Talk:Jarilo
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In Novgorod Rusian sea vessles, Ladia, used to have an image of sun, Jarilo-sun, on their sails. Is it possible?--Grigoryev 03:39, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
In Russian yariy means intensive, and also yariy can be wheat - ярая пшеница.--Grigoryev 03:44, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
How do we get from Яр to Весна for Spring? Vivafelis 04:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] New version of the article
Well, the article was expanded spectacularly, and kudos to Hier0phant for that. As a sidenote, I checked my books and found different interpretations. While his views may appear obsolete, Vasmer, for instance, declares Jarilo a mere straw effigy which was "formerly taken for a god". According to him, the real sun deity was Hors, so an explanation as to how these are related could have been helpful. Also, the equinine appearance of Jarilo seems to be quite a fringe theory, not generally accepted as yet. IIRC horses are usually associated with Veles rather than Jarilo, but I may err, of course. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Vasmer's theory takes into account only the Russian Jarilo straw-doll. But in Belarus Jarilo was a girl dressed as a man on a horse, and in various other countries, there were various other representations of Jarilo/Jare/Jura. I would not like to seem pushy, like I'm rubbing Katicic studies up someone's nose, or advertising Belaj's book here (God forbbid!), but the studies of two of them are the latest and among finest works on the field of Slavic mythology, so well founded and argumented that I doubt anyone could refute their interpretations. Of course, I (and they as well) may be wrong. You can never be sure in things like these. That is why, in every Slavic mythology article I edit, I always briefly state the names of scholars whose interpretations and reconstructions seem to be most correct and supported by most arguments. Even if their theories seem somewhat fringe (equine apperance, yes), I, as briefly as one can, try to explain how these theories came about and list arguments for them; I'm not stating it's a fact, I'm stating it's their theory. While I'm not suporter of fringe theories in any form, with Slavic mythology, I doubt we will ever be able to claim much of anything with certainity; thus, an argumented, educated guess is probably better than no guess at all. I think it is certainly better to list theories and speculations of people who spent half of their lives in Slavic studies, than to draw "facts" from Book of Veles and the like.
As for Hors, he was a Solar diety, he has its own article (which also needs some slight revisions), but I don't see what he has to do with Jarilo, who was a lunar diety. -Hierophant 20:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] redirects
Can someone make other common transliterations of Jarilo redirect here? I'm particularly talking about "Yarilo", but perhaps names like Yarosvit should also be included.Yarilo2 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jarilo festivals in Bulgaria
[1]: I can't find any reliable source for the existence of Jarilo festivals in Bulgaria. --Nk 14:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I've been thoroughly reading this and all the related articles due to a short story based on the myth of Jarilo i'm trying to write.What would you say about a line linking Heros-Hors-Jarilo?I would appreciate other wikipeople helping me with some more info regarding life of the anicent slavs and there beliefs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.36.9.175 (talk) 16:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
