Worshipped in sacred oak groves, he sometimes took the form of an eagle perched on top of a world-tree, and his chief rival was the snake Veles, whose attempts to hide on earth were the reason for lightning strikes.
This god's father was responsible for making Zmey pull a plough and separating the land of the living, Nav, from the land of the dead, Jav. This god notably won a battle before stating "Well, there is your place, stay there!" He succeeded the archaic figure Rod as the chief god, and he later became syncretized with the figure of Elijah. Worshipped in sacred oak groves, he sometimes took the form of an eagle perched on top of a world-tree, and his chief rival was the snake Veles, whose attempts to hide on earth were the reason for lightning strikes. This son of Svarog was depicted with a silver head and golden mustache in the idols that were destroyed during Vladimir I's Christianization. For 10 points, name this god, the chief figure of pre- Christian paganism among the Slavic peoples.
This god's father was responsible for making Zmey pull a plough and separating the land of the living, Nav, from the land of the dead, Jav.
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