Lada (mythology)
Alleged goddess in Slavic and Baltic mythology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lada[lower-alpha 1] and Lado[lower-alpha 2] are alleged Slavic deities. Lada was first mentioned around 1405–1412 in the sermons of Lucas of Wielki Koźmin, which warned against worshipping Lada and other gods during spring ceremonies and folk performances.
The deities owe their popularity to Polish priest Jan Długosz, who described Lada as a goddess and a god of war in his works and compared her to the Roman Mars, to Aleksandr Faminstyn, who recognized the name Lada in Russian songs as attributed to the goddess of marriage, and to scholar Boris Rybakov, who insisted on recognizing her historicity. However, the vast majority of religious scholars and Slavists reject the historicity of these deities, believing that they owe their divine status to a misunderstanding of the song refrains by medieval scribes.
According to some scholars of Baltic mythology, Lada was also worshipped by the Balts, but this view is also considered controversial.
Planetoid (2832) Lada was named after her.[1]