sometimes referred to as beli (or byali) vid ("beli" = white, bright, shining), svetovid is associated with war and divination and depicted as a four-headed god with two heads looking forward and two back. a statue portraying the god shows him with four heads, each one looking in a separate direction, a symbolical representation of the four directions of the compass, and also perhaps the four seasons of the year. each face had a specific colour. the northern face of this totem was white (hence white ruthenia / belarus and the white sea), the western, red (hence red ruthenia), the southern, black (hence the black sea) and the eastern, green (hence zeleny klyn).