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: ProveThe contrast between the two cults is the only substantive thing said about either, and it is said by setting them side by side, so the edge records that and no more.Reference treatment: Helmold's chronicle names both, and the two cults differed in form — a sacred grove for Prove, an effigy in a temple for Podaga. (secondary)

Sources

• Podaga is a Polabian deity whose effigy was venerated in a temple at Plön, named only in Helmold's Chronica Slavorum, which gives no description and no function.: Reference treatments of Podaga and of Helmold's Chronica Slavorum. (secondary)