Tempera on canvas. 2000. 70 х 85 cm

Practically for all Asian people, and for some European, the god of rain does not go without the horse. This horse belongs to thunder-god of Slavonic pagans Perun and associates with a thundercloud and a storm. When on horizon there was a black cloud, Russians spoke: "Equips Perun a horse - to be a thunder-storm". Ancient Slavs trusted, that the thunder is a knock of hoofs of the Storm-horse, and lightning strike there where it will look, because " … in his eyes is the stone Margarit which burns all what he looks at … "