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Jarilo became identified with St. George after the arrival of Christianity, possibly because of mild similarities in their names, but more likely because St. George is usually shown as a knight on a horse slaying a dragon, whilst the Slavs believed Jarilo to have an equine appearance, and that for a time he lived in the green underworld with his stepfather Veles, imagined to be a serpent-like or dragon-like deity.
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Jarilo and identified
The leader of the procession, usually riding on a horse, would be identified with Jarilo.
Something or someone was identified to be Jarilo or Juraj: A doll made of straw, a man or a child adorned with green branches, or a girl dressed like a man, riding on a horse.
Belaj identified this lost god as Jarilo, a major Slavic deity of vegetation, harvest and fertility.
Jarilo and with
Jarilo ( Cyrillic: Ярило or Јарило ; ; ; ; Slavic: Jarovit ), alternatively Yarilo, Iarilo, or Gerovit, was a major male Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and spring, also associated with war and harvest.
By studying folklore texts from these festivals, and comparing them with the structure of other Indo-European mythologies, the Croatian scholars Radoslav Katičić and Vitomir Belaj reconstructed many ancient Slavic myths revolving around Jarilo.
From comparison to Baltic mythology and from Slavic folklore accounts, one can deduce that Jarilo was associated with the Moon.
Jarilo and St
In Northern Croatia and Southern Slovenia, similar spring festivals were called Jurjevo or Zeleni Juraj or Zeleni Jurij ( Green George ); nominally, this was a festivity day of Christian St. George, but almost all elements of the celebrations were of pagan origin, and fairly similar to Jarilo festivals of other Slavic nations.
Jarilo and .
Each year, the god of fertility and vegetation, Jarilo, who also dwelt there during winter, would return from across the sea and bring spring into the world of the living.
In the cities of Wolgast and Havelberg, the war god Gerovit was worshiped, a likely corruption of Jarovit, a Slavic deity possibly identical to Jarilo of the East Slavic folklore.
* There was a large spring festival dedicated to Jarilo, god of vegetation and fertility.
Up until the 19th century in Russia, Belarus and Serbia, folk festivals called Jarilo were celebrated in late spring or early summer.
Even the Slavic name Yury, Jerzy, Juraj or Jura is not as much a translation of Greek Georgios as a continuation of Slavic Jare, Jarilo or Jarovit.
Jarilo was a son of the supreme Slavic god of thunder, Perun, his lost, missing, tenth son, born on the last night of February, the festival of Velja Noć ( Great Night ), the pagan Slavic celebration of the New Year.
On the same night, however, Jarilo was stolen from his father and taken to the world of the dead, where he was adopted and raised by Veles, Perun's enemy, Slavic god of the underworld and cattle.
The Slavs believed the underworld to be an ever-green world of eternal spring and wet, grassy plains, where Jarilo grew up guarding the cattle of his stepfather.
With the advent of spring, Jarilo returned from the otherworld, that is, from across the sea, into the living world, bringing spring and fertility to the land.
Spring festivals of Jurjevo / Jarilo that survived in later folklore celebrated his return.
This sacred union of Jarilo and Morana, deities of vegetation and of nature, assured abundance, fertility and blessing to the earth, and also brought temporary peace between two major Slavic gods, Perun and Veles, signifying heaven and underworld.
However, since Jarilo's life was ultimately tied to the vegetative cycle of the cereals, after the harvest ( which was ritually seen as a murder of crops ), Jarilo also met his death.
At the beginning of the next year, both she and Jarilo are born again, and the entire myth starts anew.
Katičić and Belaj also re-discovered one very interesting characteristic of Jarilo.
Their careful study of folk songs performed during spring festivals and describing Jarilo / Jura as he returns to the living world revealed one apparently illogical element: It is always stated Jarilo is walking ( a key phrase of ancient mythical texts ), yet he is described as coming on a horse.
This is not a corruption of texts ; folk accounts strongly emphasize the presence of a horse ( in Belarusian festivals, for instance, Jarilo was symbolised by a girl dressed as a man and mounted on a horse ), and also the fact Jarilo walked a long way and his feet are sore.
Jarilo and Christianity
However, because of the importance of Jarilo to Slavic farmers and peasants as a deity of vegetation and harvest, Christianity never extinguished the worship of his cult.
Jarilo and because
All this led Katičić and Belaj to conclude that Jarilo himself was conceived of as a horse, which would explain the apparent absurdity mentioned in songs: He can both walk and come on a horse because he himself is horse-like.
Jarilo and is
Thus, in the above Bedekovic's record of Lado-song, the " holy god " mentioned in the verses indeed does refer to a forgotten pagan deity, though not to Lado, but rather to Ive or Ivan, who is actually Jarilo.
Jarilo and for
Later he turned to a kind of minimalist repetitive aesthetic already notable in his Confessiones ( 1979 ) for double bass and twelve wind instruments, and Jarilo ( 1981 ) an extensive piece for piano and tape.
became and identified
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