World Tree

The World Tree is a universal symbol of the different planes of existence. Common to many mythologies and religions is the concept of a World Tree whose roots reach down to the underworld and whose branches reach up to heaven.

The Norse have Yggdrasil, The Meso-Americans have the ceiba tree. Buddhist have the Bodhi tree, a tree under which Gautam Buddha meditated and gained enlightenment. Judeo-Christian beliefs...

Kupala

Kupała name means (to bathe) is the Slavic goddess of springs, water, sorcery, love and herbal lore. She is also the mother, associated with trees, herbs, and flowers. Kupula personifies the magical and spiritual power inherent in water, and Kupula's devotees worshipped her with ritual baths and offerings of flowers cast upon water.

Since fire as well as water has powers of purification, her worshippers also danced...

Mati Syra Zemia

Perhaps the Slavs' oldest pagan deity the Earth herself, her identity later blended into that of Mokos. Mati Syra Zemia (Moist Mother Earth) or Matka Ziemia (Mother Earth) is probably one of the oldest and most important deities. Her name explicitly describes her as forever fertile, life-giving and reproductive force , her identity later blended into that of Mokos. The cult of the mother goddess originates...