Dyi is the god of the night sky, born at the beginning of time from the goat Seduni. Then Dyi struck Mother Cheese Earth with lightning and thus conceived the great warrior god Indra. And then the Mother of Cheese Earth gave birth, like a cow, to a Bull, filled with power.
And at this time, in the underworld, Viy gave birth to the goat-footed god Pan. Pan lit an underground fire and burned a passage to the heavenly world. It burst out along with fire, smoke and brimstone and eclipsed the clear Sun. And then he stole the daughters of the heavenly cow Zemun - the beautiful cows Burena, Dona and Amelfa, as well as their sons and daughters.
Pan brought them to his parent Viya. He lulled into them the memory of the ancestor Surya and the Cow Zemun. And therefore at one time they were considered the children of Viy. That is why Buryu-Yaga, Veles, Vrita and Vala were called Vievichs and Suryeviches. At the same time, Svyatogor was also considered Vievich. After this, at the suggestion of Viy, Vrita dammed the rivers, and Valu swallowed the Red Sun.
Then the wise men gathered and, having made sacrifices to Khoma, turned to the son of Dyya:
- Sensitive Indra, hear our call! Receive our chants! Oh we know you, ardent Bull! Defeat the enemy, mighty Indra! Crush the power of the Viev tribe!
Indra led the Svarozhichi army. The Most High himself gave him Khoma to drink. Svarog forged a club for him. And the god Karma, out of anger, revealed the Rudykh and the god Siva, who surrounded Indra.
And then Indra, riding on the mighty Unicorn, fought with Vrita and defeated him. And then Indra killed the mother of Vrita and Vala, the cow Dona, who was sobbing inconsolably over Vrita’s body.
Having learned about the death of his brother, Valu ran away from Indra. But seeing that Indra was overtaking him, he turned into a Boulder. And then the god Indra, enraged from drinking Homa, broke the Boulder. Together with Barma and Semargl, he defeated it.
The Sun, swallowed by Valu, escaped and rose into the sky. And in Valun, where Semargl hit him, a spring opened - a source of living water. From this source the gods of wisdom and joy - Kitovras and Kvasura - were born.
And the gods and wise men came to the wonderful spring and drank the magic drink - Surya. And they found a cave in Valun where a mysterious Fire was burning.
And having revealed deep secrets, the wise men began to know that that flame was not alien to the poets - they kindled that fire. “The Book of Kolyada”, III a
Having learned about the death of her daughter Danu, about the death of her sons, Cow Zemun began to burn. And she prayed to the Almighty:
- Punish the son of Dy, the Most High! Punish the killer Dana!
And then the Most High said:
- Let what will happen happen! He who is wrong will not become right! And you can’t make a curve straight! Therefore, the Son will rise up against the Mother, and the Wolf Cub will destroy the Wolf!
So the Most High predicted Indra's death from his son. Out of grief, Indra stood at the Valu stone and began to pray to the Almighty for forgiveness. It stood for thousands of years and was overgrown with moss like an ancient boulder. But I did not receive forgiveness.
*Patar Dyi is mentioned in the “Book of Veles”. In India he is called the father of Indra - Dyaus. In Rome - he is Deus Pater, Jupiter (lit. and Latvian. Dievas, Prussian. Deiws, Iranian. patat Dywos). He also has a lot in common with the Christian Devil (his goatlike features come from the Goat Seduni). Initially, he was the god of rain, fulfilled people's requests, and indulged any human desires. Often in ancient Slavic manuscripts Dy was put in the place of Perun and Zeus: “to call the ov the goddess... the ov eats Dy...” (Gr. Paz. XI century). “The verb, like an idol was sent from heaven…” (Georg. Amarg.) “There are many gods: Perowna and Khorsa, Dyya and Troyan” (Sl. Apostle XIV century).
Pan is known in Western Slavic mythology, also to the ancient Greeks and Vedic Aryans. Don was known to the Celts (tribes of the goddess Don) and the Vedic people. Amelfa appears in Russian epics (the mother of Vasily Buslaev) and in Greek myths (the goat Amalthea, who suckled Zeus and Pan).
Sources of the myth: “Book of Veles” III 8/3, III 19, III 30, III 37. Hymns of the “Rigveda” - I 32, I 56, I 80, I166 and others. The image of the spring from which the honey of poetry flows is taken from the Rig Veda (II24). However, this image is also known in Europe - “Hippocrene”, “Castilian key of poetry”, springs with living water in the folklore of all the peoples of Eurasia, and so on.
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