Editing Chernobog and Belobog (section)

=== Later sources ===
The next sources that speak of Chernobog and/or Belobog appear only in the 16th century. Around 1530, a Dominican friar from [[Pirna]], Johan Lindner, recalls the gods in his compilation. Although he lived in or near the [[Lusatia]]n region, he probably only used written sources and monastic stories, and not field research, which made many historians deem his work unreliable, including [[Georg Fabricius]] and [[Petrus Albinus]]. They believed that although his sources were numerous and varied, he used them uncritically. At the end of the 17th century, {{ill|Abraham Frencel|lt=Abraham Frencel|de|Abraham Frencel|WD=}} also mentioned the Chernobog in his list of the Lusatian gods. This information is also considered unreliable because it came into being late, when the Lusatian paganism was probably completely extinct and about half of the gods he mentioned are of [[Prussia (region)|Prussian]] origin.{{Sfn|Gorbachov|2017|p=}}{{Sfn|Strzelczyk|1998|p=57–58}}

In 1538, the Pomeranian chronicler [[Thomas Kantzow]] in his ''Chronicle of Pomerania'' wrote:
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I have heretofore related all manner of faithlessness and idolatry, in which they had engaged before the time of the German Empire. Earlier yet, their ways are said to have been even more pagan. They placed their kings and lords, who ruled well, above the gods and honored the said men [as gods] after their death. In addition, they worshipped the sun and the moon and, lastly, two gods whom they venerated above all other gods. One [of them] they called ''Bialbug'', that is the white god; him they held for a good god. The other one [they called] ''Zernebug'', that is the black god; him they held for a god who did harm. Therefore, they honored ''Bialbug'', because he did them good and so that he might [continue to] do them good. ''Zernebug'', on the other hand, they honored so that he should not harm them. And they appeased the said ''Zernebug'' by sacrificing people, for they believed that there was no better way of assuaging him than with human blood, which is actually true, if only they had seen it in the right light: that ''Zernebug'' seeks nothing other than the death of Man's body and soul.{{Sfn|Gorbachov|2017|p=235}}
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Then [[Sebastian Münster]], in ''Cosmographiae universalis'' of 1550, describes the harvest ritual associated with [[Svetovid|Svetovit]] and continues: "In general they (the Rugians) worshipped two gods, namely ''Belbuck'' and ''Zernebuck'', as if a white and a black god, a good and an evil [[Genius (mythology)|genius]], God and Satan, as the source of good and evil, according to the error of the [[Manichaeism|Manichaeans]]". The works of Kantzov and Münster are probably independent of each other (various forms of recording the name of the Belobog, the ''Chronicle of Pomerania'' was first published, but it was not published until the 19th century), but they use a common source, which, according to Miroslava Znayenko, could be the archive of the Abbey of {{ill|Białoboki (Trzebiatów)|lt=Białoboki|pl|Białoboki (Trzebiatów)|WD=}}, where the Belobog was forged. [[Daniel Cramer]], a theologian and professor from [[Szczecin]], probably held in his hands a copy of a chronicle from this archive or saw a quote from it, because in his ''Pommerisches Kirchen-Chronicon'' he probably paraphrased a part of it:{{Sfn|Gorbachov|2017|p=}}
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To this monastery they (the founding monks) gave the name ''Belbug'', [more] correctly ''Bialbuck'', which in the Wendish tongue means literally ‘the white god,’ thus to give [the Slavs] to understand that, unlike their (the Slavs’) heathen ancestors, the Christians did not know of any ''black god''. The name [Belbug] also well befits the clothes of the Premonstratensians, who [always] went dressed in white. The foundation of the monastery took place anno 1163.{{Sfn|Gorbachov|2017|p=237}}
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Chernobog also appears in the anonymous ''Historia Caminensis'' as the god of the [[Vandals]], which is based on a work by Münster (both works speak of the "error of the Manichaeans"). Chernobog and Belobog also appear in other minor texts.{{Sfn|Gorbachov|2017|p=}}