The Varangian governor Dir, together with the retinue of the brave leader Askold, came to Kyiv, where Askold became a prince, taking as his wife the daughter of the great priest Svarog. But Dir did not honor the Slavic gods and continued to worship Odin and Thor. The priests of the Creator Family came to him and said that the governor would soon recognize the power of the wrath of the gods of the Upper and Lower Worlds. During a winter hunt, a blizzard surrounded the governor. He lost his way and was taken to the witchcraft forest, from where there was no way out. Morena, the goddess of death, appeared to Diru, and the cold shackled his soul. The governor was scared. He did not want to disappear among the ice and cold. But Tara, the mistress of the transition between the upper and lower worlds, came to the aid of the governor...