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(September 2009)| Modern painting of Veles |God of autumn,
western lands, underworld, earth, waters, fertility, cattle,
pasture, snakes, wolves, medicine and magic| |Symbol||Bear,
wolf, snake, bull| |Roman equivalent||sometimes described as
Apollo| |Slavic equivalent||similar to Flins, Triglav| Veles
(Cyrillic: Велес; Polish: Weles; Czech: Veles; Old Russian and
Old Church Slavonic: Велесъ) also known as Volos (Russian:
Волос) (listed as a Christian saint in Old Russian texts) is a
major Slavic supernatural force of earth, waters and the
underworld, associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians,
wealth and trickery. He is the opponent of the Supreme thunder-
god Perun, and the battle between two of them constitutes one of
the most important myths of Slavic mythology. No direct accounts
survive, but reconstructions speculate that he may directly
continue aspects of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon and that he
may have been imagined as (at least par