Gromovnik Perun

PERUN (Peren, Perkun) is a thundering god, a victorious, punishing deity, whose appearance arouses fear and awe.
He is portrayed as stately, tall, with black hair and a long golden beard. Sitting on a fiery chariot, he rides across the sky, armed with bow and arrows, and strikes the wicked.
Sending hail, storms and untimely downpours, he punished mortals with crop failure, hunger and widespread disease.
The Russian legend endows Perun with a mace: "He, while swimming across the great bridge, did his own mace and speak: at seven the children of Novgorod remember me, who is still killing madness with it, and create joy as a demon."
An arrow shot by him strikes those at whom it is directed, and sets fires. Arrows of thunder, falling from the clouds, enter far into the depths of the earth, and after three or seven years return to its surface in the form of a black or dark gray oblong pebble: these are either icicles formed in the sands from a lightning strike, or belemnites, known in people under the name of "thunder shooters" and revered for a faithful protective means against thunderstorms and fires.