Triglav (Trzygłów) – Powerful Three-Headed Slavic God Of Vigilance, Sea Storms Who Supervised Sky, Earth, And Underworld

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – In Slavic mythology, Triglav (Trzyglów) was the local deity worshiped as a protector of war, riding a black divination horse. Triglav had also power over sea storms.

Six-centimeter llong figurine of Triglav. Image credit: Radosław Drożdżewski (Zwiadowca21) – CC BY-SA 3.0

The name ‘Triglav”’ Triglav’ is most likely his secondary name and replacement for the original one, which is long forgotten. Triglav was a three-headed deity frequently identified with Svarog and Veles, whose possible incarnations in Slavic beliefs included Trojan (divine Guardian of Righteous Paths) and Triglav.

It is worth noting that Triglav did not represent a specific deity but symbolized the unification of the three greatest Slavic gods: Svarog–Perun–Svantevit.

His three heads were not related to a horizontal order determined by four sides of the world (north-south and east-west), as in the case of Svantevit, but a standing order.

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