entities: ENT_SLAV_SVAROG

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_SLAV_SVAROG Svarog   Slavic sky / fire deity Creator Deity sky; fire; celestial forge; divine kingship; metallurgy       B           Sky and fire deity; not named in the AD 980 Kiev Pantheon but attested in a gloss added to the East Slavic translation of the Byzantine Chronicle of Malalas (12th c.), which equates Svarog with Hephaestus and says: "Svarog, the god of fires... After him reigned his son Dažbog." The gloss thus posits a Svarog-Dažbog father-son relationship. Svarog is the celestial smith and generator of divine fire; his name may derive from PIE *swer- (sky, sun; cf. Sanskrit svarga, heaven) or from *svar- (to gleam). The Svarozhich (son of Svarog) fire deity is attested in German sources on the Rethra sanctuary among the Lutici Slavs. Brückner (1918) pp. 85-95; Hypatian Chronicle (Malalas gloss, 12th c.). deity

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