Chislobog () is a
slavic pseudo-deity of time and/or numbers invented in the 20th century, mentioned in the ''
Book of Veles
The Book of Veles (also called the Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook or Isenbeck's Planks; ) is a literary forgery purporting to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history supposedly written on wooden planks.
It contains what purport to be ...
'', spelled as 'ченслобг' ("chenslobg") The book is normally seen as a
literary forgery
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir ...
which is claimed to be an ancient Slavic mythical text.
His name supposedly comes from the words number (, ''chislo'') and god (, bog).
He is also identified with Zislbocg/Zislbog from
Prillwitz idols, an 18th-century archaeological forgery. However,
Andreas Gottlieb Masch, who described the idols, wrote that while the previous figurine (in his list) is identified with the Sun, the one beside him must be an image of the Moon, while noticing that he was not familiar with the word.
[ Andreas Gottlieb Masch, Daniel Woge (illustrations)]
Die gottesdienstlichen Alterthümer der Obotriten aus dem Tempel zu Rhetra am Tollenzer See
1771, §§ 125-130
Despite his dubious origins, he is worshipped prominently in
Ynglism,
a new religious movement which claims to be reviving
ancient slavic religion.
Notes
References
{{Slavic mythology
Slavic pseudo-deities
Time and fate gods