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Couple of pictures of the Jariljdan* celebration, held in backyard during curfew. * The day of Yarilo

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Максим Сухарев - Яровит (Maksim Sukharev - Jarovit) http://vesemir.blogspot.com/2019/04/gerovitus.html

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Celebration of Jariljdan* among the members of Lug Velesa. *Day of the god Jarilo

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New episode!!! Newest, sixth episode, from our series “Path of the Slavic heritage” is out. In this episode we discuss about the Slavic fertility deity - Yarilo. Subtitles in English language are available for those who do not understand Serbian. Enjoy, Slava!

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Gerovit - Legion of The Damned

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Dying/Resurrected Vegetation God.

Jarilo

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 stepfather. 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.

With the advent of spring, Jarilo returned from the underworld, that is, bringing spring and fertility to the land. Spring festivals of Jurjevo/Jarilo that survived in later folklore celebrated his return. Katičić identified a key phrase of ancient mythical texts which described this sacred return of vegetation and fertility as a rhyme hoditi/roditi [2] (to walk/to give birth to), which survived in folk songs:

...Gdje Jura/Jare/Jarilo hodit, tam vam polje rodit...

"...Where Jura/Jare/Jarilo walks, there your field gives birth..."

The first of the gods to notice Jarilo's return to the living world was Morana, a goddess of death and nature, and also a daughter of Perun and Jarilo's twin-sister. The two of them would fall in love and court each other through a series of traditional, established rituals, imitated in various Slavic courting or wedding customs. The divine wedding between brother and sister, two children of the supreme god, was celebrated in a festival of summer solstice, today variously known as Ivanje or Ivan Kupala in the various Slavic countries. This sacred union of Jarilo and Morana, deities of vegetation and of nature, assured abundance, fertility and blessing to the earth, and also brought temporary peace between two major Slavic gods, Perun and Veles, signifying heaven and underworld. Thus, all mythical prerequisites were met for a bountiful and blessed harvest that would come in late summer.

However, since Jarilo's life was ultimately tied to the vegetative cycle of the cereals, after the harvest (which was ritually seen as a murder of crops), Jarilo also met his death. The myth explained this by the fact that he was unfaithful to his wife, and so she (or her father Perun, or his other nine sons, her brothers) kills him in retribution. This rather gruesome death is in fact a ritual sacrifice, and Morana uses parts of Jarilo's body to build herself a new house. This is a mythical metaphor which alludes to rejuvenation of the entire cosmos, a concept fairly similar to that of Scandinavian myth of Ymir, a giant from whose body the gods created the world.

Without her husband, however, Morana turns into a frustrated old hag, a terrible and dangerous goddess of death, frost and upcoming winter, and eventually dies by the end of the year. At the beginning of the next year, both she and Jarilo are born again, and the entire myth starts anew.

Wikipedia

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? days of Slavic mythology:

Traditional Slavic deities: Gerovit

Gerovit can be understood in two ways: as a god of war, and also as Jarilo, the god of sunshine and fertility. There was a statue on the island of Ruyan of Gerovit with seven heads and seven swords, and many have interpreted this differently (some believe the seven heads/swords represent the seven months of summer that he ruled), but all agree that he was a warrior god, for he held an additional sword in his hand and there was also a gold-plated shield kept there in the temple, and was considered holy. The shield represented the god himself, and it was carried among the people who knelt before it in respect. Rituals connected to Gerovit/Jarilo were held in the early summer and celebrated him as a god of fertility also.