Rugievit
Slavic · deity · pantheon era · Recorded classification
Eight swords and seven faces, and nothing else survives: no myth, no consort, no story. That is the ordinary condition of Slavic religion in the written record — a statue counted by an enemy and then destroyed — and the record does not pad it out with reconstruction.
Domains
- warfare
Relations
- companion: PorevitOne of the three gods of the same stronghold.Reference treatment of the three temples in the stronghold, dedicated to Rugiaevit, Porevit and Porenut. (secondary)
Sources
- Rugievit is one of the three gods of the Rügen stronghold described by Saxo Grammaticus, his statue having seven faces, seven swords at his belt and an eighth in his hand.: Reference treatments of Rugiaevit and the Rügen temples. (secondary)