The Begining of the World
At the begining there was a endless sea and light. Świętowit, the first god and creator, was rambling on the cavernous abyss in the form of a swan. He was feeling very lonely, so he came up with an idea to create some other gods. When the creator had seen his shadow, he separated him from his body. And the shadow transformed to two gods. The former was a Perun, the latter was a Weles.The brothers was totally bored with the endless sea, so they decided to create a lands. One of the brothers was picking up a sand from the bottom of the sea, other was pouring the sand to one place. Finally they created the island. But this island were too small for two gods, so Weles wanted to throw his brother to the sea. However Weles had problem, because when he even aproach to the coast, the land starts to expand. The brothers wanted to stop rapidly extension of the land. So Perun created a bee to reconnoitre the land. After few moments the bug brought a message to designed a four dirrections of the world. After designation the land stopped growing but the brothers started a quarrel. Świętowit was very annoyed, so he called them. The creator ordered that Perun will reign on the grounds and Weles will reign in Nawia, the kingdom of the dead.
Did you ever post the TOPIC of your blog? It is an interesting legend but it would be good to see it in the context of the topic you are exploring.
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