Idolishche


Idolishche Poganoye is a mythological monstrosity from Russian bylinas which personified pagan forces invading the Russian lands. 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", 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 forces and mocked as looking like "a fat Ox" by one of the Russian characters.