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Belobog-Belun, 2023 & 2014 - oil on canvas.

— Andrey Alekseyevich Shishkin (Russia, 1960).

The supposed West Slavic bozhich of good luck and happiness. In the beliefs of the Belarusians met the personification of good fortune, a being called Belun. He was represented as an old man with a white beard who showed the way to the lost and could give gifts to the reapers in exchange for a favor. There were proverbs: “it is dark in the forest without Belun” and “musya posyabriusya with Belun”. Probably is one and the same with Belogbog.

Slavic Mythos [27/?] >> between order and chaos

belobog & chernobog >> two gods involved in never-ending fight, their principles clashing with each other; Belobog the bringer of good luck and happiness punishes evil and rewards good; Chernobog controls acquiring and understanding of the material world, and importance of reason, logic and egoism. Chernobog was once punished and escaped from his world into the dark worlds, because he let ancient sacred knowledge to spread to lower worlds.