The biography of the god Yarila

All this is the attributes of military valor and various symbols of the Sun. However, Yarilo acts as a defender of the Slavic land. The shield decorated with plaques acts as the personification of the sun. In the main sanctuary of Yaril, he was hung in the red corner and did not touch before the beginning of hostilities. In time of different wars, the ritual shield carried troops ahead of the banners.

All the objects that the God of the Slavs possessed by Yarilo are somehow connected with the heroic strength and valor. That is why he was brought by the teeth of the young man in the hope of gaining epic power and walking in the footsteps of famous warriors. The signs in the folk art of Yarilo the God of the Slavs are endowed with solar symbols. Thanks to the preserved decoding, the Slavic god Yarilo acts as a personified embodiment of the sun and its life cycle.

Heavenly fire was considered the strongest defender from adversity and negative influence, so his images were applied to household items. The legends of Yaril in the epic tales of the Slavic god Yarilo appear as a character destroying various creatures of darkness. According to the narrative, the deity of Siva lay this creature on Constantinople as a punishment.

The creature has long terrorized the inhabitants, ruin the city. When Lamia demanded to eat Princess Yarin, the inhabitants of the city prayed. The god Yarilo responded to their call, struck by the vile outfit. The source of the Veles Book described the birth and departure of Yarila. At the end of such a cycle, there is always a resurrection at the beginning of the spring of the deity.

Thus, the existence of Yarila is described as the eternal cycle of the Sun in nature. Yarila is endowed with the gift of immortality, like other deities. But in his life cycle there is a place to leave the kingdom. Wise ancestors explained such a phenomenon by the fact that the spirit of the hot spring-summer sun leaves, a fierce cold comes to his place. That is why Yarilo the God of the Slavs in cold weather turns to frost.

The harsh winter deity devastates the earth and brings winter cold. However, he does not seek to destroy all living things. Under thick caps of snow, nature wait for a cold period until warm spring. The days of celebration in honor of Yarila the earliest honor of the deity began on April 15. This was the period of the first preparatory work. They opened the season with a symbolic departure of the needle and the glorification of the awakened sun.

The obligatory attributes of the celebration were wreaths and a loaf. According to one version, bread was baked from the flour of ears of ears of the autumn equinox collected on the day.

The god Yarilo was famous in March at the spring equinox of March 21. The Maslyanitsa was celebrated, this day became the starting point for field work. The triumph of the revival of life was joyful. Yarilo, the God of the Slavs, patronized the lovers, in this Eden many celebrated weddings or chose the named. According to one of the customs, his beloved young man was supposed to put on a white horse and get around with her all the fields belonging to the community.

According to another version, the presenters were the young man who received dedication to the warriors. He was given a sword and a torch in his hand, with these attributes, he was bypassed by the possessions of the settlement.