Yarilo biography

Interesting facts of the story of the character, the illegitimate son of the Oleza God and the wife of Perun Dodola is distinguished by irresistible strength and frantic passion, has become a symbol of the heyday of vitality and the patron saint of spring fertility. Eternally young Yarila personifies the spring sun. However, this character is not so simple: the Slavophiles prove that Yarila is not a Slavic deity, people did not worship him.

It belongs to the cohort of characters of carnival-game nature. The history of origin is still arguing whether Yarila was the Slavic God or is it a ritual character created for a summer holiday-after all, evidence in ancient monuments was not found for the first time God is mentioned in the year in the writings of Bishop Tikhon Zadonsky. Yarila some indicate ancient legends preserved in folk art, others compare the image of Yarila with a scarecrow of Shrovetide, as well as ritual heroes of Kostroma and Kostobonka.

All these heroes appeared in the form of dolls and personified the dying and resurrected God. The hero’s involvement in the deities and representatives of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences reject. Scientists are sure that the romanticized image of the “god of the Sun” is just the result of speculation and distortion of the meaning of the scarecrow-symbol of fertility.

To some extent, thanking Yarilo-Boga is worth the writer-ethnographer Pavel of the Drevlyansky Shpilevsky, who lived at the beginning of the 19th century.

The literary critic settled in the mass culture of the indomitable Belarusian god of the sun, which has since been identified with youth and carnal joys. He is lying over the lord of feelings that are not subject to reason. St. George Description of the character’s appearance is a young, tall, blue -eyed handsome man. They depict it naked to the waist or dressed in a spacious white shirt, barefoot.

In the hands of Yarila holds a bunch of ears, his head decorates a wreath of spring flowers. He controls the deity of the snow -white horse. Wherever the leg of the solar deity steps, flowers and grass immediately grow in that place. With the baptism of Rus', part of the image and function in Yarila was borrowed by St. George. Other authors described by the Drevlyansky Yaril.

As a result, real beliefs firmly grew together with the fantasies of the Belarusian writer. The name has many meanings. The root of the Yar is translated as spring, fertile spring bread, spring bees, Yarovik is a young bull. The derivative of it is “ardent” - white light, as well as passionate, angry. The image of Yarila in the root of the Yar also see the meaning of "swiftness, the power of the spring sun or sunrise." Among the inhabitants of the Carpathian Mountains Yar, the “spring” meant, in the Kostroma dialect, Yar was May and the heat.

As for the continuation of the name-“silt”, it plays the role of a diminutive part by analogy with Vetrilo, Churilo. Yarila in mythology, whatever the Slavs insisted on, but Yarila has already entered the mass consciousness as the god of the sun. In Slavic mythology, the birth of Yarila laid the foundation for the confrontation between the god Lightning Perun and his brother Veles.

Veles was flattered by the beauty of Dodoli, the wife of a thunderer, and abducted her. As a result of a vicious connection, ruddy, cheerful, full of energy, like his father, the god of the spring sun, appeared. Perun from dawn to the sunset Yaril on his horse rides along the sky. The Slavic symbol of Kolovrat personifies the ascent of the solar deity in the early morning on the sky - the daily victory of life over death.

Yarila, as befits a passionate handsome, is very loving. One legend states that the goddess of the morning dawn Lely crazy about the solar creation and decided to admit feelings. Fortunately, Yarila answered reciprocity, but added that he also loves Maru and Lada, as well as all women in the world. The rituals of the ritual-calendar character appear in the celebrations of the Spring Equinox Day at this time, Yarila is greeted with honors and the Day of Ivan Kupala is escorted to rest.

A scarecrow named Yarilo is endowed with obvious male features of the genitals, the action is accompanied by obscene jokes, ditties of an erotic nature. It is understandable, because the hero is responsible for the beginning of life, the birth of all living things. The celebration of Ivan Kupala in the spring burn the scarecrow of Marens, welcoming Yarila and playing Yarilka, and this fellow is already devouring the fire on Kupala.

Or it is buried in water - as a symbol of farewell to the warm sun. In the Kostroma villages, a scarecrow was called Yarila, put in a coffin, who was carrying the most ancient representative of the village along the streets, and the women at that time inconsolably mourned the “deceased”. Tikhon Zadonsky describes the celebration of Yarila in the Voronezh province.

It is represented as a kind of idol from antiquity, which was revered on the day before fasting. The people went into the field, danced and drank a lot of wine. The sculpture of Yarila in his literary works Pavel Drevlyansky talks about the tradition of Belarusians. In the evening of April 27, the girls chose a girlfriend from the company, who was put on snow -white clothes, decorated their heads with a wreath, put a skull in one hand, and ears of rye in the other.

The lady sat on the horse, and the rest of the girls drove round dances around her and sang songs. All this was conceived in honor of the meeting of Yarila.However, the Belarusian god of spring and fertility described by the author is nothing more than a romantic mystification, scientists are sure. Interesting facts are the symbol of Yarila, the “Solar Cross” is considered, which the priests, the combatants of the princes and ordinary warriors allegedly wore.

The cross possessed the functions of a pectoral amulet and combined the purity and power of Yarila. Additional symbols of the deity are the rune, a five -pointed star and ordinary swastika. The symbol of the Sun among the Slavs Yaril inherited in the names of Slavic villages. Until now, in Russia and Belarus there are places with the name of the deity - Yarilova Valley, Yarilina Pleshi, Yarilina Gora, Yarilovo Field, Yaryl Grove.

In early March, in the Crimean Observatory, the astronomer Lyudmila Cherny, opened the asteroid of the main belt under the number of the heavenly body called Yarilo.