Perun presides over Prav, the celestial realm of truth and cosmic order atop the World Tree, from which he upholds divine law and hurls lightning against the forces of chaos lurking in Nav below.
⚠ The tripartite cosmology of Prav/Yav/Nav and Perun's lordship over Prav comes from scholarly reconstruction (Ivanov & Toporov) rather than direct textual attestation.
Svarog holds dominion over Prav, the celestial realm of divine law — from the highest tier of the cosmos, the sky-father's authority radiates downward through the ordered world he shaped on his anvil.
⚠ Svarog's role as supreme sky god ruling Prav is a scholarly reconstruction. The Hypatian Codex mentions Svarog briefly in translation of Malalas; his dominion over a heavenly realm specifically named Prav is not attested in primary sources.
Triglav's three heads each govern one of the three cosmic realms — his first head rules Prav, the heavenly order, as described by medieval chroniclers of the Szczecin temple.
⚠ The medieval chronicles describe Triglav's three heads governing sky, earth, and underworld. The specific mapping to Prav-Yav-Nav is a modern interpretive framework applied to the chronicle accounts.
Rod created the universe from the cosmic egg, separating light from darkness, sky from earth, and establishing the three realms of Prav, Yav, and Nav as the fundamental structure of existence.
⚠ Rod's creation of a three-realm cosmos is a scholarly reconstruction. Primary sources mention Rod in connection with fate and birth, not cosmogony. The cosmic egg motif is borrowed from comparative Indo-European mythography.
The World Tree in Slavic cosmology connects three realms: Nav (the underworld of the dead), Prav (the heavenly realm of the gods), and Yav (the middle world of the living).
⚠ The three-world division (Prav-Yav-Nav) connected by a World Tree is a scholarly reconstruction. While the World Tree motif and the concept of nav' (the dead) are attested separately, their organization into this specific cosmological structure draws heavily on comparative Indo-European models.
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