What is triglav among the Slavs. Triglav: what it gives and who it suits

There are four continua (temples), but one of them, the main one, was built with amazing effort and skill. Inside and outside it had sculptures, images of people, birds and animals protruding from the walls, depicted so in accordance with their appearance that they seemed to be breathing and living... There was also a three-headed statue, which had three heads on one body, called Triglav; Having taken possession of it, [Otto] only the united heads, destroying the body, took with him as a trophy and later sent to Rome as proof of their conversion...

Original text(lat.)

Erant autem in civitate Stetinensi continae quatuor, sed una ex his, quae principalis erat, mirabili cultu et artificio constructa fuit, interius et ex-terius sculpturas habens, de parietibus prominentes irnagines hominum et volucrum et bestiarum, tam proprie suis habitutlinibus expressas, ut spirare pu-tares ac vivere... Erat autem ibi simulacrum triceps, quod in uno corpore tria capita habens Triglaus vocabatur; quod solum accipiena, ipsa capitella sibi cohaerentia, corpore commnmto, secum inde quasi pro tropheo asportavit, et postea Romam pro argumento conversionis illoruin transmisit…

Ebbon gives this description of the statue:

Triglav, in different ways of writing, is mentioned in a number of later sources. The forged Czech glosses Mater Verborum mention Triglav (lat. Trihlav - Triceps, qui alphabet capita tria capree ), and in the dissertation of A. Frentzel (Abraham Frentzel, 1719) Trigla is mentioned - the goddess of heaven, earth and hell. Triglava is described as a woman with three heads by A. S. Kaisarov in his treatise “Slavic and Russian Mythology” (1804)

Some researchers associate Triglav with the deity Trojan, who appears among the Slavic gods.

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I plopped down on the fluffy seat in frustration, not even noticing its “sparkling” beauty, completely angry with myself for my helplessness, and suddenly I felt my eyes sparkle treacherously... But I couldn’t cry in the presence of these amazing, courageous people. for which I didn’t want to!.. Therefore, in order to somehow concentrate, I began to mentally “grind” grains of unexpectedly received information, in order, again, to hide them carefully in my memory, without losing a single important word, without missing out some smart idea...
– How did your friends die? – asked the witch girl.
Stella showed the picture.
“They might not have died...” the old man sadly shook his head. - There was no need for that.
- How is it that it didn’t happen?! – disheveled Stella immediately jumped up indignantly. – They saved other good people! They had no choice!
– Forgive me, little one, but THERE IS ALWAYS A CHOICE. It is only important to be able to choose correctly... Look - and the elder showed what Stella showed him a minute ago.
“Your warrior friend tried to fight evil here just as he fought it on Earth. But this is a different life, and the laws in it are completely different. Just like other weapons... Only you two did it right. And your friends were wrong. They could live for a long time... Of course, every person has the right of free choice, and everyone has the right to decide how to use their life. But this is when he knows how he could act, knows all the possible ways. But your friends didn't know. Therefore, they made a mistake and paid the highest price. But they had beautiful and pure souls, so be proud of them. Only now no one will ever be able to return them...
Stella and I were completely upset, and apparently in order to somehow “cheer us up,” Anna said:
– Do you want me to try to call my mother so you can talk to her? I think you would be interested.
I was immediately fired up by a new opportunity to find out what I wanted!.. Apparently Anna managed to completely see through me, since this really was the only way that could make me forget everything else for a while. My curiosity, as the witch girl rightly said, was my strength, but also my greatest weakness at the same time...
“Do you think she will come?..” I asked with hope for the impossible.
– We won’t know until we try, right? Nobody will punish you for this,” Anna answered, smiling at the effect produced.
She closed her eyes, and from her thin sparkling figure a blue thread pulsating with gold stretched somewhere into the unknown. We waited with bated breath, afraid to move, lest we accidentally startle something... Several seconds passed - nothing happened. I was about to open my mouth to say that apparently nothing would work out today, when suddenly I saw a tall transparent entity slowly approaching us along the blue channel. As she approached, the channel seemed to “fold up” behind her back, and the essence itself became more and more dense, becoming similar to all of us. Finally, everything around her had completely collapsed, and now a woman of absolutely incredible beauty stood before us!.. She was clearly once earthly, but at the same time, there was something about her that made her no longer one of us... already different - distant... And not because I knew that after her death she “went” to other worlds. She was just different. Images of Triglav could differ significantly from each other in size. In Gostkovo, for example, it was so large that the conquerors could not knock it down even with the help of several pairs of oxen. And in Yulin, this god, cast from gold, was so small that he was hidden from the advancing knights in a hollow tree.
The idea of ​​a triune deity was also known to the Aryan Hindus, where he was called Trimurti. The statue consisted of the three main gods of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (in our opinion - Barma, the Most High and Siva). Thus, three most important functions were combined in one nature: creation (Brahma), storage (Vishnu) and destruction (Shiva). The Slavic-Russian idea was somewhat different: creation (Svarog), the law of Rule (Perun) and the divine Light (Svyatovit). Destruction could be used only in exceptional cases as punishment for non-compliance with the divine law of life.

