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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjernobog" title="Tjernobog – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tjernobog" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czorneboh_(Gottheit)" title="Czorneboh (Gottheit) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Czorneboh (Gottheit)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernabog" title="Chernabog – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Chernabog" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchernobog" title="Tchernobog – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Tchernobog" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%B4%EB%A5%B4%EB%85%B8%EB%B3%B4%EA%B7%B8" title="체르노보그 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="체르노보그" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerneboh" title="Zerneboh – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zerneboh" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobog" title="Chernobog – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Chernobog" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cernobog" title="Černobog – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Černobog" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csernobog" title="Csernobog – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Csernobog" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" 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deities</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about alleged Slavic gods. For mountains in Germany, see <a href="/wiki/Czorneboh" title="Czorneboh">Czorneboh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bieleboh" title="Bieleboh">Bieleboh</a>. For the Disney character, see <a href="/wiki/Chernabog" class="mw-redirect" title="Chernabog">Chernabog</a>.</div> <p><b>Chernobog</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="literally">lit.</span> "Black God"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and <b>Belobog</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="literally">lit.</span> "White God"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) are an alleged pair of <a href="/wiki/Polabian_Slavs" title="Polabian Slavs">Polabian</a> deities. Chernobog appears in <a href="/wiki/Helmold" title="Helmold">Helmold</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Chronica_Slavorum" title="Chronica Slavorum">Chronicle</a></i> as a god of misfortune worshipped by the <a href="/wiki/Wagri" title="Wagri">Wagri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obodrites</a>, while Belobog is not mentioned – he was reconstructed in opposition to Chernobog. Both gods also appear in later sources, but they are not considered reliable. Researchers do not agree on the status of Chernobog and Belobog: many scholars recognize the authenticity of these <a href="/wiki/Theonym" title="Theonym">theonyms</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Latin records, this theonym is noted as <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Zcerneboch</i></span> and <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">zcerneboth</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvarez-Pedroza2021158_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvarez-Pedroza2021158-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 12th-century German monk and chronicler <a href="/wiki/Helmold" title="Helmold">Helmold</a>, who accompanied the <a href="/wiki/Christianization" title="Christianization">Christianization</a> missions to the <a href="/wiki/Polabian_Slavs" title="Polabian Slavs">Elbe Slavs</a>, describes in his <i><a href="/wiki/Chronica_Slavorum" title="Chronica Slavorum">Chronicle of the Slavs</a></i> the cult of Chernobog: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Also, the Slavs have a strange delusion. At their feasts and carousals, they pass about a bowl over which they utter words, I should not say of consecration but of execration, in the name of [two] gods — of the good one, as well as of the bad one — professing that all propitious fortune is arranged by the good god, adverse, by the bad god. Hence, also, in their language, they call the bad god Diabol, or <i>Zcerneboch</i>, that is, the black god.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017187_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017187-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Belobog does not appear in any reliable sources<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985199_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985199-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020181_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020181-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – he was recreated in opposition to Chernobog.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk1991187_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk1991187-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_sources">Later sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Later sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The next sources that speak of Chernobog and/or Belobog appear only in the 16th century. Around 1530, a Dominican friar from <a href="/wiki/Pirna" title="Pirna">Pirna</a>, Johan Lindner, recalls the gods in his compilation. Although he lived in or near the <a href="/wiki/Lusatia" title="Lusatia">Lusatian</a> region, he probably only used written sources and monastic stories, and not field research, which made many historians deem his work unreliable, including <a href="/wiki/Georg_Fabricius" title="Georg Fabricius">Georg Fabricius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Petrus_Albinus" title="Petrus Albinus">Petrus Albinus</a>. They believed that although his sources were numerous and varied, he used them uncritically. At the end of the 17th century, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Frencel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abraham Frencel (page does not exist)">Abraham Frencel</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Frencel" class="extiw" title="de:Abraham Frencel">de</a>]</span> also mentioned the Chernobog in his list of the Lusatian gods. This information is also considered unreliable because it came into being late, when the Lusatian paganism was probably completely extinct and about half of the gods he mentioned are of <a href="/wiki/Prussia_(region)" title="Prussia (region)">Prussian</a> origin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1538, the Pomeranian chronicler <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kantzow" title="Thomas Kantzow">Thomas Kantzow</a> in his <i>Chronicle of Pomerania</i> wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I have heretofore related all manner of faithlessness and idolatry, in which they had engaged before the time of the German Empire. Earlier yet, their ways are said to have been even more pagan. They placed their kings and lords, who ruled well, above the gods and honored the said men [as gods] after their death. In addition, they worshipped the sun and the moon and, lastly, two gods whom they venerated above all other gods. One [of them] they called <i>Bialbug</i>, that is the white god; him they held for a good god. The other one [they called] <i>Zernebug</i>, that is the black god; him they held for a god who did harm. Therefore, they honored <i>Bialbug</i>, because he did them good and so that he might [continue to] do them good. <i>Zernebug</i>, on the other hand, they honored so that he should not harm them. And they appeased the said <i>Zernebug</i> by sacrificing people, for they believed that there was no better way of assuaging him than with human blood, which is actually true, if only they had seen it in the right light: that <i>Zernebug</i> seeks nothing other than the death of Man's body and soul.