I love mythologies especially one that comes from my own people.
I drew my interpetation of Yarilo(Jarilo/Jura) and Veles.
Yarilo is slavic god of ferility,vegetation , spring and Veles is slavic god of underworld,magic,music,harvest and trickery.
Veles was originally a forest god who appeared exclusively as a bear, although he is thought to be capable of shape shifting into other types of animals as well. One possible explanation for the representation of Veles as a bear is that this animal was regarded as the king of the animals. However, In the belief system of the southern Slavs Veles was regarded as the ‘Lord of All Wolfs’, and was seen as a wolf god. Many people believed that if you kill an animal and don't eat it you would be punished my the god Veles and turned into a demon. Many famous slavic creatures such as vampires and werewolfs were punished souls.
Example: kill a wolf you would be turned into a werewolf.
Jarilo was a son of the supreme Slavic god of thunder, Perun , his lost, missing, tenth son, born on the last night of February, the festival of Velja Noć (Great Night), the pagan Slavic celebration of the New Year. On the same night, however, Jarilo was stolen from his father and taken to the world of the dead, where he was adopted and raised by Veles, Perun's enemy, Slavic god of the underworld and cattle. The Slavs believed the underworld to be an ever-green world of eternal spring and wet, grassy plains, where Jarilo grew up guarding the cattle of his adoptive father. In the mythical geography of ancient Slavs, the land of the dead was assumed to lie across the sea, where migrating birds would fly every winter.
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