Below Triglav were Belobog and Chernobog, who were in constant struggle with each other: the daylight was dimming in the approaching twilight, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by the morning dawn; Sadness was quickly replaced by joy: after cruelty and envy came the time of selfless and good deeds. The first god was depicted as a wise, gray-bearded and gray-haired old man, the second - as an ugly, skeletal “koschei”. However, Belobog and Chernobog were revered equally. In Pomerania there is a mountain called Belobog. In Poland these are places such as Bialobozhe and Bialobozhnitsa, in the Czech Republic - Belozhitsa, in Ukrainian Galicia - Belbozhnitsa. Near Moscow, next to Radonezh, there was a sanctuary of Belobog, and in Kostroma the Orthodox Trinity-Beloboga Monastery retained in its name the name of the ancient god of light and heat.
This god was especially revered in Belarus, where he was called Belun. Here they believed that a gray-bearded old man who looked like a sorcerer would definitely bring home a person lost in the forest. In a happy moment, Belarusians said: “It’s like I made friends with Belun.” Or: “It’s dark in the forest without Belun.”
The chronicler Helmold said that in medieval Slavia, during feasts, they passed a bowl of intoxicating honey through the rows and swore by Belobog and Chernobog. A wooden statue of the latter in the form of a humanoid beast with a runic inscription in the language of the Pomeranian Slavs: “Tsarni bu” (“Black God”) stood for a long time in the German city of Hamburg. Chernobog was considered evil. In Ukraine there was a strong curse: “May the black god kill you!”

A very interesting legend about two gods was preserved in the lands of the Don Army. The Cossacks believed that Belyak and Chernyak were twin brothers who always followed a person and recorded his deeds in special books. The good ones are “registered” by Belobog, the evil ones are registered by his brother. Nothing can be hidden from their gaze, but if you repent, the record of a bad deed will fade, although it will not disappear completely - God must read it after the death of a person. In the hour of sorrow, the brothers become visible, and then Belobog says to the dying man: “There is nothing to do, the son will finish your work.” And Chernobog always adds gloomily: “And he won’t be able to finish everything either.” The twins accompany the soul in the Hereafter until the Judgment, and then return to earth to accompany the next newborn until his death.
Some researchers see Belobog as a symbol of the Aryan faith, and Chernobog as Shiva the Destroyer. Others note that Belobog wore a white dress with black patches, and Chernobog wore all black, but with white patches on his clothes. This is exactly what the eastern symbols of Yin and Yang look like - two forces that, replacing each other, move the world in the eternal cycle of black and white existence. The World of Reveal is a field of eternal battle, a place of testing for people. Only the heavens of Rule are free from Darkness, and Nav does not know the Light.
The brothers Belobog and Chernobog follow a person everywhere and write down all his deeds, good and evil, in the books of fate. Later they were replaced by a guardian angel standing behind the right shoulder, and a devil behind the left.

