Also called Porenutius, Porenuc.
Their story
Saxo Grammaticus records that the third temple at Karenz held Porenut, who had four faces and a fifth set on his chest, touching its forehead with the left hand and its chin with the right. The Danes cut down all three Karenz idols in 1168. Some modern readers take the name as a god of pregnancy or of the unborn, but that rests only on etymology.
Best times to give to them
- harvest
- Koliada
What they like being given
- bread
- a candle
How to honour them
- Honour him alongside the other Rügen gods rather than inventing rites for him.
How they can help you
- remembering lost traditions
- quiet reflection
Symbols
- four faces with a fifth on the chest
- a hand touching the brow and chin
Known only from Saxo; suggested meanings are guesses from the name.
Sources
- Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Book XIV
More Slavic gods
- Perun The thunder god of oak and axe
- Veles Lord of cattle, wealth and the underworld
- Dazhbog The giving god, the sun
- Svarog The heavenly smith, father of fire and sun
- Jarilo The youthful god of spring and growth
- Rod The god of kin, birth and fate
- Stribog Grandfather of the winds
- Khors The bright disc of the sun