Added | Wed, 12/02/2020 |
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Другие названия | Polud
Polud ike
Vunishorika
Lunishorika
Defense
Lunsherika-oboronika
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Область распространения | Russia
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The Moonshiner-defender is the guardian spirit of the blooming rye field of their mythology of the Komi peoples, an analogue of the Russian noon.
She was mostly represented as a young woman in green clothes and a scarf, in straw bast shoes, with blue eyes like cornflowers, but he could also be in a male guise (called "half aka").
This field spirit, but under the name "defender" or "moonshiner-defender", had an anthropozoomorphic appearance: a woman with spreading horns on her head. She lived in a field, slept in rye at night and, in addition to protecting crops, was engaged in searching for wooden harrows left by negligent owners right in the field. Having found a harrow, the "defender" put it on the horns and, stepping carefully so as not to damage the rye, took it out to the boundary.
If the "defense" was shown to a person, it was considered a favorable sign promising a good harvest.
Phenomenon in mass culture
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