“The stuffy night of midsummer brought back memories to Prince Andrei and awakened some dull, fragmentary visions. Just recently there was the summer solstice, the solar circle began to decline. Like all princely life, the year began to tend towards sunset, crawling there to the west, where the hot summer sun, Yarilo, had crawled towards the evening today. Yarilo is the solar God of all Aryans, all the glorious children of the Slavs, whose temples, until recently, stood in the Yarilov Valley in the capital city of Vladimir. Rod, Svarog, Khoros - Gods, now called differently and revered in different ways, forgotten among the smerds and warriors, not so long ago called the grandchildren of Dazhbozh, but now baptized without exception and, from the efforts of their smerd, have forgotten the old Gods almost everywhere ... "