And in Navi, in the Black Mountains, the Black Snake himself curled up into a ball. After defeat in the battle with Svarog and Svaro-zhichi, his warriors scattered across the face of the Earth.
And then Truth flew to heaven to the Heavenly Ancestor himself. Krivda remained on the damp earth. Falsehood spread throughout the entire Earth, throughout the entire celestial ordeal kingdom.
The Black Snake, the god of cold, destruction, death, is served by black sorcerers and magi. Lamia Snakes crawl around his palaces. Leshy and wolfhounds roam the black forests.
In the dark kingdom, clouds are circling, and flocks of crows are circling. Chernobog-Koshchei is fierce there, sorcerers and witches gather all the servants of Chernobog. “The Book of Kolyada”, IX b
The Black God is the Lord of Darkness, Navi, and the Kingdom of Pekel. He sits on a throne in the Black Castle, next to him is the goddess of death Marena, and in front of him sits the afterlife judge, the lion-headed Radogost.
The commander in the army of Chernobog is Viy, the brother of the sky god Dyi. In peacetime, Viy is a jailer in Pekla. He holds in his hand a fiery scourge with which he treats sinners. His eyelids are heavy; Viy’s henchmen are holding them with pitchforks. If Viy opens his eyes and looks at a person, he dies. Viy cannot stand sunlight, so he always prefers to stay underground.
Dasuni demons also serve the Black God: the son of Viy - the goat-legged Pan, the Black Stork Baka, the dragon Yaga, the sorcerers Margast, the sister of the Magician - Mazata, the sorceress Putana and the demoness Black Kali.
Wolfhounds, black wise men and witches make up the army of Chernobog. All the forces of darkness, the inhabitants of Hell, the demons of the Underworld, serve him. The power of Chernobog is great - the entire dark side of Existence is subordinate to him. It smells of cold, cosmic Darkness.
The black god loves to wear a black cassock and finger his rosary. Thus he mocks faith, for he denies both the existence of God and his own existence. The black god is at war with all gods. It also happens that he takes the side of one of the gods, but he does this with one goal - to shake faith in other gods. He destroys temples and burns books. He also writes books whose purpose is to distort or destroy the true Vedic faith. To freeze the souls of people, to encase the whole world in ice - this is his goal. And therefore he is the Lord of the North. His wife is the goddess of death Mara. Chernobog and Mara gave birth to many demons and demonesses - Moroka, Mora, Black Pomoch, as well as the daughters of Lichomaniacs, who cause diseases in people: Shaking, Looking, Snoring, Chubby, Numb, Deaf, Lomeya, Yellowing, Decrepit, Smutnitsa, Zyabukha, Karkusha and others.
There was a time when the warriors of Chernobog - the Black Snake captured almost the entire World. The Great Ice covered most of the Earth. And the Earth was filled with evil. To overcome evil and return Truth to the world, the Almighty descended into our Universe. Thus, He singled out our world from other worlds unknown to us.
About Chernobog in the “Book of Veles”, Triglav: 13, it is said that he “fights with Belobog” and at the same time “supports Svarga” with him, being one of the important cosmic forces (destroying force). Also in the “Book of Veles”, Troyan, Prov: 14 it is said that Chernobog is the god of madness: “And if someone does not restrain his nature this time and says something crazy, then it is from Chernobog.” In Helmold’s “Slavic Chronicle” (12th century), a pagan ritual is described, according to which the pagans gathered in a circle drank from the bratina and swore an oath on behalf of two gods - good and evil (Black). In the Old Icelandic source of Knitling's saga, the god Blackheads is mentioned. We must assume that Masudi is talking about the Temple of the Black God (see the part “Heritage of the Ancestors”). The image of Chernobog is given by historian P.I. Safarik. “Image of Chernobog in Bamberg” SP6., 1838. The Temple of the Black God was once in Chernigov.
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