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Earliest explicit attestation of any Slavic deity.", "SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_POLEVIK", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A field spirit who inhabits cultivated land and may help or punish field-workers, especially those who sleep in the fields at midday.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_PORENUT", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A god of the Rani at Charenza on R\u00fcgen described by Saxo as having four faces with a fifth on his chest; his functions are unrecorded.", "SRC_SAXO_GESTA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_POREVIT", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A five-headed god of the Rani worshipped alongside Rugievit at Charenza on R\u00fcgen, known only from Saxo; his specific functions are unrecorded.", "SRC_SAXO_GESTA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_RADEGAST", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "The chief god of the Redarii at the temple of Rethra, named by Helmold and Adam of Bremen; often identified by scholars with Svarozhich.", "SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_ROD", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "medium", "Attested in ecclesiastical prohibitions 9th-10th c. CE; not in the PVL Kiev Pantheon list. Classified medium.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_ROZHANITSY", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "Female birth-and-fate spirits invoked together with Rod, repeatedly condemned in medieval East-Slavic anti-pagan homilies for childbirth offerings.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_RUGIEVIT", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A seven-faced war god of the Rani at Charenza (Garz) on R\u00fcgen, whose oaken idol Saxo describes being destroyed in 1168.", "SRC_SAXO_GESTA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_RUSALKA", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A female water spirit, commonly the restless soul of a drowned or unbaptized woman, who haunts rivers and woods especially during Rusalka Week.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_SIMARGL", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "medium", "Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); function uncertain; classified medium due to limited secondary evidence.", "SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_STRIBOG", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) wind deity attestation.", "SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_SVAROG", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "medium", "Attested in Hypatian Chronicle Malalas gloss (12th c.); Svarozhich in German Rethra sources (1000-1100 CE). Classified medium \u2014 indirect attestation.", "SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_SVAROZHICH", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A fire god understood as the son of Svarog; chief deity of the temple at Rethra in the West-Slavic chronicles and the personified sacred fire in East-Slavic homilies.", "SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_SVETOVIT", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "The four-headed chief god of the great temple at Arkona on R\u00fcgen, whose white-horse oracle Saxo Grammaticus describes before the temple's destruction in 1168.", "SRC_SAXO_GESTA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_TRIGLAV", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "The three-headed god of Szczecin and Wolin whose heads signified rule over heaven, earth, and the underworld, reported in the Lives of Otto of Bamberg.", "SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_VELES", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "Treaty oath attestation AD 945 and 971 (PVL) \u2014 among the earliest and most secure Slavic deity attestations.", "SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_VODYANOY", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A malevolent male water spirit of East-Slavic folklore who rules ponds and rivers and is blamed for drownings.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_YAROVIT", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A West-Slavic war god (Latinized Gerovitus) worshipped at Wolgast and Havelberg, equated with Mars and associated with spring fertility.", "SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_ZHIVA", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "A goddess of the Polabian Slavs (Siwa/\u017diva) named by Helmold, her name connected to the Slavic root for 'living', suggesting a life/fertility function.", "SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SLAV_ZMEY_GORYNYCH", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "The multi-headed fire-breathing dragon of East-Slavic byliny and folktales, slain by heroes such as Dobrynya Nikitich.", "SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SSL_DABOG", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "South-Slavic (chiefly Serbian) reflex of the sun-god, attested in Serbian folklore as 'Dabog'/'Daba', a chthonic lord of the earth and of silver/gold often demonized in folk-Christian tradition; cognate of the East-Slavic Da\u017ebog.", "SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SSL_GERMAN", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "South-Slavic (Bulgarian/Serbian) rain-ritual figure: a small clay or dough effigy made, mourned and 'buried' or cast into water by women in a rain-making rite to end drought; attested ethnographically rather than as a cult god.", "SRC_RALSTON_RUSSIAN_FOLK", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SSL_PRIPEGALA", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "West-Slavic (Polabian) deity known only from the Magdeburg letter (c. 1108), which decries his cult of orgiastic rites and decapitated-victim sacrifice; etymology and exact function disputed (sometimes likened to Priapus/Belial by the Latin source).", "SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC", "reviewed"], ["ENT_SSL_PROVE", "PER_SLAV_PAGAN", "high", "West-Slavic (Wagrian/Polabian) god of the land of Oldenburg, worshipped in a sacred oak grove without an idol; named by Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (c. 1170); often read as a god of law/justice (cf. 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