Angel may cry saving lives

These gods of death are older than the Christian devil. Compared to them, he is like a baby with a rattle, and with a good character, too!

This is who the cruel Aztecs and African wild tribes feared. And our distant great-great-great-ancestors had their own demon god, who was in charge of the kingdom of the dead.

Slavic god of chaos, destruction and winter. The most terrible in the pantheon of Slavic gods. A kind of consistency of evil, the Voldemort of Slavic mythology. He is in charge of the kingdom of the dead, which the Slavs call Nav (and our world is Yav).

The ancient gods of death and destruction, who were much more bloodthirsty than the devil “An old man with a crooked stick in his hand, with which he moves the bones of the dead in coffins,” is how the Arab historian Al-Masudi

describes Chernobog. As soon as the longest night of the year arrives (by today's standards this is the end of December), the reign of Chernobog begins until spring. The Slavs did not consider praying to the god of evil to be shameful, quite the opposite.

Together with Belobog, the god of light, Chernobog was considered the main deity. They prayed to him in an unusual way.

At feasts, the pagans all drank together from the same cup and cursed themselves so that the god of misfortune in his underworld would see that he was recognized, respected and loved.