cnp00571000^[24].
• Veles's different from is recorded as Veles^[25].
• Veles's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1904497^[26].
• Veles's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 150047^[27].

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Career and Affiliations

Fields of work include Slavic mythology^[3], a group of mythologies by ethnic group^[28] and Slavic religion^[4], an ethnic religion^[29].

Works and Contributions

Things named for Veles include Volosko^[30], a human settlement^[31], in Croatia^[32] and Saint Blaise's feast day^[33], a holiday^[34], in Russia^[35].

Why It Matters

Veles draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (water_deity category, ranking #18 of 165).^[2] He has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[36] He is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[37]

Entities named for him include Volosko^[30], a human settlement^[31], in Croatia^[32] and Saint Blaise's feast day^[33], a holiday^[34], in Russia^[35].