Artist Viktor Korolkov

Artist Andrey Mazin

Foreign chroniclers considered Triglav one of the numerous host of Slavic gods, not realizing that this most important symbol expressed the very essence of our ancient faith: God is one, but he has many manifestations. Most often, these are three main entities: Svarog, Perun and Svyatovit (Sventovit).
The Boyan Hymn says:
... bow your head before Triglav!
This is how we started
they sang great glory to Him,
Svarog - the Grandfather of the Gods was praised,
what awaits us.
Svarog - Elder God of the Family of God
and to all the race - an ever flowing spring...
And the Thunderer - God Perun,
God of battles and struggle...
And we praised Sventovit.
He is both Right and God Reveal!
We sing songs to Him, because Sventovit is Light.

Therefore, we can say that any statue of the Slavic gods is Triglav. For this reason, many deities were depicted as multifaceted - multi-essential, and the German chronicler called Triglav the “greatest” deity of the Slavs. Triglav was revered by all Slavs, but some peoples worshiped him especially.

Near the city of Stetin, next to a healing spring, on the main of the three sacred hills, the magnificent Triglav Temple stood on high pillars covered with black cloth. At the foot of a single statue lay piles of treasure - a tenth of the spoils of war. The statue of the triune god was covered with a veil, and he had golden bandages on his mouth and eyes. It was believed that Triglav vigilantly monitors all the kingdoms: Rule, Reality and Navy. The gaze of God and his word had such power that they could easily break the thin barriers between worlds.

And then the worlds, mixed, would change places, and this would mean the end of the world. Therefore, Triglav was served by many priests, who made sure that his statue was always tightly covered with cloth, and they expressed the will of the god themselves. The black horses of Triglav were also used for predictions.

Near the temple in Stetin, three long buildings were built to hold public meetings, ending with cheerful feasts. Images of Triglav could differ significantly from each other in size. In Gostkovo, for example, it was so large that the conquerors could not knock it down even with the help of several pairs of oxen. And in Yulin, this god, cast from gold, was so small that he was hidden from the advancing knights in a hollow tree.
The idea of ​​a triune deity was also known to the Aryan Hindus, where he was called Trimurti. The statue consisted of the three main gods of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (in our opinion - Barma, the Most High and Siva). Thus, three most important functions were combined in one nature: creation (Brahma), storage (Vishnu) and destruction (Shiva). The Slavic-Russian idea was somewhat different: creation (Svarog), the law of Rule (Perun) and the divine Light (Svyatovit). Destruction could be used only in exceptional cases as punishment for non-compliance with the divine law of life.

Below Triglav were Belobog and Chernobog, who were in constant struggle with each other: the daylight was dimming in the approaching twilight, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by the morning dawn; Sadness was quickly replaced by joy: after cruelty and envy came the time of selfless and good deeds. The first god was depicted as a wise, gray-bearded and gray-haired old man, the second - as an ugly, skeletal “koshchei”. However, Belobog and Chernobog were revered equally. In Pomerania there is a mountain called Belobog. In Poland these are places such as Bialobozhe and Bialobozhnitsa, in the Czech Republic - Belozhitsa, in Ukrainian Galicia - Belbozhnitsa. Near Moscow, next to Radonezh, there was a sanctuary of Belobog, and in Kostroma the Orthodox Trinity-Beloboga Monastery retained in its name the name of the ancient god of light and heat.

