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Researchers do not agree on the status of Chernobog and Belobog: many scholars recognize the authenticity of these theonyms and explain them, for example, as gods of good and evil; on the other hand, many scholars believe that they are pseudo-deities, and Chernobog may have originally meant "bad fate", and later associated with the Christian devil.
The younger black gods have always to act in accordance with stronger white gods, otherwise they generate evil. [32] The Belobog–Chernobog duality is also represented on the human plane as the Perun–Veles duality, where the former is the principle of martiality and the latter is the principle of mystical philosophy. [48]
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 ...
The dualistic creation myth by "evil god" diving has 24 credentials in Balto-Slavic areas and 12 credentials in Finno-Ugric areas. The Bulgarian myth does not mention the Devil's catastrophe, but it develops the theme of creation by the formula "by God's and my power", and the Devil, who twice reversed the order of the formula, could not reach the bottom until the third time he pronounced the ...
[41] [42] According to the Bogomilian view described in the Panoplia of the late 11th – early 12th century Byzantine theologian and exegete Euthymios Zigabenos, the material world is the work of another god – the god of evil, as opposed to the spiritual world created by the good God. According to this doctrine, Satan created Adam, but could ...
Such dualism does not represent absolute good and evil, but the black gods become evil when acting out of agreement with older and stronger white gods. [116] Statue of Svetovid in Kyiv. The four-faced "Worldseer" represents (according to the Book of Veles) Prav, Yav and Nav in the four directions of space.
Yevgen Yakushev, from the International Christian Church of Faith in Barnet, has joined a scheme to deliver supplies and 100 cars to the front line.
Chernoglav or Chernoglov (Old Icelandic: Tjarnaglófi) is the god of victory and war worshipped in Rügen, probably in the town of Jasmund, mentioned together with Svetovit, Rugievit, Turupid, Puruvit and Pizamar in the Knýtlinga saga.