Other posters last night connected Bald Mountian to the one in Disney fantasia, why does this not surprise me?
Places of power of Lviv
Ten minutes walk from the Market Square in the direction of the TV tower - and you are near the High Castle. But the remains of its walls are a later history, the history of the Galician and Polish kings. We are now to the right, on Dovbush Street, past the four-hundred-year-old church of St. Wojciech continued along the paths of Kaiserwald to a small inconspicuous oval lawn, which is located under the fence of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. This is the " Worldview Field ".
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Worldview field
Svitovid, Svitovit, Sviatovit (in the Western Slavs) - the god of war and at the same time the god of earthly fruits. Some historians believe that the Slavs identified Sviatovid with the sun, so they attributed supremacy over the gods. The famous Zbrutsky idol , found in 1848 in the Zbruch riverbed in the Ternopil region and later donated by Count Potocki to the University of Cracow, is actually Svyatovid. It was made in the likeness of the idol of Sviatovid on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea, described by Saxe the Grammarian. The Slavs of Illyria (western Balkans) and the Czech Republic also worshiped this god. The main church of Prague is dedicated to St. Vitus - read to the World.
According to local legends , the toponym "Worldview Field" was first noted in the 19th century by the famous Lviv historian Anthony Schneider. It is unknown at this time whether history has preserved this authenticity for more than a thousand years, so here in Lviv we are dealing with the shrine of Sviatovid himself, or a later romantic fiction, but the essence of this does not change. The so-called Svyatovidov field is perfectly preserved, it is a practically unexplored pre-Christian Slavic temple of the VII-IX centuries, which somehow miraculously survived under the nose of modern civilization.
In shape, the temple is a clear oval, the surface of which was paved with limestone tiles. It is surrounded by an embankment and a moat - so deep that even after almost a millennium and a half, completely overgrown with trees, it still reaches several meters in some places. Part of the shaft was torn down during the First and Second World Wars, when guns were popular on the hill. The design of the shaft, the so-called crypid (a wall made of limestone tiles, covered with earth on top), clearly indicates its ancient Slavic origin. This is how the legendary white Croats built.
The cult purpose of the Svyatovidov field was confirmed by the research of archaeologist O. Ovchinnikov, who discovered sacrificial pits with ashes and fragments of sacrificial objects. He also made a reconstruction of the temple on the basis of topographic survey. Apparently, in those days it was decorated with figures of idols, possibly the four-faced Sun-bearer, who rode at night on his white horse, like a day, to fight evil spirits. It is possible that he was immediately thrown into the ditch by zealous advocates of Christ's faith, and he is still politely waiting for the moment when interesting descendants will dig him up. Zbrutsky idol was finally found in the 19th century, and what is worse than our times?
It was here, near Svyatovidovo Field, on the hills of Kaiserwald and the lands of the former village of Znesinnia , which has long been part of the urban district Pidzamche , began the city, which was first mentioned in writing in 1256 and from this date, according to Soviet historiography, officially counts its age - Leopolis-Lviv . It is traditionally believed that Lviv was founded by King Danylo Halytsky for his son Lev.
But in those ancient times, cities usually did not arise out of thin air. First, because it would be very expensive, and our ancestors had to pay much more attention than us to the economic feasibility of their projects. Secondly, because our ancestors were with the world as a whole, they felt it as their own skin, and therefore always chose the best option, "skin" given the natural, strategic and economic feasibility. That is why some cases of urban fever in the open have occurred in history (for example, Akhetaton in Ancient Egypt, the Great Wall of China or Russia's St. Petersburg), but they were usually caused by the mental illness of individual rulers. Therefore, feeding only on the will of their founders, after their death, these architectural monsters also declined or barely perished.
https://spadok.org.ua/svyatylyscha/sakralne-znesinnya-lvova
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