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017235_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017235-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Then <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_M%C3%BCnster" title="Sebastian Münster">Sebastian Münster</a>, in <i>Cosmographiae universalis</i> of 1550, describes the harvest ritual associated with <a href="/wiki/Svetovid" class="mw-redirect" title="Svetovid">Svetovit</a> and continues: "In general they (the Rugians) worshipped two gods, namely <i>Belbuck</i> and <i>Zernebuck</i>, as if a white and a black god, a good and an evil <a href="/wiki/Genius_(mythology)" title="Genius (mythology)">genius</a>, God and Satan, as the source of good and evil, according to the error of the <a href="/wiki/Manichaeism" title="Manichaeism">Manichaeans</a>". The works of Kantzov and Münster are probably independent of each other (various forms of recording the name of the Belobog, the <i>Chronicle of Pomerania</i> was first published, but it was not published until the 19th century), but they use a common source, which, according to Miroslava Znayenko, could be the archive of the Abbey of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bia%C5%82oboki_(Trzebiat%C3%B3w)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Białoboki (Trzebiatów) (page does not exist)">Białoboki</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82oboki_(Trzebiat%C3%B3w)" class="extiw" title="pl:Białoboki (Trzebiatów)">pl</a>]</span>, where the Belobog was forged. <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Cramer" title="Daniel Cramer">Daniel Cramer</a>, a theologian and professor from <a href="/wiki/Szczecin" title="Szczecin">Szczecin</a>, probably held in his hands a copy of a chronicle from this archive or saw a quote from it, because in his <i>Pommerisches Kirchen-Chronicon</i> he probably paraphrased a part of it:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>To this monastery they (the founding monks) gave the name <i>Belbug</i>, [more] correctly <i>Bialbuck</i>, which in the Wendish tongue means literally ‘the white god,’ thus to give [the Slavs] to understand that, unlike their (the Slavs’) heathen ancestors, the Christians did not know of any <i>black god</i>. The name [Belbug] also well befits the clothes of the Premonstratensians, who [always] went dressed in white. The foundation of the monastery took place anno 1163.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017237_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017237-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Chernobog also appears in the anonymous <i>Historia Caminensis</i> as the god of the <a href="/wiki/Vandals" title="Vandals">Vandals</a>, which is based on a work by Münster (both works speak of the "error of the Manichaeans"). Chernobog and Belobog also appear in other minor texts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretations">Interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is no consensus in the academic community about the status of Chernobog and Belobog in Slavic mythology, or whether the two gods existed at all in Slavic mythology. Some researchers completely reject the existence of Belobog due to his non-appearance in the sources.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020181_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020181-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At least four views have developed in scholarship:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020182_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020182-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Chernobog is an epithet of Satan, and Belobog arose secondarily in later literature</li> <li>Chernobog and Belobog are Slavic deities (actual theonyms or epithets of other deities)</li> <li>Chernobog and Belobog are names of Christian figures with pre-Christian origin</li> <li>Chernobog and Belobog are pseudo-deities, they did not exist in either the Christian or pagan vocabulary</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_deities">As deities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: As deities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Helmold's information led to the 19th century concept according to which there was supposed to be <a href="/wiki/Dualism_in_cosmology" title="Dualism in cosmology">dualism</a> in Slavic religion, which reached the Slavs from the <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranian peoples</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarmatians" title="Sarmatians">Sarmatians</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bogomilism" title="Bogomilism">Bogomils</a>); Chernobog and the hypothetical Belobog were compared to <a href="/wiki/Ahriman" title="Ahriman">Ahriman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ormuzd" class="mw-redirect" title="Ormuzd">Ormuzd</a>, the eternal enemies in <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrian</a> mythology.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESzyjewski200340_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESzyjewski200340-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this spirit, Chernobog was interpreted by Alexander Hilferding. Later, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Afanasyev" title="Alexander Afanasyev">Alexander Afanasyev</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Famitsin" title="Alexander Famitsin">Alexander Famitsin</a> considered the eastern counterpart of Belobog to be <a href="/w/index.php?title=Belun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Belun (page does not exist)">Belun</a> (field spirit). None of these scholars, however, considered dualism an important element of Slavic religion; such a view was expressed only by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikolay_Kvashnin-Samarin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikolay Kvashnin-Samarin (page does not exist)">Nikolay Kvashnin-Samarin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Квашнин-Самарин, Николай Дмитриевич">ru</a>]</span> in his amateur work <span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Очерке славянской мифологии</span></span> (1872), but his work is not considered important.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlejn200436_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlejn200436-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Franciszek Slawski, in his <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Proto-Slavic dictionary"><i>Słownik prasłowiański</i></span>, reconstructed the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" title="Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> <i>*bělъ bogъ</i> "white, bright deity"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESławski1974238_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESławski1974238-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Proto-Slavic <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="dialectal">dial.</span> <i>*čŕ̥nъ bogъ</i> "black deity, dark deity", for the latter the main attestation is supposed to be Helmold's account.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESławski1976243_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESławski1976243-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such dualism was advocated, for example, by <a href="/wiki/Aleksander_Gieysztor" title="Aleksander Gieysztor">Aleksander Gieysztor</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGieysztor2006159_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGieysztor2006159-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivanov_(philologist)" title="Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)">Vyacheslav Ivanov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Toporov" title="Vladimir Toporov">Vladimir Toporov</a> considered Chernobog to be a god who brings misfortune.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990b672_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990b672-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some authors have tried to prove the cult of Chernobog with the names of the <i><a href="/wiki/Czorneboh" title="Czorneboh">Czorneboh</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Bieleboh" title="Bieleboh">Bieleboh</a></i> mountains in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Lusatia" title="Upper Lusatia">Upper Lusatia</a>, where the gods are said to have been worshipped, but these names were not created until the modern era due to the popularity of the gods in the culture of those areas.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When considering the authenticity of the gods, place names that are said to refer to Chernobog and Belobog are also mentioned as arguments, such as the village of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Чернобожье"><i>Chernobozhye</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> or the village of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Чернобожна"><i>Chernobozhna</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, also the neighboring villages of <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cern%C3%ADkovice_(Plze%C5%88-North_District)" title="Černíkovice (Plzeň-North District)"><i>Černíkovice</i></a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=B%C4%9Blbo%C5%BEice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bělbožice (page does not exist)"><i>Bělbožice</i></a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%9Blbo%C5%BEice" class="extiw" title="cs:Bělbožice">cs</a>]</span> in the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> are said to be evidence of the authenticity of the cult of Chernobog and Belobog;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKulišićPetrovićPantelić197028–29_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKulišićPetrovićPantelić197028–29-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, the former actually comes from a personal name, likely of the founder.