• Marzanna >mahr-ZAH-nah< 4 5 6 10 - elemental / cthtonic / necrotic spirit - infer - female 3 5 6 10 11 19 21 - winter & death 4 5 6 10 11 - earth 6 - appears as an old woman dressed in white 5 10 - symbolically drowned on 1st day of spring 4 see Smert 6 aka Marzana [Pol] 3 6 - her effigy with broom was carried through the village 5 6 - thrown away on outskirts or ritually drowned 5 6 - to welcome spring 6 - after a death 6 aka Marzanka 4 aka Marzhena 11 aka Murava [Wen] 6 aka Mara [Rus] 6 11 aka Mora 11 - mor- (death / deadly illness) 11 - morz (frost / cold) 11 - presides over the underworld & spirits of the dead 11 aka Marya 6 aka Marena >ma-REN-uh< [Boh] [Rus] [Svk] 3 5 6 22 - cognate to freeze / frozen 6 - wife / sister to Kupala 3 aka Marenna 6 see Smert 6 aka Morena [Svk] 6 10 11 19 21 - (to die) 19 - death 21 - daughter to Vi'i 19 - wife to Veles 19 - presides over the underworld 19 aka Morevna 6 |
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