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Chernobog appears as the god of chaos, darkness, and night in the Balto-Slavic pantheon of the Marvel Universe. [39] He is a member of Winter Guard , a group of Russian superheroes Chernobog is the principal villain in Spinning Silver (2018), appearing as a demon of fire who possesses the Tzar
Henryk Łowmiński decided that Chernogłów is "the cemetery transformation of the Chernobog", and Leszek Moszyński proposed a read "T'arnogłowy" (from Proto-Slavic *tьrnъ, "thorn") meaning "with a head crowned with thorns", which is to refer to Jesus' crown of thorns and be a Christian influence on the late Polabian paganism. [5]
Accordingly, Afanasyev, later supported by M. Nikiforovsky, declared that the myth is Slavic, and under the names of God and Satan are Belobog and Chernobog, respectively. [52] However, dualism is not characteristic of Slavic religion, [44] [53] and the existence of these Slavic gods has been questioned. [54]
She is the Slavic continuation of the Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn *H₂éwsōs [24] and has many of her characteristics: she lives overseas on the island of Bujan, [25] opens the door for the Sun to go on its daily journey across the sky, [25] also has a golden boat. Zora can be a single figure, two figures, or three.
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]
The reason for the last two may be that, unlike, for example, those of Greek mythology, the sources on Slavic mythology are severely limited. The first Slavic pseudo-deities began to appear as early as the Middle Ages, mainly in Latin Christian texts, as a result of mistakes. Slavic pseudo-deities on a large scale began to appear from the 18th ...
[citation needed] In Slavic mythology, a singular Chort is sometimes identified as a son of the god Chernobog and the goddess Mara. [3] [page needed] Likewise, in Ukraine mythology, Chorts were originally the priest of Chernobog. [4] In folk Christianity, they are considered lesser minions of Satan.
Svarozhits [a] (Latin: Zuarasiz, Zuarasici, Old East Slavic: Сварожиць, Russian: Сварожиц), Svarozhich [a] (Old East Slavic: Сварожичь, Russian: Сварожич) is a Slavic god of fire, son of Svarog. One of the few Pan-Slavic gods. He is most likely identical with Radegast, less often identified with Dazhbog.