Slavic
Eastern Europe and the Baltic coast, before Christianisation (9th-12th centuries).
This is the hardest pantheon to map honestly. Slavic peoples left no written myths before Christianity. We have a few outside or hostile chroniclers, archaeology, place names and folklore collected centuries later. Genealogies and myths such as 'Perun against Veles' are modern reconstructions, and this section marks which claims are attested and which are inferred.
Family graph
Parent lines run downward, partners are joined by a thicker line. Select a deity to trace its ancestry.
The deities
Svarogsky or fire (disputed)Dazhbogsun (as 'the sun, son of Svarog'), wealthPerunthunder, lightning, oakVeles / Voloscattle, wealth, the underworld (inferred)Mokoshwomen's work, fate (inferred)Stribogwind (disputed)Khorssun or moon (uncertain)SimargluncertainSvantevitwar, fertility, divinationChernobogbad fortune (attested only by Helmold)Marzanna / Moranawinter, death (in folk custom)
Today
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) is a modern movement, a few hundred thousand adherents at most, built from folklore and fragmentary sources. It is not a continuous tradition.
More traditions
Sources used
- Primary Chronicle (Povest vremennykh let), entry for 980: Vladimir sets up idols at Kyiv
- Procopius, History of the Wars (6th century): the Slavs worship the god of lightning
- Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (c. 1170)
- Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum (c. 1200): the temple at Arkona
- Hypatian Codex (13th-century gloss on Malalas, where Svarog and Dazhbog appear)