Rugievit

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: Porevit

Sources

• Reference treatments of Rugiaevit and the Rügen temples.