[[▲Narratives]] | [[art]] [[dawn]] | [[dusk]] | [[torch]] / [[fire]] | [[sun-circle-wheel]] *** ||| |-|-|-| Slavic [Zorya](zorya.md) | [[artifact--chludovs-novgorod-psalter-miniature]]<br>"Similar images to the one from the Psalter and the Nashik appear in various parts of Slavic lands, e.g. On a carved and painted gate of a Slovak peasant estate (village of Očová): on one of the pillars is carved the Morning Zora, with a golden head, above her is a glow, and even higher is the Sun, which rolls along an arched road, and on the other pillar is carved the Evening Zora, above it is a setting sun. There are also darkened suns on this relief, possibly dead suns appearing in Slavic folklore. These motifs are also confirmed by the Russian saying "The sun will not rise without the Morning Zoryushka". Such a motif was also found on the back of a 19th-century sled where the Sun, in the form of a circle, is in the palace and two Zoryas stand in the exit, and on a peasant rushnyk from the Tver region where Zoryas on horseback rides up to the Sun, one is red and the other is green." | [[zarubin1971]]:70-76<br>[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorya#Comparative_mythology) Indic [Uṣás](ushas.md) | "A very similar motif was found in a cave temple from the 2nd or 3rd century AD in Nashik, India. The bas-relief depicts two women: one using a torch to light the circle of the Sun, and the other expecting it at sunset. Some other bas-reliefs depict two goddesses of the dawn, Ushas and Pratyusha, and the Sun, accompanied by Dawns, appears in several hymns. The Sun in the form of a wheel appears in the Indo-Aryan Rigveda, or the Norse Edda, as well as in folklore: during the annual festivals of the Germanic peoples and Slavs, they lit a wheel which, according to medieval authors, was supposed to symbolize the sun." | [[zarubin1971]]:70-76<br>[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorya#Comparative_mythology)