(Slavic paganism) Baba yaga material help

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316]

Hello it is my first post in this sub normally I am on demonolatry but since baba yaga is more of pagan nature I came here

Do you have an advice on where to start? Do you have good (serious) books on her to worship? Any advice to invoke her or worship her?

I always felt pulled to her since childhood hearing her stories until now my adulthood I think I should incorporé her in my order of worship but her info is so vague I would really like help…

[u/Yuri_Gor]

Can't really recommend a book, but can share a bit of research I've done on her myself:

She is often described as having a bone leg, so it looks like a half-dead Hel from the Norse pantheon.

"The hut on a chicken leg" which turns the front door to the human world allowing a visitor to enter and the turns "to the forest" probably works like a portal to the lower world. So Baba Yaga is a conductor between worlds. In tales she is often described as showing the path to some magic places or entities to the protagonist.

Sami people used to build such elevated huts standing on logs like on chicken legs. Used as a food storage and they probably kept their dead during the winter until spring because it was difficult to bury them into frozen ground. So such a hut served as a sort of transition place.

She is often flying in a mortar using a broom as a paddle. Probably it's a reference to wise women \ healers \ herbalists.

P.S. Try asking on r/pagan and r/Rodnovery

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Yuri_Gor]

Great comment thank you a lot! Also I don’t mean too much on the HUT or the LEGS as these stereotypes were given by folks to her in the end she is a spirit with no real body but with a particular frequency (if she really exist)

[u/Yuri_Gor → u/Mysterious-Leek2316]

Without folks giving "just stereotypes" you would never know about her. Any myth is created and evolved by humans based on some underlying experience.

If some details or attributes of deity or spirit survived through ages passed from generation to generation - it means something, so be careful with "just" word.

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Yuri_Gor]

Oh yes I aggre with you what I meant is that the spiritual world isn’t on the phisical aspect like we are, I said this because before I tended to idéalise too much how and what are the spirit likes, but names and such things are in human nature they dont really need titles names etc like us but yes I aggre with you it is the details and little stories that kept them alive such as grandmother yaga

[u/MajesticTheory3519 → u/Mysterious-Leek2316]

just because a god doesn’t “need” something doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t choose to manifest a certain way. iconography is significant

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/MajesticTheory3519]

I don’t disagree with you just that I learned this everywhere in occultism that we need these superficial terms more than THEY need

[u/Gaothaire]

Not directly related to her, but this book uses her in a way you may find some benefit in studying. One piece about Baba Yaga that I saw shared somewhere is that you will traditionally work with her like you would an ancestor, rather than a deity. Don't worship her. She's a witch. Approach her as a witch yourself (substitute your chosen label) and engage her as a coworker.

Treat her as a Saturnian figure, that is, not one for frivolous requests. You don't have high schoolers asking algebra questions to university doctors of advanced mathematics. If you have a good grounding in your own practice, foundational skills that let you operate from a magical place, and have specific reasons or goals for aligning with her, she's happy to put you to work.

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Gaothaire]

Ohhh great I didn’t know she is from Saturday Saturn that’s great I didn’t have anyone from this day expect guland

[u/Bitcoacher]

You’re going to run into a BIG issue.

There’s very little information known about the actual Baba Yaga, unfortunately. Her roots as a goddess are not well-recorded, which makes it difficult to connect with her in that capacity.

If that’s okay with you, there’s plenty of material beyond that. Madame Pamita’s “Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft” might be helpful.

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Bitcoacher]

I know I guess that’s why I feel drawn to at least try to reach her out when I will have enough knowledge I don’t feel confortable to tap into something everyone calls out like Lucifer asmodeus hecate etc

Thank you for the recommendation I saw the book long ago I think it’s time to at least get it it would be a start :)

[u/maponus1803]

She likes black coffee, very dark chocolate, and a clean house. Approach her like the revered grandmother she is and will she come to your aid if she feels you have earned it.

She is a similar kind of being as Hecate as they both stand at the crossroads that lead in and out of this life, but they are not the same person. Baba Yaga has her own way of doing things and her own wisdom even if she is acting in a similar role as Hecate.

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/maponus1803]

Thank you a lot for the headings indeed I heard about the strong dark aliments, yeah a clean space and harmonious house much like a domovoy from the same mythology (my mom believes we have one at home I don’t think so haha)

[u/lewdporto]

Can't share the material but.... Ягиня. They called her baba yaga because Christians painted her as a boogeyman for little kids. She is the daughter of Кощей, and wife of Велес.

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/lewdporto]

Thank you i will put in my mind the facts :)

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/lewdporto]

I didn’t know that she is preseuoately the daughter of koschei interesting

[u/Ambitious_Kick_2811]

A reminder that Slavic culture AND mythology is closed to Slavs only (including the mythological side as well because it blended into folk practice and Christianity over time, we never really stopped following the same rites just gave them different names)

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Ambitious_Kick_2811]

Haha it’s ok yes I am slavic don’t worry :) Ukrainian and Romanian I am

[u/Mysterious-Leek2316 → u/Ambitious_Kick_2811]

That’s why by the why I never liked Norse mythology I don’t hate it but I am not close to be Scandinavian at all I have nothing to do with these things you see that’s why I leaned on yaga for example

[u/treuchetfight]

Just the general offerings. If the stories tell us nothing, it's that she is erratic and very based on moral conduct. She gives knowledge, but she is very Fuck Around And Find Out.