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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Viy
Slavic underworld terror
a monstrous earth spirit whose eyelids drag to the ground, lifted by demons to reveal a killing gaze that destroys all it sees
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
