Old Russian gods. Gods of the Eastern Slavs

The ancient Slavic pantheon is very complex in its structure and numerous in composition. Most gods were identified with various forces of nature, although there were exceptions, the most striking example of which is Rod, the creator god. Due to the similarity of functions and properties of some gods, it is difficult to determine for sure which names are just variations of the names of the same god, and which belong to different gods.
The entire pantheon can be divided into two large circles: the elder gods who ruled all three worlds in the primordial stage, and the second circle - the young gods who took the reins of power in the new stage. At the same time, some elder gods are present in the new stage, while others disappear (more precisely, there are no descriptions of their activities or interference in anything, but the memory that they existed remains).

In the Slavic pantheon there was no clear hierarchy of power, which was replaced by a clan hierarchy, where sons were subordinate to their father, but brothers were equal to each other. The Slavs did not have clearly defined evil gods and good gods. Some deities gave life, others took it, but all were revered equally, since the Slavs believed that the existence of one without the other was impossible. At the same time, gods who were good in their functions could punish and cause harm, while evil ones, on the contrary, could help and save people. Thus, the gods of the ancient Slavs were very similar to people not only in appearance, but also in character, since they simultaneously carried within themselves both good and evil.

Outwardly, the gods looked like people, and most of them could turn into animals, in the form of which they usually appeared to people. The gods were distinguished from ordinary beings by their superpowers, which allowed the deities to change the world around them. Each of the gods had power over one of the parts of this world. The effects on other parts not subject to the deities were limited and temporary.

Genus
The most ancient supreme male deity among the Slavs was Rod. Already in Christian teachings against paganism in the 12th-13th centuries. they write about Rod as a god who was worshiped by all peoples.
Rod was the god of the sky, thunderstorms, and fertility. They said about him that he rides on a cloud, throws rain on the ground, and from this children are born. He was the ruler of the earth and all living things, and was a pagan creator god.
IN Slavic languages The root “genus” means kinship, birth, water (spring), profit (harvest), concepts such as people and homeland, in addition, it means the color red and lightning, especially ball lightning, called “rhodia”. This variety of cognate words undoubtedly proves the greatness of the pagan god.
Rod is a creator god, together with his sons Belbog and Chernobog he created this world. Alone, Rod created Prav, Yav and Nav in the sea of ​​chaos, and together with his sons he created the earth.

The sun then came out from His face. The bright moon is from His chest. The frequent stars are from His eyes. The clear dawns are from His eyebrows. Dark nights - yes from His thoughts. Violent winds - from the breath...
"The Book of Kolyada"
The Slavs had no idea about Rod’s appearance, since he never appeared directly in front of people.
Temples in honor of the deity were built on hills or simply large open areas of land. His idol was phallic in shape or simply shaped like a pillar painted red. Sometimes the role of an idol was played by an ordinary tree growing on a hill, especially if it was quite ancient. In general, the Slavs believed that Rod is in everything and therefore can be worshiped anywhere. There were no sacrifices in honor of Rod. Instead, holidays and feasts are organized, which are held directly near the idol.
The companions of the Rod were the Rozhanitsy - female deities of fertility in Slavic mythology, the patroness of the clan, family, and home.

Belbog
Son of Rod, god of light, goodness and justice. In Slavic mythology, he is the creator of the world along with Rod and Chernobog. Outwardly, Belbog appeared as a gray-haired old man dressed like a sorcerer.
Belobog in the mythology of our ancestors never acted as an independent individual character. Just as any object in the world of reality has a shadow, so Belobog has its integral antipode - Chernobog. A similar analogy can be found in ancient Chinese philosophy (yin and yang), in the Ynglism of the Icelanders (Yuj rune) and in many other cultural and religious systems. Belobog, thus, becomes the embodiment of bright human ideals: goodness, honor and justice.
A sanctuary in honor of Belbog was built on the hills, with the idol facing east, towards the sunrise. However, Belbog was revered not only in the sanctuary of the deity, but also at feasts, always making a toast in his honor.

Veles
One of the greatest gods of the ancient world, son of Rod, brother of Svarog. His main act was that Veles set the world created by Rod and Svarog into motion. Veles - “cattle god” - master of the wild, master of Navi, powerful wizard and werewolf, interpreter of laws, teacher of the arts, patron of travelers and merchants, god of luck. True, some sources point to him as the god of death...
At the moment, among various pagan and Rodnoverie movements, a fairly popular text is Veles’s book, which became known to the general public in the 1950s of the last century thanks to the researcher and writer Yuri Mirolyubov. The Veles book actually consists of 35 birch tablets, dotted with symbols, which linguists (in particular, A. Kur and S. Lesnoy) call Slavic pre-Cyrillic writing. It is curious that the original text really does not resemble either the Cyrillic or Glagolitic alphabet, but the features of the Slavic runitsa are presented in it indirectly.
Despite widespread and the mass veneration of this god, Veles, was always separated from the other gods; his idols were never placed in common temples (sacred places in which images of the main gods of this territory were installed).
Two animals are associated with the image of Veles: a bull and a bear; in the temples dedicated to the deity, the wise men often kept a bear, which played a key role in the rituals.

Dazhdbog
God of the Sun, giver of heat and light, god of fertility and life-giving force. The symbol of Dazhdbog was originally considered to be the solar disk. Its color is gold, speaking of the nobility of this god and his unshakable strength. In general, our ancestors had three main solar deities - Khors, Yarila and Dazhdbog. But Khors was the winter sun, Yarilo was the spring sun, and Dazhdbog was the summer sun. Of course, Dazhdbog deserved special respect, since the summer position of the sun on firmament For the ancient Slavs, a people of farmers, a lot depended. At the same time, Dazhdbog was never distinguished by a tough disposition, and if a drought suddenly attacked, then our ancestors never blamed this god.
The temples of Dazhdbog were located on the hills. The idol was made of wood and placed facing east or southeast. Feathers from ducks, swans and geese, as well as honey, nuts and apples were brought as gifts to the deity.

Devana
Devana is the goddess of hunting, wife of the forest god Svyatobor and daughter of Perun. The Slavs represented the goddess in the form of a beautiful girl dressed in an elegant marten fur coat trimmed with squirrel. The beauty wore a bear skin over her fur coat, and the head of the animal served as her hat. Perun's daughter carried with her an excellent bow and arrows, a sharp knife and a spear, the kind used to kill a bear.

The beautiful goddess not only hunted forest animals: she herself taught them how to avoid dangers and endure harsh winters.

Dewana was first of all revered by hunters and trappers; they prayed to the goddess to grant good luck in the hunt, and in gratitude they brought part of their prey to her sanctuary. It was believed that it was she who helped to find the secret paths of animals in the dense forest, to avoid clashes with wolves and bears, and, if the meeting did take place, to help the person emerge victorious.

Share and Nedolya
Share is a good goddess, Mokosh’s assistant, weaving a happy destiny.
He appears in the guise of a sweet young man or a red-haired maiden with golden curls and a cheerful smile. He cannot stand still, he walks around the world - there are no barriers: swamp, river, forest, mountains - Fate will instantly overcome.
Doesn't like lazy people, careless people, drunks and all sorts of bad people. Although at first he makes friends with everyone, then he will figure it out and leave the bad, evil person.
NEDOLYA (Need, Need) - the goddess, Mokosh’s assistant, weaves an unhappy fate.
Dolya and Nedolya are not just personifications of abstract concepts that do not have objective existence, but on the contrary, they are living persons identical to the maidens of fate.
They act according to their own calculations, regardless of the will and intentions of a person: a happy person does not work at all and lives in contentment, because Share works for him. On the contrary, Nedolya’s activities are constantly aimed at harming people. While she is awake, misfortune follows misfortune, and only then does it become easier for the unfortunate man when Nedolya falls asleep: “If Likho is sleeping, don’t wake him.”

Dogoda
Dogoda (Weather) - the god of beautiful weather and a gentle, pleasant breeze. Young, ruddy, fair-haired, wearing a cornflower blue wreath with blue butterfly wings gilded at the edges, in silver-shiny bluish clothes, holding a thorn in his hand and smiling at the flowers.

Kolyada
Kolyada is the baby sun, in Slavic mythology the embodiment of the New Year's cycle, as well as a holiday character similar to Avsen.
Kolyada was celebrated on winter holidays from December 25 (the turn of the sun to spring) to January 6.
“Once upon a time, Kolyada was not perceived as a mummer. Kolyada was a deity, and one of the most influential. They called carols and called. The days before the New Year were dedicated to Kolyada, and games were organized in her honor, which were subsequently held at Christmas time. The last patriarchal ban on the worship of Kolyada was issued on December 24, 1684. It is believed that Kolyada was recognized by the Slavs as the deity of fun, which is why he was called upon and called upon by merry bands of youth during New Year’s festivities” (A. Strizhev. “People's Calendar”).

Kryshen
The son of the Almighty and the goddess Maya, he was the brother of the very first creator of the world, Rod, although he was much younger than him. He returned fire to people, fought on the shores of the Arctic Ocean with Chernobog and defeated him.

KUPALO
Kupala (Kupaila) is the fruitful deity of summer, the summer hypostasis of the Sun god.
“Kupalo, as I remember, was the god of abundance, like the Hellenic Ceres, to whom the madman offered thanks for the abundance to the Shah at that time, when the harvest was about to arrive.”
His holiday is dedicated to the summer solstice, the long day per year. The night before this day was also sacred - the Night before Kupalo. Feasting, merrymaking and mass swimming in ponds continued all that night.
They sacrificed to him before collecting bread, on June 23, St. Agrippina, who was popularly nicknamed the Bathing Suit. Young people decorated themselves with wreaths, lit a fire, danced around it and sang Kupala. The games continued all night. In some places, on June 23, bathhouses were heated, they were covered with grass for a bathhouse (buttercup), and then they swam in the river.
On the very Nativity of John the Baptist, weaving wreaths, they hung them on the roofs of houses and on barns to remove evil spirits from the home.

Lada
LADA (Freya, Preya, Siv or Zif) - the goddess of youth and spring, beauty and fertility, an all-generous mother, patroness of love and marriages.
In folk songs, “lado” still means a dearly beloved friend, lover, groom, husband.
Freya's outfit shines with the dazzling brilliance of the sun's rays, her beauty is charming, and the drops of morning dew are called her tears; on the other hand, she acts as a warlike heroine, rushing through the heavens in storms and thunderstorms and driving away rain clouds. In addition, she is a goddess, in whose retinue the shadows of the deceased march into the afterlife. The cloud fabric is precisely the veil on which the soul, after the death of a person, ascends to the kingdom of the blessed.
According to popular poems, angels, appearing for a righteous soul, take it on a shroud and carry it to heaven. The cult of Freya-Siwa explains the superstitious respect that Russian commoners have for Friday, as a day dedicated to this goddess. Anyone who starts a business on Friday will, as the proverb goes, back off.
Among the ancient Slavs, the birch tree, which personified the goddess Lada, was considered a sacred tree.

Ice
Ice - the Slavs prayed to this deity for success in battles; he was revered as the ruler of military actions and bloodshed. This ferocious deity was depicted as a terrible warrior, armed with Slavic armor, or full armor. A sword at the hip, a spear and a shield in the hand.
He had his own temples. When preparing to go on a campaign against enemies, the Slavs prayed to him, asking for help and promising abundant sacrifices if they were successful in military operations.

Lel
Lel is the god of love passion in the mythology of the ancient Slavs, the son of the goddess of beauty and love Lada. The word “cherish” still reminds us of Lela - this cheerful, frivolous god of passion - that is, undead, love. He is the son of the goddess of beauty and love Lada, and beauty naturally gives birth to passion. This feeling flared up especially brightly in the spring and on Kupala night. Lel was depicted as a golden-haired, winged baby, like his mother: after all, love is free and elusive. Lel threw sparks from his hands: after all, passion is fiery, hot love! In Slavic mythology, Lel is the same god as the Greek Eros or Roman Cupid. Only the ancient gods hit the hearts of people with arrows, and Lel kindled them with his fierce flame.
The stork (heron) was considered his sacred bird. Another name for this bird in some Slavic languages ​​is leleka. In connection with Lelem, both cranes and larks were revered - symbols of spring.

Makosh
One of the main goddesses of the Eastern Slavs, the wife of the thunderer Perun.
Her name is made up of two parts: “ma” - mother and “kosh” - purse, basket, shed. Makosh is the mother of filled koshes, the mother of a good harvest.
This is not a goddess of fertility, but a goddess of the results of the economic year, a goddess of the harvest, and a giver of blessings. The harvest is determined by lot, fate, every year, so she was also revered as the goddess of fate. A mandatory attribute when depicting her is a cornucopia.
This goddess connected the abstract concept of fate with the concrete concept of abundance, patronized the household, sheared sheep, spun, and punished the careless. The specific concept of “spinner” was associated with the metaphorical one: “spinning of fate.”
Makosh patronized marriage and family happiness. Presented herself as a woman with big head and with long arms, spinning at night in the hut: superstitions forbid leaving the tow, “otherwise Makosha will spin it.”

Moraine
Morena (Marana, Morana, Mara, Maruha, Marmara) - the goddess of death, winter and night.
Mara is the goddess of death, daughter of Lada. Outwardly, Mara looks like a tall, beautiful girl with black hair in red clothes. Mara cannot be called either an evil or a good goddess. On the one hand, it gives death, but at the same time it also gives life.

One of Mara’s favorite pastimes is needlework: she loves to spin and weave. At the same time, like the Greek Moiras, he uses the threads of the fate of living beings for needlework, leading them to turning points in life, and ultimately cutting the thread of existence.

Mara sends her messengers all over the world, who appear to people in the guise of a woman with long black hair or in the guise of doubles of people who are destined for warning, and foretell imminent death.

No permanent places of worship were erected in the part of Mara; honors could be paid to her anywhere. To do this, an image of the goddess, carved from wood or made from straw, was installed on the ground, and the area was surrounded by stones. Directly in front of the idol, a larger stone or wooden plank was installed, which served as an altar. After the ceremony, all this was dismantled, and the image of Mary was burned or thrown into the river.

Mara was revered on February 15, and flowers, straw and various fruits were brought as gifts to the goddess of death. Sometimes, during years of severe epidemics, animals were sacrificed, bleeding them directly at the altar.
Welcoming spring with a solemn holiday, the Slavs performed a ritual of expelling Death or Winter and threw an effigy of Morana into the water. As a representative of winter, Morana is defeated by the spring Perun, who strikes her with his blacksmith's hammer and casts her into an underground dungeon for the entire summer.
In accordance with the identification of Death with thunder spirits, ancient belief forced these latter to fulfill its sad duty. But since the thunderer and his companions were also the organizers of the heavenly kingdom, the concept of Death became twofold, and fantasy portrayed it either as an evil creature, dragging souls into the underworld, or as a messenger of the supreme deity, accompanying the souls of deceased heroes to his heavenly palace.
Diseases were considered by our ancestors as companions and assistants of Death.

Perun
The Thunder God, a victorious, punishing deity, whose appearance excites fear and awe. Perun, in Slavic mythology, the most famous of the Svarozhich brothers. He is the god of storm clouds, thunder and lightning.
He is presented as stately, tall, with black hair and a long golden beard. Seated on a flaming chariot, he rides across the sky, armed with a bow and arrow, and slays the wicked.
According to Nestor, the wooden idol of Perun, placed in Kyiv, had a golden mustache on its silver head. Over time, Perun became the patron of the prince and his squad.
Temples in honor of Perun were always built on hills, and the highest place in the area was chosen. Idols were made mainly of oak - this mighty tree was a symbol of Perun. Sometimes there were places of worship of Perun, arranged around an oak tree growing on a hill; it was believed that this was how Perun himself designated the best place. In such places no additional idols were placed, and the oak tree, located on a hill, was revered as an idol.

