The book is not just a book describing the adventures of a hero. It is a work that helps to understand the Slavic world and its worldview. He acquaints us with the deities of ancient peoples and tries to explain their place and role in the life of s...
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M. Priesniakow. Dażbóg. 1998
From Dad'ьbogъ (Dad'ьboga), South Slavic Dabogъ (Daboga).
The introduction of Christianity degraded the original name of the deity and hence the Serbo-Croatian (folk mythology) Dȃbōg (Dȃbog), also Dȃjbog and Dȃjbōg and the hypothetical Daba, Dabo, rarely Dàžbog "evil spirit ruling the earth, Satan (silan kao Gospod Bog na nebesima); the deity of e.g. wolves, small cattle, the spirit of caring mines".
The personal name Dadzbog recorded from the 13th century (according to the 17th century), the local name: exists until today, in the 16th century Dzadźbogi na . (XV century) : Dabogowięta and old Ukrainian (from XIV century) Дажбоговичъ.
and speaks for the original form of Da-boggleъ, where the first part is a part of dati, the second part is a richъ "wealth, happiness, fate". The original meaning would be "giving happiness, destiny, wealth, divitias dans, deus dator".
The mention of Majbog was preserved in the Slavonic translation of the 10th or 11th century chronicle. At the end of the first book the translator tells how after the flood and dispersal of peoples ruled first Mestrom, then Jeremija () then Faeosta (), whom the Egyptians called god, and then at the beginning of the second book the translator of the names: Dażbóg and Swaróg probably, to bring the meaning to the Slavic reader:
After the death of whom and
Swarogically, he reigned
the son of his Sun (), whom they call
and Major.... The sun, on the other hand, the tsar,
the son of Swarogów, who is Japhethood
there was a strong husband....
did not want to violate the order of his father Swarog....
