Prove

The domains array holds one entry and it describes the cult rather than a sphere, because Helmold gives a place, a tree, a fence and a negative — no idol — and no function whatever. Writing him up as a god of law on the strength of a contested etymology would be inventing a sphere out of a guess about a name, which this programme does not do. What he is, on the evidence, is a god known by where he was worshipped.

Domains

• sacred grove and assembly

Relations

• named alongside: ŽivaA textual relation and labelled as one. Helmold names them in a single sentence as the gods of neighbouring peoples; there is no myth in which they appear together, because there is no Polabian myth at all. The kind says 'named alongside' so that nobody can read a pantheon into it.Reference treatment of Helmold's sentence naming Prove god of the land of Oldenburg and Siwa goddess of the Polabians. (secondary)

Sources

• Prove is the god of the land of Oldenburg among the Wagrians, named by Helmold of Bosau and worshipped at an enclosed oak grove that held no idol, which Helmold saw in 1156.: Reference treatments of Prove, of Helmold's Chronica Slavorum and of the Oldenburg grove. (secondary)