Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Lada — the Slavic goddess of love, beauty, marriage, harmony, and spring, a bright beloved goddess of love's joy and the renewal of the world, often
Rod — the primordial creator-god of the Slavs, the supreme all-generating source of all being, god of birth, kinship, and fate, from whom all gods and
Belobog (“the White God”) — the bright Slavic deity of light, goodness, and good fortune, the opposite and balance of the dark “Black God” Chernobog. The
Chernobog (“the Black God”) — the dark Slavic deity of misfortune, evil, and the night, opposed to the bright “White God” Belobog in a cosmic dualism. The
Stribog — the Slavic god of the winds and the air, lord of the winds whose “grandsons” blow from the sea bringing both fair breezes and destroying storms.
Mokosh — the great mother-goddess of the Slavs and only goddess of the Kievan pantheon, goddess of the earth, water, fertility, spinning, weaving, and
Dazhbog — the Slavic sun-god and “giving god,” radiant deity of the sun, light, and prosperity, son of Svarog, who crosses the sky in a fiery chariot and
Svarog — the Slavic god of the sky, fire, and the forge, a creator and divine smith who forged the sun and gave fire and metalworking to humankind, father
Veles (Volos) — the great Slavic god of the underworld, waters, cattle, wealth, magic, and the dead, the serpentine adversary of the thunder-god Perun.
Perun — the supreme thunder-god and sky-father of the Slavic pantheon, lord of lightning, war, and the oak, who hurls his thunder-axe at the underworld