Porenut

A statue holding its own fifth face up by the chin is the single most peculiar image in the Slavic record, and what it meant is not known. Saxo counted the faces and moved on. This is what the tradition's attestation actually looks like, and it is worth having in the corpus in that condition rather than dressed up.

Relations

• companion: PorevitOne of the three.Reference treatment of the three temples of the stronghold. (secondary)

Sources

• Porenut is one of the three gods of the Rügen stronghold, whose statue had four faces and a fifth on the breast, held up by both hands.: Reference treatment of Porenut and the Rügen temples. (secondary)