The ancient Slavs were pagans. They believed in animate nature and worshiped Earth and Sky, Sun and Wind, rivers and forests. The Slavs understood quite early that the main source of life on earth is the sun, which gives light and warmth. Therefore, when gods appeared among them, there were three incarnations of the sun among them at once.
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Horse was considered the personification of the sun as a luminary. He was the deity of yellow sunlight. From his name came such words as "good", "round dance", "mansions". The word "good" meant a solar disk or circle. From him came the name of the dance based on movement in a circle, and circular buildings. Horse did not appear in heaven alone, he was always in the company of other gods. Since the sun cannot exist without daylight, Khors could not do without Dazhdbog.
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Dazhdbog is the god of white light, the giver of the blessed heat of the sun. It was believed that he travels across the heavens in a chariot, harnessed by four white winged horses with golden manes. Dazhdbog constantly carries a fire shield with him, from which the sunlight comes. At dawn and dusk, this sun god crosses the Ocean-Sea on a wonderful boat drawn by geese, ducks and swans. Dazhdbog's constant companion was a wild boar - a boar, and his sacred bird was a rooster, who, with his cry, informed people about the sun rise, i.e. about the approach of a deity.
Step 3
From time immemorial, the cross was considered the sacred sign of the Sun. The Sun Cross was often placed in a circle, and sometimes depicted as rolling, like the wheel of a sun chariot. This rolling cross is called the swastika. The wheel could move in the sun ("salting") or against the sun ("anti-salinity"), depending on whether it represented a "day" or "night" light. Unfortunately, the Nazis used the swastika in their symbolism, and now it is rejected by most people.
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The third solar deity in Slavic mythology is Yarilo. He was revered as the god of spring, the embodiment of her fertile powers. Her timely arrival depended on him. In addition, Yarilo was a cheerful and riotous god of spring passion. He was presented as an unusually handsome young man who, dressed in white clothes, rode a snow-white horse. Yarila has a flower wreath on her blond curls, rye ears in her left hand, and a symbol of a human head in her right hand. When Yarila dismounts her horse and walks barefoot through the fields, flowers bloom all around and golden rye rises.
Step 5
The image of Yarila the sun is present in Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky's spring fairy tale The Snow Maiden, based on Slavic mythology. There he appears as a just, but rather cruel deity, demanding human sacrifice, which becomes the beautiful Snow Maiden, melted in his rays.
