#simargl

Dazbog | Domovoj | Basilisk | Rusalka | Simargl | Rarog

Last remaining pieces for my Slavic Deities and Bestiary series I've been working on past year and a half. Big thanks to my Patrons for making it possible! It was an honour to have the opportunity to create portrayals like these.

The exhibition is officially over but prints and postcards will remain available online. You can browse my gallery anywhere to find the rest of the project or join my Patreon to even find articles based on my research I wrote to each of the deities and demons.

Simargl,  2018 - oil on canvas.

— Andrey Alekseyevich Shishkin (Russia, 1960).

I kinda messed up the first pic I was doing bc I couldn’t get the lips right 🫥 but I like how this one is coming along :)

(Andrey Shishkin, Simargl Ognebog, 2018)

Simargl is a magical creature from Slavic mythology. Appearing as a winged dog or lion, he is revered as a deity by some - including grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great - as a deity.

Simargl's wife is Kupalnitsa, the goddess of the night. He is the father of Kupalo, the mighty sun of the summer solstice, and the fertility goddess Kostroma.

Image source.

Monster master list.