Perun guards Yav, the visible mortal world, from his seat at the top of the World Tree. His thunderbolts strike down threats rising from Nav (the underworld) and enforce cosmic order across the realm of the living.
Triglav's second head oversees Yav, the mortal world, as part of his triple dominion over all cosmic realms described in the Szczecin temple cult.
Rod created Yav, the mortal world, from the cosmic egg. From the egg's substance came the earth and waters of the middle realm where humans would dwell.
⚠ Rod's role as creator of a three-realm cosmos is scholarly reconstruction. Primary medieval sources connect Rod with fate and birth rather than cosmogony; the cosmic egg motif derives 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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