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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
Caricature of Napoleon with a chort A Ukrainian disguised as a Czort on Malanka. A chort (Russian: чёрт, Belarusian and Ukrainian: чорт, Serbo-Croatian čort or črt, Polish: czart and czort, Czech and Slovak: čert, Slovene: črt) is an anthropomorphic malign spirit or demon [1] [2] in Slavic folk tradition.
Chernobog and Belobog – alleged deities of bad fortune and good fortune. [56] Diva – theonym mentioned by Sermon by Saint Gregory. [57] [58] Diy – theonym mentioned in Sermon and Revelation by the Holy Apostles. Possibly related to sky or rain. [59] Hennil or Bendil – an agricultural deity mentioned by Thietmar. [60]
Slavic pseudo-deities (pseudo-gods, pseudo-goddesses) are Slavic deities described in popular and sometimes even scientific literature, whose historicity is not recognized by the vast majority of scholars, i.e. the deities in question are not deemed actually to have been objects of worship among pagan Slavs.
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. [108]
In the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language of Vladimir Dahl, the name Kashchei is derived from the verb "kastit" – to harm, to dirty: "probably from the word "kastit", but remade into koshchei, from 'bone', meaning a man exhausted by excessive thinness".
Likhoradka was purported to be able to possess a person's body and cause sickness. In some tales, she is considered a creation of the dark deity Chernobog. Later Russian legends describe 12 Likhoradkas, with individual names associated with special illnesses. In modern Russian, the word likhoradka has obtained the meaning "fever".
Chernobog and Belobog; To the same page name with diacritics: This is a redirect from a page name that does not have diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.) to ...