Slavic mythology and Slavic religion evolved over more than 3,000 years. It's conjectured that some parts of it are from neolithic or possibly even mesolithic times. The religion possesses numerous common traits with other Indo-European religions.

Primary Sources

Very few written records are known to survive from the centuries before Christianization. The controversial Book of Veles is believed by some to be a sacred text of this religion. Saxo Grammaticus is another source with disputed authenticity. Chronicon Slavorum by Helmold is generally accepted as a genuine source, covering culture and events in the late 1st millennium AD. One unreasonably underestimated and quite enigmaticsource is Veda slovena (http://tribal.abv.bg/veda/titul/parva.htm) - a compilation of archaic Bulgarian ritual

songs, that preserved important fragments of Slavic pagan lore.

World

According to the Book of Veles, Slavic religion recognizes three realms: Yav, Prav, and Nav, Yav being the material world, Nav the immaterial, and Prav being the laws that govern them. The emphasis on the three realms is particularly characteristic for the Slavic neopaganists that draw on the Book of Veles.Main symbol of ancient Slavic cosmogonic ideas was the World Tree. Slavs imagined that all three realms are vertically situated on an gigantic oak tree, that holds the whole Universe. In its crown was Slavic Heaven/paradise, so called Svarga, residence of Svarog, or Iriy. At the oak's trunk was the world of living creatures, the reality - Yav. In the oak's roots was Hell, residence of Chernobog, Morena, and Zmey.

Gods

Supreme god

The original supreme god of Slavs was probably Rod. Information about Rod worship is scarce.In some branches of Slavic religion, the supreme god is Svarog (senior member of Triglav). But exactly because of his nature he was not the most worshiped: that was Perun, while tribes that were occupied mostly with cattle could pay most attention to Veles and so on.

Pantheon

A statue of Svetovid

There is no single well-established pantheon. One attempt at establishing such an "official" pantheon was made by Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev in 980-988 religious reform, immediately preceding the Christianization of Ruthenia. Vladimir erected six or seven idols near his court - Perun as a supreme god, Veles, Hors, Dajbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh as tribal gods.

It should be noted that many of the gods may be known by different names even in the same language. Calling gods by proper name was considered bad luck, thus gods were called by adjectives, describing their qualities. Over time, those adjectives took life of their own.

• Belobog
• Chernobog
• Dajbog
• Dodola, Dzydzilya, Dudula
• Dogoda, the god of the refreshing West Wind, son of Perun.
• Hors
• Jarilo or Yaro
• Koleda
• Koschey
• Kupala
• Lada and Lado
• Mokosh, Mokosz
• Morena, Marzana
• Perun, Piorun
• Porvata
• Radigost
• Rod
• Rodzanica
• Simargl
• Stribog
• Sudz
• Svarog
• Svarogich
• Svetovid, Swiatowid
• Triglav
• Veles
• Zaria
• Zmey or Yascher

Mythical creatures

• Nyia
• Slavic fairies (rusalka, vila, etc)
• Utva zlatokrila (Gold-winged female duck)
• Golden-horned deer
• Drekavac
• Likho
• Bird Gamayun
• Cat Bayun
• Fire Bird, Zhar Ptitsa

Mythical persons

Vasnetsov. Heroes ("Bogatyri"). Dobrynia Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich

Some of these heroes have had real-life prototypes, but most stories (bylinas) about them became pure fiction, involving magic etc.

• Baba Yaga
• Bogumir
• Bus Beloyar
• Oleksa Dovbus
• Prince Ivan (Ivan Tsarevich)
• Marko Kraljevic
• Ilya Muromets
• Nightingale the Robber (Solovey-Razboynik)
• Dobrynya Nikitich
• Churilo Plenkovich
• Alyosha Popovich
• Sadko
• Mikula Selyaninovich

Spirits

• bannik
• boginki
• djabelek
• dola
• domovoy
• dvorovoi
• kikimora
• lakanica
• leszi
• mamuna
• mamony
• mora
• naw
• neuri
• nocnica
• odmience
• ovinnik
• polevik
• poludnica
• psotnik
• rarog
• ratainitsa
• rusalki
• sky women
• smierna
• spore
• strzyga
• sudice
• tloka
• topielec
• karzelek
• vila
• vodyanoy

Slavic and Polish folk magic

• Circles
• Crossroads
• Czarwonica
• Divination
• Fire Flowers
• Divination
• Knots
• Ladanki
• Lechebnik
• The Magic Belt of Poland
• Matka Ziema
• Pisanka
• Spoiling
• Szeptem
• Thresholds
• Zagavory
• Zawlanie
• Znak
• Znakhari

