Also Dajbog, Dabog, Dazhbog, Dazsbog, CyrillicДажбог; from dazh, the Slavicepithet for Sun (The Giver) and bog (god).
In Slavic mythology, Dazbog is the sun god. He lives in the Palace of the East, the land of eternal summer and plenty. Each morning he emerged from the arms of The Zorya to ride his chariot drawn by three horses: one is gold, one is silver, and one is diamond. In Russian lore, he is said to begin the day as an infant and die an old man at the end of the daylight. He is the son of Svarog.
In February 2142, the EU formed The Mediterranean Wall, a line of defenses along the North African coast from Morocco to Egypt.
Meanwhile, the PAC was drawing up a series of deception plans under the codenames Kupalo, Dazhbog and Perun.
These exercises were designed to preoccupy and divide the EU forces in preparation for the PACs primary mission, Operation Motherland, a comprehensive, multi-pronged assault on the African continent.
Dazhbog seems to have been one of the various manifestations of the Indo-European god of the "shining sky" or "heavenly light." In the Kievan pantheon his name appears next to that of Khors, another sun deity (cf.
Dazhbog is possibly an analogue of the northwestern Slavic deity Svarozhich (Svarožiči, Zuariscici; "son of Svarog";), who was worshiped in the temple at Radigast (Rethra), near Feldberg, in present-day northern Germany.
In Serbian folk beliefs, Dabog (i.e., Dazhbog) is an adversary of the Christian God: "Dabog is tsar on earth, and the Lord God is in heaven." Dabog is also known as x0022;the silver tsar"; in mining areas as Dajboi, a demon; and as Daba or Dabo, the devil.