No less than other Svarozhichi, the ancient Rus revered the god of the winds - Stribog. The Rus in ancient times conquered the sea elements. The Russians came up with a boat, a rudder, an anchor and a sail.
Being sailors, the Rus, of course, revered Stribog, who, having turned into the Stratim bird, could cause or tame a storm.
The main temples of Stribog were located on sea islands, near the mouths of rivers, where merchant ships often stopped (for example, on the island of Berezan near the mouth of the Dnieper). Before going out to the open sea, Rus ships approached him, and the merchants brought rich gifts to Stribog.
According to legend, Stribog was born at the beginning of time from the breath of the god Rod. Stribog raged across the earth with winds, and also, together with Perun, commanded thunder and lightning. He, together with Swaragam and the Svarozhichs, defeated the Black Snake. He helped Perun in his fight against the Skipper-beast, and Khorsu in his fight against the Month.
Stribog had many sons and grandchildren. They were the winds - Whistle, Podaga, Weather. Whistling - the elder wind, the god of the storm, lives in the mountains in the north. Poda—a hot, drying wind—lives in the deserts of the south. Weather - warm, light breeze, god of pleasant weather.
Other winds are called Siverko, Southern, Western and Eastern. Siverko carries the cold from the Arctic Ocean. He is very stern and only becomes a little kinder by summer. Southern - has a hot southern disposition, carries with it the warmth and smells of the south. The West Wind is a real European, a little dry, sometimes angry, but, however, a kind fellow. And the Oriental, like an Asian, has an unexpected, mysterious and insidious character.
At noon and midnight, Stribog’s grandchildren, the winds Poludennik and Polunochnik, often frolic. And in every region, on almost every hill, there live numerous descendants of the god of the winds.
And we glorified... Perun and Stribog, who command thunder and lightning. And Stribog also rages across the earth with the winds.
“Book of Veles”, Rod 1, 2:7 So the Stribs whistle in the steppes, and the storms roar until midnight.
“The Book of Veles”, Trills IV, 5:3 Behold the winds, Stribozhi vnutsi, blow arrows from the sea on Igor’s brave planes.
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
In the east, not on the eastern side, there is the Ocean-Sea, on that Ocean-Sea there lies an oak deck, on that deck, on that oak deck, sits Fear-Rakh. I will submit to that Fear-Rahu and pray: “Create for me, Fear-Rahu, seventy-seven winds, seventy-seven whirlwinds; the midday wind, the midnight wind, the dry wind, which dried out the forests, crumbled dark forests, green grasses, fast rivers; So (the name of the rivers) the slave would dry up and crumble about me...”
From Russian conspiracies
Stratim the bird lives on the Ocean-sea, Stratim - the bird will perk up, the Ocean-sea will swell, It will sink parlor ships with precious goods. "Pigeon Book"
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru