It starts with the mention of Helmold of Bozow in the Chronica Slavorum around 1168, in which he tells about the wealth of holy groves and gods among Slavs.

[5] Karl Gottlob von Anton describes a mountain named "after Chernebog" "near Wuißke" in Erste Linien eines Versuchs über der Alten Slaven Ursprung, Sitten, Gebräuche, Meinungen und Kenntnisse (Leipzig, 1783).

The contemporary Adolf Traugott von Gersdorff first described this mountain as "Mount of Meschwitz or Zschernebug" in his topographical drawings in 1789 and kept the name (later written Tschernebog).

Karl Benjamin Preusker mentioned in his Ober-Lausitzische Altertümer from 1828 various legends and many folk tales that took place around the rocks of Czorneboh.

For example, the oracle of the gods, places of devils, pilgrimages and victims of "pagan reactions," as well as speculation on the destruction and burial of "ancient objects".

[10] The first detailed legends appeared in 1839 in Heinrich Gottlob Gräve's Volkssagen und volksthümliche Denkmale der Lausitz,[11] and by the middle of the century, there is more than half a dozen of them.

[12] In 1927, the Bautzen priest, historian and chronicler Erwin Wienecke criticized the discussion about the name of the mountain: "The public opinion was more interested in the bootless "will to prove" than in a logical, definitive solution".

[13] His strong emphasis met with the support of the movements of National Socialist decision-makers and became binding during the Germanization of town names.

For a long time, this interpretation was regarded as evidence of a former place of worship with an oracle on top of the mountain, typical of the Slavic religion.

[17] Even before Czorneboh received this mythological name, the group of stones on its top was associated with the idea of a Slavic place of worship on the mountain.

In Lusatia, there are remains of about 30 Slavic ramparts, 10 of which can be reached in an hour's walk from the foot of Czorneboh (Blösa, Zschorna, Kirschau, Niethen, Lauske, Doberschau, Schöps (2×), Nechen, Belgern).

From the discovery of a stone axe and Slavic debris in Halbendorf, the bronze Age finds in Köblitz and the numerous Sorbian field names in the Cunewald valley, it can be concluded that the south of Czorneboh was also inhabited in prehistoric times.

[23] The Chorneboh mountain range also forms the southern border of the settlement area of the Lusatian culture in the Bronze Age.

Although Czorneboh as a historical place of worship has not yet been proven archaeologically, it was already in the early modern era a projection site for various mythological ideas.

Combined with the revival of regional historical interests and the opinion of medieval and early-modern historians, it became clear that the cult of the Chernebog, or at least some deity of night and death, was also found in Finsterwald ("dark, black forest").

[26] In 1841, Karl Benjamin Preusker drew a stone formation of a mountain peak, which the legend says, which he called the "Altar of Belebog".

[31] Since 2008, the public and school observatory Bruno-H.-Bürgel in Sohland/Spree, Department of Archaeoastronomy, has been examining various rocks in Upper Lusatia for their suitability for calendar solar observations.