Zbruch Idol

[1] The reliefs depict the following characters: The statue was discovered in August 1848 in the village of Lychkivtsi (Polish: Liczkowce) in Galicia (then in the Austrian Empire,[3] now in Ukraine), during a drought that made the bottom of the river visible.

The owner of the village, Konstanty Zaborowski, brother of the late poet, Tymon, donated it to Polish Count Mieczysław Potocki, who in 1850 reported it to the Kraków Scientific Society.

[2] Initially kept in the Library of the Jagiellonian University, in 1858 it was moved to the temporary exhibition of antiquities in the Lubomirski family palace and then to the headquarters of the Kraków Scientific Society.

As was first suggested by Count Potocki, he identified the deity as a representation of the Slavic four-headed god Swiatowid, until then primarily associated with the island of Rügen, but now understood to be pan-Slavic.

Boris Rybakov in his 1987 work Paganism of Ancient Rus [9] argued that four sides of the top tier represent four different Slavic gods, two female and two male, with their corresponding middle-tier entities always of the opposite gender[verification needed].

Finally, Rybakov believes that the idol's overall phallic shape is meant to unite all of the smaller figures as a single overarching all seeing larger deity, Rod.