Dazhbog
Dazhbog, also spelled Daždźboh, Dazhboh, Dažbog, Dazhdbog, Dajbog, Daybog, Dabog, Dazibogu, or Dadźbóg, was one of the major gods of Slavic mythology. He is most likely a solar deity and possibly a cultural hero. He is one of several authentic Slavic gods, mentioned by a number of medieval manuscripts, and one of the few Slavic gods for which evidence of worship can be found in all Slavic tribes.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 980 CE
- Attested period
- 900 – 1700
- Historical notes
- Statues erected in front of Prince Vladimir the Great's palace in Kiev.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Dabog, Atar, Stribog, Mokosh, Simargl, Khors, Hephaestus, Teliavelis, Sūrya, Agni, Indra
- syncretized with
- Helios
- sibling of
- Svarozhits
- child of
- Svarog
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“On April 10, 2016, a Dazhdbog idol was installed by the Slavic pagans in a particularly revered place in the city of Astrakhan, Russia. On April 12, 2016, information about the desecration of idols and destruction all the adjacent territories had become known.”
#16531 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“God was also to be preserved in the Old Serbian name Хьрсь, Old Bulgarian Хръсъ, Serbian Хрс, Hrs, Хрсовик, Hrsovik, Old East Slavic Хорсъ in analogy to the Polish name Dadźbóg, from the god Dazhbog.”
#16777 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the glosses about Svarog and Dazhbog were included in the Slavonic translation of the Chronography. Some scholars believe that these glosses come from the 10th-century Bulgarian translator of the Chronography”
#17456 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Some researchers also believe that Svarozhits is identical with Dazhbog...in the Primary Chronicle, which contains an excerpt from the Slavic translation of the Chronicle of John Malalas, Dažbog is also depicted as the son of Svarog.”
#17486 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5