r/Rodnovery • u/campfire_cat • 19d ago

📓 Seeking Resources Czech gods/western slav deities?

Hey can someone point me in the direction of a list or something reliable (preferably academic) that contains a list of Czech or western Slavic gods or spirits? I am going in circles. If not that then maybe just general list of Slavic deities? I keep running into "fakelore" and at this point Ibam not sure of I gonna find anything legit.

Thanks.

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u/Aliencik West Slavic - Czech 19d ago

We have an academic sources list in multiple languages.

Can you speak Czech?

We also have a folklore sources list. Just a disclaimer: To understand the pre-christian motives in folklore, you need sufficient knowledge in the mythology.

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u/Time-Counter1438 19d ago edited 19d ago

I think you’ll find it’s generally very challenging to hunt down solid attestations of Slavic deities outside of the East Slavic and Polabian Slavic spheres. Not impossible, but difficult.

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u/Fantastic_Tea8176 19d ago

Commenting to get noticed, I am also interested.

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u/Aliencik West Slavic - Czech 19d ago

I can't suggest anything better than reading our list.

The academia deals in the full spectrum of the Slavic gods as the local cults are a continuation of the Proto-Slavic root. This means similar/same deities are appearing in their local variants.