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This is one piece for a large picture I am making regarding the symbols of winter. This is my take on the Slavic winter solstice mythology.

"In many Slavic countries, Christmas is called Bozhich, which simply means little god. While this name fits very nicely with the Christian idea of Christmas, the name is likely of pagan origin; it indicated the birth of a young and new god of the sun to the old and weakened solar deity during the longest night of the year. The old sun god was identified as Svarog, and his son, the young and new sun, as Dažbog[citation needed]. An alternative (or perhaps the original) name for this festival was Korochun."

Sketch was done with 2h pencil on medium tooth paper and painting was done in photoshop. Approx. 8 hours to complete.

I love using color now. I cant believe I waited this long to really experiment with it.

Description
This is one piece for a large picture I am making regarding the symbols of winter. This is my take on the Slavic winter solstice mythology.

"In many Slavic countries, Christmas is called Bozhich, which simply means little god. While this name fits very nicely with the Christian idea of Christmas, the name is likely of pagan origin; it indicated the birth of a young and new god of the sun to the old and weakened solar deity during the longest night of the year. The old sun god was identified as Svarog, and his son, the young and new sun, as Dažbog[citation needed]. An alternative (or perhaps the original) name for this festival was Korochun."

Sketch was done with 2h pencil on medium tooth paper and painting was done in photoshop. Approx. 8 hours to complete.

I love using color now. I cant believe I waited this long to really experiment with it.