قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Flins

Flins is a Slavic deity, mentioned for the first time in the book "Cronecken der Sassen" in 1492 by the German writer Konrad Bothe.
People believe it was not really worshipped.

People believe the name of the Polish town, Świeradów-Zdrój also known as Flinsberg in German, came from Flins.

Bothe said Flins was worshipped by people in the Harz Mountains and in Lusatia .

The described statue was supposed to be destroyed by Prince Lothair.
Bothe's information was spread all across Europe and many people drew Flins.

Theories about his Origin.

There are a variety of theories about his origin, almost all consider him to have never been a real Slavic God.

According to Elias Schedius (1605–1641), the name of the deity was in fact a corrupted name of a supposed king of the Vandals :
Vitzlauw (Wisław? )→Vlitzauw→Vlintz.

(1788–1881) believed that it was derived from the Sorbian "mrlinjec", "mrlinjc" – "dead".

(1908–1993) derived it from the sequence "lawjenc" → "lwiniec" → "lwinc" → "wlic" → "flins", and said it was related to lions.

Leonhard Franz argued the description was related to St.
Christopher rather than a Slavic deity.

The figure of a Slavic necromancer holding a staff, but without a name, is also mentioned in the description of the shrines of the Western Slavs by Al-Masudi, a traveler from the middle east who visited the region in the 10th century.
He recorded the following cult in the temple-resort.
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