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Chernobog (also spelled Crnobog, Czernobog, Černobog or Zernebog, each name meaning Black God) is a mysterious Slavic deity of whom much has been speculated but little can be said. It is indicated he was a dark and cursed god, but it is questionable how important he really was to ancient Slavs. The name is attested only among West Slavic tribes of the 12th century, hence it is speculated that he was not a very important or very old deity. Slavic mythology and Slavic religion evolved over more than 3,000 years. ...
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking West Slavic languages. ...
(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
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The only historic source on Slavic paganism mentioning this god is the 12th-century Chronica Slavorum, a work written by German priest Helmold which describes customs and beliefs of several Wendish and Polabian tribes who were at that time still resisting the growing pressure of Christianization. Helmold wrote that: The Slavs, they say, have one peculiar custom: during feasts, they pass a goblet amongst them in circle, for purpose not to praise, but rather to curse in the names of gods, good and evil, for every good thing praising a good god, and for every bad thing cursing an evil god. This god of woe in their language is called Diabolous or Zherneboh, meaning black god. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
Chronicon Slavorum (Chronica Slavorum) is a historical record attributed to Helmold. ...
Helmold, (ca. ...
This article or section should be merged with List of Sorbian languages The Sorbian languages are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany. ...
The Polabian language was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. ...
It should be noted that this excerpt is more likely Helmold's own interpretation than an accurate description of Slavic customs and beliefs. Helmold, being a German and Christian priest, did not know the language of the Slavs, did not have first-hand information from Slavs themselves, and was probably not too interested in studying foreign pagan beliefs. Likewise, it is difficult to determine whether Crnobog was a separate god or just another epithet of some other deity. Veselin Čajkanović, for instance, theorised that Crnobog was another name for a dark, chthonic aspect of Dazhbog. Veselin ÄŒajkanović Serbian Cyrillic ВеÑелин Чајкановић (1881 - 1946) - Serbian classical scholar, historian of religion, interpreter from Greek and Latin. ...
Also Dajbog, Dabog, Dazhbog, Dazsbog, Cyrillic Дажбог; from dazh, the Slavic epithet for Sun (The Giver) and bog (god). ...
Folklore A veneration of this deity perhaps survived in folklore of several Slavic nations. In some South Slavic vernaculars, there exists an interesting phrase do zla boga (meaning "to [the] evil god," or perhaps "to [the] evil [of] God," which may denote ownership rather than some dark attribute), used as an attribute to express something which is exceedingly negative. No-one is really aware of the literal meaning of these words anymore; exclamations such as Ovo je do zla boga dosadno!, To je do zla boga glupo! can be safely translated as "This is devilishly boring!", "That is immensely stupid!" without any actual loss in meaning. The word Bog ("God"), however, in all Slavic languages today is used as personal name of the Christian God, who, according to Christian beliefs, is not evil; thus, the expression zli bog, "evil god", could be a relic from pagan antiquity. If we assume that Crnobog indeed was an evil and dark god of the ancient Slavs (or perhaps merely an evil aspect of some other deity), we may conjecture this expression was some ancient curse invoking him. Countries inhabited by South Slavs (in black) Distribution of Slavic peoples by language The South Slavs are a southern branch of the Slavic peoples that live in the Balkans, the southern Pannonian Plain and the eastern Alps. ...
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