Chernobog

I am on my second book in two months in which Chernobog plays a pivotal role. Chernobog (also Crnobog or Czernobog) is the Slavic god of darkness and evil. His name means “The Black God” (Balkan Crno “black” and Bog “god”). The most popular (if you can really call it that) image of Chernobog is the giant demon from “Night on Bald Mountain” in Disney's Fantasia, but the Chernobog in these stories is a hideous devourer of not only souls but flesh as well, the ultimate evil and a clear cognate for Satan. I have not previously encountered Chernobog in literature so I wanted to know more, but I guess I'll have to look in a real library because the pickins' online are pretty slim. The books (by the way) were The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling and The Shadow of the Lion by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & Dave Freer. The Shadow of the Lion is available online throught the Baen Free Library, where Baen Books makes about sixty of their science-fiction and fantasy titles available online for free! I download them in MS Reader format and read them on my Dell Axim Pocket PC. I'll let y'all know what I find out about Chernobog; I'd like to use the legend in a sermon sometime.

Posted by trygstad | Category: Fun | 03:07 PM