Svyatogor
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- Instance of
- bogatyr
- Part of
- Russian folklore
- Gender
- male
- Mother
- Mat Zemlya
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- Work location
- Kievan Rus'
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- Svyatogor
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- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Slavic mythology
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thumb|Svyatogor by Andrei Ryabushkin, 1895
Svyatogor () is a mythical bogatyr (knight/hero) in Russian byliny. His name derives from the words for "sacred mountain". Svyatogor's tale, Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor, forms a part of the Ilya Muromets cycle. According to the epic, the mother-Earth cannot support the weight of Svyatogor, but he can not overcome the "pull of the earth" contained in the bag; when he tries to lift the bag, his feet sink into the ground. Svyatogor's father is "dark", he is blind - a sign of coming from another world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svyatogor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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