Like Stribog, the Russian sailors also revered the Sea King himself. Tsar Vodyanik, or Tsar Poddonny, Chernomorets, rules the underwater world together with Queen Belorybitsa.
He has an underwater palace, a sea army, and a golden chariot in which he rides around the sea. In anger and in joy he raises waves and sinks ships. The Sea King keeps many secrets. In his kingdom, at the bottom of the Ocean, there is a cave leading to the Inferno, from where the Great Black Serpent will emerge at the End of Times.
There on the throne sits the Black Sea Serpent - the king of the Pallet Sea miracle - a monster.
He is surrounded by fierce guards - crab crayfish with huge claws.
Here is a catfish with a large mustache, and a thick-lipped burbot - a lip-slap-murderer, and sturgeon, and a toothy pike, and a giant sturgeon, a toad with a belly - like a jug, and the king of all fish is the Whitefish!
“The Book of Kolyada”, V century
In addition to the kingdom of Chernomor, there is another kingdom in the sea. People and gods who previously ruled on land live in it. Then they sank to the seabed along with the large island that perished in the waters of the Flood - Atlantis.
This kingdom is ruled by the Lady of the Sea, Volyn. Volyn is the wife of the Sun-Ra.
When Ra turned into a river, then the Lady of the Sea and her kingdom sank to the bottom of the sea. The Lady of the Sea and the Sun-Ra had daughters - Rada, wife of Kryshnya, and Plenka, wife of Svyatogor.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru