Religious Symbols
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Hands of God
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The Zbruch Idol
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Świętowit of Wolin
The Native Polish Church uses three major religious symbols. These comprise of: The Hands of God (a graphic detail taken from a vessel found in Biała near Łódź), an ideogram denoting the Highest God as well as the universe and the cosmic balance towards Nature ever flows; the Zbruch Idol, an iconographic interpretation of i.a. the universe as well as the image of the main pantheon of Slavic deities; and finally Świętowit of Wolin.
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