Radegast
Radegast (Redigost, Radigast) is a lightning god, a killer and eater of clouds, and at the same time a luminous guest who appears with the return of spring. Earthly fire was recognized as the son of Heaven, brought down as a gift to mortals, by fast-flying lightning, and therefore the idea of ​​an honored divine guest, a stranger from heaven to earth, was also connected with it.
Russian villagers honored him with the guest's name. At the same time, he received the character of a guardian god for every foreigner (guest) who came to someone else’s house and surrendered under the protection of local penates (i.e., hearth), the patron god of merchants who came from distant countries and trade in general.
The Slavic Radigost was depicted with the head of a buffalo on his chest.

Svarog
Svarog is the creator god of earth and heaven. Svarog is the source of fire and its ruler. He creates not with words, not with magic, unlike Veles, but with his hands, he creates the material world. He gave people the Sun-Ra and fire. Svarog threw a plow and a yoke from the sky to the ground in order to cultivate the land; a battle ax to protect this land from enemies, and a bowl for preparing a sacred drink in it.
Like Rod, Svarog is a creator god, he continued the formation of this world, changing its original state, improving and expanding. However, Svarog’s favorite pastime is blacksmithing.

Temples in honor of Svarog were built on hills overgrown with trees or shrubs. The center of the hill was cleared to the ground and a fire was lit in this place; no additional idols were installed in the temple.

Svyatobor
Svyatobor is the god of the forest. Outwardly, he looks like an aged hero, representing an old man of strong build, with a thick beard and dressed in animal skins
Svyatobor fiercely guards the forests and mercilessly punishes those who harm them; in some cases, the punishment can even be death or eternal imprisonment in the forest in the guise of an animal or a tree.

Svyatobor is married to the goddess of hunting Devan.

Temples in honor of Svyatobor were not built; their role was played by groves, forests and forests, which were recognized as sacred and in which neither deforestation nor hunting was carried out.

Semargl
One of the Svarozhichs was the god of fire - Semargl, who is sometimes mistakenly considered only a heavenly dog, the guardian of seeds for sowing. This (storing seeds) was constantly carried out by a much smaller deity - Pereplut.
The ancient books of the Slavs tell how Semargl was born. Svarog hit the Alatyr stone with a magic hammer, struck divine sparks from it, which flared up, and the fiery god Semargl became visible in their flames. He sat on a golden-maned horse of silver color. Thick smoke became his banner. Where Semargl passed, a scorched trail remained. Such was his strength, but more often than not he looked quiet and peaceful.
Semargl, God of fire and the Moon, fire sacrifices, home and hearth, stores seeds and crops. Can turn into a sacred winged dog.
The name of the God of Fire is not known for certain; most likely, his name is so sacred. Of course, this God does not live somewhere in seventh heaven, but directly among people! They try to pronounce his name out loud less often, replacing it with allegories. The Slavs associate the emergence of people with Fire. According to some legends, the Gods created a Man and a Woman from two sticks, between which a Fire flared up - the very first flame of love. Semargl does not allow evil into the world. At night he stands guard with fire sword and only one day a year does Semargl leave his post, responding to the call of the Bathing Lady, who calls him to love games on the day of the Autumn Equinox. And on the day of the Summer Solstice, 9 months later, children are born to Semargl and Kupalnitsa - Kostroma and Kupalo.

Stribog
In East Slavic mythology, the god of the wind. He can summon and tame a storm and can turn into his assistant, the mythical bird Stratim. In general, the wind was usually represented in the form of a gray-haired old man living at the edge of the world, in a dense forest or on an island in the middle of the ocean.
Stribog's temples were built on the banks of rivers or seas; they are especially often found at river mouths. The temples in his honor were not fenced off from the surrounding territory in any way and were designated only by an idol made of wood, which was installed facing north. A large stone was also placed in front of the idol, which served as an altar.

Triglav
In ancient Slavic mythology, this is the unity of the three main essences-hypostases of the gods: Svarog (creation), Perun (law of Rule) and Svyatovit (light)
According to different mythological traditions, Triglav included different gods. In Novgorod of the 9th century, the Great Triglav consisted of Svarog, Perun and Sventovit, and earlier (before the Western Slavs moved to the Novgorod lands) - of Svarog, Perun and Veles. In Kyiv, apparently, from Perun, Dazhbog and Stribog.
The Lesser Triglavs were composed of gods lower on the hierarchical ladder.

Horse
Horse (Korsha, Kore, Korsh) is the ancient Russian deity of the sun and solar disk. It is best known among the southeastern Slavs, where the sun simply reigns over the rest of the world. Horse, in Slavic mythology, the god of the Sun, guardian of the luminary, son of Rod, brother of Veles. Not all gods were common among the Slavs and Rus. For example, before the Russians came to the banks of the Dnieper, Horses were not known here. Only Prince Vladimir installed his image next to Perun. But it was known among other Aryan peoples: among the Iranians, Persians, Zoroastrians, where they worshiped the god of the rising sun - Khorset. This word also had a broader meaning - “radiance”, “brilliance”, as well as “glory”, “greatness”, sometimes “royal dignity” and even “khvarna” - special marking by the gods, chosenness.
Temples in honor of Khors were built on small hills in the middle of meadows or small groves. The idol was made of wood and installed on the eastern slope of the hill. And as an offering, a special pie “horoshul” or “kurnik” was used, which crumbled around the idol. But to a greater extent, dances (round dances) and songs were used to honor the Horse.

Chernobog
God of cold, destruction, death, evil; the god of madness and the embodiment of everything bad and black. It is believed that Chernobog is the prototype of the immortal Kashchei from fairy tales. Kashchei is a cult character of Slavic mythology, whose folklore image is extremely far from the original one. Kashchei Chernobogvich was the youngest son of Chernobog, the great Serpent of Darkness. His older brothers - Goryn and Viy - feared and respected Kashchei for his great wisdom and equally great hatred of his father's enemies - the Irian gods. Kashchei owned the deepest and darkest kingdom of Navi - the Koshcheev kingdom,
Chernobog is the ruler of Navi, the god of time, the son of Rod. In Slavic mythology, he is the creator of the world along with Rod and Belbog. Outwardly, he appeared in two forms: in the first, he looked like a hunched, thin old man with a long beard, a silver mustache and a crooked stick in his hands; in the second he was depicted as a middle-aged man of thin build, dressed in black clothes, but, again, with a silver mustache.

Chernobog is armed with a sword, which he wields masterfully. Although he is able to instantly appear at any point in Navi, he prefers to move on horseback on a fiery stallion.
After the creation of the world, Chernobog received Nav, the world of the dead, under his protection, in which he is both a ruler and a prisoner, since, despite all his strength, he is not able to leave its borders. The deity does not release from Navi the souls of people who ended up there for their sins, but the sphere of its influence is not limited to Navi alone. Chernobog managed to bypass the restrictions imposed on him and created Koshchei, who is the incarnation of the ruler of Navi in ​​Reality, while the power of God in another world is significantly less than the real one, but still allowed him to spread his influence to Reality, and only in Rule does Chernobog never appear.

Temples in honor of Chernobog were made of dark stones, the wooden idol was completely covered with iron, except for the head, on which only the mustache was trimmed with metal.

Yarilo
Yarilo - god of spring and sunlight. Outwardly, Yarilo looks like a young man with red hair, dressed in white clothes with a flower wreath on his head. This god moves around the world riding a white horse.

Temples in honor of Yarila were built on the top of hills covered with trees. The tops of the hills were cleared of vegetation and an idol was erected in this place, in front of which a large white stone was placed, which could sometimes be located at the foot of the hill. Unlike most other gods, there were no sacrifices in honor of the god of spring. Usually the deity was worshiped with songs and dances at the temple. At the same time, one of the participants in the action was certainly dressed up as Yarila, after which he became the center of the entire celebration. Sometimes special figurines in the image of people were made, they were brought to the temple, and then smashed against a white stone installed there; it is believed that this brings the blessing of Yarila, from which the harvest will be larger and sexual energy will be higher.

A little about the world order of the Slavs
The center of the world for the ancient Slavs was the World Tree (World Tree, Tree of the World). It is the central axis of the entire universe, including the Earth, and connects the World of People with the World of the Gods and the Underworld. Accordingly, the crown of the tree reaches the World of the Gods in heaven - Iriy or Svarga, the roots of the tree go underground and connect the World of the Gods and the World of people with the underground World or the world of the Dead, ruled by Chernobog, Madder and other “dark” Gods. Somewhere in the heights, behind the clouds (heavenly abysses; above the seventh heaven), the crown of a spreading tree forms an island, and here is Iriy (Slavic paradise), where not only the Gods and ancestors of people live, but also the ancestors of all birds and animals. Thus, the Tree of the World was fundamental in the worldview of the Slavs, its main component. At the same time, it is also a staircase, a road along which you can get to any of the worlds. In Slavic folklore, the Tree of the World is called differently. It can be oak, sycamore, willow, linden, viburnum, cherry, apple or pine.

In the ideas of the ancient Slavs, the World Tree is located on the Buyan island on the Alatyr-stone, which is also the center of the universe (the center of the Earth). Judging by some legends, light Gods live on its branches, and dark Gods live in its roots. The image of this tree has come down to us, both in the form of various fairy tales, legends, epics, conspiracies, songs, riddles, and in the form of ritual embroidery on clothes, patterns, ceramic decorations, painting of dishes, chests, etc. Here is an example of how the Tree of the World is described in one of the Slavic folk tales that existed in Rus' and tells about the capture of a horse by a hero-hero: “... there is a copper pillar, and a horse is tied to it, there are pure stars on the sides, a moon is shining on the tail , in the forehead there is a red sun...". This horse is a mythological symbol of the entire universe

Of course, one post cannot cover all the gods that our ancestors worshiped. Different branches of the Slavs called the same gods differently, and they also had their own “local” deities.

A few centuries ago, life was different. The people who inhabited the very territories on which civilization is built today wore different clothes.

They thought differently, their worldview was different. The feeling of fear in those days was not caused by broken nails and overdue loans, but by hunger and war.

When fear came into the hearts and minds of people, they prayed. This is similar to the reaction of believers of different religions today, only people of those times prayed to pagan shrines.

Rus' was pagan. And there were many gods: we know some names from films and books, others are beyond our knowledge.

To study ourselves, let's study our history. Our ancestors believed that adversity meant the wrath of the gods, and a good harvest was their gift.

Today we still don’t know what awaits us on the other side of life, where dead people end up.

What if pagan gods really exist, and the fact that we changed religions and accept pagan mythology as a fairy tale is a manifestation of their will?

In paganism, people believed in the existence of many gods. Legends were made about each of them, each had its own signs.

Carving a sign on axes and swords, the knights went into battle, confident that they were supported by a higher power. Women drew amulets to protect their home and children from harm.

There are not many differences from Christianity and Islam. Orthodoxy involves the same rituals: wearing a cross for protection, keeping icons in the house and transport, turning to shrines for help.

At all times, faith has saved people. It is not possible for a person to know for certain whether miracles are the will of higher powers, or are they the result of absolute faith, the placebo effect.

Gods of paganism:

Name	Description	More information
Veles	His area of ​​responsibility is peace and prosperity in business, fertility of livestock and harvest	The people, who lived only by housekeeping, asked Veles for the harvest and the health of the livestock. He was responsible for such processes as the change of day and night, mood swings. Veles was approached with various requests. According to legend, after the baptism of Rus', Veles transferred his powers to Saint Nicholas, and he himself became a goblin. A funny interweaving of paganism and Christianity
Genus	Creator of the world, main deity. He was responsible for life and death	The name Rod is included in all the main words of our language: parents, nature, Motherland. Paganism describes Rod as the creator of all life on earth. Before his appearance the earth was plunged into darkness
Svarog	Son of Rod, blacksmith god	Svarog helped Rod establish life on earth. He is a blacksmith who gave the people a plow and chains. The forges were his temple, where he was especially revered, because he was the founder of this craft
Semargl	God of Fire	He was born from a spark and became the patron of fire. He is the keeper of the home. According to legend, in order to be reborn on earth as a bird, a person must hatch a chicken egg for 9 days and 9 nights on the stove
Dana	Goddess of water	She is the goddess of health and beauty, saving warriors from death by giving them water to drink. Water is the basis of life: this was believed in those days, and this has been proven by modern scientists. Dana gave the name to the rivers: Danube, Dnieper and others. Her husband for long winter does not let her onto the ground, so that in the spring Dana will give rain to the fields and forests and dissolve the snow
Dazhdbog	God of rain, husband of Dana	He and his wife commanded the water element, being responsible for the rains. Dazhdbog was asked to fulfill wishes, he instilled in people faith in miracles. People made a wish by turning to him
Perun	Son of Svarog, lord of thunder and lightning	A warrior with the ability to throw lightning, the patron saint of warriors. Rod - Perun's grandfather, ordered his grandson to protect the world from wars and troubles
Yarovit	God of War	He was revered by the conquerors. A formidable heavenly deity who gave fury to warriors in battles
Chernobog	Deity of death, illness	They feared him, blaming him for the severe cold in winter. Today we know that it’s a matter of climatic features, but previously Chernobog was responsible for the cold. People considered him guilty of illness and madness

There are many more gods. In Western and Eastern Rus' they were different. Their list is so extensive that many deities had names, but people did not know their history.

Pagan symbols of the gods and prayers of the Slavs

There are prayers in every religion. People asked for protection and help from higher powers. The prayer instilled confidence that their request was heard, that they would really be helped.

It gave me a feeling of calm. Many religious people were considered healers; their faith was so strong that it helped cure diseases.

And today there are grandmothers who successfully treat diseases. Even serious cases, when medicine is powerless, can be treated by healers.

And there is no information: how the treatment occurs. What do these women do: turn to dark forces, ask God for help, or simply skillfully manage energy flows.

Here is an example of a pagan prayer:

“Knock-knock! May sleep come to you and illnesses recede. I command you to sleep soundly and drown in night dreams.

Let all dark thoughts pass your head! If you sleep soundly, that means you will be healthy! I command you: sleep (name).”

Conspiracies also existed in pagan culture. People supported their prayers with signs, carving them on the head of the bed or the handle of a weapon. The symbols of the gods were carried with them like a pectoral cross.

This is what the sign of Veles looks like:

This is one of the designations of Perun:

This is the symbol of the god Rod:

The Slavs carved symbols of the gods and other signs on their bodies so that protection would always be with them:

Hierarchy diagram

Pagan rulers had different powers. Let us list them in descending order of strength and power:

• Horse.
• Yarilo.
• Dazhdbog.
• Svarog.
• Perun.
• Stribog.
• Veles.
• Lada.
• Chernobog.
• Mokosh.
• Paraskeva-Friday.
• Moraine.

How to find a patron by date of birth

You can determine your Slavic patron by your date of birth.