Online sources

• A Slavic Pantheon (http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/SlavPan.html)
• Pantheon des dieux slaves (http://www.russie.firstream.net/pantheon.htm)
• Polish Folk Magic (http://www.geocities.com/mabcosmic/polish/magic.html)
• The Polish Pagan Pantheon (http://www.geocities.com/mabcosmic/polish/pantheon.html)
• Slavic and Eurasian Pantheons (http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/SlavPan.html)
• Slavic Myth and Religion (http://www.winterscapes.com/slavic.htm)
• Slavic Paganism and Witchcraft  (http://www.members.aol.com/hpsofsnert/index.html)
• Okana's Web  (http://www.okana.org/)
• Gods and Goddesses of the Slavs  (http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/slavs/index.htm)
• Gods and Goddesses of Love and Sexuality (http://wuzzle.org/cave/lovegods.html)
• Slavic Mythology in Pictures (http://fantalov.tripod.com/slav1.htm)
• Polish Paganism (http://www.kresy.co.uk/pol_paganizm.html)
• East Slavic Paganism (http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/russ110/handout_p1_paganism.htm)
• Slavic and Bulgarian paganism (http://free.bol.bg/slavpagan)
• Pan-Slavic Traditions and Beliefs (http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~east~panSlavic.html)
• Real Magick Archives – Slavic  (http://realmagick.com/perl/topic.pl?topic=204)
• Slavic Mysteries (http://www.resonateview.org/places/writings/larissa/myth.htm)
• Slavic Antiquities  (http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/slavonic.htm)
• Introduction to Slavic Rituals (http://www.gaiacommunity.org/slavic1.htm)
• Neopaganism in Central Europe (http://vinland.org/heathen/pagancee/)
• Polish Supernatural Spirits (http://www.geocities.com/mabcosmic/polish/pspirits.html)

Book resources

• Chrypinski, Anna, editor. Polish Customs. Friends of Polish Art: Detroit, MI, 1977.
• Contoski, Josepha K., editor. Treasured Polish Songs with English Translations. Polanie Publishing Co.: Minneapolis, MN, 1953.
• Estes, Clarissa Pinkola, Ph.D. Women Who Run With the Wolves. Ballantine Books: New York, 1992.
• Gimbutas, Marijas. The Slavs. Preager Publishers: New York, 1971.
• Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz. Polish Customs, Traditions, & Folklore. Hippocrene Books: New York, 1993.
• Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz. Polish Herbs, Flowers, and Folk Medicine. Hippocrene Books: New York, 1995.
• Krasicki, Ignacy (tr by Gerard Kapolka) Polish Fables : Bilingual. 1997
• Leland, Charles Godfrey. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling. New York: University Books, 1962
• Zajdler, Zoe. Polish Fairy Tales. Chicago, Ill: Follett Publishing, 1959
• Sekalski, Anstruther J. Old Polish Legends. 1997
• Singing Back The Sun: A Dictionary of Old Polish Customs and Beliefs, Okana, 1999
• Szyjewski, Andrzej: Slavic Religion, WAM, Kraków, 2003

Baltic / Slavic Gods
BELOBOG: God of the Living CHERNOBOG: The Black God of Death, opposite of what elobog is.  DABOG(VID,DABA,HROMI,(LAME) DABA): An South- Slavic Sungod, son of the God Svarog, God of Shepherds and precious metals. He was worshiped in Ukraine, Russia and Poland. In Kiev, statues could be found and in the Igor- song, the Russians were metioned as his grandchilderen. With the arrival of Christianity, he was equated with Satan. In Poland he is worshiped as Dazbog. KHORS: One of the many sungods in Russia and in East- Slavic myths. Mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as one of the Gods who were official worshiped in Kievan, Russia during the years 900. Khors is an direct diversion of the Sungod Khuran worshiped by Scythians and Sarmatians. MYESYATS: Lunargod NYIA: Slavic God of Death. PERUN/PEROUEN: Stormgod who was worshiped in the pre- christian Slavic pantheon of Gods by the East Slaves, especially by the Russians. Diverted of the Latvian Perkuns and the Lithuanian Perkunas. Peroen is also identified with the Scandinavian God Thor by the Scandinavian Varangians who settled in Russia and with Zeus by Russian scholars who were familiar with Greek mythology. Eventually Peroens origin can be traced back to the Vedic Thundergod Parjànya. PEREPLUT: Slavic Goddess of Beverage and changed fortunes.  RUGIVIET/RUGIVIT: Slavic Wargod, whose cult centre laidon the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. His name means Lord on Rugen and is usually depicted as a God with sevan heads who holds up a sword. STRIBOG: Slavic who was official worshiped by the Russians during the lasts years of the tenth century. From all of the important Slavic Gods, he can be fage definied. The origin of his name could be Slavic(srei-colour) or from Iran(srira: beautiful). Stribogs Function is unclear. Even he is a Wind- and/or Weathergod, example: the 12th century Russian Epos: Slovo o polku Igoreve, the lay of Igor's host referes the winds as Stribogs grandchildren. SUDJAJE: Goddesses of Destiny/Fate SVANTETIT/SVETOVIT: A Slavic War- and Vegetation god who was worshiped on the island of Rugen. He is the boss of the inhabitants and the protector of their fields. Each spring there was an harvest festival organized in his honor. He is depicted as a God with four heads and bodies. His attributes were corunucopy and a white horse. SVAROG(SVAROZIC,SVAROZITS): Slavic Sun- and Firegod. Originally, the Supreme God of the Slavic Pantheon of Gods. He is the divine blackmsith, patron deity of blacksmiths and the hearth. He was associated with the Hellenic God Hephaestus. There was also thaught that he instituted marriage with Mankind. Later he was demoted to a kind of firedemon.                                   SVETOVID(SVANTOVIT,SVANTEVIT): He is the Supreme deity of the Slavic Pantheon of Gods. He is the God of War, Fate and Fertility. VESNA: Slavic Goddess of Spring.