Gela - in the mythology of the Ingush and Chechens, the God of the sun (sky) [1] [2] .
| Gela | |
|---|---|
| XIalo | |
 | |
| god of the sun (sky) | |
| Mythology | vainakh |
| Mother | Aza |
| Spouse | Sata |
| Main temple | Sanctuary of Gald erd |
Mythology
Name Etymology
F. And Gorepekin gives as an option the name Galderd [3] [4] . In I. A. Dakhkilgov he is called XIalo and is the god of heaven [5] .
Lives in heaven with the god Sela . Gela illuminated the world of people during the day, turning to face him, and with his rays containing the male seed fertilizes all life. And at night he illuminated the world of the dead, but turned his face away from him, so in this world there is no warmth and life. Twice a year on the equinox, Gela stayed with the goddess Asa. Prayers were regularly offered to the sun god in the Ingush sanctuary of Galderd. The drought was due to the unwillingness of the deity [1] .
According to A. U Malsagov and H. Tankiev, the mother of Gela is Aza. And according to the legends recorded by I. A Dakhkilgov, Aza is the daughter of the sun and could become his wife, but in the end she became the daughter of the god Sela - the goddess Sata [5] [2] .
The dispute between Sela Satoy and Malha Aza
God Hal took possession of the sky. In his squad there were 63 warriors. The time has come for him to marry. He was in doubt, not knowing whom to marry, because there were two famous girls in the world - Sela Sata and Myalkha Aza. He could not decide which one to choose. His 63 sledges went on campaigns across the endless sky for so long that their clothes thoroughly put on their clothes. It was necessary to dress the warriors in everything new.
And then Halo said to those illustrious two girls:
βI will marry the one of you who in one night will sew clothes for my 63 sleds that would be fit for each of them.β
At night, when there is no sun, Mylha Aza had no right to go anywhere, because her life was connected with the sun. But this ban did not apply to Sela-Sata, so at midnight she entered the chambers in which those 63 sledges slept, and in an instant took measurements from each of them. In the morning they sat down and by the evening finished sewing Sela-Sata and Myalkha Aza. The stitched clothes were given to those 63 riders.
Myalha Aza, giving her clothes sewn, said:
- Let everyone wear what suits him.
Sela-Sata, on the other hand, gave each rider the tailored clothes for him. The sewn Myalha Aza turned out to be fit for someone, and for someone it was too big, and not enough for another. But the cross-linked Sela-Satoy turned out to be exactly on each sled. Sela-Sata won in this matter. Halo married her, not Mylha Aze. But if Myalkha Aza had the right to walk around the world at night, and if she could at least out of the corner of her eye look at those sleds, then only it would be possible to know for sure which of the two girls is more skilled.
Recorded by I. Dakhkilgov in 1994 from a 68-year-old refugee from the village of Yandievo, Musa Tersbotovich Albakov. Posted: Angry. 1999.Apr 29; ASCI. S. 255 [5] .
Literature
- Meletinsky E. M. Mythological Dictionary. - Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990.
- Tankiev H. Ingush folklore. - Terrible, 1991.
- Gorepekin F.I. (1909-1915)
- Dalgat U.B. Heroic Epic of Chechens and Ingush .. - Moscow: Nauka, 1972.
- I.A. Dakhkilgov . Ingush Nart epic. - Nalchik: Tetragraph, 2012 .-- 599 p. - ISBN 978-5-906002-42-6 .
Notes
- β 1 2 Meletinsky E.M. Mythological dictionary. - Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990.
- β 1 2 Tankiev H. Ingush folklore. - Terrible, 1991.
- β Gorepekin F.I. (1909-1915). .
- β Dalgat U.B. Heroic epic of Chechens and Ingush .. - Moscow: Nauka, 1972.
- β 1 2 3 Dakhkilgov I.A. Ingush Nart epic. - Nalchik: Tetragraph, 2012.