ABSTRACT
All Slavic gods were purely local. Even within one tribe, different gods were worshipped in different towns. There were three different pantheons on the relatively small island of Rugen: in Arkona, Korenitsa, and Jasmund. Eight out of 22 attested Slavic gods were of Christian origin, six had non-Slavic names: the Germanic Svarozhich, the Estonian Tutupid, the Baltic Pripegala, and the Iranian Khors, Simar'gl, and Mokosh'. The Polish pantheon was invented only in the fifteenth century by the chronicler Jan Dlugosz as an imitation of "Vladimir's gods" in Kiev, and it consisted of phantom gods. The Slavic tribes dwelling between the Oder and the Elbe constructed their pagan pantheons and built their pagan temples after the Great Slavic Revolt of 983 in an attempt to resist forced Christianization. The transformation of Christian saints into pagan gods is the most surprising and unique feature of the Slavic pagan religion.
