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Dazhbog

the giving god, sun that rides

fire

Dazhbog is the sun who crosses the sky each day in a chariot of white fire, dispenser of warmth and fortune; to dream of him is to be reminded that light is a gift given daily, spent freely, and never meant to be hoarded.

Fragments

At dawn he is a radiant youth mounting the eastern gate; by dusk an old man sinking silver into the west, and each night he is reborn behind the world.

The old people called themselves his grandchildren and swore their oaths by his face, for a lie told in his light was said to rot the tongue that told it.

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