Some facts are as striking in their accuracy as the zodiac signs:

Birth period	Patron name	Short description
21.01. - 20.02	Stribog	Lord of the wind, bestows power, greed, thirst for wealth and recognition
21.02. - 22.03	Mokosh	People value family, timid, indecisive
23.03. - 20.04	Yarila	Friendliness, sociability
21.04. - 21.05	Lada	Health, warmth
22.05. - 02.06	Lelya	Sense of humor, resourcefulness (similar to the description of the Gemini sign)
03.06. - 13-06	Kostroma	Spring and fertility. Endowed people with talent in literature. Pushkin was born on June 6. Coincidence?
13.06. - 21.06	Dodola	Youth, beauty
22.06. - 22.07	Veles	Wisdom, supernatural powers

ROD - Slavic God. The Supreme Almighty, the All-God is the beginning and cause of everything living and inanimate in this world, he is in everyone, hence such native and important words for every Slav as HOMELAND, NATURE, SPRING, etc. Identifies many Gods and Ancestors, he one and multiple at the same time, when we remember all our ancestors: Fathers, Grandfathers, Great-Grandfathers and Great-Great-Grandfathers, we say - this is our KIND.
Rod is the most revered of the Slavic gods, and his image is the strongest amulet.

BelBog - light hypostasis supreme god Slavs Roda, the embodiment of light. God of luck and happiness, embodying the universal forces of conservation and creation. He is the God of a bright and spring day, a happy life. Previously, our Slavic ancestors did not begin any serious business without glorifying Belobog. He is also considered the giver of wealth and fertility.

Svarog is the God of Heaven, the ruler and father of the other light Gods.
Svarog is the patron and creator of heavenly and earthly fire, the patron and progenitor of the entire Slavic Family.
Svarog is God the blacksmith who created the manifest world, the visible universe (hence the word: “bungle”, i.e. create, create something). Svarog sends the sun's rays to the earth, making it fertile, nourishes and warms plant and fauna.

Lada - Female hypostasis of the Rod. Goddess of love, beauty, marriage, abundance. By the name of Lada, the ancient Slavs called not only the original goddess of love, but also the entire structure of life - Lad, where everything should be harmonious and harmonious.
The wife called her beloved Lado, and he called her his Ladushka.

Svyatovid - many Slavic tribes Svyatovid was also revered as the god of victories and war. A special festival was dedicated to Svyatovid - the name day of the sheep - and they were celebrated only in the fall. Therefore, at the same time he was recognized as the god of fertility; prayers were sent to him for an abundance of earthly fruits and prosperity in the house and in the Family!

Perun God - the Thunderer, the Slavic warrior, with his will prevents the forces of Darkness from destroying the Light, which keeps the Forces of Reveal and Navi in ​​balance. This is God who connects Earth and Heaven with his Fire Arrows, who drives away evil spirits with strong lightning, and the golden one who fertilizes the fields. Perun is the god of thunder and fair force, protector of the Slavic lands and patron of fearless warriors, son of the God Svarog and the Goddess Lada. His path is the path of truth, alien to all wickedness and lies. Anyone who follows him will certainly receive immortal glory and great power.

Makosh (Mokosh) - Great Goddess. She possesses the secret of Rule, the secret of the Fate of all living on this earth. Both people and Gods obey her commands. She patronizes women in their household chores. Also, all kinds of sorcery and fortune telling cannot do without Mokosha, here she is revealed as the “Mother of the Lot” and the “Goddess of Fate”; fortune telling, magic, is under the auspices of this Goddess.

Makosh is a spinner, she spins the threads of fate into a ball, and depending on our actions, weaves a Share (good deeds) and a share (bad deeds and actions) into our ball of fate.

Makosh is also the patroness of marriage and family happiness, for one of the special secrets trusted only to Mokosh was dreams of a betrothed.

Veles is one of the greatest gods of the ancient world, God of wisdom and wealth, prophetic and Great.
Veles is the giver of earthly goods and wealth, the trustee of farmers and merchants.
He is the spiritual mentor of wise magicians and storytellers, the patron of travelers, shamans and magicians. Veles is also the owner of Navi, guide human souls to another other world, the keeper of the ancient knowledge of the Vedas and paths to three worlds: Reality, Nav, Rule - Earthly, Underground, Heavenly. Depicted in a hat with horns or a horned helmet with a staff and a cornucopia in his hands.

Dazhdbog (Dazhbog) - Slavic God of white light, sun and warmth. The giver of all kinds of blessings and the guardian of life on earth (hence his name Dazhdbog - the Giving God). Dazhdbog is the deliverer of people from the forces of the dark world of all wickedness. During the day he rides across the sky in a golden chariot, holding a shield in his right hand - the Sun, and at night he sails on a silver boat in the underworld.

The Slavic Goddess is alive, the personification of all earthly life, as well as fruitful strength, youth, beauty, fertility and birth!
The Goddess is Alive, bestows kindness, tenderness, cordiality and attentiveness on pregnant women and nursing mothers, so she protects all the girls who have yet to give birth to Slavic children.

Horse - God of the Sun among the Slavs, God of the solar disk, was widely revered in all Slavic lands. The ancestral memory transferred this god to such kind words as a good round dance - the oldest sacred dance, holding hands and leading him, our ancestors thereby welcomed Horse, merging with him with common energy and becoming a particle of God.

Until now, many Slavic peoples designate the solar disk with the word “horo”.
And the ancient sanctuaries of Khors and other Gods were called mansions, hence the word Temple.

Yarilo - Slavic god of fertility, spring, ardent god of awakening nature and the spring Sun, inspiration and youth, natural strength, love delight and battle rage. He is the very embodiment of a solar yari - a riot of vital force that lifts the ears of corn filled with strength towards the sky on the arable land. It is embodied in a person as a strong will to continue one’s Family and the will to live in general.

Lel - love passion, god of love and marriages. He was portrayed as a handsome and cheerful fair-haired shepherdess. Who, playing the tender melody of love on his magic pipe, awakens passion in the hearts of Slavic boys and girls!

We still have the Ancestral memory of this beautiful and cheerful god of innocent love passion, this is the word that we use to this day - “cherish”, that is, love, undead...

In some Slavic languages, the Stork, which was considered the sacred bird of Lel, is called Lelka!

StriBog - old God, grandfather of the winds, deity of the air, sky. This is an old and powerful God, whose domain extends into the space between Heaven and Earth. Stribog controls elemental forces: lightning, winds, storms, whirlwinds and hurricanes. People turned to him when they wanted to influence the weather. Stribog was revered by the ancients as the destroyer of all evil intentions and atrocities. Mentioned in the "Tale of Igor's Campaign" "Behold the winds, Stribozhi vnutsi, blow arrows from the sea on Igor's brave regiments"

Chur is a patron God, protector of native lands, borders, protects the home hearth. He protects the Ancestral domain from evil spirits. Since ancient times, a conspiracy has been preserved against evil spirits and all sorts of troubles, which we still use, saying “Church, me” or “Church, on your tongue” to protect yourself from an unkind word.
His name goes back to ancient times, when the Great Deified Ancestor was called under the name Chura, Ancestor.

Chernobog is the dark hypostasis of the supreme Slavic Deity of the Family, Chernobog is the ruler of Navi, Darkness and the Pekel kingdom.
Embodies the universal forces of destruction and change for subsequent rebirth at a new level.

Madder is the goddess of death in Slavic mythology, responsible for the seasonal rituals of dying and resurrecting nature, as well as the rituals of causing rain. In the spring rituals of the Slavs, Madder was the name of a straw effigy - the embodiment of death (mora) and winter, which was drowned and burned during the celebration of the ancient holiday of Maslenitsa at the time of the Spring Equinox, which was intended to ensure the harvest. You can ask Marena to destroy all the bad and bad things that have accumulated in you.

Triglav is the unity of the three main essences-hypostases of the gods and the embodiment of the ancient Slavic vision of the universal world - these three worlds are Reality, Nav, Rule. - Svarog (Rule), Perun (Reality) and Veles (Nav). This is the deity of the trinity of the world order, which reflects the very essence of our world order.

Well, and finally, a little about Domovoy:
In Rus', a brownie is directly called master, hostess. In fact, the brownie is the ideal of the owner, as the Russian understands him: he sees every little thing, tirelessly fusses and makes sure that everything is in order and ready - here he will help a worker, there he will correct his mistake.

If he likes the housing, then he serves the household and their elders, looks after the entire house and yard “more than the master’s eye,” looks after family interests and cares about the property “more than a caring man.”

The brownie cares only about his relatives, his home, his yard, and that is why he is called the brownie, this name indicates the space within which his power is honored and gifts and gifts are brought to him.

Slavic Gods- the ancestors of the Great Slavic Family, and everyone who feels a kindred spiritual connection with the faith of their wise ancestors is intuitively drawn to the sources of the Native Faith.

Should we say that the heavenly patrons of the Russian people are always nearby? From a small drop of dew in the morning to the cosmic solar wind, from the fleeting thought of each of us to great achievements for the race - all this is under the sensitive attention of the Slavic Gods and Goddesses, who grant reliable protection for all times to those who live according to the precepts of the great Gods and Ancestors. If you need the help of the Native Gods, you need to learn careful attitude to everything Living, because everything Living is a continuation of life.

The gods of Slavic mythology support the life of all kinds of matter, maintaining harmony in their life, based on the uniform laws of the heritage of the great Creator. Each of them is in charge of its inherent mission, from the understanding of which the meanings of the Slavic Gods are formed. An unshakable respectful attitude towards the Native Gods will develop during a difficult life, and by receiving warnings and tips, you will be able to follow the right Path.

The pantheon of Slavic Gods is immense, and it is impossible to name all the names, since each name is a great deed in the vastness of the Universe. You will learn about the brightest and most extant knowledge in Slavic information portal"Veles". You can also purchase one made from wood.

God Rod

God Rod- personification of the multitude of all the Light Gods and our many-wise Ancestors.

The Supreme God Rod is One and Multiple at the same time.

When we talk about all the Ancient Gods and our Great and Wise Ancestors: Ancestors, Great-Grandfathers, Grandfathers and Fathers, we say - this is my family.

We turn to him when the Spiritual and Mental support of the Light Gods and Ancestors is needed, for our Gods are our Fathers, and we are their children.

The Supreme God Rod is the eternal symbol of consanguinity, the embodiment of the indestructibility of all Slavic and Aryan Clans and Tribes, their constant interaction and mutual assistance to each other.

At the birth on Midgard-Earth of a person from the Great Race or a descendant of the Heavenly Family, his future fate is recorded in the Santia or Haratiya of the God of the Family, also called the Book of the Family.

Therefore, in all the Clans of Orthodox ancestors they say: “What is written in the Clans, no one can escape!” or “What is written with a pen in the Haratya of God of the Family cannot be cut out with an axe”

The Supreme God Rod is the Patron God of the Palace of Busla (Stork) in the Svarog Circle. This served to create a folk allegorical Image that Busel

(The stork) from Svarga the Most Pure brings children to prolong our Slavic and Aryan Clans.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Great God Rod, You are our Patron! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We magnify you from eternity, we glorify you to all our Clans! May Your help never fail in all our GOOD and creative deeds, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Mother of God Rozhana

Mother of God Rozhana- (Mother Rodikha, Rozhanitsa). Forever young Heavenly Mother of God.

Goddess of family wealth, spiritual wealth and comfort. Special food sacrifices were made to the Mother of God Rozhana: pancakes, pancakes, breads, porridges, honey and honey kvass.

The ancient Slavic-Aryan cult of the Mother of God Rozhana, like other cults dedicated to the Mother of God and Goddesses, is associated with women's ideas about the continuation of the Family and the fate of the newborn baby, whose Fate is determined.

The Heavenly Mother of God Rozhana at all times patronized not only pregnant women, but also young girls until they underwent the rites of Coming of Age and Naming at the age of twelve*.

*at the age of twelve - the age of 12 years was not chosen by chance by our Ancestors, this is 108 months of the Slavic-Aryan calendar, the period of growing up and gaining initial life experience. In addition, the child’s height at this age reached 124 cm, or, as they said in ancient times, seven spans in the forehead. Before undergoing the Rites, any child, regardless of gender, was called a child and was under the protective protection of his parents, who were responsible for him. After undergoing the Rites of Coming of Age and Naming at the age of 12, the child became a full member of the Community and was responsible for all his words and actions.

Patron Goddess of the Hall of Pike in the Svarog Circle. It is believed that when Yarilo-Sun is in the Heavenly Palace of Pike, people are born who feel like a fish in water everywhere.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Three-light Rozhana-Mother! Do not let our Family become impoverished, sanctify the womb of all our wives and brides with your grace-filled power, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

God Vyshen

God Vyshen- Patron God of our Universe in the Light Worlds of Navi, i.e. in Mira Slavi. Caring and powerful Father of God Svarog. A fair judge who resolves any disputes that arise between the Gods of different Worlds or between people.

He patronized our Many-Wise Ancestors in their desire to advance along the Path of Spiritual Development and Perfection, and also patronizes all Orthodox ancestors when they follow in the footsteps of their Great Ancestors.

God Vyshen is the Patron God of the Finist's Palace in the Svarog Circle.

The Highest is strict towards those who seek to distort the Paths of Spiritual Development and Perfection, towards those who pass off falsehood as Truth, the base as the Divine and black as white. But at the same time, He is kind to those who observe the Heavenly Laws of the Universe and do not allow others to violate them. He helps the persistent to win the fight against the dark forces that bring evil and ignorance, flattery and deception, the desire for someone else’s and the humiliation of one living being by another to all Worlds.

God Above gives people moving along the Path of Spiritual Development and Perfection the ability to reflect on various aspects of Life, both Earthly and subsequent, and draw the correct appropriate conclusions; feel when people speak insincerely or deliberately, pursuing some selfish interests, lie.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Great Most High, Glory to all Patron! Hear our call, glorifying You! Help us in our deeds and resolve our disputes, for You are good to our families, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

Goddess Lada

Goddess Lada - Mother(Mother Sva) - Great Heavenly Mother, Mother of God.

Loving and tender Mother of the Most Light Gods of the Great Race, Mother of God-Patroness of all the Peoples of the Great Race (the territories where the Great Race settled, i.e. Slavic and Aryan tribes and peoples) and the Hall of the Elk in the Svarog Circle.

Heavenly Mother of God Lada - Mother - is the Goddess of Beauty and Love, protecting the Family Unions of the Clans of the Great Race and the Families of all descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

In order to receive constant care and heartfelt attention from Lada-Mother, each newlywed couple brings the brightest and most fragrant flowers, honey and various forest berries as gifts to the Heavenly Mother of God, and the young spouses bake pancakes with berry filling and honey pancakes for Lada and placed before the Idol or Her Image.

The Most High Mother of God Lada always gives young spouses everything they ask for to start a happy life together.

She brings into people's lives home comfort, friendliness, mutual understanding, love, continuation of the Family, many children, mutual assistance, family life, mutual respect and mutual veneration. Therefore, they said about such Unions that only Lad and Love reign in them.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Oh, you, Lada-Mother! Mother Sva Most Pure! Don't leave us, bring love and happiness! Send your grace upon us, as we honor and glorify Thee, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle, until the end of Time, while the Yarilo-Sun shines on us!

God Svarog

God Svarog— Supreme Heavenly God, who controls the course of our Life and the entire World Order of the Universe in the Explicit World.

The Great God Svarog is the Father for many ancient Light Gods and Goddesses, therefore the Orthodox ancestors called them all Svarozhich, i.e. Children of God Svarog.

God Svarog, as a loving Father, cares not only about his Heavenly children and grandchildren, but also about people from all Clans of the Great Race, who are the descendants of the Ancient Svarozhichi, the Light Heavenly Gods on Midgard-Earth.

But our Great and wise Ancestors, in addition to the Children and Grandsons of the Supreme God Svarog, also called the Heavenly Luminaries - the Sun and Stars *, as well as any Celestial body, which appeared in the Sky and sometimes fell from Heaven to Earth (meteorites, fireballs, etc.).