This god was especially revered in Belarus, where he was called Belun. Here they believed that a gray-bearded old man who looked like a sorcerer would definitely bring home a person lost in the forest. In a happy moment, Belarusians said: “It’s like I made friends with Belun.” Or: “It’s dark in the forest without Belun.”
The chronicler Helmold said that in medieval Slavia, during feasts, they passed a bowl of intoxicating honey through the rows and swore by Belobog and Chernobog. A wooden statue of the latter in the form of a humanoid beast with a runic inscription in the language of the Pomeranian Slavs: “Tsarni bu” (“Black God”) stood for a long time in the German city of Hamburg. Chernobog was considered evil. In Ukraine there was a strong curse: “May the black god kill you!”

A very interesting legend about two gods was preserved in the lands of the Don Army. The Cossacks believed that Belyak and Chernyak were twin brothers who always followed a person and recorded his deeds in special books. The good ones are “registered” by Belobog, the evil ones are registered by his brother. Nothing can be hidden from their gaze, but if you repent, the record of a bad deed will fade, although it will not disappear completely - God must read it after the death of a person. In the hour of sorrow, the brothers become visible, and then Belobog says to the dying man: “There is nothing to do, the son will finish your work.” And Chernobog always adds gloomily: “And he won’t be able to finish everything either.” The twins accompany the soul in the Hereafter until the Judgment, and then return to earth to accompany the next newborn until his death.
Some researchers see Belobog as a symbol of the Aryan faith, and Chernobog as Shiva the Destroyer. Others note that Belobog wore a white dress with black patches, and Chernobog wore all black, but with white patches on his clothes. This is exactly what the eastern symbols of Yin and Yang look like - two forces that, replacing each other, move the world in the eternal cycle of black and white existence. The World of Revealing is a field of eternal battle, a place of testing for people. Only the heavens of Rule are free from Darkness, and Nav does not know the Light.
The brothers Belobog and Chernobog follow a person everywhere and write down all his deeds, good and evil, in the books of fate. Later they were replaced by a guardian angel standing behind the right shoulder, and a devil behind the left.

Foreign chroniclers considered Triglav one of the numerous host of Slavic gods, not realizing that this most important symbol expressed the very essence of our ancient faith: God is one, but he has many manifestations. Most often, these are three main entities: Svarog, Perun and Svyatovit (Sventovit). The Boyan Hymn says:

Bow your head before Triglav!
This is how we started
they sang great glory to Him,
Svarog - the Grandfather of the Gods was praised,
what awaits us.
Svarog - Elder God of the Family of God
and to all the race - an ever flowing spring...
And to the Thunderer - God Perun,
God of battles and struggle...
And we praised Sventovit.
He is both Right and God Reveal!
We sing songs to Him, because Sventovit is Light.

Therefore, we can say that any statue of the Slavic gods is Triglav. For this reason, many deities were depicted as multifaceted - multi-essential, and the German chronicler called Triglav the “greatest” deity of the Slavs.
Triglav was revered by all Slavs, but some peoples worshiped him especially. Near the city of Stetin, next to a healing spring, on the main of the three sacred hills, the magnificent Triglav Temple stood on high pillars covered with black cloth. At the foot of the only statue lay piles of treasure - a tenth of the spoils of war.
The statue of the triune god was covered with a veil, and he had golden bandages on his mouth and eyes. It was believed that Triglav vigilantly monitors all the kingdoms: Rule, Reality and Navy. The gaze of God and his word had such power that they could easily break the thin barriers between worlds.
And then the worlds, mixed, would change places, and this would mean the end of the world. Therefore, Triglav was served by many priests, who made sure that his statue was always tightly covered with cloth, and they expressed the will of the god themselves. The black horses of Triglav were also used for predictions.
Near the temple in Stetin, three long buildings were built to hold public meetings, ending with cheerful feasts.

