Monotheism and polytheism are not regarded as mutually exclusive. The shared underpinning is a pantheistic view that is holistic in its understanding of the universe. Similarly to the ancient Slavic religion, a common theological stance among Rodnovers is that of monism, by which the many different gods (polytheism) are seen as manifestations of the single, universal God—generally identified by the concept of "Rod", also known as "Sud" ("Judge") and "Prabog" ("Pre-God", "First God") among South Slavs. In the Russian and Ukrainian centres of Rodnover theology, the concept of Rod has been emphasised as particularly important. According to the publication "Izvednik", a compilation of views on theology and cosmology of various Rodnover organisations, "the rest of the gods are only his faces, noumena, incarnations, hypostases", it is a God similar to the "cosmos" of ancient Greek philosophy in that it is "not the master of the universe, but it itself the universe". While most Rodnovers call it Rod, others call its visible manifestation Svarog or Nebo ("Heaven"), and still others refer to its triune cosmic manifestation, Triglav ("Three-Headed One"): "Prav→Yav-Nav", "Svarog→Belobog-Chernobog", "Svarog→Dazhbog-Stribog", or "Dub→Snop-Did". Peterburgian Vedists call this concept "Vsebog" ("All-God"). Rod is also "Time" ("Kolo"), scanned by the cycle of the Sun, ad reflected in the turning of the hours, the days, the months, the seasons, and the year.