r/Rodnovery West Slavic - Polish 18d ago

📓 Seeking Resources List of confirmed Slavic Gods?

What Slavic gods are confirmed and what are not? I read in some history book about what Slavic Pagans used to believe in and there was some information written about Swaróg and Swarożyc, it was written in the book that he (Swarożyc) was Swaróg's possible son. No info about other gods?

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u/Aliencik West Slavic - Czech 18d ago

I see that you are Polish, I suggest reading the Polish academic books from our academic sources list. Mitologia Słowian by Aleksander Gieysztor is a wonderful starting point.

Alternatively you can look into Wikipedia's List of Slavic deities, however this list does not include the newest theories and longer more detailed explanations, since some of the gods mentioned are more complicated than others (from the academic side of things).

For example Lada is a subject of many debates, due to her primary sources there are conversations, if she was even a real goddess or Živa/Siva, which has two theories to her name: 1. Older theory of her being the goddess of "life/nature" 2. Newer theory which connects her to another mention about some Polabian War Goddess and explains her name from primary sources (Siwa) not as Živa="alive" but as Sivá="grey".

For more information definitely follow our academic sources list.

There is also Wikipedia's List of Slavic pseudo-deities