Posted on 05/22/2022 8:14:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Baba Yaga is a witch figure who flies around Slavic folk stories...and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs deep in the woods.
Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about Baba Yaga, traditional Slavic magic and how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country.
"In my experience of connecting deeply to her, I see her as a grandmother figure, but a tough grandma, or like a grandma who knows you can do more than you think you can, so she pushes you.
In Slavic practices, the fire was alive, and the fire was where the ancestors were. We in the 21st century don’t have the depth of knowledge about what it means to get put in the fire. It means to go to your ancestors. So she’s sending you to the world of the spirits if she’s trying to put you in the wood stove.
Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about...how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country.
"In my experience of connecting deeply to her, I see her as a grandmother figure, but a tough grandma, or like a grandma who knows you can do more than you think you can, so she pushes you.
"If we go back far enough, we see her as the mistress of the forest, the grandmother of the forest, the mother of the forest, as protector spirit of the forest. She’s that person who is connected to the world of the dead and the world of the living. She moves between those worlds, which is why sometimes she’s going to kill the person or she’s going to put them in the fire."
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Sounds like a TikTok star in the making.
What’s up with chickens? Are they cheaper than pigs or horses, or do they just make voodoo types squirm?
Of course, there was that whole Hitler, Nazis, and the weird Germanic Occult thing. Would fit it well with the Azov crowd.
The Azov POWs sure have a lot of Goat Head tats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RF9vIgqD2s
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