Re: Velesu/Volosu

Here is a tidbit I found in Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dectiponary
of Folklore Mythology and Legend:

"...after the sovereign Perunu the oath of 971 invokes volosu as the
god of flocks. Also, a Russian form velesu is attested, and the Czech
tradition of the 15th and 16h centuies remembers a demon named Veles.
The alternation of two variants velesu and velsu(wherefrom volosu)
seem to root in Primitive Slavic. Volosu was identified with Apollo
in the old Russian literary pattern and was replaced by St. Blasius
(Vlas) in Christianized folklore."

Note that there were markings above the u resembling a horizontal
parenthesis ) in the above text.


Cort Williams