What is the name of the Slavic sun god, son of Svarog?

Dazhbog is the Slavic sun god described in medieval tradition as the son of Svarog. His name appears in several Old East Slavic sources, making him one of the better-attested deities of the early Slavic pantheon.

The father-and-son relationship comes most clearly from a passage derived from the sixth-century Byzantine chronicle of John Malalas. In the Slavic version, Hephaestus is identified with Svarog, and the sun god Helios is renamed Dazhbog. The passage calls him the Sun and presents him as Svarog’s successor.

Dazhbog also appears in the Primary Chronicle’s account of Prince Vladimir’s idols at Kyiv in 980. He is often interpreted as a giver of wealth or life-giving solar power, and medieval Rus sources call princes the “grandchildren” of Dazhbog, suggesting an ancestral or cultural-hero role. Scholars note that the evidence is not perfectly consistent: the solar interpretation and the genealogy depend heavily on a translated, difficult text.