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Slavic mythology - Gods
Slavic mythology - Supreme god
The original supreme god of the Slavs was probably Rod. Information about Rod worship is scarce.
In some branches of the Slavic religion, the supreme god is Svarog (senior member of Triglav). But exactly because of his nature he was not the most worshiped: that was Perun, while tribes that were occupied mostly with cattle could pay most attention to Veles and so on.
The Wendish people are said to have had the three-headed Triglav as their supreme god. Sometimes this god is referred to as bog which simply means god.
Some say the chief god was Radegast Zuarasici, whose sanctuary at Rethra was the centre of his worship for the whole of Mecklenburg until it was destroyed in the twelfth century and replaced by Svantevit, the "holy oracle", whose temple was at Arkona on the Island of Rügen.
Slavic mythology - Pantheon
There is no single well-established pantheon. The only attested attempt at establishing such an "official" pantheon was made by Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev in 980-988 religious reform, immediately preceding the Christianization of Ruthenia. Vladimir erected six or seven idols near his court - Perun as the supreme god, with Veles, Hors, Dajbog, Stribog, and Mokosh as tribal gods.
In 1824 the Danish poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789 - 1862) published his thesis on North-Slavic and Wendish mythology in which he established the following pantheon:
First line of gods: Triglau (Bog), Svetovid, Radegast, Prove, Sieba, Siebog, Schwayxtix, Zislbog, Podaga, Rugiwit, Karewit, Juthrbog, Dziewona, Woda or Waidawut (Odin), Balduri (Balder).
The second line of gods: Zernebog (Pya), Percunust, Flins, Zirnitra (Zir), Berstuk, Marowit (House God), Hela (Hel).
Living close to Scandinavia, the Wends adopted a few gods from Norse mythology but these Teutonic gods never played a central role in the Wendish mythology.
It should be noted that many of the gods may be known by different names even in the same language. Calling gods by their proper names was considered bad luck, thus gods were called by adjectives, describing their qualities. Over time, these adjectives took on lives of their own.
Many other gods, however, have been tentatively reconstructed over the last two centuries. The full list of gods accepted by neo-paganists is as follows:
- Belobog | Chernobog | Dajbog | Dodola (Dzydzilya, Dudula ) | Dogoda | Hors | Jarilo (Yaro) | Koleda | Koschey | Kupala | Lada and Lado |Mokosh | Morena (Marzana) | Perun (Piorun, Parom) | Porvata | Radigost | Rod | Rodzanica | Simargl | Stribog | Sudz | Svarog | Svarogich | Svetovid (Świętowid) | Triglav | Veles | Zaria | Zmey
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