Yar

Yar is the Lezgin goddess of nature who dies and rises again with the turning year. Her death belongs to winter and her resurrection to the vernal equinox, when heralds announce her renewal from village to village. That renewal is celebrated as Yaran Suvar, the Lezgin new year, still observed on 21 March as a triumph of life over death, light over darkness and spring warmth over winter cold. In the pantheon Yar is joined to the fire-god Alpan; from the love of Alpan and the fair Yar the rainbow-goddess Yaran rush is born, their union commemorated as a sacred marriage whose emblem is the spring rainbow.

Children

• Yaran rush

Domains

• vegetation fertility
• death rebirth

Powers

• dies with the old year and revives at the vernal equinox

Relations

• spouse: AlpanFrom the love of Alpan and the fair Yar the rainbow Yaran rush is born; their union is remembered as a sacred marriage.ALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
• child: Yaran rushALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)

Sources

• Yar is the Lezgin dying-and-resurrecting goddess of nature; her return at the vernal equinox is celebrated as Yaran Suvar, still kept by the Lezgins on 21 March as a festival of the triumph of life, light and warmth over death, darkness and cold.: 'Yaran Suvar - prazdnik vesny', flnka.ru/yaran_suvar.html (secondary); ALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
• From the love of the god Alpan and the beautiful Yar was born Yaran rush, the rainbow, whose name means 'daughter of the goddess Yar / daughter of the sun'.: ALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)