Podaga

The emptiest record in this batch, and it is left empty on purpose. Domains is an empty array because the source names no sphere; sex is unspecified because the source does not say and the name gives no grammatical certainty; there is no iconography because Helmold, who describes Svetovid's neighbours in detail elsewhere, describes nothing here. The value of the record is that the name existed and had a temple, which is more than can be said for several better-known figures in this tradition. This is what the bottom of the Slavic evidence looks like, and the registry is better for holding it in that condition than for not holding it or for holding it dressed up.

Relations

• named alongside: Prove

Sources

• Reference treatments of Podaga and of Helmold's Chronica Slavorum.