Khors, the winter sun who traverses the cold sky, descended from Svarog the celestial smith — a Svarozhich who inherited his father's solar fire in its gentlest, most distant form.
⚠ The Primary Chronicle identifies Svarozhich (son of Svarog) with Dazhbog, not Khors. Khors's filial relationship to Svarog is a modern reconstructionist inference without direct textual support.
In 980 CE, Prince Vladimir I erected idols of six deities on a hill in Kiev, establishing the state pantheon of Kievan Rus'. Perun held supremacy with his silver-headed, gold-mustached idol, alongside Khors, Dazhbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh.
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