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[#169] SLAVA MOKOSH: “The Unbinding” and Neopagan Witchcraft in Ukraine, Part One

🕑 Added 2023-11-11 00:24:16 +0000 UTC

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Landon Doucette

don't mean to necro an old thread here - did I miss the detail about wigged hiker being in drag when the statue was discovered? also looked at the old reddit post and couldn't see that. thanks

Dakota B

https://www.palestineposterproject.org/posters/tricontinental-no-57

Quém é

Also as a pedantic aside, the deity's name in English is generally pronounced "maht mah-KAWSH", 'Mother Moist-Earth'

Quém é

The "wigged hiker" bit may have a bizarre anthropological tie-in to Mat' Mokosh' and Slavic folk religion. My degree was in Linguistics and Russian & Eurasia Studies, and my advisor's PhD was in Slavic Linguistics. He once said that there was a theory around Baba Yaga being a mythological vestige of East Slavic and Finnic contact. Basically the idea is that East Slavs in antiquity had a substrate cultural influence of Finnic peoples that manifested in malevolent magical figures being Finnically coded (Baba Yaga's house is reminiscent of traditional Finnic and Såmi invernal storehouses), and that there may have been an initiation rite into adulthood where young people had to survive in the woods while being pursued by a male elder in drag (as a Finnic witch). And here we have a potentially East Slavic idol being discovered in the woods by a person at least partially in drag. I can't really speak to the import of that but it did occur to me.

Josiah Love

I feel stupid for not asking sooner, but I’ve been listening to the show for like 3 years now, and I still don’t know where your cover art is from, and it’s killing me.