Images of Triglav could differ significantly from each other in size. In Gostkovo, for example, it was so large that the conquerors could not knock it down even with the help of several pairs of oxen. And in Yulin, this god, cast from gold, was so small that he was hidden from the advancing knights in a hollow tree.
The idea of ​​a triune deity was also known to the Aryan Hindus, where he was called Trimurti. The statue consisted of the three main gods of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (in our opinion - Barma, the Most High and Siva). Thus, three most important functions were combined in one nature: creation (Brahma), storage (Vishnu) and destruction (Shiva). The Slavic-Russian idea was somewhat different: creation (Svarog), the law of Rule (Perun) and the divine Light (Svyatovit). Destruction could be used only in exceptional cases as punishment for non-compliance with the divine law of life.
Below Triglav were Belobog and Chernobog, who were in constant struggle with each other: the daylight was dimming in the approaching twilight, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by the morning dawn; Sadness was quickly replaced by joy: after cruelty and envy came the time of selfless and good deeds. The first god was depicted as a wise, gray-bearded and gray-haired old man, the second - as an ugly, skeletal “koschei”. However, Belobog and Chernobog were revered equally. In Pomerania there is a mountain called Belobog. In Poland these are places such as Bialobozhe and Bialobozhnitsa, in the Czech Republic - Belozhitsa, in Ukrainian Galicia - Belbozhnitsa. Near Moscow, next to Radonezh, there was a sanctuary of Belobog, and in Kostroma the Orthodox Trinity-Beloboga Monastery retained in its name the name of the ancient god of light and heat.
This god was especially revered in Belarus, where he was called Belun. Here they believed that a gray-bearded old man who looked like a sorcerer would definitely bring home a person lost in the forest. In a happy moment, Belarusians said: “It’s like I made friends with Belun.” Or: “It’s dark in the forest without Belun.”
The chronicler Helmold said that in medieval Slavia, during feasts, they passed a bowl of intoxicating honey through the rows and swore by Belobog and Chernobog. A wooden statue of the latter in the form of a humanoid beast with a runic inscription in the language of the Pomeranian Slavs: “Tsarni bu” (“Black God”) stood for a long time in the German city of Hamburg. Chernobog was considered evil. In Ukraine there was a strong curse: “May the black god kill you!”
A very interesting legend about two gods was preserved in the lands of the Don Army. The Cossacks believed that Belyak and Chernyak were twin brothers who always followed a person and recorded his deeds in special books. The good ones are “registered” by Belobog, the evil ones are registered by his brother. Nothing can be hidden from their gaze, but if you repent, the record of a bad deed will fade, although it will not disappear completely - God must read it after the death of a person. In the hour of sorrow, the brothers become visible, and then Belobog says to the dying man: “There is nothing to do, the son will finish your work.” And Chernobog always adds gloomily: “And he won’t be able to finish everything either.” The twins accompany the soul in the Hereafter until the Judgment, and then return to earth to accompany the next newborn until his death.
Some researchers see Belobog as a symbol of the Aryan faith, and Chernobog as Shiva the Destroyer. Others note that Belobog wore a white dress with black patches, and Chernobog wore all black, but with white patches on his clothes. This is exactly what the eastern symbols of Yin and Yang look like - two forces that, replacing each other, move the world in the eternal cycle of black and white existence. The World of Reveal is a field of eternal battle, a place of testing for people. Only the heavens of Rule are free from Darkness, and Nav does not know the Light.
The brothers Belobog and Chernobog follow a person everywhere and write down all his deeds, good and evil, in the books of fate. Later they were replaced by a guardian angel standing behind the right shoulder, and a devil behind the left.

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Slavic symbols Triglav consists of combinations of three great Slavic gods: Svarog-Perun-Sventovid. His idea is that God is both one and multiple, Svarog can manifest himself as Sventovid, and as Perun, and as other Triglavs (Small and Great). This symbol belongs to the Slavic god Triglav, who controls three substances (depicted on the symbol as small circles) - Reality, Rule and Nav.

As for its color design, it should be noted that the Great Slavic Triglav is a reflection of the three seasons that previously existed in the Slavic tribes: spring (the time of farmers), summer and autumn (this was one of the seasons of the year, which was the time of ripening and harvesting harvest), and winter (time for the earth to rest).

