Are there any credible sources for it? I've read some books on the subject but they all differ wildly.
>>994746
If you mean the pre-Christian beliefs, then no. The Slavic polytheists did not keep written records back during Antiquity and early middle ages. There are some records about the believers of the old faith in Slovenia during early 20th century but there isn't much written about them because most kept in secrecy.
A lot of the pre-Christian Slavic mythology is simply reconstruction. For example, Belobog, several Iranic additions, transplanting Western Slavic deities across all Slavic cultures,...
>>996195
>that filename
The Cyrillic letters spell out Svarog, fyi
>>996201
I know, I just prefer the Slovene version of the name. There's other names for him, too; Tvarog, Rarog, Rarach, Jarog.
>>996195
As I recall there is some very light written material about the pre-Christian Slavs, but it's from the usual sources, IE the Romans and other adjacent cultures that actually wrote.
>>997023
True. The material for the pre-Christian mythology comes from Kievan Rus and Frankish/German writings about the West Slavs, I believe. Most of the Slovene mythology that remained to this day survived as part of Catholicism (gods becoming saints, old traditions getting a slight make-over, holy days getting new names and/or context,...).
There is this one text about a man who met a few shepherds in the Julian Alps who worshipped a bull at the beginning of the 20th century, still. It's in Slovene, though.
From what I've read, the believers of the old faith remained in hiding, living in isolated communities, going to church like everyone else and only spreading the beliefs to their children.
>>996195
They kept the records, but almost everything was burned down by HRE and Vatican during crusades against Western Slavs.
Poles were crusaded too. Polish chronicles speak about those events. I'm pretty sure Rus chronicles too.
Nope. It's all shit written by Christians and sometimes literally just made up shit. Like Belobog for example, there's evidence that the ancient Slavs had a deity called Chernobog (Black God) so some autist in the 19th century came up with the idea that there must've been a Belobog (White God) as well. And now you have those cringeworthy rodnover roleplayers even worshipping Belobog lel.
>>997436
The pictures were most likely made by a Russian.
>>997544
And Russians are pretty hilarious.
>Greek alphabet
>Norse foundation
>Finnic blood
>100% PURE SLAVS
>>997554
That's because Slavs are a bullshit outdated concept.
>>996195
seems to be a giant overlap with norse mythology and folklore in there. Many of the things that are supposed to be "iconic" to it seems to have a near identical equivalent in the nearby mythologies.
>>997724
That's because both evolved from the old Proto-Indo-European beliefs.
