The ancient Slavic goddess Baba Yaga is the wild old crone guardian of
the Water of Life and Death. She is the goddess of death and birth
associated with Autumn, who sings while sprinkling corpses with the Water of
Life to let them be reborn. Although she is fearsome to look upon, like all
forces of nature that are often wild and untamed, she can also be kind.
Often depicted living in the deep centre of earth, or in a hut surrounded
by a fence of bones, she represents the power of old age, of witch, and of
the life cycle that is birth, death and rebirth. She is therefore also
associated with birch forests (birch being the tree of beginnings and
endings). Another image is that of "White Lady", or Death Crone,
as she is stiff and white and carved of bone (she can also be referred to as
Goddess of Old Bones).
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