Yaran rush
Lezgin · deity · Lezgin traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yaran rush is the Lezgin goddess of beauty and love, the personified rainbow. She is the daughter of the fire-god Alpan and the nature-goddess Yar, born of their love; her name is read either as 'daughter of Yar' or as 'daughter of the sun.' The spring rainbow that arches over the mountains is understood as Yaran rush herself and as the visible token of her parents' sacred marriage, so that her appearance links the celestial wedding of fire and vegetation to the renewal of the year.
Parentage
- parent: AlpanALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
- parent: YarALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
Domains
- rainbow
- beauty love
Powers
- spans the sky as the rainbow born of the sacred marriage
Relations
- parent: AlpanALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
- parent: YarALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary)
Sources
- Yaran rush (Yarghi rush), the rainbow, is the goddess of beauty and love, born of the love of the fire-god Alpan and the goddess Yar; her name is understood as 'daughter of the goddess Yar' or 'daughter of the sun', and the spring rainbow is the emblem of that sacred marriage.: ALAM, 'Panteon bozhestv', alamjurnal.com/474 (secondary); Russian Wikipedia, 'Lezginskaya mifologiya', ru.wikipedia.org (tertiary)