How does Viy look like the antipode of Veles?

In many, including academic works, the character of Gogol's story is described quite differently from what Vii looks like in the writer's work. The researchers claim that the author, in the image of the famous monster, united the ancient Niya with the human age, although N. Gogol himself wrote that he expounded the tradition exactly as he had heard. And the reader believes, because, in addition to this story, he created several other works of this genre, in which characters of folk Slavic mythology are described with the ironic manner inherent in Gogol .

Wise Velez

This is how they call this god in the Old Slavic myths. He is the master of the bodily, organic life of all people and animals. He knows when the body asks for rest to sleep, and when - the rest of the eternal. Veles constantly works to ensure that everything that is taken from the land is returned there. And he is not a servant of death. Veles does not look like Viy. In the representation of our ancestors, Veles is a man of about 50, strong and perfectly built, wise and balanced.

He is a kind of controller of bodily existence, as they were expressed in the olden times, bestial truth. Veles did not interfere in the spiritual, and even more so the spiritual activity of man. This god did not condemn or punish gluttony, sexual promiscuity, the killing of animals for entertainment, and not for eating. He simply removed his protection from the bodily nature of man and this nature of man fell into the power of Vii.

Viy. Short description

What does Viy look like? He is an ugly being, with many bodily flaws and a perverse spiritual strength. This monster attracts to itself all the musty, corporeally corrupted and unbridled. Without others, he can not satisfy his bodily needs, he can not even lift his eyelids. But he lives a powerful spiritual life. And to him stretches creatures-monsters, for his spiritual strength ready to serve. This is such a pannochka. This is indicated three times by the writer in the story: two times with a hint, and the third with an open text, putting the words about it into Thomas's mouth: "It's clear that she has done a lot of sin for her life, since it's so evil for her." And it's about Thomas: "Let Brutus read three nights. He knows".

Some exact details from the story of NV Gogol

Before the pantry, three came to the farm: Tiberius Gorobets, philosopher Thomas Brutus and theologian Freebie. Gogol three times, as expected, speaks of the body debauchery of Thomas. And it is to him that comes who lives "according to Viyu". They are similar to the passions that overwhelm them, and therefore are not protected by Veles. Pannochka saddled the philosopher (what a delicate detail!), And he feels the sweetness of flying with a witch on himself. But he has his own spiritual life, which conquers the charms of his own body, and not the charm of the pannochka, which in this situation is only a means. It's morning, the cocks have sung. But Thomas kills pannochku. And Velez does not protect his body. Viy gets it in Kiev, in God's institution, through the corporal depravity of the rector.

Around Foma Brutus constantly go servants Viya and, invisibly, Viy himself. The description of the meeting of the philosopher with the centurion strikes with the realism of details. "At me not so, - the centurion speaks, - You know that such kanchuki leather?" "At a considerable quantity the thing intolerable". "I can not get up."

That's where the philosopher got (what a detail!). That's why he died of fear.

Wii is an evil spirit, and Koschey is an ordinary evil person

Some authors who, without reading the whole work, quote "The Lay of Igor's Regiment" and assert in their writings that Koshchei and Viy are related images. Yes, this is nonsense. In the "Word ..." it is specifically indicated that Gzak, Konchak and Gzak's father Bonyak are Slavs-nomads and koshchei, ie, the owners of cattle (in Old Slavonic: bones, koschei). AS Pushkin directly points to this: "... over gold, it is waning. There's a Russian spirit, where Rus smells. " You have to be deaf and blind to not distinguish between what Viy looks like in mythology, and how - Koschey.

The Viya dwelling

Vii is constantly in the depths, in the depths of the earth, where the bodies of his servants rot warmly, wetly and endlessly. He has sisters - Villas, who sometimes fly out and fly over the villages of people, looking for servants for their terrible brother. They compete with another character of our mythology, the Fire Serpent, for the souls of fallen people.

And it's not hard to imagine what Viy looks like. The picture of the artist's painting, which was presented and painted by Vii and his servants, is known throughout the world. With some details you can argue, but in general, the artist is the essence of this character correctly. It is the decomposing flesh that its mighty, but evil soul does not wish to return to the earth, that is, does not submit to the wise Veles.

There is no struggle between Veles and Viy

The struggle takes place in the souls of men. The soul of Thomas Brutus flew along with the triumphant song of cocks that greet the sunrise of Yaril and the light that it bears to the world. And souls should not return to dead bodies, as it was with pannochkoy. This contradicts the canons followed by the beastly god Veles.

Foma returned to the earth what he so carelessly used in this bright world. And because it is remembered by two friends - the philosopher Tiberius Gorobets and Khalyava, who drunk hides in the weeds.