GENUS - The Creator of the world

Genus - The Creator of the world

                                 

Rod - Genus is the Creator of the world, the Father of all the Gods, humans and Cause of all causes, the Founder and the very essence of the universe. He is the living thought and Creator of everything that exists . He is infinite and all-pervading in space and time .

Some Slavs believes that the Genus was first Ecumenical Egg that existed outside of time and space. Genus spawned even himself. Light and darkness came from Genus.

He created the heavens and the earth, mountains and rivers, humans and animals, fishes and insects.

Genus divided the world into 3 parts:

"PRAV" ( the world in which his children-Gods live ),

"JAV" ( mundane world He settled with the plants, animals and man )

and "NAV" ( the world beyond , world of the dead, land of shadows and everlasting dark ).

Rod created Worldtree - Oak which with its crown outgrown the world , and with its roots reach through earthly world and reaches out to the underworld.

Some sources indicate that Genus created from the milk of life and Mother Raw Earth ( Mother Earth ).

Genus within himself spawn love and gave it to all his creations by giving them parts of himself as a supreme act of creation. So through him each thing and being are immortal and everlasting. Finally with the remaining part of himself He created Svarog - father of the Gods giving him the power of design and creation.

Genus becomes a principle and ceases to appear as God , ceases to interfere in the lives of mortals and Gods directly, but He is always present there with principles He made to influence at us all. He is in everything, in fact He is the basis of everything. All visible and invisible represents Genus, and Svarog in His name creates and shapes.

Rod is the protector of crops, birth and families. All these nouns in all Slavic languages have the same root - word "ROD".(Rod stands for Genus)

Cousin , Relatives, Childbirth, Nature, Nation , Stork bird are all words that contain root ROD .

It shows how much Genus was honored with the Slavs , and how it is seen as a basis for the most important things in life .

Genus is the patron of blood ties and relations between clans. Rod is pervasive through all as the basis, or some kind of foundation. Genus is all around us, as it is later presented in Christianity (with the word Genus stripped because the Christian God is nameless).

THE WHITE GOD - The God of Daylight and Everything Good

Belobog is a deity whose historical existence was, and still is, a subject of numerous debates. Belobog, which, translated into English, means White god, is imagined as a counterpart to Crnobog, or Černobog (Black god) and as such represents the light deity of good essentially opposed to the deity of evil.

According to the theory of Peter Kotka, the Slavs accepted Belobog in the period when they lived in the Persian neighborhood (8th – 2nd c. BC). As we know, the Persian religion was dualist in its nature, thus two opposed forces – Ormuzd and Ahriman ruled the Persian universe. The Slavic Belobog would thus correspond Ormuzd, though he was never on such a high place with the Slavs. Furthermore, Kotka presented a Slavic myth in which two opposed forces, just like those mentioned above, were responsible for the creation of the Slavic world, and the forces, of course, were Belobog and Crnobog. Both of these forces were necessary for the creation of the universe, which is, indeed, a principle that could have been taken from the Persians. However, this myth should not be taken for granted since there is a quite different myth about the creation of the universe, and the myth is about a god Rod who created the cosmos from a huge egg.

             However you look at it, the impression that Belobog is more of an abstract principle than a typical anthropomorphic deity stays, which can be seen in the way it was represented by the Slavs. Well, how was this deity represented? The Slavs imagined Belobog as an old man with a long white beard, dressed exclusively in white. As such, he would appear only during the daylight, doing good deeds as he went and bringing people success and happiness. Belobog helped many peasants to finish hard work in the field and he showed many strayed travelers the way out of a thick forest. The general impression of whiteness, light and positively made him an abstract deity, completely different from other gods. This is why he is more likely the very principle of light and goodness wrapped in the form of an anthropomorphic deity, than a god pagans would otherwise bow to.

Whether it is an abstract principle, or a manifestation of the supreme god (Ormuzd or Christian Yahweh), the appearance of Belobog in the Slavic mythology should by no means be ignored. Certain data about the notion of him with the Slavs can be found through the analysis of the name of this deity. Belobog's name reminds us a lot of the names of gods of other pantheons: Baldur, Belunos, Baal etc. All these deities are also of a light and solar nature since their names contain the same root (bal means something light and bright). The very occurrence of Baldur in the Nordic mythology is parallel to the occurrence of Belobog in the Slavic – both seem a bit of a foreign body in their systems, by being different in every possible way from other gods and by making their appearance seem extremely mysterious.  The same rules were applied both to Baldur and Belobog, Baldur was considered to be a Christian creation, wherefore he was even named Hvit Christ, i.e. White Christ. As far as the Serbs are concerned, Belobog's name has, up to now, remained with the people who use it to denote a deity, which can be seen in an old saying “he ate the white god”, used to show that somebody ate very much, i.e. that he ate everything there was to be eaten.