A Prussian Pagan

New to Prussian mythology & paganism! I cannot wait to dive into it and worship more deities.

[auschautslearner]

Potrimpo

The god of grain!! May we praise you as we enter autumn and winter.

[auschautslearner]

Praise to Peckols, may you keep the dead under your rule safe.

[parafrazerofhistory]

A Harvest-time Sacrificial Rite of the Old Prussians

“At sowing their winter corn the old Prussians used to kill a goat, consume its flesh with many superstitious ceremonies, and hang the skin on a high pole near an oak and a large stone. There it remained till harvest, when a great bunch of corn and herbs was fastened to the pole above the goat-skin. Then, after a prayer had been offered by a peasant who acted as priest (Weidulut), the young folks joined hands and danced round the oak and the pole. Afterwards they scrambled for the bunch of corn, and the priest distributed the herbs with a sparing hand. Then he placed the goatskin on the large stone, sat down on it, and preached to the people about the history of their forefathers and their old heathen customs and beliefs.”

—J. G. Frazer, Spirits of the Corn & of the Wild, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. VII, 1912, p. 288) 

An old Prussian weidulut sacrifices a goat to Wurschayto, in an illustration from the Sudovian Book.

(Source: Anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)