entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_SLAV_BABA_YAGA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"The ambivalent witch of East-Slavic folktales who lives in a hut on hen's legs, flies in a mortar, and acts as both threat and helper to the hero.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_BANNIK,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"The spirit of the bathhouse (banya) in East-Slavic belief, who must be appeased and can scald bathers who offend him.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_BELOBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"RECONSTRUCTED: the 'white god' posited as a benevolent counterpart to Chernobog; not attested in any medieval source, a scholarly/toponymic inference.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_CHERNOBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,The 'black god' of the Polabian Slavs to whom Helmold says misfortune was attributed; the only securely attested member of the often-cited black/white dualism.,SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA,reviewed ENT_SLAV_DAZBOG,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) — pre-Mongol period solar deity.,SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed ENT_SLAV_DEVANA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,A goddess of the hunt (Dziewanna) named by late-medieval Polish chroniclers (Długosz) who equated her with Diana; authenticity debated as a possible learned interpretatio.,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_DOLA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"The personification of an individual's allotted fate or fortune in Slavic folk belief, attached at birth; its negative counterpart is Nedola.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_DOMOVOI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"The tutelary house spirit of East-Slavic folk belief, dwelling behind the stove and protecting the household and its livestock if respected.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_FOLK_SPIRITS,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"Collective of lower mythological beings of East-Slavic folk belief (house, water, forest, and field spirits) documented in the ethnographic record.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_JARILO,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"A spring fertility figure of the seasonal folk cult whose effigy was carried and ritually 'buried', reconstructed as the dying-and-rising counterpart to Marzanna.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_KHORS,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); Lay of Igor (12th c.) ""great Khors.""",SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed ENT_SLAV_KIKIMORA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"A female household spirit associated with the stove and spinning, who troubles a disorderly home with nighttime noises.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_KOSCHEI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,An immortal sorcerer-villain of East-Slavic folktales who abducts the hero's bride and cannot die because his death is hidden in a needle inside an egg.,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_KUPALA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,The personification of the midsummer (St John's Eve) festival of fire and water; treated in some sources as a folk personification of the rite.,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_LADA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,DISPUTED: a putative goddess of love and marriage; Brückner and later scholarship argue she is a personification mistakenly derived from a wedding-song refrain ('lado').,SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_LESHY,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"The master spirit of the forest in East-Slavic belief, who guards the woodland and its animals and is known for leading travelers astray.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_MARZANNA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"Goddess or personification of death and winter (Morana/Morena), whose effigy is ritually drowned or burned at winter's end in Slavic seasonal custom.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_MOKOSH,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,Kiev Pantheon AD 980 (PVL); ecclesiastical prohibitions from 9th-10th c. confirm pre-Christian cult.,SRC_PRIMARY_CHRONICLE_PVL,reviewed ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"Collective grouping the principal deities of the Slavs known from the East-Slavic Primary Chronicle and the West-Slavic temple cults of Arkona, Szczecin, and Rethra.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed ENT_SLAV_PERUN,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"Attested in Byzantine-Rus treaty AD 945, 971 (PVL); Kiev Pantheon AD 980. 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 Rügen 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 Rügen, 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 Rügen, 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 — 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 Rügen, 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) — 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/Živa) 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 Dažbog.",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. Prove ~ pravo).",SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC,reviewed ENT_SSL_TJARNAGLOFI,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,West-Slavic (Pomeranian) war-god whose silver-mustachioed idol was a Rani battle-talisman; named in the Knytlinga saga as captured by the Danes (1168). Norse-transmitted theonym for a Rügen-area Slavic god.,SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC,reviewed ENT_SSL_VID,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,Reconstructed South-Slavic theonym 'Vid' surviving in Croatian toponymy and folk usage (e.g. Vidova Gora) and folk-Christianized onto St Vitus (Sveti Vid); related to the West-Slavic -vit theophoric element (Svetovit). Attestation is indirect/onomastic.,SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC,reviewed ENT_SSL_VILA,PER_SLAV_PAGAN,high,"South-Slavic nymph-class (vila, pl. vile; Bulgarian samodiva/samovila) — beautiful winged female nature-spirits of mountains, springs and clouds in Serbian/Croatian/Bulgarian folklore; distinct from the East-Slavic water-spirit Rusalka.",SRC_DIXON_KENNEDY_SLAVIC,reviewed