Japanese crossword «Baba Yaga»
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Baba Yaga is an important figure in Russian culture, possibly an ancient goddess who ruled in Eurasia before Russia was born—later demoted to a witch of folklore. She usually rides in a mortar and carries a pestle, though here she appears to be in a bucket carrying a broom. Perhaps this is the "clean" version of Yaga? ;)
Goddess:
Wikipedia:
—the first written mention of Baba Yaga is in a Russian grammar in 1770, where she is identified as a member of pre-Russia's ancient pantheon of gods.
Google Scholar:
*Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kālī, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte* by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, 2015. [Excerpts available in Google Scholar.]
Witch Lore (per Wikipedia):
--"Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs".
--Baba Yaga may be a villain or may set a test for the hero and provide magical assistance when the hero succeeds.
Goddess:
Wikipedia:
—the first written mention of Baba Yaga is in a Russian grammar in 1770, where she is identified as a member of pre-Russia's ancient pantheon of gods.
Google Scholar:
*Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kālī, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte* by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, 2015. [Excerpts available in Google Scholar.]
Witch Lore (per Wikipedia):
--"Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs".
--Baba Yaga may be a villain or may set a test for the hero and provide magical assistance when the hero succeeds.
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Hello Sheryl.
I'm glad to find your comment.
I hope you are doing fine.
During my studies, I had met a Russian fellow University student.
I liked very much the 9th movement of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)).
He had told me that, in Russian fairy tales, Baba Jaga appears as a witch flying in the air in a mortar, using the pestle for a handlebars, while extinguishing the traces behind it with a broom of silver birch.
It resides in a woodcut that stands on a hen's leg and the keyhole at the entrance door is a skull with a mouth full of sharp teeth. The fence around the house is made of human bones and skulls.
replyI'm glad to find your comment.
I hope you are doing fine.
During my studies, I had met a Russian fellow University student.
I liked very much the 9th movement of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)).
He had told me that, in Russian fairy tales, Baba Jaga appears as a witch flying in the air in a mortar, using the pestle for a handlebars, while extinguishing the traces behind it with a broom of silver birch.
It resides in a woodcut that stands on a hen's leg and the keyhole at the entrance door is a skull with a mouth full of sharp teeth. The fence around the house is made of human bones and skulls.
According to a legend, the hut rotates on the foot and the entrance of the hut does not appear until the magic phrase is said: "Turn your back into the forest and turn to me".
Baba Jaga appears in the stories as good and bad. Sometimes helps people in their various missions, while sometimes kidnaps children and threatens to eat them. It is considered dangerous to ask for help: it requires proper preparation, but also a pure spirit.
According to some myths, Baba Jaga ages one year, each and every time they ask her a question, and that's why she is often portrayed as a naughty old witch, annoyed by many people's questions. The only way to save old age is to prepare a beverage of blue roses: the heroes who offer it as a gift win the right to make wishes.
King Regards.
replyBaba Jaga appears in the stories as good and bad. Sometimes helps people in their various missions, while sometimes kidnaps children and threatens to eat them. It is considered dangerous to ask for help: it requires proper preparation, but also a pure spirit.
According to some myths, Baba Jaga ages one year, each and every time they ask her a question, and that's why she is often portrayed as a naughty old witch, annoyed by many people's questions. The only way to save old age is to prepare a beverage of blue roses: the heroes who offer it as a gift win the right to make wishes.
King Regards.
Nicely given ...!!!.
Art critic Alfred Frankenstein, claims that he has identified and reproduce the picture of "The Hut on Hen's Legs", that inspired Mussorgsky to write the 9th movement, of "Pictures at an Exhibition".
There is a copy, in Wikipedia.
It would be an interesting nonogram …!!!.
Thank you, Irina …!!!.
replyArt critic Alfred Frankenstein, claims that he has identified and reproduce the picture of "The Hut on Hen's Legs", that inspired Mussorgsky to write the 9th movement, of "Pictures at an Exhibition".
There is a copy, in Wikipedia.
It would be an interesting nonogram …!!!.
Thank you, Irina …!!!.