Koschei is one of the most mysterious personalities in Slavic beliefs. Long before people made him a fairy-tale hero, he was known as a terrible deity, the lord of death and a world inaccessible and dangerous to mortals. Let's get acquainted with the "unknown" Koshchei-god and learn his story.
"The father had three sons.".. Yes, that's how I want to start the story about Koshchei. His father was the famous Chernobog, the lord of the dark forces. Koshchei's older brothers were Viy and Goryn, each of whom inherited his father's talent, but in the younger deity the qualities of the dark deity were reflected much more vividly.
In Navi's kingdom, where evil deities lived, darkness itself was born, there was a special place – the Lunar Hall. Chernobog entrusted him to Koshchei, and since this hall was the abode of the lord of darkness, the elder brothers began to honor Koshchei as the king of Navi
