Mokosh
Sign in to saveMokosh ( ) is a Slavic goddess. No narratives about this deity have survived: Mokosh was mentioned in various sermons (called Words and Teachings) against Paganism along with the vilas, but is not described by them, and all modern desriptions are reconstructions.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Slavic
- Deity.name
- Mokosh
- Deity.member_of
- Vladimir's pantheon
- Deity.script_name
- Old Cyrillic
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.image
- Двадцать пятый лист Лаврентьевской летописи (Мокошь).jpg
- Deity.texts
- Primary Chronicle and other dependent texts
- Deity.caption
- The twenty-fifth page of Laurentian Codex, with mention of the pantheon of Kyiv, 1377. Mokosh's name is marked in red.
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Name and characteristics
- Obsolete and questionable etymologies
- Onomastics
- Sources
- Old East Slavic sources
- Sources from the 16th-17th centuries
- Attempts at reconstruction
- Early studies
- Mokosh and Mokosha, Mokusha
- Łuczyński's reconstruction
- Comparison with Paraskeva Friday
- The theory of basic myth
- Rybakov's reconstruction
- Family
- Neopaganism
- Today
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
Mokosh ( ) is a Slavic goddess. No narratives about this deity have survived: Mokosh was mentioned in various sermons (called Words and Teachings) against Paganism along with the vilas, but is not described by them, and all modern desriptions are reconstructions.
In academia, the opinion has spread that the cult of Mokosh has passed to the folk-Christian Paraskeva Friday, the personification of Friday associated with water and spinning. Because of this identification, Friday began to be considered a day dedicated to the goddess, and a conclusion about the popularity of Mokosh among women in Christian times was drawn. In later studies, the idea of an identification with Paraskeva was criticized because Paraskeva's association with spinning, water, and Friday has Christian rather than pagan roots.