Selling CHERNOBOG'S MASK

Chernobog (from Proto-Slavic *čĭrnŭ 'black' and *bogŭ "god") – also spelled as Chernevog, Czernobog, Chornoboh, Crnobog, Tchernobog and Zcerneboch among many other variants – is a Slavic deity whose name means "black god", about whom much has been speculated but little is attested and known definitively.

The only known historical sources for this god are a 12th-century Christian chronicle and the 13th-century Icelandic legend Knýtlinga saga, which describe him as a dark, accursed deity.

Although the ancient Slavic religion was chiefly polytheistic with a wide pantheon of gods, he has been historically assumed to be the dualistic counterpart or contrasting aspect of the "good" deity, Belobog (the "white god"). This dualism is a common theme amongst Eurasian religions. In modern depictions, such as video games and film, Chernobog is generally portrayed as a demon or monster with a grotesque or frightening appearance, often linked to darkness and death.

A longstanding historic source on Slavic mythology mentioning Chernobog is the 12th century Chronica Slavorum, a work written by the German priest-scribe Helmold which describes customs and beliefs of several Wendish and Polabian tribes, who were mostly still pagans at the time. He wrote thus in Medieval Latin:

“The Slavs, too, have a strange conviction: At their feasts and carousals they pass about a libation bowl over which they utter words — I should not say of consecration but of execration — in the name of the gods. Of the good one, as well as of the bad one, they profess that all propitious fortune is arranged by the good god, and all adverse by the bad god. Hence, also, in their language they call the bad god Diabol,[b] or Zcerneboch, that is, the "Black God".showLatin original text”— Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum

This passage has been the cornerstone for defenders of the thesis that Chernobog was an evil god part of a Slavic dualism, at least in that distinction.

The name of Chernobog, or more accurately the meaning of his name, is preserved in several curses in Slavic languages.

A veneration of this deity perhaps survived in the folklore of several Slavic nations. In some South Slavic vernaculars, there exists the phrase do zla boga (meaning "to [the] evil god", or perhaps "to [the] evil [of] god"), used as an attribute to express something which is exceedingly negative.

This mask has been used in my first feature-length film "St George killing the dragon" which is based on several folkloric stories from Pelješac (peninsula where I spent my childhood and where I am from) and around.

The movie was available on Youtube. However, this year I'm working on another one, a sequel, and I need a new, bit larger mask. I had doubts about selling this one, but I think it has seen many astonishing landscapes and that it can now retire (or not) somewhere else.

It is available for 120$ 10$ shipping.