Idolishche

Idolishche Poganoye (Russian: Идолище Поганое) is a mythological monstrosity from Russian bylinas (epic tales) which personified pagan forces invading the Russian lands. [1][2] The name literally means "pagan idol", with a Russian augmentative suffix "-ishche".

The major epic sources that involve Idolische are various variants of the bylina "Ilya Muromets and Idolishche Poganoye" ("Илья Муромец и Идолище Поганое"), where Idolishche is also characterized as "Tatarin", in reference to the Tatar-Mongol yoke.

Is depicted in the 1956 fantasy film Ilya Muromets as a massive zeppelin-like man with a bleach white face arriving on an elevated platform as part of the Tugar (pagan Mongol) forces and mocked as looking like "a fat Ox" by one of the Russian characters.

References
  1. Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language
  2.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Поганое Идолище" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
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