In 1824 the Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Bernhard Severin Ingemann was a Danish novelist and poet.Ingemann was born in Thorkildstrup, on the island of Falster, Denmark. The son of a vicar, he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first collection of poems Bernhard Severin...

 (1789–1862) published his thesis on North-Slavic and Wendish

Wends

Wends is a historic name for West Slavs living near Germanic settlement areas. It does not refer to a homogeneous people, but to various peoples, tribes or groups depending on where and when it is used...

 mythology

Mythology

The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

 in which he established the following pantheon:

First line of gods (good):
Triglau

Triglav (mythology)

Triglav also sometimes called troglav is a deity in Slavic mythology.It is generally believed that Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia and Troglav, highest peak of Dinara in Bosnia and...

 (Bog), Swantewit

Svetovid

Sventevith, Sventovid , Svyatovit , Svyatovid , Svyentovit , Svetovid , Suvid Sventevith, Sventovid (Russian and Bulgarian, and alternative name in Serbo-Croatian), Svyatovit (Ukrainian), Svyatovid (alternative name in Ukrainian), Svyentovit (alternative name in Ukrainian), Svetovid (Serbian,...

, Radegast, Prove, Sieba, Siebog

Siebog

In Slavic mythology Siebog is the god of love and marriage. He is consort to the goddess of love and marriage Živa....

, Schwayxtix, Zislbog

Zislbog

Zislbog was a goddess of the moon in Wendish mythology. By the name of Kricco the Wends worshipped her as the protector of the seed....

, Podaga

Podaga

In Wendish mythology Podaga is the weather god and the god of fishing, hunting and farming....

, Rugiwit, Karewit

Karewit

In Wendish mythology Karewit is the protector of the ancient town of Charenza on Rugia. Depicted alone, his naked statue has a head with two faces, an oxen's head on his chest and a rooster's head on his belly. Depicted together with Rugiewit, he has six heads, four male and two female ones. His...

, Juthrbog

Juthrbog

In Wendish mythology Juthrbog is the god of the moon....

, Dziewonna

Dziewona

Devana or Dziewanna is the Slavic equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana, whose name is said to appear very late in Slavic history. However, all her names that derive from Slavic translate to "The Maiden"....

, Woda

Odin

Odin is a major god in Norse mythology and the ruler of Asgard. Homologous with the Anglo-Saxon "Wōden" and the Old High German "Wotan", the name is descended from Proto-Germanic "*Wodanaz" or "*Wōđanaz"....

 (Odin), and Balduri

Balder

Baldr is a god in Norse mythology.In the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story...

 (Balder).

The second line of gods (evil):
Zernebog

Chernobog

Chernobog is a Slavic deity, about whom much has been speculated but little can be said definitively. The name may also be given as Crnobog, Czernobóg, Černobog, Црнобог, Zernebog and Чернобог, meaning black god...

 (Pya), Percunust

Perun

In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning. His other attributes were the fire, mountains, the oak, iris, eagle, firmament , horses and carts, weapons and war...

, Flins, Zirnitra

Zirnitra

In Wendish mythology Zirnitra, or Zir, is a black Slavic dragon and the god of sorcery. The image of Zirnitra was employed on a Wendish flag when the Wends fought the invading Saxons. Zirnitra literally means magically empowered....

 (Zir), Berstuk, Marowit

Marowit

In Wendish mythology Marowit is the god of nightmares....

 (House God), and Hela (Hel).

Living close to Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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, the Wends adopted a few gods from Norse mythology

Norse mythology

Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology, is the overall term for the myths, legends and beliefs about supernatural beings of Norse pagans. It flourished prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, during the Early Middle Ages, and passed into Nordic folklore, with some aspects surviving...

 but these Teutonic gods never played a central role in the Wendish mythology.

Mythical beings

• Boginki
  Boginki
  The Boginki are spirits in Polish mythology. Traditionally, covens of old women would perform sacrifices and rituals for the nymphs of the riverbanks. Boginki were said to steal babies from their human parents that were replaced with Odmience – the Changed Ones...
  
  
• Bozaloshtsh
• Ipabog
  Ipabog
  Ipabog was a demigod in Wendish mythology. He was a famous hunter and a hero.Ipabog Probably god of the hunt. Depicted as a small figure with a huge head, with a long, straight beard, prominent cheekbones. He wears a round helmet with two horns and a formless gown which reaches down to the knees...
  
  
• Plusso
  Plusso
  According to a Wendish legend Plusso or Blusso killed Johannes Scotus, Bishop of Mecklenburg in sacrifice to Radegast during a pagan rebellion against Christianity in the Holy Roman Empire on November 10, 1066...
  
  
• Pscipolnitsa
• Rusalki
• Sadko
  Sadko
  Sadko is a Russian medieval epic . The title character is an adventurer, merchant and gusli musician from Novgorod.-Synopsis:Sadko played the gusli on the shores of a lake. The Sea Tsar enjoyed his music, and offered to help him...
  
  
• Skrzak
  Skrzak
  The skrzak or skrzat is a little flying imp in Polish and Wendish mythology....
  
  , skrzat
• Zois