* Suns and Stars - among the Slavs and Aryans, these two concepts were different. Luminaries were called Suns, around which more than 8 Earths (planets) revolved in their orbits, and Luminaries were called Stars, around which no more than 7 Earths (planets) or small Luminaries (dwarf Stars) rotated in their orbits.

The Supreme God Svarog loves very much living nature and protects various plants and the most beautiful, rare flowers.

God Svarog is the Guardian and Patron of the Heavenly Vyry (Slavic-Aryan Garden of Eden), planted around the Heavenly Asgard (City of the Gods), in which all kinds of trees, plants and the most beautiful, rare flowers from all the worldly (i.e. controlled) are collected from all the Light Worlds ) to him the Universe.

But Svarog cares not only about Heavenly Vyria and Heavenly Asgard, but also cares about the Nature of Midgard-Earth and other similar Light Lands located at the Border between the Light and Dark Worlds, on which He created beautiful Gardens similar to Heavenly Vyriya.

The fruitful power of the rays of Yarila the Sun and rain showers sent by Svarog to Midgard-Earth warms and nourishes the flora and fauna of the earthly Garden-Vyria near Asgard of Iria, and also warms and nourishes the flora and fauna of the entire Midgard.

The Supreme God Svarog gives the necessary plant food to birds and animals. He showed people what food they needed to grow to feed their Clans and what food they needed to feed tamed birds and animals.

Vyriy Garden adjoins the Heavenly Asgard (City of the Gods), in the center of which are the Majestic Mansions of Svarog.

The Great God Svarog is the permanent Guardian of the Heavenly Palace of the Bear in the Svarog Circle.

The Supreme God Svarog established the Heavenly Laws of ascension along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development. All Light Harmonious Worlds follow these laws.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Svarog the Progenitor, Guardian of all Svarga the Most Pure! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We all glorify You, we call Your Image to us! May You be inseparably with us, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Makosh

Goddess Makosh— Heavenly (Sva) Mother of God, Just Goddess of a happy lot and Fate.

Together with his daughters, Dolya and Nedolya, he determines the Fates of the Heavenly Gods, as well as the fates of all people from the Great Race and all descendants of the Heavenly Family living on our Midgard-Earth and on all other beautiful Lands of the Most Pure Svarga, weaving for each of them the Threads of Fate .

Therefore, many people turned to Goddess Makosha so that she would trust her youngest daughter, Goddess Dole, to weave the Thread of Fate into a ball.

Goddess Makosh at all times was a very attentive and caring Patroness of weaving and all kinds of handicrafts, and also made sure that a good harvest grew in the fields where the orachi (peasants) put their Soul into their hard work.

It should be remembered that the great Heavenly Goddess Makosh is not only the Patron Goddess of growth and fertility, as many might think, but a Goddess who gives hardworking and diligent people a good harvest.

To those Clans from the Great Race and to all the descendants of the Heavenly Clans who were not lazy, but worked in the fields, gardens and vegetable gardens by the sweat of their brow, putting their Soul into their hard work, the Goddess Makosh sent her youngest daughter - the blond Goddess Share.

Those same people who worked poorly and carelessly in their fields (no matter what Family they were from) received a bad harvest. Therefore, people said that “Makosh Dolya came from Makosh to measure the harvest” or “Makosh sent Nedolya to measure the harvest.”

For hardworking people, the Goddess Makosh is the giver of all sorts of blessings, therefore, on the Images and Idols of the Goddess Mokosh, she was very often depicted with the Horn of Plenty or its symbolic image in the form of a Heavenly Bucket of Seven Stars*.

* The Heavenly Bucket of Seven Stars is the constellation Ursa Major; in the Slavic-Aryan cosmogonic system this constellation is called Makosh, i.e. Mother of the Bucket.

Orthodox ancestors, invariably following all the instructions of the Goddess Mokosh, strive for a calm and measured life, for the ancient traditional way of life, for sensual empathy and hard work.

Goddess Makosh rules the Hall of the Heavenly Swan in the Svarog Circle. Therefore, the Goddess Makosh is very often depicted in the form of a White Swan floating along the endless Sea-Ocean, i.e. in Heaven.

In honor of the Wise Heavenly Mother of God, the Slavs and Aryans erected Great Kumirnis and Temples, for the Goddess Makosh personified not only fate, luck, prosperity in the Slavic Clans, observing the laws and commandments of the Ancient Light Gods, people also turned to her with a request to increase their Ancient Clans, t .e. asked for more children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Empress Makosh-Mother! Heavenly Mother, Mother of God, create for us a well-ordered life, a communal life, a gloriously glorious one. We praise Thee, Mother-mentor, virtuous and diligent, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Veles

God Veles- The Patron God of cattle breeders and livestock breeders, as well as the Ancestral Patron of the Western Slavs - the Scotts (Scots), which is why they have told everyone from time immemorial that “Veles is the cattle God.”

Having moved to the British Isles, the ancient Clans of the Slavs - the Scotts - called all the inhabited provinces - the Land of the Scotts - Scotland (Scotland), and in honor of their Ancestral Patron God Veles, they named the lands with the best pastures after him - Wales (Wales, i.e. Veles ).

Since Veles is the Patron God and Ruler of the Heavenly Palace of the Wolf in the Svarog Circle, which is located next to the Heavenly Boundary separating the Worlds of Light and Darkness, the Highest Gods entrusted Veles to be the supreme Guardian of the Heavenly Gates of the Interworld. These Heavenly Gates are located on the Golden Path of Spiritual Development, which leads to Heavenly Asgard, as well as to Heavenly Vyry and to the Bright Halls of Volhalla.

God Veles always personifies comprehensive care, painstaking creative diligence, honesty and determination, perseverance, constancy and masterly wisdom, the ability to be responsible for all one’s actions, spoken words and committed deeds.

God Veles, guarding the Heavenly Gates of the Interworld, allows into Svarga the Most Pure Souls only those deceased who did not spare their lives in defense of their Clans, in defense of the lands of their Fathers and Grandfathers, in defense of the ancient Faith, who worked diligently and creatively for the prosperity of their Clans and who fulfilled the Two Great Principles from the bottom of their hearts: It is sacred to honor your Gods and Ancestors and those who lived according to their Conscience in harmony with Mother Nature.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Velese Bose is the Patron! Svarga Dvara is the protector! And we glorify You, O All-Kind, for You are our spade and support! And do not leave us alone, and protect our fat herds from pestilence, and fill our granaries with goodness. May we be one with You, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Marena (Mara)

Goddess Marena (Mara)— Great Goddess of Winter, Night and Eternal Sleep and Eternal Life.

Goddess Marena, or Marena Svarogovna, one of the three named sisters of the Many-Wise God Perun.

Very often she is called the Goddess of Death, who ends the earthly life of a person in the Manifest World, but this is not entirely true.

Goddess Marena does not end human life, but gives people of the Race Eternal Life in the World of Glory.

It is believed that the Great Goddess Marena has Ice Halls in the far north of Midgard-Earth, in which She loves to rest after wandering around Svarga the Most Pure.

When the Goddess Marena comes to Midgard-Earth, all Nature falls asleep, goes to rest, plunging into a long three-month sleep, for it is said in the Santiy Veda of Perun: “The Great Cooling will bring the Aryan wind to this land, and Madder will cover it for a third of Summer with his White Cloak" (Santiya 5, sloka 3).

And when Marena Svarogovna goes to her Ice Halls, on the second day after the Spring Equinox, the awakening of Nature and diverse life occurs. In honor of the farewell of the Goddess Madder to the North, the Krasnogor holiday, Maslenitsa-Mader Day, also called the Farewell of the Goddess of Winter ( modern name— Farewell to the Russian Winter).

On this day, a doll made of straw is burned, symbolizing not the Goddess Madder, as many people think, but the snowy Winter. After the ritual of burning a straw doll, a handful of ashes were scattered over a field, garden or vegetable garden so that a good, rich harvest would grow. For, as our Ancestors said: “The Goddess Vesta came to Midgard-Earth, brought new life to Krasnogor, lit a fire and melted the winter snows, watered the whole earth with living power and woke Madder from sleep. The Mother of Cheese Earth will give life-giving power to our fields, selected grain will germinate in our fields, so that we can give a good harvest to all our Clans.”

But Goddess Marena, in addition to observing Nature’s rest on Midgard-Earth, when Mother Nature gathers life-giving forces for the spring awakening and the life of plants and animals, also observes the lives of people. And when the time comes for people from the Clans of the Great Race to set off on a long journey along the Golden Path, the Goddess Marena gives instructions to each deceased person in accordance with his earthly Spiritual and worldly life, as well as in accordance with the creative experience gained, in which direction he should continue his posthumous life Path, to the World of Navi or to the World of Glory.

Goddess Marena is the Patroness of the Fox Hall in the Svarog Circle.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Marena-Mother, Glorious and Trislavna be! We magnify You from eternity, we kindle bloodless Requirements and Gifts for You all the time! Grant us prosperity in all our deeds, and save our cattle from pestilence, and do not let our barns become empty, for great is Thy generosity, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Kryshen

God Kryshen— Heavenly Patron God of Ancient Wisdom. He is the God who directs the performance of ancient Rites, Rituals and Holidays, observing that during the offerings of bloodless Requirements and Gifts for burnt offerings there are no bloody sacrifices.

IN peaceful times Kryshen preaches the Ancient Wisdom in various Lands of the Most Pure Svarga, and in difficult times for the Clans of the Great Race, He takes up arms and acts as a Warrior God, protecting women, the elderly, children, as well as all the weak and disadvantaged.

Since Kryshen is the Patron God of the Hall of Tours in the Svarog Circle, He is called the Heavenly Shepherd, who tends the herds of Heavenly Cows and Tours.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Bose Spade, Great Roof! You, the Patron of the Light Lands of all in Svarga! We glorify You, we call upon You, may Your Wisdom come with all our Ancient Clans, now and ever and from Circle to Circle!

Goddess Rada

Goddess Rada– Goddess of memory, happiness and joy, spiritual bliss, Divine Love, beauty, wisdom and prosperity. One of its meanings is the gift of the sun. Hara is another name of the Goddess Rada, representing the energy of love, joy and loving service to the Roof.

It helps to achieve internal and external balance, reconcile all areas of a person’s life, and find balance of the Soul. Rada, the daughter of the Lady of the Sea and the Sun God Ra, lived on Sunny Island. Rada was so beautiful that they began to say that she was more beautiful than the bright Sunny. Having learned about this, the Sun God Ra arranged a competition with his daughter - who shines brighter? And after the competition, everyone decided that the Sun shines brighter in the sky, and the Rada shines brighter on Earth.

Rada can be seen after heavy summer rains and thunderstorms in the blue sky - at these moments Rada appears briefly in one of its most important and brightest images, in the form of a seven-color rainbow, stretching across half the sky and delighting with its beauty all those who look at the rainbow.

It must be said that the main calling of the Rada is to bring joy to people. And her very name later gave birth to this word - “joy”. And yet it is not the rainbow that is the true appearance of this bright goddess. The true appearance of the Rada is beautiful young girl. It usually appears somewhere in a forest or meadow, often near a river or lake, which emphasizes the proximity of the water element, at dawn or before sunset. Rada smiles at everyone she meets during her walks.

God Yarilo-Sun (Yarila)

God Yarilo-Sun (Yarila)— The Most Serene Heavenly God-Patron of Earthly Life. Yarila is the patron saint of All Bright, Pure, Kind, Heartfelt Thoughts and Thoughts of people.

Yarila is the guardian of Good and Pure Hearts and our daylight Sun, which gives everyone living on Midgard-Earth warming warmth, love and a full life. The image of Yarila the Sun is often depicted in everyday life in the form of various swastika symbols and horses.

God Horse

God Horse- The Solar God is the Patron of good weather, giving grain growers a rich Harvest. cattle breeders have a healthy offspring of livestock, hunters have a successful hunt, fishermen have an abundant catch. God Khors patronized diverse trade and exchange between Clans and tribes. Khors is the Guardian God of the Earth Khors (planet Mercury).

God Indra

God Indra- Supreme God. Gromovnik, assistant to the Supreme God Perun in the Heavenly battles to protect Svarga the Most Pure and all the Starry Heavens from the forces of Darkness.

Indra is the Thousand-Eyed Guardian God of the Bright Heavens and the Heavenly Halls of the Highest Gods on.

He is the keeper of the Divine Swords and the Sacred Divine Weapons of Just Retribution, which are given to him for safekeeping by thirty Protector Gods of the Light Worlds when they rest from Heavenly battles with the Dark Forces.

These thirty Light Protector Gods make up the mighty Heavenly squad of the Thunder God Indra, whose purpose is to protect the Frontiers of the Light Worlds.

The Supreme God Indra has always been the patron saint of the Vonn defenders of the Fatherland, as well as for all the Priests-Priests from of the most ancient Clans, in which the Ancient Sacred Vedas are stored.

Indra participates not only in Heavenly battles with Dark forces - in ancient times He helped the Slavic and Aryan armies and squads in fair battles with enemy forces that attacked various cities and villages of the Great Race.

In addition, it is believed that God Indra brings down swift streams of rain from the cloudy mountains and, collecting them in special containers, creates earthly springs, streams and rivers, multiplies their waters, grows wide channels for them and directs their flow.

Anthem-Pravslavl:

O Indra! Hear those who call upon Thee! Glorious and Trislaven be you! And help us in battles with our enemies! And grant us help in the deeds sent! And we speak Glory to You and say, Great Indra! And the greatness of Glory, may it be the lot of the Thunderer, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Perun

God Perun(Perkunas, Perkon, Perk, Purusha) - Patron God of all warriors and many Clans from the Great Race, protector of the Lands and Clans of the Svyatorus (Rus, Belarusians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Latgalians, Semigallians, Polans, Serbs, etc.) from Dark forces, God the Thunderer, ruler of Lightning, son of God Svarog and Lada the Mother of God, grandson of God Vyshenya. Patron God of the Hall of the Eagle in the Svarog Circle. God Perun has already arrived on Midgard-Earth three times to protect it and the Clans of the Great Race from the dark forces of the Pekel World.

Dark forces come from different Halls of the Pekel World in order to lure people from the Clans of the Great Race to their full by deception, flattery and cunning, and if this does not help, then they kidnap people in order to turn them all into obedient slaves in their dark World and not let them opportunities to spiritually develop and move along the Golden Path, as was established by God Svarog.

Dark forces penetrate not only Midgard-Earth, but also other Light Lands in Svarga the Most Pure. And then a battle occurs between the forces of Light and Darkness. Perun already once freed our Ancestors from Pekelnoye captivity and blocked the Interworld Gates on Midgard-Earth leading to Hell with the Caucasus Mountains.

These battles of Light and Darkness took place at certain intervals: “after the expiration of the Svarog Circle and the Ninety-Nine Circles of Life», those. in 40,176 years.

After the first three Heavenly Battles between Light and Darkness, when the Light Forces won, God Perun descended to Midgard-Earth to tell people about the events that had taken place and what awaited the Earth in the future, about the onset of dark times and about the upcoming Great Asses, t .e. Heavenly Battles.

Fluctuations in time between the Third and the upcoming decisive Fourth Battle of Light and Darkness can constitute, in addition to the time indicated above by Perun, only one Circle of Life, i.e. 144 Leta.

There are also Legends that God Perun visited Midgard-Earth several more times in order to tell the Hidden Wisdom to the Priests and Elders of the Clans of the Holy Race, how to prepare for the dark, hard times, when the Arm of our swastika galaxy will pass through spaces subject to forces from the Dark Worlds of Hell.

Dark forces that have secretly penetrated Midgard-Earth are creating all sorts of false religious Cults and are specifically trying to destroy or denigrate the Cult of God Perun, erase it from the memory of peoples, so that by the time of the Fourth, decisive battle between Light and Darkness, when Perun arrives on Midgard-Earth , people did not know who He was and for what purpose He came.

In our time, a large number of “true” prophecies have appeared about the End of the World or the End of Times, especially in the Lunar Cults, about the coming of the Supreme God the Savior to Midgard-Earth. Followers of one world religion call him Christ, and other religions call him Messiah, Mosheach, Buddha, Matreya, etc. All this is done so that during the coming of Perun to Earth, white people do not recognize in Him their Supreme God and reject His help, and thereby doom themselves to complete humiliation and destruction.

During his Third visit to Midgard-Earth, about 40,000 years ago, Perun told people from Asgard Iria various genera The Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Family have the Sacred Wisdom about the future, which the Priests of Belovodye wrote down in X'Aryan Runes and preserved for descendants in the Nine Circles of the “Santiy Vedas of Perun” (in the nine “Books of the Wisdom of God Perun”).

Anthem-Pravslav Line:

Perun! Hear those who call upon Thee! Glorious and Trislaven be you! Grant the goodness of the Light of Peace to the entire Holy Race! Show your beautiful face to your descendants! Instruct us in good deeds, grant the people of the world more Glory and courage. Turn us away from the lesson of dissipation, give our Clans a multitude of people, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Dodola-Virgin

Goddess Dodola-Virgin (Perunitsa)- Heavenly Goddess of abundant Fertility, who controls rain, thunderstorms and lightning, wife and helper of the Supreme God Perun.

Only female Priestesses serving Her had the right to make requests to the Heavenly Goddess Dodola-Virgin. Therefore, when people needed rain to water fields and meadows, representatives of different Clans brought rich Gifts to the Temple of Dodola-Virgin so that the Priestesses would perform the ancient Rite of Calling Rain.

During the ancient Rite of Appeal to the Goddess, the Priestesses wore their white dresses with a special ornament and with golden fringe at the bottom and performed an ancient ritual rain dance, asking the great Goddess Dodola-Virgin to send down blessed rain on the fields and meadows. And there has never been a single case in my life when the Goddess Dodola-Virgin refused her faithful Priestesses.

Dazhdbog

Dazhdbog- God Tarkh Perunovich, Guardian God of the ancient Great Wisdom.

He was called Dazhdbog (the giving God) for giving the people of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Family, Nine Santiy (Books).

These Santias, written down by ancient Runes, contain the Sacred Ancient Vedas, the Commandments of Tarkh Perunovich and his instructions. There are various Idols and Images depicting God Tarkh.

In many Images he holds a gaitan with a Swastika in his hand.

Tarkh is very often called the many-wise son of God Perun, the grandson of God Svarog, the great-grandson of God Vyshen, which is true*.

* corresponds to the truth - although there is also an erroneous opinion: Tarkha Dazhdbog in many ancient sources is very often called Svarozhich, i.e. Heavenly God, and many ancient researchers interpret this in such a way that Dazhdbog is the son of God Svarog.

Dazhdbog is the giver of all kinds of blessings, happiness and prosperity. Tarkh Dazhdbog was glorified in sacred and folk chants and hymns not only for the happy and worthy life of the Clans of the Great Race, but also for deliverance from the forces of the Dark World. Tarkh did not allow the victory of the dark forces from the Pekel World, which were gathered by the Koschei on the nearest Moon - Lele, in order to capture Midgard-Earth.

Tarkh Dazhdbog destroyed the Moon along with all the dark forces that were on it. This is reported “Santiy of the Vedas of Perun. First Circle: “You have been living peacefully on Midgard since ancient times, when the world was established... Remembering from the Vedas about the deeds of Dazhdbog, how he destroyed the strongholds of the Koschei, which were located on the nearest Moon... Tarkh did not allow the insidious Koschei to destroy Midgard, as they destroyed Deya... These Koschei, the rulers of the Grays, disappeared along with the Moon in half... But Midgard paid for freedom, hidden by the Great Flood... The waters of the Moon created that Flood, they fell to Earth from Heaven like a rainbow, for the Moon split into pieces and an army of Svarozhiches descended to Midgard"(Santiya 9, shlokas 11-12). In memory of this event, a unique ritual with deep meaning** appeared, performed by everyone Orthodox people every Summer, on the great spring Slavic-Aryan holiday - Easter.

** A ritual with deep meaning - this ritual is well known to everyone. On Paskhet (Easter) colored eggs are struck against each other to see whose egg is stronger. The broken egg was called the Egg of the Koshcheev, i.e. the destroyed Moon (Lelei), and the whole egg was called the Power of Tarkh Dazhdbog.

Dazhdbog Tarkh Perunovich is the Patron God of the Palace of the Race in the Svarozh Circle.

Very often in various ancient Vedic texts, Tarkha Perunovich is asked to help people from the Clans of the Great Race by his beautiful sister, the golden-haired Goddess Tara. Together they performed good deeds and helped people settle in the vast expanses of Midgard-Earth. God Tarkh indicated the best place to place a settlement and build a Temple or Sanctuary, and his sister, Goddess Tara, told people from the Great Race which trees should be used for construction. In addition, she trained people to plant new forests in place of felled trees, so that new trees needed for construction would grow for their descendants. Subsequently, many Clans began to call themselves the grandchildren of Tarkh and Tara, and the territories in which these Clans settled were called Great Tartary, i.e. the land of Tarha and Tara.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Dazhdbog Tarkh Perunovich! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We thank You, the giver of all blessings, happiness and prosperity. And we proclaim great Glory to You for your help in our good deeds, and for your help in our military deeds, and against dark enemies and all unrighteous evil. May Your Great Power come with all our Clans, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Alive (Virgo Jiva, Diva)

Goddess Alive (Virgo Jiva, Diva)— Goddess of Eternal Universal Life, Goddess of young and pure Human Souls.

The Goddess Jiva gives each person from the Great Race, or the descendant of the Heavenly Family, a pure and bright Soul at birth in the World of Reveal, and after a righteous earthly life she gives the person to drink the Divine Suritsa from the Cup of Eternal Life.

The Goddess is Alive, is the personification of the fruitful power of Life, eternal youth, youth and love, as well as the highest Beauty of all Nature and man.

Patron Goddess of the Chamber of the Virgin in the Svarog Circle. It is believed that when the Yarilo-Sun is in the Heavenly Palace of the Virgin, children are born endowed with special feelings, such as: foreseeing great changes in people's lives and predicting formidable natural phenomena, the ability to understand any confusing situation.

Goddess Jiva is the kind-hearted wife and savior of Tarkh Dazhdbog. She also imparts tenderness, kindness, cordiality and attentiveness to pregnant women and nursing mothers from the Clans of the Great Race, who observe ancient family traditions and the centuries-old Tribal way of life.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Jiva Mother! Shower Guardian! You are the Patroness of all our families! We call upon Thee, We glorify Thee, We magnify Thee as the giver of Bright Souls! Give comfort to all people, and give reproduction to our ancient families. And You will come, eternally in our hearts, now and ever and from Circle to Circle. So be it, so be it, so be it!

God Agni (Tsar-Fire, Living Fire)

God Agni (Tsar-Fire, Living Fire)— Heavenly Patron God of the Sacred Fire of Creation.

God Agni controls the festive Rituals with Fire, bloodless sacrifices.

He is revered in all Clans of Orthodox Old Believers-Iiglings, and in every altar, near the Idol of God Agni, a living Sacred Fire was always maintained.

It is believed that if the Sacred Fire goes out in the altar of God Agni, then the lands of these Clans will stop producing a good harvest, craftsmen will forget how to make the necessary utensils, weavers will stop weaving good, high-quality fabric, storytellers will forget all the ancient traditions of their Ancient Clans. Dark times will last until people light the Sacred Fire of God Agni in the altar and in their hearts.

God Semargl (Fire God)

Description of Semargl, compiled on the basis of the works of A. Khinevich “Slavic-Aryan Vedas”

God Semargl (Fire God)— Supreme God, guardian of the Eternally Living Fire and guardian of the strict observance of all Fire Rites and Fiery Purifications.

Semargl accepts Fiery Gifts, Requirements and bloodless Sacrifice on ancient Slavic and Aryan holidays, especially on Krasnogor, on the Day of God Kupala and on the Supreme Day of God Perun, being a mediator between people and all Heavenly Gods.

Fire God Semargl is the Patron God of the Hall of the Heavenly Serpent in the Svarozh Circle.

The Fire God joyfully blesses all people from the Clans of the Great Race, who with pure Soul and Spirit observe all the Heavenly Laws and the Many-Wise Commandments of the Light Gods and Ancestors.

Semargl is also called upon in the treatment of sick animals and people, in order to save patients from various ailments and diseases. When a person’s temperature rose, they said that Fire God settled in the Soul of the sick person. For Semargl, like a Fire Dog, fiercely fights against illnesses and illnesses, which, like enemies, have entered the body or Soul of the sick person. Therefore, it is considered unacceptable to bring down a patient’s fever. The most best place A bath is considered to cleanse oneself from illness.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Semargl Svarozhich! Great Ognebozhich! Sleep with the pain, cleanse the womb of the child of the people, of every creature, old and young, You, God's delight. Cleansing with fire, opening the power of Souls, save the child of God, may the sickness disappear. We glorify you, we call you to us, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Birth of Semargl!

There are references to the emergence of Semargl from the flame. They say that once the heavenly blacksmith Svarog himself, striking a magic hammer on the stone, struck divine sparks from the stone. The sparks flared up brightly, and in their flames the fiery god Semargl appeared, sitting on a golden-maned horse of a silver color. But, seeming to be a quiet and peaceful hero, Semargl left a scorched trail wherever his horse stepped.

Beliefs associated with Semargl

The name of the God of Fire is not known for certain, most likely because his name is extremely sacred. Holiness is explained by the fact that this God does not live somewhere in the seventh heaven, but directly among earthly people! They try to pronounce his name out loud less often, usually replacing it with allegories.

The Slavs have long associated the emergence of people with Fire. According to some legends, the Slavic Gods created a Man and a Woman from two sticks, between which a Fire flared up - the very first flame of love. Semargl also does not allow evil into the world.

At night, Semargl stands guard with a fiery sword, and only one day a year does he leave his post, responding to the call of the Bathing Lady, who calls him to love games on the day of the Autumn Equinox. And on the day of the Summer Solstice, 9 months later, children are born to Semargl and Kupalnitsa - Kostroma and Kupalo.

Semargl mediator between people and gods

Semargl accepts Fiery Gifts, Requirements and bloodless Sacrifice on ancient holidays, especially on Krasnogor, on the Day of God Kupala and on the highest Day of God Perun, and is a mediator between people and all Heavenly Gods.

Semargl is called upon in the treatment of sick animals and people, in order to save the sick from various ailments and diseases. When a person has a fever, they say that Fire God has settled in the Soul of the sick person. For Semargl, like a Fire Dog, fiercely fights against illnesses and illnesses, which, like enemies, have entered the body or Soul of the sick person. Therefore, it is considered unacceptable to bring down a patient’s fever. The best place to cleanse yourself from illness is considered to be a bathhouse.

God Semargl in Slavic mythology:
God Semargl in pagan mythology was one of the sons of the great god Svarog. Svarog's children were called Svarozhichi, and his son Semargl after birth becomes the god of earthly fire.
One of the Svarozhichs was the god of fire - Semargl, who is sometimes mistakenly only considered a heavenly dog, the guardian of seeds for sowing. This (storing seeds) was constantly carried out by a much smaller deity - Pereplut.

Mentions of the name Semargl in chronicles

The name of Semargl is mentioned in Russian chronicles - the pantheon of the book. Vladimir, it supposedly came from the old Russian “smag” (“Follow him I will call Karn, and Zhlya jump across the Russian land, Smag moo in the flame rose” i.e. fire, tongue of flame, Fire-Svarozhich - half dog, half snake. Probably , the mediator between the waking world and the heavenly world, which in the Vedic tradition is the god of fire - Agni. He is also the foam (fire) serpent from the conspiracies. Mentioned in the Paisevsky collection of St. Gregory (14th century) and the Chrysostom collection of 1271. Fire God - Yognebozhe, according to the “Veda of the Slavs” by Verkovich, among the Pomak Bulgarians:

Fala ti Yogne God!
Fala ti Yasnu Sun!
You heat it up on the ground.
Pecking the chickadee into the ground...
Pokrivash e tsarna Muggle,
ta sa nishu and gleda.

He is, quite possibly, Rarog, Rarogek is the son of Svarog, according to Czech medieval sources.
The identification of this god with the Iranian Senmurv (a giant magical bird) is considered unjustified, but there is probably a connection with the firebird (the fiery messenger of happiness), which brings his happiness.

Simargl (Old Russian Semargl, Simargl, Sim-Rgl) - in East Slavic mythology, a deity who was one of the seven (or eight) deities of the Old Russian pantheon (see article Slavic mythology), whose idols were installed in Kyiv under the prince Vladimir (980). The name Semargl apparently goes back to the ancient *Sedmor(o)-golvъ, “Seven heads” (cf. the polycephaly characteristic of the Slavic gods, in particular the seven-headed Ruevit). According to another, more controversial hypothesis (K.V. Trever and others), the name and image of Semargl is an Iranian borrowing and goes back to the mythical bird Senmurv. D. Worth connects Semargl with the Dove bird. Semargl's functions are unclear; they are probably associated with the sacred number seven and the embodiment of the seven-membered ancient Russian pantheon. It is characteristic that in some texts of the Kulikovo Cycle the name Semargl is distorted into Rakliy, and this deity is considered as a pagan, Tatar. Lit.: Trever K.V., Sanmurv-Paskudzh, L., 1937; Jakobson R., While reading Vasmer’s dictionary, in his book: Selected writings, v. 2, The Hague-P., 1971; Worth D., Dub-Simyrj, in the book: East Slavic and general linguistics, M., 1978, p. 127-32.
"Myths of the Peoples of the World"

Semargl - the most mysterious deity of the Slavs

This cult developed among the Slavs under the influence of Scythian influence approximately 3 thousand years ago. Semargl, in all likelihood, meant “seed”. This deity was not the most popular among the ancient Slavs, but probably remained the most mysterious to this day. Simargl is a sacred winged dog that protects seeds and crops, revered along with the ancient Russian coast guards. Even in the Bronze Age, among Slavic tribes there is an image of dogs jumping and tumbling around young shoots. Apparently, these dogs protected crops from small livestock: chamois, roe deer, wild goats. Semargl among the Slavs was the embodiment of armed good, “good with teeth,” as well as claws and even wings. In some tribes Semargl was called Pereplut; the cult of this deity was associated with festivals in honor of mermaids, as well as bird-maidens, who were deities of irrigating fields with rain. Rituals in honor of Semargl and the mermaids were held in early January and consisted of prayers for water for the new harvest. Another major holiday of Semargl and mermaids was mermaid week from June 19 to 24, ending with the holiday of Kupala. Archaeologists in many female burials of the 10th - 11th centuries. They discovered silver hoop bracelets that fastened the long sleeves of women's shirts. During ritual pagan games, before dancing, women took off their bracelets and danced “carelessly,” portraying mermaids. This dance was dedicated to the winged dog Semargl, and, apparently, the legend of the frog princess came from him. During the ritual, all participants drank a sacred drink prepared with herbs. Gifts were brought to Semarglu-Pereplut and his image in the form of a dog, most often cups with the best wine. In rare surviving images, the sacred dog Semargl was depicted as if growing from the ground. From written sources it becomes clear that the Semarglu ritual took place with the obligatory participation of boyars and princesses, who brought rich gifts to the idol.

