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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.

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ZAMOLXESTHE 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

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogaiononhttp://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogaionon

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GEBELEIZISTHE 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.

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebeleizishttp://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebeleizis

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BENDISTHE GODDESS OF LOVE, MATERNITY, WOODS AND

ENCHANTMENTS, THE GODDESS OF THE MOON, THE

FORESTS, OF NIGHT

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THE MOTHER GODDESS

THE GOD OF WAR

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistoros

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CYBELECONSIDERED 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.

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IS A SYMBOL OF WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE , JUSTICE AND

UNTAMENESS PRESENT THROUGHOUT DACIAN MYTHOLOGY

ZAMOLXES

AND THE

WOLVES