Kvasura, the god of winemaking, received the secret of preparing the solar drink Surya from the goddess Lada. Lada, having come to Kvasura, ordered him to pour honey into the water and cast it in the Sun.
Then Kvasura conveyed this secret to the ancestor of the Slavs, Bogum, the first of the people to perform sacrifices with Surya.
After many centuries and millennia, the Slavs built the great city of Golun near the Dnieper. Naked was captured by the Greeks, who were brought here by the leader, who was patronized by the Greek god of wine himself, Dionysus Sabazis, the son of Dyus.
The memory of this journey of Dionysus to India (in fact, to Venedia) was preserved both in the Greek myth about Dionysus and in the Russian epic about Babyla and his magical assistants.
When the Greeks, led by Dionysus, captured Golun, the Slavic gods of fun and intoxication Kvasura and Kitovras decided to expel them. They took Vavilu, who was working in the field, and took him with them to fool him so that he could “outplay Tsar Dog and his son Pereguda.”
Vavila, who was a simple plowman and did not know how to play, magically learned to play the gudochka (a string instrument) after the gods cast a spell: “Play, Vavila, the gudochek, the ringed reladets, and Kvasura and Kitovrasam will adapt!”
And they went to the kingdom of the Dog-Sabazis, and along the way they met people. They rewarded those who welcomed them: they turned the linen of the girl who washed the clothes into satin.
And they punished those who were rude to them: they sent birds to the field of the disrespectful farmer, who ate the sown grains.
Animals, plants and elements obeyed their magical play.
In Goluni they outplayed Tsar Dog and his son Pereguda and his daughter Perekrasa, and then drove them out of the city.
Then they placed the buffoon Vavila on the throne.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru