Veles told Diva that her husband Perun was cheating on her. And the whole world already knew about this. Then Veles turned into a lily of the valley flower. And when Diva picked it and inhaled the aroma, she conceived the spring god Yarila from Veles.
Yarila was born, the fruit of the love of the god Veles and Diva. Like his father, he became a farmer, like his mother, a warrior.
In the spring, the god Yarila plows the land and sows spring crops.
The plowman plows in the field - he urges, and his plow creaks, and the ploughshare scratches at the pebbles. The plowman turns out stumps and roots, and rolls stones into furrows... Ratai's curls sway, scatter like ray pearls. Ratai's eyes are clear as a falcon, his eyebrows are black as sable.. "The Book of Kolyada", 10th century
Yarila is the opponent of the Greek agricultural god - Kashchei Tripetovich. Kashchei, aka the Greek god of agriculture Triptolemus, the Hittite Telepinus.
Whatever Kashchei looks at, everything withers. He looked at the birds - the birds fell silent in the forests, He flew over the grass - and the grass withered. He looked at the cattle - the cattle fell, at the trees - the trees withered. "The Book of Kolyada", 10th century
One day Kashchei unexpectedly attacked Yarila and turned him into a Hare. Therefore, Yarila was forced to flee from persecution by Kashchei-Triptolemus to Nav. But then Veles came to his son’s aid: Kashchei was imprisoned in a cave, and the Hare was again turned into the god Yarila.
Then the god Yarilo had to face the god Siva himself.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru