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"The Ukrainian General Staff announced Monday that 53 severely wounded soldiers had been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol.

The announcement was made in a video statement by Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar.

The 53 wounded soldiers were taken Monday to a medical facility in Novoazovsk, a southeastern border town in Donetsk province held by Russian-backed separatists, she said.

She said another 211 Azovstal defenders had been evacuated to Ukrainian-held town of Olenivka through a humanitarian corridor as part of “an exchange procedure.”

“‘Mariupol’ Garrison has completed their combat mission. The Supreme Military Command has ordered the commanders of the units stationed at Azovstal to save the lives of military personnel,” she said.

“Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. He thanked the Ukrainian military and negotiators, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations for their help in arranging the evacuation.

"The work continues to bring the boys home, and this work needs delicacy. And time," he added.

Malyar said that measures aimed at rescuing the remaining defenders at the sprawling steel plant continue to go on.

"Thanks to the defenders of Mariupol, we have gained critical time to build reserves, regroup forces and receive assistance from partners. All defenders of Mariupol have completed the tasks given by the command in full,” she added.

“Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to relieve the siege of Azovstal by military means. The most important common task of Ukraine and the whole world is to save the lives of the defenders of Mariupol," she stressed.

Her statement confirms reports earlier Monday by the Russian Ministry of Defense which said an agreement had been reached regarding on the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian soldiers from the Azovstal plant.

Novoazovsk is only 28 miles east of Mariupol. So it might offer the closest medical facility to the Azovstal plant. If that’s the case, it might raise hopes that once treated and stabilized the wounded soldiers could be taken to Ukrainian-held territory."

#thank you Mokosh/Mara #thank you Perun #thank you Brighid #thank you St Michael #ukraine #mariupol

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zarya-zaryanitsa · 10 months

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Hi, Zarya! Hope your day and health is all well, and apologies if this is a question you've answered already. I was curious though, are there any slavic deities in particular that had aspects of them tied to sexuality, or love? Or if any had a history of being worshipped or associated with/for such things? Sorry if these concepts are too broad to ask about, as I know information about these things can be scarce, but perhaps you know anything about this! Or parts of slavic pagan practices regarding sexuality, love etc like kupala would be interesting to hear you talk more about! Thanks!

Hello!

I have answered a similar question already, although I mostly spoke about female divinities so this is my chance to expand the list with some male gods:

Yarilo/Yarovit

Pretty obvious, he’s a fertility god, definitely associated with sexuality:

„Yarilo wandered all over the world / Rye grew high in the fields, he gave women children / And where he set his foot/ There a stack of rye / Where he’s in the grain/ There the stalks grow tall” *

* A folk song, found in Mitologia Słowian by Aleksander Gieysztor, translated into english by me.

At the same time nothing stands in the way of associating him with love especially if you agree with the hypothesis that Kupala rites represent the time of his wedding (hieros gamos) with Mara, the sacred union of fire and water that allows all things to live and grow.

Veles

Another deity with a fertility aspect, that you can associate with your sexuality. There exists a theory, put forward by Ivanov and Toporov, that he seduced Perun’s wife Mokosh, and therefore the role that Mokosh plays in the mythology is that of the punished wife of supreme thunder god, penalized for her infidelity by being expelled from heaven and sent to earth, the idea stemming from the fact that in moscovian slang „mokosia” means „a woman of easy virtue”**.

** From Religia Słowian by Andrzej Szyjewski.

Because of that particular theory as well as Veles’s general sphere of influence I think you could also see him as someone associated with love that is viewed as transgressive in some way. That’s just my modern interpretation of him though.

Perun

A deity associated with fertility and war. The guy that makes the rain fall. There’s a metaphor for you there, if you want to take it.

Also seems like a family man. Slavists tend to assign him a wife and some children relatively often.

Sventovit

A deity associated with fertility and war. His name denotes him as the posessor of sacred, creative powers. We don’t know for certain if he was associated with sexuality but seeing what his role seems to have been I’m gonna vote „yeah, probably”.

Have a good day!

#Slavic paganism #perun #veles #yarilo #sventovit

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