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Visual depiction of Vodyanoy

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Vodyanoy

Slavic dangerous water spirit


a green-skinned old man of rivers and ponds, his body covered in algae, breaking the dams of those who anger him

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
death

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.