This paper examines the pagan Slavonic gods and the way in which their functions might mirror the tripartite division of pagan society into juridical/magic, military, and economic functions. Toporov, for instance, sees the main Russian gods as Stribog, Perun, Volos, paralleling the Roman Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus and Germanic Odin, Thor, Freyr. Particular attention is paid to the origin and meaning of Common Slavonic *bogŭ vis-à-vis *divŭ and to the one pagan god probably common to Slavs and Balts, Perun/Perkūnas. The study is presented under the following headings: The chief Indo-European deity; Traces of the chief Indo-European deity in Slavonic; The form *bogŭ The religious dualism divŭ vs. bogŭ The Elbe/Baltic Slavs' chief deity; The pagan Slavs worshipped a chief deity; Another aspect of the chief deity; The pagan Slavs' chief deity; The fertility-protecting function; The position of Veles/Volos; Conclusion. Though it would be possible to force Slavonic pagan religion into the framework of an Indo-European/Indo-Iranian triadic structure of the pantheon, reflected in a similar view of society, it is concluded that the limited amount of firm evidence requires that one should proceed circumspectly in any attempt to project hypotheses onto an entire linguistic group.