Svarog (Old Church Slavonic: Сваро́гъ, Russian: Сварог, Polish: Swaróg) is a Slavic deity known primarily from the Hypatian Codex, a Slavic translation of the Chronicle of John Malalas. On the basis of this text, some researchers conclude that Svarog is the Slavic god of celestial fire and of blacksmithing.
Svarog can be compared to the Greek God Hephaestus. He is the father of Dažbog, a Slavic solar deity.
Myths & Legends[]
Since His cult was very strong among all Slavic tribes, it's not known if He was Chief God of all Slavs.
Creation Myth[]
He is a god that is still asleep, and that his awakening would mark the end of the world.
in the beginning, there was nothing except God. He slept and dreamed, seemingly into infinity. But it is decided that someday, He will wake up...
However, in his dream, he began creation. He forged the Sun on Alatyr stone and gave it to his son Dažbog. And from the sparks, he created all other Gods and gave them their purpose that we know today. He rules over Prav - one of three realms that is known as realm of Gods and spirits of dead.
Rod creates Lada then, together with her, he created the powerful god Svarog. Breathing life into him, Svarog became the loyal helper of the creator Rod: he paved the path of the sun across the sky and the path of the moon in the night sky.
How Chernobog wanted to capture the universe[]
Originating in ancient times, the evil god Chernobog; the lord of darkness, had his mind overwhelmed by injustice and gloomy thinking. He succumbed to the temptations of the world and planned to subdue it, so he became the Black Serpent and left his lair.
Svarog was the god who kept an eye on the world, as he felt something was wrong he did not go to his forge and caressed his mighty hammer against the burning forge to create himself more gods to help him.
The first to be born from the fire of the forge was Dazhbog, then Horse, Stribog and Simargl. While new gods were being created, the Black Serpent crawled over the land to corrupt it and the men who lived on it. Svarog sent Dazhbog and Simargl to see what is happening in the land of men, and seeing that they had something to do, many have already been corrupted by Chernobog and a war was about to begin.
Returning to the Nav Svarog was informed by his sons that a war between good and evil will begin. Svarog heard them and began to strike his celestial forge to arm his army, because to defeat Chernobog he had to fight with luminous intensity.
Chernobog so corrupted men that he and his evil forces of the world finally fought their way into the celestial palace at the top of the world tree, in their madness they began to invade the world of Svarogs forge himself.
Quickly Svarog created a magic chest and as soon as Chernobog appeared at the door of the forge, Svarog called upon the help of his sons’ gods and together they defeated the serpent.
Finally capturing Chernobog in the chest, the cursed black god was defeated, and in his misery he asked Svarog to spare his evil offspring, the men of this world. Svarog decided to spare men in his justice and because in the end he himself created men flawed as they are.
However, there was one condition to spare them, he told Chernobog that never again could the world be controlled by darkness in its entirety, and Chernobog had to agree.
The world of men was restored and half of the world was again covered by daylight shining from the burning forge of Svarog, while the other half remained in darkness, thus the cycle of night and day came to the world of men.
Svarog's symbol[]
His symbols are Kolovrat and Swastika. Unlike Swastika used by nazi Germany in pre-WW2 and during WW2 eras, Slavic swastika represents the Sun itself and infinite cycle of life and death, therefore it is considered the most sacred of all symbols used in Slavic faith.
Gallery[]
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