“World cults and rituals. The power and strength of the ancients." Compiled by Yu.A. Matyukhina. -M.:RIPOL classic, 2011. Pp. 150-151.
Some researchers compare Simargl with the Iranian deity Simurgh (Senmurv), a sacred winged dog, guardian of plants. According to B.A. Rybakov, Simargl in Rus' in the 12th-13th centuries was replaced by Pereplut, which had the same meaning as Semargl. Obviously, Semargl was the deity of some tribe, subject to the great to the prince of Kyiv Vladimir.
Balyazin V.N. “Unofficial history of Russia. Eastern Slavs and the invasion of Batu. - M.: OLMA Media Group, 2007., pp. 46-47

Here is my vision of the Slavic god Semargl, born on the basis of personal study of legends and traditions:

Semargl Ognebog is probably one of the most mysterious light gods of the Slavic world.

Its mystery lies in the fact that many Slavic Gods were created by man in “his own likeness” and had a completely human appearance, and Semargl had the image of a winged fiery wolf.

Most likely, the image of Semargl is older than the “humanized” images of the gods……. And it may be the key to your inner strength. Look around you will not see flying fire wolves, there are none outside until you find it inside. Our external world is a reflection of the internal, do not look for gods outside, find them inside yourself and then they will appear outside.

Semargl lives in you - this is your spiritual fire, crushing the chains of ignorance, this is the fire of sacred rage, sweeping away the enemy's outposts on its way, this is the heat of the body, defeating the body's diseases, this is the fire in the furnace, warming you.... in modern understanding - this is even nuclear energy. All this is the god Semargl, or rather his manifestations

According to legend, Semargl was born from the blow of Svarog’s hammer on the Alatyr stone: from the splashing sparks, a flame shot up, and a rider on a golden-maned horse appeared in the fire.

The imagery of the ancient language speaks of the interaction of divine forces, which there is no point in revealing, because their divinity will be lost. Our language is a limited tool, especially after the cutting off of its imagery and the reform carried out by the Bolsheviks. The appearance of Semargl is facilitated by several forces, and at all levels of existence they are similar: the force of friction and impact. The blow of Svarog’s hammer on the anvil of Alatyr gives birth to Semargl, the blow of a wave of your anger against insurmountable circumstances ignites a sacred rage in you, the blow of a flint and a steel against each other causes the fire of the material world, the interaction of two nuclei causes a nuclear explosion.....the interaction of your spiritual and material principles causes spiritual fire.

Semargl's mission is simple and at the same time complex: the Winged Wolf does not let the dark principle from the manifest world into the world of Rule, standing guard over Reveal with a “burning” sword. He is the keeper of the interworld between reality and rule, although Nav is also available to him, and can come from Navi.....

He is the shield and sword of the human world - he can protect, warm, protect, heal, or he can destroy and destroy everything in his path.

The keys and connection to Semargl are stored in your subconscious. And you will receive them only when you become holistic and do not use this power for selfish purposes, when your consciousness is cleared of the dark spots of ignorance, then you learn to consciously use its power. The Slavic Gods will not entrust a nuclear bomb to a child, and the power of Semargl is hidden behind seven seals, which will be revealed only to pure consciousness.

Accept the image of Semargl, feel the divine fire in your soul, help others understand and accept the Native Gods. Help Semargl spread his wings in each of us, help awaken strength, rage and wolfish agility. To the Glory of Our Gods and Ancestors!

Stribog

Stribog- is the God who controls lightning, whirlwinds, hurricanes, winds and sea storms on Midgard-earth. We turn to him when a rain cloud is needed during a dry period, or vice versa, during a rainy period when it is necessary for Stribog to disperse the clouds and the Yarilo-Sun to warm the fields, gardens and orchards filled with moisture.

Stribog also controls the winds and sandstorms on the Earth of Oreya (Mars). In addition, Stribog is the Patron God of the Earth of Stribog (Saturn) in the Yarila-Sun system. But most of all, our ancestors revered Stribog as the destroyer of all kinds of atrocities and the destroyer of evil intentions.

God Varuna (God of the World Waters)

God Varuna— God, who controls the Element of movement of the Starry Sky and oversees the sacred paths that connect the Gates of Interworld in different Halls of Svarga the Most Pure.

Varuna is the God who rules the roads of Human Fates. Only God Varuna can determine the power of Spiritual Formation and the completeness of fulfillment of a person’s Life Purpose.

Raven is the Veshaya bird, the faithful companion of the Ruler God Varuna. He accompanies the Souls of the dead to the Vyria Gate in the Great Most Pure Svarga and informs the Navya Souls about what high goals they have achieved in their Spiritual and Soul development and in fulfilling their Life Purpose on Midgard-Earth.

If God Varuna decides that a person needs to be given the opportunity to complete the work he has begun, which he did not have time to complete due to sudden death, then he sends his assistant, Raven, to Dunya of the deceased person.

Raven, the guardian of Living and Dead Water, makes it possible for the Soul of the deceased to return to his own body, so that a person, returning to the World of Revealing, can complete his unfinished work.

In the World of Reveal they say about such a person: “he experienced clinical death” or “he returned from the other world.” Oddly enough, after the God-Manager Varuna returns a person to his former life, the person changes his behavior, does not waste his life in vain and completes the work that he did not have time to finish.

If a person cannot be returned to his own body due to his complete destruction, then the Heavenly God Varuna asks the Goddess Karna to find a suitable body for this Soul-Navya.

God Kolyada

God Kolyada— The Most High God, who controls the Great Changes in the life of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

In ancient times, the Supreme God Kolyada gave many Clans who moved to the western lands a system for calculating seasonal time for conducting field work - the Calendar (Kolyada's gift), as well as his Wise Vedas, commandments and instructions.

Kolyada is the Patron God of military men and Priests. Kolyada was often depicted with a sword in her hand, with the blade of the sword facing downward.

In ancient times, a sword with its tip facing downwards meant the preservation of the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors, as well as unshakable adherence to the Heavenly Laws, as established by God Svarog for all the Halls of the Svarog Circle.

The holiday in honor of God Kolyada falls on the day winter solstice, this holiday is also called Menari, i.e. Day of Change. On the holiday, groups of men dressed in the skins of various animals (mummers), who were called Kolyada squads, walked around the courtyards. They sang hymns glorifying Kolyada and organized special round dances around sick people to heal them.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Bose Kolyada! Glorious and Trislaven be you! We thank You for your gracious help to our Childbirth! And may You be our intercessor in all our deeds, now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Bog Sventovit

Bog Sventovit— The Supreme Heavenly God, who carries the Pure Spiritual Light Rule the Goodness, Love, Illumination and Enlightenment of the World into the Souls of all White people from the Clans of the Great Race, as well as into the Souls of the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

Orthodox ancestors from various Slavic-Aryan Communities revere God Sventovit for his daily Spiritual help in all good creative deeds and endeavors that are aimed at the benefit and prosperity of our Ancient Clans.

At the holidays in honor of God Sventovit, competitions were held in the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom among young people. Only those young people who had already reached the Circle of Years* were allowed to compete in the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom.

* reached the Circle of Years - i.e. age 16 years.

The point of the competitions held by the Priests of Sventovit was to determine how developed the Ancestral memory, imaginative thinking, intuition, dexterity and ingenuity were in the younger generation.

At the very beginning of the competition, the Priests of Sventovit asked young people questions on various topics and riddles. The winner was the one who answered the questions faster and more wittily. more questions and riddles. Then, for the winners of the first competition, competitions were held that determined the dexterity and skill of young people in various martial arts, skill in handling a sword and knife, and accuracy in archery.

Those that passed the above tests were also tested for endurance; For this purpose, young people went to the forest for three weeks, or, as they said in the old days, for thirty days.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Sventovit, our Light Bose! We glorify and glorify You, all the dear! And You enlighten our Souls and send down illumination into our hearts, for You are the Good God, and to all our Clans. We magnify You from eternity and call upon You in our Clans, may our Souls be with You, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle, and at all times, as long as the Yarilo-Sun shines on us!

God Kupala (Kupala)

God Kupala (Kupala)- God, who gives a person the opportunity to perform all sorts of Ablutions and conducts Rituals of Cleansing the Body, Soul and Spirit from various ailments and diseases. God who guides you to a joyful and happy life.

Kupala is a cheerful and beautiful God who dresses in light white robes decorated with flowers. On the head of God Kupala there is a wreath of beautiful flowers.

Kupala was revered as the God of the warm time of Summer, wild flowers and wild fruits.

Many Slavic-Aryan Clans engaged in field farming revered God Kupala along with the Goddess Makosh and Goddess Tara, as well as the Gods Perun and Veles.

Before the start of the harvest and the collection of field fruits, a holiday was celebrated in honor of God Kupala, at which bloodless sacrifices were made to God Kupala, as well as to all the Ancient Gods and Ancestors.

On the holiday, Orthodox ancestors throw their bloodless sacrifices and demands into the fire of the Holy Swastika Altar, so that everything sacrificed appears on festive tables Gods and Ancestors.

After making bloodless sacrifices from the living fire of the Holy Swastika Altar, the community members light candles and firelights, which they fasten on wreaths and rafts and send them down the rivers.

At the same time, on a candle or fire, Orthodox ancestors from various Communities say their innermost desire or request for deliverance from illnesses, all kinds of failures, various problems, etc. This ritual can be explained as follows.

A burning candle or firelight illuminates the request or desire of the Communities, the river water remembers them and, evaporating, rises to Heaven, conveying to the Gods all the requests and desires of the Orthodox ancestors.

At the holiday, each of the Orthodox ancestors must undergo complete purification in order to begin collecting the fruits of the field and begin the field harvest. A complete cleanse consists of three parts:

First cleansing (Body cleansing). Everyone present at the holiday on God's Day Kupala must wash their body in sacred waters (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, etc.) to wash away fatigue and dirt.

Second cleansing (Cleansing of the Soul). In order for those present at the holiday on the Day of God Kupala to purify their Soul, large bonfires are lit, and everyone jumps over these bonfires, for Fire burns away all ailments and purifies the aura and Soul of a person.

Third cleansing (Purification of the Spirit). Everyone present at the holiday on the Day of God Kupala, as well as those who wish, can cleanse and strengthen their Spirit. To do this, a Circle of Fire is created from the burning coals of a large fire, along which people from various Tribal, Slavic and Aryan Communities walk barefoot. Those who wish to walk through the coals for the first time in order to cleanse and strengthen their Spirit are led by the Community by the hand through the Circle of Fire.

This holiday is inextricably linked with another ancient event. In ancient times, God Perun freed his sisters from captivity in the Caucasus and sent them to purify themselves in the waters of the Holy Iriya (Irtysh) and in the Smetannoye Clean Lake (O. Zaisan). This event is also narrated in the fifth ball of Songs of the Bird Gamayun.

Due to the fact that Kupala is the Patron God of the Heavenly Palace of the Horse in the Svarog Circle, on this day it is customary to bathe horses, braid multi-colored ribbons into their manes and decorate them with wildflowers.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Kupala, our Bose! Glorious and Trislaven be forever! We glorify you all our dearly, we call you to our lands! Grant us all purification, for our Bozeh to rule! Grant to our families a bountiful harvest in the suffering fields, and full bins in our mansions. Now and ever and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Chislobog

Chislobog- The Wise, Supreme God, who controls the flow of the River of Time, as well as the Guardian God of the Daarian Circle and various priestly systems of the Slavic-Aryan chronology.

In his left hand Chislobog holds a sword pointing downwards, which symbolizes constant protection and all-round preservation, and in right hand Chislobog holds his shield, on which is inscribed the Most Ancient Runic Calendar, called the Daarian (Daar) Circle of Chislobog.

According to the Daarian Circle of Chislobog, various chronological calculations were previously carried out in all Slavic and Aryan lands. These systems were used before the forced Christianization of the peoples of Rus' and Europe and before the introduction of a new chronology from the Nativity of Christ (the use of the Slavic-Aryan chronology systems according to the Daarsky Circle of Chislobog in the Russian lands was abolished by Tsar Peter Alekseevich Romanov in the Summer of 7208 from the Creation of the World in the Star Temple (1700) . AD).

Currently various systems chronology according to the Daariysky Krugolet of Chislobog is used only by the Priests-Priests of the Ves Spiritual Directorates and the Elders of the Slavic, Aryan and Tribal Communities Old Russian Church of Orthodox Old Believers.

Anthem-Orthodox Praise:

Glorious and Trislaven be, our Chislovog! You, the guardian of the flow of life in the Most Pure Svarga, endowing our belly with a period of understanding of our Yavnago World, and You indicate when Yaril the Sun rises, when the Moons and Stars shine. And grant us, according to Your great Goodness, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of our Clans, to sing to God and our Ancestors Great Glory, as You are a virtue and a lover of mankind. And we all sing the Glory of You, now and ever, and from Circle to Circle! So be it, so be it, so be it!

Goddess Karna

Goddess Karna— Heavenly Goddess-Patroness of all new births and human reincarnations**.

**human reincarnations - i.e. new birth on Midgard-Earth in order to fully fulfill your life lesson. On behalf of the Goddess Karna, words appeared that have survived to this day, these are: incarnation - a temporary incarnation on Midgard-Earth in order to complete one’s earthly lesson, interrupted as a result of an accident, by inhabiting the body of another person; reincarnation is a new incarnation of a person on Midgard-Earth in the body of a newborn child in order to continue his interrupted life path and fulfill his earthly lesson.

Goddess Karna grants the right to every person to get rid of mistakes and unseemly actions committed in his Manifest life and to fulfill his destiny prepared by the Supreme God of the Family.

It depends on the Heavenly Goddess Karna in which area on our Midgard-Earth, in which of the ancient Clans of the Great Race, in what conditions and at what historical time the new incarnation of man will take place. So that a person can complete it with dignity, honor and a clear Conscience in another World.

Goddess Tara (Tarina, Taya, Tabiti)

Goddess Tara (Tarina, Taya, Tabiti)- the younger sister of God Tarkh, named Dazhdbog, daughter of the Heavenly God Perun.

Goddess Tara always sparkles with kindness, love, tenderness, care and attention. Her grace is poured out not only on Nature, but also on people.

The eternally beautiful Goddess Tara is the Heavenly Guardian of the Sacred Groves, Forests, Oak Forests and Sacred Trees of the Great Race - Oak, Cedar, Elm, Birch and Ash.

Due to the fact that the Goddess Tara, together with her older brother Tarkh Dazhdbog, protect the endless lands of Belovodye and the Holy Race, these territories are called the lands of Tarkh and Tara, i.e. Great Tartaria.

Goddess Share (Srecha)

Goddess Share (Srecha)— Heavenly Goddess of good fortune, happiness and good luck in life and creative deeds. This is the eternally beautiful, young Heavenly Weaver who spins the wonderful thread of human life.

The Goddess Dolya is a very skilled craftswoman and needlewoman. From her emerald spindle flows a smooth and strong, golden thread of a person’s life and destiny, which she holds tightly in her tender and gentle hands.

Goddess Dolya is the youngest daughter of the Heavenly Mother of God Mokosh and the younger sister of the Goddess Nedolya.

