Khors was the son of the Sun God-Ra and the brother of Veles Surevich. Ra was born from the face of Rod, he ruled the solar chariot for many thousands of years and took the Sun to the vault of heaven.
But then he got tired and turned into Surya, the sunny honey drink and the river Ra. After Ra turned into a river, his son Khors began to drive the chariot of the Sun.
Just before the morning, Horse rests on the sunny islands of Joy (on the island of Rhodes and others). According to the “Book of Veles” (Rod III, 1:3), when Matinee gallops to these islands on a white horse, he says:
- Go, Sun, to your blue meadows. You must climb into your chariot and look from the east!
And in the evening, when the Sun leans toward the horizon, Vechernik gallops up on a black horse. He says:
- The sun set behind its mountains and left its golden chariot!
And then the sorcerers unbridle the horses of the Sun, and the Sun goes to sleep, and his cart is drawn by oxen across the blue steppe, along the Milky Way towards dawn, to the islands of Joy. And from here again in the morning the Sun will rise on a golden chariot.
Once, Horse, driving through the vault of heaven, looked down at the earth. And he saw that Zarya-Zarenitsa and her sisters, Poludennitsa, Vecherka and Night-Kupalnitsa, were swimming near Buyan Island.
Khors fell in love with the star Zarya-Zarenitsa and decided to marry her. All the Yasuni-non-residents gathered for the wedding of Khors and Zarenitsa.
The daughters of Lada, the goddess of life, death and love, arrived on a flying ship: green-eyed, golden-haired Zhiva, dark-haired Marena and blond, blue-eyed Lelya.
They gave Zara a golden scarf: “unfold it early in the morning and illuminate the whole sky with it.” And Khors was presented with a bowl of living water: “whoever drinks water from this bowl will never die.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru