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The Zorya

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The Zorya are protective goddesses of the Slavs . Though they are an odd example being alternatively known as a Single goddess, two sisters, three sisters, and some even argue up to 5 sisters. Though the latter two are lost to time. They are said to watch the star Polaris to make sure Simargl does not get loose and consume the stars and the earth. They are looked to for protection by various tribes and are associated with the Morning , Evening , and Midnight stars. As a single deity she is said to be married to Perun and pull her veil over warriors in battle to protect them, while as a trio the Zorya are attendants of Dazbog opening the gates for him to enter and leave and then in the lap of Zorya the Midnight Star Dazbog will lay his elderly head down and die only to be reborn the next day as a youthful child and go across the sky again.

Sonnenrad/Black Sun

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  The sonnenrad , or Black Sun is a symbol indicating the infinite power and energy of our sun.  Through the history the symbol in its numerous ways of depictions found its place on the items of clothes, jewelry, utensils, weapons, and coins attributive to the representatives of Indo-European culture. It has been found scattered all across the world in all kinds of variations from the Celtic cross to the swastikas used in the far east and Norse paganism . From the ancient times associated with the natural phenomena of sun’s absence on the sky during nighttime and eclipse. With the course of time, Black Sun became notorious for its use in alchemy and occultism later on acquiring strong connection to National Socialist ideology. Another name of the Black Sun most closely describes associations arousing when seeing this symbol is Sonnenrad (or sun wheel). We are used to see this sign in a form of two circles: a smaller central circle drawing its twelve spokes in the ...

Creation Myth part 4: The Slavs

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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...