ancient Slavic culture of half-forgotten today.They wanted to intentionally destroy, forcibly introducing Christianity: after all, faith in the forces of nature and the spirits that inhabit the world, do not get along with the canons of the Church.However, people's memory tenacious.And now many descendants Dazhdbog grandchildren back to their roots, getting acquainted with the way their ancestors lived, what they believed, what practices adhered to.
Svarog - god of what?Interested in this issue are people who are just beginning to study the Slavic pantheon.This name the eastern branch of our ancestors called the spirit of fire, the family hearth, blacksmithing.He was a great warrior and a celestial blacksmith with great force.However, it is worth noting that there are very conflicting information about it.For example, another character of Slavic mythology - Dazhbog (Sun) is named Ipatiev Chronicle son of Svarog, that is the God of heaven.Others consider him the patron saint of the sun.Slavic God Svarog has other names.Baltic tribes called it Svarozhich or Radgostom and worshiped in retro Radgoste (Poland).The attributes were his spear and a horse, and a huge boar.In Slovakia, it was known under the name Rarog.It has much in common with Etruscan Velhansom, Finnish Ilmarinen, the Roman Vulcan.
Who is Svarog, the god which becomes clear if his name is translated from Sanskrit.The word "welded" means "light, the sky," the suffix "ar" turns it into a blacksmith.Therefore, the deity can be regarded as the creator of the sacred fire, its custodian and master.He also patronized the development of knowledge: like the Greek Hephaestus, the god gave ticks to people and taught them how to smelt iron and copper.Svarog has established the first laws on the ground, men willing to have only one wife, and women - only one husband.
sun god Svarog was a descendant of the chthonic beings and Sitivrata Krta, but in contrast to them, he owned the light, fire and ether.We can assume that this deity is replaced by the more ancient gods demiurge (as Zeus on Olympus succeeded his father Uranus) gave birth to a new generation.It works hand without the aid of words or magic, so creates the material world.
Svarog - god of what?As he patronized blacksmiths, any workshop of craftsmen, each horn was his heathen temple.In this place of worship to the idol should always lit the fire, present metal objects.For example, a suitable hammer, a stick-scrap, anvil, because it brought people in SVAROG Iron Age.For this it needs to bring humanity in the form of cheese and cheesecakes, symbols of heavenly bread.And the idol may be completely unprepossessing appearance: large common stone coated with a fire sign it.Holiday deity mark fourteenth day of November, the day of the Christian saints Kuzma and Damian.
Who was Svarog, the god of that, is not known.We know that he did not enter the Pantheon, compiled by Vladimir before making their Christianity, but his mention ancient written sources.Most likely, it was not formed by someone figure mythology and collective image of the natural elements of fire and fire, tamed by man.But before such a force man always felt awe.
