Slavikum
The Gods Before the Cross
An archive of the pre-Christian Slavic world - the powers of the upper air, the things that lived beneath the water, and the marks people cut into their doorframes to tell one from the other.
Where to begin
Three Realms
- 01
Gods
The powers of the upper world - thunder and the oak, the forge, the sun, the damp earth that swallows everyone back.
- 02
Monsters
What waited past the treeline and under the millpond. Not evil, exactly. Owed things, and inclined to collect.
- 03
Symbols
The marks cut into doorframes, spindle whorls and roof beams to tell one kind of visitor from the other.
The pantheon
Signs
Each god carried a mark. Some are attested in stone and chronicle; others are reconstructions, drawn by later hands from folk embroidery and guesswork.
Perun
Thunder
Veles
The Deep
Sventovit
Four Faces
Mokosh
The Earth
Dazhbog
The Sun
Svarozhich
The Flame
Stribog
The Wind
Hors
The Sun
Svarog
The Forge
Chernobog
The Black
Zhiva
The Life
Yarilo
The Spring
Mara
The Night
Rod
The Ancestor
Dodola
The Rain
Lada
The Love
Belobog
The White
Viy
The Gaze
Begin with the gods
The glossary collects them one by one - who they were, what they were owed, and how much of it we actually know.
Enter the Glossary