Dazhbog the sun-giver and Perun the thunderer are sons of Svarog, born of the celestial smith who forged the sun on his anvil and set the laws of the world — his divine offspring inherited dominion over sky and fire.
⚠ Dazhbog is directly called Svarozhich in the Hypatian Codex (Primary Chronicle). Perun's filiation with Svarog is reconstructed by Ivanov and Toporov from comparative evidence rather than a direct textual attestation.
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.
Mat Zemlya the damp earth and Svarog the sky-forger join as the primordial pair of Slavic cosmology — she the nourishing ground below, he the fiery heaven above, their union mirroring the Indo-European marriage of earth and sky.
⚠ This pairing follows a widespread Indo-European earth-sky pattern but is not directly attested in primary Slavic sources. It relies on comparative reconstruction by scholars like Ivanov and Toporov.
Radegast, the fiery god worshipped by the Polabian Slavs at the sacred city of Rethra, bears the patronymic Svarozhich — son of Svarog, inheriting the celestial smith's sacred flame in the westernmost reaches of the Slavic world.
⚠ Some scholars argue that medieval chroniclers confused the name of the sacred city Radgosc (Rethra) with the deity worshipped there, and that Radegast may not be identical with Svarozhich at all.
Svarog, the celestial smith and sky-forger, descended from Rod as the first generation of active gods — inheriting the primordial creator's cosmic authority to shape the heavens and kindle the sacred fire.
⚠ No primary medieval text explicitly names Svarog as Rod's son. The genealogical link is a scholarly reconstruction by Rybakov and others, inferring a cosmogonic succession from separate textual references.
Stribog, lord of the winds and air, descended from Svarog the celestial smith — one of the Svarozhichi, the divine generation that inherited governance of the natural world from their sky-father.
⚠ The Primary Chronicle names both Stribog and Svarog among Vladimir's gods but does not state a genealogical link. The father-son connection is Rybakov's reconstruction based on his model of Svarog as divine father of the Svarozhichi.
Svarog holds dominion over Prav, the celestial realm of divine law — from the highest tier of the cosmos, the sky-father's authority radiates downward through the ordered world he shaped on his anvil.
⚠ Svarog's role as supreme sky god ruling Prav is a scholarly reconstruction. The Hypatian Codex mentions Svarog briefly in translation of Malalas; his dominion over a heavenly realm specifically named Prav is not attested in primary sources.
Svarog's celestial fire first descended to earth upon the Alatyr stone, kindling the sacred flame at the center of the world where the heavenly smith's forge-fire touched the mortal plane.
⚠ The link between Svarog's heavenly fire and the Alatyr stone is a scholarly synthesis by Rybakov. No single primary text narrates this event directly; it is inferred from the convergence of Svarog's fire associations and the Alatyr's role as cosmic center in zagovory.
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