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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 470003" data-attributes="member: 1125">Mother of gods actually<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Baba Yaga (Baba = Older woman/Mother) is a Slavic diety associated with Winter, Death and sometimes Harvests. She is said to guard the waters of Life and Death. Baba Yaga takes the Crone figure of the classic Maiden-Mother-Crone triumvate (and sometimes is depicted with 2 sisters also named Baba Yaga). She is Death and fear and etc etd. She has the same status as the Hindu Kali and similar Mother-Destroyers.However with the christinisation of the pagan slavs her status devolved to that of primodial hag - in fact she is THE Hag upon which all others are basedIts sad isn't it (and probably says something about modern culture) that ancient mythologies are forgotten and the 'quotes' of modern fiction becomes regarded as  the source of our ideas - quite ironic really(actually I was listening to some kids talk about the LOTR movie the other day (I'm a teacher) and speculating on the conclusion of the story as if Peter Jackson had some kind of control over the outcome) - funny.</blockquote>