Three-Headed Deities. Cults of Antiquity and the Present Day.

The oldest known deities that were given more than
one head probably originated in India or in Hellas. In the myths of the
latter, one encounters the three-headed dog Cerberus, guarding
the exit from hell.

In India itself, there is no shortage of many-armed and many-headed
deities.

The many-headed Ravana is known from Sri Lanka.

Trimurti, that is Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva

In the Slavic lands, among others, Svarog
and Triglav were worshipped.

The Zbruch Svetovid, the Zbruch Idol, the Zbruch Stone Idol, and
above all the Svetovid of Lychkivtsi – the common name of a
stone statue dating from approximately the 9th–10th century, recovered in
1848 from the Zbruch River near the village of Lychkivtsi, close to Husiatyn in
Podolia.

It is also worth mentioning three-headed dragons. Although they
were not made objects of worship, they live on in many myths and continue to do quite well.

The Beast of the Apocalypse described by St. John is said to possess
more or less such a form.

Christianity, from its very beginnings until the 16th century,
depicted what it also originated, namely the Holy Trinity, in the following form.

Many other depictions of the Holy Trinity have also been preserved.

This portrait of the Holy Trinity, with its triangular editorial
form, somewhat resembles modern postage stamps and, like the others, is rich in references to the symbolism of Sacred Geometry.

In some alternative circles, Satan is also known as

a three-headed deity. Dante mentioned him in this form in his
description of hell. In the illustration shown, he has been given even
more various heads. In Dante’s visions, Satan dwells
in the deepest part of hell and has the appearance of a monster with three
heads, in whose jaws he chews various traitors, including
Judas, Brutus, Cassius and not only them.

For centuries, illustrators devoted great effort to bringing believers
closer to various demonic and many-headed figures.

The content of this article corresponds with another one entitled:
“God Is Literal in What He Does, and the Consequences of It. Examples of the Inventive Self-Destruction of Various People.” Link

On a certain website Link we can read:

“Since Jehovah’s Witnesses regard Jesus as a god with a lowercase ‘g’, they are polytheists because they believe in two gods: the greater one, with an uppercase ‘G’, and the lesser one, with a lowercase ‘g’. By rejecting faith in the One God in Three Persons, they themselves fall into polytheism.”

This thought is a peculiar intellectual gem Link. We find within it
a competition over which deity is better suited for celebration:
a two-headed or a three-headed one. The author of this criticism directed at
Jehovah’s Witnesses loses all grasp of logic, which escapes completely
into regions not yet explored. There is a lack of understanding of the Second Commandment of the Decalogue Link,
which Exodus 20:2–17 presents in the following wording,
unchanged for 3,300 years:

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them.”

Opublikowano: 01/09/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: Religions, priests, sects, idolatry, vows.

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