Various ancient peoples, whether Egyptians, Greeksor the Romans tried to explain all the phenomena around them, so a fabulous explanation of the change of day and night came to our times. The legends of different nationalities are generally similar.
With the words "the sun has risen" or "the sun has set" webegin or end the next day in life. Our ancestors endowed the sunrises and sunsets with great power. These phenomena had a sacred significance for our ancestors.
And indeed during sunsets and sunrisesconducted various rituals and rituals, both ecclesiastical and magical. From here “grew up” a fabulous explanation of the change of day and night. A photo of a sunset or dawn is every social media user. Today, modern man does not understand these phenomena and does not know the sacral meaning.
The ancient Greeks have fabulous day and nightThe explanation has. Titan Hyperion had three children: Selene, Eos and Helios. Beaming with cold light, Selene was the goddess of the moon. On her head was a sickle month. On the night road she rides a chariot, which is drawn by bulls. Selena pulls off this road when her children-stars and marble columns turn pink in the light.
Eos, the goddess of the morning dawn, announcescoming of a new day. Behind Eos their brother Helios is racing from the east on a shining golden chariot. The Greeks revered him no less than the powerful and supreme Zeus. The rays of Helios penetrated the farthest and darkest corners through the black clouds. Their warm light awakened all living things. Thanks to the rays, trees and fruits grew. Helios is the storm of all criminals. The rays of this god blinded them. The gods cannot hide from such rays either.
Helios knows all about divine "affairs".It was he who prompted Demeter that her daughter Persephone had kidnapped Hades into his dark realm of shadows. But it is midday when Helios reaches the west. By evening, the horses of Helios and he are getting tired and blushing. God goes to his palace for rest, where the divine retinue rests, and the chariot of Selena goes on the road ... Such is the Greek alternation of day and night. Fabulous explanation of their similar to the Slavic myth.
Representations of the world among the ancient Pagan SlavsIt was very complicated and confusing. The sun and sunshine were different concepts to them. For each season, the Slavs had a separate “sun” - Yarilo, Kupaylo, Svetovit and Kolyada. The sun itself they called Horos. By the way, this word meant "circle". Hence the word dance.
Как и у греков, славянское сказочное объяснение the change of day and night is simple - Dazhdbog (the sun - the giving god) rode on a golden chariot across the daytime sky, drawn by fiery winged horses. Morning and evening dawns were considered sisters. And the morning dawn was the wife of the sun. On the day of the summer solstice, the Slavs celebrated their wedding. Like the Greeks, the Sun is an all-seeing eye, watching over everything and everyone. Because criminals operate at night to this day.
A distinctive Indian legend about the change of day and night.A fabulous explanation says that there was no night. It appeared due to one tragic occasion. Yama's brother and sister Yami lived. The brother died, and the lonely sister had no choice but to endlessly mourn the unfortunate brother. For all the pleas and exhortations to calm down and stop shedding tears, Yami only exclaimed: “But he died today!” The gods saw the truth: in order for the girl to calm down, night is necessary, only in this way will the new day come. They made the night. It is morning, Yami has forgotten the grief. And the Indians began to say "the series of day and night."
For many years, our ancestors believed in these myths andLegends about the creation of day and night, until the Middle Ages. Religion and mystical ideas were replaced by science. Nicholas Copernicus 500 years ago wrote a book that our planet rotates around its axis, orbiting its way around the star Sun. So, according to Copernicus, there was a change of day and night.
Fabulous explanation was destroyed.A book of the scientist was banned by the Pope, as contrary to the Christian religion. Copernicus became famous as the creator of the heliocentric system. The name of this system is derived from the name of the sun god Helios, so, according to the theory of Copernicus, the sun is located in the center of the universe. The Polish astronomer died of a stroke on May 24, 1543, he was 73 years old.
