Simargl, the winged fire deity, guards the boundary between the mortal world and Vyraj, keeping watch over the sacred tree whose branches reach toward the Slavic paradise.
Simargl, the winged hound, guards the World Tree and its sacred fire, preventing malevolent forces from reaching the cosmic axis connecting the three realms of Slavic cosmology.
In 980 CE, Prince Vladimir I erected idols of six deities on a hill in Kiev, establishing the state pantheon of Kievan Rus'. Perun held supremacy with his silver-headed, gold-mustached idol, alongside Khors, Dazhbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh.
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