Chernobog

Tschernebog, Czarnobóg or Czorneboh (Russian Чернобог, dt, Black God '), Czernoglowy (, Black Main ') is a westslawischer God, who is known only from a note of the chronicler Helmold of Bosau from the 12th century. In his Chronica Slavorum Helmold writes that the Slavs came together after the ritual sacrifice to the banquet were walking around a bowl while ausbrächten drinking and blessings. They believed, namely, that all the happiness of a good, all misfortune will directed by an evil god, and

" Unde malum etiam deum lingua sua Diabol immersive Zcerneboch, id est nigrum Deum, appellant. "

"That's why they call the evil god in their language Diabol or Zcerneboch, that is the black god. "

The name of another god not delivered Helmold; that the good (white ) deity Bieleboh called, is merely inferred from the occurrence of this name in place names. In the near Bautzen are two mountains named Czorneboh and Bieleboh that have been associated with Helmold note. But the wording is more recent. In the 19th century a number of shrines and temples of Czorneboh were in Bohemia "discovered", but did not hold any of these discoveries was a scientific review. The Hertha castle on the Jasmund peninsula is also maintained for a place of worship of the Czernoglowy.