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Names of the Goddess |
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RUSSIAN/SLAVIC
Baba
Yaga – crone goddess. She travels through
the air in a mortar bowl, pushing it with the pestle or a broom. She is always
hungry.
Devana
– goddess of the hunt, who roams the Carpathian forests.
Dodola
– goddess of clouds and rain.
Lada
– goddess of spring, love and beauty. She lives in the Otherworld, called Vyri,
until the spring equinox, when she emerges, bringing Spring with her.
Marzanna
- The personification of death and winter. Depicted as an old woman dressed in
white.
Mokosh
– Earth goddess. She rules over fertility and midwifery. Commonly called
Mati-Syrs-Zemlya or Moist Mother Earth. She spins flax and wool into the web of
life and death. She is dark, like good black soil. Protectress of marriage and
patron of household chores.
Morena
– Slovakian goddess of death and regeneration
Myesyats
– Moon goddess.
Pereplut
– goddess of good fortune. Worshipped by drinking from a horn.
Rozhanitsy
– Mother and daughter goddesses of fertility.
Srecha
– Goddess of fate and also of spinning and household chores. She spun and cut
the thread of life.
Uroda
– Slovakian goddess of agriculture and fields.
Vesna
– Goddess of Spring (possibly Serbian)
Zivena
– Slovakian Goddess of Life
Zorya
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Russian triple goddess representing Dawn,
Twilight and Midnight. Guardians of the Universe.
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