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_pseudo-deities">As pseudo-deities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: As pseudo-deities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the other hand, many researchers considered Chernobog merely a personification of bad luck, some mistake by Helmold or a pseudo deity in general. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrzej_Szyjewski&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrzej Szyjewski (page does not exist)">Andrzej Szyjewski</a> considered Chernobog only a pejorative epithet for the devil,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESzyjewski200347_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESzyjewski200347-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Urba%C5%84czyk" title="Stanisław Urbańczyk">Stanisław Urbańczyk</a> said: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is likely that Helmold heard something about the Slavs' belief in malevolent spirits, in personified fate, and combined it with Christian depictions, which, by the way, may have already permeated among the Slavs. This, in my opinion, is the kernel of his story; the connections with the Iranians must be abandoned in this case, because the basis is too fragile. The Slavic name for evil spirits were the words <a href="/wiki/Bies" title="Bies">bies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chort" title="Chort">czart</a>; glaringly different from Chernobog.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>His view was supported by <a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Strzelczyk" title="Jerzy Strzelczyk">Jerzy Strzelczyk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrzelczyk199857–58-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chernobog was also supposed to be the personification of bad luck according to Martin Pitro and Petr Vokáč<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPitroVokáč2002139_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPitroVokáč2002139-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stanis%C5%82aw_Rosik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanisław Rosik (page does not exist)">Stanisław Rosik</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosik2012272_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosik2012272-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Aleksander_Br%C3%BCckner" title="Aleksander Brückner">Aleksander Brückner</a> negated the existence of Chernobog (and Belobog) in Slavic religion and claimed that Chernobog was created under the influence of Christianity, including medieval depictions of the devil as a black demon, and compared him to the alleged Prussian god <i><a href="/wiki/Peckols" title="Peckols">Pikulas</a></i>, which ultimately derives from the Polish word <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">piekło</i></span> "<a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985195,_199,_210,_213_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985195,_199,_210,_213-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The view was supported by e.g. <a href="/wiki/Henryk_%C5%81owmia%C5%84ski" title="Henryk Łowmiański">Henryk Łowmiański</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁowmiański1979189_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁowmiański1979189-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An extended analysis of <i>Chernobog</i> and <i>Belobog</i> was made by Michał Łuczynski.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020180–194_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020180–194-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He points out, first of all, that Slavic linguistic material makes it easy to conclude that words like <i>black god</i> and <i>white god</i> have a pan-Slavic range and a Proto-Slavic origin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187,_189_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187,_189-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The attestations of the <i>black god</i> are as follows: <a href="/wiki/Slovincian_language" title="Slovincian language">Slovincian</a> <i>čǻrnï bȯ́u̯g</i> "devil", <a href="/wiki/Silesian_language" title="Silesian language">Silesian</a> <span title="Silesian-language text"><i lang="szl">Czorny Bóg</i></span> "evil spirit, devil", and <a href="/wiki/Toponymy" title="Toponymy">toponyms</a>: <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobozhye&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chernobozhye (page does not exist)"><i>Chernobozhye</i></a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%8C%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:Чернобожье">ru</a>]</span>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Чернобожна"><i>Chernobozhna</i></span> and <a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Чернобожеский городок"><i>Černobožeskij gorodok</i></span>; the attestations of the <i>white god</i>: Slovincian <i>bjǻu̯lï bȯ́u̯g</i> "God", Silesian <span title="Silesian-language text"><i lang="szl">Bioły Bóg</i></span> "a good, human-friendly deity; a good spirit", Serbian <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="dialectal">dial.</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="бел(и) бог"><i>bel(i) bog</i></span> "fate", <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="dialectal">dial.</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="бял бог"><i>byal bog</i></span> "luck, success",<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and toponyms: Czech <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs">Bělbog</i></span>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=B%C4%9Blbo%C5%BEice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bělbožice (page does not exist)"><i>Bělbožice</i></a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%9Blbo%C5%BEice" class="extiw" title="cs:Bělbožice">cs</a>]</span>, Russian <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Белые боги"><i>Belye bogi</i></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Беловожский монастырь"><i>Belovozhskiy monastyr</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Belboh</i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Belbog</i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Belbuk</i></span> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020185–186_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020185–186-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to him, the above material leads him to assume that: the words <i>black</i> and <i>white</i> used in the expressions were used in their metaphorical sense, successively "bad" and "good", and the word <i>god</i> was used in its abstract sense of "fate, luck, fate". Accordingly, Proto-Slavic <i>*čŕ̥nъ bogъ</i> meant "bad fate", and <i>*bělъ bogъ</i> "good fate" and this was their original meaning. Evidence of this etymology is provided by analogies, e.g. Polish <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">czarna dola</i></span>, Serbian <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="црна срећа"><i>crna sreća</i></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="црна судбина"><i>crna sudbina</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Croatian_language" title="Croatian language">Croatian</a> <span title="Croatian-language text"><i lang="hr">crna sudba</i></span> all meaning "bad fate", <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="literally">lit.</span> "black fate".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, these terms passed into personal names category and were used to describe <a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God</a>/<a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a> as figures responsible for good fate and bad fate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020190,_192–193_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020190,_192–193-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Consequently, he considers Helmold's Chernobog to be a pseudo-deity,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020191_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020191-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has been misidentified by modern scholars as a deity due to Helmold's <a href="/wiki/Calque" title="Calque">calque</a> of <i>black god</i> and <i>white god</i> into Latin as <i>niger deus</i> and <i>bonus deus</i> which suggests that Slavic <i>bog</i> used in these terms = Latin <i>deus</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020187-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and personal names <i>*Čŕ̥nobogъ</i> "devil" and <i>*Bělobogъ</i> "God/Jesus" as semantic neologisms belonging to the Christian cultural circle, not pagan, as religious, not mythological terms, as may be further indicated by the toponymy (the Christian places of worship in Bielboh and Belovozhskiy monastyr).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020189,_192,_194_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020189,_192,_194-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_Disney_productions">In Disney productions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In Disney productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Chernabog" class="mw-redirect" title="Chernabog">Chernabog</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villain_Float.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Villain_Float.jpg/220px-Villain_Float.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Villain_Float.jpg/330px-Villain_Float.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Villain_Float.jpg/440px-Villain_Float.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1039" data-file-height="1059" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Float_(parade)" title="Float (parade)">float</a> of Disney's rendition of Chernabog, holding the Wicked Queen from Disney's <i><a href="/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)" title="Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</a>.</i></figcaption></figure> <p>An alternative version of Chernobog named Chernabog appears in the <a href="/wiki/Symphonic_poem" title="Symphonic poem">symphonic poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Night_on_Bald_Mountain" title="Night on Bald Mountain">Night on Bald Mountain</a></i> by Russian composer <a href="/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky" title="Modest Mussorgsky">Modest Mussorgsky</a>. He is depicted as a giant winged demon summoning the souls of the dead. One segment of <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)" title="Fantasia (1940 film)">Fantasia</a></i> (1940) was based on this work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECulhane1983185_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECulhane1983185-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character may have been originally intended as a representation of Satan; in the film, Disney calls him "Satan himself". A full-length live-action film based on the segment was announced in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since <i>Fantasia</i>, Chernabog has appeared in many Disney productions: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantasia_2000" title="Fantasia 2000">Fantasia 2000</a></i> (1999) – a sequel to the 1940 film; Chernabog appears in references to the first film<sup id="cite_ref-:0_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Mouse" title="House of Mouse">House of Mouse</a></i> (2001–2003) – guest starring in one episode along with other characters from <i>Fantasia</i><sup id="cite_ref-:4_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_(TV_series)" title="Mickey Mouse (TV series)">Mickey Mouse</a></i> (2013) – in the episode "Touchdown and Out" as Mickey Mouse's opponent. In the episode "The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!", he is visible in the background during the introductory subtitles.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts" title="Kingdom Hearts">Kingdom Hearts</a></i> (2002) – as a boss during the <i>End of the World</i><sup id="cite_ref-:4_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_3D:_Dream_Drop_Distance" title="Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance">Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance</a></i> (2012)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Movies_and_shows">Movies and shows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Movies and shows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)" title="Once Upon a Time (TV series)">Once Upon a Time</a></i> (2011–2018) – appears in <a href="/wiki/Darkness_on_the_Edge_of_Town_(Once_Upon_a_Time)" title="Darkness on the Edge of Town (Once Upon a Time)">"Darkness on the Edge of Town"</a> episode<sup id="cite_ref-:4_38-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Gods_(TV_series)" title="American Gods (TV series)">American Gods</a></i> (2017–2021) – television series adaptation of the <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> <a href="/wiki/American_Gods" title="American Gods">novel with the same name</a><sup id="cite_ref-:6_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_and_comics">Books and comics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books and comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Ivanhoe" title="Ivanhoe">Ivanhoe</a></i> (1820) – Zernebock is depicted as the god of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxons</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heirs_of_Alexandria_series" title="Heirs of Alexandria series">Heirs of Alexandria</a></i> series (2002) – as an antagonist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Stirling" title="S. M. Stirling">S. M. Stirling</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Peshawar_Lancers" title="The Peshawar Lancers">The Peshawar Lancers</a></i> (2002) – the action takes place in 2025, 147 years after the meteorite rain that destroyed the Earth. The <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, believing that <a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> abandoned the world, began to worship Chernobog</li> <li>Chernobog appears as the god of chaos, darkness, and night in the Balto-Slavic pantheon of the <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Universe" title="Marvel Universe">Marvel Universe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a member of <a href="/wiki/Winter_Guard" title="Winter Guard">Winter Guard</a>, a group of Russian superheroes</li> <li>Chernobog is the principal villain in <i><a href="/wiki/Spinning_Silver" title="Spinning Silver">Spinning Silver</a></i> (2018), appearing as a demon of fire who possesses the Tzar</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blood_(video_game)" title="Blood (video game)">Blood</a></i> (1997) – Tchernobog is the primary antagonist, being depicted as a "bloodied, horned Dark God of monstrous appearance", who controls the cult known as "the Cabal"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Persona_3" title="Persona 3">Persona 3</a></i> (2006) - Chernobog is one of the many Personas the protagonist can embody for its powers in battle.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crusader_Kings_II" title="Crusader Kings II">Crusader Kings II</a></i> (2012) – In expansions, <i>Monks and Mystics</i>, when a player plays as a pagan Slavic ruler, a Chernobog appears as a "Satanic" god, worshipped by a "Cold Bloods" sect</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Smite_(video_game)" title="Smite (video game)">Smite</a></i> (2014) – as a playable character added in the May 2018 update. He is also the first god of the Slavic pantheon in this game<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arknights" title="Arknights">Arknights</a></i> (2019) – Chernobog is the name of the first town that the story takes place in.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Honkai:_Star_Rail" title="Honkai: Star Rail">Honkai: Star Rail</a></i> (2023) – Belobog is the name of the blizzard-stricken town in the first planet, Jarilo-VI, where the story takes place.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_Online" title="Grand Theft Auto Online">Grand Theft Auto Online</a></i> (2017) – An <a href="/wiki/Multiple_rocket_launcher" title="Multiple rocket launcher">MLRS</a> based on the Soviet <a href="/wiki/MAZ-7310#MAZ-543M" title="MAZ-7310">MAZ-543M</a> appears as the Chernobog.