VIY (aka - Vy, Niy) - Voivode of Chernobog, king of the underworld, the oldest god of hurricanes
PEDIGREE: brother Dyya, son of the Black Snake and Goat Sedun. Father of Gorynya, Dubynya, Usynya, Koschei (Chernobog) and Pan from Mother-Raw-Earth.
NAME: The word "vii" means "eyelashes".
APPEARANCE: Viy is the most terrible and strongest representative of evil spirits living underground. Rakoryachisty, clubfoot, arms and legs that are the roots of a tree, all in the ground. He walks hard, appears only in those cases when other representatives of evil spirits are unable to cope. The eyelids are long, to the very ground, he himself cannot raise them, usually bats do it. Like all evil spirits disappear with the third roosters.
ELEMENTS. Viy belongs to the element of EARTH.
ABILITIES: Viy kills people with one glance and turns towns and villages to ashes; his murderous gaze is covered with thick eyebrows and eyelids close to his eyes, and only when it is necessary to destroy enemy troops or set fire to an enemy city, they raise his eyelids with a pitchfork.
HIERARCHY: Viy was considered one of the main servants of Chernobog (Devil). The image of Viy is closely connected with Veles - in his hypostasis of the guide of the souls of the dead and the guardian of Navi
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AREA OF INFLUENCE: He was also thought to be the judge of the dead. Viy was also considered a messenger of nightmares and visions; is also associated with the seasonal death of nature during the winter.
ACTIVITIES: In peacetime he is a jailer in Pekla He holds in his hand a fiery whip with which he feeds sinners.
They also say that Viy, together with Wodan, participated in sending the Flood to the earth.
IN THE LITERATURE: - Via! - the voices of the travelers have become like strings: they will disappear, I don't live here, - that very Viy: Raise my eyelids, I don't see anything! - The one about the iron finger. Today Viy is at rest, - the two-headed horse yawned with one head, and licked his head with the other, - Viy is resting: he has killed a lot of people-people with his eye, and only ashes lie from the countries-cities. Vii will accumulate strength, will start working again.
A. M. Remizov "To the Sea-Ocean"
- Raise my eyelids: I don't see! - said Viy in an underground voice. ", NV Gogol" Viy"
IN THE LITERATURE: … Instantly the door of the hut dissolves - and, with a continuous flash of lightning, I see a young knight, in silver armor, girded with a formidable sword. Neither the fierce Niy himself would have shaken my timid heart with his appearance.
V. T. EXTRA "Slavic evenings"
IN ORTHODOX: In Orthodoxy, replaced by the evil saint Kasyan, whose day was celebrated on February 29.
Kasyan looks at anything - everything withers. Kasyan looks at the cattle, the cattle falls; on a tree - the tree dries up.
Kasian is against the people - it's hard for the people; Kasian on the grass - the grass dries up; Kasyan on cattle - cattle is dying. Kasyan mows everything scythe …
It is curious that Kasyan is subject to the winds, which he keeps behind all kinds of locks.
WORSHIP: the annual veneration of Via-Kasyan fell on February 29 - Kasian Day