God Ziva, together with the Living One, flew over the fields and sprinkled harsh, living water so that there would be a good harvest.
But it so happened that people stopped making sacrifices to him, and then the stern god Sivych became very angry.
The formidable Siva did not saddle a horse - he saddled a winged Serpent, and flew on the fierce Smoke, carrying a golden hryvnia in his hand, and a gilded skull in the other. “The Book of Kolyada”, X
Siva let the fierce Smoke go to the crops. And Smoke burned the crops, and Ziba unleashed a pestilence on the cattle.
And the people prayed to the Almighty: “God, our God, why is this punishment? Why did the Gray God do this to us? “And they heard an answer from heaven: “It was not Siva who inflicted this punishment on you, but the fierce, harsh Sivich! »
And the goddess Durga and the nine vilas, her friends, seeing what Siva had done, made sacrifices to him and said: “Kashchei has confused the people’s minds! That’s why the temples were abandoned, that’s why they don’t offer sacrifices!”
And then the god Siva flew to Mount Hvanguru, to the Kashcheev castle. And he began to beat the Black God with his staff. And Chernobog flew off from Hvangur, and then Siva himself sat down on Hvangur.
The plot of the myth about the birth of Yarila by Veles and Diva has been preserved in Ukrainian folk legends. The song itself became an epic about Ilya Muromets (Perun), his wife and Alyosha Popovich (Veles). The Russian legend about the transformation of Veles into a lily of the valley goes back to the Venedeco-Germanic legend about the flower of the goddess Ostara and exactly repeats the Orphic teaching about the nature of the lily of the valley, about its connection with the goddess Hero. The source of the song about Yarilo and Koshchei were the epics about Mikul Selyaninovich and the Greek legend about Triptolemus and the Scythian god Linkh (from “lingma” - phallus), turned into a trot by Demeter. The song about the struggle of Siwa with the Black God, about the sacrifice of the goddess Durga and the nine pitchforks is in the Bulgarian-Pomak “Veda of the Slavs”.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru