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Fun Fact:

We return to Łada thanks to the work of Polish Slavicist and historian Aleksander Brückner. While analyzing texts, Brückner referred to a work describing the founding of a Benedictine monastery on Łysa Góra. The work, published around 1538, includes a passage about an old pagan temple that once stood where the monastery now rises, predating Christianity. The sanctuary was dedicated to deities with three names: Łada, Boda, and Leli. Local people used to gather there every year at the beginning of May to worship their gods. The Church of the Holy Trinity, standing on Łysa Góra today, was built precisely to eradicate those old beliefs, which were still secretly practiced by locals.

So who was Łada? Another scholar, Boris Rybakov, believed she was a goddess of marriage, life force, vitality, and springtime growth. Rybakov even “discovered” her likeness among the reliefs on the already well-known Zbruch Idol (Światowid ze Zbrucza).

A beautiful interpretation—however, Aleksander Brückner had a different view. According to him, Christian preachers simply observed folk dances and songs, in which refrains like “łada, boda, leli, poleli” held no real meaning but merely accompanied clapping and dancing as part of the rhythm. Brückner believed that priests projected their fear of ancient gods—already long gone—into their sermons. In the absence of real pagan threats, and needing new adversaries to rally the faithful against, they crafted old gods from rhyming refrains.

What was the truth? Maybe someday we’ll find out.