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Vinony's link graph records 497 inbound references to domovoi, and connects out to list of Slavic mythological figures, Narecnitsi and Jarilo.
It sits within the topics Slavic gods, Slavic household deities and Slavic paganism.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- familiar
- Part of
- Russian folklore
- Image
- Domovoi Bilibin.jpg
- Said to be same as
- brownie
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- native label
- Домовик
- domain of saint or deity
- home
- Commons category
- Domovyk
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- worshipped by
- Slavic mythology
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology and belief
- Iconography and worship
- Other household deities
- Alternative naming
- See also
- Explanatory notes
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- General and cited sources
thumb|upright=1.3|Domovoy, by Ivan Bilibin (1934)
In the Slavic religious tradition, Domovoy (, literally "[the one] of the household"; also spelled Domovoi, Domovoj, and known as , (Domovik), (Domovyk) and (Damavik)) is the household spirit of a given kin. According to the Russian folklorist E. G. Kagarov, the Domovoy is a personification of the supreme Rod in the microcosm of kinship. Sometimes he has a female counterpart, Domania, the goddess of the household, though he is most often a single god. The Domovoy expresses himself as a number of other spirits of the household in its different functions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “domovoi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.