Goddess Nedolya (Nesrecha)

Goddess Nedolya (Nesrecha)— Heavenly Goddess, who endows various people and their children with an unhappy fate for violating the Laws of RITA (Heavenly Laws on the Purity of the Family and Blood) and the Blood Commandments. She is an elderly Woman who spins a special thread of human life.

From its old granite spindle flows a crooked, uneven and fragile gray thread of the life and fate of a person punished by the lesson of God. When a person completely fulfills the lesson of the Gods, Nedolya breaks the gray thread of his life, and the person, freed from an unhappy fate, goes to the World of the Ancestors, or weaves the golden thread of his younger sister into the person’s fate.

Goddess Nedolya is the most eldest daughter Heavenly Mother of God Mokosh and older sister Goddess Doli.

Goddess Lelya

Goddess Lelya— Forever young and forever beautiful Heavenly Goddess. Lelya is the guardian of eternal, mutual, pure and constant Love.

She is a caring and gentle Patron Goddess of seminal happiness, marital harmony and all kinds of well-being, not only in all Clans of the Great Race, but also in all Clans of the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

Goddess Lelya is the obedient daughter of the Supreme God Svarog and the Heavenly Mother of God Lada Mother.

She is a kind, caring and gentle wife of God Volkh, guardian of the Heavenly Halls of Volhalla. Lelya protects His peace and comfort, and the Goddess Valkyrie helps her.

In these Halls, She takes care not only of her beloved husband, but also takes upon herself the responsibility of treating the guests of Volhalla, the warriors who fell in battles and the Heavenly Gods - the Companions of her husband.

IN ancient times the people of the Great Race named one of the nearby Moons of Midgard-Earth in honor of her - Lelei.

Goddess Zarya-Zaryanitsa (Mertsana)

Goddess Zarya-Zaryanitsa (Mertsana)- Heavenly Goddess - Ruler of the dawn and Patron Goddess of a good, bountiful harvest.

This Goddess was especially revered by rural residents, for She promotes the speedy ripening of bountiful harvests and fruits, therefore, nationwide services were performed in Her honor and they asked Her for a good harvest.

In ancient times, it was believed that this blessed Heavenly Goddess-Manager had her beautiful shining Halls on the second Earth from Yarila the Sun (in the modern astronomical system this is the planet Venus), and therefore they called her in all the Clans of the Great Race the Land of Dawn - Mertsans.

Mertsana, in addition, is the Patron Goddess of falling in love in early youth. Mostly young girls who fall in love with boys at gatherings and holidays turn to Zara-Mertsane.

In the Temple of the Goddess Mertsana, the girls brought various Gifts, jewelry woven from beads and amber, beautiful bouquets of bright wild and forest flowers, in order to find out from the Priestesses of the Goddess Mertsana what kind of betrothed the Heavenly Gods would give them.

Goddess Vesta

Goddess Vesta— Heavenly Goddess-Guardian of the Ancient Wisdom of the High Gods. The younger sister of the Goddess Madder, who brings peace and Winter to Earth.

Goddess Vesta is also called the Patron of the Renewing World, the good Goddess of Spring, who controls the coming to earth of the Holy Race - Spring, and the awakening of the Nature of Midgard-Earth.

per day Spring Equinox in Her honor they organized a national celebration, pancakes were always baked, as a symbol of Yarila the Sun; Easter cakes, bagels and bagels with poppy seeds, as a symbol of the earth awakening after winter sleep; gingerbread cookies in the shape of larks and cookies with swastika symbols.

In addition, the Goddess Vesta symbolized not only the acquisition of the Ancient Wisdom of the High Gods by representatives of the Slavic and Aryan Clans, but also the receipt of pleasant, good news in each Clans of the Great Race.

Belobog

Belobog— Heavenly God-Guardian of the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. He is a generous giver of every blessing, happiness and joy to all hardworking people from the ancient Slavic and Aryan Clans. In ancient times, Belobog instructed our Many-Wise Ancestors to do creative work for the Glory and Greatness of all Clans of the Great Race. The Wise Belobog granted the good creators walking along the Golden Path of Spiritual Development the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, and they created such beautiful creations that no one could repeat during the existence of life on Midgard-Earth.

Belobog not only protected the Ancient Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, having gathered the bright Heavenly Host, from the encroachments of the evil Chernobog and his dark army, i.e. all the greedy followers of his ideas from the Worlds of Darkness, but also observed how Ancient Knowledge changes the consciousness of the inhabitants of the Border Worlds, which includes our Midgard-Earth.

Thanks to Belobog, creative people are born on the lands of the Manifest World, filling life with beauty, love, goodness and harmony, without which human life it would be gray and uncomfortable.

Chernobog

Chernobog- God, who controls the Knowledge of the material World and cold reason, simple but iron logic and exorbitant egoism. He watches how the Ancient Knowledge of the World of Arlegs spreads across other Worlds and Realities.

Chernobog fled from his World to the Dark Worlds, because he violated the Heavenly Laws established by the Supreme God Svarog. He insidiously broke the seal from the Secret Ancient Knowledge of his World, which was guarded by Belobog. And the Ancient Knowledge of the World of Arlegs sounded throughout all the lower Worlds, right down to the darkest depths of the Pekelny World. He did this in order to obtain for himself, according to the law of universal correspondence, the Ancient Knowledge of the Highest Worlds. To justify himself and his actions before the Heavenly God Svarog, Chernobog gathers his supporters throughout all lands in the Worlds of Navi and Reveal. He tries to develop in his supporters greed, permissiveness, cold reason, iron logic and exorbitant selfishness.

Chernobog in our World on Midgard-Earth first gives a person the opportunity to touch the smallest particles of the Ancient Knowledge of his World and observes how a person will behave in such a situation.

If a person who has received the Knowledge of the Higher World begins to exalt himself above others, violates human and Heavenly Laws, then Chernobog begins to fulfill all his base desires.

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The ancient Slavic pantheon is very complex in its structure and numerous in composition. Most gods were identified with various forces of nature, although there were exceptions, the most striking example of which is Rod, the creator god. Due to the similarity of functions and properties of some gods, it is difficult to determine for sure which names are just variations of the names of the same god, and which belong to different gods.
The entire pantheon can be divided into two large circles: the elder gods who ruled all three worlds in the primordial stage, and the second circle - the young gods who took the reins of power in the new stage. At the same time, some elder gods are present in the new stage, while others disappear (more precisely, there are no descriptions of their activities or interference in anything, but the memory that they existed remains).

In the Slavic pantheon there was no clear hierarchy of power, which was replaced by a clan hierarchy, where sons were subordinate to their father, but brothers were equal to each other. The Slavs did not have clearly defined evil gods and good gods. Some deities gave life, others took it, but all were revered equally, since the Slavs believed that the existence of one without the other was impossible. At the same time, gods who were good in their functions could punish and cause harm, while evil ones, on the contrary, could help and save people. Thus, the gods of the ancient Slavs were very similar to people not only in appearance, but also in character, since they simultaneously carried within themselves both good and evil.

Outwardly, the gods looked like people, and most of them could turn into animals, in the form of which they usually appeared to people. The gods were distinguished from ordinary beings by their superpowers, which allowed the deities to change the world around them. Each of the gods had power over one of the parts of this world. The effects on other parts not subject to the deities were limited and temporary.

Genus

The most ancient supreme male deity among the Slavs was Rod. Already in Christian teachings against paganism in the 12th-13th centuries. they write about Rod as a god who was worshiped by all peoples.
Rod was the god of the sky, thunderstorms, and fertility. They said about him that he rides on a cloud, throws rain on the ground, and from this children are born. He was the ruler of the earth and all living things, and was a pagan creator god.
In Slavic languages, the root “rod” means kinship, birth, water (spring), profit (harvest), concepts such as people and homeland, in addition, it means the color red and lightning, especially ball lightning, called “rhodia”. This variety of cognate words undoubtedly proves the greatness of the pagan god.
Rod is a creator god, together with his sons Belbog and Chernobog he created this world. Alone, Rod created Prav, Yav and Nav in the sea of ​​chaos, and together with his sons he created the earth.

The sun then came out from His face. The bright moon is from His chest. The frequent stars are from His eyes. The clear dawns are from His eyebrows. Dark nights - yes from His thoughts. Violent winds - from the breath...
"The Book of Kolyada"
The Slavs had no idea about Rod’s appearance, since he never appeared directly in front of people.
Temples in honor of the deity were built on hills or simply large open areas of land. His idol was phallic in shape or simply shaped like a pillar painted red. Sometimes the role of an idol was played by an ordinary tree growing on a hill, especially if it was quite ancient. In general, the Slavs believed that Rod is in everything and therefore can be worshiped anywhere. There were no sacrifices in honor of Rod. Instead, holidays and feasts are organized, which are held directly near the idol.

Belbog

Son of Rod, god of light, goodness and justice. In Slavic mythology, he is the creator of the world along with Rod and Chernobog. Outwardly, Belbog appeared as a gray-haired old man dressed like a sorcerer.
Belobog in the mythology of our ancestors never acted as an independent individual character. Just as any object in the world of reality has a shadow, so Belobog has its integral antipode - Chernobog. A similar analogy can be found in ancient Chinese philosophy (yin and yang), in the Ynglism of the Icelanders (Yuj rune) and in many other cultural and religious systems. Belobog, thus, becomes the embodiment of bright human ideals: goodness, honor and justice.

A sanctuary in honor of Belbog was built on the hills, with the idol facing east, towards the sunrise. However, Belbog was revered not only in the sanctuary of the deity, but also at feasts, always making a toast in his honor.

Veles

One of the greatest gods of the ancient world, son of Rod, brother of Svarog. His main act was that Veles set the world created by Rod and Svarog into motion. Veles - “cattle god” - master of the wild, master of Navi, powerful wizard and werewolf, interpreter of laws, teacher of the arts, patron of travelers and merchants, god of luck. True, some sources point to him as the god of death...
At the moment, among various pagan and Rodnoverie movements, a fairly popular text is Veles’s book, which became known to the general public in the 1950s of the last century thanks to the researcher and writer Yuri Mirolyubov. The Veles book actually consists of 35 birch tablets, dotted with symbols, which linguists (in particular, A. Kur and S. Lesnoy) call Slavic pre-Cyrillic writing. It is curious that the original text really does not resemble either the Cyrillic or Glagolitic alphabet, but the features of the Slavic runitsa are presented in it indirectly.
Despite the wide spread and mass veneration of this god, Veles was always separated from the other gods; his idols were never placed in common temples (sacred places in which images of the main gods of this territory were installed).

Dazhdbog

God of the Sun, giver of heat and light, god of fertility and life-giving force. The symbol of Dazhdbog was originally considered to be the solar disk. Its color is gold, speaking of the nobility of this god and his unshakable strength. In general, our ancestors had three main solar deities - Khors, Yarila and Dazhdbog. But Khors was the winter sun, Yarilo was the spring sun, and Dazhdbog was the summer sun. Of course, it was Dazhdbog who deserved special respect, since a lot depended on the summer position of the sun in the firmament for the ancient Slavs, a people of farmers. At the same time, Dazhdbog was never distinguished by a tough disposition, and if a drought suddenly attacked, then our ancestors never blamed this god.
The temples of Dazhdbog were located on the hills. The idol was made of wood and placed facing east or southeast. Feathers from ducks, swans and geese, as well as honey, nuts and apples were brought as gifts to the deity.

Devana

Devana is the goddess of hunting, wife of the forest god Svyatobor and daughter of Perun. The Slavs represented the goddess in the form of a beautiful girl dressed in an elegant marten fur coat trimmed with squirrel. The beauty wore a bear skin over her fur coat, and the head of the animal served as her hat. Perun's daughter carried with her an excellent bow and arrows, a sharp knife and a spear, the kind used to kill a bear.

The beautiful goddess not only hunted forest animals: she herself taught them how to avoid dangers and endure harsh winters.

Dewana was first of all revered by hunters and trappers; they prayed to the goddess to grant good luck in the hunt, and in gratitude they brought part of their prey to her sanctuary. It was believed that it was she who helped to find the secret paths of animals in the dense forest, to avoid clashes with wolves and bears, and, if the meeting did take place, to help the person emerge victorious.

Share and Nedolya

Share is a good goddess, Mokosh’s assistant, weaving a happy destiny.
He appears in the guise of a sweet young man or a red-haired maiden with golden curls and a cheerful smile. He cannot stand still, he walks around the world - there are no barriers: swamp, river, forest, mountains - Fate will instantly overcome.
Doesn't like lazy people, careless people, drunks and all sorts of bad people. Although at first he makes friends with everyone, then he will figure it out and leave the bad, evil person.
NEDOLYA (Need, Need) - the goddess, Mokosh’s assistant, weaves an unhappy fate.
Dolya and Nedolya are not just personifications of abstract concepts that do not have objective existence, but on the contrary, they are living persons identical to the maidens of fate.
They act according to their own calculations, regardless of the will and intentions of a person: a happy person does not work at all and lives in contentment, because Share works for him. On the contrary, Nedolya’s activities are constantly aimed at harming people. While she is awake, misfortune follows misfortune, and only then does it become easier for the unfortunate man when Nedolya falls asleep: “If Likho is sleeping, don’t wake him.”

Dogoda

Dogoda (Weather) - the god of beautiful weather and a gentle, pleasant breeze. Young, ruddy, fair-haired, wearing a cornflower blue wreath with blue butterfly wings gilded at the edges, in silver-shiny bluish clothes, holding a thorn in his hand and smiling at the flowers.

Kolyada

Kolyada is the baby sun, in Slavic mythology the embodiment of the New Year's cycle, as well as a holiday character similar to Avsen.
Kolyada was celebrated on winter holidays from December 25 (the turn of the sun to spring) to January 6.
“Once upon a time, Kolyada was not perceived as a mummer. Kolyada was a deity, and one of the most influential. They called carols and called. The days before the New Year were dedicated to Kolyada, and games were organized in her honor, which were subsequently held at Christmas time. The last patriarchal ban on the worship of Kolyada was issued on December 24, 1684. It is believed that Kolyada was recognized by the Slavs as the deity of fun, which is why he was called upon and called upon by merry bands of youth during New Year’s festivities” (A. Strizhev. “People's Calendar”).

Kryshen

The son of the Almighty and the goddess Maya, he was the brother of the very first creator of the world, Rod, although he was much younger than him. He returned fire to people, fought on the shores of the Arctic Ocean with Chernobog and defeated him.

KUPALO

Kupala (Kupaila) is the fruitful deity of summer, the summer hypostasis of the Sun god.
“Kupalo, as I remember, was the god of abundance, like the Hellenic Ceres, to whom the madman offered thanks for the abundance to the Shah at that time, when the harvest was about to arrive.”
His holiday is dedicated to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. The night before this day was also sacred - the Night before Kupalo. Feasting, merrymaking and mass swimming in ponds continued all that night.
They sacrificed to him before collecting bread, on June 23, St. Agrippina, who was popularly nicknamed the Bathing Suit. Young people decorated themselves with wreaths, lit a fire, danced around it and sang Kupala. The games continued all night. In some places, on June 23, bathhouses were heated, they were covered with grass for a bathhouse (buttercup), and then they swam in the river.
On the very Nativity of John the Baptist, weaving wreaths, they hung them on the roofs of houses and on barns to remove evil spirits from the home.

