Stribog
Mythological Narrative
A wind god among Vladimir's 980 idols, remembered in the Tale of Igor's Campaign as the ancestor of the winds that blow arrows against the poem's defeated Rus' army.
Scholarly Commentary & Evolution
## Attestation
Stribog is named fourth–fifth among Vladimir's six idols in the *Russian Primary Chronicle*'s entry for 980. His function as a wind god rests almost entirely on one striking line in the *Tale of Igor's Campaign*, which calls the winds "Stribog's grandsons," blowing arrows from the sea against Prince Igor's host. Beyond his name in the idol list and that one poetic image, nothing about his myth, temple, or worship survives.
## An inference, held with appropriate caution
The wind association is widely accepted by Slavicists precisely because of how specific and vivid the *Tale*'s image is, but it remains an inference from a single later literary reference rather than a chronicle statement of his domain — the *Primary Chronicle* itself never says what Stribog governed.
Academic Discussion & Critique
Exchange peer-reviewed hypotheses, comparative Indo-European etymologies, and archaeological field interpretations regarding Stribog.
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