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Tradition collection 321 records

Celtic, Slavic and Baltic

Traditions recorded mostly by outsiders, or after conversion, or from folklore.

  • Extent Western, central and eastern Europe, roughly 500 BCE to 1500 CE.
  • Holds 240 gods · 52 figures · 10 texts and stories · 4 places
Meet the gods

Before you count

The written sources are Greek, Roman, Christian or nineteenth-century folklorists, and the last of those often reconstructed what they went looking for.

What else it is missing

Gods · 240

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 240 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Figures · 52

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 52 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Texts and stories · 10

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 3 stories All 7 texts

Places · 4

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 4 places

4 places 4 with a point on the map none dated yet

See them on the atlas

Festivals and practices · 4

Festivals, holy days and practices

Holy days with the day their record gives, then rites and practices. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock.

All 4 practices

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 4.

Traditions · 4

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 321 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
795
With references
95
Undated
310
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • The written sources are Greek, Roman, Christian or nineteenth-century folklorists, and the last of those often reconstructed what they went looking for.
  • Several well-known figures rest on a single line in a single chronicle, and the page says which line.
  • Interpolations by Romantic-era scholars are a known hazard here and are not all identified.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 4.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 1 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Celtic, Slavic and Baltic by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Pantheons, through their own published gods · 1

Keep going

Walk Celtic, Slavic and Baltic another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Perun’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Vladimir the Great