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zenless_Zone_Zero" title="Zenless Zone Zero">Zenless Zone Zero</a></i> (2024) - <i>Koleda Belobog is the name of one of the playable characters and is the president of the construction company Belobog Heavy Industries.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Veles_(god)" title="Veles (god)">Veles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niya_(mythology)" title="Niya (mythology)">Nyja</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also transcribed as <i>Černobog</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also transcribed as <i>Belebog</i>, <i>Belbog</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also in phraseology: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="до бяла бога"><i>do byala boga</i></span> "(shout) very strongly", <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="нямам бяла бога"><i>nyamam byala boga</i></span> "I have no peace", <i>videt byala boga</i> "to see consolation, joy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020186_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŁuczyński2020186-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGorbachov2017">Gorbachov 2017</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvarez-Pedroza2021158-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvarez-Pedroza2021158_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAlvarez-Pedroza2021">Alvarez-Pedroza 2021</a>, p. 158.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017187-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorbachov2017187_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGorbachov2017">Gorbachov 2017</a>, p. 187.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIvanovToporov1990a672_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFIvanovToporov1990a">Ivanov & Toporov 1990a</a>, p. 672.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUrbańczyk199126_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFUrbańczyk1991">Urbańczyk 1991</a>, p. 26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985199-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrückner1985199_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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Moscow: Большая российская энциклопедия. p. 672.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B3&rft.btitle=%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C&rft.place=Moscow&rft.pages=672&rft.pub=%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F&rft.date=1990&rft.aulast=Ivanov&rft.aufirst=Vyacheslav&rft.au=Toporov%2C+Vladimir&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmyths.kulichki.net%2Fenc%2Fitem%2Ff00%2Fs06%2Fa000600.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIvanovToporov1990b" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivanov_(philologist)" title="Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)">Ivanov, Vyacheslav</a>; <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Toporov" title="Vladimir Toporov">Toporov, Vladimir</a> (1990b). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://myths.kulichki.net/enc/item/f00/s38/a003865.shtml">"Чернобог"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Yeleazar_Meletinsky" title="Yeleazar Meletinsky">Meletinsky, Yeleazar</a> (ed.). <i>Мифологический словарь</i> (in Russian). 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Евразия. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-8071-0153-7" title="Special:BookSources/5-8071-0153-7"><bdi>5-8071-0153-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%3A+%D0%9A+%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0&rft.pub=%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=5-8071-0153-7&rft.aulast=Klejn&rft.aufirst=Leo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKulišićPetrovićPantelić1970" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Kulišić, Špiro; Petrović, Petar Ž.; Pantelić, Nikola (1970). <i>Српски митолошки речник</i> (in Serbian). 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Kielce: Kieleckie Towarzystwo Naukowe. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-83-60777-83-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-83-60777-83-1"><bdi>978-83-60777-83-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bogowie+dawnych+S%C5%82owian.+Studium+onomastyczne&rft.place=Kielce&rft.pub=Kieleckie+Towarzystwo+Naukowe&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=978-83-60777-83-1&rft.aulast=%C5%81uczy%C5%84ski&rft.aufirst=Micha%C5%82&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPitroVokáč2002" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Pitro, Martin; Vokáč, Petr (2002). <i>Bohové dávných Slovanů</i> (in Czech). 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Kraków: Wydawnictwo WAM. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/83-7318-205-5" title="Special:BookSources/83-7318-205-5"><bdi>83-7318-205-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Religia+S%C5%82owian&rft.place=Krak%C3%B3w&rft.pub=Wydawnictwo+WAM&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=83-7318-205-5&rft.aulast=Szyjewski&rft.aufirst=Andrzej&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUrbańczyk1991" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Urba%C5%84czyk" title="Stanisław Urbańczyk">Urbańczyk, Stanisław</a> (1991). <i>Dawni Słowianie. Wiara i kult</i> (in Polish). Wrocław: Ossolineum.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dawni+S%C5%82owianie.+Wiara+i+kult&rft.place=Wroc%C5%82aw&rft.pub=Ossolineum&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Urba%C5%84czyk&rft.aufirst=Stanis%C5%82aw&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chernobog_and_Belobog&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZNAYENKO1993" class="citation journal cs1">ZNAYENKO, Myroslava T. (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.handle.net/2115/8061">"On the Concept of Chernebog and Bielbog in Slavic Mythology"</a>. <i>Acta Slavica Iaponica</i>. <b>11</b>: 177–185. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2115%2F8061">2115/8061</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Acta+Slavica+Iaponica&rft.atitle=On+the+Concept+of+Chernebog+and+Bielbog+in+Slavic+Mythology&rft.volume=11&rft.pages=177-185&rft.date=1993&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2115%2F8061&rft.aulast=ZNAYENKO&rft.aufirst=Myroslava+T.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2115%2F8061&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChernobog+and+Belobog" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chernobog and Belobog</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernoglav" title="Chernoglav">Chernoglav</a><sup>F</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dazhbog" title="Dazhbog">Dazhbog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devana" title="Devana">Devana</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dyi_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dyi (mythology) (page does not exist)">Dyi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:Дый">ru</a>]</span><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diviya_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diviya (mythology) (page does not exist)">Diviya</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Дивия">ru</a>; <a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diviya" class="extiw" title="uz:Diviya">uz</a>]</span><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khors" title="Khors">Khors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kresnik_(deity)" title="Kresnik (deity)">Kresnik</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lada_(goddess)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lada (goddess)">Lada mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morana_(goddess)" title="Morana (goddess)">Morana</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mokosh" title="Mokosh">Mokosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pizamar" title="Pizamar">Pizamar</a><sup>H</sup><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarilo" title="Yarilo">Yarilo</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hennil" title="Hennil">Hennil</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyi_(mythology)" title="Kyi (mythology)">Kyi</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lel_and_Polel" title="Lel and Polel">Lel and Polel</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niya_(mythology)" title="Niya (mythology)">Niya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perun" title="Perun">Perun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podaga" title="Podaga">Podaga</a><sup>F</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porenut" title="Porenut">Porenut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porevit" title="Porevit">Porevit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prove_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prove (mythology)">Prove</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:Прове">ru</a>]</span> or Prone<sup>F</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radegast_(god)" title="Radegast (god)">Radegast</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_(Slavic_religion)" title="Rod (Slavic religion)">Rod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rugiaevit" title="Rugiaevit">Rugiaevit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pereplut" title="Pereplut">Pereplut</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perperuna" class="mw-redirect" title="Perperuna">Perperuna</a><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simargl" title="Simargl">Simargl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stribog" title="Stribog">Stribog</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pogoda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pogoda (page does not exist)">Pogoda</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_(%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F)" class="extiw" title="ru:Погода (мифология)">ru</a>; <a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kult_v%C4%9Btru_u_Slovan%C5%AF" class="extiw" title="cs:Kult větru u Slovanů">cs</a>; <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogoda" class="extiw" title="fr:Dogoda">fr</a>]</span><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zelu_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zelu (mythology) (page does not exist)">Zelu</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelu" class="extiw" title="cs:Zelu">cs</a>]</span><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svarog" title="Svarog">Svarog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svarozhits" title="Svarozhits">Svarozhits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetovit" title="Svetovit">Svetovit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triglav_(mythology)" title="Triglav (mythology)">Triglav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veles_(god)" title="Veles (god)">Veles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarovit" title="Yarovit">Yarovit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%BDiva_(mythology)" title="Živa (mythology)">Zhiva</a><sup>F</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zorya" title="Zorya">Zorya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%BBywie" class="mw-redirect" title="Żywie">Żywie</a><sup>H</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Personifications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dola_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dola (mythology)">Dola</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karna_and_Zhelya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karna and Zhelya (page does not exist)">Karna and Zhelya</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Карна и Желя">ru</a>]</span><sup>H</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koliada_(deity)" title="Koliada (deity)">Koliada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mat_Zemlya" title="Mat Zemlya">Mat Zemlya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moryana" title="Moryana">Moryana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_(Slavic_religion)" title="Rod (Slavic religion)">Rod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deities_and_fairies_of_fate_in_Slavic_mythology" title="Deities and fairies of fate in Slavic mythology">Rozhanitsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zorya" title="Zorya">Zorya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Slavic_pseudo-deities" title="List of Slavic pseudo-deities">Pseudo-deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chislobog" title="Chislobog">Chislobog</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chur_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chur (mythology) (page does not exist)">Chur</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%83%D1%80" class="extiw" title="ru:Чур">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dana (mythology) (page does not exist)">Dana</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Pogvizd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pogvizd (page does not exist)">Pogvizd</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4" class="extiw" title="ru:Позвизд">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Troyan_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Troyan (mythology) (page does not exist)">Troyan</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BD_(%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F)" class="extiw" title="ru:Троян (мифология)">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vesna_(mythology)" title="Vesna (mythology)">Vesna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voloska" title="Voloska">Voloska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesza" title="Jesza">Yesha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Priesthood and cult</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vedmak" title="Vedmak">Vedmak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volkhv" title="Volkhv">Volkhv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhrets" title="Zhrets">Zhrets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_shamanism" title="Slavic shamanism">Shamanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bogatyr" title="Bogatyr">Legendary heroes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alyosha_Popovich" title="Alyosha Popovich">Alyosha Popovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burislav" title="Burislav">Burislav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irene_Kantakouzene" title="Irene Kantakouzene">Damned Jerina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%90erzelez_Alija" class="mw-redirect" title="Đerzelez Alija">Đerzelez Alija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dobrynya_Nikitich" title="Dobrynya Nikitich">Dobrynya Nikitich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Husein_Grada%C5%A1%C4%8Devi%C4%87" title="Husein Gradaščević">Dragon of Bosnia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrnjica_Brothers" title="Hrnjica Brothers">Hrnjica Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilya_Muromets" title="Ilya Muromets">Ilya Muromets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Kosan%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Ivan Kosančić">Ivan Kosančić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Tsarevich" title="Ivan Tsarevich">Ivan Tsarevich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jugovi%C4%87_brothers" title="Jugović brothers">Jugović brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyi,_Shchek_and_Khoryv" title="Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv">Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lech,_Czech,_and_Rus%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Lech, Czech, and Rus'">Lech, Czech, and Rus'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libu%C5%A1e" title="Libuše">Libuše</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikula_Selyaninovich" title="Mikula Selyaninovich">Mikula Selyaninovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mila_Gojsali%C4%87" title="Mila Gojsalić">Mila Gojsalić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milan_Toplica" title="Milan Toplica">Milan Toplica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Obili%C4%87" title="Miloš Obilić">Miloš Obilić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misizla" title="Misizla">Misizla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustay-Bey_of_Lika" title="Mustay-Bey of Lika">Mustay-Bey of Lika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_the_Tanner" title="Nikita the Tanner">Nikita the Tanner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popiel" title="Popiel">Popiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Marko" title="Prince Marko">Prince Marko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadko" title="Sadko">Sadko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nightingale_the_Robber" title="Nightingale the Robber">Solovey-Razboynik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svyatogor" title="Svyatogor">Svyatogor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful" title="Vasilisa the Beautiful">Vasilisa the