Creation Myth part 4: The Slavs
Part 4 of my creation myth series coming up right now! This time I will cover the Slavic creation story since I want to dive a bit deeper in Slavic paganism and spread more knowledge about it. So here we go! The oldest Slavic traditions say that in the beginning there was nothing, there is old-dark, dark sea and sky, the only " existing " thing created by Rod (the forefather of all Slavic gods and of all creation) was a golden egg ( again with the egg) in which rested Svarog , the Divine creator. Under the influence of forces of imbalance the egg cracked open and created a light that shone upon Svarog and created his shadow. From his shadow Crnobog originated and Vodan , god of the sea and the water came from the glare of Svarogos old-sea. From the top of the egg shell's dust the world tree, ash tree (AGAIN!), was created which rising separated the heavens from the earth and see. Svarog , using gold powder from the bottom of the world (lower half of the eggshell), m...