Alatyr
The white-flammable stone Alatyr was revealed at the beginning of time. He was raised from the bottom of the Milky Ocean by the World Duck. Alatyr was very small, because the Duck wanted to hide it in her beak. But Svarog uttered the magic Word, and the stone began to grow. The duck could not hold it and dropped it. Where the white-combustible stone Alatyr fell, the Alatyr mountain rose. The white-flammable stone Alatyr is a sacred stone, the focus of the Knowledge of the Vedas, the mediator between man and God. It is both “small and very cold”, and “great as a mountain”. Both light and heavy. It is unknowable: “and no one could know that stone, and no one could lift it from the earth...