Beautiful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga_Svyatoslavich" title="Volga Svyatoslavich">Volga Svyatoslavich</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_beings_in_Slavic_religion" title="Supernatural beings in Slavic religion">Legendary creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unquiet dead</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vila_(fairy)" title="Vila (fairy)">Vila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drekavac" title="Drekavac">Drekavac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kikimora" title="Kikimora">Kikimora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavka" title="Mavka">Mavka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upi%C3%B3r" title="Upiór">Upiór</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Place spirits</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bannik" title="Bannik">Bannik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolotnik" title="Bolotnik">Bolotnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornflower_Wraith" title="Cornflower Wraith">Cornflower Wraith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domovoy" title="Domovoy">Domovoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvorovoy" title="Dvorovoy">Dvorovoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Midday" title="Lady Midday">Lady Midday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leshy" title="Leshy">Leshy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boruta_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boruta (mythology)">Boruta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mistress_of_the_Copper_Mountain" title="The Mistress of the Copper Mountain">Mistress of the Copper Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moryana" title="Moryana">Moryana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovinnik" title="Ovinnik">Ovinnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polevik" title="Polevik">Polevik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vodyanoy" title="Vodyanoy">Vodyanoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shubin_(ghost)" title="Shubin (ghost)">Shubin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_water_spirits" title="Slavic water spirits">Water spirits</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Entities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ala_(demon)" title="Ala (demon)">Ala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alkonost" title="Alkonost">Alkonost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baba_Yaga" title="Baba Yaga">Baba Yaga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babay_(Slavic_folklore)" title="Babay (Slavic folklore)">Babay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba%C5%A1_%C4%8Celik" title="Baš Čelik">Baš Čelik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bauk_(mythology)" title="Bauk (mythology)">Bauk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berehynia" class="mw-redirect" title="Berehynia">Berehynia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bies" title="Bies">Bies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Arab_(mythology)" title="Black Arab (mythology)">Black Arab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99dnica_(Slavic_demoness)" title="Błędnica (Slavic demoness)">Błędnica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blud" title="Blud">Blud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boginki" class="mw-redirect" title="Boginki">Boginki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bukavac" title="Bukavac">Bukavac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernava" title="Chernava">Chernava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuhaister" title="Chuhaister">Chuhaister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cikavac" title="Cikavac">Cikavac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chort" title="Chort">Chort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cuma" title="Čuma">Čuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dukljan" title="Dukljan">Dukljan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dziwo%C5%BCona" title="Dziwożona">Dziwożona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fern_flower" title="Fern flower">Fern flower</a>-<a href="/wiki/Chervona_Ruta" class="mw-redirect" title="Chervona Ruta">Chervona Ruta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firebird_(Slavic_folklore)" title="Firebird (Slavic folklore)">Firebird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gagana" title="Gagana">Gagana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamayun" title="Gamayun">Gamayun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indrik" title="Indrik">Indrik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ispolin" title="Ispolin">Ispolin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karze%C5%82ek" title="Karzełek">Karzełek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koshchei" title="Koshchei">Koshchei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krsnik_(vampire_hunter)" title="Krsnik (vampire hunter)">Krsnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Likho" title="Likho">Likho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Likhoradka" title="Likhoradka">Likhoradka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_(folklore)" title="Mare (folklore)">Mare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meduza_(Russian_folklore)" title="Meduza (Russian folklore)">Meduza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molfar" title="Molfar">Molfar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nav_(Slavic_folklore)" title="Nav (Slavic folklore)">Nav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nocnitsa" title="Nocnitsa">Nocnitsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C5%82anetnik" title="Płanetnik">Płanetnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Povitrulya" title="Povitrulya">Povitrulya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psoglav" title="Psoglav">Psoglav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rar%C3%B3g" title="Raróg">Raróg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahmans" title="Rahmans">Rahmans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raskovnik" title="Raskovnik">Raskovnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deities_and_fairies_of_fate_in_Slavic_mythology" title="Deities and fairies of fate in Slavic mythology">Rozhanitsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusalka" title="Rusalka">Rusalka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samodiva_(folklore)" title="Samodiva (folklore)">Samodiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirin" title="Sirin">Sirin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shishiga" title="Shishiga">Shishiga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skrzak" title="Skrzak">Skrzak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strzyga" title="Strzyga">Strzyga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuha%C4%87" title="Stuhać">Stuhać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stricha" title="Stricha">Stricha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudice_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sudice (mythology)">Sudice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tintilini%C4%87" title="Tintilinić">Tintilinić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topielec" title="Topielec">Topielec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ved_(mythology)" title="Ved (mythology)">Ved</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vesna_(mythology)" title="Vesna (mythology)">Vesna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zduha%C4%87" title="Zduhać">Zduhać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_dragon" title="Slavic dragon">Zmey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werewolf" title="Werewolf">Werewolf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ritual figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baba_Marta" title="Baba Marta">Baba Marta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_(mythology)" title="German (mythology)">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodola_and_Perperuna" title="Dodola and Perperuna">Dodola and Perperuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koliada_(deity)" title="Koliada (deity)">Koliada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kupala" title="Kupala">Kupala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kostroma_(deity)" title="Kostroma (deity)">Kostroma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marzanna" class="mw-redirect" title="Marzanna">Marzanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maslenitsa" title="Maslenitsa">Maslenitsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarilo" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarilo">Jarilo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mythological places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alatyr_(mythology)" title="Alatyr (mythology)">Alatyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bald_Mountain_(folklore)" title="Bald Mountain (folklore)">Bald Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buyan" title="Buyan">Buyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faraway_Tsardom" title="Faraway Tsardom">Faraway Tsardom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oponskoye_Kingdom" title="Oponskoye Kingdom">Oponskoye Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitezh" title="Kitezh">Kitezh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lukomorye" title="Lukomorye">Lukomorye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iriy" title="Iriy">Vyraj</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Axe_of_Perun" title="Axe of Perun">Axe of Perun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword_Kladenets" title="Sword Kladenets">Sword Kladenets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beliefs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_creation_myth" title="Slavic creation myth">Creation myth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_traditions_and_superstitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian traditions and superstitions">Russian traditions and superstitions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_folk_astronomy" title="Serbian folk astronomy">Serbian folk astronomy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Slavic_folklore" title="Slavic folklore">Folklore</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Czech_folklore" title="Czech folklore">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklore of Russia">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_folklore" title="Serbian folklore">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_folklore" title="Ukrainian folklore">Ukrainian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Polish_folklore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polish folklore (page does not exist)">Polish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosniak_epic_poetry" title="Bosniak epic poetry">Bosniak epic poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bylina" title="Bylina">Bylina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_fairy_tale" title="Russian fairy tale">Russian fairy tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_epic_poetry" title="Serbian epic poetry">Serbian epic poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_fairy_tale" title="Ukrainian fairy tale">Ukrainian fairy tale</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_the_Slavs" title="Christianization of the Slavs">Christianization</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Moravia" title="Christianization of Moravia">Moravia</a> (830s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Bulgaria" title="Christianization of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> (860s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Bohemia" title="Christianization of Bohemia">Bohemia</a> (880s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Poland" title="Christianization of Poland">Poland</a> (960s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianisation_of_Kievan_Rus%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianisation of Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> (980s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Pomerania" title="Christianization of Pomerania">Pomerania</a> (1120s–60s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogomilism" title="Bogomilism">Bogomilism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Folk_Orthodoxy" title="Folk Orthodoxy">Folk practices</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apocryphal_prayer" title="Apocryphal prayer">Apocryphal prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zagovory" title="Zagovory">Zagovory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg_decorating_in_Slavic_culture" title="Egg decorating in Slavic culture">Egg decoration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martenitsa" title="Martenitsa">Martenitsa</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Folk_cults_(also_including_Ossetian)" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Folk cults (also including Ossetian)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ognyena_Maria" title="Ognyena Maria">Ognyena Maria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paraskeva_of_Iconium" class="mw-redirect" title="Paraskeva of Iconium">Paraskeva of Iconium</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paraskeva_Friday" title="Paraskeva Friday">Paraskeva Friday</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_the_Wonderworker" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas the Wonderworker">Nicholas the Wonderworker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veles_(god)" title="Veles (god)">Veles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Ilya the Prophet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uacilla" title="Uacilla">Uacilla</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_George" title="Saint George">George the Victorious</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dazhbog" title="Dazhbog">Dazhbog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uastyrdzhi" title="Uastyrdzhi">Uastyrdzhi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasia_of_Serbia" title="Anastasia of Serbia">Saint Anastasia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Nedelya" title="Saint Nedelya">Saint Nedelya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Blaise" title="Saint Blaise">Saint Vlasius</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Veles_(god)" title="Veles (god)">Veles</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maslenitsa" title="Maslenitsa">Maslenitsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donbettyr" title="Donbettyr">Donbettyr</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Tiron" title="Theodore Tiron">Saint Theodore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tutyr" title="Tutyr">Tutyr</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Eustace" title="Saint Eustace">Saint Eustace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apsat_(mythology)" title="Apsat (mythology)">Apsat</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Revivalist organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God-Building" title="God-Building">God-Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_Native_Faith" title="Slavic Native Faith">Slavic Native Faith</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Authentism" class="mw-redirect" title="Authentism">Authentism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazhovism" title="Bazhovism">Bazhovism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivanovism" title="Ivanovism">Ivanovism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kandybaism" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandybaism">Kandybaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levashovism" title="Levashovism">Levashovism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peterburgian_Vedism" title="Peterburgian Vedism">Peterburgian Vedism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ringing_Cedars%27_Anastasianism" title="Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism">Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic-Hill_Rodnovery" title="Slavic-Hill Rodnovery">Slavic-Hill Rodnovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_Ukrainian_National_Faith" title="Native Ukrainian National Faith">Sylenkoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vseyasvetnaya_Gramota" title="Vseyasvetnaya Gramota">Vseyasvetnaya Gramota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ynglism" title="Ynglism">Ynglism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roerichism" title="Roerichism">Roerichism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blagovery" class="mw-redirect" title="Blagovery">Russian Zoroastrianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In popular culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_fantasy" title="Slavic fantasy">Fantasy</a></li> <li><a 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