Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Weles is the is the god of cattle, music, poetry, and art in Polish mythology. He was depicted with horns later, and became associated with flocks and herds as well as the underworld. He has many associations with wealth and the magical forces of the spirit world. Weles and Piorun were depicted as adversaries, and were worshipped separately from one another. He was the patron of oaths, death, divination, underworld, domestic animals and beasts and afterlife. His feast day is February 12th, but he is also associated in Christianity with Saint Blaise(March 11th) and Saint Nicholas (December 6th). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.