Živa, Zhiva (Latin: Siwa) is a mother goddess of one of the tribes belonging to the Obodritic confederation of the Polabian Slavs.

He described the strengthening of the pagan cult during the reign of Niklot: In those days, the multifarious worship of idols and the error of superstition were fortified throughout Slavia.

The Copenhagen, Lübeck and Szczecin manuscripts indicate that the name contained the grapheme ⟨w⟩ ([v]); the Szczecin notation was created as a result of frequent ⟨u⟩ → ⟨n⟩ alternation and reflected the form *Syuua, while the double ⟨u⟩ = ⟨w⟩, which indicates the original form *Sywa (*Syva).

Živa is also a personal name attested in several Slavic languages, e.g. the Old Polabian personal name *Živa (Latin: Zive, 1336), the Old Polish surname Żywa (Latin: Siwa, Sywa, Szywa, Szyva), the Serbo-Croatian given name Živa, the Bulgarian Zhiva, and others.

[3] Vyacheslav Ivanov i Vladimir Toporov considered Živa to be an epithet of the goddess Mokosh[4] (which was preserved in the names of the Polabians after Christianization[5]).