Face of the goddess Makosh

Makosh or Mokosh, in Slavic mythology the goddess of fertility and destiny (kosh, a money - the destiny, a syllable "ма" can designate in abbreviated form the word "mother"), senior of goddesses of spinners of destiny, and also the patroness of women's needlework - on Earth; popechitelstvut to female fertility and productivity, economy and prosperity in the house. It can be correlated to beliefs of ancient Greeks in spinners of destiny - Moir, and also to the German spinners of destiny - Nornami and Frigg - Odin's wife spinning on the Wheel. Owing to the fact that goddesses - spinners of destiny in beliefs appear on three Goddesses Dolya and Nedolya, binding pokutnym threads of the person with fruits of his works - kind or angry help to weave Yarn of Destinies of Makosha. Makosh it is connected with Earth (in it her cult is close to a cult of Mother of Crude Earth) and Water (which here too acts as the maternal, zhiznezarozhdayushchy environment). Makosh - the goddess of fertility, mother of harvests, has 12 annual holidays, is sometimes represented with horns (most likely Makosha's cult - and the Lunar cult, then holidays 13). The characteristic female horned headdress was carried in the 19th century on national holidays. It is mentioned in the Russian chronicles and numerous lectures against paganism. "Lecture to spiritual children" in the 16th century so warns: "Evade before God of invisible: the people praying to Rod and women in labor, Perun, both to Apollo and Mokosha, and Peregin, and to nasty occasional offices don't get closer to any gods". The only goddess from a pantheon of the prince of Vladimir. Mater of gods, perhaps, the wife or the embodiment of Velesa-Mokosa-Mokosha correlated to Hecate (the name is used often in a masculine gender).Thus, Makosh - the goddess of sorcery and hostess Perekhoda from this world in another world.

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