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Podaga (also , ) is a Polabian deity who had his statue in a temple in Plön. Mentioned only in Helmold's Chronicle, which does not give a depiction or function of the deity.

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Deity.type
Slavic
Deity.name
Podaga
Deity.region
Polabia
Deity.cult_center
Plön
Deity.texts
Chronica Slavorum
Deity.venerated_in
Polabian religion

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Podaga (also , ) is a Polabian deity who had his statue in a temple in Plön. Mentioned only in Helmold's Chronicle, which does not give a depiction or function of the deity.

According to Aleksander Brückner, it is impossible to read the name Podaga. Grigoriy Il'inskiy concluded that Podaga is another form of Dazhbog (from *Podabog), while Roman Jakobson concluded that Podaga is a corrupted notation of Dazhbog.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Podaga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.