Lada

LADA (Freya, Preya, Siv or Zif) - the goddess of youth and spring, beauty and fertility, an all-generous mother, patroness of love and marriages.
In folk songs, “lado” still means a dearly beloved friend, lover, groom, husband.
Freya's outfit shines with the dazzling brilliance of the sun's rays, her beauty is charming, and the drops of morning dew are called her tears; on the other hand, she acts as a warlike heroine, rushing through the heavens in storms and thunderstorms and driving away rain clouds. In addition, she is a goddess, in whose retinue the shadows of the deceased march into the afterlife. The cloud fabric is precisely the veil on which the soul, after the death of a person, ascends to the kingdom of the blessed.
According to popular poems, angels, appearing for a righteous soul, take it on a shroud and carry it to heaven. The cult of Freya-Siwa explains the superstitious respect that Russian commoners have for Friday, as a day dedicated to this goddess. Anyone who starts a business on Friday will, as the proverb goes, back off.
Among the ancient Slavs, the birch tree, which personified the goddess Lada, was considered a sacred tree.

Ice

Ice - the Slavs prayed to this deity for success in battles; he was revered as the ruler of military actions and bloodshed. This ferocious deity was depicted as a terrible warrior, armed with Slavic armor, or full armor. A sword at the hip, a spear and a shield in the hand.
He had his own temples. When preparing to go on a campaign against enemies, the Slavs prayed to him, asking for help and promising abundant sacrifices if they were successful in military operations.

Lel

Lel is the god of love passion in the mythology of the ancient Slavs, the son of the goddess of beauty and love Lada. The word “cherish” still reminds us of Lela - this cheerful, frivolous god of passion - that is, undead, love. He is the son of the goddess of beauty and love Lada, and beauty naturally gives birth to passion. This feeling flared up especially brightly in the spring and on Kupala night. Lel was depicted as a golden-haired, winged baby, like his mother: after all, love is free and elusive. Lel threw sparks from his hands: after all, passion is fiery, hot love! In Slavic mythology, Lel is the same god as the Greek Eros or Roman Cupid. Only the ancient gods hit the hearts of people with arrows, and Lel kindled them with his fierce flame.
The stork (heron) was considered his sacred bird. Another name for this bird in some Slavic languages ​​is leleka. In connection with Lelem, both cranes and larks were revered - symbols of spring.

Makosh

One of the main goddesses of the Eastern Slavs, the wife of the thunderer Perun.
Her name is made up of two parts: “ma” - mother and “kosh” - purse, basket, shed. Makosh is the mother of filled koshes, the mother of a good harvest.
This is not a goddess of fertility, but a goddess of the results of the economic year, a goddess of the harvest, and a giver of blessings. The harvest is determined by lot, fate, every year, so she was also revered as the goddess of fate. A mandatory attribute when depicting her is a cornucopia.
This goddess connected the abstract concept of fate with the concrete concept of abundance, patronized the household, sheared sheep, spun, and punished the careless. The specific concept of “spinner” was associated with the metaphorical one: “spinning of fate.”
Makosh patronized marriage and family happiness. She was represented as a woman with a large head and long arms, spinning at night in a hut: superstitions forbid leaving the tow, “otherwise Makosha will spin it.”

Moraine

Morena (Marana, Morana, Mara, Maruha, Marmara) - the goddess of death, winter and night.
Mara is the goddess of death, daughter of Lada. Outwardly, Mara looks like a tall, beautiful girl with black hair in red clothes. Mara cannot be called either an evil or a good goddess. On the one hand, it gives death, but at the same time it also gives life.

One of Mara’s favorite pastimes is needlework: she loves to spin and weave. At the same time, like the Greek Moira, he uses the threads of fate of living beings for needlework, leading them to turning points in life, and, ultimately, cutting off the thread of existence.

Mara sends her messengers all over the world, who appear to people in the guise of a woman with long black hair or in the guise of doubles of people who are destined for warning, and foretell imminent death.

No permanent places of worship were erected in the part of Mara; honors could be paid to her anywhere. To do this, an image of the goddess, carved from wood or made from straw, was installed on the ground, and the area was surrounded by stones. Directly in front of the idol, a larger stone or wooden plank was installed, which served as an altar. After the ceremony, all this was dismantled, and the image of Mary was burned or thrown into the river.

Mara was revered on February 15, and flowers, straw and various fruits were brought as gifts to the goddess of death. Sometimes, during years of severe epidemics, animals were sacrificed, bleeding them directly at the altar.
Welcoming spring with a solemn holiday, the Slavs performed a ritual of expelling Death or Winter and threw an effigy of Morana into the water. As a representative of winter, Morana is defeated by the spring Perun, who strikes her with his blacksmith's hammer and casts her into an underground dungeon for the entire summer.
In accordance with the identification of Death with thunder spirits, ancient belief forced these latter to fulfill its sad duty. But since the thunderer and his companions were also the organizers of the heavenly kingdom, the concept of Death became twofold, and fantasy portrayed it either as an evil creature, dragging souls into the underworld, or as a messenger of the supreme deity, accompanying the souls of deceased heroes to his heavenly palace.
Diseases were considered by our ancestors as companions and assistants of Death.

Perun

The Thunder God, a victorious, punishing deity, whose appearance excites fear and awe. Perun, in Slavic mythology, the most famous of the Svarozhich brothers. He is the god of storm clouds, thunder and lightning.
He is presented as stately, tall, with black hair and a long golden beard. Seated on a flaming chariot, he rides across the sky, armed with a bow and arrow, and slays the wicked.
According to Nestor, the wooden idol of Perun, placed in Kyiv, had a golden mustache on its silver head. Over time, Perun became the patron of the prince and his squad.
Temples in honor of Perun were always built on hills, and the highest place in the area was chosen. Idols were made mainly of oak - this mighty tree was a symbol of Perun. Sometimes there were places of worship of Perun, arranged around an oak tree growing on a hill; it was believed that this was how Perun himself designated the best place. In such places no additional idols were placed, and the oak tree, located on a hill, was revered as an idol.

Radegast

Radegast (Redigost, Radigast) is a lightning god, a killer and eater of clouds, and at the same time a luminous guest who appears with the return of spring. Earthly fire was recognized as the son of Heaven, brought down as a gift to mortals, by fast-flying lightning, and therefore the idea of ​​an honored divine guest, a stranger from heaven to earth, was also connected with it.
Russian villagers honored him with the guest's name. At the same time, he received the character of a guardian god for every foreigner (guest) who came to someone else’s house and surrendered under the protection of local penates (i.e., hearth), the patron god of merchants who came from distant countries and trade in general.
The Slavic Radigost was depicted with the head of a buffalo on his chest.

Svarog

Svarog is the creator god of earth and heaven. Svarog is the source of fire and its ruler. He creates not with words, not with magic, unlike Veles, but with his hands, he creates the material world. He gave people the Sun-Ra and fire. Svarog threw a plow and a yoke from the sky to the ground in order to cultivate the land; a battle ax to protect this land from enemies, and a bowl for preparing a sacred drink in it.
Like Rod, Svarog is a creator god, he continued the formation of this world, changing its original state, improving and expanding. However, Svarog’s favorite pastime is blacksmithing.

Temples in honor of Svarog were built on hills overgrown with trees or shrubs. The center of the hill was cleared to the ground and a fire was lit in this place; no additional idols were installed in the temple.

Svyatobor

Svyatobor is the god of the forest. Outwardly, he looks like an aged hero, representing an old man of strong build, with a thick beard and dressed in animal skins
Svyatobor fiercely guards the forests and mercilessly punishes those who harm them; in some cases, the punishment can even be death or eternal imprisonment in the forest in the guise of an animal or a tree.

Svyatobor is married to the goddess of hunting Devan.

Temples in honor of Svyatobor were not built; their role was played by groves, forests and forests, which were recognized as sacred and in which neither deforestation nor hunting was carried out.

Semargl

One of the Svarozhichs was the god of fire - Semargl, who is sometimes mistakenly considered only a heavenly dog, the guardian of seeds for sowing. This (storing seeds) was constantly carried out by a much smaller deity - Pereplut.
The ancient books of the Slavs tell how Semargl was born. Svarog hit the Alatyr stone with a magic hammer, struck divine sparks from it, which flared up, and the fiery god Semargl became visible in their flames. He sat on a golden-maned horse of silver color. Thick smoke became his banner. Where Semargl passed, a scorched trail remained. Such was his strength, but more often than not he looked quiet and peaceful.
Semargl, God of fire and the Moon, fire sacrifices, home and hearth, stores seeds and crops. Can turn into a sacred winged dog.
The name of the God of Fire is not known for certain; most likely, his name is so sacred. Of course, this God does not live somewhere in seventh heaven, but directly among people! They try to pronounce his name out loud less often, replacing it with allegories. The Slavs associate the emergence of people with Fire. According to some legends, the Gods created a Man and a Woman from two sticks, between which a Fire flared up - the very first flame of love. Semargl does not allow evil into the world. At night he stands guard with a fiery sword and only one day a year does Semargl leave his post, responding to the call of the Bathing Lady, who calls him to love games on the day of the Autumn Equinox. And on the day of the Summer Solstice, 9 months later, children are born to Semargl and Kupalnitsa - Kostroma and Kupalo.

Stribog

In East Slavic mythology, the god of the wind. He can summon and tame a storm and can turn into his assistant, the mythical bird Stratim. In general, the wind was usually represented in the form of a gray-haired old man living at the edge of the world, in a dense forest or on an island in the middle of the ocean.
Stribog's temples were built on the banks of rivers or seas; they are especially often found at river mouths. The temples in his honor were not fenced off from the surrounding territory in any way and were designated only by an idol made of wood, which was installed facing north. A large stone was also placed in front of the idol, which served as an altar.

Triglav

In ancient Slavic mythology, this is the unity of the three main essences-hypostases of the gods: Svarog (creation), Perun (law of Rule) and Svyatovit (light)
According to different mythological traditions, Triglav included different gods. In Novgorod of the 9th century, the Great Triglav consisted of Svarog, Perun and Sventovit, and earlier (before the Western Slavs moved to the Novgorod lands) - of Svarog, Perun and Veles. In Kyiv, apparently, from Perun, Dazhbog and Stribog.
The Lesser Triglavs were composed of gods lower on the hierarchical ladder.

Horse

Horse (Korsha, Kore, Korsh) is the ancient Russian deity of the sun and solar disk. It is best known among the southeastern Slavs, where the sun simply reigns over the rest of the world. Horse, in Slavic mythology, the god of the Sun, guardian of the luminary, son of Rod, brother of Veles. Not all gods were common among the Slavs and Rus. For example, before the Russians came to the banks of the Dnieper, Horses were not known here. Only Prince Vladimir installed his image next to Perun. But it was known among other Aryan peoples: among the Iranians, Persians, Zoroastrians, where they worshiped the god of the rising sun - Khorset. This word also had a broader meaning - “radiance”, “brilliance”, as well as “glory”, “greatness”, sometimes “royal dignity” and even “khvarna” - special marking by the gods, chosenness.
Temples in honor of Khors were built on small hills in the middle of meadows or small groves. The idol was made of wood and installed on the eastern slope of the hill. And as an offering, a special pie “horoshul” or “kurnik” was used, which crumbled around the idol. But to a greater extent, dances (round dances) and songs were used to honor the Horse.

Chernobog

God of cold, destruction, death, evil; the god of madness and the embodiment of everything bad and black. It is believed that Chernobog is the prototype of the immortal Kashchei from fairy tales. Kashchei is a cult character of Slavic mythology, whose folklore image is extremely far from the original one. Kashchei Chernobogvich was the youngest son of Chernobog, the great Serpent of Darkness. His older brothers - Goryn and Viy - feared and respected Kashchei for his great wisdom and equally great hatred of his father's enemies - the Irian gods. Kashchei owned the deepest and darkest kingdom of Navi - the Koshcheev kingdom,
Chernobog is the ruler of Navi, the god of time, the son of Rod. In Slavic mythology, he is the creator of the world along with Rod and Belbog. Outwardly, he appeared in two forms: in the first, he looked like a hunched, thin old man with a long beard, a silver mustache and a crooked stick in his hands; in the second he was depicted as a middle-aged man of thin build, dressed in black clothes, but, again, with a silver mustache.

Chernobog is armed with a sword, which he wields masterfully. Although he is able to instantly appear at any point in Navi, he prefers to move on horseback on a fiery stallion.
After the creation of the world, Chernobog received Nav, the world of the dead, under his protection, in which he is both a ruler and a prisoner, since, despite all his strength, he is not able to leave its borders. The deity does not release from Navi the souls of people who ended up there for their sins, but the sphere of its influence is not limited to Navi alone. Chernobog managed to bypass the restrictions imposed on him and created Koshchei, who is the incarnation of the ruler of Navi in ​​Reality, while the power of God in another world is significantly less than the real one, but still allowed him to spread his influence to Reality, and only in Rule does Chernobog never appear.

Temples in honor of Chernobog were made of dark stones, the wooden idol was completely covered with iron, except for the head, on which only the mustache was trimmed with metal.

Yarilo

Yarilo is the god of spring and sunlight. Outwardly, Yarilo looks like a young man with red hair, dressed in white clothes with a flower wreath on his head. This god moves around the world riding a white horse.

Temples in honor of Yarila were built on the top of hills covered with trees. The tops of the hills were cleared of vegetation and an idol was erected in this place, in front of which a large white stone was placed, which could sometimes be located at the foot of the hill. Unlike most other gods, there were no sacrifices in honor of the god of spring. Usually the deity was worshiped with songs and dances at the temple. At the same time, one of the participants in the action was certainly dressed up as Yarila, after which he became the center of the entire celebration. Sometimes special figurines in the image of people were made, they were brought to the temple, and then smashed against a white stone installed there; it is believed that this brings the blessing of Yarila, from which the harvest will be larger and sexual energy will be higher.

A little about the world order of the Slavs

The center of the world for the ancient Slavs was the World Tree (World Tree, Tree of the World). It is the central axis of the entire universe, including the Earth, and connects the World of People with the World of the Gods and the Underworld. Accordingly, the crown of the tree reaches the World of the Gods in heaven - Iriy or Svarga, the roots of the tree go underground and connect the World of the Gods and the World of people with the underground World or the world of the Dead, ruled by Chernobog, Madder and other “dark” Gods. Somewhere in the heights, behind the clouds (heavenly abysses; above the seventh heaven), the crown of a spreading tree forms an island, and here is Iriy (Slavic paradise), where not only the Gods and ancestors of people live, but also the ancestors of all birds and animals. Thus, the Tree of the World was fundamental in the worldview of the Slavs, its main component. At the same time, it is also a staircase, a road along which you can get to any of the worlds. In Slavic folklore, the Tree of the World is called differently. It can be oak, sycamore, willow, linden, viburnum, cherry, apple or pine.

In the ideas of the ancient Slavs, the World Tree is located on the Buyan island on the Alatyr-stone, which is also the center of the universe (the center of the Earth). Judging by some legends, light Gods live on its branches, and dark Gods live in its roots. The image of this tree has come down to us, both in the form of various fairy tales, legends, epics, conspiracies, songs, riddles, and in the form of ritual embroidery on clothes, patterns, ceramic decorations, painting of dishes, chests, etc. Here is an example of how the Tree of the World is described in one of the Slavic folk tales that existed in Rus' and tells about the capture of a horse by a hero-hero: “... there is a copper pillar, and a horse is tied to it, there are pure stars on the sides, a moon is shining on the tail , in the forehead there is a red sun...". This horse is a mythological symbol of the entire universe

Of course, one post cannot cover all the gods that our ancestors worshiped. Different branches of the Slavs called the same gods differently, and they also had their own “local” deities.