Hors

Choir (even Cher, Chrs, Hur or Chros ) is a Slavic god who embodied presumably the moon. He was next to Perun, Dažbog, Simargl, Mokosch and Stribog to the six gods whose statues Prince Vladimir I. 980 had erected in Kiev, and is therefore considered the main gods of the East Slavs.

Choir is mentioned only in Russian sources. The medieval authors describe him indistinctly: time he will be called the " Jewish thunder Angel" ( Beseda Trech svjatitelej ), sometimes he is to come from Cyprus ( Slovo i otkrovenje ) or merely a person with divine attributes be ( Chozdenje Bogorodicy ). Its actual competence does not open up it.

The only concrete clue is found in the Song of Igor, in the Prince of Polotsk Vseslav Brjatschislawitsch (1044-1101) is attributed to the ability to transform into a werewolf. He had managed the city during the day, but he was gone in wolf form from Kiev to Tmutarakan the night and saw " the big Chrs " crossed the road. In the older literature, which was based on this tradition and etymological interpretations choir was therefore interpreted as a solar deity. This is in contradiction to the werewolf motif, and so the same story was also later interpreted to the contrary, namely that the choir was a lunar deity and the opposite pole to the sun god Dažbog.