Reading Time: < 1 minute Devana or Dziewanna is the Slavic goddess of the wild nature, forests and the hunt. She is the Slavic equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana, and Greek Artemis mentioned by 15th century Polish historian Jan…
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Chernobog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chernobog (from Proto-Slavic *čĭrnŭ ‘black’ and *bogŭ “god”) – also spelled as Chernevog, Czernobog, Chornoboh, Crnobog, Tchernobog and Zcerneboch among many other variants – is a Slavic deity whose name means “black god”, about whom…
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Radegast (god)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Radegast, also Radagast, Radigost, Redigast, Riedegost or Radogost is an old god of Slavic mythology. Since the name can easily be etymologised and translated as “dear guest” or “welcomed guest”, Radegast was proclaimed as the…
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Belobog
Reading Time: 5 minutes Belobog (White God) is a reconstructed Slavic deity of light and Sun, the counterpart of dark and cursed Chernobog (Black God). It is uncertain whether such a deity was ever worshipped by polytheist Slavs, as…
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Baba Yaga
Reading Time: 7 minutes In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga (Russian: Баба Яга) is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking woman. In Russian fairytales Baba…
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Rusalka
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Slavic folklore, the rusalka (plural rusalki) (Russian: руса́лка, romanized: rusálka; Polish: rusałka) is a female entity, often malicious toward mankind and frequently associated with water. Folklorists have proposed a variety of origins for the…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Drekavac (Cyrillic: дрекавац, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [drɛkaʋats], literally “the screamer” or “the yeller”), also called drekalo, krekavac, zdrekavac or zrikavac, is a mythical creature in South Slavic mythology. The name is derived from the adjective “drečati”‘
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