File:The Seven Gods -- Maxim Sukharev.jpg
Original file (611 × 999 pixels, file size: 241 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary[edit]
The Seven Gods | |||
---|---|---|---|
Artist |
Maxim Sukharev (Максим Сухарев) |
||
Title |
The Seven Gods |
||
Description |
The artwork represents the seven major deities of Slavic theo-cosmology, together constituting the hierarchy emanating from the supreme God, Rod (the concept of generation itself). ① The central axis is Svarog ("Heaven"), comprising his three forms: the four-faced Svetovid ("Worldseer"), Perun ("Thunder") at the very centre, and Svarozhich ("Son of Heaven") below. Further below Svarozhich there is another form of he himself contained in a squared receptacle, Ognebog ("Fire God"). ② On the right and left hand of Svetovid there are, respectively, Belobog ("White God") and Chernobog ("Black God"), themselves in the guise of Dazhbog ("Day God") and Jutrobog ("Moon God"). They are the supreme polarity upon which all the alternating ways of divine manifestation rely. ③ To the left and to the right of the white figure of Perun, there are, respectively, the black figure of the great goddess Mokosh/Mat Syra Zemlya ("Wetness/Damp Mother Earth") and the red figure of Veles (the male god belonging to the Earth and god of tamed animals). ④ The three forms of Svarog and the three gods Perun, Veles and Mokosh constitute intersecting trinities (Triglav, Tribog), which correspond to the three dimensions: Prav, Yav and Nav. Prav, literally "Right", is ultimately the central axis of Heaven itself, functioning as the medium of all dimensions of space-time. In the guise of thunder (Perun) it impregnates matter (Mokosh), which retains its rhythmic squaring regulations (thus constituting Nav, which is the continuity of time); in the guise of the Son of Heaven it comes to light in present reality (Yav), and is fostered by humanity (Veles), and preserved as the hearth (Ognebog). |
||
Date |
2010s date QS:P571,+2010-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 |
||
Place of creation | Russia | ||
Source/Photographer | Maxim Sukharev's * vьsь mirъ (Vesemir) gallery of his works on Slavic spirituality. | ||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
Licensing[edit]
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 17:46, 13 October 2019 | 611 × 999 (241 KB) | Wojsław Brożyna (talk | contribs) | better resolution | |
22:05, 20 June 2017 | 507 × 828 (519 KB) | Eckhardt Etheling (talk | contribs) | {{Artwork |artist=Maxim Sukharev (Максим Сухарев) |title=The Seven Gods |place of creation=Russia |description=The artwork represents the seven major deities of Slavic theo-cosmology, together constituting the hierarchy emanating from the... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on nl.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Software used | |
---|---|
Subsampling ratio of Y to C |
|
Exif version | 2.2 |