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Some researchers completely reject the existence of Belobog due to his non-appearance in the sources. [4] [7] At least four views have developed in scholarship: [12] Chernobog is an epithet of Satan, and Belobog arose secondarily in later literature; Chernobog and Belobog are Slavic deities (actual theonyms or epithets of other deities)
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 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 ...
The Russian volkhv Velimir (Nikolay Speransky), emphasises a dualistic eternal struggle between white gods and black gods, elder forces of creation and younger forces of destruction; the former collectively represented by Belobog and the latter by Chernobog, also symbolising the spiritual and the material. [115]
Zimtserla (Зимцерла) – goddess who first appears in the Russian translation (1722) of Kingdom of the Slavs, by the Croatian writer Mauro Orbini. The translator incorrectly transferred the theonym Semargl , written by Orbini as Simaergla , by writing the letter a as s and removing the letter g , probably due to euphony , and thus ...
A UK-based spy ring had connections in the “highest echelons” of the Bulgarian government, a court has heard. Katrin Ivanova, 33, and two others are accused of being part of a group of ...
Al-Masudi, an Arab historian, geographer and traveler, equates the paganism of the Slavs and the Rus' with reason: . There was a decree of the capital of the Khazar khaganate, and there are seven judges in it, two of them from Muslims, two from the Khazars, who judge according to the law of Taura, two from the Christians there, who judge according to the law of Injil, one of them from the ...
The Russian military leaders he tried to oust with his armed rebellion remain in power. A month after Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in ...