When the god Ra grew old, he said to the Heavenly Cow: “I live, only my heart is tired of living... Lift me up on your horns! I will become a heavenly river - the one that separates Yav and Nav.”
And it flowed like the Ra River from the mountains, which were later called the Ural Mountains, because they are located near the Ra River. Nowadays this river is called the Volga, in the upper reaches - the Belaya Volozhka, in the lower reaches - the Don (in ancient times the Volga and Don converged near the Volga-Don Canal).
On Sunny Island, Rada and Kryshny had a son - the god of love Kama. Black Raven stole Kama and carried him over the sea, and then dropped him from a height.
God Kama was swallowed by a whale, but Kama asked for help from the Almighty and was heard. The Almighty commanded, and the whale cast out the god Kama to Earth. And Kama went to Iriy. All the gods greeted him there.
Kryshen gave him a bow and stirrups, Rada brought him a horse, I Svarog gave Kama a ring. Mother Lada - a scarlet rose. If Kama shoots in the heart, the heart will flare up with love passion. If he puts a ring on his finger, it means that they will soon have a wedding. If he gives a scarlet rose, love will bloom forever! “The Book of Kolyada”, 11th
One day, while driving through a clear pole, Kama met the beautiful goddess of love Oka. They fell in love. And soon they got married.
At the wedding, Kama and Oka got into an argument - whose love spell is stronger? Then Kama suggested going to the pole and shooting arrows at each other in order to find out who would kill whom with a love arrow. Their spell turned out to be so strong that as soon as the arrows, and they were scarlet roses, struck the hearts of Kama and Oka, they fell to the ground and died of love. Streams of blood flowed from their hearts and became the rivers Kama and Oka.
And the Alatyrka River was formed like this. One day Kryshen rode to Alatyr Mountain on a White-maned horse. Suddenly he saw that the Black Raven was sitting on Alatyr. Kryshen took out a golden arrow and pulled his bow. But Raven told him:
- Don't hit me, don't shoot me! Listen to my message! The Almighty is calling you! The water has flowed out of the roof - and the time of the roof has ended! A different time is coming! The wheel of heaven has turned.
Kryshen did not listen and shot an arrow, but the arrow turned around and hit Kryshen’s heart. The blood flowing from the heart of the Roof became the Alatyrka River.
And when Rada and Maya came to Alatyr Mountain, they saw Kryshen ascending the mountainside to the throne of the Almighty.
Ra is the ancient Slavic name of the Sun God, as well as the name of the Ra River (Volga) in the Book of Veles, the Vedas of India (Rasa) and the Avesta (Rankha), in the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans (Ra, Ros).
The myth about the god Ra and his son Horse was most fully preserved by Egyptian mythology (“Book of the Cow”), which speaks of the common source of this myth for the Slavs and Egyptians, which lies in Atlantis. Ra was married to Amelfa when he flowed into the Black Sea, then flowed into the Caspian (Khvalyn) and became married to Volyn. The Wedding of Ra and Volyn (Vyalkani) is described in the “Veda of the Slavs” (I volume)
Kama and Oka are rivers flowing into the Volga. The text about Kama and Oka was restored from various accounts of epics about the Danube (option: Don) and his wife. Note that in ancient times the Don was often also called the Ra River, for there was a time when the Ra River flowed not into the Caspian Sea, but into the Black Sea. This means that the epic about the Don-Danube is related to the Volga, and to the Kama (the old name is Belaya Volozhka), and to the Oka. In ancient times, the source of the Ra River (Volga) was not considered to be a source near Lake Seliger, but the Urals. That is, the Kama was then called the Volga (in the Avesta, the Rankha River flows from Mount Khukarya, that is, from the Urals), and the Kama was then called the river flowing from a source near Seliger.
In India, Kama is revered as the god of love. Oka is similar to the Indian Lakshmi (on the Klyazma, which flows into the Oka, today there is a city of Lakinsk).
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru