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Rozhanitsy Deer Mother

It just occurred to me as I was setting out the Rhozanitsa and Her Daughters Midwinter embroidery, and for the first time the dolly (I actually made her as a gift for someone with whom I’ve lost touch so I’ve never before worked with her), that when I encountered Mama and Baby in the glade in late summer that she was reaching out to me in her Mother aspect.

Northern Slavic/Baltic Finnic embroidery I designed by grouping Russian and Karelian patterns featuring Rozhanitsa and her daughters, bordered by suns (life) at the top, and grave markers (death) at the bottom.

She is an ancient, powerful, antlered goddess archetype in Slavic and broader Eurasian mythology, embodying fertility, fate, and the cycle of life, often depicted with antlers resembling the Tree of Life, bringing the sun back in winter, and linked to modern Midwinter figures like the Deer-Mother (or Antlered Mother) who guarantees animal security, rebirth, and is a culture hero for hunters. Rozhanitsa specifically is a Slavic fate spirit, sometimes depicted with antlers, linking her to this ancient archetype of rebirth and the solar cycle, often associated with women's roles in weaving fate and bringing light.

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She's big, she's bold, she's beautiful, she's the counterpart to the Moon 🌙 they have such a beautiful and intricate relationship. The sun is the searing opposite and complement to the moon and that's exactly what I had in mind while drawing here ☀️

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Sulis - Goddess of the hot springs of Bath - Goddess of healing, justice, curses, springs,prophecy, and the sun 🌅

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My collection of goddesses of all sorts, of the stars, the moon, the sea, fire, serpents, and so on.

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I adore 🌅☀️☀️☀️ the majestic solar power of Leo!

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Here Comes The Sun

Analog photography 2022

Made within RUCKA Artist Residency in Cesis, Latvia, with support of the Artist at Risk grant program.

In the Baltic mythology, the Sun deity becomes of central importance, and finds its manifestation in female form. 

Saule, a sun goddess in Latvia, for a long time before Christianisation of the region was considered as a mother, which we can hear in the song “Saule, Pērkons, Daugava” (based on the text from the poem Daugava by the Latvian poet Rainis, while the musical part is composed by Mārtiņš Brauns): “Sun was our mother,  Daugava the nanny of our pain, Pērkons was the devil’s striker, That was our father”. Saule is the giver of light and warmth and the controller of human time, and she determines the well-being and regeneration of all life on earth. Thus, representing regeneration as an idea within herself, she could be represented as both, mother and daughter. 

The artwork “Here Comes the Sun” depicts the archetypal goddess, which solemnly holds the planet Earth in her hands. This is Saule / Sun-Woman, who is raising the world as a child, up to the sun, which is a sign of giving it life and fortune. Moreover, with it she is a young goddess - Saules meita / Sun Daughter who just appeared on the canvas of a mythological narrative, and received the world to take care of it, so she greets it in the sun rays. 

In the way, how the Christian church (in general and in particular since the exhibition happened at the space of St. Anna Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cesis) requires renovation, and humanistic ideas require regeneration, in the same way the world cries to be healed, and our planet - to be cherished and taken care of. 

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