The ruler of the spring season was the god Sventovid, who at this time awakened from sleep, and then the first fresh green grass appeared on the earth - a symbol of new life. It is for this reason that Sventovid’s color is green. The Slavic god Perun was a reflection of the sun, his element was the flying season, therefore the color of Perun is yellow. Svarog in Slavic mythology is the god of the sky, for this reason his main color in the Triglav symbol is blue, the color of wisdom. Thus, the entire cycle of the year is displayed in Triglav: spring-summer-winter.

However, as we said earlier, the Triglav symbol differs from other symbols in its multidimensionality, therefore the image we describe is not its only one.

The Triglav symbol has not one meaning, but at least two - the personification of the interweaving of the three main elements: air-fire-earth. These elements were very revered in the ancient Slavic tribes, and accordingly, blue is water, yellow is fire, and green is earth.

As we have already established, the god Svarog corresponds to the color blue, the color of the sky. Blossom Navi. Navi is a world where the gods live along with the souls of deceased ancestors, who became the Perunichs and Svarozhichs. While in the world of Navi, they continue to maintain contact with their heirs, and in difficult times they appear in the world of the living, giving valuable advice, sharing their wisdom and experience. They usually appeared in dreams or in the form of birds, animals and other people. Knowing this, the living always try to respect their ancestors, and together with prayer they turn to them with a request or gratitude. To summarize, we can say that Svarga is Air, both physical (which we breathe) and spiritual (which feeds human souls).

Interesting fact: As a sign of great respect for the souls residing in Navi, as well as the god Svarog, the Slavs wore an earring with a blue stone in their left ear. A similar earring can be found in the image of Prince Svyatoslav, who honored the precepts of Vedic Rus'.

Perun – Yellow color

The color yellow belongs to the Slavic god Perun, who personifies the element of fire. His strength lay in the fact that he could throw fiery arrows, as well as lightning, at his enemies, due to which he blinded them with an unbearable bright light. At such moments, Perun takes the form of Indra - a formidable and merciless Warrior God. However, he was formidable only for his enemies, and for his Slavic children he served as a reliable Protector and acted as the patron of the harvest of Perun-Vergunets. The first prayers of the ancient Slavs were addressed to Dawn, who raised the Sun - Surya and Perun. The color of Perun is yellow, like the color of fire, so it’s like fire, it can be indomitable, sizzling, and a moment later a gentle, homely light.

Do not confuse Perun and Ognebog. The Fire God is in charge of the created flame, and Perun himself creates it.

Sventovid – green color

Sventovid is the personification of the earth. The earth in the symbol of Triglav is spring, green grass, the awakening of all living things from a long sleep. Sventovid’s color is green, the color of life. In the spring, the ancient Slavs glorified the wedding of Father Svarog and Mother Earth, whose children they are, singing songs, throwing wreaths of flowers and greenery to Svarga, and enjoying the warm sun. The element of earth is inextricably linked with the element of water, as it is an integral part of it, because the river flows underground, lakes also extend on the earth, as well as oceans.

The Slavic god Svarog and the Earth look into the water in order to be prolific, which is why they give birth to a son, Vergunets-Perunts, who united the Earth and Sky, since he is the patron of Fire and Water. When Heat and Dryness come to Earth, she raises her hands and prays to her son to send refreshing rain.

Another version of the trinity of gods Triglav

It is also worth noting that the Trinity of Svarog-Perun-Sventovid is often replaced by another trinity - Svarog-Perun-Dazhdbog. In their earthly incarnation they were called Did (Svarog - blue color) - Oak (Perun - green color) - Did (Dazhdbog - yellow color). According to sources, this trinity is more ancient than those previously listed. Despite the fact that in this version Perun moves from the yellow spectrum to green, and Dazhdbog personifies the color yellow, the overall color scheme of Triglav remains unchanged: blue-green-yellow. The three small circles on the symbol also have their own colors and meaning: white - Reality, red - Rule and blue - Nav.