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Chernobog [a] (lit. "Black God" [1]) and Belobog [b] (lit. "White God" [1]) are an alleged pair of Polabian deities. Chernobog appears in Helmold's Chronicle as a god of misfortune worshipped by the Wagri and Obodrites, while Belobog is not mentioned – he was reconstructed in opposition to Chernobog. Both gods also appear in later sources ...
[1] [2] The novel draws on Slavic folklore, the title of the novel being a variant name of the "black god" Chernobog, and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a rusalka. It is also an exploration of magic and the development of a young wizard. [3]
Radegast is a god mentioned by Adam of Bremen, and the information is repeated by Helmold. He was to occupy the first place among the gods worshipped at Rethra. Earlier sources state that the main god of Rethra was Svarozhits, thus Radegast is considered to be a epithet of Svarozhits or a local variant of his cult. A white horse was dedicated ...
Astraeus, Titan god of the dusk, stars, planets, and the art of Astronomy and Astrology; Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon
The Slavs believed that from this God was preceded by a cosmic duality, represented by Belobog ("White God") and Chernobog ("Black God", also named Tiarnoglofi, "Black Head/Mind"), [23] representing the root of all the heavenly-masculine and the earthly-feminine deities, or the waxing light and waning light gods, respectively. [25]
Cosmologically speaking, Rod is conceived as the spring of universal emanation, which articulates in a cosmic hierarchy of gods; Rod expresses itself as Prav (literally "Right" or "Order"; cf. Greek Orthotes, Sanskrit Ṛta) in primordial undeterminacy , through a dual dynamism, represented by Belobog ("White God") and Chernobog ("Black God ...
Jutrobog, Jutrnyboh – a supposed god worshipped in Lusatia. His name consists of the word jutry , jutrny "morning" and the word bog "god" and means "Morning God, Aurora". The town of Jüterbog is supposed to be named after him, [ 10 ] although it is also possible that the last syllable is not bog but bok "side", and the name of the city can ...
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) has a theology that is generally monistic, consisting in the vision of a transcendental, supreme God (Rod, "Generator") which begets the universe and lives immanentised as the universe itself (pantheism and panentheism), present in decentralised and autonomous way in all its phenomena, generated by a multiplicity of deities which are independent hypostases ...