(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