Magic of the Ages

Sul (God)

Pronounced Sool

Dacian God of vegetation, symbolized through a wooden log (or the log of the loom), dressed and adorned like a young man, in rituals to bring fertility to the fields. A group of young women, would make out of the loom's log a poppet with a head, mouth, eyes and hands, would dress it in clothes, put a flower behind it's ear, etc. Then The Sul would be brought to the field, in the wheat fields, while chanting a chant similar to the Caloian. The words of the chant present Sul both young and old:

Sul, old man

who never partied,

and never bloomed!

Sul, yong man,

who never partied,

and never bloomed!

In the field, Sul would fertilize the fields: it would be laid on the wheat, pulled through the green wheat, then "danced" and brough back to the village. the next day, in the morning, the ritual would be repeated again, then the Sul would be brought back home, and a feast would take place.

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