Cult of Gods

Dazhbog

Slavic tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
sun (as 'the sun, son of Svarog'), wealth
Parents (per the sources used)
Svarog
Ivan Bilibin, Baba Yaga, an illustration for a Russian fairy tale (1900s).
Ivan Bilibin, Baba Yaga, an illustration for a Russian fairy tale (1900s).

Key myth

One of the idols placed by Vladimir at Kyiv in 980. 'Dazhbog' is glossed as 'the Sun' and in the Igor Tale Russians are 'Dazhbog's grandchildren'.

Primary sources

  • Primary Chronicle (980)
  • Tale of Igor's Campaign

All sources for the Slavic pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Svarog.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

SvarogDazhbogPerunVeles / VolosMokoshStribogKhorsSimarglSvantevitChernobogMarzanna / Morana

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Dazhbog: the sun and light. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Atum

creator, the completed one

Egyptian

Ra

sun, kingship, order

Hindu

Agni

fire, the sacrifice, messenger of the gods

Celtic (Irish)

Lugh

skill in all arts, kingship, the sun (in later readings)

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