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Fate and supernatural healing power, a semantic construction

The South Slavic Vily, the Mother Goddess, usually appearing in triplicate, unites several concepts that are given a clear place in the Semantic Colour Space and are represented by a shift in colour combinations. Vily is both the deliverer of abundance (green-4), depicted with a filled horn (white-4), determiner of fate (white-on-green), she does charity (white-on-green), and in addition does she possess supernatural healing powers (white-on-blue). (Vyncke, 1969)

The movement here is then from green-4 to blue. Keywords under this sign includes: womb, fortune.

_{Relief on a brick of the parish church in Altenkirchen, depicting Svantovit with his emblems, the horn and the moustache (a sign of warriors). Source: https://viaelectri.com/tpost/uo06lny2m1-pilgrimage-to-arkona}

Later on, the horn attribute is taken over by male gods, who combine fertility, abundance, and male potent power in one deity. A good example is the Slavic god Sventovit, who was not only a warrior god but also a famous oracle, who determined the fate of the clan’s endeavours. (Vyncke, 1969)

(I. Michiels, red.)

Mother and father, cultural differences in concept allocation

Some of the differences in concept allocation are suggestive of real culture differences; for example: both mother and father are good-strong-passive (Osgood’s 3-factors) for Americans and Flemish, and are both good-strong-active for Japanese, but father is good-strong-active and mother is good-strong-passive for the Finns.

Osgood (1964)

Mother, fate and the vowels OIA

The similarity of certain vowel triplets in keywords with specific concepts, is striking in current Slavic folklore. There one finds a whole series of terms to indicate the birth fairies, who determine the fate of the newborn, often containing the OIA triplet sound. (these vowels in green) (source: Vyncke, 1969)

Czech: sudicka
Slovak: sojenica, rojenica
Serbo-Croatian: sudjenica, rodjenica
Bulgarian: narecnica, urisnica

The mother goddess Vila also bears all kinds of names.

Serbo-Croatian: samovila, samodiva, nedobrica, dobrica
Bulgarian: diva, juda, samojuda

I. Michiels, red.

Rod-Rozanica

_{Rodzanice predicts fate ~ Magdalena Szynkarczuk}

A numen that recurs in the doctrinal scriptures, ecclesiastical statutes, and confessional questions is described as Rod-Rozanica. These data show that Rod-Rozanicy:

seem to personify fate (they are equated with the terms ‘fatum, fortuna’);
have some connection with the cult of the dead. (On Boxing Day, a church-prohibited death feast is held in their honour);
merge with Saint Mary in Christian-pagan syncretism.

Rozanica means: mother, fate, womb, genealogy, family tree.

Rod and Rozanicy form a mythical couple consisting of a parendros and a parendra (cf. Artemid-Artemis). The explicit equation with Osiris-Isis seems to place Rod-Rozanicy in the category of the mythical couple well known in the history of religion: mother-goddess-consort. We may consider the paredra Rozanica as a kind of rudimentary mother goddess, who ensured the fertility of the clan, the land and the cattle, and ruled over the realm of the dead. She was felt as a multiple being, perhaps threefold (three, or a multiple of three).

(Vyncke, 1969)