Thread Of Fate (The Great Spinning Wheel)

Oil painting on mother of pearl.

New work about the Great Spinning wheel,in the culture of Slavic peoples it is called Makosh.
Makosh (also known as Mokosh) is an ancient Slavic goddess who represents the feminine principle in the universe. It is standardly considered the mother principle, although it is even closer in functionality to the ancient ones — the "progenitor" goddesses of the Hecate type.
According to Slavic beliefs, she is the mother of all living things, the giver of earthly abundance. Many researchers believe that it originally represented the Mother of Cheese Earth. She is the Goddess of harvest, the goddess of earth and rain in one person (fertility), fertility, abundance, prosperity. Her name is interpreted very differently, sometimes raising it to the meaning of "wet", then to the Indo — European mokos "spinning».
The image of Makoshi is the image of a Mature woman, and again it's not about age. Makosh — matriarch (under the Patriarchal system and not connected with the deep layers of the psyche, which distinguishes her from the chthonic goddesses, but she is the main woman in the family, the mistress of other women, a Mature mother, mother-in-law, etc) Makosh — Mother (giver, nurse) and Ruler (determining the path, supporting the laws of the universe). These roles can be used for good - to help other women with their wisdom, to give them fair gifts, to feed them like the mother Of cheese..