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Simargl

Slavic tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: uncertain

Ivan Bilibin, Baba Yaga, an illustration for a Russian fairy tale (1900s).

Key myth

Another idol from the Kyiv list. Possibly from an Iranian winged creature, Simurgh. Nothing else is known.

Primary sources

Primary Chronicle (980)

All sources for the Slavic pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

A chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.

Vishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.