Hand Carved Zbruch Idol Slavic Gods Statue - Perun, Makosh, Lada, Dajbog

This is a wooden copy of the famous Zbruch idol. It can be ordered in two sizes: 28 centimeters(11 inches) & 37 centimeters(14.5 inches). The statue is covered with wax & linseed oil. Only a single copy! The Zbruch Idol, Sviatovid is a 9th-century sculpture, more precisely an example of a bawan, & one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs. The pillar was commonly incorrectly associated with the Slavic deity Svetovid, although current opinions on the exact meaning of all the bas-reliefs & their symbols differ. It is thought that the three tiers of bas-relief represent the three levels of the world, from the bottom underworld, to the middle mortal world & the uppermost, largest, world of heavenly gods. The Zbruch Idol is a four-sided pillar of grey limestone, 2.67 m (105,11 inches) in height, & has three tiers of reliefs engraved upon each of the four sides. Three sides of the lowest tier show a kneeling, bearded entity who appears to support the upper tier on his hands; the fourth side is blank. The middle tier shows a smaller entity with extended arms on all four sides. The four sides of the uppermost tier have the largest figures of the idol, with four faces united beneath a tall rounded hat. Each of the sides has a distinct attribute: a ring or a bracelet; a drinking horn, or horn of plenty, & a tiny child figure; a sword & a horse; & an eroded solar symbol. Boris Rybakov in his 1987 work Paganism of Ancient Rus argued that four sides of the top tier represent four different Slavic gods, two female & two male, with their corresponding middle-tier entities always of the opposite gender. in Rybakov's hypothesis, the male deity with the horse & sword is the Lightning god Perun, the female with the horn of plenty is Mokosh, the female with the ring is Lada, & the male deity with the solar symbol, above the empty underworld, is Dabog. Hand Carved Zbruch Idol Slavic Gods Statue - Perun, Makosh, Lada, Dajbog