Baba Yaga is most often depicted as an old, decaying forest crone with a hunger for human flesh. There is much more to this folk character, however, for she in fact symbolizes the all-important and profoundly violent initiation rituals that ancient societies diligently maintained. Baba Yaga is the Master of the Boundary Between Domains (unlike the Leshy and Domovoy, as we saw in our previous two videos) -- she represents precisely the state of temporary death that the young undergo when they symbolically pass away as children, and are reborn as capable adults within their social order...
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Part One (Leshy): The Lord of the Forest
Part Two (Domovoy): The Ancient Spirit Living Behind Your Walls
00:00 - The Archetype
01:44 - Who is Baba Yaga?
06:23 - A Typical Tale
10:47 - Initiation Rites
19:15 - The Symbol of Death
Baba Yaga is most often depicted as an old, decaying forest crone with a hunger for human flesh. There is much more to this folk character, however, for she in fact symbolizes the all-important and profoundly violent initiation rituals that ancient societies diligently maintained. Baba Yaga is the Master of the Boundary Between Domains (unlike the Leshy and Domovoy, as we saw in our previous two videos) -- she represents precisely the state of temporary death that the young undergo when they symbolically pass away as children, and are reborn as capable adults within their social order...
Support the channel: Patreon: Pierrot_48
Part One (Leshy): The Lord of the Forest
Part Two (Domovoy): The Ancient Spirit Living Behind Your Walls
00:00 - The Archetype
01:44 - Who is Baba Yaga?
06:23 - A Typical Tale
10:47 - Initiation Rites
19:15 - The Symbol of Death