#marzanna

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — "Marzanna" The Goddess of Winter and Death (oil on canvas, 2025)

[maratycznie]

✷The Faceless Visitor✷

Marzanna, the Godess of Winter and Death, and Licho, creature representing misfortune, as one being. It's wearing kraboszka - type of masks in rituals honouring the dead in slavic cultures. It is wearing traditional folk clothes from Opoczno/Świętokrzyskie region of Poland with typical pasiak - woollen, striped apron, sometimes used as a coat.

The pagan creature is juxtaposed with a tree decorated in rosaries, sacred hearts, shrines and pictures of Black Madonna of Częstochowa. Sights like that are common is Slavic countries, roadside shrines, shrines mounted onto the trees, crosses by the road or in the fields decorated with flowers and colourful ribbons. Christian amulets that sometimes mark a holy place or object or a place where someone lost their life.

[flightdescending]

here's #2 of I am allowed to ramble about dragons so long as i draw them. Marzanna is pretty simple tho

Marzanna is a schoolteacher in Podsgarden! She was born and raised there, but she lived in Lanternlea for a while, at the university. The school in Podsgarden is not very big, and public education for children in general is pretty nascent in most territories around the world. Apprenticeships and family trades are still the norm in most places. But Podsgarden is trying out general education for children, and it's going well! Children from nearby communities are welcome to attend, and a lot of them end up living with host families around town for chunks of the year. The schedule and curriculum are not very strict yet, and Marzanna gets to make that kind of thing up on the fly a lot, so that's fun.

[meanpersonaart]

Marzanna/Morana - slavic deity of winter, death and rebirth

Watercolour and coloured pencils + digital re-touch on paper by meanpersonaart (me) 2024

[aleksandra-czudzak]

Marzanna / Śmiertka Marzanna / Śmiertka is a straw - dummy that symbolizes winter and death. Polish kids drown it in a river. Or they burn it, and then toss it into water. This tradition happens on the first day of spring. Polish winter is very dark, long and depressing, so no wonder this custom is so enthusiastic. A very pagan holiday which I admired as a kid. --- An illustration from "Góralskie Czary", Leksykon Magii Podtatrza i Beskidów Zachodnich" by Katarzyna Ceklarz i Urszula Janicka-Krzywda. published by @tatrzanskiparknarodowy -

[evettadraws]

Marzanna - Slavic Goddess of Winter

Finally finished this one. 9 hours of drawing, editing and rendering. And again, please be aware this is my own interpretation of this Goddess. I have asked my Polish family about their opinions on the visual representations.

Part 2 of the process will be posted onto my YouTube Shorts! ♡

[slavicafire]

sickle: a slavic folk playlist of 13 songs for the winter greeting, in honour of death mother.

[matule]

morana. mother of winter and death; nightmare weaver, bringer of change.