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Svarog

the sky-smith, father of the forge

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Svarog forged the sun and struck the first fire from the anvil of heaven; to dream of him is to feel the heat of something being made in you, hammered slow and true, and to trust the maker not to quench it early.

Fragments

He let his forge burn untended once, and where the sparks fell, mortals learned at last to smelt the ore and marry the man to the wife with iron rings.

The sun is his handiwork, cooling upon the anvil of the horizon each dusk, and each dawn he heats it white and hurls it up the sky again.

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