• Rethra (also known as Radagoszcz, Radegost, Radigast, Redigast, Radgosc and other forms like Ruthengost) was, in the 10th to the 12th centuries, the main...
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    chroniclers, the god of the Polabian Slavs, whose temple was located in Rethra. In modern scientific literature, however, the dominant view is that Radegast...
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    was Radgosc (also referred to by several other names, e.g. Riedegost or Rethra). The Lutici were first recorded by written sources in the context of the...
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    under a duke, but remained independent. Their leaders met in the temple of Rethra. In 983, many Wend tribes participated in a great uprising against the Holy...
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    to Thietmar a similar divination, only in two stages, was carried out in Rethra, and Herbord describes that among the Pomeranians a priest led an armed...
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    Circipanes around the Pane (Peene) River, the Redarians around the temple of Rethra, the Wollinians on the isle of Wolin, the Tollensians around the Tollense...
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    Chronicle: In the land of the Redarii there is a city called Riedegost (Rethra), which has three corners and one door in each wall and which is surrounded...
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    descriptions of the sanctuaries and cults of Redigost (Radegast, Svarozhich) in Rethra, Svyatovit (Svetovid) in Arkon (Jaromarsburg), Triglav in Szczecin, Chernobog...
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    Hohenzieritz) came from a pagan shrine in Rethra, a major town of Polabian Slavs, and Prillwitz is the location of Rethra. A detailed description was published...
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  • to King Henry II and later in Thietmar's Chronicle as the chief deity of Rethra, the main political center of the Veleti. His name is generally translated...
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    been reported from medieval temples in Pomeranian Stettin and Lutitian Rethra and in temples in the Ming Dynasty Tombs. In India, horse worship in the...
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    Svetovit, whose cult prevailed among the Pomeranian Slavs after the fall of Rethra, may have reached Corvey through merchants charged with donations to Svetovit...
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    believed that it was the legendary center of the cult of Slavic tribe Veleti – Rethra. In 1969, during archaeological excavations carried out under the direction...
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    century Place: The Slavic lands of the Baltic sea-coast, in the city of Rethra, near the Labe (Elbe) River, in modern-day Germany. Voyslava has killed...
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  • Plusso delivered the bishop's head on a stake in the Radegast temple at Rethra and danced with his wife Guidda (sister to Gottschalk), in celebration of...
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    centre for the Slavs in the southern Baltic following the destruction of Rethra in 1068. The temple served as oracle site and received offerings from other...
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    religious centre for the Slavs of Mecklenburg after the destruction of Rethra in 1068. In 1168, the Danish king Valdemar I conquered Rügen which then...
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  • a Slavic god Radegast (medieval settlement), also known as Radgosc or Rethra, an ancient Slavic town in Mecklenburg Radegast (beer), a Czech beer Radegast...
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    religious representatives of the Empire. Starting from the Slavic sanctuary at Rethra, the bishops' seat of Havelberg on 29 June 983 was occupied and plundered...
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    Iziaslav I, in the aftermath of the Kievan Rus' defeat against the Cumans. Rethra destruction: In Annals of Augsburg the slavic city is mentioned for the...
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    Polabian Slavic paganism, the known major cults: Svarozhich/Radegast in Rethra-Radgosc Triglav in Brennabor Gerovit in Havelberg Rugiewit with Porenut...
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    eastward expansion. 1067/68 and 1069: Saxon expeditions raid and destroy Rethra, the main Liutician stronghold and temple. 1093: Lutici, Pomeranians and...
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    Rani, but from all Baltic Wends after their earlier main religious centre, Rethra, was destroyed in by Germanic raiders in 1068/9. Other gods were Tjarnaglofi...
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  • possession of the land. The chief god was Radegast Zuarasici, whose sanctuary at Rethra was the centre of his worship for the whole of Mecklenburg. Charlemagne's...
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  • country of the Slavic Lutici tribes. His forces razed the pagan temple at Rethra (Radagoszcz), and the bishop returned to Saxony riding the sacred black...
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  • volumes of Czech articles and essays by František Palacký published 1871–1873 Rethra (also known as Radagoszcz, Radegost, Radigast, Redigast, Radgosc and other...
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  • isle of Usedom Broda near the old Liutizian main temple site and capital, Rethra and the later town of Neubrandenburg Gramzow in the center of the Uckermark...
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    military conflicts. Acts of hippomancy were held in front of the temple at Rethra-Riedegost, consisting of making a horse walk between two crossed spears...
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    one of the four constituent tribes of the Lutici federation centered on Rethra, which started a successful uprising in 983. Rid of the empire's overlordship...
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  • —  Another contemporaneous source, Thietmar of Merseburg, describing a Rethra temple remarked that the idols there had their names carved out on them...
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