Crnobog, or Чернобог as his very name shows, is Slavic black god
– god of darkness and winter deity. Slavs believed that cold,
famine, poverty, illness originated from this god. The holiday
of Korochun was devoted to him at the winter solstice longest
night of the year 21st to 22nd December. Cernobog was respected
as all the other gods. He was considered equal to other gods of
the pantheon. In some South Slavic vernaculars, there exists the
phrase "do zla boga" meaning to the evil god used as an
attribute to express something which is exceedingly negative.
Slavic believed that world was created by Crnobog and Belobog
who, through joint effort, brought their creation to perfection.
Although during the process of world creation the gods came into
conflict, precisely those actions they performed against each
other caused the universe to look as it does. Cernobog ruling
dark half of the year, opposed by Belobog – the ruler of the
sunny half. Chernobog has made appearances in various media like
in the "Night on Ba