The other one Zernebug, that is the black god him they held for a god who did harm. One they called Bialbug, that is the white god him they held for a good god. In addition, they worshipped the sun and the moon and, lastly, two gods whom they venerated above all other gods. They placed their kings and lords, who ruled well, above the gods and honored the said men after their death. Earlier yet, their ways are said to have been even more pagan. I have heretofore related all manner of faithlessness and idolatry, in which they had engaged before the time of the German Empire. In 1538, the Pomeranian chronicler Thomas Kantzow in his Chronicle of Pomerania wrote: This information is also considered unbelievable because it came into being late, when the Lusatian paganism was probably completely extinct and about half of the gods he mentioned are of Prussian origin. At the end of the 17th century, Abraham Frencel also mentioned the Chernobog in his list of the Lusatian gods. They believed that although his sources were numerous and varied, he used them uncritically. Although he lived in or near the Lusatian region, he probably only used written sources and monastic stories, and not field research, which quickly made his work unbelievable by many historians, including Georg Fabricius and Petrus Albinus. Around 1530, a Dominican monk from Pirna, Johan Lindner, recalls the gods in his compilation. The next sources that speak of Chernobog and/or Belobog appear only in the 16th century. īelobog does not appear in any reliable sources – he was recreated in opposition to Chernobog. Hence, also, in their language they call the bad god Diabol, or Zcerneboch, that is, the black god. At their feasts and carousals, they pass about a bowl over which they utter words, I should not say of consecration but of execration, in the name of gods-of the good one, as well as of the bad one-professing that all propitious fortune is arranged by the good god, adverse, by the bad god.

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